The Daily Zeitgeist - Cop Killer, $125K = BROKE? 8.23.21

Episode Date: August 23, 2021

In episode 974, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Bitchuation Room's Francesca Fiorentini to discuss Mike Richards stepping down from the Jeopardy host position, the US targeting Black Lives Matter activists, cops continuing to due of Covid, Broke Bobby, Tesla's new robot, and more!FOOTNOTES: TDZ LIVE SHOW TICKETS! 'JEOPARDY!' MIKE RICHARDS STEPS DOWN AS HOST ... Aaron Rodgers Still Available??? US targeted Black Lives Matter activists in bid to disrupt movement, report finds Hundreds of Cops Are Dying of COVID. They Still Won’t Get Vaccinated. Broke Bobby If You're Reading This Can You Please Ask Your Friends to Buy You Things TESLA TO BUILD ROBOT DESIGNED TO HAVE ITS ASS KICKED LISTEN: Jonti - Scrood (feat. Steve Lacy) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Soon may the Miles Gray come to bring us cold brew and weed and fun one day when the covid is done he'll go to tuscany yes you're so right i will go to italy once things settle down shout out to paul caraventa for that one i believe you also in the uh zeitgang fantasy league i see you a few points behind me over there paul uh and i think that was the wellerman the sea shanty that everybody was loving oh okay wait what's the zeitgang fantasy league fantasy what that's for the fantasy football mate premier league yeah mate cool so like you get a bunch of points when somebody scores a goal yeah or, or gets a, you know, takes a penalty, saves a penalty, an assist, things like that.

Got it. Is that how fantasy sports work? Each sport is different based on the rules of it. But yeah, this one's pretty straightforward. So yeah, shout out to people who are doing really well in that league. I've got to step my game up. Well, Miles, we are two days

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We will riff on pictures. We'll talk Tom Hanks' pee fetish. We'll quiz a couple of y'all. We will riff on pictures. We'll talk Tom Hanks' pee fetish. We'll quiz a couple of y'all. We will... I'm going to dress like the biggest douchebag from the year 2000 that I can possibly construct using the thrift. Which is me from the year 2000. Yeah. So I have the necklace.

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We'll see you there. It's going to be fun. Support the show. So, hey, grab a ticket. Pull up a chair. We'll see you there. It's going to be fun. But, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat today by a very talented journalist, activist, and stand-up comedian.

She hosted and was the head writer for Newsbroke on Al Jazeera, has hosted specials on MSNBC as a regular contributor to The Young Turks. You can see her and hear her on the very funny and informative must-listen podcast, The Bitchuation Room, and a bunch of upcoming live dates. Please welcome the hilarious and talented Francesca Fiorentini! Thank you so much, Jack. Almost stuck the landing there. Francesca Fiorentini! Hey! Crushed it. Thanks so much for having me. So good to have you.

How have you been? Real good. Real, real good. I will be in Portland on September 2nd, which is a Thursday. I'm going to plug a live event. That's a live live. Like, we can reach out and touch. Yeah, yeah.

Indoor, outdoor? What's the situation out there for the shows out there? It's going to be indoor Vax card checks and masks, but like fallback for a parking lot situation. Oh, like you'll pivot if... Yeah, I'll just jump on top of a dumpster and, you know, just clang around like Stomp. You know, that's pretty much the plan B. Do my rhythmic comedic stylings come through for that? All right, Francesca, we are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things that we are talking about on today's episode. We gave Mike Richards the TDZ dump. We did one story on this full as being the host of Jeopardy and he is already fired thanks to the Daily Zeitgeist episode. Just like Jamie Spears conservatorship. Yeah, exactly. When we had Babs and Tess on. Yeah. Like moments later, we're going to talk about the feds going hard on the Black Lives Matter movement, which is shocking, I think, to everyone. We're going to talk about COVID being the leading cause of death among the police. The ballot of broke Bobby.

We will talk about the Tesla robot. All of that. Plenty more. But first, Francesca, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? I was just looking because I just, I use DuckDuckGo. They're not paying me, but they should. DuckDuckGo is a much better

search engine than Google. Yeah. And you can rely on this like cute little cartoon duck to not, you know, steal all of your information. Nice. So I just this morning,

they have a great app and you can like erase your entire history and like flames go through your phone and just like, and it was amazing oh like you're sending a spider web on fire it's like i've never done that but now i

want to immediately yeah i was an asshole with wd-40 and 14 at one point wow i didn't realize that was a thing whoa you spray a spider web with no no i was flame throwing i was flame throwing with the the wd-40 and then you accidentally caught a spider web and i hit the spider web and then the way the spider web went up i was like oh shit wow yeah and then my mom was like what the fuck did i say about playing with fire i'm like nothing she's like what i'm like nothing okay i'm sorry i'm so scared of you what so doctor like just flame your phone up just make my phone up so i don't really have anything there but i was looking okay so i'm engaged i believe you're having my betrothed on very soon and uh you know matt and

i are i'm gonna get real we're very good friends you know good friends. We're the like, I'm not only marrying someone I love, but my best friend. We're best friends kind of thing. If he threw a party and invited everyone he knew, he would see the biggest gift would be from you, I think. Oh, wow. Probably get that. Did you read that

in a fortune cookie? You read that on a throw pillow or some shit? That's from the uh on a throw pillow or some shit that's from the uh golden girls theme song wow i i take everything i just said back so y'all are best friends and you and you finish each other's sentences you're so in step with each other but but i am like you know i've always thought that it's like yeah but you need more than just being your best friend. So obviously, you know, I'm like Googling, like, should you marry your best friend articles, you know, straight. And, you know, look, the answers are bad.

All the articles I'm reading. I mean, they're good, but they're also bad. But I remember years ago because I've also been divorced, like I am divorced. Years ago, there was a great article from some dude who was clearly, if I met him, I'd hate him. But he was like, um, I asked all of my wedding guests to tell me what the secret to their marriage was, you know? And he like pulled them and blah, blah, blah. And it was, it was actually really interesting. It was like a lot about like mutual respect, like mutual respect is that thing that you really need. And, and then I think like, you know, so that comes obviously from like being friends,

whatever. Anyway, I'm fishing for, I can't find the same article. So I'm fishing for like reinforcement that, that yes, you should marry your best friend type thing. But if enough brides are blubbering about it on their wedding day, then I feel like that's a good sign. Yeah. I feel, yeah. I mean, I think, look, I think the only one, I don't even think it's a red flag. It's just a, it's a gray flag was obviously the faux pas, the flub with the ring selection, you know, but even that feels like you're able to overcome that. So, you know, y'all can do it.

How did the ring go? You know, the new one's on its way. Okay. you're able to overcome that so you know y'all can do it yeah you haven't seen us behind the you know the new one's on its way okay so we did we did remedy that it's being mined by uh white chicks who went to sarah lawrence it had to make its trip all the way from that that uh mine over there and it's a very particular it's a sort of like uh reparations for rocks you know it's it's it's a white slavery line and anyway they're they're working on it and i'm excited for when it arrives so yeah we're gonna remedy that but yeah you know i'm getting i'm doing the like the pre the like engaged jitters of like what are the things what are our what are our problem areas that we're gonna just sort of highlight so like you know if

this is for realsies you know yeah but i feel like y'all if you're together that long and you already have that friendship that's like the hardest shit it's like people who never think about it and then get married to the people who have problems that's true and you both i think have you know understand each other's careers and what you're doing what you're passionate about and you're willing to support each other and that's really what it takes you know versus someone who's going to be like i told you doing all that haha shit wasn't going to pay off and like harbor that kind of shit the whole time yeah that's not going to fucking work you know let me put that in your little stand-up routine yeah yeah i've had exes say that to me. Like I thought if you like wanted to do comedy, like you probably would have done it by now.

Like, Oh, thanks buddy. Yeah, no, I know. Yeah. And it's tough being a creative person and being with someone who's like,

like an accountant, you know, who's like had their path like nailed on from college versus other people who roll in that dice to express themselves a little bit or just any field that might not be as like consistent and be in a relationship with someone someone like that it takes understanding and respect for them be like that's what my partner needs to feel happy and i want to support that because my goal is to have a happy partner i mean we're gonna get into a story that is gonna make me rethink whether or not i should have just married for money later in this episode though so yeah i mean yeah it's like if neither of us makes it in five to

seven years uh we might just murder each other or do some like joint you know murder some yeah yeah yeah at the same time just like natural born killers you guys go on a romantic killing spree yeah yeah yeah very romantic anyway that's TMI up top. Yeah. But you asked. Or just do some comedy sets on a COVID cruise ship or something.

And you're like, fuck it, let's just go out like this. What is something you think is overrated? Okay. The show Ozark or Ozarks.

Oh. I don't even know. Yeah. What's his face? Jason Bateman. Yeah. Who is so hot and like such a dilf and like, I really like him,

but like, there's only so much dead pan. Like, hi, I am a middle-class white man who is just going to run your town. And you're going to trust me because I'm a middle-class white man who talks like this and incredibly self-assured. And I know money and numbers. And now I'm going to just run your entire.

And it's like, that's never going to work. Why would that work? Why would you suddenly be allowed to launder massive amounts of drug money through this town because you speak like that? And it's like, yeah, I voted for Obama and I worked on Obama's campaign. And you just I don't know the whole thing. I'm just like, I'm so intolerant with shows. And as soon as I've given it enough and I'm like, can't suspend disbelief anymore it's an overrated show people love that show and i'm just like it's a knockoff breaking bad and yeah not good that's why i never watched

it but i got through the first three episodes of the first season and it and i'm i'm sort of like the same way not where like i decide that it's over. But the second I lose momentum, that's my subconscious being like, no, we're not fucking with this. Right. Or you're like paying more attention to your phone when you're watching. Right, right, right. Exactly. I'm like, I'm looking at air purifiers when everything's going on. I think I fuck with air purifiers more than I do with Ozark.

The Outsider was cool, though, on HBO. It was kind of wild. I'll try it. That was with Jason Bateman. That's one of those show titles that when you pluralize it, it's funny to me for Ozarks. It's funny. I feel like that's a nice little also slight to it. Ozarks or whatever. Yeah Moms have been just like disrespecting Hollywood for so long. Oh, yeah. Yeah. My dad calls Brad Pitt Brad Pitts famously. And I do love that. What is something you think is underrated?

Okay. So this is a band that is like a psychedelic cumbia band out of Colombia. And they're called Bomba Estereo. And they've been around. Yeah. They've been around. Yeah, they've been around for a while, but it just popped up into my feeds because this guy named Walter Schaub, who's not just a guy, he is the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, which I didn't know was a thing until Trump became president. And he's like tweeting. He's

such a good follow on Twitter because he's like he holds biden accountable for all the same things that he held trump accountable for or like you know whistle blue on on trump he left the administration early days and the guy's just kind of like no bullshit and i appreciate that and he like tweeted out that he loved it was something like i don't know some tweet about like instead of being on this crap platform let's like all listen to bomba studio or i wish i'm trying to work like bomba studio into every tweet and it got like eight retweets the guy has like 700 000 followers nobody knows what he's talking about except me and i and like i was like oh my god shabby we're gonna be let's dance to cumbia it's always funny when someone like there's like a track or something or like someone mentions a band that to you feels like, oh, my God, the fact that you even articulated this thing about the band, like we're going to get along.

I already know. And he's like the video for so yo. Oh, my God. Y'all got it. Don't sleep on that. But that being said, if we ever were in the same place, he was like, it's a deal. It's a date or whatever. Like, okay, but not that much, you know, because I'm like, if we were in the same space, he'd totally try to like, you know, do the like, I'm going to lightly put my hand on this, like on the small of your back.

It's a deal. It's a date. We're dating now. Yeah. Now you're my girlfriend. Look, I Tinder. we're dating now yeah now you're my girlfriend look i tinder are we do you think we're gonna get like sort of a a new wave of psychedelia like in the world of just music and film and just like culture i guess in general now that we're like realizing that psychedelics are like spiritual wonder drugs probably i mean

even if all the wackiest people are realizing that right all the least creative people are more than it being maybe tied to the use of psychedelics i feel like just because everyone's so disillusioned that it'll probably make the art pretty good because people are like quickly like abandoning these other ideals they had and looking for new ones i feel like there's probably more art to be created in that part than just like tech bros being like yo dude i fucking did some poison dart frog fucking venom right in chatsworth last night you're like okay yeah i feel like our generation's like psychedelic art is kind of the anti-art. I mean, it's, like, anti-production where everything is much more meme-y and pixelated.

