The Daily Zeitgeist - Crypto Might Tip The Election, How Lara Trump Knows Trump’s Winning 10.10.24

Episode Date: October 10, 2024

In episode 1757, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, relationship expert, and author of I Do (I Think): Conversations About Modern Marriage, Allison Raskin, to discuss… Lara Trump Has Access To A Form Of Polling So Powerful It Sounds Like BS…And It Is, Crypto May Cost The Democrats Their Senate Majority…, Political Donations For Both Parties Made Public, Wimbledon May Have Ulterior Motives For Embracing AI and more! Lara Trump Has Access To A Form Of Polling So Powerful It Sounds Like BS…And It Is Crypto May Cost The Democrats Their Senate Majority… The Getty Family’s Trust Issues Wimbledon May Have Ulterior Motives For Embracing AI AI writer served by Wimbledon and IBM commits double fault Wimbledon’s AI Announcer Was Inevitable Wimbledon to ditch new AI-powered commentary after backlash You cannot be serious? Wimbledon abolishes line judges after 147 years Wimbledon is Wimble-done with line judges How Sony’s Hawk-Eye electronic line-calling system transformed the U.S. Open DAD: UMPIRE ‘PREJUDICED’ How does Hawk-Eye work at Wimbledon? Electronic Line Calling Live To Be Adopted Across The ATP Tour Tennis makes big bets on its future--One driven by sports betting, and foreign investment. LISTEN: Away by VacationsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I never I've never had pink eye, but I mean, I feel like it's just a rite of passage for most children at some point. I don't think I've had pink eye either. Yeah, maybe I did when I was a kid. I was getting real up in people's asses with my eyes. Yeah, look, I never had lice up there. But Miles, you don't have lice. Exactly. But mice there.

You're like, you're like, Jack, I got lice right now. But Miles, you don't have hair. Not up here. Actually. Oh, no. And that's the the the Red Band head and shoulders commercial. But Troy Palamalu. Yeah. But I don't see flakes.

I'm not talking about up here, honey. I love that Troy Palamalu is still a spokesperson. Got that hair. All these years after he was real. He's got that beautiful hair. Yeah, he does have just some of the most gorgeous locks. Man. If only I were Polynesian.

I think that every day, my weak butt, my bald head, all solved. If I were tonguing every day, we come on here, you know, that monologue and goodwill hunting where he's like, every day when I come to pick you up, I fucking hope you're not there, bro. I have this into every day we sign onto this podcast. I hope you're Polynesian. Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you. Hello the internet and welcome to season 359 episode 4 of Dirt Daddy's Eye Guys! Stay in the production of Eye Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into American shared consciousness. We are America's only undecided podcast. We're just out here still trying to make up our mind which one which side. Man, Trump was just on the flagrant pod dude. I'm like damn bro, he's so chill.

Yeah, what a podcast guest. Anyways, it's Thursday. Yeah. October 10th, 1010, two four. Good buddy. Woo, a lot of cake based things. It's angel food cake day. It's national cake decorating day.

And that's about it for cakes. Then you got national metric day. That's plenty, Miles, that's plenty. First of all, national metric day, that can't be for us because we are hostile towards the metric system. In this household? In this household, I mean, I like to pretend. I treat the metric system like a book I've never read,

and I go, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, about four meters, yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. Four cams? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. About four meters. Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. For a cam? Yeah, yeah. That's a good size for a car. What? Hey, this is a good one. National Walk to a Park Day, because you're talking about walking,

getting out there, being amongst nature. And we have, look, in LA, we have plenty of places you can go to do that kind of thing. And I'm sure just keep your fucking head on a swivel with these drivers is all I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, as you're walking. Yes, yes, yes. As you're walking, keep your eyes, cut off your eyelids, to quote Mike Tomlin, the football coach,

cut off your eyelids and keep your head on a swivel. Keep your head on a swivel, exactly. But enjoy, enjoy yourself, enjoy the nature. But it's fucking Mad Max out there, man. Anyways, my name's Jack O'Brien, AKA, I was down at the cafe with one of my kids when the tune they played had him dancing a jig. I shazammed the song to see what it was, but I wish I had intended it all because it's

neck on yacht. It was the song neck on yacht, not neck on yacht. It's about getting neck on a yacht. It's neck on yacht. A lot dirtier than I thought's about getting neck on a yacht it's neck on yacht a lot dirtier than i thought it's neck on a yacht the first words are i'm getting neck on a yacht wow whoo that one courtesy of andrew buv uh even then i i i kept saying neck on yacht it's neck on a yacht i thought it was neck on yacht which i thought just meant like I'm wearing a cool chain or no It's neck on a yacht and the first words are I'm getting neck on a yacht

For my six-year-old neck on yacht sounds like the title of like an abstract painting you're like, yeah This is neck on yacht. It was right in 1974 and we will start the bidding at $400,000. Was not that anyways, shout out to Gunna, I think. And my six year old who likes Gunna in an abstract sense. Although I don't think he knows what neck on a yacht means. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my cohost, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, AKA, my podcast acid don't,

my podcast acid don't, my podcast acid don't have past, they call me tendon back. Okay, shout out to Halcyon Salad. Just talking about, you know, the sedentary lifestyle of podcasting has caused, I would call it gluteal atrophy, perhaps that I'm currently combating with daily bike riding squats, wall sits, and the like. And we did, I think Jack, you said it was like, I just had a long Achilles tendon.

Yeah, your Achilles tendon just goes from your heel all the way up to your hips. So that's it. Yeah, yeah, it's tendon back. But it's not, but it's tendon back. Tending back is so bad. But the booty is trending back. So don't worry, I will keep you all. When it's photo-worthy, I will post. I will post.

Amen. I've been talking about this since I went to the Louvre. People used to have asses, according to sculptures from the ancient Greeks. People had asses that we can only dream of these days. Yeah. Yeah.

Juiciest Maximus. Anyways, miles. We are thrilled to be joined once again by a comedian, a New York Times bestselling author and relationship expert with a master's in psychology. No big deal. Her new book is, I do, I think, conversations about modern marriage. You know her from just between us.

It's the brilliant and talented, Alison Raskin! Alison! Wow, thank you so much. Oh, thanks for coming on. I feel like the last couple of times I've missed you, we've had a guest host, yeah, due to I think maybe my marriage or child. I took it personally either way.

I know, I know. Yeah, before this, it was very contentious when I signed on. You're like, oh, look which asshole decided to show up. Look who decided to join. Oh, all right. Oh, you got fired from your shift at the asshole factory? I'm like, oh, sorry. Oh, all right. Oh, you got fired from your shift at the asshole factory? I'm like, aw. I'm sorry. No, I was doing stuff. Allison, no, thanks for coming on.

And I'm glad we get to do this face to face. And I think since the last time, face to face on Zoom, I think since the last time you were on the New York Times Best Selling might be new and also the Masters in Psychology might be new. No, Jack. You're mistaken. I'm writing that. I'm writing the New York Times bestseller.

I'm writing that from a while ago, but I'm going to write it right into my grave because it's safe forever. But the masters is new. Yes, I graduated last August. Congratulations. Thank you. That's a big one. You are a master of psychology.

What a great thing to be a master of. What was- Well, it isn't until people want you to fix all their problems for you, you know? Right. Okay, I'm moving a couple stories here real quick. The problem is that I then want to do it, even though in my head I'm going, this is not ethical, you're not a licensed therapist,

you're not supposed to do this. But then I'm like, yeah, here's exactly what you should do. Right, right. Yeah. I was just talking about it's underrated how the comic book characters that appeal to you just reveal a lot about what's going on inside of you. And I was like, maybe I'll send you a list of comic book characters. You can help me work through those. Because they're all toxic masculinity. But yeah, thanks. Yeah, I'm rigid. Yeah, that's my problem.

Oh man. How long what's, what's that process like of being like, you know what, I'm gonna go get my masters in psychology. Like after you've had like a career and done so many things. Well, part of it was the panic of being in the entertainment industry. And so I originally went back cause I was like, I don't know if this is sustainable. I should get a license to be a therapist, you know, as a backup plan. Right.

But then during the process of getting the degree, I had a few successes and I felt more secure in my writing career. And I also just realized that being like a licensed therapist didn't really jive with who I am because you're just supposed to not really, you know, reveal every intimate detail about yourself and have hundreds of hours of you talking about everything on the internet for your future clients to be able to watch. Right, right. And so I was like, okay, that doesn't quite make sense for me to do it in that capacity, But I am still so interested in this and I still really care a lot about, about mental health advocacy and about writing about mental health.

And so I sort of shifted from the mindset of like one-on-one work and instead wanting to be able to sort of do it from like a larger perspective, like a, you know, like writing and like sharing as sort of like the funnel from experts who do have that license to people who maybe can't access therapy, don't know about therapy, aren't interested, or just like can't afford it, or just supplemental for people that are already in therapy. And so it took me three and a half years because I did it pretty slowly. And I also switched degrees in the middle

from clinical psychology to just psychology. So I took a ton of classes I did not need to take. Those are the ones where I actually learned stuff. So like when they say education for the sake of education, in this case that did work out for me. But I can't be happier not to be in school anymore. I don't like it. It's not fun for me I feel like it's been like especially in LA right with a lot of with the industry

Being cooked in the manner that it is at the moment. I know It's it's dying. I yeah, I know a few people who are like I think I'm gonna be a lawyer now Oh, yeah, we're all really starting to have to listen to our parents. We're like, yeah, OK. And I'm like, well, I guess I did. I guess I did get this degree so I could teach history. So, all right. Yeah. Show up at my old high school.

They're like, oh my God, dude, you OK? What's wild is like you can't even get the jobs that like a few years ago, people were like, oh, I guess I'll go do this. Now they're like, no, no, you don't have five years of relevant experience to this exact job. So we're not hiring you. Right. Yeah. All right. Alison, we are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, a couple of things we're talking about today. We've got a powerful new poll from out of the Trump world that involves airplane napkins for some reason. So we'll talk about that. Cause I don't, I don't like this news at all. Things are, things are looking grim for the wild. If true. Yeah. Yeah.

Huge. If true. Yeah. We're going to talk about the crypto industry and just generally who is funding, who is donating to politics. I feel like it's been a pretty good radar of like what the world is going to look like years into the future. If you just look at who is donating hundreds of millions of dollars to politicians.

And so we're going to look at who's donating to this upcoming election. We'll talk about Wimbledon has now accepted AI. They're accepting the future. They're going to be using the electronic line judges for the Wimbledon tennis tournament, Wimbledon. And it's- Proper name. Yeah.

There's like kind of an interesting ulterior motive behind them doing that, that is a little troubling and sinister. All of that, plenty more. But first, Alison, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? So, uh, I'm currently working on a, like a short form piece for Cosmo UK. And so my history right now is just like divorce rates in Wales. Uh, how high is boomer divorce rates? Just like me desperately trying to gather information about how frequently people are getting divorced.

How the marriages are going in Wales? Kind of, yeah. How are the Welsh doing in the marriage? Well, UK and Wales, the overall divorce rate is down, but the divorce rate among people 60 and up is, is, has increased. Oh, okay. That's what I'm hearing. Like kind of across the board. Yeah. Is that kind of like with people just kind of just being like, I don't need to stick around for this. Well, boomers have like the highest divorce rate, like of any generation. And I

think it's because a lot of them got married because I think they had to get married. And now they're like, Oh, actually, I don't need this anymore. And I'm miserable's because a lot of them got married because I think they had to get married and now they're like, oh actually I don't need this anymore and I'm miserable. So right right there Did they they like stayed together for the kids and then are all getting divorced once the kids are in college Essentially, is that kind of? Every couple is different, but I think that that now that society just accepts divorce, right? Then it's just like more of a possibility for people without it feeling like life or death

to have to end your marriage. Right, right. And I feel like divorce him is the thing, a reply you see constantly on the internet nowadays too. It's just like, yeah. Often warranted, I would think. Yeah, no, of course, of course, yeah. Because I think a lot of times people,

it's weird when you see people asking for advice on the internet and they're describing such terrible dysfunction. The most toxic situation. Yeah, and they're like, I just don't know what to do. And you're like, oh, my sweet child. Oh my God. Please advocate for yourself and leave. I've never mentioned this to anyone before,

but he is really particular about dressing me every morning. Right, right. And it's like, Jesus Christ. I can't be trusted with using open flames in our kitchen. It's just very, it's very hard. Yeah. That to be fair, my husband will probably say I couldn't be trusted with that either. Oh, really? Open flames.

