The Daily Zeitgeist - Cure For Fox News? Worst Flex Ever? 4.06.22

Episode Date: April 6, 2022

In episode 1220, Miles and guest co-host Joelle Monique are joined by comedian and host of Blake's Takes for God's Sakes, Blake Wexler to discuss Fox Viewers’ attitudes can shift when they watch enough CNN it seems…, All Qanon EVERYTHING continues…, What does it even mean to ‘flex’ anymore and more! Fox Viewers’ attitudes can shift when they watch enough CNN it seems… All Qanon EVERYTHING continues… What does it even mean to ‘flex’ anymore? LISTEN: Divine Ascension by Muva EarthSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 231, episode 3 of the Daily Zeitgeist. by Diet Coke. it but the show must go on so i'm just being honest with you zeitgang right now you may hear me sounding like a bad guy from a disney film or i'm just um but anyway this is the podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared America's shared consciousness it was another fucking hiccup

hiccup it is wednesday april 6 2022 which means it's not national hiccup day it's national walking day it's national sorry charlie day which i'm not sure what that means and uh finally it's new beers eve don't know what that means either but i just think it's a clever name i'm so sorry about these hiccups and look i know people are probably listening while they're listening to say do the thing where you think of a pink elephant engulf water or invert your body and take a sip or super super producer becca was like bet hinge at the waist put some water in your mouth rotate your right arm clockwise when it gets to 12 o'clock then take a sip none of them work i have a feeling it'll just go away because they are just diaphragm spasms. Anyway, I'm Miles Gray.

The hiccup you want. A.K.A. You know that's a bad look for you. You've got ketchup all on your fingers. Miles, you have to keep it limber. Miles, you have to. Miles, you have to. Miles, you have to keep it limber Miles you have to Miles you have to

Miles you have to keep it limber Okay, thank you The audience couldn't see, but a finger came up to the ear So that he could hit that final note for you When you're honoring the Cranberries You gotta know, cause You gotta hit that harmony You have to, you have to

You have to keep it limber People don't honor the harmonies People only know the melodies You have to. You have to. You have to, Lady Langer. People don't honor the harmonies. People only know the melodies. But for the people who sing the harmonies, I see you anyway. Chef Miller, thank you for that. Iconic cranberries, a.k.a. yes. A lot of ketchup on my burgers, you're referencing.

Yes, my grandfather's piece of advice for me in his old age. Just stretch your body. Just don't not stretch. That's the worst thing you can do. Sage wisdom from our elders. But I'm thrilled to be joined by my guest co-host today, who I don't even need to introduce her because you heard her laugh and you go, oh, there was magic in my ears. And that's right. The trend will continue.

Please welcome Joelle Monique. Hey, I would like to go on record as saying I think your hiccups are adorable. I hope they as long as they're not becoming uncomfortable for you because they're a delight to my ears. The only discomfort is at most maybe the listener and then me being like, come on, motherfucker, get it together. Doing a podcast and your hiccup in like some slob. But you know what? I don't want to speak too soon they may have subsided okay we'll take that we'll take that all right what else do we do on this show we have a guest co-host that's cool maybe we could just you and me could do the

show we don't even need a guest today because i feel like we have such a great guest i know but things are going so well right now my hicccups just subsided. I feel like if I introduce this agent of chaos into the mix that my hiccups will become resurgent. And then we're going to talk about nonsense for 40 minutes straight. You know what? Fucking I want to do that. Let's welcome our guest today. the master of chaos himself i mean i could introduce him like you know he's like a really talented stand-up comedian uh you might know his other podcast blake's takes for god's sakes or maybe just like his various works of comedy and you know he's touring all the time but i know him as the lord of chaos please welcome mr blake wexler hey everybody this is is Blake Wexler, a.k.a. I Smell Wex and Chaos Hair. Joe Wells lounging in Jack's chair. Wise Blake casting mischievous stares in Zite's direction. Miles, this surely is a dream.

Yeah. I dig it. On the top of the dome isn't that what he says after doesn't he throw in a random dig it dig it oh there's a dig it in there I didn't want to take that many liberties for me I don't have the confidence for a

dig it but yeah Marcy took a dig it for sure what is Marcy playground story that's a great question like was that like a playground they played at? I know, like, I remember going up the rumor Lincoln Park was called Lincoln Park because they wanted to be near Limp Bizkit

when you're like at Tower Records, rifling through CDs. Who wouldn't be? But I don't even know if that's true. This was in the era of all of the bad rumors that were word of mouth. I think Marcy Playground wanted to be near Macy Gray, I think is why they did it

Do you guys want the Wikipedia answer? Yes The band is named after the Marcy Open Grade School in Minneapolis Which is the alternative school John Wozniak attended Oh, okay, so it's relevant Yeah, he said

He chose the name because many of his songs Were inspired by his childhood Oh, I like it There's some depth there. I hear you. He chose the name because many of his songs were inspired by his childhood. Oh. So there you go. There's some depth there that I didn't see coming. I like that. Right? Yeah.

Blake, what's new? How have you been since the last time, since last we spoke? Since last? Things have been so, so, so good. And now, since watching your hiccups, I honestly have. It's weird because I Joelle is very sweet and said what I do feel in my heart. But I also do see it as a disadvantage for you and a way for me to assert dominance in a conversation. So everything I say, you're like, well, really, that sounded smart, folks. You guys believe this guy?

He's the host. You know, like how a good guest tries to do. