The Daily Zeitgeist - Billionaire Mad At Painting, Agent Krasinski 05.17.24

Episode Date: May 17, 2024

In episode 1678, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Pallavi Gunalan, to discuss... Billionaire Streisand Effect’s Herself Because She Is Not Used To Being Out Of Control, France Bans TikTok In New Caledonia Right As They Deploy Troops, John Krasinski Is The Worst and more! Billionaire Streisand Effect’s Herself Because She Is Not Used To Being Out Of Control France Bans TikTok In New Caledonia Right As They Deploy Troops ‘Intolerable’: State of emergency in New Caledonia as unrest spreads France to deploy army to New Caledonia over riots Stifling independence: France's violent repression in New Caledonia Macron in New Caledonia: why is the territory divided and will it break away from France? Hundreds of French police deployed amid New Caledonia riots New Caledonia makes exploitation of its natural resources by France public John Krasinski Wants To Play Red-State Heroes Without Getting Political Box Office: John Krasinski’s ‘IF’ Aims to Impress With $40 Million Debut Benghazi attack film 13 Hours is marketed to conservative audiences Madison Rising: Meet the hard-right metal band that called Obama the "antichrist" CIA helped shape ‘Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan’ series into bigoted Venezuela regime change fantasy Amazon's 'Jack Ryan' TV series lambasted for promoting Venezuela 'invasion' Jack Ryan Is The Latest TV Show To Film At CIA Headquarters How Does Amazon's 'Jack Ryan' Compare to Real Life at the CIA? The Silently Regressive Politics of “A Quiet Place” John Krasinski Doesn’t Agree With The Conservative Read on A Quiet Place Netflix’s ‘The Silence’ Has a LOT of Confusing Plot Holes and Is Basically ‘A Quiet Place’ John Krasinski's New Comedy Is Oddly Similar To An Underrated Kids Show From 19 Years Ago LISTEN: Takoyaki by AiliSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

what's your favorite food that you miss from japan just tell me one time um i just loved the fact that they had like a bunch of vegan options uh so like i got everything vegan and i was just like damn i wish fuck did jackie's tell me that because i went to this vegan izakaya in shibuya that was so fucking good and i feel like i should have told you about that yeah like everybody was going to izakaya like we heard about it but i i was on happy cow i was on happy cow oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but yeah there's like definitely like cheesecake i'm still thinking about did you have those tofu sticks that they sell at the convenience stores no i didn't have that i like i think i only ate out of the convenience store like once or twice when it was like really late but for the most part i got to like go everywhere and just like have vegan food.

And it was completely different than my trip in like 2015 when I was just only eating at stores. It's crazy how much that's blossomed. But it made me so happy because I could have like ramen and I had like bento box. I had like everything. In Tokyo, there's even like a vegan bagel spot too that I found. Like everything is, it's even like a vegan bagel spot too that I found. I was like, what the, like everything is, it's all happening. And it's funny though too, because sometimes in Japan, they'll be like, oh, the meat is vegan, but then everything else is made with animal stuff.

And sometimes there's like this misunderstanding where like, well, the meat is vegan. Yeah, yeah. But did you use like dairy? They're like, yeah. Right. The meat is vegan. The meat is vegan. 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.

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and welcome to season 338, episode five of Dirt Daily Psych-I-State, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness, and it is Friday, May 17th, 2024. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know what?

Get your by any means on whenever there's a drought. Get your umbrellas out, because it'scolm x day the third friday in may it's also national idaho day national graduation tassel day yeah shout out your man only the tassels though just yeah i guess that's the one part you forget the what's that called a mortarboard hey put your mortarboard boards on yeah yeah That's what the hats call it. The mortar board, I believe. National Walnut Day. NASCAR Day. NASCAR Day.

NASCAR Day. National Pizza Partay Day. National Bike to Work Day. National Bike to School Day. This is so much. There's also National Cherry Cobbler Day. National Pack Rat Day. And National Endangered Species Day.

Gotta get it in. He's fucking turnt up this Friday. Okay. Malcolm X has to be pissed that his day got co-opted by so many other things. By a cherry cobbler? Yeah.

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Like the first time they do it, they're like the way she do. And then John Lennon comes in. It's like me. She do me good. Like the first time they do it, they're like the way she do. And then John Lennon comes in. It's like me. Like, it's like a little dirty, like trick. It's like, you guys are too fucking childish for this to like feel sexual.

We said we weren't going to say that. Nobody wants to hear Paul McCartney be like, do me, baby. My Paul McCartney sounds Russian. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! It's Miles Gray, a.k.a. Drinking Pine since Tuesday at 3. Look at this, a portal just for me.

Man, damn, chill, we start to brainstorm. Drop pants, swang ready to perform get your knob out get your knob out okay shout out to fruits for me that was the tune of basement jack's hit where's your head at probably inspired by ed zitron who wears your ed ad i'm guessing that was sort of the thing where's your Ed at? And also referencing the portal, the New York City to Dublin portal that just became people showing their butts and boobs in 9-11 photos. In 9-11 photos.

I have my headphones on, and when you started screaming, my dog woke up. Oh, shit, really? When I did... He went, what? He's like, what the fuck is this? Hey, look.

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Comedy on the 21st at the Comedy Store at 8pm. There it is. It's Paula B. Ganale! Hello! Hello! Welcome, welcome. It's Paula B. Ganale! Hello! Welcome, welcome. It's been a while.

It has been a while. It's been a while. Yep, I didn't do that, but you did. I did. And that's why it works. How you been? I know you were gallivanting. Yes, but I never told work, so they thought I was here the whole time.

And it never happened, because we know your work listens. Yep, I was here the whole time. And it never happened. Because they know your work listens. Yep, I got all my work done. That's the point. Oh, you were able to work remotely? How was it with the time difference? I was up at 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. and pretending I was fully awake. Oh, shit.