And, like, you know, it is, it's the Vic Berger stuff of, like, zoom-ins on media. So it's, like, this, like, that feels trippy in and of itself. Yeah, like a bad trip. Our version of, like, like post media media yeah yeah yeah that's a good point that like the the people who are finding out about psychedelics are like the people who used to be into beer commercials like and quote beer commercials as their like sense of humor they're now going to be like creating a psychedelic means psychedelic toxic masculinity no no no that is very much a thing like no like what that aesthetic looks like like what's

what do we call a psychedelic toxic masculinity like well how does that what's that look look like uh just like tripped out sexual assault it's just in baggy linen pants yeah not even yeah maybe there's a whole like web of particularly the austin scene of like wellness fitness and like anti-vaxxers that have created lifestyle brands if you've heard of that guy, Aubrey Marcus, he does, he has a lifestyle brand on it that he just sold for a bunch of money. And he does like retreats where he goes with like to do like treat Trump, traumatize people supposedly. And it's like,

he's all about like free love and psychedelics. And you know, we're a daily beast article away from finding out all the non-consensual crap that went on in there and it's like you know it's just i was getting into it for a story i might pitch or hoping to do and anyway it's uh it's not good people right yeah when you there's a picture of him like touting a kettlebell mace workout like oh like an act like an exercise i have not really seen and he's just like posing like this all shredded up i'm like yeah there's yeah yeah it's going yeah it seems like it's just a the anti-vaxxer

kind of shit is just as big on the left as it is on the right or not quite as big but it's getting there or i mean you know i guess liberal cities where the whole idea where like you can just sort of jettison your connection to reality and be like i'm on this wellness shit and i have a 70,000 dollar crystal bar yeah that i serve drinks off of because i just read about this whole article about how like the the most hype fucking furniture in some cities like there's a place in la that's like these gigantic crystals that they're turning into chairs or like planters and things and like oh my god like it's so great to have this big a piece of amethyst or some shit as like a toilet the plant's gonna definitely die like too much too much uh-uh

all i need is water and sunlight you asshole like what are you doing yeah yeah there's a it's more of a circle i think politically where it's like there's that you know politics is less a spectrum and more that circle and you see that alliance around anti-vax stuff from the left supposedly left wellness community and then the kind of like right word MAGA, like, you know, the guy that made Plandemic is a was a yoga instructor from Ojai. Jesus. You retweeted a video recently that was like a guy in San Diego with blonde dreadlocks who was just losing his mind at a like city council meeting and I was just like if I if you had shown me this five years ago I don't know that I would have had children I might have been like uh this is we it's like as it, wow, that's as bad as I could get. Yeah, yeah.

As bad as you could possibly imagine. And he looks like the most aggressive hippie at the jam band festival, you know, where you're like, no, bro, I don't want to buy your, you know, shitty weed. Oh, you trust that indoor stuff? Oh, fine. No, fine. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, go ahead.

Get popcorn lung. I don't care. I don't care no he's and he keeps on like stalking your campsite and shit you know there's just the whitest grossest dreads and yeah or he also has like a like a gnome from lord of the rings vibe right oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The trolls? Are they trolls? What are they? I'm so sorry. What was Gimli? He's a dwarf, right? He's a dwarf. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a... He's a dwarf warrior. That's what we all know. We know about Gimli. A dwarf warrior. And their use of the Nazi insult is really, he's saying that asking for vaccine cards is equivalent of being a Nazi.

There was a parent at a PTA meeting in Alabama who, after somebody who, a health expert advocated for the wearing of masks, they did a Nazi salute. That's the new meme is wearing masks and getting vaccines is like Nazis, bro. Yep. And the Jews run it all. I mean, wait a minute. No.

Look, I didn't my education was bad. So I don't know what history is. So I just know a lot of talking points or just buzzwords that I string together to get other people to follow along. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be back. I've been thinking about you.

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And yeah, let's talk Mike Richards real quick. We talked on Friday's episode about all the reasons that his being appointed the host of Jeopardy to replace Alex Trebek just didn't make any sense or made a lot of sense when you realized he was in control of everything and was just forcing his way onto being the host in a way that was like embarrassing for like should have been embarrassing when he first raised it, but was just a great testament to the way bad decisions get made in corporate america where like the powerful guy who runs the thing people are just like yeah boss great idea and uh it goes all the

way until he announces hey guys guess what this great idea everybody's on board with i'm gonna be the host oh cool yeah but yeah it seemed like everyone once people found out like you know the Oh, cool. making on his podcast finally got to a point where he was like all right yep all right i guess this is bad now i resign with immediate effect and i will no longer be the host of jeopardy i just want to read his fucking like part of his statement though because it's so whatever quote i was deeply honored to be asked the syndicated show my man you were not into the mirror like yeah right thank you and was thrilled by the opportunity to expand my role however over the last several days it has become clear that moving forward as host would be too much of a distraction for our fans and not the right move for the show how about it's clear now over the last several days that i'm a total piece of shit who doesn't deserve to

rat fuck my way on to jeopardy as the host that much has been clear thank you so much i'm out that's i feel a lot of ways about this you know because one of the hilarious things let's just let's just talk about exactly what he did he like in in terms of the test audience that was supposed to judge which guest host they liked best for Jeopardy, he put himself on all of those. Yeah. So I was like, did you like me in the blue shirt or did you like me in the gray? Right. And then withheld LeVar Burton, the one who everybody wanted for the very end and only gave him a single week.

And yeah, it did not give anybody else a good chance. And yeah, it was, yeah, did not give anybody else a good chance. But it's a little bit revealing as to like how and why people lose these kinds of jobs, because of course there's the like, he's been canceled for his comments. And I got to say, some of his comments are like exactly what I would expect from a game show host executive. Like, oh, you're misogynist towards women. You want the models to wear bikinis. Game show host executive like right oh you're misogynist towards women you want the models to wear bikinis game show host executive right or wrong that's what i expect you know i'm not saying we shouldn't change that culture we should it's just you know we're talking about part of the

course yeah the last vestige of like the the most mainstream the most you know just like benny hill programming that we've got which are game shows Jeopardy excluded very very different yeah but then you realize that and I think it just grossed the way that yeah he did rat fuck his way into power and that seems more egregious to me than the misogyny although of course in terms of the workplace like treating a pregnant woman you know being like I should have fired you obviously that, you know, and I believe there is a lawsuit for that. That's just straight up illegal, whatever. Discrimination.

