The Daily Zeitgeist - Celeb Vax Ads Cometh, Crypto’s Like Dead Dead 02.10.23

Episode Date: February 10, 2023

In episode 1420, Jack and gust co-host Francesca Fiorentini are joined by comedian and co-host of Action Boyz, Jon Gabrus, to discuss… Here Come The Celebrity Covid Vaccine Commercials, No Crypto Ads At This Year’s Super Bowl and more! Here Come The Celebrity Covid Vaccine Commercials U.S. plans to stop buying Covid shots for the public this fall. Here’s what that means for you Moderna will likely increase its COVID-19 vaccine price once government supply ends Why is Pfizer advertising a vaccine that gets plenty of free promotion? No Crypto Ads At This Year’s Super Bowl AVOCADOS FROM MEXICO BRINGS CHATGPT TO SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL Last year’s Super Bowl ads aged like milk LISTEN: Dela Move by ChronixxSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 274, episode 5 of Der Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it is Friday, February 10th, 2023. A mere two days from the big game, which I feel like calling it the big game has like gone from ironic to now. People are just doing it, which is somewhat upsetting. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I've got blinding thighs.

I read the news to the dailies. Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I've got blinding thighs. I read the news to the dailies. I've got blinding thighs. There's dew and magic between my plump thighs. That is courtesy of CWGBO. I don't know if that's supposed to make a sound or if those are just initials for something. I don't know. But I appreciate you on the Discord. Plump thighs. Yeah, I've got like some...

I talked about having strong thighs once and then it became a thing and I kind of leaned into it. But they're also very white. They're pale. They've never been graced by the sun. I grew up at a time when, like, shorts reached below the knee. But now it's skies out, thighs out, Jack.

That's right. You're like an impressionist painting. You're just sort of like an old Botticelli type. I'm like a Rothko, where there's just a line of bright blinding color in the middle of like an otherwise pretty pale. I want to throw soup on you already. Yes. Well, I'm thrilled to be joined by a very special guest, co-host, a talented stand-up comedian, journalist, activist, you know, from places like Al Jazeera, MSNBC, The Young Turks, from the podcast Obituation Room. It's Francesca Fiorentini!

AKA Fran Favorite, AKA Fantastic Fred, AKA Milk Milk Lemonade, around the corner, more milk is made, AKA part-time mother. That's actually the one that's a song. Anyway, so good to be here. So good to have you. You're part-timing it? Good for you. I mean, that's really the dream. I mean, sadly, I think the dream is to be a divorced parent because then you truly only have half the responsibilities. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. That's the amount of child I think everyone should have. Yeah.

And are you comfortable with me letting people know why we delayed for like 30 seconds? Of course. Yeah, you're pumping. I just said milk, milk, lemonade around the corner. More milk is made. More milk is made. And you were making more milk. I don't know. I just don't want, you know, our listeners are perverts.

So I don't know. I don't know what they're going to do with that information. Not just the listeners. Maybe. Welcome. Thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our favorite guests, a true pervert, an actor, comedian. You know him from his podcast, High and Mighty, The Action Boys, which is one of my favorite podcasts, doing it. The Action Boys, which is one of my favorite podcasts, doing it.

You've seen him in movies like Game Over Man, Bombshell, and on shows like 101 Places to Party Before You Die, which everyone should go find right now and watch. It's John Gabrus! Yo, it's me, John Gabrus, a.k.a. Uncle Meat Man. That name brought to you by my Xboxbox handle god uncle meat man uncle meat man yeah i don't know where that came from i think i wanted to go with meat man and they said it was taken so i was like oh let me throw uncle in front of it that was like the runner-up name to like the babadook film it was like it's either uncle meat man or babadook which one's scarier but at the same time like a thing you run into when you're online gaming is like annoying kids who like think they're better than you and this is a name that should get them all

to just run the other way yeah a little bit strategically and keeping with the pattern even better than a part-time mother by the way is a full-time uncle you get like let me just say even less responsibility yeah exactly right i i am the uncle meat man to a number of young children in the new york uh new jersey region and i i miss i miss them dearly but got to go around the corner and pump. The uncle has to pump as well. Not a lot of people know this. We don't want to imagine what that is, what that even means.

No, I appreciate the delay for the pumping. It's crazy. The pumping game has changed. I was at a restaurant away from my kid for like 48 hours and asked to... It's a long reservation. Yeah, exactly. it was uh it was like uh the menu on netflix was many many courses and i didn't finish it because i got bored um but but no and i was led into like i finally was able to pump in the office of the restaurant and like

four women were who worked there were so like like gracious and oh, of course it doesn't matter And I was like, I also like dripped a little bit on your paperwork You know back in the 80s like when my mom was having when I was born like There was no pumping you didn't pump actually it was like why don't you try Nestle? You didn't pump, actually. It was like, why don't you try Nestle? Right. Nestle.

I was pure formula. That's what I found out. I had allergies and asthma growing up. My mom smoked while she was pregnant with me. I'm 41. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I guess it stunted my growth to make me only 6'3", 300 pounds. Yeah.

God knows what kind of freak. I wouldn't be on podcasts. I'd be at, like, Coney Island. You'd shoot paintballs at me for money or something. She did that for your own good then. Yes. Thank you, Mom. Thank you for smoking.

A little lesser known movie. Like, this guy's out of control. Whatever's going on in here is this guy's out of control. We need to slow things down. So she smoked a couple of Virginia Slims. I don't know. My goal is to breastfeed until the child doesn't have the eczema of her father. If you guys know Matt Lieb.

Matt Lieb, you might know something about him. He is covered in eczema. He's eczematic. He's eczematic. His life is hell. It's itch, it's pain. And so his mom thinks that he didn't breastfeed. I mean, everyone, it's always blame the mom, right? It's always like, well, you didn't breastfeed. What did you do? But so that's my goal is to sort of like keep breastfeeding her. And if she got eczema and her life is pain, just blame your dad. Don't blame me. Yeah. I blame Nestle, by the way. I don't blame my mom. I blame, yeah, whatever was happening in the media at that time where they were like, breast milk, what? It's the 70s, babe. It's the

future. It comes from your body. Ew. Yeah. All right. We are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. Gabrus, first, we're going to tell our listeners some of the news that we're talking about aka stories i'm pretending to care and think about while the nba trade deadline is actually completely occupying my brain and my phone insane trade trade deadline dude it's fucking wild man between that and the big game dude the big boys have so much stuff to be dealing with this weekend it's hard yes give us a moment give us space to to hold this moment yes but we're gonna talk about the covid vaccine is becoming a product like everything else because biden has ended the covid state of emergency so now it's just going to be a product and we're starting to get celebrity COVID vaccine commercials. So we'll review some of the early ones of that.

