The Daily Zeitgeist - Central Park Karen RETURNS, GOP Midterm Strategy 5.28.21

Episode Date: May 28, 2021

In episode 919, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Sarah Squirm to discuss Central Park Karen re-emerging in her final form, Fox News fear mongering about critical race theory, the Friends reunion, new stemless AirPods, kids being into weird shit, and more!FOOTNOTES: The Sarah Vaccine Woman in NYC Bird-Watcher Case Sues Franklin Templeton in Firing (1) Fox News’ fearmongering about critical race theory is all about the midterm campaigns — and now the network is admitting it How to Watch the ‘Friends’ Reunion on HBO Max for Free HEARD IT HERE FIRST LeBron James pictured wearing TOP-SECRET Apple headphones that aren’t even out yet Do all kids go through this not well rounded (jagged?) phase or is it hereditary? Mine was sharks and my oldest son is trains. I had friends who were all horse, dinosaur and wrestling for like multiple school years. Any good childhood obsessions people want to fess up to? LISTEN: Dirty Art Club - Leant Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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that we're surprisingly more united than most people think. We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better and that we can do better. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 186, Episode 5 of your daily zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it's friday may 28 2021 my name is jack o'brien aka choo gay choo gay oh no we jacko that is courtesy of chris barrera and i am thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray!

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Yeah. You didn't know about that. I didn't know about the peaches one, but I don't know. Yeah, well, Hank Scipio brought it back on the Discord and did it in the tune that you did know, Lump or Gump. I was really doing it more like the Weird Al Yankovic style in my head. But anyway, shout out to you. Thanks for that, AK. Weird Al style.

Well, Miles, we are thrilled, blessed, fortunate to be joined in our third seat by the body horror artist and comedian who's disgusting and hilarious film, The Sarah Vaccine you can see on Means TV. She is the hilarious and brilliant Sarah Squirm! What's up? Can I do one of these intros too? You better.

Okay, just came up with it. I'm Sarah Abudia Abudai. If I wasn't Sarah, I would die. Abudia Abudai. Is that Gen Z? Is that like a track Gen Z is into yet? If I wasn't Sarah, I would die. I would die. Boom. Is that Gen Z? Is that like a track Gen Z is into yet? Oh, yeah, because Gen Z is all... Everyone in Gen Z looks like Crazy Frog now, actually.

Steampunk. What's new, man? Where are you? I mean, it's not much new. This is the first time I'm meeting you, but not the first time I've seen you work. But yeah, what's going on? I'm in my weird house, and you guys can hear strange sounds outside my apartment.

And that's all that's new. What part of town are you in? For anyone who wants to come and kill me, I live in Hollyweird. Ever heard of it? Yep, right to camera Sarah. anyone who wants to come and kill me i live in hollyweird yep right camera sarah and i'm a genius i moved to hollyweird from the midwest six months before the global pandemic where in the uh midwest uh chicago ever heard of it yeah i don't know is that near dayton ohio yeah it's near it's kind of near dayton it's also near oh you probably know of the bigger city that's near at fort wayne indiana

right oh yeah yeah it's kind of a suburb uh suburb of fort wayne is that and is that as big as alton illinois um it's probably smaller and less okay all right that makes sense yeah yeah you might know it as i think people call chicago the city of angels city of dreams is uh what's it like been you know being the transplant out here coming from chicago so i mean it's a path many you know comedians make but what's it been like for you you you hate it um it's amazing i don't have i'm a lactose intolerant jew so living in the midwest i was just eating cheese because and being sick all day so that's all they'll feed you out there yeah that's all they'll feed you out there and then i moved out here uh where the jews are again so it's nice. Nice. There you go. This is my birthright. And you eat less cheese?

I'm eating less cheese. I hate to say it, but I'm eating vegetables in LA. Oh, wow. Yep. Yep. Okay. How unusual.

You eat vegetables in LA? Hey, listen, you move out here, vegetables are good. It's blowing my damn mind, okay? They are better out in california and also i've maintained that the fast food hamburgers are better beef and in california but i know i'm saying the most cliche annoying thing anyone's ever said but when you eat the in-n-out fries and you're like this is potato you know what i mean this is potato yeah i do i do know

what you mean it's like when in your life have you eaten a fry and thought this is a potato yeah that very rarely very rarely all right sarah we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about amy cooper is back uh amy cooper who you might remember from central park calling the cops on christian cooper yeah for being a black man who asked her to put her dog on a leash central park she's back so she last last we uh checked in with her previously in Amy Cooper she was apologizing being like I have learned my lesson and now

she's back we're gonna see what the final form of Amy Cooper is we're gonna talk about the GOP's main midterm issue we're gonna talk about big oil taking some L's we're gonna talk about that friends reunion guys only in so far as i don't i don't know why like people are treating this like a like a movie like it's a big event

and it seems like a tv special to me at best yeah it's a fucking it's a jerk job yeah when you hear friends reunion you're like oh shit they're gonna be a central perk and doing all the hits and then i remember when i was like it's a fucking like a like a annenberg like round table discussion yeah it's like a dvd extra and people are acting like it's fucking the biggest news um it is for some so i'm just gonna say that again i guess later on in the show we're gonna talk about some new some new stemless AirPods that are coming at you. And we know this because LeBron James already has them. Big AirPods fan. Big AirPods.

We're a big AirPods podcast here, Sarah. And we're going to talk about kids being into weird shit. I asked people to tell me what weird shit they were into when they were kids and got some weird answers, some weird trends that I was picking up on. So we're going to talk about that. All of that. Plenty more. But first, Sarah, we like to ask our guest,

what is something from your search history? Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. Busted. What's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are oh god do i look it up right now in front of you got it right here in front of god and everyone oh not bad okay the last thing i searched was alien face hugger oh hell yeah i mean that's so

on brand too i know can you believe body, and the last thing you searched was the number one body horror, like, moment in American culture. It's so despicable how I'm just truly a parody of myself. Are you? Yeah. What's with the search? I think I just wanted to look at it i just wanted to get a good look that's awesome because the image that's open is a hyper realistic

rendering of what like the uh inside parts would look like can i say vagina on air yeah yeah big time okay so what the what the pussy meat would look like of the facehugger? Right. It's interesting. I've never seen something so... We're not used to that angle for the facehuggers. Right. We're only used to seeing it on the face, the hole covered.

