The Daily Zeitgeist - Corporate Centrism Unpopular? Harry And Meghan VS THE FIRM 3.5.21

Episode Date: March 5, 2021

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 174, Episode 5 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Friday, March 5th, 2021. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jack OB. Yeah, that's me. Talking news. Daily Z. Miles of Grey, Dan and Anna, and then me, Jack OB.

Courtesy of official dickhead that was supposed to be Mountain or Country Road. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Grey! Bots are on StockX tonight. Everybody hold your wallet tight. They gonna make you lose your bite. Everybody get sneakers but Miles. Bots are on StockX tonight. Everybody hope they speculated right.

We're gonna see values go up like heights. They don't want to see you get there. Every day they're hustling. Okay, shout out to Johnny Davis for that just wonderful LMFAO party rock

stock, party stock anthem. And shout out to other people on twitter i see resellers are stuck fucking up everyone's games i know i know what do we do i think it should be the official position of the show just go uh fake go with the fakes yeah go with face no replicas bro you know right, you know what? Oh, I can't get those on sneakers? Watch me go on Reddit to the rep fam. You know what I mean?

And now I'm not paying through the whatever for my sneakers. Through the dick hole. Yeah. Yeah, exactly, as my dad still says. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the greats, the hilarious, the talented Brandi Posey. Oh, yeah. Brandi, I'm a fine girl. What a good wife I would be, but I don't want to get married. Thank you. Hey, what a good partner. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. I think so.

I could hear the hamsters, the Kia hamsters popping up behind you. Oh, man. Do you think? I have a friend who, I don't know if my boy Daniel still has the Kia Soul, but we all colloquially refer that to as hamster car. Oh, yeah. And I know people who then, when it became hamster car sold it because they didn't want to be in what was known colloquially known as hamster car yeah i think

that campaign for as popular as it was i think it ended up hurting the car more than helping it at all yeah or people who just didn't see commercials and purely just like as like a objective like i need a car with these things at this price it It's that great. But anyone who got bit by the marketing, they're like, no, I can't pull up in the hamster car. Well, because also they had the giant cardboard cutouts of the hamsters and stuff at all the dealerships. Oh, that's right. That was like a big

indoor mall thing for about a year. It was just like a giant hamster and sunglasses. Oh, really? Yeah, they were all over the place. That's like that's like indoor mall indoor mall is fuck you know what i mean yeah bring back the kia hamsters yeah where are they during quarantine are they taking care of themselves where's their abc multi-cam sitcom it's coming geico cavemen got was that mbc or abc but oh shit the hamsters better have their

fucking show oh it's coming for sure. And as we've talked about, they were trying to replicate the Ernest boom. Ernest started as a commercial. Right. You can't touch Ernest, though. I mean, Jim Varney was like a talent unrivaled by any other. Yeah, I think it needs to

start with a local ad. I think it needs to be like the cinematic universe of the damn son where'd you find those guy maybe we could yeah i think right now the local one is the person uh where the money reside where the money reside where the money reside that that's probably the closest thing i've seen to like viral car sales people right now all right brandy we are 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 uh we're gonna get

a little speculative uh speculate about the french presidential election that's happening next year uh that might be a preview of the 2024 election in the u.s if uh the democrats don't get their shit in order uh we're going to talk about a police reform bill that got uh an accidental republican vote uh some of the one sixers uh are entering the find out stage of the uh of the process of fucking around and finding it. The fucking around experiment, yes. And of course, the world is abuzz over the upcoming Megan and Harry Oprah interview.

And as we know, Harry is Miles' birthday brother. So we're going to talk about that. So this is about me. More or less. That's how I'm treated.

In the end. I'd rather watch you talk to Oprah than either of them them but we'll get to oh yeah me too uh oprah we're gonna talk about uh so there's this anecdote that keeps getting brought up that uh workers in denmark make 22 an hour uh we're gonna talk about just that anecdote how that came to be whether it actually makes big macs more expensive uh it does not uh yeah yeah spoiler uh and we will talk about how america's terminal individualism uh fucked up philly's vaccine rollout all of that plenty more uh but first brandy we like to ask our guest what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are well uh the other

night the last thing that i really really searched was i was looking for do either of you guys watch forged in fire no but i know what it is which one is that the knife competition show on history channel yeah i've seen it i've seen a couple episodes, but no, I'm not avid. Big, big, big fan of it. And my favorite episode is with the third episode of the show ever. It's the Viking Battle Acts episode with my dude named Ryu Lin. Ryu is the best Forged in Fire competitor of all time. And I've been forcing my roommate, my boyfriend, to watch Forged in Fire because it's the perfect background TV show.

because it's the perfect background TV show. Because it's like, I only like reality shows that are people at the top of their game being kind and respectful of each other's craft. Right, right, right. So you basically have two options? Yeah, I watch Bake Off, I watch Great Pottery Throwdown,

and I watch Forged in Fire. Also, if you have not watched the Great Pottery Throwdown on HBO, highly recommend it. One of the judges loves pottery so much that he cries at a pot in every episode. Do you watch Repair Shop? Which one's Repair Shop? That's the one where people fix the stuff.

And yeah, I figured that's another one. Experts being like, yes, and oh, great work on this leather restoration. I just want to see you be good at the thing that you put your time and your money into doing. That's what I love. I love Forged in Fire. Anyway, they love the ryu episode i highly recommend to everybody he's a little he's a little weirdo he um built like a forge in his backyard with a satellite dish and the cop the like fire department got called on him but he still did really great in his episode so how does the satellite dish is that just because it has a shape that makes it

his forge was too small to make the Viking battle axe, so he cut his satellite dish to make it bigger so he could actually be forging it on the inside. It's a hell of a thing. I recommend. Okay. I like the just ingenuity, too, of like, fuck it, I need a bigger forge.

All right, get the satellite dish. Right, just looking around. Right off the house. It's funny that you say you like a show where experts are at the top of their game, bigging up each other in a kind way, which is funny because I'm at the other end of the spectrum, which is I like to watch experts scream at idiots. And that's my fit.

Like Bar Rescue. Woo boy. That early Bar Rescue. Like that's a genre. But all that to say i also find the they're different you know different sides of the coin but yes i just like a competent person i like bar rescue too because like it is like a competent person coming being like i want you to succeed and this is how to do it right but also you're an idiot and let's let's take a second to realize

racism isn't a good policy at your bar yes often often that's why the yelling happens and it is great to see have you ever like caught yourself in a bar rescue bar and been like wait is this bar been rescued i yes i have um but i also went because it was like one of the like a local bar i'm like yo we gotta we gotta see what happened after taffer came through it it was okay you know yeah they're not they don't they don't do a very good job. It is a reality TV show budget. Yeah, exactly. And also shows that are about rescuing a business, they typically have a terrible record of the businesses

actually pulling through on the other side. Like with Hell's Kitchen Nightmares, the Gordon Ramsay one, there's only like five restaurants that made it a month even after he left. Yeah. It's almost like the person running the place should be replaced. Yeah.

Right, right. It's not because you're C3D. How will we have the emotional arc? That would be great if they just... And we decided to fire the general manager. So what we did is we sold your business on behalf of you. So you're liquid in this amount. We covered some of the debt you have.

So at least you're walking away with something, which is more than just running this thing out till it vaporized upon re-entry into Earth. That's what they should do. They should have a bar reparations rescue where it's just taking racist white businesses and liquidating them and then just giving them to people of color

to just be like, here, you're going to do a much better job with this. That's my pitch, Hollywood. Yeah, if Ilhan Omar and AOC are the president, that's you're going to do a much better job with this. That's my pitch, Hollywood. Yeah, if Ilhan Omar and AOC are the president, that's what's going to happen. They get their way. Secretary of Reality TV right over here.

Go, Brandy Posey. The poor listeners cannot see the shoulder shimmy that was going on when Brandy was naming herself the Secretary of Reality TV. Unfortunately. We will see you now. I do love like in bar rescue shows.

That's a particularly good one because it's like the stuff that they're doing wrong is always so obvious. They're like, yeah. Yeah. So we have our general manager, like the owner of the bar is an alcoholic who drinks most of the booze and doesn't pay for it and gives it away to his friends. Huh. Okay.

Exactly. So what can we do better here? So your cashier is a pile of molds that says the N-word. How about we replace that and figure it out from there? I mean, also impressive that you got this black mold pile

that becomes sentient and racist, but this is not good for your business. No, it's not. It's not. Get it out of here. What if we bring in a flaming drink of some kind to counter it? Brandy, what is something

you think is overrated? Oh, okay. I always like to do my overrated underrateds together. And this is probably slightly controversial. But since we aren't doing much in quarantine, I really have come to the position that coffee is overrated and tea is underrated. Oh, wow.

I really don't think... Coffee makes me crash. I don't like the way it makes me feel. Yeah. I don't like it. When I'm on it, I'm always like a little bit... I peak too quick on it. And tea, I'm always just like riding right at the good Yeah. I don't like it. When I'm on it, I'm always like a little bit, I peak too quick on it. And tea,

I'm always just like riding right at the good place I can go to sleep. Oh, if you're peaking too quickly, have some orange juice, you know? Really?

Yeah. No, that's like the old ecstasy myth. Oh. Orange juice to like really smooth out that peak. I was just in my mouth mixing coffee and orange juice

right after it. And I was like, oh, because you put the orange juice in so you vomit up the coffee and then you're not caffeinated anymore. Perfect. I like what you're thinking. You found a steady, a steady caffeine buzz with your tea more. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Yeah.

I much prefer it. Much, much prefer it. I feel like as Americans, we don't get into tea the way we should because we are like an agro country. And it's like the one thing from Britain that I i think we should have kept right yeah yeah that's where uh joe comes from is in the i think it was world war ii uh they they were like god these people love drinking fucking coffee gross um and that's the joes um yeah how many people in america do you think drink coffee for the caffeine versus the bowel movement that comes from it? Oh, no, I was going to say, I know I'm at least going to shit once today. I feel like that's a very American thing.

Yeah. Does tea not have the same effect? Not really. Just makes you have to shit steadily throughout the whole day? No, it just makes you, you know, your body just works naturally. You aren't being like, you're not evacuated. Well, that doesn't sound like fun. Yeah.

Am I an American if I don't have explosive diarrhea once a day? I don't know. I want to have heart palpitations and burst a blood vessel in my eye when I'm sitting on the toilet. Right. Miles, where are you at with coffee, tea? I love it all. I mean, you know, being Japanese, tea is very V normal, V regular, always had. I like tea.

I like, the thing is, I never, I'm not as sensitive to caffeine. So like, I was never into any of this shit for the caffeine until i started drinking cold brew and like vietnamese coffee when i was like was like the experience and i was like okay maybe i'll sip on this a little bit i'm starting to get it but yeah after then that kind of got old um you know i i'm i like all of god's warm drinks and beverages wait what what's the deal with vietnamese coffee i'm not i don know i i'm i like all of god's warm drinks and beverages wait what what's the deal with vietnamese coffee i'm not i don't think i'm familiar that was just i that was one of my first experiences with a uh brewed coffee that was super heavy in caffeine and i had it like this like bonn we uh bonn bonn we i know we're not at the office anymore uh that's a that's that's a local

business uh bonn me spot in like Northridge that I went to. And I was asking someone about the coffee and they're like, oh, yeah, do you like espresso? And I'm like, yeah, I mean, it doesn't really get me there. They're like, you'll like this. Sit right there. Quite literally. I was just like screaming like I had just come out of some kind of a cryo sleep in a sci-fi film.

Yeah. Oh, man. That would mess me up too bad. I remember I never drank coffee until my senior year of college. And it was editing stuff overnight. And it piqued me really bad. And I was working a rough cut of something. And the next morning, everything was cut like a half second too fast. Right.

You invented YouTube editing? Yeah. I did. I did. 2004. I invented YouTube editing? Yeah, I did. 2004. I'm ahead of the curve. You just gotta get all these spaces out of there. All these spaces in between the words. Why would we pause? No, faster, faster, faster.

Faster, faster, faster. Jump cut, jump cut, jump cut. No rest, no rest. Twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch. Alright, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk about some news i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life it's too late for that i have a proposal for you come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session, 24 hours. BPM 110, 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up? Absolutely not.

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and we're back all right let's talk about uh real quick they're they're seeing a trend in uh the lead up to the next french election, next presidential election in France, or not vote at all in next year's presidential election because Macron has been functionally the president of the rich, cutting wealth taxes right when he came into office, cracking down heavy on workers, revolutions, the Yellow Vest uprising. And recent polling is showing lack of support for this

supposedly centrist candidate from the left. And recent polling is putting Le Pen at like 48%. I mean, it was close-ish last time, too. A lot closer than they would have liked. The fact that it's closer? your policies sir and I mean I feel like I don't know I can't imagine this will be totally dissimilar from what happens if Biden uh is running against Trump again in 2024 and continues to be uh tacking to the right on all the policies that he ran on

um and tacking to the center just like wealth humping traditional dnc democrat he's gonna face uh diminished support because he's you know there there's that bait and switch that i think people uh in power are accustomed to, but I think the majority of people have kind of run out of patience on. They're like, no, that's not going to work for us anymore. Yeah, there's a literal pandemic, and Trump has given us more money than Joe Biden has, or wants to, it seems like.

And it's like, there's just the material nature of it. You can't take... He just's he's ruining this for himself he's right he's writing their attack ads with yeah the stimulus shit that's happening now again joe mansion he's letting joe mansion fuck the party up because he's more he's like whatever for whatever reason the administration is more concerned with like the for whatever reason the administration is more concerned with like the appearance that things are going smoothly like he said they would rather than being like actually taking the momentum from the voting population that was like yeah get us this shit and he could be like yo y'all need to fuck joe mention up like fucking trump used to do

like what i don't understand he's allowing this to happen so now we're caving on all these fucking important things and yet to your point about the stimulus check they're setting the the bar now at 80 000 per person or 160 per household that's actually going to benefit 12 million less people than donald fucking trump you idiot like what the fuck i don't understand how the fuck this makes sense how you defend that how you're gonna campaign on that shit hey man i help less people than donald trump okay so between me him and me who do you want to vote for what right it really feels like it is the gamble of like like trump was our our twitter president and biden is trying to be our cnn. The gamble is that mainstream media is going to, that's what enough people still watch versus seeing the online discourse and stuff. No, man.

They've both failed. The Democratic Party is an absolute failure. The media, which is mostly, it's a democrat part of the democratic apparatus too is this they've completely failed too because they're they're suffering from the same problems which is people who are so up in weather balloon heights of humanity have no idea what the lived experience is for normal people so it it's all perverted through this lens where you know things are okay things are not, maybe we'll have talk about how messed up some of the deregulation in Texas is while also being like, but I don't know. Like it's just, I think because of that there's, and the pandemic has made people, many more people

realize how bad this country is when you have a party and a media apparatus who are not willing to acknowledge what everyone is seeing that's right the disconnect is only going to get bigger and they're going to be like well who's just not this shit because i know if we keep doing this shit this centrist demo dnc cnn shit i'm still going to be asked out right what the fuck it maybe i'll roll with trump and i'll just i'll i'll you know pile my guns and just physically fight off the races but maybe the policies might intersect with me in a way more than what this other shit is well that's where fascism comes and it fills the void where the government like a strong man will come in where it just feels like there's this space

that the government isn't taking care of you and there isn't that in the first place it's like this you know that's that's how we got it you know that's how we got trump the last time in conjunction with other things obviously but this time around it's like yeah i i don't think biden would have won if there hadn't been a pandemic honestly no you know there's there's stomped out yeah he absolutely would have gotten stomped out um so it's the fact that he's screwing this up as bad as he is it's like 2024 is gonna be bad and if it's not trump's going to be like Marjorie Taylor Greene or something like that. Right. Trump or worse.

It's going to be that racist mold pile from the bar rescue episode. Exactly. And it'll win. It'll beat his ass. It's almost like shit. Like, do people feel like, fuck it, man, we're going to have to like primary Biden to win this election or some shit. Like, you know what I mean? Like, because that's really what

what are you gonna do because i'm telling you leftist progressives look at this shit like we told y'all this motherfucker ain't gonna do shit but this is the only thing the only option we had to not have the fascism train keep going and yeah like what at what point are people going to be like what what's the point of supporting this they just they're not they have no clue what what life is like and they continue to just insult us with these terrible policies well the mainstream media that kind of reflects how they're doing back to them is not going to be the people to tell them you know yeah and they're also not going to be the people to get accurate polling as we've seen um so they'll think they're doing not going to be the people to get accurate polling, as we've seen.

So they'll think they're doing fine. Yeah, and the cognitive dissonance is just getting worse and worse with what they're projecting versus not. I mean, the inauguration was just this dystopian nightmare to watch happen. Everyone's like, we're wearing purple. There wasn't a coup that happened less than two weeks ago. When they had Tom Hanks host the big after big after party thing i almost lost my goddamn mind i was like he's like the number one celebrity that q anon thinks is like into adrenochrome can we not just be like running a victory lap around these people who are you're not gonna help either number one i wasn't aware that hanks was uh he's like he yeah he's like

their number one celebrity that thinks is like down in adrenochrome so it's just there's just so many just like weird like you haven't won anything you technically won an election but only because of the pandemic like why aren't you feeling the humility of that it's terrifying because it's gonna lead to something worse yeah um all right well let's talk about police reform where uh the House is looking to make some incremental progress, but still some progress. Only lost two centrist Democrats, which was not enough to defeat it, especially because a Republican actually voted for this police reform bill. All right. Lance Gooden from Texasas come on down and get your woke warrior jersey we're gonna hang it from the rafters for voting for the george floyd policing act on accident i mean like the whole story is so funny because he pushed it on accident

and he was so fucking shook that he voted for this thing because he didn't want he didn't want people to think he was one of these soul havers uh he went on a fucking pr campaign so he said quote i accidentally pressed the wrong voting button and i realized it too late this is in a tweet that he deleted this is wednesday night i have changed the official record to reflect reflect my opposition to the partisan George Floyd Policing Act. It sounds so bad when you have to come out here and say it like this. Then he goes on to say, you know, he was declaring that, of course, he wouldn't support the, quote, radical left's anti-police bill. Oh, honey, that was not a radical left anti-police.

No, no idea what that looks like. Oh, honey, that was not a radical left anti-police. No. I have no idea what that looks like. That's why it's so funny to me that you're so up in arms that they're saying they were going to ban chokeholds and create a registry for police who have been fired already for misconduct. Yeah. Also other things, too. I mean, like, yeah, making it easier for DOJ to investigate police shootings. But yes, great.

But there are so many other things that could have been done. Yeah. Look, but, you you know what do we expect we got the twenty thousand dollar freezer lady and fucking the whole crew up there who you know the only like black person they know is like eddie murphy so yeah yeah exactly what the fuck don't they have they have two buttons right they have a yay or a nay button for these yeah so it is complicated yeah it is difficult yeah maybe he could go with like a green and red system perhaps like put a post-it next to it i don't really understand how you messed this up it should just i think they should just make it easier one button is a a like a nice stock photo of a white waspy family right the other one is a picture of people of

color or marginalized people and then they know they'll never hit the button for that group yeah just just simplify for them yep yep yep bing bing bing bing bing this is what we want yeah just a family of a picture of a black family smiling just like no black joy get it out of here absolutely not but he's like wait do i want are the, oh, it's too complicated. Everything's so hard. It's almost like I shouldn't be in Congress because I'm a moron. And do we take him at his word

that he did it accidentally and he didn't have like a momentary crisis of the soul that caused him to do the right thing? I'm sure it's a complete accident because this dude probably gets a lot of money from police unions and stuff like that. So I think that's more what he's upset about than anything else. It's like he might have lost some funding or been worried about that.

Yeah. And, you know, great. It passed the House. But don't worry. It's going to the Senate where it can be destroyed by the filibuster. So, you know. Yeah. Just put pause on everything because they're not, you know, they can get rid of it.

Again, I'm not seeing the issue here with getting rid of the filibuster because we know what the right does either way, with or without it. They're going to do their shit. So it'll be like, but it'll make it easier. Oh, so that's going to be at the expense of improving things for people right now? Okay, go off. Go off, Chuck. Go off, honey. Yeah.

right now okay go off go off chuck go off honey yeah has there ever been like a a big vote that swung on somebody accidentally hitting the wrong button is that a thing that happens i don't know i mean i would love for that to have happened but i don't know it's hard to know yeah not that i know of i'm sure like when they were counting like when they were doing the roll call for the vote like someone like i'm surprised no one said like hold on lance lance yeah i'm sorry you voted yes for the george floyd policing bill oh god i'm sorry i'm sorry yes runs out of the bathroom pulling his pants up yeah um i was just in there with my pants down i wasn't even i wasn't even going to the bathroom. I was just tapping my foot like you do in one of those stalls.

Yeah, exactly. The bill, as Miles mentioned, parts of the bill will ban chokeholds, which is the physical restraint that led to George Floyd's death, create a national registry of officers who have been fired for misconduct, bolster the Justice Department's ability to investigate policing malpractice and prohibit racial and discriminatory profiling. All things that I thought had been bills for, you know, that should have been common sense parts of American law for decades now.

parts of American law for decades now. And real quick, I just want to shout out that reps Jared Golden and Ron Kind from Maine and Wisconsin were the Democrats that voted against it.

So he voted for it. And those are the two that should be primaried the fuck out of this place if you live anywhere near those areas. All right. Let's talk about Q Shaman uh q shaman q shaman

he comes and goes doesn't he he does as he as he pleases i mean his mom mom's main argument was the door was open. Yes. That's it. Because it got knocked in. Right. I mean, how was he supposed to know? The door is open. They're just waiting for him to come in.

Whiteness makes these criminals so fucking lazy. It pisses me off. The door was open. The fuck? That's his fucking excuse. You think you can say that shit okay fine but you've been gassed up by society to lead you believe that that is a valid defense so clean go off yeah it's like the affluenza defense but like just uh expanded to everyone uh right it's

like a norman rockwell painting where it's like, oh, my child accidentally went into the doctor's office, but it's like, my baby accidentally stormed the Capitol. Oh, sorry, sorry about this. It's just a bit of Americana for you. So he is facing 20 years

for his Senate prayer service, I think is how he would describe it. And CBS is giving him an interview to explain himself. This is why Trump's going to win next time. If Trump lives for four years, this kind of shit, because the media is already like, ooh, well, we can't lose the ratings of all the Trumpy stuff.

Yeah, let's take a second to humanize FacePaintScreamer really quick. It's so great, too, because of all the Black Lives Matters activists that they gave full interviews to over the summer. Yeah, 100%. It's really quick. It's so great too because of all the Black Lives Matters activists they gave full interviews to over the summer. Yeah, 100%. It's really great. I remember when, in the midst of it all, the amount of journalists that were in and amongst the activists and protesters asking what it was they were here fighting for versus going 700,000 yards away and going, I think they're throwing firebombs now. Oh, fuck off. Good to see both things are being given the same

but see but i'm saying but these are the things too back to the other thing that a lot of people are seeing just how fucking lame even the media is with shit like that you're like who the who the fuck are y'all anymore like i don't even like fuck all this shit anyway so cbs this morning running the sick ass interview with q shaman andaman. And the clip starts off being like, you know, fam, we think you attacked the nation, and he's just going to go and let you know why this has all just been blown out of proportion. Your actions on January 6th were an attack on this country.

Do you understand that? No, they were not, ma'am. My actions were not an attack on this country. That is incorrect. That is inaccurate entirely. How would you describe them? My actions personally? On January 6th.

My actions on January 6th, how would I describe them? Well, I sing a song, and that's a part of shamanism. It's about creating positive vibrations in a sacred chamber. I also stop people from stealing and vandalizing that sacred space, the Senate. Okay. I actually stopped somebody from stealing muffins out of the, out of the break room.

I also stop, stop the count. If I was his lawyer, I would say we've got, thank you. You see, my client is an upstanding gentleman. He's all he does is deal in vibrations and is a protector of loose muffins the defense

rests he comes in with real with big sovereign citizen energy at first where like he sounds like one of those dudes who's like at the court being like you cannot tase me sir you cannot i am being detained against my will this is against the constitution and then like gets tased and uh pisses himself um but then i love the just straight up asking the question back to the questioner while you kind of uh stall for time even though you've been in jail you should have been able to prepare for a question of how would you describe what you were doing that day that should be like how would how would i describe who me are you talking i say that i did hold on just to let me describe like is it a description well i woke up around like 8 30 in the morning i did brush my teeth in the morning um i flossed

as well and um my breakfast included like a banana and then um i took the i looked at the metro schedule okay hold on i feel like you're dodging the question how would you describe entering the capital violently screaming with a group of other insurrectionists how would i describe entering how would i describe with a nature that screaming but you know what's funny then then cbs lets him get away with that shit like for i know go like how would you describe it you act like you're talking to some like political dissident somewhere yeah right and let's get your side of the story show the footage be like this is what you did also it's that day i remember watching um i was watching somebody that was streaming on twitch

they were going to all a bunch of the um the twitch streams from like the insurrectionists that were there and that and like after he came he came outside and he was just like high-fiving people and just having a fun time and i'm like this footage exists like if cbs like if these like journalists like weren't as lazy as they were they would go and like find the real footage of like what these people were doing and be like hey here's actually a clip of you doing that here's all of this stuff like put it in his face these people should have a book literally slammed in their fucking face it's insane that insane that they're letting this happen. Yeah, new term, book stomped, where the weight of the legal books just stomp your ass out for justice.

But, you know, this is America, so who knows what will happen. But the thing is, you know, everyone's like, why would his lawyer let him do this before his trial? This shit is so weird. And the lawyer is like, we got to let people see this guy. You know shit is so weird and the the lawyer's like we gotta let people see this guy you know what i mean and you know what they did exactly that right you know what i mean to by not pressing him by not just like rhetorically cornering him constantly being like oh so that's what you thought oh interesting don't just let that shit rock like that right on yeah you're a journalist push back on the truth you know you know find find

it right the muffin stealing is good though because i mean that that is one of the most important things to americans is the prevention of muffin theft so he's aligning himself with that but yeah miles to your point the like that's just saying well america's a white supremacist country and he is a white person so we will let them see him. And that will make them like him better. Right. And that's what he said at the very end of his interview. He said, see me. See me.

He's like, I'm not a violent man. Unreal. Why are we human? You know, but this is how... This is it, y'all. This is it. We were held hostage by an improviser from Arizona. That's what's going on. And his mom is in there saying that he should.

The open door thing. Yeah, the open door thing. And just that he deserves another chance. And I mean, it's basically given. Yeah, it's the his defense could have organized this interview right and all that does is arm stupid ass supporters of this guy really dumb talking points to then infect their groups with being like well you know the door was open and it sounded like he was just there and he was praying like he wasn't one of

the people like beat a copper and you know what i mean and this is how this shit goes because you just let that go uncontested and now oh for sure yeah they already believe in like false flag shit so much to go they're just like no they left the door open they tried to trap us with this and this is like part of the great awakening and yeah but then like yeah but then you show them clips where the people are like but it was me i am not antifa i am the one and like you had other people too like because this whole that whole you know uh paid at crisis actor shit was going on but then they juxtapose that with so many people like i hate that people were trying to say what we did that day was blm or antifa but has the uh it was the vibes your honor uh defense been used in a federal court before

because the the specific mention of like the vibrations and energy was pretty pretty i mean that's that's that's key to his shamanism right right right right yeah so i'm excited to see what crystals he brings into court with him um it's gonna be interesting his lawyer is a crystal i hope that he wears his suit but also his buffalo helmet uh to the courtroom yeah he probably will he's an asshole unfortunately it's evidence i think oh yeah yeah i mean he could construct construct one what if he builds up one out of his prison toilet right the sink built into it um and interestingly uh the cbs has chosen not to interview somebody who would probably be a fair representation of the the people who were there that day uh and that is big o uh richard big o barnett uh the dude who was photographed with his feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk

and is an avowed white supremacist and white nationalist and he's got some interesting defenses as well yeah he had interesting defenses for huge energy he took into 1-6 you know he said

he was ready to die a violent death prior to January 6th like and yeah saying i'm a white nationalist i'm i'll do this shit and you know he's finding it a little bit harder to be released you know we've seen a lot of other people be released because it was like lower level stuff or the you know they were the prosecution or judge deemed them to not be a violent threat and would come back so they were released yeah this guy he it's a little hard to say the same when you said you were you were ready to die uh like the fucking debut biggie album and on top of it you were walking around modeling himself after biggie his nickname is biggo and she's big i mean big big biggo oh shit i mean yeah sky is a limit so he is you know he was also he

had a stun gun on the premises he fucking even stole a letter from nancy pelosi's desk and they're like you're you're violating bro like you can't even don't even ask to be released right now and so now he's going on saying i did not steal it i bled on it because they were macing me and i couldn't fucking see so i figured i'm in her office i got blood on her office i put a quarter on her desk even though she ain't fucking worth it uh and i left her a note on her desk that says nancy biggo was here you bitch that's what he told the fucking uh uh investigators yeah so he's out here being like why won't they let me out so at his last hearing he's screaming like i need to get let out he's saying shit like quote they're dragging this out they're letting everyone else out it's not fair this has been a bunch of

crap yeah this is his defense right now he can't even get through a sentence without like veering into just like hateful like calling people bitch and uh it's just rage-fueled fucking elder uh here but you know honestly again just like q q shaman that defense might work you know for him too be like I left a quarter and also this is just to be honest your honor it's not fair what's happening to me right you know what you're right and it goes back to what we're saying the top of the show

where it's also like if the Dems like seemed like they were doing anything to materially help anybody and like they weren't just like pretending like this didn't happen at all and like just wanted to admit like where does this rage come from where did this come from you know like and you're just you know that this didn't scare them into wanting to actually do something for the people i don't know yeah yeah i mean they were coming to hang mike pence and chanting hang mike pence and he's still out here being like the

election was stolen um because he knows his ass is not going to be on the ticket when trump runs in 2024 so he's trying to make nice um nancy pelosi this shit in your office like can you just like make sure people have checks right yeah jesus i mean i mean like i'm really disappointed in her i was like you know i would i would think that a wealthy woman of means like her the second her life was ever put in danger by a group of rabble rousers yeah she would be calling the fuck out the cops yeah you know what i mean like where's that big white woman energy nancy i was counting on that to protect us the other people like i was like well here is our white champion who will deploy their whiteness against whiteness and whiteness will do battle on the the courts of dc

but yeah speak to the manager of white supremacy nancy this is your moment to go full karen please and the other thing too is like for the with the le pen story too for all this shit that this party say other republicans are an existential threat they're a clear threat y'all are not acting like it just like you said all just like half the other shit you say is a problem like white supremacy and and over policing and income inequality yeah y'all don't mean any of this shit because i'm not we're not seeing a fucking thing that indicates it's real to you no it's all just talk and like weird pomp and circumstance for the photo the photo op that shows the white supremacy was beaten but none of the actual work that needs to happen is happening whatsoever yeah i mean what

they're trying to do here and probably will end up doing in different terms but they're just mounting the like there was that a dude who a texas teen uh who was driving drunk and killed four pedestrians injured several others and his defense was affluenza was like you know well he's been uh his perception has been hampered by just everything being given to him because he's like a wealthy kid and this is just like the white supremacy version of that, where it's just like, what the hell's going on here? How's it?

Well, like you changed the rules on me. Mid game is essentially like, it seems like what both defenses amount to like the combination of stun gun. And in her office, when like they were specifically looking to abduct people like that's that's scary that is absolutely scary well it just shows you how blinding and privilege can like truly actually be to the truth of a situation and it's like it and how it also just like you know is not good

for that person too it's like oh you live in a reality that doesn't exist man like right what and for her like yeah the other thing too is at a certain point your privilege has you thinking you can't be touched by any of this shit when it's a very thin string that's holding us all up you know what i mean and exactly the hubris of like the lack i think that's the other thing too is like there's a hubris to this lack of inaction that also pisses me off and i think most people who are in the real world who see the existential threats that exist for people and people be like that's for that's for america's losers and i'm i'm in this other part of town where they can storm the capital knock my door down put their

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And don't worry, we promise to avoid any black holes. Most of the time. And we're back. And the Oprah-Meghan interview is coming up this weekend uh megan markle the duchess of something yeah i don't uh i'm not sure i don't i don't have all those titles uh the duchess of shrug emoji i don't know yeah yeah the duke of who gives a fuck we're right you know one of the few times i actually feel american is whenever uh like royals come up and i'm just like

man fuck that shit right right right i like want to be in a monster truck anytime people talk about the royals yeah you're putting your maga hat on and shit yeah exactly he's like i don't believe in this but in this moment fuck you fuck all y fuck you i mean this whole thing is messy as fuck it's real messy it seems like the only and like and i don't i've not really been up on like all of the back and forth aside i'm like most people i know that you know they are getting the fuck out of royal life because they're not into it like it's too formal there's all this protocol uh for harry he firsthand knows what a regular person getting caught up in the royal family can do to you through his mother so he's like i don't want any like honestly i don't want any of this shit also his uncle's a

pedophile and they're not doing anything about it so i could see being like well they are kids to be fair brandy they are and i will get to that later on in the story they are absolutely punishing prince andrew in their very privileged way so you know there's been a lot of like bomb throwing from the royals via tabloids trying to be like megan's a bitch i think she was smoking krills back in 03 or something you know like there's all kinds of weird just fucked up shit and none and that only sort of started escalating and escalating uh last week or the week before harry was on cordon kind of doing is like yo i'm trying to you know not do this anymore and sort of began them sort of talking publicly about like yo we're not fucking with this anymore then everyone's like

this oprah interview is gonna happen and everyone was just like okay this could be real real real good but the royals apparently were begging harry to not let this air because grandpa phil was sick and that fell on deaf ears or whatever because you know the the shit is gonna air but then the british press started putting out a story that there would be an investigation into megan's bullying of staff during her limited time there so everyone's like what the fuck and this was like literally coming right after hearing like they're saying don't air it okay they're gonna air it fine here's this uh she's a bully ass motherfucker so we're gonna look into that and then you know the times even of london they were like yes said, quote, sources believe the public should have insight into their side of the story before watching the couple's much publicized interview with Winfrey.

So then CBS drops a clip on Thursday that is basically posterizing the Royals, where Megan is talking about how there is an active campaign from them to smear her. And this was recorded before this shit dropped, so it feels even more powerful. And I'm just going to play this clip because the way they fucking, like the sound design and everything, you'd think it was a UFC fight. Speak your truth today.

I don't know how they could expect that after all of this time, we would still just be silent if there is an active role that the firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us. And if that comes with risk of losing things, I mean, there's a lot that's been lost already. Wow. It's so sensational. The firm?

Are they a crime family? I was like, what does Nas, AZ, and Foxy Brown have to do with this? Because I'm talking firm days to you. I mean, Phone Tap is a classic track, though. Let's not get that fucked up. But anyway, apparently The Firm, this is what they're saying. There's an author about The Firm, the troubled life of the House of Windsor. The Blur reads, however you look at it, the royal family is a big business.

Though one with more ups and downs in the stock market prince philip calls it the firm and all the royal executives and their powerful associates are supposed to make every effort to avoid even a hint of scandal that could diminish the reputation of the family business so they're like oh and then we find out that there's now there's the firm and then the queen apparently defined who the core firm is now who can actually be out here representing the family because these people skated so that's the queen prince edward uh sophie the countess of wessex kate middleton prince william prince charles camilla and princess anne but not sex crim not sex crim andrew and harry and megan they're out and the kids are too young so

yeah it's gonna be wild i just i just i'm curious because the royals aren't helping their cause to try and be like yo maybe this shit will blow over by like escalating and it's gonna be a lot of a lot more interest now but i'm just after that line i'm like what's megan say something wild now yeah it's so crazy because it really feels like they're really trying to make Harry and Meghan happen in America. And we already have the Obamas as our royal family. Right. Yeah, we don't need them. You know?

