The Daily Zeitgeist - Celebrity Vaccine Endorsements? Reality, Shame Won’t Stop GOP 12.15.20

Episode Date: December 15, 2020

In episode 779, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Jeremiah Watkins to discuss Trump's campaign HQ taking down his name, Stephen Miller's 'alternate electors' plan, the right pushing for terrorism, The Epoch Times, what food the UK will be able to access after Brexit, what famous people can sell the vaccine to us, and more!FOOTNOTES: Trump Says He’ll Fight On. His Campaign HQ Is Literally Taking Down His Name. Stephen Miller: 'Alternate' electors will keep Trump election challenge alive Trump Allies Eye Long-Shot Election Reversal in Congress, Testing Pence Poll: Less than one-quarter of Republicans trust election results Radical right-wing commentator Josh Bernstein declares that he will die rather than live in slavery under a Biden regime: "The blood of patriots and tyrants could be coming, and it's going to be hopefully a lot more tyrants than patriots." 'The Epoch Times' spreads QAnon ideas. Here's how to help boycott them (if you live in the US) Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times Cheddar instead of Brie, swap avocado for eggs on toast and plan a stay-cation! What No Deal could mean for the UK's favourite foods, travel, holidays, second homes and the economy Willingness to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Ticks Up to 63% in U.S. Trump Administration Plans a Rushed Effort to Encourage Americans to Be Vaccinated COVID vaccine: celebrity endorsements work – even if people don’t like it What Elvis Presley’s televised polio vaccination can tell us about the shortfalls of celebrity-endorsed health campaigns Which celebrity should be the face of the COVID-19 vaccine? Experts warn of low Covid vaccine trust among Black Americans How the CIA’s Fake Vaccination Campaign Endangers Us All How the bin Laden Raid Put Vaccinators Under the Gun in Pakistan U.S. Cites End to C.I.A. Ruses Using Vaccines WATCH: Onoe Caponoe - Lost The Love (OFFICIAL VIDEO) (Prod. DJ Sabre Watts) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the mojito from Cuba, and the piña colada from Puerto Rico. Listen to Hungry for History on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to Season 164, Episode 2 of The Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Tuesday, December 15th, 2020 36 days until january 20th my name is jack o'brien aka is this the zeitgeist no it's just jack ob lost in a landslide no escape from joe biden's lead tweet a shit storm realize you lost concede uh that is

courtesy of tdz aka think tank uh it ends with thank you come on guys which i appreciate a little hype man action at the end yeah um hey i'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr miles gray away in a granger no kush for his bong the little lord miles just made up this song. Yeah, just AKA for me right now, away in a Granger. Please send Kush for my bong to the Miles Gray care of the Valley, and I will receive it. Yeah, they'll find a way to get it to you. You are the Valley's most favorite son.

I mean, there's a lot. You know, Brody Stevens held down the Valley for Legendarily. There's a lot of people. People hold this torch epically. So I can only hope to find my place in the pantheon of great San Fernando wins. Are you having trouble? Is your bong actually empty or what's going on? Was that just for the rhymes?

Yeah, it is. It is. I'm in between Nug Club drops. So I smoked up all the weed that came from that one and i my normal store is was closed and you know i'm but i'm getting through it you know i'm getting through it i'm closed for covid or just closed because you tried to go at two in the morning the the latter i just feel they should be open at that time. I just feel like if people want to smoke at all hours of the day, why are we discriminating against the night owls?

What are we doing here? What are we even doing here, then? Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Jeremiah Watkins! Yo, what up? There he is. What's up, man? How's it going players Just playing

Just playing the game Where are you coming from live and direct I'm live and direct from Los Angeles California Big fan of that place You've got a green screen behind you So you could really be coming to us from anywhere Outer space Some hijinks might be ensuing With this green screen behind you, so you could really be coming to us from anywhere, outer space.

Just maybe some hijinks might be ensuing with this green screen later in. We don't know, guys. Don't tease me like that, man. It's funny that you have the green screen, but the thing you put up as the plate is just a green screen. Yeah, that's right.

Just letting people, oh, oh, he just turned into a candlelight Burt Reynolds something. Oh, yeah. There might just be a saxophone between my legs. Wow. You play saxophone? I do play saxophone.

Nice. For those of us who are not on this show right now on this Zoom call, Jeremiah has been changing the background of his little window cell. And it looks like, is it roses and candles and a saxophone? Rose petals, candles and then I'm naked behind a sax just in front of my junk just to paint that picture for y'all. Is that a tenor? Alto sax. What is the name of that

romance album that we're looking at? I feel like that's a great album cover that we're witnessing. i mean there's probably some kind of sax wordplay like you know you know like sexual healing or like big sax energy or tantric sax yeah tantric sax that's good that's real circular breathing there you go yeah oh man uh so you you're a lifelong sax player? I am.

This is like third, fourth grade. Hell yeah, man. Started playing then. Yeah. When people start band, that's around the time a school is like, do you want to be in the band? Pick one of these. Yeah, you got to pick one.

Because I started playing trumpet around third grade. Do you still play? I mean, occasionally. I play bass now more. I switched to bass about eight years ago. But I can can still play and i can read music and all that but i think my embouchure is a little bit weak sure it could be a bit better but hey you know that's a whole other podcast um all right jeremiah we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we are going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about.

We're going to talk about the continued Trump campaign attempt to... I don't know. I don't know what the end game is. The cuckoo. We'll talk about how Stephen Miller... What happened to Cuckoo Roo? I know.

It really had a falling off. I remember when I first came out to LA and I was like, this place is amazing. This place is under-seasoned, but the interior aesthetic is a whole vibe. So I won't worry about the food quality. That's right. We'll talk about what Stephen Miller's doing, what Mo Brooks is doing to try and make whatever their fantasy election reality happen. We are going to talk about just the

heightened rhetoric coming from the right wing. We'll talk about the Epoch Times. We'll talk about Brexit and what it's doing to the famed British cuisine. And we'll talk about the vaccine and how we sell it to people. All of that.