Now this is full hole. The facehugger is showing hole. Is this like geiger cannon or this is someone else decided to you know put some organs on this facehugger okay this says it's an unused alien facehugger but this must be like fan art prototype or something got it got it got it are you are you into hr geiger Giger? Yeah, I'm into anything. And like that vibe? I would just, because I'd imagine someone who goes, I wanted to look at it, was also

kind of like, I like looking at H.R. Giger's sort of freaky illustration. I was thinking about him, and it was, I think well, was it recently the Alien anniversary or something like that? Probably. And so I wanted to pay respects. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To my elders.

To my face-hugging elders. To my face-hugging elders. What are they? Xenomorphs? What are they? Xenomorphs? Xenomorphs, right? Is what the names are called?

Yeah. Yeah, sure. You could say anything. I'd say, yeah, sure. Are you a nerd? That's kind of like the most iconic moment of body horror. Do you identify as like a body horror artist or is that just something Vice wrote about you in their article about you? They wrote it and I loved it.

I said, sure. Yeah, it's fucking cool and it seems on brand. The most easygoing guests. When you get your horoscope read and someone's like you're a pisces you're creative and you're like sure yeah oh my god you nailed me i feel seen are you like is there a movie that you feel like is underrated in that in that respect of like the body horror genre are you a cronenberg oh yeah yeah and if you're gonna go cronenberg on go cronenberg style on me right now i think an underrated cronen well i don't know if it's underrated i feel like people don't love existence

i think they think it's like corny it's the one where they go into the video game but i'm watching it being like this is the best one yeah this is the best one oh wow I don't think I've even seen it yeah I knew of it but I never watched it if I'm not mistaken

it's him being like damn these video games look like they're going to be a friggin problem and guess what guess what? Guess what, babe? Nailed it. Look at them.

Got the kids doing all kinds of weird dances now. These video games are a problem. And I don't know anything about video games, but I did find out about Sheesh recently. You know about this? Huh? Sheesh? Sheesh. You talking about TikTok?

Don't kids do it on Fortnite? Yeah, I mean, mean look you can be busting busting respectfully anywhere you know honestly i don't know what you guys are talking about and neither did i until i talked to a 16 year old he told me some stuff and not in a weird way yeah and then I was chased out of the fucking high school. It was bullshit. Doing research. Anyway, I live in Hollywood, but 20 miles away from any school district. Well, that's good. Yeah. What is sheesh?

Whatever you guys are saying there. I think it's something kids say when they play Fortnite, no? Okay. Am I wrong? Yeah, I mean, it's this like where we're at now um yeah yeah i honestly don't care i'm being polite to uh no i mean you don't have it's just it's like yeah you shouldn't care because it's just you know it's it's something you're gonna see on tiktok and go ah okay you know what I say to that? Sheesh. Sheesh. What is something that you think is overrated?

Oh, God. Do you want me to get in trouble? Yeah. You want me to get in trouble in front of God and everyone? Uh-huh. Everyone. All right. I'm going online the other day.

Okay. And I'm on Twitter. I just woke up. Everyone's going, Olivia Rodrigo this, Olivia Rodrigo that. And I'm going, who? And then I watch, and then I listen, and I watch, and I go, excuse me. She's, I don't, this is an 18-year-old. Right.

Why should I care? Very much a child. Yes. It was a phenomenon it's uh i don't know i i listened to it because we talked about it on the episode tuesday and i was like i i mean i i get the angst of it like but for me personally i'm i've i have my own ways of feeling anxious with music and it wasn't quite hitting the notes for me, but I don't know. I think it's just been a lot of the momentum for a lot of people that have been swept away as like,

I just love that. It's tapping into this like feeling of like youthful chaos. And I'm like, I that's a, that's a part of my life. I don't want to revisit. It's like, honey,

have you ever heard of Kurt Cobain? My God, what are we talking about here? That's what, that's what's kind of funny is that it kicked off this sort of like oh you mean there was no emo music when we were growing up and people just like listing all these albums of like oh is her music emo no no not like that but it's just like the content is just about like this you know love lost and being confused and hating your

ex and there was somebody else else. Fuck that person now. What's your album for getting there, Sarah? Okay, I'm going to say something controversial again. I just found out about the band Type O Negative. Type O Neg over here, okay.

I don't know how this has escaped me, but I'm addicted to the album October Rust. It's all dark, gothic, metal, sad, vampire, gothic songs about what lost. So if I'm feeling angsty and emo, I'm not going to listen to a child talk about growing up in Calabasas or whatever and being sad that her boyfriend dumped her. Malibu. Malibu. Strawberry ice cream. Spoons for two. No. Deja vu or whatever the fuck sad that her boyfriend dumped her malibu malibu strawberry ice cream

spoons for two no deja vu or whatever the fuck the lyric is i'm like oh god the best though if uh you should listen back to the episode because we had chris crofton on who's like an older indie artist and he just like couldn't understand what was going on he's like but i just what are you saying i think it's just i think it's one of those things, too, where my first concern was like, I remember when Vanessa Carlton was out and I was not fucking with Vanessa. I was all in on G unit and shit at the time. But still, that shit got me. And I don't know if it was because of like at the time that was like the music that just was so pervasive. You're like, you can't escape it.

And that's why I liked it. was like the music that just was so pervasive you're like you can't escape it and that's why i liked it but this i don't know that my relationship to pop like capital p pop music is i'm not listening to radio anymore so i'm not really hearing it so i was like it's not catching i get why it's catching other people but i don't it doesn't do the the hook thing right like am i getting older or is the like swed Swedish mafia that's writing all of the same pop songs getting like more like alienated from reality and disconnected? I don't know. This is a worthwhile exploration for sure. The hell? I'm done with teenagers. I don't care about Billie Eilish. The other thing that was played at Chris Croft, it was like, it's all written by one guy.

It's the one guy getting the song credits too along with her he's like we don't need this older white guy helping her tell the story it's like what what's she really want to say is that what she wants to say and i'm like okay chris i don't know man i don't know i don't know baby it's what the kids like though right i agree and if she's like a child star it's like did you have time to freaking go develop a relationship drive around in a car with the roof down or whatever? Or are you freaking getting hauled around to auditions and stuff by your family? about a relationship she had with somebody on a TV show that she was in with them. And it's like, yeah, it has like a whole like weird backstory that is like partial,

partially like part of a scripted universe. So it's, it's kind of, uh, yeah, it all seems very curated. Um, but I think maybe that's why though it has it has this other effect, though, too.

It's like there's layers of real life. Like if you're fans of these people. I mean, I don't know what who it would have been about. Like when we were, I guess, like Alanis Morissette being like, oh, my God, that's about Dave Cuvier. It's like, right. Number one pop idol, Dave Cuvier. She did what to him in a theater? Oh, no.

Down on. You know he was using that puppet voice. Oh, no, the chipmunk ranger. Whatever. Not now. Oh, gosh, Dave. Well, I also think Driver's License is a fine song. My kids love it. So also think driver's license is a fine song my kids love it so I

think it's fine and that was important for me to say Jack defend the song please Sarah what is something you think is underrated well I already said the existence

in the Cronenberg universe is underrated but what is underrated well i already said the the existence in the cronenberg universe is underrated but what is underrated in general god damn you're so you know what you know who's underrated uh-oh gary newman gary yeah who's that he did here in my car oh yeah and everyone only knows car and i'm sitting here going locked down in a pandemic okay and can't be it this game no i watched every single live performance on youtube available to me of gary newman he's a fucking synthesizer electronic music legend and he deserves some goddamn motherfucking respect so what are we what are the other tracks like is there are there other ones we're just not attributing to him that

we realize we do know his work or it truly didn't sort of break past that car for people who didn't know his body of work i mean i think he's like i mean he's famous right right right like and nine inch nil trent reisner loves him nine you can tell like yeah they have similar vibes yes david bowie hated him i think i could i hope don't quote me on this. I'm pretty sure David Bowie thought he was copying his shtick of being a weird guy looking like an alien on stage being strange. I don't know which one I'm more impressed by, that Trent Reznor liked him or that David Bowie hates him. To get David Bowie's attention and have him feel any sort of way strongly about you. That's pretty cool. Right.

Like, I love pixies because I watched a YouTube video about David Bowie being like, you guys heard of this band Pixies? They're freaking cool. Hold on, what? And I got nervous in the pandemic because I saw gary newman made a patreon i'm like oh that can't be good what's what's legendary uh musician gary newman doing starting a patreon but then i googled his house and he has a he has a mansion in beverly hills with a large sculpture of a dragon outside and he's got a hot blonde wife with big boobs i'm like hey he's fine right oh big big margaret thatcher fan too wait really yes he said he was an outspoken supporter of the conservative party

and margaret thatcher after her election as prime minister although he later expressed regret for giving his public support calling it quote a noose around my neck he's previously considered himself neither left nor right wing um and didn't support blair cameron he also said quote i'm not a socialist i know that i don't believe in sharing my money hey i mean that's that's very strong like guy who was famous in the 70s early 80s vibes like yeah nobody who was making a ton of money high on cocaine like came out the other side being like yeah man i just feel like uh i don't need this stuff i can just give it away high on cocaine supporting thatcher and austerity is violence yeah it's like don't look into the album he did inspired by middle eastern music and i'm not going

to tell you the name of the album because i get in trouble for saying it out loud but you know yeah he's a weird old guy stuff you know yeah yeah by the way uh i'm just looking here at my notes and what when i asked about underrated body horror i meant to ask you guys if you've ever seen superman 3 so this is gonna be a this episode's gonna be a real adventure because i uh my brain is not working i didn't get a lot of sleep last night so uh i might be like hey i have a note here from 15 minutes ago and i appreciate you guys bearing with me have you guys seen superman 3 that's the one one richard pryorian right yeah no i've only seen like parts there's a moment that is like the scariest moment of body horror where a character like gets taken over by a like

robot but like all these wires like crawl over her skin and like her eyes like shield over by this it's just this like random like it's not a good movie it's not an interesting movie but it has this thing that like stuck with me and then somebody like brought it up on twitter the other day and they were like this fucked me up hard and uh i hadn't realized how much of my nightmares were built on that foundation if you just search superman 3 cyborg yeah i'm guessing this is the scene but it looks like this woman is just turning into uh robin williams from like well what is it bicentennial man yeah but it's like weird and violent and it yeah i don't know it really

fucked oh this is violent because it looks comedic where she's like and her face is metal but i'm guessing it's a little bit more horrific well when you're four and in the 80s, when machines were still scary, it was not comedic. Okay. She's like, oh, no, I'm turning into a computer. Exactly. I also thought Johnny Five was terrifying. The scariest movie monster of all time so or fisher stevens portrayal of that uh yes brown face all right well let's take a quick break and we'll be back and

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So, you know, rightfully so. The reaction, it got the reaction it deserved. And if you don't remember, it was Christian Cooper. He's a bird watcher. He was in the bramble of Central Park where it's posted everywhere. You got to have your dogs on a leash. And a lot of bird watchers like to go there. And when your dogs are not on leash, they can chase the birds away.

And now you've got your fucking day wasted because this person got the dog off the leash. So if you remember, the video was him just being like, hey, do you mind putting your dog on the leash? Like, you're not supposed to have the dogs off leash in this section of the park. And she's like, oh, oh, oh, this black man is attacking me. Yeah. And then, like, you know, if if you remember she was like yanking the dog around by the leash and people like yo yo yo you're not even paying attention to your dog you're just like flinging it around so it led to you know she lost her job believe the dog was even taken away because they're like you don't even know how to handle a dog on a leash um and you know she and she even

had a kind of apology that she did publicly i'll'll read it just so you can, because I think this is a good primer to understand where she's at now. So, it starts off really clear. I sincerely and humbly apologize to everyone, especially to that man. Oh, okay. Okay, okay, Kiki Palmer. I'm sorry to that man and his family. It was unacceptable, and I humbly and fully apologize to everyone who's seen that video. Everyone that's been offended.

Everyone who thinks of me in a lower light and understand why they do. When I think about the police, I'm such a blessed person. I just, I don't even need to read any more. She says, I've come to realize that I'm afforded a different luxury in my interactions with the police than other people might be. And then ends it with, I reacted emotionally and made false assumptions about his intentions when intentions when in fact i was the one who was acting inappropriately by not having my dog on a leash i'm well aware of the pain that misassumptions and insensitive statements about race cause cut to she's suing her bosses and former employer for wrongful term termination and she was discriminated against oh no yeah she's really the victim let's

think about it here i mean she you know poor thing yeah i think her lawyers are that band prodigy who are like in there you're the victim okay yeah that's right this is in her lawsuit she says franklin templeton is a company she worked for, characterized a former employee as racist for calling the police on a black birdwatcher whom she had words with while walking her dog in Central Park. Oh, OK. They're saying that was the problem is that they categorized it as racist. Amy Cooper said the May 25th incident was spurred by her fear of the birdwatcher Christian Cooper, who she says had a history of quote aggressively confronting and quote dog owners for walking their dogs off leash she even goes on to say that she can even back up her scary black man claims with a testimony from a fellow black man that would also attest to christian cooper's scariness for being like hey have some respect

for the bird watch like i don't i don't i still don't understand what is so scary but yeah that's it i'm wondering if like part of their strategy is to wait a year and hope that we don't remember what we saw in that video because like she is talking to the police and being like a black man is like a i forget she says accosting me or attacking me but whatever it is she's definitely weaponizing the description of this person on the phone to the police. Which is why everyone's like, you know what the fuck you're doing. You're saying, I can call police. And that's why you should stop telling me what I can and cannot do.

That is not your place as a black person telling me a white person whether or not I should have my dog on the leash. And that, you know is what it boils down to and even her employer was like yeah we're like we don't have anything to say the video speaks for itself right end quote her lawyers fucked up because it should have been like we're suing her workplace for discrimination they were discriminating against cuckoo for people are you kidding me? My God. That's what the discrimination is. And they should have definitely used that language too. Yeah, cuckoo for Cocoa Post.

It's a mental health issue after all. General Mills. Brought to you by General Mills. Oh shit. She's also suing for her lost wages and like a bonus that she thinks she would have got. I'm sure every company is doing Oh, shit. Yeah, she's also suing for her lost wages and, like, a bonus that she thinks she would have got. 2020.

Okay, I'm sure every company is doing buku numbers in 2020. She also says, like, determination caused, obviously, much trauma and pain and distress as well. Sheesh. Sheesh. This lawsuit is not busting, busting respectfully. Sorry. this lawsuit is not busting busting respectfully sorry it's so funny because she it's like we're watching someone like find out about the internet in real time right but i feel like this isn't even the internet this isn't like a clip taken out this is a three minute long clip where her actions are so clear. So she's claiming that she was discriminated against by like someone showing her behavior to lots of people.

Like that's the only thing that happened. So it's I mean, look, I'll play the video really quick. Just so you can hear. She's because a lot of in her lawsuit is like, you should play the whole 911 call. The video starts off when she starts charging at him for being like, yo, can you put the dog on a leash? Please don't come close to me. Please don't come close to me.

Please don't come close to me. Please, please call the cops. And I just call the cops. And the dog is like, yo, you're lifting me off the ground. And the dog is like, yo, you're lifting me off the ground. Threatening me, right. She's like, I'm not sure if you heard me, motherfucker. Threatening the dog.

At this point, she's literally holding the dog, like, off the ground. I forgot about that part. Again, I'm sure yeah you need the whole 911 call but regardless nice try uh good luck to you in your endeavors you want to hear my big conspiracy theory hot take oh hell yeah all right she you know that thing happened a year ago she she gets famous she gets infamous right all right that dies down we have other things to think about. She's like, all right,

everyone's, you know, thinking like, all right, how do we make money off this woman? She's the most infamous person. And like, there's like,

you know, 10 infamous people a year. Right. I think she's trying to make a podcast. I mean, she's keeping her name up there. Yeah. I mean,

when I saw that this headline from our outline, Central Park Karen reemerges in her final form, written by Miles Gray, I was almost certain that she was going to be speaking at CPAC or some conservative convention. It's possible. Yeah, totally. Also, Super Producer Justin is pointing out that she did get her dog back. conservative convention like it's possible yeah totally uh also super producer justin uh is

pointing out that she did get her dog back oh thank god dog was like fuck really within 10 days of the incident okay so look look people everyone lost their cool huh amy let's just let's just call it bygones i don't know what i mean this is the the crescendo to be speaking at cpac you know just like with the mccloskeys who are like pulling guns on protesters and we were predicting we're like they're speaking i was just flippantly i was like they're gonna be at cpac and they were i mean the second she starts taking it to like cancel culture or like the liberal media she's not there's no buzzwords like that quite yet but i'm sure you know that's because her fed up talk with all the conservatives her ted nugent talk oh god uh all right let's talk

about the big midterm issue that the gop is planning to run on last time it was they made up a a big like zombie horde of immigrants that were coming to crash the u.s border and like started like using video footage of that was not even from present day uh the present tense uh but using that to just try and create a sense of impending doom and that didn't really work right like they they lost a bunch of seats i mean it was who knows talked about how it's just about turning racism up to three million yeah in order to get people to like turn up just be like this is where we're at guys choose a side here we go and yeah this is a very very clear case of them trying to take something like critical race theory and weaponizing it because it goes hand in hand with this last story with amy cooper right is

that this idea that from our judicial system to just the society of our fabric is so intertwined with white supremacy from the origins of African slavery that we do ourselves a disservice to not critically look at that and analyze that as a means to pursue liberation for all people, especially black Americans. And because of that, the right does not want that because they don't want nuance about anything. They want to keep everything so clear and the lines so clear that you can just pick a side without being like, well, hold on. You're saying even if I'm not, if I didn't own slaves, there's a way for me to participate in white supremacy. But no, this is not what they want.

So a recent analysis by Media Matters showed that Fox News has a and a lot of conservative media, has been cranking up the volume on this. Over 550 mentions in the last 11 months, and nearly 90% of Facebook posts on the topic come from right-leaning sources. And it's just all by design. Like what I'm saying, it's a thought killing cliche that they want to introduce to their supporters in the sense that, you know, if they can just immediately just, you know, dismiss things and being like, oh, that's it's critical race theory, critical race to like, well, hold on. Do you even know what that means? Are you just saying that as a way to avoid a discussion? And this is, you know, I think what we're seeing, there's like a, there's a few tweets that someone dug up about one of these guys, a conservative, who has made it his goal to elevate this as a hot button issue.