And also, like, they're boring. They're not charming. I mean, what are they going to do? Are they going to start a podcast? Like, the ex-royals podcast? It's going to be shit. It's going to be Prince Harry and me. Yeah. I'm excitedry to be doing uh tushy ads it's gonna be great uh the royal bum is clean exactly i mean that's where this is all heading it's just like they're not

stop trying to make yeah but making markle happen in the united states it's not gonna happen she's like does she even want to be the it sounds like they want to be do they even want that don't they just want to be private that's what's so weird to him like it's like do you want to be like famous but without the responsibility of the royal families want to be like in between uh like a list celebrity and like a c-list which is like no just enough like i can get in places but i don't need the shine really yeah it's like what do you want like because to me whenever people like do this and they leave or they want to move or something i'm like don't move to la move to like right why are you here like i just distrust the whole thing because of that where i'm just like no you could live anywhere you have money you know yeah for them to be more

i think like relatable or become like oh we love them they would need to start like partying and fighting like normal people do so i'm like oh shit i know that fight i know that fight harry oh shit harry you fucked up yeah like yeah that's the kind of shit i think would be different because if it's so sanitized like we're past that like you know you can no no just be obscure and by yourself yeah no we don't need like a prim and proper ex-royal couple. Like we need you guys like up in some crazy, crazy. Yeah, exactly. You know, like she's, you know, the Meghan Markle is now just, you know, starting a cannabis company and shit.

And that's what they should do. Royal weed of some kind. Like, oh, no. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. The royal the royal weed you know more problematic weed brand than like literal monarchy based colonizer oh man yeah i mean that's i mean that's honestly the direction they're probably heading i'm always surprised like it's it's similar to

when the republican party does something or like puts out something that's transparently like just, uh, you know, Dr. Seuss, uh, is being attacked type bullshit.

That's like, everybody can see through that, but there's still a bunch of media that will cover it with a straight face like that. There is that for the Royal family in Englandland for sure like i'm always surprised by it like this uh megan thing like her being a bully will get picked up and covered with a straight face fully by by a bunch of uh media over there because it's like such an institution yeah and then you know i mean they're probably ripped by CAA over here,

and then they're going to have their thing that goes back and forth. That's the thing that nobody realizes. It's like, they have agents, former presidents have agents. It's like, who's actually these are people getting 10% of empires. Does the queen have agents? I bet she does.

Yeah, she's at UTA. You're not a talent agent. Actually, no. She might be WM. I think Ari Emanuel was actually repping her. It would make sense. It wouldn't be a surprise. Yeah.

His dad probably put that deal in place when he was a soldier of fortune back in the day. Exactly. All right. Let's talk about... Full circle shit. I'm serious, Dan. I know.

Wait, was Arya Mangle's dad a Soldier of Fortune? Yeah. Really? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Arya and Rom, yeah, their dad was... I think that's like his thing was he was... Yeah, he was like Blackwater before Blackwater.

Damn. Everything's great. Everything is going really well. And then you can be a guy who you know jeremy piven plays later on after his hair plugs is like lloyd uh and it's fun yeah one time i was behind jeremy piven in a spin class and i got a better score than him so wow i kept checking on him during class i was like i going to beat this motherfucker today. Pretty fun. That's what actually most spin classes hire Jeremy Piven to come by and motivate people. That's what his main source of income these days is.

Did I then add myself on IMDb as like a spin class extra? On an episode of Entourage that existed but didn't have a spin class in it? Absolutely. Look, everything's a lie, baby. All right. Let's talk about this McDonald's minimum wage talking point because it's actually kind of an interesting story that I think dives into one of the big problems of the United States.

So AOC brought it up in a recent tweet pointing out that McDonald's workers in Denmark make $22 an hour plus six weeks of paid vacation. Yeah, but how much is a Big Mac? Six grand? Yeah. So this is a big talking point. One of the conservative rebuttals is, well, that's great because the Big Mac actually costs $ 15 over there and it's four 80 in the U S um, this is based on something the economist does. That's like, just like a silly infographic.

They don't like really take it that seriously from 2014. And if you actually looked at, look at the updated data, uh, the big Mac costs like a dollar more in the U S. Um, the Big Mac costs like a dollar more in the U.S. So their big mic drop thing actually is the opposite.

A big term drop. Right. There's also, they're pointing out that Denmark doesn't have a minimum wage. And so, I mean, they're the ones who are, you know,

making it, like making that argument. That's not, AOC wasn't like the ones who are making that argument. AOC wasn't like, their minimum wage is $22. She said that that's what they make. And the reason they're able to do that without a federally mandated minimum wage is that they have unions. And unions actually work on behalf of the workers. Typically, trade unions work to keep wages above $20, but there's no federal wage. So USA Today was like, so three Pinocchios for AOC. So American society, fast food employees make an average of eight 90 an hour.

Uh, half of them rely on some form of public assistance. Um, and over, and the reason that we don't have that as we, we just don't have union support. Um, and so the,

the way that this actually came about the $22, uh, McDonald's showed up in Denmark and was like was like uh we're not gonna like deal with these unions fuck a union um and so the unions went to work uh find out phase yeah the find out phase they they did the fuck around part uh there were strikes boycotts, leaflet campaigns, newspaper coverage, and daily demonstrations outside of McDonald's restaurants. Construction workers refused to build any new McDonald's. Brewery workers wouldn't deliver beer because you have beer in McDonald's advertisements and instead made counter advertisements, including one that became iconic of a dog taking a piss on the golden arches. And so they eventually were like, all right, I guess we'll do we'll be part of the we'll let our employees be part of the union.

We'll let our employees be part of the union. And that's how like that's that's the only way that corporations are brought in line with like collectivism, their workers fairly. Yeah, there's just fuck. I mean, yeah, country has been on a steady path of just taking apart, dismantling unions and the ability for, you know i have vacation and i can be a parent versus you know what we have now which is saying like hey guys i get it you're a franchisee you want to make money like this is the like you can you got to pay them at least this much and then it's up to you right oh yeah i mean we've got delia parton doing you know five to nine as a follow-up to her nine to five just work 12 hours a day because that's what you need to do to be able to actually live in this country yeah it started with the 40s right to work laws that

gave states the power to determine whether workers can be required to join a labor union then mcdonald's uh has a has aggressively attempted or has aggressively prevented attempts to unionize in the U.S. In 2019, several workers were fired for trying to unionize. They appealed to the National Labor Relations Board and the National

Labor Relations Board sided with McDonald's. The things they did to crush unionization was using employees as moles in meetings uh circulating names of possible pro-union employees and coaching franchisees on how to avoid hiring people who might organize a workplace um which is illegal but it doesn't didn't stop them from doing it um Yeah. Yeah. Start, start shedding dollars like that,

paying people. Yeah. But I mean, corporate espionage, like all that shit is real. Like that's corporations. Uh, the devil works hard.