I've thought about that, too. People know that you were in Asia, right? I'm guessing. Word of mouth, but this is the first media it'll be on oh first media yeah i don't think my work is gonna listen to this podcast okay well i just don't contact them please we're actually one of the number one podcasts for corporate narcs yeah unfortunately you always ask hey you got a day job you change your name to the water cooler hey how much weed have you smoked and what federal grants are you guys yeah oh shit yeah two and four that sounds tough because every time

i've gone to asian i thought yeah i might be able to record remotely i've thought i don't know if i could do that with the same amount of energy unless i've just become like i have like nurse you know firefighter hours where i'm like i don't know this time i'm up and then during the day it's a zombie walk yeah but then during the day you're like doing all like i was there to like experience it so i was like doing all the stuff and then at at night I was, so I, my body did crash a couple of times where I was like, this is too much. I'm too old. It's like 4am. You're like,

oh yeah, I was so bored. What are you guys having for lunch? Right? Yeah. Yeah. I think I might go get like probably a wrap or something. Yeah.

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hush money hush money a milli a milli all right palavi we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about we're it's back to the art world for us uh yesterday we talked about uh the prince charles portrait and today we have another portrait of an out-of-touch billionaire to talk about. This one, a maggot-out mine baron in Australia, who is like, I demand this mean drawing of me be taken down. Take it down at once! It's so funny.

So we'll talk about that. We got some helpful context on why someone might ban TikTok from a foreign country. So just, you know, we generally pay attention to our Zeitgeist at home. But we thought this is like, you know, helpful. Oh, this is the end game. Yeah, Zeitgeist abroad. This time, Zeitgeist semester. Zeitgeist takes on wherever this is.

Zeitgeist semester at sea. Yeah. We're going to take a moment to talk about how John Krasinski is the worst because his new movie's coming out. It's like a little children's fun thing. But his whole career is... Is it child washing, like U.S. war crimes?

It'll be interesting to see. Like, I kind of want to watch it because, like, A Quiet Place was, like, you know, had some weird, insidious, like, third-level symbolism in there where it was like, are you making a movie about how... You can't even say nothing anymore. You can't even say nothing anymore because these brown things run at you and, like, get mad. I love watching movies with no ability to critique them or understand symbology because i was like this is fun yeah no i thought it was fun i'm like brainwash me baby i don't know what's going on

i'm too dumb yeah it's just brainwashed i think it only makes sense if you like look at it in the context of other films which i refuse yeah yeah And I will not be doing that. So that subject we won't be covering on this episode. And maybe we'll talk about how the falling birth rate is scaring everyone around the world, according to the hyper-capitalists at the Wall Street Journal.

Suddenly, there aren't enough babies. The whole world is alarmed, is their headline. So funny, because they're not very maternal to me. I'm not getting a very maternal vibe from them. Not a Wall Street journal. I don't see a whole lot of mothering going on on Wall Street. Unless you work on Wall Street, in which case you read it and you're like,

Oh, mother, we love this. Oh, mother. Not enough babies to explain. They're not serving enough. They're serving cunt. They're not serving enough cunt on Wall Street. I'm so sorry. No.

How much cunt did you serve today? You're not meeting your quota. Make the serving cunt line go up. If the Wolf of Wall Street was about that, then that inspirational speech by Matthew McConaughey would have had a totally different vibe. Oh, man. That scene is a lot of fun. The Matthew McConaughey, Wolf of Wall Street scene is incredible.

But incredible from the outside to be like, holy shit, these people are monsters. And I'm sure taken by people who work on Wall Street as like, that's life goals, bro. Anyways, we also have an important decision to make about the new McDonald's McFlurry. You know, we have a tradition on this podcast, like, when McDonald's released the Grimace Shake. We were like, well, that is clearly Grimace cum. It is purple.

It just seems like, like, how is it Grimace-based? Like, other than, yeah. So, now they've released a new mcflurry that is grandma flavor get the fuck out of here i don't yeah do we even i don't think we do right my sordid brain if if the extension of grimace led to grimace come i cannot go down the path of what grandma flavor grandma come yeah it It's just grandma cum. Alright, there it is. Thanks, Malibu. You're welcome. You don't think grandmas can cum?

What are you, not a feminist? You don't support grandmothers cumming? No! I do, I do, I do. Well, here's some news. Your grandmothers probably cum, and that's how your mom was made. I wanted to bring it up because I knew Miles and I weren't brave enough.

And I wanted to bring it up because I knew you were. We needed someone. So brave. We won't even talk about that. We have an official ruling. Thinking about women coming, I am so brave. You are. It's too much.

So Miles and I are like David Zaslav, who was like, all right, guys, if we're going to watch this, we can't look at each other. Don't look at each other. Put the blinders on while Fleabag is on. Oh, boy. All right. Before we get to any of that, probably we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Okay. If you think I'm going to get canceled for this, please cut it out.

Okay. I'm going to get canceled for this. Please cut it out. I just today Googled wife beater other names. I know that we're not supposed to use that name because it's really bad. Right, right, right. Awful. But I didn't know what men call tank tops. And I was like, is it just a tank top? Like, what is it called? Yeah. So there's like muscle shirts and other things but it's pretty fucked up that that was i couldn't think of other names for it i know that it is wild how casually that was just sort of like i remember the first time i wanted one telling my mom i think was in seventh grade i was like mom i need a pack of wife beaters and she's like what are you you know she's an immigrant literally she's literally so what the

fuck you talking about i'm like those tank tops and my mom was like oh oh she's like why she's like you're a child like i'm about to buy them and they're gonna be a sun beater okay i'm about to go get them for you yeah is there wait so what what what is it called now even there's like tank tops muscle shirts um let's see what else they have undershirt but undershirt is too vague some of them just call them beaters but i'm like that's we know what that is you can't just call them beaters yeah yeah we know what you're referring to equal opportunity beater that doesn't work yeah wow i beat all my family members when i wear this not just i like how there's even like articles about like,

how did this become the term we use to describe a piece of clothing? It's yeah. It's pretty, pretty insane. I guess the, like the, like John McClane is the, I feel like the guy from diehard,

I feel like is the one connotation that might be powerful enough to like, if there was like something right in that but it's amazing the pro like how deeply and widely that nickname just took over they're just like yeah no that's what this is called now full sorry so my google search history is me trying to better myself what's yours yeah? Yeah, I just don't wear them. My upper body is not developed enough to wear a muscle tee. So I just wear baggy sports shirts now. Fair enough.

Yeah. Got to know your build. It shouldn't be a muscle tee. It should be a torso tee. Yeah, exactly. There you go. It's a mummy undershirt. Miles, give me that torso tee.

What's going on? I got it. Okay, torso tee. Wow. Get your potholders out because it's piping hot. Now they're saying it also came from a streetcar named Desire. That's what I'm picturing in my mind. What's his name?