Exactly. Exactly. Workplace discrimination. But there's something so obnoxious also because I've done I've worked in this area, but on like such a minor, like, you know, Internet level of like as a host host i've been hired as host pretty much all the time host and producer and then you work with a producer who's like secretly really gunning for your job all the time right right you know who's like oh but i think i should host this because you know and you're just like no because that's not your job yeah yeah give those aggressive notes on your delivery it's like excuse you can i give like, excuse you? Can I give you a read?

Can I give you a read real quick? Yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. Don't give me a read. I'll bite your head off personally. But it's so common, you know, and I'm always like, if you want to be a host, that's totally all good. Then you probably shouldn't be the executive producer on this. Just like take a year, whatever, be honest about it.

Say, you know what? I really want to be a host. I'm going to do gonna do this you know and that'd be a more fair way no one's saying a producer can't then be a host i think that's good but it's like there's a more fair way to do that right then just like in spanish like they say they're just like you're like in a movie like cutting the floorboard out from underneath somebody like. Right, right, right. And they'd be like, well, that's weird. It disappeared anyway.

I'm here now to fill that role. Let's move forward. Like, did he give Trebek cancer? Can't we not move that? Right. Wait for that report. Yeah, it is frustrating to me that this is being pitched in the mainstream as like in the mainstream account of this as like getting canceled for a thing he said on podcast and it's like that's the least egregious thing yeah that you could possibly take away from that but you know people people want to believe that

we're in a runaway cancel culture and so yeah that helps with that story thank god he's gone yeah but he's still the executive producer yeah still the ep though still getting that showrunner money though he's all good he's like fine i guess we can get lavar back although i wish they did that and then lavar can be like look at you look at you huh look No, thanks. Anyway, I'm the new host of Jeopardy, LeVar Burton, folks. All right. Let's talk about some reports that are coming in about how the federal government and just law enforcement responded to the Black Lives Matter protests last year and protests about over-policing. Black Lives Matter protests last year and protests about over-policing. It seems like they weren't overly permissive, I guess would be one way. I mean, yeah, this report really, it's not shocking when you just know, again, when the people, the reason people were in the streets are like, yeah, we have a system of law enforcement that's just built on, you know, just racism and white supremacy.

And so because of that, it has no other option but know, just racism and white supremacy. And so because of that, it has no other option but to operate in service of white supremacy. So this report is sort of like, shockingly, during the uprisings over the white supremacist slant and focus of law enforcement, we saw that come to light, essentially. And this is a report that was shared with first the Associated Press with the Movement for Black Lives. And it's just saying like, hey, look, as the as the uprisings grew larger and public participation grew larger, so did the policing and the feds showed up in increased numbers and began handing out heavy handed prosecutions to disrupt. And, you know, and also they were surveilling certain members of like certain activists and things like that. And they're like, yeah, it's very co-intel pro-y, if you know what I mean. And in this, like, as this group shows, what they're saying is like, look, we also found that in about 93% of the cases that were brought by federal prosecutors

against protesters, there were state level charges that would have been completely appropriate and less severe. But they're juxtaposing that also with knowing that there were just top down orders from Trump and Bill Barr to go fucking after people in a much different way, as opposed to, you know, juxtapose that with the covid shutdown protests where, you know, you saw some white people bringing fucking guns to state houses and shit was all good. And so in this sort of body of the report, they say, well, we want to really show how the U.S. government has continued to persecute the black movement by surveillance, by criminalizing protests and by using the criminal legal system to prevent people from protesting and punishing them for being engaged in protests by attempting to curtail their first amendment rights. It is undeniable that racism plays a role. It is structurally built into the fabric of this country and its institutions, which is why it's been so difficult to eradicate. It's based on institutions that were designed around racism

and around the devaluing of black people and the devaluing of black lives. So now they're calling for amnesty for these protesters, as well as like, you know, to get behind policing bills that are actually going to take funding from police and actually put them into communities, especially black communities to make them safer. So, yeah, it's like not surprising. But when you again, you look through and you're like, oh, right. Yeah, they had orders to go harder on these protesters. And that completely makes sense. Yeah. No, of course.

And I'm just happy that the movement for black lives did this research and also that it got picked up by news outlets because that can often fly under the radar. They're like, no, no, that's not real stats. It's like, no, no, no. These are grassroots organizations that actually have more connections with people facing these charges. And yeah, that's why January 6th, you know, hit different. You know what I'm saying? Yes, everybody was like, huh? In the wake of all this, not just that we were seeing, yeah, like you're mentioning the anti-lockdown protests juxtaposed with BLM protests and the vastly different police turnout. Then you had January 6th and you're like, like yeah anyone who ever talks about blm ever again

i mean that was blm though on january 6th yeah that was those were black people in white face looking like old boomers beating the shit out of people with crutches it's like and again the amount of brain twisting that goes on even when when you can just look, compare the two. You know, it's like let's pepper ball people who are been run into and over by cars. So, you know, who the police is protecting, what kind of speech they're protecting in moments like that is really significant, whether they're protecting people's right to exercise their First Amendment or are they allowing cars to plow into peaceful demonstrators? Yeah. The other thing I was just going to say, and we sort of forget this,

but we're coming up on 10 years since the Occupy Wall Street movement. And it's hard to remember how that movement like stopped. And it did stop because of a whole lot of COINTELPRO and police violence. It was because it was very much an Occupy, we're going to sit down, like not as much of a march movement, like obviously not nearly as many, you know, black activists involved. The tactics were different, but there was massive amounts of undercovers who were filtering, infiltrating the Occupy Wall Street movement to take it down from the inside. Also, then like just cordoning off Fort Plazas, city halls, anywhere where Occupy Wall Street was occupying was fence put up. It was like, you know, they were trying to evict a homeless encampment

or something like this. So kind of remembering all the ways that no matter when social movements really pop off, left, right, Democrat, Republican, the first order of business is stop them. Just stop them. And obviously, sadly, we don't take that, you know, white nationalists or anyone who's fully armed with an AR-15 who's got a plot to like, you know, kidnap the governor. We don't take them nearly as seriously. Yeah, right. The white nationalists blew up a state building in Oklahoma City and we didn't go to war on white nationalism for 20 years the way we did after September 11th. It was just a thing that people kind of we got we got the guy and we moved forward and it was just a lone lone wolf. We're happier with lone wolves.

You sell more bombs if the field of battle is in another place, in a far-off country, so there's more money to be made. I mean, they could drop bombs in the U.S., but that only happened in Philadelphia in 1985 when they dropped it on black activists because of the move. Anyway, but again, history is really something.