He said, quote, the goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think critical race theory, thus encompassing an entire range of cultural constructions. cultural constructions. So this is what they want to introduce now. And also sort of hold up this boogeyman that it's being taught in like K through 12. Really, it's in universities and graduate studies that you're really looking at critical race theory as it would maybe relate to like a law practice or things like that. So it's just a very bizarre thing. And I think because we saw Nicole Hannah Brown, who penned the 1619 project, her tenure was blocked by a Republican controlled board of trustees at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This is something that they're all kind of getting on board with to sort of say, let's point a finger at this and maybe this will be enough to inspire our racist supporters to come out. this and maybe this will be enough to inspire our racist supporters to come out yeah i had a sense that like i was probably underestimating how angry this made conservatives and republicans when that tennessee politician was basically like keep talking about critical race theory guys you see what happens like basically yeah he was like we're tired and you don't want to see what we're gonna do it was like threatening violence in the tennessee like state legislature i mean

yeah they want to avoid it they there's no way they can keep winning elections if more people are like understand the underpinnings of like the racism in this country at a societal level like they that's like it truly they're like no no, no, no, no, no. Like they can't have more information. Like we're already losing them on the bootstraps things because too many of them now are realizing there's no, there aren't livable wages. So we don't, we can't add their understanding of the racist history of this country to that or else they'll look at everything.

So I just want to play this clip from Fox News because they're even talking about like they're sort of tipping their hat to like, you know, no one was even talking about this a year ago in the sense that like because we were trying to get people to talk about this. Right. Where you have supporters of critical race theory saying that it allows white people to empathize with minorities and then opponents of it say that it is divisive and quite frankly, unhealthy to look at everything through the lens of race. And, you know, I was just thinking about a year, year and a half ago, we weren't talking about this. Nobody really knew what critical race theory was. And that's because it wasn't really called that. It was called

diversity or anti-racism training. And if you out against that well then you're racist and then certain things started to happen under the name of diversity and anti-racism training and it was like getting rid of schools named after our founding fathers who are so again they're completely distorting the definition of it they're saying hey you know how like they got they said like jefferson davis was a shithead uh that's critical race theory dr seuss critical race theory colin kaepernick critical race theory like it's there that's just like the repetition they're giving people just the same way they get people talking about anything that deals with you know empathy for the poor or any marginalized group is socialism right like that's all they need and

this is the other thing they're doing to create an obstruction towards you know increased understanding around race relations in this country well because fox news doesn't see color that's actually right no it's divisive sar I mean, to look at everything through the lens of race. Oh, it's unhealthy, especially if you're white, because you're actually you're just your vision is so distorted because you benefit from the fact that everything is seen through the prism of your race. It's like, well, I start doing that. Then I'll realize how much of an advantage I may have had. Oh, no, no, it's divisive. It's funny to say like fans of critical. It's fans of critical race theory. Right. I'm a real fangirl of critical race theory over here.

Oh, my God. I'm just thirsting for critical race theory. I'm thirsting for knowledge about like the history of how power dynamics are established. Right. I'm thirsty for understanding hegemony. All right. Let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back to talk about that. Friends reunion, guys.

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other than it seems like i don't know it trending. People are reviewing it like it is a feature film. Yeah, deceptive. They're like, this is top-notch. It's changing the game for how reunions are. And normally we don't like to do entire segments where we talk shit about something we haven't seen yet. But I... As a concept, we can.

Yeah, as a concept, I don't care for this. Sarah, thoughts? I'm pissed off. Takes gold. You want to pop off? Yeah, pop the fuck off. And you're telling me there's reviews that are positive about this, and then that's when I go, reviews, honey, that's called PR. Where'd reviews go?

I want to see people tear something down and spit it back out, chew it up, toss it around. Why are we getting a friends reunion we've had enough yeah i've seen everyone knows friends the hell oh see vox has one that's a little bit better it says the empty comfort of friends the reunion okay could this be any more pointless thank you alissa wilkinson for coming through with that take. Friends has aged brilliantly and not well at all. To celebrate a series in 2021 with a reunion special is almost too tricky to attempt.

Yeah, I mean, it's, I don't know. Like, cool. You want a reunion? I'll show you a reunion. Who? Every single Real Housewives of New jersey reunion moderated by andy cohen okay we have andy cohen asking hard-hitting questions did your husband cheat on you messy why did you go to jail blah blah if we have andy cohen moderating a friend's reunion and being like matthew perry what happened in your like cocaine blackout and also like

how's your little raya tour going because every freaking 23 year old in la has seen you on there oh no that's a very definitely andy cohen thing he's like what's going on with you and raya like what the fuck is this that's a reunion i like when he admitted to using heroin on cnn where he was like i feel like i'm on heroin anderson oh when he's all like warm when he's like no you know it's just like warm and pulsing he's like but you just said heroin like you don't know what that's like he's like oh yeah no i've heard i've heard i was like oh okay they're like i get anderson cooper and him to talk more on that. I know.

Don't make it hot, fool. Like, don't we not on the H anymore? Yeah. I mean, I would like to see that. I want to see Teresa Giudice answer for her table flipping and things like that. But yeah, I don't. Would that be new ground to have a reunion that was like bringing all the different casts together or have they done that like a mega like like a mega reunion yeah i've

never seen anything like that because also reunions just end up being like the laziest content at the end of the season we're like okay you got another episode out of just people sitting down talking about what just happened so i get i'm sure at the end of the day this is a fantastic bit of money for everyone involved and that's probably the only reason why it happened if there's reunion i want to see lives ruined you understand yeah yeah right yeah you want it to be right decades long friendships burning in front of my fucking eyes get a sex in the city reunion going on put king patel and sarah whatever in the same freaking room and say why don't you guys talk to each other and then you'll deserve the 10 million dollars you get for doing right feels a little frosty in here gals what's happening you guys want to go over uh how the relationship broke down?

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all right so friends reunion you're burnt let's talk about the new stemless airpods that are coming uh this is a boon for those of us who like to press our ear when we sing like mariah carey or ariana grande because they they are just like the in-ear thing. But it's also part of Apple's nonstop evolution of just removing features until everything is just a shiny white jelly bean. But they've removed the stems part from AirPods and created little in-ear pebbles.