Corporations work harder. Like they will find a way to, you know, a spy to, you know, make it so that people don't feel comfortable uh taking collective action yeah which i think and then so people don't feel comfortable like just in america in general the tone is we don't want people to feel comfortable getting in touch with their power as a collective

no we're so the lack of education around unions and like the history of of the labor movement in general is just I mean, it's it's pathetic how little we're taught in school or in any formal formal way about it. I think the closest they'll maybe talk about like collectivism, like in other books will be like the fucking Reddit GameStop Robin Hood fucking crunch. Right. And just keep it limited to that. Like, see what happened there. But I don't think it's happened in any other ways i mean i literally remember being in school and then being like eugene debs also ran for president and then he was put in jail but what did he do there keep going

but but then this other guy won instead it's fine and that guy just stayed in jail for a long time and he was powerful so he's more interesting. Yeah, exactly. And I just remember being like, wait, who? What happened to that guy? Right. Wait, is Labor Day like about giving birth or something? I don't get it. Yeah. Okay, cool.

Back in LA, we call it Flavor Day, where you go to 31 Flavors and get any ice cream you want, y'all. Can we rebrand Labor Day not i feel uncomfortable flavor flavor day 31 flavor labor labe where's labor labe the new fucking mascot for for fucking unions socialist flavor flame i love this maybe this is how we reach the kids. Did we just create a TikTok character? Yeah. Kids, remember a public enemy?

That's too old. Remember the 2005 dating show Flavor of Love on VH1? You guys remember Flavor of Love, right? Who's with me? Brandy, it has been a pleasure as always having you on on the daily zeitgeist where can people find you and follow you sure you can find me on twitter and instagram at brand

dazzle b-r-a-n-d-a-z-z-l-e um i have a podcast called lady to lady uh it's very fun comes out every wednesday it's just like riffing and me my two their co-hosts riffing and hanging out with a bunch of female comics and we've had on people like um uh margaret cho karen kogaroff sona mosesian from um conan o'brien's podcast all sorts of fun people so yeah it's just a real silly good time collection of legends on that podcast too yeah yeah me barber grade test barker where you have a good time uh and is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying very very silly account that just launched two days ago um i live in eagle rock california and we had um some delightful news the other day a uh a bear was found wandering our neighborhood

um and then so somebody and cops had this whole chunk of our neighborhood shut down and i was driving home and i was like what the hell's going on and then you check because a young person of color was selling candy well at first i was like oh jesus what's happening over here and then i go on the facebook group and they're like there's a bear just wandering the neighborhood and i was like oh fun news whimsical right yeah but then uh fish and wildlife uh said that they would not come out and tranquilize in the evening um so the bear just had run of eagle rock overnight which is adorable and there is a twitter account called eagle rock bear one that was created and yeah eagle rock bear one it's because eagle rock bear i guess was already

taken yeah and it's very silly and it's very stupid and my favorite tweet that they did this is like hyper local but i really love a hyper local tweet sometimes. It said, I'm the only bear in the world that prefers the Eagle Rock Plaza to the Americana. It's love this bear that has lots of opinions about my malls. I love it. It's very stupid. It just felt good for a minute to be like, ah,

a silly piece of news happened. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, man. Twitter, Instagram, miles of gray. Miles where can people find you What's a tweet you've been enjoying Oh man Twitter Instagram Miles of Grey And also the other podcast You know 420 Day Fiance Where we just talk about that wild reality shit

You know Let's see a couple tweets I like First one will be from Norm Charlatan Just tweeted decriminalize walking around with a beer Yeah I like. First one will be from Norm Charlatan, at Norm Charlatan, just tweeted, decriminalize walking around with a beer. Yeah. Why not? Like the olden times.

Another one is from Solomon Giorgio, at Solomon Giorgio, tweets, as a millennial, I support Gen Z in every way. I ain't about to start a fight with a group of people that still got good knees. And that's how we know when we're like yep we are entering the washed territory because i did something i remember looking at something and i thought oh my god their knees it was like someone doing like a limbo thing and i and i almost like i didn't say i didn't even tell her majesty that that was my internal monologue

because I caught myself and I was like, oh my God, it's the great aging is upon you. Now your thing is you watch a video of someone limboing and you went, oh, they're neat.

Okay, okay, that's okay, that's okay. That moment where you put down the vans and you pick up the new balances is just a moment in your life that you just don't go back from. Where someone says nice shoes and you talk about how new balances is just a moment in your life that you just don't go back from. Where someone says nice shoes and you talk about how comfortable they are. Yeah.

100%. They're real cushiony. It feels great. I can stand for an hour now. You know, John Tesh, his instrumental shit is really cool. Is this too loud? Oh, no.

Is this too loud? I like no. Is this too loud? I like Tesh, but he goes a little, I don't know. It's like, we hear you. I don't want to say hardcore, but you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Tweet, I enjoyed Kat Dennings at Official Kat tweeted, I like to go big and go home.

And... Oh, yeah. And then James at Video underscore James tweeted, Groceries are so melodramatic. I took a left turn. I didn't drop kick you across the back seat. Relax. I like that a lot.

And you can find me on twitter 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 today's episode as well as a song that miles is recommend recommend ending uh for you guys to check out uh miles what is your recommendation for today um you know this is uh just a artist from senegal called super diamano and this is just some really great um they called emblax this is the kind of music bluesy jazzy form of rock but it's also like very african so it's got great rhythms and really awesome instrumentation so this is super diamono with the track madulin and that's spelled m-a-A-D-U-L-E-E-N.

And it's just a great, like, you could cook to this, you could dance to this. It's like one of those, it's weird. It's a song that I feel threads many needles. Like, you could relax to it, or you could turn the fuck up to it. It's what you bring to it, baby. All right. Well, go check that song out. The Daily Zeitgeist, the production of iHeartRadio.

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