And there's no, there's, you know, we keep repeating the same shit over and over and over. And that's what's so frustrating. And I think that's why a lot of marginalized people, people who are allies and shit just feel so disheartened constantly. You see all the shit that happens. You can't even we can barely have a reckoning with American imperialism and looking at the after effects in Afghanistan. And people are like, oh, well, you know, I could have been done better, I guess.

It's like, no, go all the way back saying we have to stop this pattern of sending the military abroad to occupy places and in the name of, you know, liberal democracy or whatever the cover is. But yeah, yeah, we still can't. It's just very difficult to have these reckonings here. I feel like there are multiple cases of people driving into Black Lives Matter protests that and it just kind of went away. Like, I remember watching one that was like broad daylight down and it was like somewhere in Orange County or Newport Beach. And somebody drove through, like came within inches of hitting like a three-year-old child who was there.

And it just kind of went away. It was like a local news story that they then were like, yeah, well, we got to give this person the benefit of the doubt. And it wasn't like a big, it didn't become a thing. Straight ISIS tactics. Yeah. And the other thing, too, is when you talk about places like Texas or Florida where they're like, yeah, it's legal to run over someone if they're in the road protesting or it's illegal to be in the road protesting. So if that's the case, then you can defend yourself with your car. But a lot of people noticed when a lot of the protests were happening with Cubans in Florida over what was happening down in Cuba, they completely stopped a roadway and the police were like, well, you know, we're mostly we're mostly worried about black people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Black protests or left leaning protests, really, that that's when the big guns come out. Like there was that pipeline

protest that I know some people who were at in I forget what year it was it was like maybe five six years ago and go to access yeah the dakota access pipeline and like the like they were they were like just deading all cell phones like hacking into people's cell phones there like on the ground it was just like next level like data and you know technological warfare for people protesting against a like gas pipeline, gas pipeline. Yeah, it's really it's really sad because you you realize you don't realize how few freedoms we have actually in the United States until you try and exercise them. Right. So I've protested in other countries and felt far freer than I have in the United States. I've been arrested on a sidewalk protesting in the United States, you know, just like penned in, done.

The order is you off the streets, you know, and like feeling that in that moment. And I was like, you know, I was like, I've been arrested before. I wanted to be arrested the first time for this was against the Iraq war. But the second time I wasn't meaning to. And it like kind of like stung a little more because I was like, man, right. You just realize that actually when you do stick your neck out, when you do actually do some, some real organizing and work, there is, it will be swift. Uh, the amount that, you know, that yeah, your first amendment rights do not matter at all, you're going to be arrested and purely on ideological grounds.

Purely. Yeah, yeah. And, yeah, anyway, it's, what's sad is that that happened a year, I mean, BLM popped off a year ago. I mean, many years ago, but in a mass movement way last year. And this year we've got all these politicians now going like, nobody wants to defund the police. Cory Booker making his sort of epic, like ironic stand. And you're like, yeah, but maybe we should. Yeah, but maybe the lesson from not just what the protests were about,

but the response to the protests themselves is all the example you need, is all the evidence you need that we really do need to redirect funds away from cops. Yeah. And then because it's all built on this framework of white supremacist, like, you know, capitalism, it's the only people who have freedoms are those that are going to exercise their rights in service of that. So if you run over a protester because you are there to actually cape for white supremacist capitalism, then you're all good. Then it's like, well, you know, I had a rough day. You know, oh, you know, just you stormed the Capitol. Here's a slate. There's a slap on the wrist.

And again, I brought up how there's, you know, the judges were like, why are y'all going so soft on these people? Yeah. Like they fucking straight up pulled up to the. OK, I don't, the judges were like, why are y'all going so soft on these people? Yeah. Like they fucking straight up pulled up to the. OK, I don't know what the fuck's going on with y'all. But as a judge, I think this is fucking weak. Yeah. I mean, the selfie, like I was just thinking about the guy taking the picture with the guy in the in the Capitol on January 6th versus the person taking a video from their porch during the protest.

Probably like, go inside! And they said, go inside, and then shot at them with rubber bullets. So, yeah. Which reminded me, that was like, it's funny, because the last time I saw that was in East Jerusalem. Like, reminded me of Palestinians, too. You know, like, in their own homes, being shot at, go back inside, being shot at with rubber bullets,

like from the police. I don't know. Our struggles are linked, y'all. No, absolutely. And we even talk about how that in the same way, the same tools are being deployed against the protesters that they refine in Palestine and then bring to the U.S. because they're like, oh, yeah, it's been field tested on Palestinians. So go ahead, police departments, check these toys that we know we've cooked up for you. Yeah. Speaking of the police, COVID is now the leading cause of death among the police, which is kind of a shocking statistic.

It's more than any other cause combined right now. It's all COVID. More than heart disease? Yeah, more than heart disease. all more than heart disease yeah more than heart disease yeah and it's not because you know it's not because thugs are putting covid in the fentanyl right throwing it in the air and then that's how they're getting it right it's because most of these assholes are too rigid and they're thinking and or support of trump and this whole other culture that they won't get the shot it's funny this uh atlanta police chief rodney bry, quote, in the profession as a whole, you generally find a lot of skepticism inside law enforcement. Police officers just

overly cautious about things they don't understand. Yikes. They don't move quickly into place without a lot of detail and a lot of information. The apprehension is shared throughout the profession. I mean, that's a really nice way to put it. Oh, my God. Police are apprehensive about this one thing. Yeah. When it comes to gunning down an unarmed black person. Oh, my God. Police are apprehensive about this one thing. Yeah. When it comes to gunning down an unarmed black person. Oh, it's super easy. Yeah. Well, I'm apprehensive about extending humanity to that person.

Right. That's what I'm apprehensive about. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're quick decision makers in every other instance, provided they've got a gun. Well, they're acting out of fear. It seems like the whole like every decision that I feel like I see police making there, they're acting out of fear, whether it be, you know, shooting an unarmed black man or not getting a vaccine, an alley on your arm.

A lot of police departments are under vaccinated. There are some places like Atlanta actually has a pretty decent vaccination rate for their police department. But places like New York, right. NYPD, 47% vaccinated. New York residents, 75% vaccinated. LAPD, 52% vaccinated. LA residents, 72% vaccinated. Chicago police, 27% vaccinated. Chicago residents, 70%. And you get it. These people are out there every day interacting with the public. Of course, they're going to encounter COVID. And we see it in LA all the time. We're like, yo, these cops don't wear fucking masks. All of them are like, oh, they're all on some weird fucking pandemic shit.

But a lot of the observers have noted that it's this combination of, again, this like petulance from them, the police just taking L after public L last year and being like, nobody fucks with us. They think we're all bastards and shit because like there's a preponderance of evidence that suggests we're fucking monsters that plus they see that the boot licker set is all on this anti-vax anti-mask shit so they're just

they're what they see is like oh well we're just gonna align with our people too there's like this alignment happening with like well the people that lick the boot and come out raw, raw Blue Lives Matter shit, they're also vaccine hesitant or anti-maskers. So they're just kind of, you know, meshing with that same kind of culture. And yeah, it's, you see the outcomes. Police always trying to find new creative ways to kill people.

And it's, that's what's so incredible about it. But I will say that one interesting thing is you wonder like, all right, well, why don't, you know, why isn't it required that police get vaccinated? And I think we sort of hit it, right? Which is that a lot of them come from a far right MAGA ilk. And guess what? Police departments are having a hard time recruiting in the year 2020 and 2021. Like it's difficult. So if they mandated a vaccine, they might lose officers. Yeah. Right. Maybe that's the quickest way to start a deal. It's just refunding. Re-vamping shit, yeah. That's kind of a great idea. Vaccinate the police. Vaccinate the police.

Vaccinate the police. And then they're like, I'm off this shit. Oh my God. Maybe get someone with empathy who has an idea that they have some duty to other people to get vaccinated.

That's not me because I'm a cop. Yeah, so it's, yeah, it's a frightening moment. And I'm sure, look at most of your police departments. You'll you'll see that many are unmasked and like have a very flippant attitude towards everything as well. Yeah. All right. Let's take another quick break and we'll come back and talk about broke Bobby.

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uh because his tiktok video blew up because this young baller landlord named tom cruz like c-r-u-z okay that's your name went viral for being you know just you know just giving us a really clear look into the mindset of someone that's a fucking landlord and just like all focused on like sick ass passive income bro because that's like sort of the tone of these posts but he in the clip he goes over his like forbes friends list and it's a spreadsheet that has all kinds of shit about his friend group like where they're ranked by their income the days they have off and things like that and i'm going to play you a clip clip so you can hear how this guy sort of like his mindset because he's he's presenting this spreadsheet is like, it's actually a really good way to get everything organized. Like if you want to go on a big vacation. Yeah. And let's just check out all you guys. Yeah, yeah. You know,

it's just like you're just cutting out a lot of like clutter and like redundant steps. So a few years ago, me and my friends started making a spreadsheet breaking down our incomes and availability for travel. And it looks like this. This is incredibly helpful. If you have your friends broken down here, from Sean, my top earning friend who makes over $5 million to who we call Broke Bobby who makes 125,000.

How much available PTO we have or pay time off bonuses. How much we're willing to spend on a three-day trip seven-day trip we have some people that are very responsible with their seven-day trips some people that already tapped out for the year marital status helps if we know there's going to be anyone else coming our willingness to travel to a third world destination if they're willing to split a private flight and if they're degenerate gamblers or not. Okay. And their dick sizes is the last one. Micro, micro, micro, micro, micro average.

Yeah. This whole thing, right? The top earner in this sheet is making $5 million. Yeah. And then, like, it's just the whole thing. They're saying, just to give you an idea of what this friend group is talking about, they said willingness on what they're willing to spend on a three-day trip. The most is $ 80,000. Broke Bobby is willing to pay 10 grand for a three day trip. Wow. A seven day trip. One guy's like, yeah, I'll do like 175 K if we're

going to be gone for fucking seven days. Broke Bobby goes a little bit less for seven days. It's just like, how much does broke Bobbyby make this is what we have to talk about broke bobby makes okay so five million is like as he said in the beginning video his top earner friend five million broke bobby's ass broke fucking bobby's making 125 000 a year plus bonuses six figures what the fuck are we talking about that puts you in the if you make 125k you that puts you in the top 10 of earners yeah so this is not you're not broke okay especially when the median income's under 40 000 yeah you're tripling what the average person is making in this country and i to me i'm like look the outrage was very clear like with this whole you know like especially the willingness

to go to a third world country trust me those places are way more fun to go to than these developed fucking places i give you that they don't want you anyway it's yeah and plus and plus they're going to be staring at your ass because you're wearing you're you're going to look like a fucking mark dressed all fancy in these places and it will get your ass anyway the whole thing with this this whole thing is like it more so gives you a glimpse into the mindset of people that are essentially the decision makers in many workplaces yeah and it shows you a complete disconnect from what broke is and organizing friends and like and they also organize their friends in order of their assets right and you're still like oh right okay this this makes sense

your worldview is sort of built around like yo how much you make oh 120 oh my god all right you schlub sorry i don't even know what that means like i don't know anyone who makes less than that just to give you an idea of the insulation of my friend group and i don't know it's no surprise you see rents going up as well because landlords are looking to evict people trying to make some more money recoup some losses from the pandemic and then you also have like an influx of wealthier people from cities trying to find more affordable housing. So they're putting the squeeze on tenants and other, you know, formally affordable areas. And you're like, right, this is this is that that 10 to 10 to 1 percenter sort of vibe that people have. And it's like it's so tone deaf.

They're the most likely to complain about taxes, spend money so they don't have to pay taxes. It was also interesting that the top earners were also the ones who had unlimited time off. Right. Yeah. Because so you just don't need to work once you get to a certain level of wealth, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. I yeah.

I mean, a couple things one is i've just got turned on to meaning i was told about the amount of life hack real estate douches that are on the internet generally one of them is trying to become the new governor of fucking california uh another one is like this guy and there's a lot of real estate life hacks people and they're just like okay so all you gotta do is like find like a really poor latino family who like can't really pay their rent and like you see the outside of their house is like chip and paint then you go rat on them to like building code inspectors and then you sell their place to a realtor and then you flip that and then you're making five thousand

dollars and you're just like and that's in one day. And that's amazing. And I do three a day, 15 K a day. This is straight. And so even though many of us and like, you know, the outrage is clear. I think more people look at someone like this guy and are like, hell yeah, that's what I want to do. That's where I want to be. Baller shit, dog. Baller shit. And then the other thing I was getting, okay, obviously nobody needs a whole goddamn spreadsheet about how much you make in a year to find out how much you're willing to spend on a vacation. You could just have one column. How much do you want to spend on a vacation?