Yeah. I set the microwave on fire a bit ago. Wow. How? Did you put a chip bag in there, like a metallic chip bag in there or something? Kind of. So it was a metallic thing bag in there I've like fucked up and like left something metallic in there long enough just for sparks to start Yeah, I've never like I've never known it to be like that flammable

My mistake was I got away with it once uh-huh I'm pretty sure I like used aluminum foil once or something and and it was fine and then I was like everyone's been lying Second time and it was a full fire What's wild about having anxiety like an anxiety disorder since I was like four years old is that I'm Incredible in a crisis like everything years old, is that I'm incredible in a crisis. Like everything has prepared me for that to happen. So like the microwave caught on fire and I was like, ah yes, and I just like very calmly put it out

and had almost no reaction. Yeah. You're like one of those like comic book characters who's like living every single timeline at once. It's like, no, I know this outcome already. I've lived it. No need to panic. But then if I'm running late to a meeting, I like have a heart attack. Right, right. Just not this one. Yeah, that was the thing as kids we used to do, take Rice Krispie treats. Remember the Rice Krispie treats? The like blue metallic wrapper.

Oh yeah. And then you put them in the microwave and then they shrink. If you did it for the... Yeah, kids, don't do this. Warning, do not do this. This was stupid 90s kid shit. And you could do that with like the little snack chip bags, like the ones you put in your lunch bag, like Doritos, they would shrink down in size for like just the tiniest bit of microwave energy. Yeah. Anyway. To what end, Miles?

Yeah, just to see that happen was exciting. Yeah. And then you'd be like, look, it's all tiny. Like it would just shrink up and then you'd be like, it's all hard as a rock and tiny. And then you would, I don't know, just bring it to school and just choke it. But you know, no more snack.

Or you did eat the snack after it shrunk down. No, you eat that, obviously. It's what you did with the trash. You get to have fun with the trash. Oh, it's the bag alone. Oh, it's not even in, you don't even do that, is it? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's less interesting to me. No, it was just shrinking the wrapper down.'t even do that. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. That's less interesting to me.

No, it was just shrinking the wrapper down. I thought everything got shrunk and you made like doll food. Right, right, right. I'm like Rick Moranis in Honey, I Shrunk the Snacks or some shit, yeah. And then you can like keep it with you on like long flights or something. You have like a bunch of dehydrated tiny snacks.

I've created the most calorically dense snack on earth. I mean, marshmallows, you put a marshmallow in a microwave, that motherfucker blows up. Like that's the closest I've ever felt to the power of a Moranus is like you put, you put a marshmallow in and that, that thing will get big on you in a fun way. That thing will get big on you. That thing will get, that thing will blow up on you in a fun way. That thing will get big on you. That thing will blow up like a tick on you there, man. Yeah. I've been a dad for too long.

What is something you think is underrated? I think something that's really underrated is reading a book right before you go to bed. This has been a part of my routine. I think maybe since I could read and it's really a wonderful way to fall asleep because I think a lot of us are on our phones and I definitely have my phone time before my Kindle time, but the sub thing about reading like a book and not be not scrolling, it kind of like, it, it sets a time for you every day that you're reading because I know so many people who like want to read,

but then are like, but when do I do it? But if you have, as we call it in my home, reading time for bed every day. Can I use that? Absolutely, it would mean a lot to me. Okay, it's not trademarked? All right, TM. Babe, I just heard about it in the city.

I'm ready for reading time. Yeah. Reading time. Is it just like, is it more like because I get obviously like the the scroll just kind of gets your mind active in ways it's not great before bed, the light cannot be great like in your circadian rhythms. But it is also like it's probably you might dose like you're more maybe aware like as you dose when you read like, oh, oh, oh, I'm dosing. I'm doing. Yeah. Like it kind of like,

I mean, obviously, if you're reading something that's like so gripping, but even if you're reading a book you like, it can kind of like help you fall into sleep and like get tired. And then you also just know that like every day you're reading at least a little bit, which is nice. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Falling into sleep is a nice way to describe it as opposed to falling asleep, that like every day you're reading at least a little bit, which is nice. Yeah, for sure. Falling into sleep is a nice way to describe it as opposed to falling asleep. Falling into sleep.

I don't fall asleep. I tread water until I sink, to quote, I think Billy Woods. So you said you're not scrolling, but how do you get to the next part of the book? It's been a while since I've read a book, but is it... Well, okay. It's a... Turn okay? It's a turn Turn pages is that it's a swipe side. It's a top on the side got it All right, are you like it's a it's a left to right instead of it. Oh, okay. Okay

I am still scrolling but yeah interface of a Kindle doesn't have that bad light, the same like whatever it's called. Yeah, blue light or whatever. I was reading a book to my kid and he kept trying to scroll to the next page. I feel like that's the thing somebody would make up for Twitter. Kept trying to pinch and zoom in on the word he couldn't understand. Not your iPad. What is something that you think is overrated? I think independence is overrated.

I'm like really anti being independent these days. I don't think you should be codependent, but I think there's a sweet spot called interdependence where like you let yourself depend on other people. They depend on you, but you also go out and have your own life. And I think that like, especially American culture is just like, no, you must be able to do everything on your own. That's just not nice and often not feasible. So I'm anti-independence.

Sure. Not according to this little declaration of independence that I keep on me at all times. We need a declaration of interdependence, if anything. Interdependence. Yeah, yeah. You should belong to a club. You should have friends. Yeah, we just have trouble asking for help.

That's where the independence mindset comes in. It's like, I don't need help. I can do this. Where that's, to your point, that's the most fulfilling part of having relationships with people, is that you can be like, I need help. Then you have people who are like, hi, can I help you?

You're like, wow, this is cool. I don't have to bootstrap my way out of this terrible depression. When that person shows up, I'm just smoking a cigarette saying to the person next to me, who's this guy? Who's this guy? Beat it. Beat it. Beat it. Beat it. Creep. I need help. May I help you? Get the fuck out of here.