Plenty more. But first, Jeremiah, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I searched recently for pregnant woman hormones. Which that is something

that my wife is going through right now. Okay. So we're due in April. So I just wanted to search that and see what kind of things go on with that. If it's a normal thing, how to deal with it. But the stuff that's in google is not very helpful it's just like be funny be caring it's just like all right well you know i try to

do that like right before i start there's some hacks i can do yeah like do you have any direct line connections to improve the mood yeah right so you did the crude dude google search version of what to expect when you're expecting. When you're like, pregnant woman hormones? What do you got, Google? How do I deal with my wife's hormones? I don't get it. I'm just a simple man.

I don't know what to do yet. We're five months out. I guess I'll acknowledge what's going on here. Here we go. I guess I should have ordered a book or something, but I don't know. Also, congrats, man man on your congratulations thank you yeah first first kit wow wow was that um was that a thing a planned pregnancy within quarantine i knew people who were like looking at it like well this is a sustained period where i might be able to be around for a long time so should we have a child?

Did that enter the thing or was this something that you were just always happening or did pandemic have anything to do? Well, we, uh, I mean, definitely the pandemic had a factor in the timing of it for sure, because we, we did plan because we were like, I'm usually out touring and on the road, like a lot of weekends of the month and right now i've been home more than i ever have and i probably will be going into you know the new year and stuff like that more than usual and we were like okay i'll be here more like this is one of those things where if i was on the road all the time like that's just that's kind of hard for her while she's pregnant and experiencing that you know what i mean so we kind of figured if we did it when we did it and uh that it would be beneficial for for us both um and be the most

helpful for her like along the way so that way i'm not just like gone and then she's just like dealing with like everything while being pregnant so yeah right but she's been she's been great through the process even though i'm googling hormones and stuff it's it's more just like like it's it's a foreign thing to me because like right we're both pretty even keel people so it's just like a an adjustment like oh okay this is like a this is like part of it this is like a thing yeah nice yeah and it's good to just know what what to expect throughout i should have got that book i should just know what to expect throughout the... I should have got that book. I should have got what to expect when you're expecting.

Gets real uncomfortable for women towards the end of the... Yeah, that's what I've been reading and hearing about. Sleeping gets difficult. Yeah. Get that body pillow. You know what I mean? Yeah, I do highly recommend the body pillow for sure. I'll look into it. Yeah, me too. I'm a side sleeper. I do highly recommend the body pillow For sure Me too

I'm a side sleeper and I learned that tip from my homegirl That was pregnant She was like you might want to try a body pillow Because I remember I was like hey what's that thing She's like it's because I'm pregnant and it helps me Sleep more comfortably because my body Is all growing in different directions I was like huh

I was like you think that'll work for me You're like are you done with was like, do you think that'll work for me? Yeah. You're like, are you done with that thing? Or can I buy that all? Yeah, exactly. The second the child was born, I'm like, hey man, I'm coming to get that body pillow

really quick. Yeah. She's like, you don't want to say hi to the child? No, no, no, no. Cute kid. Give me the pillow. During this pregnancy,

are your families based in LA or are your families on completely other parts of the country? Because I know that's another thing a lot of people have been sorting through. Yeah. So her family's in Northern California. It's about a five, six hour drive away. So if they need to come into town, it's not crazy, but it's still a bit. But my family's back in Kansas. So that's either a very, very long drive. It's like a 25-hour drive or it's, you know, a flight home. So, yeah, we're going to try once the baby's born

to stagger their visits and stuff. Hopefully this stuff with COVID has chilled out a little bit and everybody's a little bit more healthy. And, you know, we got four or five months away so we'll see i'm hopeful we'll see and i like that we just need to tell kovid to chill out yeah it's like take it take a chill pill kovid come on bro yeah fuck we get it okay we get it dude trash point made now you're just rubbing it in at this point. You're a sore loser at this point. Yeah.

Oh, God. Jeremiah, what is something you think is underrated? I think this is underrated because people trash it for it not being, I think, as quality as I think it is. And that's Taco Bell. I freaking love Taco Bell. And I will put it pound for pound up against any other fast food place. And a lot of people knock it saying it's not that good or whatever, but I love my T-Bell. You're preaching to the choir here, man. Yeah.

They don't know the love of Christ. The amount of times that they've reinvented the menu with the same products, and I've fell for it so many times. That's good marketing right there if they can repackage the same food over and over and be like new at taco bell i'm like okay i'm sold right it's like having like a four crayon set but they keep managing to crank out like the wildest designs but they only have four crayons yeah and you can't blend that shit really like nicely you can't blend that shit really like nicely.

You can't finesse that. Yeah. There's something about it. I don't know. I mean, there's, there was a, I was just reading about a pop-up in Austin that was reviving all of the like destroyed menu items. And it became so popular because people were like, yeah, I need a Mexican pizza. And this place is just making them like, as you know, as true to the original as possible and they were like i don't know business has been booming and we're like sold

out in advance whenever we put the menu out so i'm like you know what that shows you the power of the dead bell menu wow yeah they they discontinued my double decker taco that's like one of my favorite things it was on the menu and they keep killing it they keep accident that was the refried beans around the crunchy regular taco yeah yeah shack versus hakeem yeah yeah right exactly that's exactly what it was yeah for for you growing up in kansas was taco bell your first foray into mexican food like how long before you had taco bell versus having mexican food and then begin differentiating between the two as Taco Bell as its own genre of food and Mexican food as an actual cuisine? I don't think that I realized truly the difference between Tex-Mex

and more authentic Mexican food until I moved to Los Angeles because there's like there's some restaurants in Kansas that are more traditional Mexican style there's like a great one called Manny's um that's like um down on like uh near Mission Boulevard like uh I think on the Kansas City Missouri side and there's some good uh restaurants around there that are more authentic but they're still even the most authentic Mexican restaurants in Kansas sure don't come close to the ones that are like the little taco stands and stuff in los angeles they're just oh it's just night and day it's it's like all right i was i was worried kansas was coming for the the crown for the crown but yeah no i don't i don't think so i don't think we have anything to worry about

okay all right all right i just want to make sure that's yeah it's all there yeah yeah yeah uh what is something you think is overrated? I think that Disneyland is very overrated. Wow. And probably a lot of people will be upset to hear that's my choice is something overrated. But I didn't grow up with Disneyland as a kid in Kansas. I never went. And I went a few years ago as an adult. And I was like, oh oh this is like stuff that if you don't get in while you're a little kid like it doesn't work on you like it like you're you're not phased

by it because you don't have memories and nostalgia attached to it so i was like this is just another theme park that they actually cost way more than the theme parks that I'm used to going to that have faster rides and just not identifiable characters and stuff. It's all like a money-making machine is what I looked at it as. So you became a very discerning child when you're like, well, let's look at it on paper. Yeah.