Fine. fine. But the other thing is, oh, this is so I've been on this trip ever since the ProPublica article came out that showed just how much billionaires are paying and how much like very wealthy but not billionaire people are paying. And it's insane to me that people who make like $500,000 a year who are paying their fair share of taxes feel so much more allied with Bezos and Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and like fucking rich ass Sean with $5 million than they do with supposedly broke Bobby because they're actually paying their taxes. And instead of being like, yeah, no, we need to create a fair tax structure so that billionaires are actually, you know, contributing to the society that we all live in. They're like, no, I'm fucking fuck broke Bobby. We're just going to go. I'm about to be Elon. No, you're not. Not even Sean's going to be Elon next year or in five years or in his whole goddamn lifetime. So like,

that's the other thing that like people with a very comfortable amount of wealth do not understand where they are actually in relation. That they're more they have more in common with their Uber Eats delivery person than they do with these billionaires. Right. Well, you know, at least they're willing to split a P-Jet, you know, when they go to Cosmo. Dude, it's fucking sick. Willing. Yeah. And this is the same.

It's the same. It's the same class of people that become politicians, too. You know, it's the same hyper wealthy or, you know, I guess top 10, you know, top 5% type people. Because you think about the number of millionaires that are in Congress who equally are looking at. They think 125 is a broke ass or just being like, I don't know what some i don't know what a single parent on food stamps needs because i don't fucking know what anything's worth 125 is what i drop on a trip to a third world country bro right no for real exactly i mean like that one dude sean's like bro bobby i just spent your fucking salary on coke when we went down to fucking bogota bruh Salary on coke when we went down to fucking Bogota, bruh. Shit was lit.

The gambling is also interesting because rather than pay taxes, they pay money to feel alive in these brief bursts of gambling and shitloads of money. But that's the only thing that can like make them feel alive anymore. Yeah. Like the fact that that would be one of the things on there is wild. It is also just like not willing to go to a third world country. Like I pay to be insulated from poverty. I don't want to look at it. I don't want it to touch me.

That's why I go to whack ass resorts if I even go to somewhere like Colombia or the Caribbean or anywhere. Dude, we got this like former plantation. Like that's like this sick ass mansion, dude. And it's like fucking sick. There's like a perimeter gate and shit. So like no one's going to fuck with us. There's armed guards, yo. Yeah.

Dude, and like the cook there makes these like bomb ass things. They're called like pupusas or something. I don't know, dude. Shit's fucking bomb like oh please would you only eat at lunch when i went to el salvador i was like can i have a pupusa for dinner and they were like no the fuck's wrong with you and i was like what it's a nevermind nevermind nevermind nevermind i mean i i know how to travel i have hell yeah that was like testing you it's like we're ordering pancakes at a steakhouse. You're like, huh? But why? All right.

Did you guys see the computer? Or the computer? I saw a computer. Did you guys see the computer? Did you see the robot that Elon Musk introduced? You mean the asshole in the costume? Yeah. So he dressed somebody up in a costume. Yeah. So he dressed somebody up in a costume, but he also announced that he is planning on designing a robot that will basically take over manual labor, help you with groceries. But it was really weird because he emphasized like how easy it would be to beat up. Like that was his pitch he was he in his pitch he said it is a mechanical and physical level that you can run away from and likely overpower it so he's like so he's like immediately

i don't know if that's kind of genius like he just realizes the thing people are afraid of is that they won't be able to beat up a robot or like it's like when you walk in on it fucking your wife which is part of it obviously you can throw him off and like yeah that's the fantasy he's fucking your wife then you pull him off and then you beat him up and then you guys start having sex. Have I built this up too much? It's weird, right? Okay, I'll back up. Kind of cool. He's just such a fucking lame, bro. All he does is pump fake with these ideas.

Right. You know what I mean? Like, remember, where's the fucking Cybertruck? He said 2021, man, this motherfucker out here still haven't seen the shit. He said 2021? Yes. And he's like, check out this window bulletproof the shit fucking broke like he's he had this is like sort of in line with like a lot of things he likes to say like some shit like what happened to the fucking the what's that

fucking like hyper loop that tunnel and shit that everything was supposed to move through that he said it was gonna get done quick as so he has a history of this kind of nonsense i'm like yeah i'll believe when i see it, bro. Yeah, all right, cool, cool, cool. I feel like his imagination has stalled out in the 80s because based on the pickup truck that was like out of RoboCop and then this is clearly based on like

his thinking on robots stopped at Terminator and he's just like, I don't want a Terminator. I want one that I can beat up. Right. Yeah. I do want the robot from the Jetsons what's her name Rosie Rosie sorry I Rosie would be cool like just a robot there's nothing cuter than a robot in an apron right you know and I say that with like it's's not gendered. It's not anything. It's just cute. And I would like that. Oh, yeah. You can get your XB500, you know, housekeeper bot from Elon Musk soon. There's got to be those like like Roombas, but like that are like kind of cutesy. And I want like a Roomba that looks like a Pikachu in a, in a little apron.

Yeah. Is that too much to ask? No, not at all. Maybe for Elon Musk, the guy, cause you know, the other thing is a lot of these stunts just feels like it's, it's just to get, it's just to keep the name out there. Like the flamethrower shit too, was just like something that again was, oh shit, get the flamethrower. What the fuck was it for?

Yeah. You know what I mean? was just like something that again was oh shit get the flamethrower what the fuck was it for yeah you know i mean like it's just it's sort of his kind of how he navigates like the internet world is just to like try and become a fucking meme sometimes and yeah i feel like he has a fall into place all his decisions are made by a focus group of like five reddit moderators or something and that's just like how he's created his career that's very true i mean but i guess the overpowering thing maybe is something because most of our reactions like we see those boston dynamics robots yeah fuck those oh fuck that this motherfucker doing parkour and doing a flip off of a fucking like three stair no when you see that frightens you don't they look way too light on their feet like maybe that's just me being an idiot but i feel like you could just like pull a rug out from underneath

and maybe like you know or like put a banana peel and like oh like it just they go down the ones where they try to kick it over and it like can't be kicked over it just like finds its balance stabilized yeah oh that's I don't like that. I figure, look, there's be easy ways. Like, you just get a bunch of fucking rare earth magnets and shit and just, like, dump them on them. Like, got your ass. Let's go.