You're loving this story. I do love this. As someone who goes, how many AirPods you been through now? Oh, I've only been through one pair. Did you say like they slowly, like the battery, because you were putting high use on yours? Yeah, but yeah, I've had one regular pair and one pro pair. Okay.

They last. Yeah, thank you. And you're looking at going for the trifecta with the stemless? I'm not saying I'm going to get them. I can still do the in-ear holding my finger to my ear while I hit the high note with the stems. I just cover the stem up a little bit. Ah, got it.

Wait, so this is an apple product yeah this is a beat studio buds dude that they released to lebron james early he wore them in the tunnel before a game and people were like wait a second right but i don't know these are disgusting okay i'll pop up you know what the stem is it's a it's hell it's the choking hazard for the ear your ear mouth is gonna just choke complete it's gonna swallow this thing oh you're saying oh how many stuck how many stuck studio buds are we gonna get in people's ears yes oh could you imagine like a bad like ear impact with one in and it's almost like just hammers it into your ear canal. I'm sure there's probably injuries like that anyway for people with big ear holes.

My uncle was an ER doctor, not to brag. He was like, you know how many cockroaches I had to pull out of people's ears? More than you'd think. Things get in your ear and these little little free these little stupid bullshits are underestimating how much shit gets lodged deep into people's ears canals yeah yeah butts and ears are like that's that's a big part of uh being an er doctor is things accidentally going up people's butts and i was doing air quotes and then ears that that is so fucked up when like bugs because that's a bug that like crawled in someone's ear while they

were sleeping and then they you know freaked out when they felt it and then the bug just like crawled deeper because there was all right finger poking at them oh um that is my fucking nightmare talk about body horror more than the cyborg lady from superman 3 uh i don't know yeah maybe if i put these in like they it'll it'll turn me into that's your destiny yeah shitty apple cyborg apple cyborg i do wonder like just thinking about this being the ultimate evolutionary direction that Apple products are all going into like one's like shiny, smooth, white tic tac. Do we think that maybe the tic tacs that we keep seeing everywhere are Apple products from the future? Come back to spy on us? All right.

That's what we're thinking about. All right. Just putting it out there all right put a pin in that one i hate this like stylistic evolution of just turning everything into nothing it's so disgusting right something to look at like when you when they when what was it that like vogue 20 questions or whatever walk through 73 questions thank you very much yeah that was uh you're talking to uh one of the original um one of the ogs of that series but yeah one of the creators of that series i didn't

create it i just directed a couple one of the directors one of the one on a zoom with a living legend right now yeah oh shit uh did i uh hold a dyson hairer in front of Cindy Crawford to get a hair blowing effect when we did that episode? Yeah, I did. Okay. Okay. Super sharp. She was a legend.

And she was cool, right? She was great. It was the day Randy Gerber sold Casamigos for a billion dollars. We were at Cindy Crawford's house. I guess that would be nice too. Dude, they rolled out. They're like, you guys want Casamigos? It was like handing people bottles.

They're like, we don't live in Malibu and the drive we're going to take is treacherous through a canyon. The last thing we need to do is drink a tequila right now. It's 7 a.m. Yeah. It's like, okay, okay, okay. But yeah, the house is unbelievable. And their kids are like parodies of themselves.

But anyway, i'm sorry go on you were watching those videos things are turning into weird products and i'm watching the kim and kanye one and i'm going you guys don't have anything in your house you're the richest most powerful people on the fucking planet and you've got nothing there's nothing to look at in your whole house i hate this. That everyone's looking like nothing. AirPods. It's really bad. It sucks. Amorphous things. It's like, oh, look.

This is my birth control device. You're like, what? It's a white square. Oh, wait. I'm sorry. That's my credit card. Or wait, is it my car key? Everything's so amorphous and lacks definition. Smooth white pebble. Yeah.

Yeah. It'll be like, wasn't there like a movie, or is that Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Like, that you could just put the thing in your ear and you could hear every language or whatever? Oh, yeah. I feel like we're probably moving towards these wearable, singular devices. It's like, you can understand any language. It'll beam information to your head from ESPN if you need it. From ESPN.

From ESP to ESPN. There it is, baby. Our inner ear device. And it looks like a sick-ass dangle earring. You know what was not a good advertisement for cochlear implants? The sound of metal. They made that shit look uh not good i don't know if that was an ad for it i don't know by me bad call bad call guys uh you shouldn't

have done that stock bad call on the spawn con uh because that was what they do so it's about somebody who loses their hearing say uh spoiler alert he saves up to get the cochlear implant and it just like he it doesn't really solve his problem and like it sounds really like robotic and shitty when he gets it and like that is often a first stage but then like they really like you know lock it in after a while and like people are able to use it but because that it can't be the solution to the protagonist problem they make it seem like it's a hell like they really make it seem like it's fucking oh shit yeah they get sued by the manufacturer like this is fucking slander man right all right so this is kind of a weird one but it's kind of based on a twitter thread

that i've had going uh for the past 12 hours i've talked before on here about how i was i was shark guy when i was like four to seven probably like that was the thing my aunts and uncles and like friends all knew me as is like a kid who said he wanted to be a sharkiologist even though that wasn't a profession aka kid who like said he wanted to be eaten by a shark like and i had i watched jaws over a hundred times like just so i could say that i'd watch jaws over a hundred times um oh oh like you were like counting them off you're like fuck man i got 15 before tomorrow yeah i pulled an all-nighter the night before second grade started uh but we're worried about jack he comes into class with just dark circles under his eyes like he's not getting much rest and he keeps smiling you son of a bitch just like muttering jaws lines gonna need a bigger boat like a dog's eyes what the fuck man but uh

yeah so farrah brooke uh on twitter tweeted that she missed being like nine years old when being really into dolphins was her entire personality and And I have a five-year-old who's going through a similar phase with trains. And so I was like, what were other people's singular obsessions when they were kids? So before I get into kind of a survey of the responses, did you guys have these? Oh, yeah. I have a million. I replaced my personality with anything around me right right to this day yeah what was an early singular focus you had though when sarah hughes won the gold medal for ice skating in like i don't know what a million

years ago so she sarah hughes won the gold medal for some ice skating thing like i don't know what a million years ago so she sarah hughes won the gold medal for some ice skating thing when i was like what like i don't know two and she her name was sarah and she was from the same town on long island that i was from i mean that's all i need that's huge i am impressed yeah so i. So I was like, I am, I, my name is Sarah. I'm Sarah. He was in from Long Island.