And then we're going to get into the big game, folks. I know you've all been waiting for us to talk about it. That's all I know. Is that Monday or is that? Okay, sorry. That might be Monday. That's my only know. Is that Monday or is that... Okay, sorry. That might be Monday. That's my only contribution to this. Super Bowl Monday. It's like Cyber Monday. You just watch the game on your phone the next day. Yep.

I'm sure they're going to have all 365 days locked down with some sort of shopping holiday by the time we're're this episode airs yeah by the time this comes out tomorrow but we're going to talk about the fact that there are no crypto ads at this year's super bowl big change from last year that uh avocados from mexico was trying to do something with chad gpt but so yeah, all of that, plenty more. But first, Gabrus, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

Ooh, interesting. Okay, here is something that is revealed. My most recent, and I'm just going pure earnest here. My most recent search is minimalist shoes for heavy person. Whoa. So I'm a big fan of flat bottom shoes. When I switched from like actual cushy sneakers to more like minimalist, no drop shoes while going to the gym, back pain that I had went away. So I kind of got hooked on like these minimalist shoes.

back pain that I had went away. So I kind of got hooked on like these minimalist shoes, but they're not ideal for like stomping around if you are 60 plus pounds overweight. So I was trying to see if there's anything that exists like in an ideal. So I've gotten a few set. I've gotten a few orders and these are going back. These Vivo barefoots are a little too big. I've been trying. So I'm at that, you know, 41 year old, no child, no, no responsibility. Like, let me find the perfect shoe for myself. I've just been more or less become like a drop shipping unit here where I just try something on and then have to bring it to you. I'm losing money on But it's worth it. I mean, these are the things. First of all, I've never heard of minimalist shoes. And I love that idea because it's true. There's a lot of heel on shoes. There's a lot of bullshit. A lot of cushion, which kind of puts you in like a weird spot. And if you are like a big heel on the shoe and you're walking or running and you're landing heel first because you're so protected by the heel that's not ideal

mechanics allegedly this is what i my minor research has done my i listened to one episode of joe rogan and i think i've sorted it all out oh yeah so do like our chuck taylor's minimalist shoes because those hurt the shit out of my feet they're so flat they're so fucking flat they are so flat you could do better than that like something that fits your foot a little better but chuck taylor's i first like learned my love of flat bottom shoes with chuck taylor's and power lifting a sport i used to compete in you kind of want flat bottom or slight lift in the heel you don't want like a lot of cushion when you have load when you have loads on your back god how many times have i said that in my life you don't want a lot of cushion if you're getting a load on your back get those pillows out of there

you don't want cushions around when you have a bunch of when you're taking a load yeah but it so i got into chuck taylor's that way now my my go-tos are these like new balance minimus they're made with like vibrant bottoms see like there's like not a lot to the shoe there oh yeah oh yeah those are like the oreo thins of shoes like you just squished down your shoe and it was like i've never just ate the whole thing just took it down in one bite it was pretty pretty incredible i just know that all those shoes that are like all birds are like Rothies. They're so expensive. They're like three. I mean, those are ones that are, I don't know.

They're made out of like knit. You know, I don't know what the fuck they're made out of. Like some alpaca shit. Just knitted alpaca. Here's some knitted shoes. Knitted shoes. Here are some knitted shoes. Yeah, knitted shoes.

But my question is, when do we all just realize that, like, orthopedic shoes that senior citizens wear are actually comfortable as shit? And we should just wear them. Like, the ones with, like, the—and, like, normcore, it becomes kind of in style. It becomes, like, part of everything. You know, the ones with, like, the really big seam around, and they seam around and they're always gray or you know. Right. We should be wearing whatever is most comfortable for you, for people to be able to walk in and not hurt themselves

and have like not... We should excuse... I know so many fashion heads. We should just excuse you should be allowed to wear whatever you want from the ankles down no matter what the rest of your body... Like I hate that I have to put on. Let's go with waist down. Please.

Post-pandemic. It's way. I mean, post. Don't drag me. It's not over. It's not over. Just because the whole world acts like it is. It's not over.

And you can't say it is. Meanwhile, another comment you're getting is, shut up about the pandemic. It's been over for three years. It doesn't matter. It's just like the world is split in half. Yeah. I feel like Gen Z has sort of kind of moved in the direction

of the orthopedic sneaker, the really chunky-ass sneaker. Hoka, they're wearing nurse shoes. That's what I'm saying. The nurse shoes. And also, bell bottoms are coming back. It was a rainy day, and I watched this Gen Z-er just trudge around

with soaked bottom of their pants. Have I talked about this? Do you guys remember? I don't know when you went to high school, but just remember when it would rain and your jeans would be soaked and that was just your day? You would just be wet all the time? My pants were so big that

the bottom third of them could disintegrate. It would still be fine, but yeah. It was a mess. I went to high school in the mid to late 90s and i had my fucking baggy jeans and one more layer to it i had one pair of jeans like my parents weren't gonna buy me a second pair so the bottom got wet and muddy on monday it was brown on tuesday through friday at school like sucks i only have one pair of jankos

i'm wearing them every day. Yeah, it's just like snow. Your jeans are like progressively getting dirtier and dirtier. Yeah. Yeah, especially if you live on the East Coast. Yeah. The salt on the streets. Right, right, right.

It gets on your pants. You see the little ring mark? Your pants start. Yeah. We all grew up on the East Coast, right? If you wear snow boots, yeah. If you wore snow boots, you would get absolutely roasted. So the best you could do is Tim's. And of course, I'm poor. We all grew up on these. I would wear like my knockoff non-waterproof Tims from Payless Shoe Source. Right, right.

And it would be like immediately socks wet in school. And I'm like, everyone's like, why are your shoes? So I'm like, no, they're fine, man. They're perfect for the snow. I think the real next level Gen Z thing to adopt from the elderly is those like the body airbags. Have you seen those where like you fall over and like an airbag explodes around your body yes like no the big wave surfers at nazare where they made these like special wet suits that can like detect like a slam you're about to be crushed yeah and it inflates in a

few different spots to protect you and keep you afloat i love i want to just be able to take a nap on commit like whenever i want want. Just a spontaneous nap. Just go to sleep while walking down the street. Oh, that'd be awesome. It's exclusively for narcoleps? Exactly. I can't wait till they make, like, an inhaler that puts you asleep for, like, you pick the amount of hours. You know what I mean?

You're just like, you get like the Michael Jackson brand. Right. Take a rip of fucking whatever it is and just three hours. Thank you. I was thinking about that because they do have like insulin pumps and all these various, you know, medical equipment that you can have installed that put various medications into your bloodstream like it's we have to be you know again by the time this episode publishes like rich people are going to get those and they'll just be like all purpose like whatever your blood whatever you want in your blood chemistry like you could just they'll be like botox installations you can have that like reinflate your cheeks at night while you sleep or whatever yeah yeah i want to

get a thc port save money and just like just be able to put a vape cart in my right in my fucking heart just like just put one thc pellet in and be half stoned all day long so i can process the fucking there aren't enough ports there aren't enough things that are delivered via port just recreationally absolutely when my mom is a cancer survivor and when we were younger you know you get a port installed to make the chemo easier that's right yeah and to me as i was like i wasn't a kid i was like 19 or so when my mom was going through it and i could not wrap my head around the idea of like you're getting like a device added to you temporarily like right crazier than any other thing i could imagine it's like honestly the easiest way to do this is to build a hole in your body that we can have access to and yeah i was just like to this day i find that so intriguing yeah we're gonna turn you into one

of the batteries from the matrix yeah that's how we're going to put the medicine in. Yeah, that's truly wild. Oh, sorry, you know Kung Fu now, my bad. Whoops. You still have stage four breast cancer, but you do know Wing Chun, so hopefully you'll be okay. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll do some overrated, underrated.

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And we're back. And Gabrus, what's something you think is overrated? Right now, I'm angry and furious with the food delivery apps. I know this is some, like, first world problem shit, but it's disgusting, man. It's like all those, like, intermediates, just like the store gets fucked over, the customer gets fucked over, and, like, shareholders across, like, the world make money. across like uh the world make money and the drivers don't make money the customer overpays and the restaurant doesn't see as much profit it's like it's a fucking nightmare but it just harnesses our lazy energy and i consider myself like you know a labor guy i work but it's it's so hard not to just click click click and then like my food is here but i feel like service has gotten worse and more

expensive in almost every facet of society but i feel like this these digital realms i'm you i see it even more i feel like food delivery uh ride share and all that shit has just gotten more expensive and worse like they got the trojan horse of getting us hooked on it. It's like the price of meth just went up, you know? Exactly. They hide the labor and human interaction behind the app. And it's called friction. They're like, that's friction. And people inherently want to avoid that.

And so we're going to hide it from them and like keep it. And that'll enable us to like treat our employees more like shit like because nobody has to like see that but yeah it is really it feels like this extractive like capitalism has become this extractive force where it's just like a couple big companies like on the coasts are just like going around and just, you know, sucking up all the value out of all of these communities. Yeah. And it's and it's sort of an agreement because I feel like if you are a restaurant and you want to go back to like or you want to hire, you are able to hire a delivery person or a couple or whatever that whether it's Yelp or it's Google, they're

hiding your phone number. So it's not easy to find the phone number of restaurants if you actually want to directly call them. You're going to be given, okay, is it Uber Eats? Is it DoorDash? You can order it via Google. And so that's like an entire consensus, for lack of a better term, because I'm sure it's worked out with whatever Google ads or revenue stream. So they're all sort of working in cahoots against both, again, the restaurant, the delivery person and you. And then you feel like the asshole because it's like, well, do you want to add a tip on top? And you're like, yeah, but there's already like $15 of fees. And I but I don't want to be an asshole. And I know this

person is doing me a massive favor. And the second thing I'm going to say is like, I want ranking. Like I want to know, there needs to be more transparency. What's the worst one to work for? What's the best one to work for? Is Instant Cart the same as, you know, DoorDash? Or is it a little bit better?

Like as a consumer, I feel like I want to know that. I want to know from the driver's perspective. Is that what you're saying, Francesca? I want the driver to be like, Grubhub gives us the most tip. I'm like, then I'll only use Grubhub. Right. Tell me what it is.

But we need some fun. And this is what we unfortunately need in 11 different facets of society. But we need some sort of magnanimous person to build an app that is for for delivery and it's like it's ad supported or something like you have to watch right and you have to commit to be like i'll watch a one minute ad to order food from this where they don't take fees from the restaurant or fees from the driver or if someone came out and said look the least we could run this business on is one percent from the restaurant one percent from the driver yeah i'd be like, tell me that. Someone come along. And I think there is an entire lane being avoided

of slightly less evil versions of evil companies. I think you could get a whole bunch of good-hearted people with extra money in their pockets to go like, well, it's just slightly easier if i use this car that's slightly better for the driver if i use this car service i'm in like i'll just use that in perpetuity i think there needs to be a few we need to like start some shit like that where it's like something that you know and maybe i'm just saying this because i want guilt-free laziness which is like embarrassing but i do and I'll pay more for it, especially

if that more goes to a person and not a Grubhub shareholder or whatever. Yeah. But we absolutely need Craig from Craigslist to build a website where you can get the rankings of just like, here's what people who actually work for this say and there are no sponsors of this website so you just you know we'll take a small percentage from your order or something something i don't know why i'm now like trying to make the business model work well and i would say even on a smaller scale if i were to open a pizzeria in LA or any major city, I would have advertising that's like, we're not on apps. Call us. Delivery is this much plus tip. No hidden service fees. No corporation get money.

Just me, Vincenzo, and whoever my driver is. And also having a regular driver for the restaurant really helps when there's a small issue. But when there's an issue and someone's like, sorry's like sorry man i'm already i already got five different meals in my back seat getting cold that i gotta drop off elsewhere it's like it's well that's the last thing i mean this is the first world problem but man ordering fast food and i like i'm a fucking bougie motherfucker like i do not i don't eat like jack in the box or mcdonald's my fast food is like a chicken sandwich from a whatever some like non-chain place whatever what i'm saying is sandwiches like that kind of fast food or burgers always end up cold you order fries on delivery they are gonna be cold and it sucks it's so you know how do you reheat fast food guess the answer is you can't you can't reheat fast food you try answer is you can't. You can't reheat fast food.

I try in the toaster oven. Sandwiches are a problem. Fries, I feel like the air fryer has solved a big problem. I don't have a fucking air fryer. We need to get you an air fryer. You're not as bougie as you say you are then. I guess I'm not.

Air fryer, the fries and the air fryer, but you can't just stick a sandwich in there you know with like lettuce and tomato well that sandwich has too many temperatures at play exactly yeah yeah but anyways what is something you think is underrated gabriel what's underrated is just smoking flour just smoking grass smoking actual weed no infusions no diamonds no th and i i'm a fan of all that shit but there's something pure about just having a montepulciano versus like a 12 different ingredient cocktail like the idea of like someone put the energy into growing this flour and to making a top shelf and then you grind it

concentrate it slip it flap it fuck it jam it into something you know a banana flavored fucking uh paper or whatever all that jazz that happens all fun and games but i think i've i think one part i'm saying this is because i've fucking blown my tolerance out my asshole i can like can't afford to be a stoner anymore and there's something like i got into weed because it was like it's natural man and now i'm smoking like this is the distillation combined you know and it's like i'm getting a little outside of natural now i get a little more sciencey it's not this is not the weed that whenever you talk about like willie nelson smokes weed and still like you know lived forever it's like he's not smoking like 12 different infusions on top.

And so in my head, I've been trying to do that with food too, you know, going back to more like whole foods, like the thing you're eating, the ingredient is the name of it. Like, oh, I'm having chicken. What's in it? It's chicken. Yeah, chicken. Going back to that vibe.

Yeah, with grass for myself i haven't look i haven't gotten high in maybe two years however i will say while you're pumping what's your problem no no oh god i it's well also yeah my partner's sober my partner we'll talk about that later is sober and so i just don't want to be the only one high you know uh in the house unless you know when the baby can get high then we won't hang but i love flowers there's no high like just good flowers that's it i i'm so convinced of this fact well the fucking shatter and what's the other one the dabs and all the things that get you too high i'm someone who doesn't have a high tolerance with two or three hits of really good flower and i'm not talking about vaping and I'm not talking

about, I mean, yeah, I'll smoke not a split. Like I don't want it with tobacco, but just straight flour. It's so beautiful. It's just perfect. It's the perfect fucking high. Yeah. When I, I, I am sober and what, but when I was smoking weed, I don't think any of those things existed, and the flower would get me way too high. Really? You'd be like, oh, my God, everyone hates me? Well, that wasn't the flower. That was your personality. Yeah, that's just my bad personality.

Exactly. I wouldn't blame the weed for that, Jack. Come on. Yeah. It wasn't just in my head sometimes you are right but yeah I feel like Willie Nelson was smoking some shit that was

like grown on a farm in Kentucky that was defended by those sharp sticks with poop on them just like the real a punchy moat of goats yeah yeah well like you like when i went to like new zealand for uh a few weeks uh once with my wife and like nothing is labeled organic there and like a kiwi was like told us it's like oh nothing's organic everything organic. So we don't have to write it.

And it's just like, oh, it's a get like, that's a possible world. It's like, oh, the default is the safest way that everything is grown and processed and shit. The kiwi. Wait, was it a fruit kiwi or a person kiwi? It was a fruit kiwi that was talking to me, but they were from New Zealand. So technically it was a kiwi kiwi that was talking to me but they were from new zealand so technically it was a kiwi kiwi yeah yeah yeah it's like a delicacy there to like get something that's like grown in it like the american version like they're uber wealthy or like have a section of the like

these are from farm cows they're depressed and the meat is bad and it's like oh just like the american it's like eating like foie gras. It's like the animal was treated so poorly, the food tastes better. It's like, oh, yum. All right. Let's talk about celebrity COVID vaccine commercials. Finally.

Yes. I've been waiting for them. I mean, there were definitely the PSAs with celebrities, you know, warning people about COVID all fine. But, yeah, we're entering a new era where, you know, Biden has ended the COVID state of emergency. Soon the government won't provide vaccines for free to the public. So the drug companies will almost certainly be jacking up the price you know putting them on the the free market uh moderna will reportedly raise the price of their vaccine to as much as 130

dollars a dose up from 26 76 the government was paying and yeah which is a fucking huge bummer that's just huge yeah awful i don't like my initial instinct is like well then now no one's going to be vaccinated on the other hand i think i i forget where i heard this observation it might have just been like a stand-up thing or something but the the idea that like people were so skeptical about the vaccine because it was being given away for free like and that wasn't a stand up. That was like, you know, right wingers on TikTok were being like, so this is free. How come health care is not free?

And you're like, oh, you got it. You got it. You got it. You're there. You're there. Circling. Circling. But no, for sure.

It was sus in this country. How sad is our fucking country that it was sus that something during a national health crisis was actually freely available right yeah is like if if there's lines for it and it's being given away for free that's like that is serving like food pantry whereas if it's if there are lines for it and you're overcharging me that like gives me hot new brunch spot yeah i want i want the supreme vaccination like i want the needle that has the little red sticker on it i'll wait in line in fairfax for it yeah you want this to be like boarding an airplane you know there needs to be like different tiers i'm not gonna do anything

or get anything unless i feel better than someone else for getting it. No, no one's going to get it. Jack, I think your instinct is correct. I think no one's going to pay certainly not $130. But once again, this is cost prohibitive, just like so many things in our medical system are. I mean, it's very tough because this is the week where, you know, Joe Biden on a national stage, you know, rightfully says we're capping the cost of insulin and it's been long overdue and we're going to cap it at what was it, 35, which I still think is really expensive. But like, you know, on it, you know, everyone heard him say that. And then with the other hand, they're taking away a free covet 19 vaccine that my god we fucking paid for like this these are our taxpayer dollars that went to the innovation and the engineering around

the covet vaccine yeah like dolly parton fucking donated money to get it popping off right and now they're gonna get to raise the prices that's so fucking whack that's like that's the business is broke it's like all right guys everyone pool in the money i'm gonna buy us some pizza all right great i got pizza hey we have about 10 pizzas left i'm selling them for eight dollars a slice wait no no no i was i threw down the original money for the pizza i just don't need any more pizza right because i've already had my two slices and two booster slices and it's like uh well well if anyone else wants a slice they gotta pay eight dollars i'm well, if anyone else wants a slice, they got to pay $8.

I'm like, but if anyone's coming this late, we should be happy that we have the pizza that they want in this moment. But it's ignored that these massive corporations are subsidized by taxpayer dollars and given tax breaks. That doesn't get reported in the same way that there's never going to be a website that tells you which of these food delivery services mistreats their employees the most. And let's be real, like $130, now that if it's a market price, the fair market price, you guys think the COVID-19 vaccine is worth $130? No, definitely not. How many breakthrough cases have there been? Like without being an anti-vaxxer, we can safely say these vaccines are good. They're not going to 100% protect you. So you're going to need to lower that price.

For sure. Well, also, we're talking about it from the standpoint of Pfizer ads, right? Yeah. And they're going to be a Super Bowl ad. So how much does that cost? A Super Bowl ad for all the talent, the directors, the media buy, all the production costs, that is insanely expensive.

Not to mention, every single pharmaceutical agency has its own in-house advertising and marketing, which is a whole other slew of money to advertise medicine to us. Things that are... Imagine a company

that had water, had a $10 million a year water advertising budget to try to sell water. I mean, this is true. We need medicine. We need medicine to live. And this is the shit where I get really stressed about stuff

is because police departments have PR departments. Oh, yeah. Massive. LAPD has like 40 employees that aren't cops that work in marketing and PR. That's an egregious misuse of our money. Did you see their viral video on May the 4th when they got R2-D2 in a video where he blessed one of the LAPD Skyhunter killer drones? Came by and shocked it like a little thing.

Didn't make any sense, but they like, you know, spent a bunch of money to be like, Hey kids, check this shit out. Now I do want to like, we,

we haven't described the ad yet. We're saying that people aren't going to get the vaccine, but you should know that this ad is pretty cool and has a very straightforward, coherent message. So it stars Martha Stewart. For some reason, she's wielding a giant katana sword. And she's talking about the unwanted guest that is COVID-19. Then she's slicing a pineapple with the katana sword.

Shows a band-aid on her arm. At which point the slogan, booster in the got milk font shows up on the like it's truly just like brain just random brains firing off in a vat of just like yeah no coherent idea other than g, like, pharma ads. And look, I know a lot of comics, we wouldn't necessarily want to work for a pharma company, but we also need money.

We could write you a better fucking ad than this. Just hire us. Right. I don't know. This is pretty good. You have to be on some next level. Like, this is the product of dabs and shatter, I think. Yes. What if Martha Stewart, Pineapple...

Although, isn't Pineapple... I was talking about yesterday how 9-11 is catnip for liars. Liars just all naturally gravitate towards 9-11. I feel like Pineapples are catnip for hack comedy writers. Isn't that a thing? Pineapple? Yeah. Isn't that like the number one suggestion?

Like improv suggestion? At improv, people are like, pineapple. It's also the sign you're in the swinger community. If you put a pineapple on your door on a cruise or whatever, that means like give a knock and let's fuck. Oh, you got to pack a whole ass pineapple for the cruise that seems a lot of work i think i mean more like a pineapple magnet or sticker or something hang a full pineapple getting stopped at customs oh sorry uh you're allowed to have this if you're willing to let someone fuck your wife on this cruise thank you sir you get one more carry-on for that uh first of all i i like that martha stewart is

in this that's the only part i like about it but that's because i think she might be a prison abolitionist after serving time in prison now why weren't there celebrity covet ads when we were just trying to get people to take it for free oh Oh, because now they're going to push it and try to make money. We needed these fucking ads like three years ago. We needed celebrities pushing this shit a while ago, but none of them would because they were afraid to turn off 49% of the fucking buying audience. Right.

And we didn't have the budget for it. Right. I feel like there were some PSAs, but yeah, I don't think they had big celebrities at the at the forefront. to, you know, like he has like little flippers on his feet. And like the anti-vaxxers already think that this turns you into like, you know, a frog, you know, what do you say, like a reptile? Mutant, superhuman. Yeah, exactly. Michael Phelps for Pfizer vaccine.

Exactly. Just lean into it. Be like, hell yeah, it does give you, it does cause mutations. I got a sample of the Pfizer vaccine right before the Olympics and I won eight gold. But see, that would actually be funny because that would be self-aware. Of course, they like Pfizer and Moderna. Like if you actually want to roll out an ad campaign, you don't use celebrities. Why? Because anti-vaxxers hate celebrities because they live in Hollywood and they're woke. And, you know, no, you want some random red state MAGA voter

who was like, my dad died or, you know, I was on life support. I was in the ICU and now I will get a vaccination and I need to protect me and my family. Like, that's what you really want. This has to be, and this is an interesting sort of point, right, like when you have nonprofits that are doing this kind of work, who are partnering with the government, you might get ads that are like,

this is your brain on drugs, you know, or like this is your, you know, like where the drunk driving ads, you know, where it's like some awful, like, you know, four-year-old kid dies in a terrible car accident and you have like where it's like some awful, like, you know, four year old kid dies in a terrible car accident. And you have like the photos of their third birthday, you know, all that. But that stuff works. Right. Right. What doesn't work necessarily is some dumb celebrity hawking the boot, the vaccine. That's not actually going to work. So do you know what I'm saying?

You got to scare people. Right. Yeah. Use fear. Use the stick, not the carrot, assholes. Exactly. It just feels crazy because this ad means that Pfizer shareholders and Pfizer execs are going to get rich. Three rich people are going to get slightly richer.

Questlove, Martha Stewart, Michael Phelps, or whoever else is in the ad. Pink. Yes. These people are all going to get slightly richer. Is it going to get slightly richer. Questlove, Martha Stewart, Michael Phelps, or whoever else is in the ad. Pink. Yes. These people are all going to get slightly richer. Is it going to get anyone to turn to the vax now that you got to pay for it? I fucking doubt it.

I feel like if you wanted the vaccine, you got it. If you're a parent and your kid becomes the age that they can get a vaccine, you're going to get it for them. But I feel like some parents might not get $130 vaccine for their newly five-year-old child or whatever. And do they have to pay? Going forward, if a kid becomes vaccine age,

do they have to pay full price? That's fucking bananas. What about those of us who wanted this? First of all, the program should have been, you get $130 if you get vaccinated. Yes! You get a $100 fucking Target gift card. Partner with someone.

Honestly, if they said you get $100 to get vaccinated, I guarantee we would have an uptick of 8% of people who are like, like you know we would have an uptick of like eight percent of people who are like i know i fucking i know i was outside of a fucking uh drag queen story hour with a fucking you know paintball mask on earlier and an ar-15 but i think i'm gonna go get my i'm gonna go get the shot now because i can make a hundo money fucking walks dude yeah i get but again it's all these ideas that work in a direction that like i a lot of times talk about the American populace and like America as it functions as like a human body. And like the idea of sending money from corporations or from the government downward to people, which like happened once during the pandemic, like that is something that the United States is allergic to.

And when they did that once, the fucking media flipped out. And it's not that the people are themselves not for it. It's just that the entire corporate media infrastructure and all of that just resists it at every turn to the point that it just goes away. Industry is still pissed off about it because they basically blame those stipends. What were they called? Why am I blanking on them? Stimulus. The stimulus. Thank you. They blame the stimulus for the fact that labor has too

much power right now. They're like, oh, they got all uppity because you gave them money so they could eat food. And what happens when people eat food is they want to start getting paid $15 an hour. You know, like I'm saying, like the neoliberal economists are like, never do that again. That's what they're basically warning. Yeah, exactly. They're like, and thanks a lot. Now we have inflation. It's like, that's not why we have inflation. We have inflation because the corporations decided to raise money and and have record profits. If Pfizer's end goal really was to get more people vaccinated with their ad, not to make more money,

if their end goal was truly needles in arms, they could have taken the entire budget of this commercial and the media by, divided that by how many people are unvaccinated and said, if you are unvaccinated and come in for a vaccine we will give you 88 and like you know maybe something less racist uh 89 and when you uh you come you get you get your shot you get your money pfizer ends up upping the percentage of people who are vaccinated in this country by a not small amount and and all this shit always pisses like and i'm sorry if i'm gonna get on a comedy thing here but giving dave chappelle 80 million dollars to do netflix specials you could give 160 comics half a million dollars as a matter of fact a quarter million dollars would be an

amazing payment for a comic so you could give 320 comics enough money to change their life and help them like focus on something and you get 320 comedy specials if one percent of them hit you know 3.2 yeah that's more than dave chappelle put out and maybe you grab by casting a wider net you grab a whole bunch of fans and who knows maybe some of those 320 comics are trans or Asian or women or black or something

and that's an insane infusion into the world you know what I mean like just giving 200 honestly 100 grand now you take it 60 80 million divided by 100 grand you've got like 8 000 people get or 800 people getting comedy don't get me started dude and like this ties into the pandemic because you know in like countries like germany artists were paid freelancers were paid uh during the pandemic

because of lost work you know so they were compensated for that. And then more broadly, I did, I wrote about like, what if we had socialism? What if we had comedy under socialism and how amazing that would be and how much people could actually like live by their, you know, art. person for art in a year i know it doesn't sound like a lot but i think it but it's but it's around there maybe 50 a person per year the united states per person on art like publicly funded art 25 cents so it's this is on taxation or like what no no no and personal what we like funds and grants like funds and grants on artwork on like non corporate Hollywood, nothing just like our infusion. Basically, what Republicans have tried to get rid of forever, right, which is the National Endowments for the Arts, is how much is the National Endowment for the Arts per person give and every single year. And it's something it's maybe 25 cents. And then I should know this. But then in like countries like Germany, it's like 25 cents and then i should know this but then in like countries like germany

it's like 25 to 50 dollars a person and people wonder why right i even wondered like why does munich like why why do all like the cool artists decide to like go live in munich or germany or like why do they have like this cool scene and oh because they invested in it and it's livable they give a shit about it there like right and it's funny because in this country we don't give a shit about artists or blue collar people or like insert yeah insert a career that you think like all america really gives a shit about is already rich people like yeah and that's like that's like so corny. That's such dick-riding bullshit. But I, yeah. I do think the people aren't,

it's not necessarily like the people so much as it's just the system that's been in place for so long that is like, gotta open big. Like, everybody's gonna go see Avatar. Like that, you know, like it's just the media is the central nervous system of this nation and it just doesn't anything that isn't like anything that would lead somebody to the conclusion that we should be investing in artists the way Germany is just doesn't take. It just doesn't break into the messaging system. And it just for all intents and purposes doesn't exist because it

doesn't make anybody richer exactly that is currently rich there's no cultural enrichment like cultural enrichment in this country is is conflated with money which is and it's really fucked up because it makes it's sort of the the adage of like well if the bachelorette weren't popular then no one would, like, no one, it's popular because people watch it. And it's like, I actually fundamentally disagree with that shit. I think it's popular because that's,

it's the slop we're being fed. If we were being fed better slop, we were being fed meals, we'd eat the meals. You know what I'm saying? Like, and, but it's definitely in this country, we have like, no, no, no, but it made the most money. It had the most eyeballs, therefore it is the best. And it's like, no, no, no, let's break that. Like, Chappelle got $80 million or whatever it was just to do anti-trans monologuing. That's it.

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die on the field and are brought back to life and then everyone's like oh we're good because they when he woke up he asked if his team won and then like the other big draw of the super bowl is the ads it's so humbling it's so so dark it feels like we're cheering for commercials yeah we're like so excited to be sold stuff it's like it's we're all like yeah super bowl is just a big clusterfuck tag sale and we're like and i have 40 people over my house to watch it every year it's like holy shit it is so such a dark crystallization uh and it came from like a good place where it's like peak competition we you, this is good for us and get some steam, blow some steam off.

We don't have to fight each other in the streets. Cause we could say, fuck Philly or whatever. But now, now it's become so fucking crazy. People are, people are like literally dying. Not to mention like the fucking butterfly effect of what happens to players

post playing in the NFL. But like like we are still going ahead with this like uh oh yeah we we we take our shoes off to get on planes because like i know that's someone something people say all the time because one time a guy like had a shoe bomb on now one time not just time, people have died playing football or paralyzed, and we have not changed. We go, all right, we ask them if they're concussed now, and we make them wait seven days before they sacrifice their body for us again. And any instance like this, because they activate the money right wing people who are like,'re getting football players make a fortune they can fucking deal with whatever and it's like football players make good money but it pales in comparison to owners people who sell the ads like the people who build the stadiums the

people like all that shit is where the real money is yes if a player is making 10 million if a if a team is willing to make pay a player 10 million dollars imagine how much money they get from that like when you hear the friends all the friends cast all got paid a million dollars an episode well i guarantee nbc was making way more than six million dollars an episode shocking amounts of money right no one will lose money like no executive will choose you just can't but the idea that it's like if if this quarterback's getting paid 20 million dollars we need to make at least 21 million dollars to say so ticket prices go up advertising sales go through the roof everyone's got fucking gillette on their helmet or whatever you know what i mean like the shit is we bury ourselves

like we put ourselves in the hole to begin with. Sorry, this is just coming from a guy who has 11 Super Bowl boxes. And fingers crossed something happens for me. And I can finally afford Cobra health insurance this year. No, I think that's a really good point. I mean, I appreciate it just because my analysis of football is effectively that. Just like I tried to watch the Niners-Eagles game because I'm from the Bay, and I turned it on for a second and was like, oh, wait, I fucking hate football because it's just ads. I can't deal with this. I would like to just see the plays. I don't want to see the ads. And also, it's insanely violent.

I mean, football, it's not going to end. It's only going to get worse and worse and worse until you're like, oh, it turns out there was like, you know, like like some kind of, I don't know, fucking underground ring of trading cheerleaders or some shit like something disgusting. Keep going. Like because, you know, you've got so much yellow king shit like from True Detective. Carcosa. We went to we went to Jerry Jones' ranch and things got awful. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, we juice on like baby toes or something like, I don't know, what is it going to be? But it'll keep on going and going and going. Goodell will be there the whole fucking time.