It still hadn't taken hold. But yeah, the shirt was a mark of immigrant status because kowalski was polish yet the white tank was often linked to poor italian american men too oh and then people called it a dago t wow so this thing has always been used to just be like yeah man whatever the fuck y'all motherfuckers are wearing wow wow wow okay well hey there you go let's call it a tank top. A tank top. A tank top does seem different to me. Like undershirt, a tank undershirt maybe is like the, because a tank top, like there's too many loose tanks for that to suffice completely.

U.S. military industrial complex, huh? Thank you. Too many loose tanks. After the fall of Russia, am I right? Holy holy shit what is something you think is underrated okay this is also potentially going to upset people okay i don't like do having to do them but i do think sometimes we take chores for granted because i do think sometimes it's good for us to if you have an emails, emails, emails job, I think it's good to like get up and walk around and do something like

that you don't have to think about. And so like, for me, I like folding laundry, because I don't have to think and I'm like, Oh, look at all my clothes. They're cute, you know? Yeah. So things like that, or just like cleaning. And then I also think it makes your like apartment nicer you know and like that's investing in you and your own happiness and your environment so i think it's a way of like self-care does that make sense i 100 agree where does where does the offensive part come in no because people have to like uh do chores like do more or less chores depending on like what part of the socioeconomic class they're in. Sure. Sure. Okay. Right. So it's a privilege. So if I'm like, oh, I love just being like, I get to do chores and other people are like,

yeah, exactly. Or like people do it for their jobs and stuff. So I don't want to be like, oh, I love doing chores all the time. But I do like, I do, I am like grateful to get up and walk around and like make my life a little bit better. You know? Yeah. I like to put the Uber Eats orders into the oven and then pretend to take

them out. Like I just cooked them for my kids. You're in an apron. You're like, honey. Dad, you're wearing that on your face. You got to put it down a little bit further.

Was that where the apron goes? Mrs. Doubtfire too, where they got the takeout meal and then just plated it and was like, Oh, here's the food. The biggest betrayal. Yeah. That's everything. Yeah. Right, yeah right right right oh my god yeah i mean i love uh it's it's funny the the folding is very

like meditative for me because i'm yeah i'm like a very i'm a perfectionist so i like i like to really like get my text like me and my partner majesty like we get in arguments i'm like you're not folding these shirts like Let me do it because I got my special way to do it. And she's like, fine, go off. What are you wearing when you say that, Miles? I'm wearing a torso tee by any chance. No, because I'm like,

I'll fold her underwear. She's like, you don't have to fold my underwear. I'm like, I liked, we get in arguments where it's like, it's okay. like the process of like folding every single thing where i get she's like i know but you like it too much bro yeah yeah exactly like you don't have to wear it alive i'm keeping that love alive she's like you always say you have one on deck but it means you're just wearing one pair of my underwear on your head and that's me i'm like yep and here's the next one and this one's on deck now for the next folding what is your so that's your favorite chore jack what's your favorite chore miscellane

like probably cleaning up after my kids just oh that's cute they've so many fucking legos just sorting legos is basically one of my main jobs breaking boxes down like any boxes that come like i spend a lot of time with that spend a lot of time with my box spend a lot of time with that says a cat look at you 100 post-consumer materials breaking them down yeah exactly um what's your what's your guys's least favorite chores okay my my favorite chore is uh folding clothes my least favorite is dishes dishes same oh i actually like dishes i like cleaning dishes i do not like making food see that's where i i like you're invited over anytime yeah to do my dishes that's where it works too because i like to cook and also go to the store her majesty hates going to the store

and cooking and i'm like to say less it's like if you cook these dishes i'll do whatever the fuck we got grocery shopping is one of my favorites i do like one of hers most hated chores interesting weird i don't know why it like i think because i still have this thing where like the first time i did it on my own i felt like it felt like such an accomplishment i'm like my mom's not with me and i'm at the grocery store yeah you're like coasting off of that first moment. Yeah. I'm still chasing that dragon that high of being like, yeah, I'm fucking 18 and I'm buying Oreos that I'll eat for dinner. Sometimes I think that still I'll be like,

Oh, I'm going to, I'm driving a Taco Bell and no one's stopping me. Yeah. It also, I think I, my early association in adulthood with going grocery shopping, like, when Cracked was first starting, like, my wife was in medical school.

So she was just, like, at the hospital all day, every day. And I was just, like, working nonstop. And the one thing I left the house to do was go to Walmart in Columbia, Missouri. That is so funny. And it was like, this is freedom. This is living, folks. Keep going to the gun section. So this one's good for hunting. Yeah, man.

We do this every day, man. Still the same one. Cool. So this one's good, right? This one's good, right? Yeah. Sure, man. I have to find this tweet i i know we're

gonna plug tweets later but i yeah but i found this tweet where somebody was talking about going to i'm gonna find it and credit that but like somebody was talking about going to a gun fair and and testing them based on their mouth feel yeah i saw that that's in my likes. Let me find it. Oh, shit. Getting kicked out of the gun store for commenting on their mouthfeel. It was one of the great tweets. I have loved it so much. It was so good. So that was Curtis. Yeah, that was Amanda, exclamation point, Ashen Heart Metal, tweeted, being escorted

out of a gun show for rating them based on mouthfeel brilliant brilliant tweet that is such a good tweet polyv what is something you think is overrated okay i might no um i don't okay it's not overrated but like who the fuck is gonna watch the presidential debate this year i don't even know what's happening with voting but i don't want to watch what are they gonna debate about i don't know what they're gonna even who can remember who they're talking to yeah all right the first challenge is name the person standing across from you no first challenge is is getting there without falling over okay this is the least like i've watched the debates

before and i've like commented on them and talked about it but i'm like this is gonna be so utterly depressing and also there's so much other shit going on and everybody's mad at both of them for very legitimate reasons like don't nobody don't just put them you know those uh that celebrity uh boxing show that used to be like do that yeah do that see if they can get in the ring without falling over let's see if that works oh man purely stress-based experience that will be of just like god i hate both of them so much yeah for sure but then like also being stressed out every time Joe Biden starts a sentence. It's like, oh, fuck. How's how's this one going to end?

He doesn't even know. Yeah, that's how I feel about my stand up sets. I'm like, there's no fucking way Joe Biden's feeling the same way as me. I start doing crowd work. I'm like, who knows where this is going to go? We're both like i'm definitely gonna bomb today you know both of us me and joe biden right yeah that i don't know what what those debates are gonna look like at all and i don't know like they both think they're like oh yeah

watch this y'all you're gonna fucking love this and i don't know if it's going to render the results that they think it will i am interested to see how he like approaches trump because the last time he was like all fired up about malarkey and he was like oh shut up and now it's like will he have that confidence and ability to breathe through talking you know what i mean yeah yeah that he has moments of energy where like this feels like a burst of i was saying this on yesterday's episode but like this feels like when he was like that's it i'm going out there i'm gonna call a press conference and answer all their dang questions man and like he was good for not good but like he did what he was hoping to do for like 12 minutes and was like and i'm out and then like came back to the stage and was like sundowning and it's just like yeah man it like doesn't he there's no way to be confident that he's going to be able to like reliably stand up there and not

embarrass himself um you know that uh what do they call it like a second like a right but when people are in like like dying and they're like in a hospital bed and then they get a burst of energy right before they die have you heard about this i feel like that's this entire term for fighting the wind yeah yeah i'm like stop getting your hopes up. Yeah. Yeah. Probably for both of them, too. They're like, we need this. We need each other to stay alive just a few moments longer. All right. Let's let's take a quick break and we'll come back and do some art criticism.

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Yes. I'm just like, did you see that article about the guy who- Wait, what? The guy who made the dress like got charged with something like for strangling his wife or some shit?

Oh, the white and gold dress? Yeah, yeah, yeah. New episode of 16th Minute. Jamie Loftus' new podcast is going into that story. Wow. Oh, shit. Yeah, coming soon.

Doing the Lord's, old Lofty. Some say murder, some say self-defense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think it was like a murder. Like, it didn't end. I think it was just a violent, terrible attack.

That's awful. But the Prince Charles thing, I believe in the art world, we would call this hue of red ass blood. Ass blood? Really? Yeah. That's what I see. I see pink. There is some pink in there. I see lot of that's ass that's ass that's ass too oh okay i see what you're saying so it's like ass mixed with

blood blood just think about ass blood it all makes sense there's a little bit of brown it all it all comes together it is a terrible terrible rendering like i don't know like i mean i like it because it actually kind of there's a darkness to it. Yeah, I like it. It's all a fucking bloody facade. And I mean that in the British. It's all a bloody facade, isn't it? Exactly.

Bloody thing won't work. Every stinking time with this bloody thing. That's what he did when a pen broke while he was trying to sign some documents. The only thing we know about him, since he's gotten into not office, but whatever it's called, is that he couldn't. Taking mommy's chair? Using the booster seat. Is that he couldn't get the pen to work and he's sick. And that's it.

That's all we've gotten from it. And I guess before it was like the comments about his grandson's skin, right? Yeah. And when you actually like see the stuff that he writes and like thinks, it's pretty amazing. It's worth a look. There's a great New Yorker profile like a couple of years back before the queen died where they're like, There's a great New Yorker profile a couple years back before the queen died where they're like, people are really worried about once the queen dies because this guy is a capital D dipshit. Right.

Do you think he knows what the term nepo baby is? Do you think he's aware of what that term is? I don't know. He's like, bloody, they're calling me a nepo baby. Bloody calling me nepo. I don't even know what that means. I haven't nursed since I was 19. Is it a nipple thing? No nipple baby.

I'm a nipple man. No, it's neppo. I stand by it. Nepo, yes. We have British accents. They're pronounced the same. I am that. my god my son went for a british accent and like my six-year-old son went for a british accent and like his

school performance yesterday it was wild he i mean he kind of pulled it off oh fuck you where's he where's he getting like where'd he get his reps like what's he watching to get his british accent they were doing a song from Matilda. And everyone was like, my mommy says I'm a miracle. And then it came to my, like, they were passing the microphone. It came to my son. He was like, my daddy says I'm a casual little boy. And he had been asking.

Like a fucking cockney dock worker. My daddy. My daddy. I'm a chimney sweep. worker he'd been asking me like water isn't that how they say water dad water and i thought he has a friend whose parents are british so he like speaks with like a british accent i thought he was just like doing it that way but he was really like no hey we pronounce it like this wooder wooder yeah that's how we pronounce it are you tired of him coming up to you and going hello poppet hello hello that's the only line i think i know from pirates of the caribbean that's what that's from right yeah yeah hello what's the only nine huh he's saying like hello poppet when he opens the closet and

finds uh what's your face hit it that's that says a lot about that movie franchise i'm like i think that's the only thing they say in that movie i thought that first one was a good time at the films shanghai disney pirates of the caribbean ride the best fucking ride they're incredible they've completely done it in a different way. Oh, really? And then we also went to, like, a stunt show that was not many stunts. But the ride was amazing. Like, Pirates of the...

Wait, what's so different about the Pirates of the Caribbean ride? You feel like you're in the movie. They have, like... I don't want to give a ton away. But there's, like, there's giant ships. And you're in the movie they have like i don't want to give a ton away but there's like there's giant ships and you're in a boat and like you like the projected faces and fights and it's just insane oh because like yeah and the american ones like the size of the pirate ships leave a little bit you know to know this is like i'm in the movie and they're fighting in front of me and i'm feeling like like i'm i can see them above me and stuff. It's sick. All right. We need to go there, daddy.

Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy, you got to break down the boxes, daddy. Break down the boxes. Daddy, pick up my Legos. Legos, isn't it? Isn't it?

What the fuck? What happened to you? Harry Kane, isn't it, mate? What? You're in it, mate. What? You're six. All right. But speaking of accents that kind of sound British. No.

There's an Australia's richest woman, Gina Reinhart, made her money fucking the earth via a mining company. A mini mining company. She's a mining company. Many mining companies. She's a mining company magnate. Her daddies, actually, technically her daddies. My daddies. Yeah, mining company. Yeah. And now we know who she is because of a portrait chat.

I think Australians are probably familiar with Gina Reinhart, again, because she's Australia's richest human being. But this is the thing art is such a wonderful thing because it allows us to express ourselves in a multitude of ways that go beyond our spoken word and it's also a really effective way to piss off these thin-skinned billionaires because yes like you said she's uh you know she's she's made billions uh just extracting shit from the earth and destroying nature and things like that. And, you know, funding climate denial, just the usual things you would do as someone who is running a mining company. But she's big mad that a First Nations artist has painted her as part of a series he made to emphasize the powerful and influential people that have affected Australia, both positively and negatively. influential people that have affected Australia both positively and negatively.

And she is really mad that her satirical portrait is up in a gallery that she gives money to and has approached the gallery's director not just by herself personally and directly, also through her company's intermediaries to have the fucking thing taken down. I've put the picture there for everyone to see. It looks like that botched restoration of the jesus fresco oh shit it does look like it's all smudged and it looked like a sloth or whatever i love it yeah so she does not like this picture at all that was painted by vincent uh namat jira and again she takes issue i guess she didn't say specifically people are pointing out it's like maybe it's the double chin that it seems to be at odds here and she said that

by not you know the gallery by for them to not acknowledge her wishes is quote doing the bidding of the chinese communist party thank you by showing her in an unflattering light it's like what the fuck are you talking about again like you said up top huge mag huge maga fan like it was there like when trump kicked off his like campaign and shit but yeah like it's i i think it's important to hear like what the the artist vincent namajira said quote people don't have to like my paintings but i hope they take the time to look and think why has this aboriginal bloke painted these powerful people? What what is he trying to say? Some people might not like it.

Other people might find it funny, but I hope people look beneath the surface and see the serious side, too. What is he trying to say? U-G-L-Y, you ain't got no alibi, you ugly. They call you Mr. Personality because you so ugly. Yeah, that's where that's at. But I just love, she's even like, apparently she funds a lot of like swimming, like elite swimmers and even swimmers have come out

who are, I guess like on the dole or, you know, who are beneficiaries of her money and are like, they should really take the painting down. Like she's like leaning on everyone. She doesn't look like that. Guys, my alarm clock didn't go off this morning it was doing the bidding of the chinese communist party i don't know why i just love that as an excuse for everything it's so weird it's just so what just one of those things that it's clearly built for like an audience who's just used to hearing

the phrase chinese communist party and go yeah bad bad i don't know what i don't know what they mean i don't know if it even has any relevance contextually but you don't want to be doing the bidding of the chinese communist party but this should be the primary thing that people are using art for at this point like it's yeah maybe the biggest problem facing our world like obviously climate change and war are the big obvious problems facing our world but those might mainly exist at this point because billionaires exist and you know control so much so it feels like this should just be all art is doing is fucking ridiculing and humiliating these fucking people until they like don't feel comfortable showing their face in public or are willing to accept that everybody's going to fucking hate them until things change. But but but instead it feels like because they're able to exert their influence with their billions of dollars, it's not what we get usually.

So this is I feel like important like i'm i'm glad that this person made this art yeah for so long too like the most powerful people in our world are actually like pretty obscure characters that we don't are really have trouble defining like if you said darren woods people would be like is that like a dj or something like no that's this that's the ceo of exxon mobile you know what i mean or like who is what about gregory jay hayes i don't know is he a fucking retired baseball player no he's the ceo of fucking raytheon wow really yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah willie mays hayes that person sounds pretty all right to me it seems cool hey greggy jay hayes no he runs fucking raytheon but i mean like yeah having more i mean i think obviously the like this is one part of it but you can tell there's one thing that people that you know build their entire empires

of pain off of exploiting people and like death they they really hate when people go and that person is the one that makes all the decisions over there because for a while it just wasn't part of like you know uh our consciousness to really be like to be able to properly define uh who we're trying to put pressure on but yeah yeah we'll see i mean i'd imagine these other people would just be like yeah we'll just we'll just have them we'll just sue them out into oblivion or something but hey this is why i love when people like yell at celebrities and politicians in public when they're having dinner i'm like they shouldn't fucking rest yeah they're killing people to have dinner in public keep doing this every i get like a rush of endorphins every time i see someone like actually be told no you suck because you know those people are not getting that

any any other capacity like everybody around them is like it's good no you suck because you know those people are not getting that any any other capacity like everybody around them is like it's good that you're bombing children keep going yeah right can we leave politics out of this i'm trying to have dinner right now can we leave politics out of this thing that where i'm changing how you're able to practice bodily autonomy via politics. Yeah, well, hey, they're just trying to have a steak like everybody else while being the cause of all of the world's ills. So, yeah, I don't think you guys deserve to have a bit of peace when you eat either.

But yeah, anyway, long may the satirical portrait, like long may it live and last in that gallery yeah i do think that this is great for celebrities to have this happen but i don't think my self-confidence could withstand a caricature at an amusement park or anything like that yeah i always walk past it i'm like this would be fun and then i'd be like bitch you would be crying like i'm always surprised. You see those videos, too. I see them on the Internet all the time where someone's like, you know, really mean.

Yeah. And then like all of you are like, even putting on like a good face about it. I feel I'd be like, yo, my fucking ears don't look like that. Yeah. You just like fighting them. Yeah. I start like flipping there. I feel like if that happened to Kendrick, he would another diss track you know what i mean like yeah so like jimmy in central park would be

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they let a vote happen on independence during the pandemic at a time when the people of caledonia were asking for it to be delayed they were like nope and uh vote's done we won uh you guys apparently fucking love our shit so they and then they changed the rules so that anybody who moved there in the last 10 years can still vote in elections which will make it possible for it will basically dilute the vote of people you know the indigenous population on the island and so there's a lot of unrest around that. The French are deploying the French army to quell protests that oppose the new rule. And they're also banning Tik TOK on the island.

I think their, their version they're saying is like, well, it's cause it's like, it's just, they're, they're making people, it's making people violent.

And it's, it's like, it's a lot of they're making people it's making people violent and it's it's like a lot of hatred and i'm and i'm sure that's true if you're looking on like the oppressor colonizer end of it uh but i wonder too because it's such an easy way to disseminate video or distribute video and have people see what's happening exactly pretty clearly maybe that could be i don't know that's that's just a hunch or maybe they're just doing the bidding of the chinese communist party i don't yeah they're probably doing the bidding of the chinese communist party i don't yeah they're probably doing the bidding of the chinese communist party i think it's funny that they're like no these people are french which means we

can easily quell their protesting have you seen french protests you're fucked france yeah and they're not i mean that's the whole thing it's a colony and like for these people they're like we should have the ability to have, you know, self-determination. Maybe that's a thing. But yeah, it seems like every time, you know, I think the last time there was a vote on a referendum, the Kanak people, the indigenous population, there was like, we need time to like culturally, like there needs to be a moment for us to be able to grieve the people that have died in COVID. Like, do not set this vote for this time because it's just sort of it runs afoul of like what our own traditions are. And they're like, we're doing it anyway.