I was jaded as a six-year-old. I was like, I don't know. I don't know, Mom and Dad. What's your margin on that, Walt? Yeah. These are razor-thin margins, Dad. I was like, I don't know. I don't know, Mom and Dad. What's your margin on that, Walt? Yeah. These are razor-thin margins, Dad. I got to tell you, we're going to be upside down on this trip by the time I get one churro before we get off Main Street.

Yeah, I think we're going to be out of here at 10.15 a.m. Yeah, it's just a regular amusement park with branding. I grew up in the Midwest going to Kings Island in southern Ohio. That is a fine amusement park. Was that Disneyland to you? Yeah. Yeah, man. Like, it's all relative to what's by you. I went to a place called Worlds of Fun, and it was amazing.

Oh, love that name. Dude, it was great. And they had on the the water park side was called oceans of fun i love it nice come on dude are you kidding me if you want to get wet you have to go just through a barrier just a gate you're like oh this is oceans of fun this costs a little bit different now disney were you a disney world kid did you ever get to go to disney world i never went to disney world so i never i never won enough sports stuff where i got to go to disneyland or disney world so got it didn't happen yeah there's something i wonder if it's like growing up in

la like i went to disneyland i'm like oh cool but i'm not like a disney person but i'm also one of those people where like if i'm really far away from a thing that people love in a certain part of the country i start like exotic making it exotic right oh shit i want to do that shit like that's how i feel about like local fast food uh like when i'm like what do they eat over there what's what's popping in nebraska like i want that shit like so i don't i get that but it's it's i like that you, well, that could have happened, but the cost is just... Yeah, it just doesn't make sense on paper. I'm like that with fast food, though, like Whataburger and stuff like that, since we don't have that in California.

Dude, when I go to Texas, I always hit up a Whataburger, and I get at least a lunch or a breakfast there, because I'm like, I don't have it. As someone who's a transport here, did you notice that the fast food here is higher quality? I feel like McDonald's is better in California. And I think it might just be that the meat is closer to the source or something. But I've always felt that way. And I like to ask people who are also transports. That's hard to say because I don't know. Because the McDonald's, honestly, that I've had,

McDonald's is one of those places where it tastes, to me, almost the exact same almost every single state I've been through. And I've been on the road to a lot, and I've had a lot of different McDonald's. You would be an expert on that. But I don't know about the fast food thing. That's an interesting thing. As far as if it's higher quality or not. It's almost like I might even think the reverse, actually.

In the Midwest, that's more where there's, I don't know, there's a lot of beef and stuff. Right. Like dairy farms and different stuff like that that I wonder if when I go back home now, now that I've had LA fast food for a while, if I'll be like, this is amazing. Like this is so much better. So. Right. Yeah. It could be that I was coming from the East coast, which is, you know, not less fresh ingredients pouring in into Boston and that area.

So I also think that maybe you being from the east coast the turnaround i think is probably faster so they might put a little bit less effort into right making sure that the quality is up because in the midwest and stuff like that they have time to make you a quality fast food meal without like rushing you out the door where and the east coast everybody's like come on let's get this done. I got stuff to do. Yeah, yeah. You know what I just learned? That Disney World has OR in it for Orlando, or ORL,

and Disneyland has LA in it, and that's how to tell the difference. Wait, that was done intentionally? I think it might have been. I mean, it's too perfect not to be, right? Follow the money. That's all be, right? Follow the money. Or it's like one of those things. That's all I'm saying.

Follow the money. Yeah, but it's like one of those things where the journalist is smarter than their interview subject. And I noticed for Disney World, it's ORL, and Disneyland is LA for Los Angeles. How did you come up with that? And I could just be like, oh, yeah. Yeah, that was super deliberate. Yeah. Exactly. We had a think tank that's why going and uh did a lot of ab testing with that and that's what we landed on

that's why and then we kept that naming convention through to tokyo disneyland uh and euro disney then we just kind of started putting the name blatantly in it but we wanted to keep it we wanted to keep it clear for everybody that That's right. That's right. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some stories. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago, when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today.

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uh can dissuade them they're they're gonna keep going yeah i mean it's all you know as much yes these are attempts at a coup but we know like functionally there's really very little that can actually be done to change the results of the election so i think at this point you're looking at there's a few different things they're trying to do a just bilk the trump or support trump supporters for as much money as possible because they've already raised like 200 million since the election yeah stop this deal stuff with like a caveat that like three quarters of it can go to whatever the fuck they want to do with it uh not necessarily explicitly stopping the fucking quote-unquote steal um and also just completely delegitimizing Biden's presidency

in the eyes of in the half the country just to be like let's just set that table so that's what they have to navigate so it's just an absolute mess so then maybe we can kind of come in in a couple years and see if anyone uh forgot that we were enabling all this i always wonder if like that's the point is like not that people will have forgotten in a couple years but that people will will be like extra angry because they think that the election was stolen from them in a couple years and so it's like more uh voting more anger yeah i think it could work in any direction i mean regardless it's it's definitely playing with people's emotions around it and trying to you know deploy them at the best time possible um but in regards to like what's happening in

trump world with this legal fight i mean you know most of the lawsuits have been pretty much concluded or just outright rejected um but the biggest indicator that things are kind of obviously the the energy might be going is that the the trump campaign headquarters in virginia uh which was like supposed to be like the war room epicenter of this legal fight is basically slow is based as a ghost town. The Daily Beast was sort of sniffing around there and asking people about what's going on. And they say, quote, according to that source about how it's basically it's lights out in this campaign headquarters building, according to that source and another