Get the fuck out of here. Whoa. Look at this creep. What do you think, I mean, like, are, is that sort of like the main, like, or how do you sort of make sense of your, of embracing interdependence versus independence? I think, yes, it's that balance of, like, or how do you sort of make sense of your, of embracing interdependence versus independence? I think, yeah, it's that balance of like, actually accepting the help, and then also, like, being

comfortable relying on somebody, right? So as we talked about before we started recording, my mom passed away, like, two and a half weeks ago, and it horrible. And it was, she died from a very rare, awful disease called CJD, but like so many people showed up for us and helped. And like my sister's friends were like taking care of her children. Like my friends were like doing stuff for me in Los Angeles. Like it was just like a period of time where like,

we just like actively needed help. And then to like realize that people not only could do that, but like wanted to do that. There were even times where like I didn't necessarily need someone to do something, but I could tell that they would just want to do something so badly. Like give garbage you need taken out. I'll fucking come throw your garbage out and bring some whatever. Yeah, yeah. Like literally.

Yeah. And so I think it just like really, I mean, it was something I'd obviously already been thinking a lot about, you know, having this whole book on marriage coming out and been researching, you know, marriage for the last few years, but just just like really, you know, solidified for me that like none of this is really worth it if we don't have people in our lives that we like care about and connect with and show up for. For sure. Yeah. Yeah.

And at a like Zeitgeist news level, I mean, as we're recording this, Hurricane Milton is a few hours away from making landfall. But I mean, we talked about yesterday that while the mainstream media wants to focus on looting and acts of violence that happened in the wake of these hurricanes. Like really the overwhelming account that you get from these sorts of disasters is like other people helping one another. Like you said, like in a disaster, in a really difficult moment, like people show up for one another.

It's just like when it's at this level of like abstraction institutions, that things start to get fucked up. And just with the way society is built, you can't just go get a regular job and then buy yourself a house the way that you used to, or that some people were able to. And so now there's this weirdness around depending on your parents or depending on like your extended family, but you have to like a lot of times, like that's the best option. And I think that like we've built so much guilt around that when like in reality, like it's like a privilege to be able to maybe depend on your parents, even though you grew up thinking by 35, I shouldn't have to anymore.

Right. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. We need the help. I definitely had that attitude. The system is fucked. We need the help to anymore. Right. Yeah. For sure. Yeah, we need the help. I definitely had that attitude. The system is fucked. We need the help.

So take it. Yeah. People want to give it. And give it if you can too. Give the help if you can too. Yes. Somebody is definitely willing to accept it usually. All right.

Let's, uh, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and we'll talk about somebody who took some help from her father-in-law. We'll be right back. And we're back. We're back. And this is the time of year where everybody, there's a lot of nervous energy. People want to know what's going on with the election. Uh, this is when you start getting the stories about the store that sells. Merch from both, like I think it was like t-shirts from both, from both campaigns and every year, whoever they sell the most of, or like cups, they

sell whoever they sell the most cups from ends up winning, like people are just looking for any story that will tell them who's going to win the election. The reality is absolutely nobody knows. Well, the thing is too, there's also this thing that the right is doing in the buildup to this election. There's constant alarmism from conservatives or it's like, illegal voting. Especially when you're looking at things like Mike Rogers, who's running for the Senate in Michigan,

he may have illegally voted by claiming an address of like a place that was uninhabitable. That's another news story that will probably develop over the coming weeks or not. But they're also like, it's about seeding this idea, the narrative that this election has already been won by Republicans in their supporters mind. So if they begin to contest things, they sort of the framing is there to be like, what the fuck, they stole it from us.

But it's the anecdotal stuff that you hear a lot of, like, like you're saying, Jack, like they'll be like, I was just with nine thousand black cops and they are all voting for Donald Trump. They just told me this is going to be a huge win. I was with 42 cricket farmers and they said they, they went from Biden to Trump. This thing's in the bag. And like, okay. I mean, I did this the other day.

I don't know if we ended up talking about it on Mike, but I talked to you, Miles, where I was like, I just saw this Tik Tok. Oh yeah. Guy was interviewing people at an Arizona state fair and everyone was saying Trump, we're fucked. I know like, come on. It's over, man. Oh my God, it's fucked. So, Lara Trump was recently on Laura Ingram show. And if you know, Laura Trump, she is the wife of Eric the lesser. And she also got her hands dirty with a bit of

anecdotal forecasting. And I just want to play this because this is a very, this again, oh, man, hold on to your butts. If true. It's over. If true, pack your bags up your escape plan. Yeah, please pack your bags up for Canadian, if true. So here she is talking about the secret sauce and the tea leaves she's been reading out there in America. No one buys that Kamala Harris has the capability to do that job. And polls like that, I think are absolutely ridiculous. I get slip beverage napkins every time I get on an airplane saying we can't wait

to vote for Trump, go Trump, Trump 2024 or people just coming up to me these days or everywhere I go, saying how excited they are to get out and vote and vote early when you go vote for Donald Trump. Oh, wow. Wow. Wow. Every time she boards a plane, people are sliding her airplane napkins. Just before they put the beverage on top of it. Here's where the story falls apart. Yeah.

Nobody carries pens anymore. No. Right. No one has the ability to write on your napkin anymore. Why are they using the same communication method that people who are being held hostage use to alert? Also every every plane you're on like maybe because maybe because you're flying on private planes Specifically chartered by the fucking campaign? Is that what you're, are you flying commercial all the time?

I don't know. I'm just, from what I understand, I believe that they're flying on, you know, a campaign chartered aircraft, but that, okay, that works too. And it is, it is wild to think it's like someone who would recognize you and would even want to get near you in public would also be a Republican. Right. Again, crazy if true. And that you would let anyone get near you in public would also be a Republican. Right. And that you would let anyone get near you in public. That I also.

Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Did you ever are you guys Nathan for you fans? Oh, love it. Love it. Okay. I figured because I like. Kenan. Kenan. But you know, the episode where he engineers that whole story that he can tell on late night shows.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so he's not lying Yeah, he's not lying, but he sets up this elaborate thing with the oversize suit so that he can say it I feel like this is what they're doing. They're like hiring people to give them napkins saying they're voting for Trump Can you imagine that scenario though too? She's like she boards a plane. She's like, do you mind handing me these napkins? What just please hand it to me I'll give you 500 bucks, okay Do you mind handing me these napkins? Yeah. When you're going to take my drink order? What? Just please hand it to me. I'll give you 500 bucks. Okay?

All right. Here's your napkin, miss. Oh, wow. Oh, shit. Do you see this? It says we're voting early for... Oh my God. Bless your heart.