I can win a gold medal. No problem. Right. I just printed out black and white pictures of her from the computer, from Google images and hung them up in my room. That's awesome. I love that. Just a straight line to it.

You're like, yeah, that's me. I loved, um, I loved dinosaurs. I was dying. i was dino child for a while right like i was fucked up off of dinosaurs like you know like my parents like he only says words that have to do with dinosaurs like it's not he's really into it and then there's a great part in

the uh and sorry to interrupt there's a great part in the new uh, and sorry to interrupt. There's a great part in the new Lord Miller, uh, Netflix, like the Millers or Mitchells versus the robots where the younger kid will just like go through the phone book and call people and be like, Hey, do you want to talk to me about dinosaurs for 15 minutes? And then people are like, Nope. And he's like,

okay, bye. And then like just crosses them out. But like, that's literally how my son is about trains. Like, he's just like, let's talk about trains, to anybody to the mailman it was yeah it was dinosaurs and then that that turned into x-men right and star wars vehicles and star wars technology where i

was buying like schematics of like blasters and a-wing bombers and shit to like really understand what i was dealing with like from a mechanical sense from all the star wars shit i was into yeah i was like it's not enough just to be able to say what the fuck it is you need to know how this ion engine works fam don't care if it's fake but don't come with me some nonsense yeah so um a teacher in the uk and then a bunch of like parents in the UK said that World War Two airplanes in particular are like they're like, yeah, there like the bombing raids from the nazis that like that's just passed down through the generations because i feel like ours is not necessarily world war ii airplanes um i don't know our kids it's weird i had a friend who i grew up with handsome nick who you met oh yeah we were all in on world war ii shit i think part of it had to do with my

grandfather talking about world war ii so that gave me like oh shit like i want to know about this thing that you know my grandfather was in and i got into the planes too but like not so much like i knew i could talk about like uh you know like a mustang p51 or whatever is the american one a mitsubishi zero is a Japanese one and shit like that. So the ones that seem like they are pretty standard. Dinosaur seems like it's the one that is to the point that it's almost like a phase that every five-year-old goes through or like most five-year-olds go through. Space seems to be kind of up there too. Trains up there as like a thing i think that's like

more on the younger side this is like guy stuff though yeah well but a surprising number of girls were like really into cars and fire trucks and but okay so one that i was not expecting that we got multiple responses on was Greek mythology. Yes. It's it's very queer. That's all of my gay friends were obsessed. That's so wild. Because it's like epic drama.

Right. But it's those names were so confusing to me. I was also a very dumb kid. So I think. Was there like a simple book to get into greek mythology i think like one one person was referencing like there was an illustrated guide and they were just like obsessed uh but alex schmidt was real into greek mythology one of the smartest humans i know yeah but he was like yeah that was my my thing uh that's super cool turtles which makes sense because they're just like slow dinosaurs

that are still around and you get i like turtles kid yeah yeah exactly legend legend legendary uh this is a zombie by the way i mean yeah what's going on with you there were a couple uh people who just had colors like one person was obsessed with the color red-orange from when they were young all the way up through, they said, when they went away to college. Grow up, Jesus. That color sucks. And somebody else was into green.

And then there were historical events. The Titanic was a big one. Oh, my. Well, because it's the best movie of all time right you were you also in on the titanic um i guess because the movie i mean like when i was a kid it's like that movie is life ruining right like name a movie that's more life ruining than titanic ruining in what sense how did it ruin your life? Like it just took you away? Devastated me beyond my wildest imagination. Oh, man.

Well, you know, you can go to that full scale replica they're building in China. Oh. Yeah. Are you serious? There's a billionaire who's building a to scale one. Are you serious? Yeah. But he's like obsessed with it.

And everyone's like like why is this guy building it's like i don't know this dude has so much money and nothing to do so yeah you know he's gonna sink that shit like he's doing like that that's the only way to like fulfill your promise yeah just should have known motherfuckers you really got on the titanic maiden voyage y'all are fucking dumb this is a fucking sociology experiment some other salem witch trials was one uh that like i like i like the idea of just like having an obsession with like a historic period like i definitely got into like castles and uh swords and shit like that i was obsessed with trench warfare that is the idea so interesting i don't know why world war one you like that shit

not even world war one i was just obsessed with the idea of a bunch of guys in like a hole in the dirt yeah yeah living in living in holes yeah and so my friend who's like into like trippy stuff said that like when kids are obsessed with like historical events like that it could be like past life like residual past life stuff weird i was into so many war stuff like i i had a huge civil war phase when i was a kid it was wild because like by the time we got to those things in school i was like yeah i know stonewall jackson is actually like i was insufferable when it came to like the war units in class because i was like i mean i'm not really telling me anything new right now so i don't know if this is actually an education speaking of insufferable so when other kids like got into dinosaurs i was like right at the right age when jurassic park

came out that i was like i think i was like 11 93 yeah yeah so i was 12 like the way that i approached that was i was like really into so i'd read jurassic park and really liked it but then like read all of creighton's books so like people would be like dude have you seen jurassic park i'm like actually that's like lesser creighton you guys should really uh you guys should really check out sphere or like congo those are really his like it's actually not the ending in the book just the worst piece of shit kid in the world that was the thing every kid like older kid who read it would like dunk on me with like you know the ending it's actually different in the book it's not the same as the movie i'm like what there's no ending in the book i have no idea so no that was a thing that everyone lorded over hammond the old guy uh

doesn't make it and he gets eaten by the little the little tiny dinosaurs oh he does yeah yeah she's kind of cute that's what i was telling everyone about it i'm like you know in the book all the kids have sex with each other and then get eaten by tiny dinosaurs and then this was just a cute story like so there's a lot of people who are like i was into he-man i was into different characters and angie gravels uh tweeted one of my kids was buzz lightyear for three years slept in the pjs wore the costume and cape asked to have the eyebrows applied before daycare uh the idea of the eyebrows is such an adorable detail to just like have drawn on eyebrows i'm looking foolish pulling up with these fucked up eyebrows mom oh my god he has like normal eyebrows right but there's like an