person familiar with the situation, a large amount of the Trump pen signs have been stripped from the walls of the headquarters in Arlington. The desks and memorabilia have been largely packed thrown out or removed television sets mounted to the walls and uh around the rented 14th floor of the building are being sold for extra cash staffers belongings are even more thoroughly cleared out now than they were when the campaign was in the immediate aftermath of the downsizing the voter fraud hotline room in arlington that just created a bunch of troll uh opportunities has just been completely shut down and they barely see people going in and out of the building anymore so i like how this article i like how the article specifically says that it was a torturous

chamber for mid-level staff and a pointless magnet for crank collars, violent threats, and farting noises into the telephones. I tried to keep it classy without that, but yes. Oh, you got it. Yes, I have some evidence of fraud. Hold on, let me pull it up one second. Okay, write that one down. The best detail in that is the television is the television sets being sold for sold off for extra cash that's like extra don't give a fuck desperation like yeah yeah i think getting that cash i think trump is gonna write this off as like that the facilities were just looted and

and that like like business is actually booming right now the campaign is going stronger than ever these antifa people they kept looting us okay they came in they took our tvs they took the computers i let everyone have a little vacation they went on the golf course with me wasn't a big deal okay yeah yeah i'm curious who's selling those tvs like right is that are those officially being sold by the also that would be me if i worked over that like yo i'm selling these fucking tvs i don't give a fuck do the tvs have trump pence stickers on them too right like do they have like the like the memorabilia like all over like their red tvs and the like it's like uh where did you guys

where'd you get these from it's like he's like wait what did you mean by trump tv yeah yeah that's some like street level desperation drug like need a fix need a drug fix sell your mom's tv type shit yeah but if but it feels like the thing of like because the whole trump organization is scam city and they're just a vortex of pulling in other scammers like yeah you would be hiring the kinds of people who when you're not looking have sold the fucking tvs off the wall and been like oh i don't know what happened man that's why i'll just down anyway wow bro i don't know but then in public like on me for media appearances we still have steven miller out here uh just you know getting in the spotlight uh and declaring that like no this is far from over we still we still got a plan of attack yeah it's teenage mutant ninja gerbils got on fox and friends to lay out this

like other path to you know just delaying the inevitable or just, you know, rejecting reality. And I don't know, he sounded very optimistic about this new plan of using what he calls alternate electors. Great to be on this morning. Thank you for having me. The only date in the Constitution is January 20th. So we have more than enough time to right the wrong of this fraudulent election result and certify Donald Trump as the winner of the election. As we speak today, an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and we're going to send those results up to Congress. This will ensure that all of our legal remedies remain open. That means that if we win these cases in the courts, that we can direct that the ultimate state of electors be certified.

The state legislatures in Georgia. So I'll just stop there. Yeah, he's there's nothing in the Constitution about alternate electors. I think the idea is being like, we're going to put these electors in place. I think the idea is being like, we're going to put these electors in place. So when the judge, whoever judge that is, says, yeah, I agree. Do that thing. Then we're all ready to go with the alternate electors. I mean, as we speak, the Electoral College victory is being certified on Monday with like a lot of these states that were contested.

They're certifying the results with the electoral college so it's not you know we are we're looking at something that is actually wrapping up but this is again more and more attempts to a keep the base like energized on this like weird like fever dream of like don't worry man even though everything else is saying that we've lost um we there's still a way i think but i'm gonna say it with a lot of confidence just to you know i don't know not change the narrative i guess yeah that adds a weird energy around like you know biden getting elected it's so it's just so bizarre because there's so much resentment there's resentment for when trump got elected obviously on the Democratic side. But it was kind of like this, for the most part, like, I guess I have to accept this.

There's a lot of people that were, you know, not my president kind of thing. But to say that it's completely false adds a whole nother layer to this as a debacle, whether, like, you know, the people who didn't vote for him will be accepting at all like if if somebody's telling you it's a lie that's different than somebody saying like hey it's unfortunate that your side lost but this is what is gonna happen but if somebody's saying like no this is a lie like how do you think people are gonna react to that like long term like i mean it will be years into his presidency where people are still like this is false like we got wronged like we'll get them next time kind of thing or i don't know it's

just yeah a really bizarre circumstance less than a quarter of republicans trust the results of the election at this point so it's yeah this is not going anywhere in terms of as a public sentiment in terms of the strategy for why they're continuing to do it even though behind the scenes they're not really pursuing the action in any real sense as the empty offices can attest i think it's you know it could be any number of things right it could just be they're leaving the story open to get more people to give them money so it's just like more looting or it could be just like nobody is willing to be the person who tells trump that they lost like that that was an important part of watergate and like getting nixon to step down was that hit

the top four republicans like came to him and were like hey man like this is this is not gonna go well for you like you need to step down like that's why he eventually like came around it wasn't he didn't just like do it on his own because he was reading what the media said it was like and yeah we have the opposite now right exactly we have people who are gassing him up because they see that there's energy and there's no real other option. And they're scammers too. Yeah. Because they're like, oh, look at this fragile old man who I could manipulate the fuck out of if I just tell him magic words that he agrees with.

I mean, like, if you know how to scam somebody, Donald Trump is probably the easiest person to manipulate. Donald Trump is probably the easiest person to manipulate. And you can tell by all these people who have suddenly entered the orbit and are just like, they're like, I'm willing to just off-ramp from reality to just stay closer to this person. And Mo Brooks, who's a congressperson from Alabama, is like the new cool kid for Trump because he's out here basically saying like, we found another way to try and maybe uh subvert the will of the people um he's saying that now he's wrangled up a few other flunkies on the gop to try this new thing he says quote we have a superior role this is first saying that it doesn't matter what the supreme court says because a lot of people said well once the supreme court told y'all to eat

shit i think it's pretty much done and dusted at that point. Unless you're like you're going to full on get, you know, some military coup going. I don't know. And he's saying, quote, we have a superior role under the Constitution than the Supreme Court does, than any federal court judge does, than any state court judge does. What we say goes. That's the final verdict. So this is someone who is now telling Trump it's don't worry about what we say goes that's the final verdict so this is someone who's now telling trump it's don't worry about what judges say that's just where they're that's that's on them

because we're we're the be-all end-all who is he what he's in the house yeah he's in the house you know where all the people are currently just completely embarrassing themselves um but he says like the whole thing is a house party dude chill out dude exactly man just come on bro just kind of smoke on this and then tell me about how donald trump didn't get losing the election is this but they only had a very weird yeah weird loophole that are trying to basically invalidate a state's elections or which candidate they voted for this hasn't happened since the 1800s when that happened. And the only way that can occur, if it were to ever happen, was both the House and the Senate would have to agree to throw the votes out.