He's still going to be there. Yeah, Goodell not going anywhere. But I do think you could, two suggestions on how to be there. Goodell not going anywhere. But I do think you could. Two suggestions on how to change football. One, bring back the two-touch. Not bring back. Start the two-touch tag football. Two-hand touch?

Two-hand touch. They did that at the Pro Bowl, actually. They did flag football. And the players were like, that was actually really fun. Really? I didn't feel like I was going to die. Yeah, they did something with two hand touches i'm like that yeah that that is absurdly difficult and requires a lot of athletic grace to be able to like get the get the flags off people and then the other is just

you know seize the means of production democratize the entire thing and have players have buy-in and not yeah they own it they will own the nfl yeah bring a fucking players should get revenue share and that will motivate them to play better than anything else if players get revenue share and residents get revenue share of like tickets or it brings money into your city that like the metlife stadium is sold out or whatever if it helps at all that we we only have to stay in the community yeah we don't have it can't just keep going to guys who don't even live anywhere millionaires billionaires who was like yeah i sold the naming rights to this stadium and now your fandom has to stand in a stadium named for fucking health insurance company the fucked up thing is that those are taxpayer funded in a lot of cases like those building

projects we pay for and then they take that and and charge you 120 dollars to park fucking six miles away and yeah the entire system is just meant, built to siphon money upwards. I pray that, like, in, like, 50 years, we're talking about football and cars the way we think about smoking and drinking and driving. Oh, God. You know what I mean? I really hope that, like, 50 years from now, people are like, can you believe we were doing that? Like, oh, how many people were paralyzed? If you were to take a bet in 50 years what what

goes first football or cars i'm it's hard i honestly believe they're like weirdly tied they're like intrinsically tied together they're like that's like heart and lungs of the american body you know right i i don't fully know i can't imagine a world i think football can go first because cars are too individualistic. And anything that's like, can you stop doing this thing? There are a non-zero number of people who will do it more just because they were asked to not do it. The amount of people I know personally who said,

I'm not taking the vaccine. You know me. Try to tell me to do something. I ain't going to do that shit. The amount of people, I have like six people i can count that didn't get vaccinated because someone said they should right that's insane i agree with disagreeing i agree with disagreeing i agree with disagreeing on fucking someone telling you what to do but i don't think like you should be like no i'm not gonna wear a

seat belt because you want me to bitch this country is about it's about tricking us into having solidarity with one another it's like tricking us into thinking yes we're doing the individualistic thing right but actually we're just helping each other right briefly on just a rundown of the there there will be no crypto ads. All the crypto companies pulled out, which was like that was the big feature of last year's Super Bowl was that like it was all crypto and people like this is the new normal. This is get ready for the era of crypto. And then everybody got so drastically fucked over by that. Again, it was just it was what we were talking about, the upward siphoning of people's money, but just without any product around it to like disguise what was happening. So it's just like, hey, give us all your money. Hey, that money's not here anymore. And yeah, so that didn't have a long shelf life. And those are those ads are all gone. Do you guys remember the qr code that

was just bouncing around for like three minutes 14 million dollars they spent to put that qr code up the there's the larry david one for which he he has been sued or is being sued matt damon coming out telling us like he got roasted for the like yeah read the fucking room people like yeah like fortune favors the brave and the brave thing to do is give me all your money and there's so much shit at play that angers me in this and so i'm just going to rattle off some of some of the things that drive me crazy first all we know we were just talking about how everything in america is like how much money you have obviously and that's because if you don't have money you're more likely to die like money unfortunately equals staying alive in this country so you're a person with a couple of g's and matt

damon says hey give me a couple of g's and you should be able to take out 10 g's in a little while and someone goes that's amazing. I could stay alive longer if that works. Now, Matt Damon is taking this ad. He's getting a huge payday. He is a millionaire and he's getting a huge payday because he cannot even fathom being without money. No less, and to him without money is X amount of millions of dollars.

So he needs to take that ad or else he will have less money is x amount of millions of dollars so he needs to take that ad or else he will have less money and be at higher risk of dying people and then people harness that energy in the crypto company and people at the top are making money off of all these people who know they need the money to live these people are going to live they're getting the stem cell dips and fucking norcal whatever the fuck they do and all that shit is at play and they just know money is the only way we can stay alive this is you know this is just like you know there we really need to redo glenn gary glenn ross but with crypto you know like the whole it's just the whole thing because it is because my mind just keeps coming back to like it's men it's men who are gullible as fuck when it comes to money and speaking of like lemming mentality like the only way you can convince a lot of dudes

to do something everyone else is doing is if you trick them you tell them they're going to get rich by it and trick them by saying like you're on the inside i know this is a super bowl ad that millions and millions and millions of people are watching right now but only you sir ian on the couch only you know the real truth you're gonna invest right now and it's just like it's like it's like what happens when i see jennifer aniston on a commercial like i'll fucking do anything she wants to fucking sell me like i will buy literally anything smart that's just smart well water you You just touched on another layer. Fuck Matt Damon and Jennifer Aniston for doing commercials. Commercials used to be the place where a broke-ass actor could get their health insurance or they could feed their family for a year.

Now, Jon Hamm's doing H&R Block commercials. Paul Giamatti's got a fuckingstein costume on trying to sell me verizon these guys that those jobs you it used to be corny to sell out and it used to be don't sell out do art you're an artist paul giamatti you're an artist cecily strong artist fletch yeah but but now it's no longer about art we equate uh qualitative success like uh financial success with qualitative we are banksy is considered a great artist because his shit sells for a lot of money like it's like right that doesn't mean he's good at art like people are like avatar is a good movie because it made a lot of money i'm like no avatar made a lot of money because it is a good movie. It's not... And so now, there's no judgment to someone who's like,

I'm in an ad. Larry David, the fucking king fucking satirist. King of I'm not going to sell out. The king of I'm just myself on my show and then he does that? What does he need money for? He has Seinfeld residuals could build a fucking school, a school in every city in America.

Yeah. But it's so great. Like we have the last laugh, guys, because like last last year it was like, shit, this is our reality to Jack's point. Like this is just going to be it. And then Sam Bankman free loses 14 billion dollars. And we'll ultimately be fine. Probably. Oh,'ll ultimately be fine, probably. Oh, he'll be fine.

But it implicates so many people, including all politicians on all sides. And the fact that we were all just sort of like walking down this primrose path together and no one was like adequately warning us. Like there's absolutely no kinds of, again, for the gullible dudes out there, there's no kinds of protections

around something like crypto. And what Bankman Freed actually wanted to do was to make it all legit, basically be a legitimate bank and then get all of the assistance that banks already do. So we want to replace banks

with these things that are not banks because they have a different name, but are essentially banks. Yeah, we want to replace these banks with banks that I'm in charge of. So I take more money.