arch to one of them right like they're kind of arched and thin so like this dude just had like very like yeah exactly um he's like he even shaved his own eyebrows off he's like they were getting in the way of the buzz lightyear ones that we need to draw on what are you talking about mom there are multiple people who are obsessed with talk shows as kids like ricky lake sally jesse rafael like they would set up uh audiences and just like do one person talk shows uh and then there's sporting positions that wear masks so one person's little brother was obsessed with uh major league baseball catchers and another kid was just obsessed with hockey goalies like for the masks only wow fucking so i played i only got into hockey for the helmet and the right

yeah i didn't i wasn't attracted to the sport by anything else except this kid i went to school with his parent was like i don't know miles can come by to see the game i was like yo they get to wear all that shit count me in but yeah my other weird phase i had was i was so into swat the swat cop team because i watched speed and i shit completely i was so into SWAT, the SWAT cop team, because I watched Speed. I was so cop-brained as a kid. Talking to the fucking neighborhood watch cop, he'd be like, yo, man, can you take me to a SWAT meeting? I want to see if the MP5

is the same weight as I think it is. They're like, you're not fucking 11. We'll get away from you. I'm going to hand you a fucking submachine gun. Alright, whatever. I know how to cut the pie. I know a dynamic entry. Got that angle mirror? I'm 45. I'll scout it in. away from you and i hand you a fucking submachine gun like all right all right on whatever i know how to cut the pie i know a dynamic entry got that angle mirror and a 45 i'll scout it in but anyways people when we're running daily zeitgeist movie studios we can we can look at this list and figure out what what needs movies because you know titanic biggest movie of all

time jurassic park second biggest movie of all time jaws is like one of the biggest movies of all time so like these kid obsessions are like right yeah that's all you need and then you're uh you're golden diamond we gotta get kids into freaking cobblers am i right sister uh yeah get them cobbling yeah that would be interesting i hope that's like a weird thing like when gen g starts adulting like they're starting in like medieval practices, like just rejecting consumer culture. And like, they're like,

no, everything's homespun. Actually. I'm refining my own rubber from my own bicycle wheels. Isn't there an Adam Sandler, like drama called the cobbler. Oh God. You're so right.

Why didn't it stick? Right. I mean, fuck, I think it would have, it would be one of Why didn't it stick? Right. I mean, oh, fuck. I think it would have. It would be one of the one of his biggest hits if any of these kids had said cobbler. But that was just never, never in the cards. What was that one even about? I believe a cobbler.

Oh, OK. So if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. And then like some I think like there were some curses and some like time travel things. A frustrated shoemaker finds a magical sewing machine that allows him to see the world in a new way by stepping into the lives of his customers. There you go. Oh, walk a mile in someone's shoes. Oh, and Method Man is in that?

I think there's going to be a lesson on race here. Uh-huh. Oh, for sure. Sarah, it has been so fun having you uh yeah what a pleasure having me please please where can people uh find you and follow you and experience your work you can find me anywhere on everywhere as sarah squirm and you can watch my new little movie that I made on Means TV, Means.TV

and you know what? Why don't you go watch it? Go watch it. Go watch it. It'll fuck your day up. It's fantastic. It's very good. Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying?

This tweet is from October 2019. From at Merman5. Parentheses. Me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a desert island for a year. It was crazy. Parentheses. Friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the Grinch the Grink. Was the Grink there?

That is a great tweet. We'll never forgive some things. May we never let those things go. It's always unique to a friend group. Miles, where can people find you with a tweet you've been enjoying oh man you can find me on twitter and instagram at miles of gray also the other podcast for 20 day fiance you know where it's the intersection of weed and 90 day

fiance and just a couple immigrant kids talking shit um tweet i like first one is from past guest amy miller i think this is two days in a row we're calling out some of her tweets, but it's from earlier in the week. Amy tweeted a lady at Target just looked at me, pointed to her full cart and went, I don't need any of this shit. She says, you know,

some days you meet an icon. I just like that someone like those interactions where it's a stranger but they look at you and like, you're my friend now. And I'm going to say this thing. You're like, I don't know, but cool. All right. Sure.

You don't need any of this shit. Okay. This one is from Tawny Newsome at Trondy Newman tweeted quick. Everybody check again to see if you can moonwalk. It's been a minute. Very vital skill. I was the other day I had socks on and I was just tormenting Her Majesty. And I was like, look how smooth I'm hitting it like Jaden.

And she's like, what? And that's just for us, the moonwalkers. Wait, can you moonwalk? Yes, it ain't hard, Jack. What? I'm not hitting. Look, when I say I hit it as smooth as Jaden, I need a little bit of practice. But yeah, I've been as a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s,

that has been a thing I've been hurting myself trying to do on wooden floors since I could walk. I'm not going to lie to you. I'm only okay with you using that as your tweet if you couldn't moonwalk. The fact that you can moonwalk, you know, makes me resent you a little bit. Hey, shout out to Boogaloo Shrimp from Breakin', who is, you know, they actually said the original creator of the moonwalk, not Michael Jackson. Yeah. Yeah. He's a thief.

Like all great artists, he's a thief. There's a great actually documentary about Boogaloo Shrimp on Amazon if you like Break-In and shit. I don't know if you do a very niche thing, but it's really interesting because you realize how much him meeting like Michael Jackson just changed dancing because the b-boys vibe came into the mainstream because of him and he was very like humble just like a very humble guy about it tweet i'm enjoying uh shout out fairbrook again for uh saying nostalgic for when i was nine and liking dolphins was my whole personality because that gave me like 10 hours of entertainment and shout out to all the people who uh got back to me with their weird childhood obsessions. 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 uh as well as a song we think you might want to go check out miles what's what song we uh do another one from dirty art club this time this one's called linked l-e-a-n-t and again it's spooky it sounds like a funky ass haunted mall that you're doing edibles in.

And you're like, wait, what's this track called? That's why I love the whole aesthetic of Dirty Art Club and their work. So check this one out. It's called Laint. All right. We are going to say you should go check that out. The Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for this morning. We're

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