Considering that the House is under Democratic control, this is not even a feasible option, even with this very narrow law that they might be trying to attempt to make this all work. But at the end of the day day it's just dangerous nonsense because like you're saying some people might be like oh this is fun to just see them try and be like real shitty about losing and other people are full-on like they stole it it's stolen right well dude from us for like for example the the news that i i quickly realized when I was talking with my parents back home in Kansas that when certain things happen along with the election or just news in general, it really hit me this year for the first time where they're literally in different parts of the country. People get very, very different news.

Dependent on what network they're watching and stuff like that and and it it comes to you realize in conversation kind of unraveling like oh like this is all you know because this is all you've heard from the news outlet that you're listening to so that's why some people are going to be like oh absolutely the absolutely, the election was stolen. Because this is what I'm hearing from my news outlet or the AM radio station that I'm listening to or whatever. That's just what I'm being told. So that's all I know. So that's what makes it so delicate with the way people are consuming media these days.

Right. And I mean, like we were saying, than a quarter of republicans trust the results of the election like i it seems like we're in a you know in a more dangerous position than you would realize if you were just paying attention to the mainstream media and like arguing over the definition of whether this is like a failed coup or not like there's a right-wing commentator named josh bernstein who uh is just the most recent to say he's like willing to die and is done using words and he will never live under a biden regime and specifically a quote was the blood of tyrants and patriots could be coming and hopefully it's a lot more tyrants than patriots.

There's just a lot of people on the Trump side who are basically openly threatening terror attacks, what would traditionally be defined as terrorism. And it's not a movement that has traditionally been shy about engaging in mass violence, like from the Oklahoma City bombing to all the mass shootings more recently at synagogues and mosques and Walmarts. And I don't know, it just feels like there's, we're being lulled to sleep by the double standard that says that because it's right-wing ideology

that it's not terrorism when they're going to be killing innocent people. Yeah. I mean, even if you look at what happened in DC over the weekend, there are proud boys who are trying to burn down churches or tear down Black Lives Matter signs in front of churches or burn the Black Lives Matter signs in front of churches. And only now the police are like like we'll look at this as a possibility of being a hate crime it's like right possibility yeah you know and i think that's that there's like there's still that hurdle that people can't go oh yeah well hold on white person's doing it well now let's really be sure what this is so they were wearing a swastika

while they burned down a black church okay we're gonna have to look into what the motivations might be if it were any other way i mean like law enforcement's so quick to be like that's terrorism this is blah blah this is but it there's we're still also having this like evolution culturally where we're like it's right-wing terror also um that you know resembles other uh kinds of like civil unrest things that have happened in other countries but yeah it's that we're having our vocabulary is like rapidly shifting too i think too around all of what's happening as well yeah and i mean we've never had a situation where there is a terror attack and like 56 million of the people in the country are on board with the central like ideological

tenant of the person who's doing the terror attack like you know kyle rittenhouse's like there was certainly not like mass outrage on the right or you know the right being like well that's not the way to get things done like they you usually see that with uh your timothy mcveigh's you're uh the guy went to walmart and did a mass shooting but like now it seems like there's a there's a new level where they're just openly just ready to get on board with uh some wild shit i don't yeah i just don't know it's it seems like it's we're in a more dangerous position than a lot of the media seems to be owning up to yeah well i think it's i'm curious to know how many people who are like on broadcast news are interacting with people like you know we always talk about this like who is actually informing their perception of what the world is in terms of like who people are on the right or who people are on the left, because each side has a completely fucked up perception of the other.

And there is some version where some people are more similar, but like even the way conservatives are talking about what they think Joe Biden is going to do, they're they're describing like aocaust for conservatives like where they will be rounded up and they're gonna come for us and it's just like i'm like well is this born out of like cancel culture because you're thinking because oh i speak up and say this bad take then then they will come take me to some kind of reprogramming center it's just very uh it's like the same thing like when you know prop eight or any anything with gay marriage was happening in this country where people were like, you want to ask, like, what are you afraid of exactly? That if gay people can get married, what does that mean for you specifically that you're out here screaming your head off? Like, what is what does that mean? And I'm there's still this like when you look at what the talk is on, you know, like 4chan or on right wing Twitter or Reddit or whatever, like it's still this like when you look at what the the talk is on you know like 4chan or on right wing twitter

or reddit or whatever like it's still this like hyper hyperbolic version of like you know uh victimhood yeah um just speaking about like different news sources and existing in different realities one thing that uh i noticed in my uh adventures when I was off globetrotting, taking three days away from the podcast as I was entering my local Ralph's, which is owned by Kroger. Kroger for the rest of the... Yeah.

They're selling the Epoch Times. You've probably seen ads from them uh on on youtube where it's like somebody reading a newspaper and being like the mainstream media has this wrong and trump is actually right and uh it's actually should be called the china virus and stuff like that so i had a sense based on those ads that uh the this publication was not fully on the up and up um but they're selling a sense that i was in for a good read yeah exactly so uh but they're selling physical copies on the same like place where the la times usually is there there are copies of the epoch times for three dollars uh it features. There are copies of the Epoch Times for $3. It features headlines about hacking vulnerabilities of the election software in Detroit,

just all sorts of debunked conspiracy theories that the Trump administration is trying to sow. Not like being like, stop the steal, the election was stolen, but the thing that they learned uh about a decade ago is that you uh blend you do your best impression of real news and try and blend in with it so they're just treating these fake stories as real news stories so they started actually in uh the late 90s, early 2000s, as a voice box for Falun Gong, which is the sort of Buddhism meditation and far-right politics conglomerate,

like religious movement in China. They have those... Shen Yun. Yeah, Shen Yun. I think they're really... They're dance performances that are just, you're bombarded with advertising for, for them.