So that happened and I'm not lying. Is that a way that people communicate with each other? Like sending... Like in a way that isn't... Unless they're like in trouble of some sort. I mean, that's like millennial Gen X, like that's school note passing was obviously a thing. Like, you know, you would write a long winded, remember when you would just communicate in notes in school and you would fill out like a line sheet of paper front to back with like the thing is man like I know you asked her to I know you asked her to homecoming but like the thing is like we

have something going before you asked and like doing all this kind of weird shit that feels like that do kids do that do they do y'all do y'all pass notes still is that a thing I don't know I mean are they on their laptops and then they can just yeah they just like yeah, they just like, yeah, Just text each other. Yeah, I'm revealing my age. Yeah. Okay. Thank you for super producer Victor said yeah, we texted. Okay, that's fine I was whatever that 11. Yeah when 9-eleven happened. I was a junior in high school. Okay, so hold that Yeah, that that makes sense. That makes sense. But yeah, the pen thing too. I mean, I guess you might have a pen.

I'm always like forgetting to pack a pen. Whenever I travel, I always try to make sure I have a pen. And it's the thing I always forget. On international flights, I've like not had a pen and the flight attendants like don't have pens when you have to like fill out that form. Like, so I doubt that. Oh, like any kind of paperwork. Right.

They probably, cause they probably get stolen all the time. They're like, yeah, man, these motherfuckers stole all my pens. What do you want me to do? But again, anyone who recognizes her is probably like a fucking Montblanc wielding Republican piece of shit. Who's, you know, I can imagine that like one person per flight. Right. On board. It is still kind of mind blowing.

We'll get into this and like the political donations section. Let's just move on to that, but it's wild. Like one of the Mellon people is like full boat, a hundred million dollar donation to Trump. Like it does seem like the rich have just openly declared war on all of us. At this point. Yeah, they're really the fucking worst. It's because they started moving at light speed during the pandemic with all that wealth accumulation. And now they're like, bro, this party can't do not pump the brakes on this thing. I'm

sorry. Like, you know, what, what was it like Like it went up 88% or something their wealth we talked about some just 80% the billionaire wealth went up 88% in the past four years. Like, host, everybody being like, this is this is an unbelievably huge problem. They have way too much money. Their wealth has gone up 88%. Yeah, they've just gotten, yeah. But anyway. So like along with this, like right, huge amounts of money affecting political outcomes right now, Senate races are tightening in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio, and if things go the wrong way, uh, this would potentially give the Republicans

a majority in the Senate they haven't had since 2016. And if Kamala ends up winning the white house, that would be disastrous for any kind of confirmation process of cabinet positions or judges, because at that point, you don't really have control over it in terms of Senate confirmation. In her cabinet though. So I was going to say, what do you think about that? I don't think anything good. I fucking hate it.

I hate it so much. I hate it so much. I hate it so much. I hate it so much. Don't move to the right. I hate it so much. I hate it so much. You're blowing it so hard. Don't move to the right. It's driving me fucking crazy. I was so coconut-pilled back in the summer, and now I'm just like, oh my God, please let this be over. Yeah.

Rat-pilled. Look, it was a rat summer, and now we're in the hangover fall, and we're moving to the right in every- Rapidly, rapidly moving to the right in every. Rapidly, rapidly moving to the right. Yeah. Purely listening to the same democratic strategists who have fucked the democratic party for the past. How, you know, since Obama got into.

And it's interesting cause it's like in the moment she chose walls, it was like, and now I shall mess everything up. And now everything else bad. Yeah, exactly. From this point forward. Whoa, good thing. Everything else will be bad. Whoa, pretty good rollout.

And yeah, I will continue to this point. So anyway, one race I think that should be getting a lot of attention, and it is I think purely because of the Senate math, but the why I think is important is Sherrod Brown's reelection campaign in Ohio. So he is the chair of the Senate Banking Committee. And that's a very, very powerful position when it comes to the financial sector, and he's been a vocal critic of cryptocurrencies and the need for regulation.

And it is for this very reason that a crypto pack is spending $40 million to unseat him. $40 million to unseat him. Fair Shake, which is the industries like crypto, Super Pack, they have raised just over 200 million dollars this cycle. To put that into perspective, right? The next industry group that comes in second place in terms of money raised, that's Coke Industries. You know, we know them, the

big boogie men. They've raised a paltry $26 million for this cycle. And we're talking 100 million from crypto. And it's right now crypto is accounting for almost half of the corporate spending this election cycle. So their tactics are just a carpet bomb the airwaves with ads. But in some races, like in shared Browns race, like it's just non stop ads, and they have nothing to do with crypto. It's just they're just helping Marino his opponent, they're just trying to

help him win as much as possible. So that so aside from the airwave stuff, sometimes they don't even have to spend money to get people to bend to their will, they'll just threaten to make it rain on a politician's opponent to get them in line. So the earlier this is from Slate quote, earlier this year, fair shake indicated it would enter the spending arena without announcing which candidate it would support soon after this is like in the in the Montana race soon after vulnerable incumbent

Democrat John Tester, who has criticized the industry in the past voted to pass pro crypto legislation. So their big pet project here is to try and get this crypto friendly legislation passed in order to sort of gain legitimacy as a financial product and escape the oversight authority of the SEC. And this is again from the same slight article. In 42 of the primary races where crypto backed super PACs intervened, the crypto sector won its preferred outcome in 36. In just two cycles of spending,

crypto corporations now ranked second in total election related spending and over the in the over the past 14 years, the entirety of the citizens united era. Okay, they've just two cycles it took them to fucking hit like just to get to second place. They quote, they trail only fossil fuel corporations, which have spent 176 million over that same period. And it's not just Republicans that are benefiting Democrats are also getting hit with cash in other races.

If they've been friendly towards these kinds of bills, then they are being rewarded with financial support. But it's clear the Republicans are much more willing to help here. So therefore they're getting a larger share of these dollars. Yeah. It's just, it's just the future is so yeah. Like if you want to see what the industry, what industries are going to run slash ruin the future, you just have to look at who is donating the most across the board.