And when those people boycotted it and there was only 40 percent turnout, you know, Macron was like, you see that? Everybody loves you. Everybody loves French. So there's your answer. There's your answer. And get rid of TikTok. But, yeah, it's it's it's very answer. And get rid of TikTok. But yeah, it's very wild. And also nickel reserves too.

There's a lot of nickel there. That's always it. Another reason. That's always it. I'm this old Caledonia, you know what I mean? Where they got to be themselves. That's right. Those are the days.

I'm guessing. I don't know anything. All right. Let's talk John Krasinski you know uh i refuse never mind let's not talk john krasinski so bad more like bad news right didn't he do the good thing yep and then like flogged it for i think millions didn't he like right after it for like a hundred million dollars and then you know during streaming boom. And then I don't think anything ever happened with it. Guys, what about happy?

Have you thought about that? Yeah. But what if we tried to be happy? I don't know. Just a thought. I like that how that's a direct competition to TDC. I know. That's why, that's the main reason we're mad over here.

Yeah, I think it was during the pandemic. But I do see something that is named similarly, like popping up on on instagram sometimes so i wonder if they just like turned it into a social media thing or right i don't know yeah yeah i think because what he sold it to viacom or something yeah right after it was like a surprisingly little time they're like yeah yeah we'll buy that we'll buy that we'll buy. It was like a YouTube video that a YouTube channel that had like five videos and they were like a hundred million. Will that do? Why?

How much is the media in tatters? Wait, do you know? Was that was that the final sale was a hundred million. Let me see. Good news. Yeah. I can't. I can't find a number.

Wow. It must be a lot for everything's like it was a lot of money. Yeah. It's like that was my good news. Yeah. like, it was a lot of money. Yeah. He's like, that was my good news. Yeah. Well, good news for me. I'm rich, bitch.

Yeah. I just flipped that thing I did just to kind of, because I was bored in the pando. Yeah. Anyway. It's got to be somewhere. What the fuck?

Anyways. Yeah. So in addition to giving people the brilliant idea of like, just look at happy stuff. What the fuck? Like, just, let's just be stuff. What the fuck? Like, just let's just be happy.

It's I'm rich. Why would you guys be sad? I'm rich. The big new movie hitting theaters this weekend is if, which feels like the closest thing he's done to the, the good news thing where it, cause the good news thing was all like, I'm just like a fun dad and this is our family

and we're just at home and being like a fun family. Just need some good news, man. Yeah. And so this one is like a whimsical children's film about imaginary friends. That's what the IF stands for. It's IF, but it's like imaginary friends. And the trailer mentions that like it's clever.

It's the movie looks like shit to me. It's expected to make like between 35 to $45 million this weekend. It's getting bad reviews, which I was relieved by because I don't know, just looking back on his choices that he's made throughout his career. It's hard not to come to the conclusion that his whole career was some kind of like cia psyop like his first one of the imaginary friends is just ronald reagan yeah is ollie north you're like what yeah so he's just like the affable you know jim from the office and then his first like big non-office role was jack silva

in michael bay's benghazi movie 13 hours right right yeah the benghazi movie like just and then when they're like isn't that a little political christmas like no yeah you being you saying it's political is the only thing that's political about it. This is just about people, just about some soldiers doing their duty. Doing their duty, and it's a right-wing talking point to just discredit Hillary Clinton. I don't know, man. It's got nothing to do with politics, man. It just came out in the election year. Who knows?

Who knows? Yeah, yeah. It was the main rallying point that people knew about against Hillary Clinton heading into the election, and they made a big budget Hollywood movie about it. The movie's publicity push included sponsored content from the National Review's publisher, a TV ad that aired on Fox News after Obama's State of the Union address. There was like some of the content, an exclusive interview with the film's lead, John Krasinski, for the conservative townhall.com. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. And it premiered not in a movie theater, but at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, along with a performance from patriotic rock band Madison Rising. Jesus Christ. What a name. Yeah. Oh, Madison Rising. I know her from Utah. I know. Love her TikToks. Love her TikToks. Oh, wow. A band that later sang about how Obama was the Antichrist and released a song deploring left-wing violence the day after Charlottesville. They were like, they're left-wing. Yeah, not political at all. Not political at all. We just know our audience. We just know our audience. That's really what it is. That's all it is. I'm so tired of white guys just like coasting on silence i'm so tired of it right we're good this is like the same route you know chris pratt took you know being like lovable andy on parks

and rec and then slowly it was like i'm christian and i love not acknowledging my wife that's actually what ch Chris stands for. Christian Pratt. Did you know that? Yeah. No, I didn't know that. Huh. Lover of Christ.

Isn't that what Christopher means? That's also what Krasinski. It's Christianski. Yes. Christianski.com. Yeah. Where Christians go to find out the best ski spots. Exactly.

For only Christians, if you know what we're saying. Yeah. Right. No, if you know what we're saying. Yeah, right. No, I don't. Too many other religions at the ski slopes, if you know what I mean. I saw a Hindu take this ski lift the other day. It would really fuck me up. Gross.