They say like they're the greatest show on earth, but people who go and see it are like, it's actually super disturbing. Um, and then you might've also seen, I think this was before the PR turn where they realized they had to like try and blend in with, uh,

other media. They did a lot of like really bloody uh public protests like like fake blood but like really like gory dramatizations um but so in terms of their core beliefs they're like i said very far right very trump supporting because they think that trump will bring about a giant war with china they're very against the chinese government and they there's like a millennialist tilt to it because they think like that is the end times uh that that will bring about judgment day and so that is kind of their angle into this but the fact that they like something a publication with so many red flags uh is like somehow struck a deal with kroger to be sold on their shelves is pretty startling i mean well i mean let's i mean but you you got

to hand it to kroger i mean they were they were hit pretty hard with all those essential worker bonuses they had to pay out. Right. So they were looking for cash wherever they could get it. You know, that one time they paid it. And they are like, I don't know. Never mind. We're making money hand over fist. Yeah, that really is alarming. And you want to know, like, how the fuck that happened where they're like, yeah, we'll put that a physical copy here rather than a you know intrusive banner ad we like to get the shit out of my face right um but yeah is this newspaper basically becoming like what like the smut mags are not smut bags but those like people kind of magazines like top 10 things that trump wants you to know but america won't let you like it's just like these breakdowns of different things where people are all right i'll i'll take a copy of this this looks good it's basically what those headlines are are kind of grasping it's almost like clickbait but physical clickbait for you yeah but if it's reinforcing the narrative that trump is on top of everything don't worry about it don't worry about it he's got this and everyone's against us, but we're going to get through it. If that's your worldview, then you're going to love it. The headline writing is interesting in that

it's informed by the boring headline writing of the New York Times. They have done their best to emulate it. Yeah, to emulate it. so it looks like a regular newspaper the layout everything looks like a regular newspaper down to the price i think three dollars is what the la times costs i almost like picked them up i thought it was like a thing where they were dropping off like free flyers and you you know could do what you want with it but yeah three dollars per per copy um and it's yeah it's just really a new kind of branch in the in the war on reality the website will give you a fucking lightning migraine or thunderclap headache or whatever that thing's called like it's there's so much shit coming off the screen

when you go to their website you're like it's like there's an electoral college map i'm not joking there's probably 28 headlines crammed into like this window i'm looking at and then you go down it's like a cacophony of images and like live suggested blinking stuff it's a lot. But again, if you're looking for something to feel like, you know, if suddenly you're alienated because you believe that Trump actually didn't lose the election, go over here because they're offering you the things to just soothe that and say like, you know, there's one here that says truth seeking Americans have the moral high ground. What? Yeah. And they're like opinion section. So like, like yeah there's a salve to be like are people saying you're rejecting the reality of the election no you're actually you're a truth

seeking american and you should you know be feel good about that it's so manipulative well that's the irony of this whole fake news era that we're in right now is like stuff like this is like it's coined you know kind of like on the trump side of things and then this is exactly what's being putting out in support of him losing the election is actual fake news platforms and stuff like that yeah and they're smart too because they put the real shit behind a paywall so if like like, for example, Dominion software intentionally designed to influence election results, forensics report, but it's under the premium section.

Damn it. But I need that to argue with my coworkers who say, I don't have any evidence. Don't have any evidence. What about this election fraud allegations infographic, but again, behind the premium. That's interesting.

So it's like, they, they also know how to like edge the people to be like, what you really want you need something substantive to come and clap back with people rhetorically with and that's behind a paywall and it will also be vaporware i'm sorry but thank you for when i googled the epoch times the first like google autocomplete was login like for people looking to get a to get a free one get a free free login. When I Googled the Epoch Times, I just got an Amazon delivery for truck nuts. I don't know if you guys got that too. That has more to do with your search history than anything. Okay. All right. It launched a macro that auto-ordered.

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in england are concerned about uh you know they're they're going to have shortages um yeah because they want to break up with the eu they want to fuck around and now they're like well we still need to they still need to sort out a trade deal. Because they're like, okay, maybe politically we're not aligned, but trade's a huge thing. And we need stuff from y'all. And we're an island. So what's going on? Right now, that has not been figured out.

And if there's a straight up no deal Brexit on that, it could lead to shortages, price hikes on certain things. exit on that. It could lead to shortages, price hikes on certain things, but it kind of really underlines just how much of the global economy and how much we rely on other countries for certain imports and things like that. Because if they don't have a deal in place with the EU, they're going to have to revert to world trade organization norms where there's certain tariffs on things, and that could really change things for people in the UK. Things that, okay, so if they don't figure out a deal, these are some of the things that people in the UK will have a lot of trouble, not a lot of trouble getting, but they're going to have to either pay more.

Yeah, it could be a little pricey. For example, pizza dough is made from wheat varieties that they have to get from other places, Avocados and bananas. Most of that shit is imported. So that's another thing. Millennials are not going to be happy. Millennials will starve to death. I mean, let's be real. If there is no avocado

toast or diamond industries for them to ruin. Dude, pizza? You're messing with my pizza now? This is getting serious. Exactly. What about ham? You can't get ham uh if you're in the uk because a lot of the good ham like the loins and things like that are coming from across the like from the eu broccoli tomatoes that's another thing like you know apparently the uk only produces a fifth of the tomatoes that they actually sell within the

country tomatoes um yeah i'm sorry, tomatoes. Tomatoes. Come on, UK, Zygang, let us know. You say potato, I say tomato. Right. I think that's how it goes. Potato, how do you say it? Oh, also potato.

Yeah. That's an elevator. So they also, wine will be tough to get, but the things that they can get, so don't worry, you get plenty of mutton because that's all being grown hell yeah dude all about that carrots yeah keep peas carrots and beets don't worry uk you're good you got plenty of those they have this listed like it's a combination or that beetroot peas carrots and beetroot like those are core staples of is that just more popular in the uk than um i mean it could i mean beets are kind of having a i mean their renaissance kind of happened juice stands are popping in the uk right now yeah yeah okay

okay i think maybe because it's probably one of the things that they have a ton of that's why they're just pointing out. It's like, look, we're good in the UK when it comes to beets, carrots, and peas or bread. They say toast and chips. Don't worry about that because we got enough potatoes. We can have scotch whiskey. So we need to worry about wine. But the sad thing is cod for fish and chips.