And the future is going to be so stupid like crypto. I just can't understand it. At times I'm like, am I just like too old or stupid to just understand what the appeal of crypto is? But what if maybe I'm not and it just doesn't really make much sense? Yeah. I mean, I think for those in the beginning and it just doesn't really make much sense? Yeah. I mean, I think for those in the beginning, it was very idealistic where sort of like,

this is a decentralized form of currency that can operate outside of these, like the World Bank and these forces of corruptive forces. And now if they're just becoming centralized entities, so that's gone. But I think the other part still being influenced by like the greater markets, right? Right. And the other up and down and up and down. And I think what's interesting here, though, too, is because a lot of people have made money in cryptocurrencies, it's more people are trying to get in on it. And now they see

it as a way to protect their investor, it's an investment. So now they're now motivated to also vote like, let me just play an ad, there's like a thing where they're coming, they have like things like, I'm a crypto voter. And that's kind of, I'll just play this so you can understand. This is kind of the messaging to people to understand, like to say, like, we also have numbers out there. And this is how we can sort of get them. We can turn that into votes in an election. To be an American is to embrace innovation. And that's where blockchain and crypto come into play. Crypto equals innovation, innovation equals jobs.

That's why I'm a crypto voter. Don't let anyone else decide your future. Make a plan to vote. That's from Stand With Crypto, which is another pack. But again, and you see this with people that are invested in cryptocurrencies, to get this sort of legitimacy as a financial product would be huge for their investments. So now people are incentivized with their own investments to voter service. So it's, it's a huge thing. That's why I think Big Tech is realizing they have a lot

of numbers for people that are invested in their platforms or use their platforms that then they can, you know, turn that into a formidable voting block. And yeah, the money being spent is just like, will cause it would cause people's eyes to bleed 20 years ago, even because yeah, a lot of people are like looking at like I've never seen people just put this much money towards just getting one bill passed. And, you know, the, like, to your point, Jack, you can see that other industries are looking at it like, oh, you know, we used to just keep like friendly politicians there and give them sort of bills that they can vote on or whatever. But now just to go whole hog to say, we need to get this one thing done and make everyone bend to our will just may become even more so than new normal. I think it was just happening at a smaller rate than what we're seeing. Yeah. And now with citizens United, it's just open robbery.

Right. And I think another reason why people are always calling for election reforms with this kind of thing, because yeah, it allows someone to just step in and say, I will spend $40 million to get you to scare you. Are you ready to now play ball? And yeah. And it's again again seems to work. Yeah.

Open secrets did a dive into like who is donating to the Republicans and Democrats this time around. And like I said, one of the melon scions is donating a hundred million dollars to Trump, which by the way, like that, that is a great example of like a thing where if you look at how money is being spent, you can see the future. The money that was spent by these dynastic, these families with dynastic fortunes like the Melons and the Gettys and all those people,

since the late 70s, they've just been spending, spending, spending in politics. The rate of that those types of people have been taxed has gone way, way down to like now the average tax rate of the top 0.01 percent has fallen by more than half to about 30 percent while rates for the bottom 90 percent of people have climbed slightly. So they are getting better and better deals and the rest of the world is getting fucked. And so that it makes sense that that these people are continuing to spend and get. Yeah, it's an investment that actually gets you a return.

Yeah, I just like can't even imagine the need for like more than a hundred million dollars. Right. There is none like I'm like I'm not above a hundred million dollars. I'd love it. I welcome it. But at that point, it's like, okay, cool. Yeah, you won't hear from me anymore. I'm fine. Right, I'm chilling. Yeah, I will lay down for a long time. That's probably what I'll do. Yeah, I mean, I think that's why it's always just, when you get these billions of dollars in wealth,

you're just like, this isn't sustainable. Because if it's all about this explosive growth, that comes from somewhere else, that comes out of other people's pockets or rather the inability of other people to fill their own, you know, bank accounts with actual money that is needed. So I feel like that's a disconnect is people are like, well, why shouldn't people be allowed to make a lot of money? And it's like, well, they are, but there's no way to make that much money and have been ethical throughout the whole process. And have like had every single person working for you been paid fairly.

And you still have that much money. Yeah, exactly. And this is Selena Gomez. Um, and she doesn't want to talk about being a billionaire. That's just still so funny to me. She's like, I'd rather not talk about money and being a billionaire. Please just let me be Selena. Even though I'm not required to give it away and then you won't have to talk about it.

Yeah, that's That's the way 900 million dollars of it and we'd be fine with you the goodwill these fuckers would generate From just being like, you know what dude, I only need like I Fuck I don't even like I think I just need 80 million for the rest of my life. I'm 70 years old I think I'll be fine with 80 million dollars for the rest of my life. I'm 70 years old. I think I'll be fine with $80 million for the rest of my life. I'm giving the rest away. People would be erecting fucking statues. Yeah, for that kind of thing. But no, it's more just like, how do we protect this? How do we create more loopholes to keep our wealth? And how do we again, cozy up to people that are fine watching everything fall apart, but hey, we get to keep our money. people that are fine watching everything fall apart. But hey, we get to keep our money. Like OpenSecrets has like the,

just these industry breakdowns and like air transport donated $10.5 million to Trump, like real estate, 10.4 million. But I just like, I can't, I can't believe that it's now just like is Delta airline, like I didn't dig in deeper, but like are these like major corporations just like donating deeper, but like, are these like major corporations just like donating? Yeah, that's like Boeing.

Boeing is the large like in that category because then within transport, there's air transport. There's also airlines, which would be like the deltas of it all. But they also give money. Yeah, like UPS. They they're all I mean, because that's just how it is. You have to you have to get in bed so you can get favorable looks when it comes to regulation or not regulating stuff.

Even when one of the options is just like Nazis, they're just like, yeah, well, at Delta, we believe in everybody- Price gouging. Yeah. We believe in both price gouging and everybody having a free, the freedom to express their beliefs. Exactly. It's a corporate kleptocracy. Yeah. Well, what's happening with Milton, the fact that these airlines are literally raising

their prices so that people cannot die and the government is just like, okay, no problem, that's capitalism, baby. Yeah, that's capitalism. I'm hoping. They have the freedom to evacuate and we have the freedom to get rich. Right. Just like at what point will people be like,

huh, this doesn't make sense. Maybe we should change this. Well, I think that's where I think people know it doesn't make sense, but enough people who have, who have like the microphones to sort of shape public discourse, they're not saying it, right? Like the American prospect, I think reached out to a couple of the economists who were like slamming Kamala Harris because she deigned to say like, it's corporate

price gouging that's driving up prices. We need to get a handle on that. They asked them like in the, in light of what's, what happened in the aftermath of Hulleen and with Milton and price gouging happening, they're like, do you think that this is bad now? Like is, do you think this necessitates some kind of intervention? And they kind of were like, well, I mean, you know, kind of like they just not very forceful on it.