You know about snow? Huh. And like, so just this seems to be his move, basically. He's like this, portrays himself as this lovable, apolitical, nice guy who routinely takes jobs in blatant right-wing propaganda. And then there's like the more subtle stuff that we'll also talk about. Like the good news coming at a time where like things were very politically heated and he's like guys just what about this this is just fun it's just like fun stuff that we can all just agree to kind of laugh about and forget about the world's troubles i don't know if you know but he john kaczynski actually played the pepsi can

in the kendall jenner pepsi can commercial where she handed his best work like he disappears into that role yeah he was all about bringing the cops together with very rich white people he also designed the thin blue line logo oh wow he voices it in the new movie he voices the thin blue lines my favorite friends the thin blue line what is it thin bluey i'm just hate when people say i'm political but anyway those guys were asking for it the cops are just doing their jobs keeping the streets safe what you know that the daily wire is about to take this whole bit and make it into a movie that bombs at the box somehow yeah right yeah yeah blue they're just gonna do copaganda where bluey's just a cop or something yeah i love bluey so after 13 hours he landed a job playing

jack another conservative hero named jack jack ryan go ahead wait sorry can we go back to that quote where on 13 hours he was saying the truth is we should all be proud of these guys and the moment you politicize it the more you're moving to us toward a world that i don't want to be living in yeah a world where people want to score political points at all costs i'm sorry but that is such a white american thing to be like people should be proud of the military that's not how the fuck people actually feel like the fact that we have to sit there and like applaud them no like i'm brown like these bitches are killing my cousins like what are you talking about it's like no the second we vilify them and create more consciousness around what these people actually do that's just not a world

i want to live in that i think that would be equitable no no no no it's crazy to take for granted that people would revere people who kill other people and i'm not saying everybody in the military does or that we know what they do but like and i'm and also i'm not saying i understand how people get into the military i know there's like a number of different reasons that people do it or have to do it or feel obligated to do it that's what i'm talking about but to assume that we all have to stand up and applaud and be proud and be proud of it is like such a white american male like view like it's crazy well if you don't do that i'm gonna just fucking kill myself it's like basically how the quote is comes up with bad news. It's a suicide note. I don't want to live in that world.

If you don't like my military movie, I'll just go forever, dude. Is that what you want? Because honestly, you're just doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party. Thank you. So next, he takes the role of Jack Ryan in a CIA commercial,

Amazon, Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy show that like, if you need any proof that this show was just a CIA commercial, like there's so many interviews in one interview. He said, the CIA is something that we should all not only cherish, but be saying,

thank you every single day. something that we should all not only cherish, but be saying thank you every single day. And then bragged that he totally nerded out when he got to visit the CIA. I, I love people being like, I'm just a big old geek for the CIA. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh my God. I know guys. I know it's lame. I just, I don't know. There's something about me and call me a dork but uh i like to just like imagine the cia like finding cool ways to murder left-wing politicians in south and central america i love an overthrow of a regime you know what i mean i just geek out about

it i know i'm just my wife yeah spying on your own people like it's just i just like to nerd out on stuff like that that's just like so cool yeah i uh i've been watching a lot of really terrible reality show and i'm not gonna say on which streaming service but it's not it's like it's not it's not a streaming service known for academia you know what i mean that's right that's wow you really narrowed it down i know but i just it's one of the streaming services that has content that allows me to be as meditative as Miles is when folding laundry. And I have been getting so many ARMY recruiting ads on this streaming service. And I'm like, they're trying to recruit dumbasses. They're trying to recruit me.

They're trying to recruit dumb people who are watching trying to recruit me like they're trying to recruit dumb people who like are watching these like not hard to think about shows and like the people in the ads are also like barely able to read the lines like it is crazy how i'm like this is like watching how the propaganda works is like wild i've noticed too they've definitely upped the ante with how action movie ish like the ads have become because before you used to see dudes like not shooting guns but like walking around they're like oh man put your night vision on man it's like a video game now there's like full-on gun battles that like i'm seeing and i'm like whoa and they're also making them like diversity higher things they're like let's put all the people of color in the tokens up front and then we'll feel good about killing all the other people you know i'm so glad

you brought that up because uh john krasinski also brought up that the cia is a very diverse fun place that and this is amazing i like this is a new level that I feel like couldn't have possibly come from his brain. Like it has to have come from like a CIA talking point. The CIA, he claimed, is totally apolitical. There's no politics being discussed. It's just the CIA. Because you're just doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party. Thank you.

You're not even talking about it. There's no politics involved because everyone's on the same page american imperialism it's like yeah yeah yeah how do we protect this how do we yeah like okay the cia doesn't choose doesn't pick sides they don't have a you can't say it's diverse and then be like there there's no diversity of thought. There are no discussions being had. Right. Was like, was someone there being like,

what if we don't, you know, launch a coup against Guatemala? How about like, was there anyone there on that? Right. Like on that side of the argument? No,

it never came up. It never came up. As for the content of the show, the show's Muslim characters consisted of, quote, desperate refugees and irrational evildoers, terrorists, rapist terrorists, child molester terrorists and child terrorists that was season one of the jack ryan show and season two was all about like a cia backed regime change in venezuela

and it was it came out like at a time that the Trump administration was discussing that it was some people were like, is this just like a they floating this like weather ballooning the invasion to see like how it does on a right on this Amazon Prime series. It's like Law and Order SVU, like covering like real things in the real world. But it's like they're just dropping propaganda. Like, right, right. Let's focus group test this. Yeah. Let's see where we're at with this. Yeah. in the real world but it's like they're just dropping propaganda they're like right right let's focus group test this yeah let's see where we're at with this yeah there's a disclaimer at the end of each episode saying the cia has not approved or endorsed the show which is like just a lie they had to like film at the actual cia headquarters and to do that they had to submit their scripts for approval.

Wait, really? Yeah. So they just like, first of all, it's wild to even have to be like, yeah. And by the way, guys, this was not made by the CIA. Right. So I'm going to start saying that too, at the end of everything I say. Turns out when that is said, it usually means it was made by cia because they had to submit their scripts for approval by you guessed it the cia what is that what is that like very online twitter thing that's like i'm uh getting a lot of questions that should be answered by my i'm not a something shirt like i'm not a pedophile shirt right right right yeah what was it i know yeah there's so many twitterisms like that the thing that also

reveals it is this guy's like yeah man when they embraced me at the fucking headquarters yeah like that they have nothing to do with it again yeah you're shooting at langley okay that's he was not shoot he was nerding out at langley just being a big old geek. And they let him shoot the heart attack gun at a Antifa person. What's the heart attack gun? Oh, you got to nerd out on it. You got to nerd out on it. The CIA revealed, I think it was in the 70s, only once, that there was this battery-powered gun that shot a pellet of ice with neurotoxin frozen inside of it it would go into your skin and then melt and you would die of what appeared to be a heart attack

okay it's insane to me that like these superhero movies are a propaganda for the military when all of the villains are from the military and like military like they would be you know what i mean like those are the only people with the money and the resources to make a heart attack gun like that it's crazy yeah it's straight up michael clayton shit that's why yeah so i mean all this political baggage is probably why some critics saw a quiet place is a right-wing allegory in which the silent white majority aren't allowed to speak and are threatened by the dark others, which he was like, guys, my CIA movie isn't even political.