Yeah. Well, yeah. Unfortunately, with cod for fish and chips, that's Well, yeah, unfortunately with cod for fish and chips, that's coming from Norway and Iceland. So that's going to be a bit of a hit. Yeah. Lobster, they got that. They have toast and chips, lobster and chips,

which as far as I know, aren't, like the only thing I've ever heard of is fish and chips or cod and chips. So it feels like they're trying to start something here with toast and chips. Yeah. It seems weird. Don't worry. You can get something here with toast and chips. Yeah, it seems weird. Don't worry. You can get this thing we just made up.

Yeah, we totally have lots of it. It's not a problem. Plenty of that where that came from. Don't worry. You won't want the fish and chips anymore. That's a thing of the past. We do have, well, we have peanut butter and chips. Oh.

Yeah. Lots of new things. They're exciting. You got to try it. I think I'm just going to go to Nando's. Thanks anyway. Oh, yeah. But lobster, I mean, I didn't realize they have an abundance, as they say in this Daily Mail article, of crab, prawns, and lobster.

So you're good on the arbor pods. Okay. Yeah. Living that good life, I guess. Yeah. I guess they'll be fine after all. This would be enough to change my politics. I have traditionally been pro-Brexit,

but yeah. Yeah, I know. Which one did it for you? Was it the ham or pizza? Pizza. Yeah. Dude, of course. You don't mess with my pizza, okay?

You've always said that. As long as I've known you for the past hour. You don't do that, all right? That's crossing the line where I'm from. That's right. All right, let's talk vaccine, guys. Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, was vaccinated on camera monday morning

so we are officially underway with the vaccination of these united states done and dusted uh we can stop paying attention to the covet 19 story throw your masks in the trash y'all and let's make out in the streets let's do it yeah i mean it's great you know i guess they once they saw bill shakespeare getting his vaccine in the uk they're like get we need our get sandra lindsey up there yeah that's our bill shakespeare but it's great to see that you know i don't know why again even like that older woman in the uk who was like the first person to get the vaccine in the uk i felt so like giddy i feel the same way seeing sand get hooked up with her vaccine. I'm loving it. HHS Secretary Alex Azar was apparently saying the rollout could begin at the end of February

for the country. But that article, I see the link. That headline is being ran the most by the New York Post, New York Daily News, and Fox Business, Fox News. So I'm going to take that with a few grains of salt. And I know most people are talking like late spring seems to be what they think is a more realistic rollout, which to me means fall, I think, with the way this country's been moving. Sure. If my experience with large scale projects is any indication, yeah, you can usually double the amount of time that they're estimating. Do you think that the people on the fence, though, about getting the vaccine, that that's encouraging to them,

seeing an old lady get the vaccine? No. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think that there's going to have to be OnlyFans webcam models who are like, ooh, yeah, I'm ready for it.

The bros are like, dude, I'll take the vaccine right now dude yeah it has to literally a group f a community effort truly i mean celebrity uh endorsement of vaccines is a thing going back to uh elvis they needed to use elvis uh as an example of like a strategy of using celebrities in 1956 he got the polio vaccine on the ed sullivan show because it was difficult to convince teenagers to get vaccinated and and like that actually worked vaccination rates went up but i do think we're kind of living in a in a post celebrity era a little bit well look if you got jojo siwa justin bieber and billy eilish

that's a good you could you could knock out a pretty and taylor swift you could knock out a pretty good chunk but i feel like a lot of those people aren't as on you know like maybe you know but you have to round it out like that's the kind of maybe celebrity weight we need. Dude, if Tekashi69 gets a vaccine, I'll get the vaccine, dude. And not until then. Yeah, if Megan Thee Stallion twerks while getting the vaccine, then your boy is in. I'm getting it, yeah.

If I even see, I'm trying to think of the lowest bar, but I feel like you just need neighbors, you know, just to get it. I'd be like, hey, whoa, Phil, you getting it? Okay. And then you'd like talk shit like, I don't know about him but just go door to door and just make it a day make it a national holiday vaccination day rather than caroling you one person goes i'm like i will

now be vaccinated in front of you happy holidays yeah it's like you're just stabbing people we i had carolers come to my house the weekend of Thanksgiving. Did you really? I was like, damn, y'all are excited to get out here and spread those- Did they have masks on, or were they full on just anti-mask? I did not open the door.

I was like, oh, sorry, the kids are in bed, and my son is right there being like, who is that? Crying. They're doing carols, wild trick-or-treating and weird costumes, like all the things that they missed out on, they're cramming into one. Exactly. One of the carolers has board shorts on. What's your outfit?

But fortunately, only 24% of Americans believe celebrities on the issue of vaccines, which I think has to do with the fact that celebrities have sort of burnt a lot of cred with being anti-vaxxers like that that isn't isn't super helpful um one of the things that is in the works is that uh the three ex-presidents uh obama bush and clinton have all volunteered to be vaccinated on camera um but jm our writer was pointing out that that's somewhat ineffective because the whole issue is that the u.s government has a history of doing shady shit especially to non-white people under a veil of medical advancement advancement um right and i remembered i i knew that like they had used a cia like fake vaccination campaign uh to locate to basically steal people's dna to locate bin laden but that actually led to

like a public uproar in pakistan and uh other places around the world uh where like legitimate vaccine workers were chased off and some were murdered uh after after that and people attribute it to that so like that whole thing ended up having like very real consequences to the point that the cia was like all right we'll stop anything else you want to do fake vax programs yeah oh all right well yeah i mean i think now i don't know if it's going to be a celebrity thing right because the people who are like real the you know wilder takes about it are truly on some like it's not like i don't know if it's safe or it could be janky and it's going to hurt me more like no man that's what they're trying to get you with it and i'm like i don't know what it and who they are but i think it's bill gates and it is a microchip but then i see a lot of good memes that are just sort of like it's

like that uh uh what is it like crowder meme where he's like change my mind the dude's sitting at the table when it's like some hot take and it says change my mind and it's like bill gates sitting at a thing it's like convince me why i should even put a microchip in you change my mind right yeah yeah because i'd be like are you are you really like that much of a subversive patriot that they need to keep tabs on you like you know well apparently my dad is because uh i've already had this conversation with him he's scared he's scared of the vaccine oh yeah for sure he's he's like he's not gonna get it he's like oh i'm definitely not gonna get it yeah for which reasons like the surveillance state it's unsafe he wants to make sure other people don't get like what is it i think surveillance and uh he he