Um, which, you know, I think is pretty revealing because like the, the, their whole perspective is sort of aligning with what a corporation would want to do or, you know, what the free market should be doing. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and we'll do our, we'll do the sports section. We'll go to our sports guy for some sports updates. We'll be right back. And we're back. We're back.

We're back. And Hey, here's a fun story. Wimbledon is announcing that they're breaking with 147 years of tradition. Stop there. I love that. I love it. Just, I love seeing you. We're going, we're breaking with 147 years. What could it be?

No more strawberries and cream being served? No more strawberries and cream. They're now playing on sand instead of grass. They're scrapping the human line judges in favor of an electronic system that's powered by of an electronic system that's powered by artificial intelligence. Hell yeah. Okay. In many ways, I do think this is like one of the things that we should be using AI for is like a scientific thing that determine, that just like tells you a piece of information. It's like, yes, if medicine needs to use AI to like better diagnose different maladies, please, by all means. To decode protein shapes, yes, great.

To tell if a ball went in or not, what could go wrong? Great, fine. Yeah, right. Fine. Yeah, versus some racist guy who's like, I don't know if that was it. That did happen. So that whole Hawkeye thing, which is where in professional tennis, players can basically challenge a call made by the line judge,

and then they go to this thing called Hawkeye. God, Hawks are having such a moment right now. Yeah. Hawk to a Hawkeye. Yeah. They're killing it. The Atlanta Hawks. With those two things.

Oh, three. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Those two things I, they're killing it. The Atlanta Hawks look for the Atlanta Hawks to do good this year. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. Those two things are big though. But, and then like it tells you if it's in or not, that's like what that feels like, okay, that is what computers should be used for. Of course, Wimbledon has dabbled with AI in other ways in recent years,

and it hasn't always gone so well. Uh, they had an AI online feature called Catch Me Up that featured, uh, player profiles that just like weren't correct. They're like this young up and comer. And it was like a 36 year old person on the, like at the end of their career and stuff, it was just, you know, the shit that AI is terrible at that companies insist on using it for. Right.

But yeah, they, it's for, they first started using Hawkeye because there was this like controversy where like early in Serena Williams's career, she was playing Jennifer Capriotti and like this line judge just kept calling all of Serena's shots out. And people were like, huh, like even the, even the TV people were like, like we can see like from up here that that was the wrong call. So eventually they started using computers. Great. How could this go wrong? So the verge pointed out that these electronic, these ELC systems don't just capture how the ball lands, they record a ton of in-depth information, including players movements.

And that data is incredibly valuable, not just to players, but also to sports betting companies. So they actually make more selling the data on like how the ball moves and where it lands and like how the players move to betting companies than they make from TV rights. Oh my goodness. Wait, so what are they using the information for exactly? Just like to better, better odds. Yeah, to better handicap matches. Like I didn't even know tennis betting was a thing. But people bet on everything. Yeah, to better handicap matches. I didn't even know tennis betting was a thing.

Oh, people bet on everything. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure. I'm betting on marble races in the pandemic, like in the early lockdowns, I remember. Russian table tennis, still my favorite. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this guy, Allison, I don't know if you know, there's a player who got banned from

the NBA for gambling on his own games. In looking into his history, they found that he was taking huge bets during the pandemic on Russian table tennis because it was literally the only thing that people were still competing in. You got to get your fix somewhere. Yeah. I mean. That's wild.

Yeah. That makes a lot of sense to me because I feel like Wimbledon in particular is like, we do not change we Change but then it's like but you'll make money with this specific change. They're like, absolutely we shall do it and And we will change and it turns out that thing we said before about not changing That was like before yeah That was part of our change right because that was like the other thing too It's like you have to work like it's like you must wear white.

You know, like it was so strict. Super strict. Like there is so, yeah, they're so much so into like these really, you know, like just rigid rules and things like that. That they're like, ah, well, fuck it. We don't need, we don't need people standing. We don't need human line judges anymore. Which is fine. I guess a certain bit of, like you're saying, like that helps for when like

people are making egregious mistakes in calling like a ball in or out. But it's just interesting to even like fundamentally change the visuals of a tennis match, like you're used to seeing that, that official sitting in their big beach chair, I think they'll still be there. Yeah. Yeah. It's just the line judges who are like in the back looking at one line, the sitting in their big beach chair. I think they'll still be there. They'll still be there. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's just the line judges who are like in the back looking at one line the whole time. Oh, so they took it took their jobs. I think so. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. And Wimbledon is the last one to make this change. So like, yeah, US Open had it. US Open had it this year, I believe. Yeah.

So I can't think of a more stressful job than being a ball person. Yeah. Like at a grand slam. Yeah. And a major event. Oh my God. Imagine if you trip. Imagine if you miss throw.

Why would anyone put themselves in that level of stress? If you sneeze when they're about to serve, can you imagine? Yeah. I would totally fuck that up. Like I already don't know what to do with my hands normally. Like, I imagine just like always being on the sideline, just being like, wow, a lot of people are looking at me right now and I'm not allowed to move. So like you just, you would just like freeze with like your hands, like here. I don't know.

Like at your shoulders. Right. It's crazy. Yeah. Well, and I feel like every tournament, or not every tournament, there's always those videos you see too of the ball kid or ball boy or whatever just getting hit with a serve, like 140 mile an hour tennis ball. I'm like, oh, I'm 12. They're really good players who will just dish them d them like dimes, no look dimes to them.

Yeah, that's always that's like one of my favorite types of sports highlights is like Roger Federer, like when when like a ball gets hit to him and he just like will go behind his back to like directly to the line person. Yeah. But this just, this quote, the association of tennis professionals makes as much money from licensing ball and player tracking data as it does selling its broadcast rights. Like that doesn't even make any sense to me. Like that the amount of money that is in sports betting is just so beyond what I can conceive of that just like a slight edge, like whatever this AI is telling them is enough of an edge that they are paying the same amount that like NBC is paying the rights to broadcast the French open is like what,

how, how is that? I wonder if this is happening across other sports too, because as the sports, like sort of data analysis, technology improves, you're getting so much information and I get how it's useful to like a team to understand like the physical like load on a player and be like, okay, they can only do this amount of time or like, you can tell that they're slowing down just based on these sort of like analytical points. But yeah, like tennis is selling it.