You think this one's political? Come on. But also he's a thief. A Quiet Place was suspiciously similar to a book called The Silence, which was later adapted by Netflix. And this If movie has almost the exact same premise as the 2004 cartoon Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. I love Foster's

Home for Imaginary Friends. I thought about that immediately. I love that show. Yeah. Is it? Well, should I watch that instead of this John Krasinski? No, no, no. You gotta watch John Krasinski. It's got Ryan, what's his name? Ryan Reynolds. One of the Ryans. It's got Ryan. What's his name? Ryan Reynolds. One of the Ryan's.

It's got Ryan. It's got Ryan. What's his name? It's got Ryan. What's his name? You got to watch this one. It's a good one, man. No, watch Foster's Home.

Your kids will love it. It's the best. Oh, this motherfucker looks like Grimace. Yeah. This purple motherfucker? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Wow.

It is Ryan Reynolds. yeah yeah yeah wow it is ryan reynolds and they jack him off into a uh into a milkshake cup uh oh sorry here's my dog let him know yeah he doesn't like when you talk about grimace getting jacked off can you please stop that that's a trigger for him that's my bad i should have known palavi what a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist, as always. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? I am at Pallavi Ganalan everywhere. P-A-L-L-A-V-I-G-U-N-A-L-A-N. I have the facial recognition comedy show at the Comedy Store on the 21st, like I said.

Yeah, I think that's what I have coming up. I'm going to be all over LA doing shows and things. So please keep an eye out for that. I'm also part of South Asian AF's super team. It's South Asian AF is a variety show and it features all South Asian people and it's at the Elysian monthly. Our next show is May 31st at 8 p.m.

and we usually sell out. So y'all should get your tickets, but i'm part of their improv team so amazing there you go is there a work of media that you've been enjoying so i already shared that joke earlier which was my favorite uh from recently but i'm sure you guys might have heard of this whole like kendrick lamar drake beef i don't know if guys might have heard of this whole, like, Kendrick Lamar Drake beef. I don't know if you guys have heard of it, maybe. Go on. I've heard of Drake. Okay.

Well, you're like Draco. No, I just love seeing. Draco Malfoy? Yeah. Oh, no. Is he rapping now? Yeah. His name is Kendallall roy his rap name actually i just love seeing all the tweets about it the one that i saw like yesterday was um like a swifty was quoting like what are the first five words of the national anthem and that sorry that got quote tweeted by someone that's like i see dead people and it went viral i just love

i loved all of the bbl drizzy like everything yeah i just let's keep it up with that there was all the it's just so funny too to see like the drake fans and kendrick fans like post videos like look they're playing it here no one's dancing nobody fucks with kendrick and other times you were like i'm in a spin class and they just played they just played bbl drizzy in my spin class um and there's yeah it's over though folks just it's the best it's okay it's the the dust is settling now there's still so many people that are going down fucking rabbit holes that it's a little bit like look i don't think there's much more to to investigate somebody made us a spotify playlist of every song they dissed each other in from like 2012 onwards or something yeah it's wild how much

this has given content creators like you're seeing people who never talked about rap be like i'm i'm gonna react to the kendrick lamar diss track you're like what the fuck is this and it's got like 200 000 views it's wild i had to talk about it because I've been gone and like, Jacquees and I, we were just like listening to all of them together on our trip. Yeah. And we didn't have like

people in person to be like, holy shit. Yeah. So that's why I'm talking about it. Yeah. I was in Miami when like everything started going down

and I was having to just lock eyes with random people on the street just to hope, like, do you want to talk about it? Do you want to talk about it? I'm like,

what? No. Miles, where can people find you is there working media you've been enjoying great questions find me at miles of gray gray twitter instagram threads tiktok wherever uh find jack and i on our basketball podcast miles and jack i'm at boosties where we're talking about the very dynamic nba playoffs i was a sucker and thought maybe the Nuggets were going to lay down and die. Nope. Fast idiot. And also find me talking 90 Day Fiance on 420 Day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra.

A couple of tweets I like. First one, and Jack, you're going to like this. This is a picture of our boy Chet at his postgame. A lot of people have been posting this picture of Chet Holmgren at a postgame saying what he looks like. This one is funny because it says it's him. He's wearing a pink shirt and glasses said, if Abe Lincoln was a Coke dealer at the University of Miami. It's the wildest description of Chet. And then one other one that I like, it said, what radicalized you?

Oh, my God. I love this video. And I'm just going to play this video of this girl who's, you know, radicalized. Reminds me a lot of Jack's kid. Yeah. At Gritty 2020. Then the number two. Girls, what's just happened?

So, there's an ice cream van there. Silly. Just two ice creams with two chewing gums in it for bloody £9 for two of them. £9 for two? Yeah, £9. That is going to get nowhere. One that comes on my street is either £1 a piece

or £2. That is going to get nowhere with that. No, it ain't, is it? No, it ain't. That's well bad, isn't it? Yeah, you should know. And he only does bloody card. Stood there with my cash.

Bloody hell. That's wild, isn't it? Bloody wild, bad. Yeah. Yeah, bet he can hear me. Bet he can hear me. Stood there with me cash. That's who your kids been hanging out with.

Nine quid for two ice creams. It's a joke thing. Tweet I've been enjoying. Ellery Smith tweeted, engagement photo shoots are so funny as a concept. Like, girl, we believed you. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. 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, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. What was the song that we think you might enjoy? Miles, what song do you think people might enjoy? Well, this is a coincidence.

Our esteemed guest just got back from Japan and many other places. And I was listening to this track from this Belgian-Japanese group. They're called Aiui, A-I-L-I. And this track is called Takoyaki. And for people who know, familiar, it's like a octopus tentacle, like dough ball. And but the lyrics are talking about like, like you're tough. It's just like sort of like this pigeon japanese like lyrics that are going on but it's got this cool like sort of 80s ish like art

rock feel anyway this is takoyaki by aili a-i-l-i uh check it out it's a fun track and take that to your weekend take that to your weekend take it take that all right is going to do it for us this week Goodbye, Puppet Goodbye, Puppet Fare thee well, Puppet The Daily Zeitgeist 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 week We are back on Monday morning to tell you what was trending over the weekend

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