doesn't think it's safe yet i think he thinks it's a government ploy right now i literally had this conversation with my dad like last week i was like okay interesting take all right yeah right okay is there a celebrity you think like i was trying to put together like a dream team of celebrities that might have an impact like i was thinking who's your dad yeah hanks denzel oprah gwen stefani's husband and chris pratt that was my attempt to cover the whole gamut. Maybe if like Ted Nugent or somebody, or Rush Limbaugh got, you know what I mean? If they got the vaccine, then that would be, or like a Sean Hannity or something,

then it would be something where my dad might be like, all right, I'll look into it. Well, because you know those people probably would. They're like, fuck that. I'm not trying to get an old COVID. Give me that fucking vaccine. But then on the air be like, I don't know. Can we trust it?

Yeah. Behind closed doors, they're like, can I get the expedited service on this thing? Do I have to wait with all the other commoners? But I mean, that definitely should be a campaign, like a public pressure campaign

to have them do that because that does seem like it would be- It would help a lot. It would definitely help. I mean, those are the people who are afraid of getting the vaccine in a lot of cases. I mean, I'm trying to think. Because wouldn't, like, if you're going to be rah-rah, this is the Trump vaccine, like, wouldn't his kids be getting it?

To be like, yeah, we did that. Check me out. Or is he like, I already got COVID, so fuck it. Well, that's the thing like hair like tom hanks would have been the perfect candidate for the vaccine because he's so likable but he was like one of the first celebrities to get it right that's when it sunk in for a lot of people like oh this is a real disease tom hanks got it this is crazy tom hanks and the nba shutting down i think yeah that was the reality for people like oh no no sports oh maybe this is real yeah wait woody from toy story

got it yeah i thought he was a toy uh actually tom uh woody is not going to be played by tom hanks he's going to be played by uh chris hemsworth in the origin story of, no, that's. My name is Woody. Which one is? Chris Evans is playing Buzz Lightyear. That's right. The origin story of the real Buzz Lightyear, the story of all the dying.

On the trending episode, and it was like, yeah, and then Chet Hanks is going to play Woody. I'm like, I'll vibe with Patois Woody. Oh, man. All right. Well, Jeremiah, it has been a pleasure having you on The Daily Zeitgeist, man. Where can people find you and follow you?

People can follow me. Whoops. People can follow me on social media at Jeremiah Stand Up. And I've got a brand new comedy special that is out that you can check out on Amazon Prime. You can check it out on Apple TV, Video On Demand, and a bunch of platforms. And the album is out now on Spotify and iTunes and Apple Music, all that stuff. So if you want to follow me, I'm a fun follow, Jeremiah Standup. And then I might be in a city near you soon. I'm still touring at jeremiahwatkins.com.

I'll be in Austin coming up here in Fort Worth in January, the beginning of then, and then Royersford, Pennsylvania on December 30th. Nice. All right. What's traveling like these days? It's just heightened. You just have to be – I've flown quite a bit during this year comparatively to other people. And there's just some simple travel tips that, I mean, you know, the CDC, like the washing the hands and not touching your face is a huge thing.

So anytime I touch something on the plane, I just have a hand sanitizer with me. Regardless of what I touch, I hand sanit and uh just make sure that you're wearing your mask the entire time and you know just not also i haven't been eating on the planes on the flights that i think that's another big one because they do allow that like for people to take drinks of stuff and and uh and eat and i just make sure that i you know do the bottle underneath the mask real quick and then try to go back to sleep in my little hoodie and sleep chamber so right right and is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying um i'm not a big i'm not a big uh twitter guy um so i i do a lot like a lot of reposting and stuff of jokes which i'm like i have good taste in my reposts um so that's about it but uh yeah i'm more

of an instagram guy i post like way more videos and my my stand-up jokes and sketches and stuff like that there nice uh miles where can people find you what's tweet you've been enjoying you can find me on twitter and instagram at miles of gray and then uh other podcasts for 20 day fiance where we're talking 90 day fiance over there uh and a tweet i like is from rally b at durell rally uh or durelly rel actually and this is just a tweet that was blowing up about this dude who like sells cars uh and his tweet says if you didn't know this is why i sell so many cars i promote myself and the video just starts with him like emerging out of the back of like a honda minivan and i'm just gonna play the audio because this is this is this is a new kind of car sales pitch uh that i

think is very effective right we going what a money reside what a money reside what a money reside what a money reside okay let me tell y'all something i'm doing something real big this month any deal that y'all got and they beating us i'm gonna be about 400 just give me your bin and the paper because i'm asked what the what what a money reside what a money reside so you know he's just got a bunch of videos like this you're just saying the same thing come through i'll beat it by 400 give me the VIN so I know this is a real deal. Boom. Let's get you out the door.

So shout out to Relly B with your very effective sales pitches. All right. Some tweets I was enjoying. Just some guy tweeted, you've heard of Elf on a Shelf. Now get ready for God to abandon us. And then Fettuccine was just vibing in the zeitgeist for some reason.

Elise Navidad tweeted pronouncing Fettuccine like medicine. So Fettuccine. Or Medicini if you wanted to go in the opposite direction. And then at Shiny Spell tweeted Boba Fett's full name is Roberto Fettuccine. He's actually Italian. and then at shiny spell tweeted

Boba Fett's full name is Roberto Fettuccine he's actually Italian 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, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on miles. What are we riding into this week upon? This is a track by Ono Kapono, and it's called Lost to Love. capono uh and it's called lost to love and it's just got like a really cool lo-fi sample-y not like rock but you know a little guitar strumming and good soul vocals um so yeah i don't know i just like the name i just was reminded of jason capono and i said oh no capono here we go uh and yeah lost to love check it out jason Capono also in the Zeitgeist, the podcast flagrant ones,

just randomly made their website jasoncapono.com. They did. And I think he got taken down. Yo, Capono in the building. What a weird person to call out. I mean, that's like some local flavor for me. But wow. Yeah.

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