Then like, is, is everybody, does everybody got some form of it too? My dad has been in a fantasy baseball league for like 40 years, the same one, like right when it started and now my husband is his partner for better or worse. And it's so funny because like my dad's room of reference, for better or worse. And it's so funny because my dad's frame of reference of what's available, my dad'll keep being like to John, he'll be like, okay, put this player through your system. And the system is just a free website that John knows about.

All right, put it through the system. Yeah, it's just a website that's available to everybody. MLB.com. Yeah. Right, right, right. What do we know about this guy? What do we know about this guy? What's it saying?

But there's just like. Who's this guy? Who's this guy? So many stats and ways to think about it. And I mean, just like fantasy baseball alone is like its own powerhouse industry of what people paid again. I'm sure, right?

Like, it's wild. Because the whole Saber Metrics thing coming out of baseball has just been like such a huge thing that you, I feel like that was just sort of like a domino to fall to many other professional sports where now like teams have like just data scientists now just crunching all kinds of numbers to be like, no, this is what we need to do. This is what we need to sign. This is what we need to rest.

I've played fantasy sports before with people uh, people who were in like the finance industry and like one of them admitted like later, yeah, I had like one of my quants, like do the draft for me, like one of my like quantitative people, like. What's the point? Yeah, exactly. Well, to win and yeah, they're just, they're just outsourcing things better, you know, optimization. It's a 100%. Yeah. I don't play fantasy sports with them anymore.

Because I don't have a quant. Yeah, my quant quit. Keeps quitting. Apparently, $17 an hour is not competitive. Yeah. competitive. Yeah. Yeah. Like the, so this reporter like went with the Hawkeye people and noticed that their information was being like transmitted live to like, not just the chair, chair empire, but to like a bunch of business partners of ATP and like

figured out that the business partners were like the sports betting companies. And he asked to the people who were like high up. Employees who were like making the system work and they didn't know that they were like, wait, really? Oh, I guess that's good for like business, right? Yeah. More people will hire. There are the people who actually do things.

Yeah. They're the people who do things. And then they're the like higher level people who are just figuring out how to make millions and millions of dollars. It's a weird world. It's a weird world. Weird world. It's going to keep spinning off in that direction as long as those people are allowed to pay

hundreds of millions of dollars to politicians. Well, anyway, invest in our technology. We got a competing one coming up. We have a system. We don't want to reveal it, but if you guys are interested. The system. The system. Yeah. That sounds like a grift already. Put it through the system.

Put it through your system. It's a free website. Yeah, I know. I just love that part too. It is this like, that's so like the sort of purity about like older people too. Or like they get so sort of the distance between like new technological advancements or the internet and they're like Why don't you load them up in that system you got there or like yeah, like when my yeah anyway Just funny. Where'd you find it? What's that system that you used to find songs like it's a Spotify algorithm, but yeah

System is telling me to listen to this week. That's right. Well, Alison Raskin, what a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist as always. Where can people find you, follow you, buy your book, all that good stuff? Yeah. So my book I do, I think is out next Tuesday, October 15th. It should be available wherever books are sold. Um, there's also an audible version and a Kindle version and pre-orders matter a lot. So if you're like, huh, maybe I want to read that someday.

Maybe that someday could be today. Cause that would really help me out. And then, um, I'm, uh, all on the internet at Alison Raskin. And I also have a mental health focus, sub stack and Instagram called emotional support lady. There you go. I'm at Alison Raskin and I also have a mental health focus, sub stack and Instagram called Emotional Support Lady. There you go. Emotional Support Lady, love that. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?

Well, I just saw, I took a photo of this very cute little comic that I saw on Instagram. That was like two little bears, like adorable little bears and one bear says to the other bear, why are you in such a silly mood? Then the purple bear replies, without it, darkness would consume me and that's where I'm at. That's so cute. Amazing. Miles, where can people find you?

Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah. Find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray.com. You can find Jack and I on the wonderful basketball podcast, miles of jack out mad boosties. And if you want to hear me talk about 90 day fiance, I do that on 420 day fiance. A tweet I like is from at Matt the brand who tweeted, the best part about driving a 2010 Honda Civic is you can just like bump

into stuff. Which is kind of like, yep, that's the way. And we were kind of talking about that on the other episode part about driving a 2010 Honda Civic is you can just like bump into stuff. Which is kind of like, yep, that's the way. And we were kind of talking about that on the other episode or earlier episode about just needing a car. Sometimes you teach lessons in when people are driving reckless. Be like, sorry, man. I'm just, you're going to have to bump into my little car. Sorry, sorry.

I saw a, uh, one of those stickers that says like, like, caution new driver on a windowless white van. Oh, that's not. And I was like, that doesn't feel like what someone's first vehicle should be. No, that's a very high level of difficulty. Isn't it? It's just kind of creepy, I don't know. Yeah, right?

Like, are you doing dirt in that windowless van and then you think by putting a new driver sticker on, people are like, oh, nothing to see here. Yeah, that's why kids are getting into it. Yeah, yeah, it's a bunch of new drivers. But the other part is just sort of like, to your point, you see that and you're like, wait, hold on a second. What the fuck is this? Yeah. You might be telling it yourself.

All right. Tweet, I've been enjoying PJ at PJ Evans tweeted meeting a friend's baby. Hey, what's up? Uh, which I just think is a funny thing to say to a friend's baby. And then, uh, governor Kathy Hawke you lot, Hawk you. What's her, what's her name? What of New York? Yeah.

Hokel. Yeah, I guess she couldn't fit the whole name. It's like Ed Hockley, the NFL? Yeah, it says Governor Kathy Hock you. But anyways, she said, my staff is telling me that New York is brat, literally 20 hours ago. And Mike Drucker, quote, tweeted that and said, way to strike while the iron is cold. I don't like that lady.

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out of Australia it's really a sight to behold as a appreciator of music this is kind of like a dreamy rock pop sort of song it kind of still feels kind of like summery but also just just nice music like if you're playing it it'll take you somewhere nice it doesn't feel like dark or aggressive so I like that for that very reason so this is a way by vacations not a way in a manger it's just a way just a way no no but if you want to hear me I am I do have a Spotify playlist of me singing all kinds of Bible songs yeah no crib for a bed all right well the Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio for more podcasts from Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app,

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