Oh, that's an interesting disruption. What a fucking tech disruptor. I want to sell you pizza instead of these assholes. Hey, thanks, pal. Yeah. The Matt Damon commercial, I was just like, we might have been able to see everything you guys are talking about in this ad. everything you guys are talking about in this ad it i i had forgotten the details but matt damon strides through a cgi hall of adventurers past one a man who might be christopher columbus is probably christopher columbus so great great choice on your hero there to a mountain climber

three a right brother for a man attempting to kiss a woman at a bar. So like, if there's like some Chad shit in there, like you want to be a Chad, don't you, bro? Five, a group of multiracial gender balanced, futuristic astronauts.

So wait, wait, that's all except for the last one. It's again, all fodder for gullible dudes. I swear to God, Francesca, you saying that made me think like if they just did an ad of like,

you want to get rich and get pussy, give, send a thousand dollars here. And I think, I think, I think that company would make fucking $10 million immediately. And way more honest. You're going to be a fucking explorer.

You're going to discover a content. Shut up. Just like get rich, get pussy. You know what I mean? That's way more honest. Yeah, absolutely.

Well, John, Francescaca such a pleasure having you both where can people find you follow you john all that good stuff i'm at gabrus on all social media and you can listen to my podcast high and mighty or action boys which is a patreon podcast but uh we put in a lot of effort we have over 300 episodes so you can jump on for a month listen to and not even be able to finish the series if you played it around the clock for 30 straight days.

So get involved there. And also, as we mentioned, 101 Places to Party Before You Die. It's on HBO Max. Give it a watch. A project I'm very proud of. Not just because it was the most fun gig I've ever had in my entire life.

It actually also came out well, which is rare in this business. Yeah, it's really good and very funny. You survived. People need to go check it out. I did. I did survive so far. Gotta do 93 more if Zaslav gets off

his fucking lazy ass discover ass and fucking picks us up. I think this quote will do it for me. Yeah, I think this is going to solidify it. Come on, Zaslav. Make the move, baby. Sorry. Is there a tweet or some work of media you've been enjoying?

Yes. My friend Brian Quinby, Murder X Brian, got me onto this Instagram called McDojoLife. And it's kind of just like, it's kind of like just polls from weird karate guy demonstrations and stuff like that. And I just got into it yesterday and I'm, I literally am like reading it like a book. Like I'm like, okay, I've got 12 posts deep yesterday today. Later on,

I'm going to smoke some flour and go through the remaining posts. Amazing. Francesca, where can people find you? What is a tweet or work of media you've been enjoying? Find me on all the platforms at Franny, Fio, F-R-A-N-I-F-I-O. Listen to the Bituation Room podcast. It's live every Tuesday on YouTube and Twitch, 1 p.m. Pacific, 4 p.m. Eastern.

And Brent Terhune just nailed the Marjorie Taylor Greene description where she was just like yelling in her little white fur. And I was like, what the fuck is this? Like, what is the best joke? But this is the best joke. Brent, comedian, says, whenever a woman gets kicked out of a comedy club just for laughing, she looks like this. It is. He's just like, no, what?

I'm participating. Fine. Can't take a joke. Just like, just the most perfect way to describe that moment i was searching for it and he found it nailed it again shouldn't you be embarrassed to to yell at work like that right you should just you should just be like look we're not supposed to just fucking scream and yell and bring props to work like we Like we have to just do the job. We can go on the news or go in our office and put on our phones and scream into that.

But we can't scream at fuck. You should be fired. You'd get fired from a Chipotle for behaving like this. Yes. He's doing his job. Also, you're interrupting the guy doing his goddamn job. Yeah. Whether you agree with him or not.

If the manager of Chipotle is like, guys, we got to charge extra for guac. And you're like, fuck you, you groomer like you should get fired yeah she had props like she had the balloon she wasn't allowed in with the balloon uh and that's isn't that the problem with america you can find me on twitter at jack underscore O'Brien. I've just been appreciating the chaos that is the NBA trade deadline. Robin Lopez, NBA player, tweeted about the Nets. This is just like the time in Muppets take Manhattan when the Muppets, after unsuccessfully attempting to take Manhattan, split up and leave Manhattan because, yeah, the Nets had the big three Kyrie KD and James Harden and they all just, it all fell apart.

They're all gone. Yeah. Shout out to Nets fans. I feel like a lot of Nets fans are like, Oh, let's, I guess I like the Knicks again. Brutal.

It is brutal. You can find us on Twitter at daily zeitgeist. We're at the daily zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a facebook fan page and our website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy super producer justin is there a song you think people might enjoy yeah before we started the recording john was discussing a film called sorcerer uh that sounds crazy about some white antics happening in the south american jungle somewhere yeah so i uh i think that's the description on yeah yeah i mean it sounds big it sounds like a great time so i'm

gonna check this out actually uh this weekend probably but this kind of reminded me of this track it's called della move by chronix it really sounds like it belongs in a movie score somewhere I'm going to check this out actually this weekend probably, but this kind of reminded me of this track. It's called Della Move by Chronix. It really sounds like it belongs in a movie score somewhere. Maybe could have gone into this Black Panther film or whatever, but I like it in this sorcerer thing. So you can check this out, Della Move. I'm not quite sure what that means actually.

If someone who's familiar with the Jamaican patois and zeitgang can let me know. Find me at jconsmith, J-C-O-N-T-H-E-S-M-I-T-H on Instagram. Yeah, Della Move by Chronix. You can find that song in the footnotes. Yeah, we forgot to talk about Sorcerer, but people should go listen to the latest episode of the Action Boys podcast. And while we're on the subject, Tangerine Dream did the entire Sorcerer soundtrack. It's a pretty fucking bomb soundtrack as well. Yeah. Wow. I was subject, Tangerine Dream did the entire Sorcerer soundtrack. It's a pretty fucking bomb soundtrack as well. Yeah.

Wow. I was Googling Tangerine Dream. Because wasn't this like their first project? Yeah. They just sent over. They heard. Rican gave them the premise of the movie. And they just sent over like, here's a theme.

Here's a full score for the movie. And Rican put it in however he wanted. Pretty fucking rad. All right. Next time you're on full Sorcerer episode. Finally. Here's a theme. Here's a full score for the movie, and we can put it in however we want it. All right, next time you're on Full Sorcerer episode. Finally, the true Zeitgeist 77 movie. 77 movie came out the same week as Star Wars, and no bit made $30,000. But it's a cult classic, and proof that if something isn't popular in the moment,

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