Yeah. Time to steal all the meat from Targi, y'all. We will see RoboCop in our lifetimes, right? We just got done doing a whole segment on, you know, BLM, cops, cops getting COVID covid you know it doesn't get robot for sure yeah for sure you because you know that we've already like ring has introduced a fucking indoor drone surveillance drone for your house yes yes this motherfucker will pop up out of its base station and like fly around your house and just kind of check out the interior of your home. You are masturbating. Yeah.

We told you to get your shit weeks ago. The fuck are you doing here? And I think the next iteration will be like perimeter security drones for like large properties. And then we'll begin to weaponize them more so than we do for military purposes. Like they'll be like, don't want it. It just has a light taser on it. Right. And then, there we go. We're full-blown into these other motherfuckers. It's like, and this one has

a fucking.50 cal attached to the fucking bottom of it. I do also kind of want, in addition to the Pikachu Roomba, I want, like, two, like, life-size McCloskeys for my yard, you know? Oh, just to fucking take a dump on? No, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Take a dump on. Or, I mean, they'd have to be ridiculous-looking to know that it was a joke. But, you know oh it's just a fucking take a dump on no yeah yeah exactly take a dump on or

i mean they'd have to be ridiculous looking to know that it was a joke but you know like you know like garden yetis that they used to sell on sky mall right but like that put the mccloskeys with their guns you know like right for halloween that would actually be one of the tight mccloskeys sorry i thought it was a household thing yeah sorry hamburglar and uh you know pink salmon yeah it's it's that there's almost no way that bezos isn't like creating a robot army an armed robot army behind the scenes like yeah like liberators jack yeah okay yeah exactly like this almost feels like a misdirect like he's like yeah it's it's weird how much he emphasized that you can overpower it like huh i mean that wasn't really what we were thinking about glitch i'm not saying that sometimes it hasn't choked

out a few employees but like should that happen right yeah he's like i'm not creating an army of robots that can overpower you and catch you easily with amazing foot speed so like don't even think that i'm just creating easy to overpower robots and if they ever started fucking around and acting wild all you have to do is to get inside of a Faraday cage and set off an EMP in close proximity, and they would easily be disabled. Okay? I know what you're thinking, guys.

All right, look, I know this is going. Francesca, it's been such a pleasure, as always, having you on the Daily Zeitgeist Oh my god, over so soon I know, where can people find you and follow you? Oh yeah, follow me on all the platforms

at FrannyFio F-R-A-N-I-F-I-O follow me on YouTube my show The Bituation Room streams every Sunday 5-8 Eastern Thank you guys so much for having me. Yeah. Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying?

Juan Cafecito tweeted a GIF of someone dressed up like Patrick from Spongebob, but in crazy heels. Ooh. Patrick from SpongeBob, but in crazy heels. Walking and writing Lil Nas on his way to upstage the Donda album with Industry Baby. I like Lil Nas or Lil Nas X. And it's just the fun. I can't. You need to look it up. I don't know why.

I don't know why. It's more of a visual thing. I guess I should have picked something that wasn't visual. But Patrick from SpongeBob in stripper heels is the best. Is this like, it's like someone like on a concrete path around some grass. Is that the image? Uh-huh. Like in some fucking, what are they?

They look like 14 inchers. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. They're like me in all heels. Just like that. Miles, where can people find you? What's the tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter, Instagram at miles of gray. Also, if you like 90 day fiance, check out for 20 day

fiance with Sophie, Alexandra and I. It's a good old time. Some tweets that I like. First one is from Dr. Jeanne Robert at J-E-N-A-Y-R-O-B-E-R-T tweeted. I just found out some people didn't have their work email on their phone, which sometimes you're like, what is your secret to that kind of boundary setting? And then another one is from at Internet Anya and J.A, tweeting, love when the washing machine gets to the angry part. Let it out, girl. You know. Especially when you get a new washing machine. You're like, what the fuck is that? Uh-oh, where's that part? Yeah, the smash zone.

Let it out, girl. Let it out. Just clomping. Scoot, scoot, scoot, scoot. Let it out. Let it out. Just clomping. Scoot, scoot, scoot, scoot. Motherfucker. I know. I know. I know.

I know. I know. Oh, that's amazing. Let's see. A couple tweets I've been enjoying. Hello, Cullen tweeted, Blake Shelton, your name has lake and shell in it. A turtle ass name. I agree.

He should be a turtle and oh somebody somebody tweeted uh you were offered 10 million dollars but you can never drink alcohol again can you do it and which i i wish that deal existed yeah but then uh alexander fleming tweeted 10 million dollars a lot of cocaine uh 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 a place that you can buy a ticket to the live show. As well as a song that we think you might enjoy.

Miles, what song do we think people should be enjoying? called Screwed, S-C-R-O-O-D, and it's by Jante, who is a stone's throw artist from South Africa, I believe, but this track is just like very cool, vintage, psych-poppy internet vibes to it, and it sounds really dope.

It's just like one of those artists where you're like, yeah, you know what? This feels right, and it feels familiar, and it's, you know, if you like things like, you know, people like Bad Bad Not Good,

he's collaborated with them. If you like Mark Ronson Productions, he's worked with Mark Ronson. So it's in that vein. So it's got the energy to it. So this is Jaunty, J-O-N-T-I with Screw. You know what's weird about the last name Ronson is I never... So that means ron's son which i never picture people like back in the era of like when we were still creating last names being named ron doesn't ron seem like a weird

name for like somebody in like the middle ages to have all right anyways just a thought i mean i like that it's just from that one history lesson that we have where it's like, yeah, your name is Smeddle because you are blacksmiths or whatever or whatever, goldsmith. Yeah. But it's funny because I'm like, I don't know if it's that one-to-one or it's like, if it's sun, that means it's sun or run. When I look right now, it says it's a Norman origin from the old French word, hansun, meaning workhorse. All right. Shit. Yeah. and that means the son of ron when i look right now it says it's a norman origin from the old french word meaning workforce all right shit yeah i i don't get to imagine somebody in deep history being named ron i just like the idea like the battle the height of the battle of hastings with

the vikings in like england and they're like here comes ron therible. Ron the Terrible is great. Oh, you were there at the Battle of Stamford Bridge with Harold Hadradi and Ron. Exactly. Ron the Terrible is the name of this episode. Yes. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning.

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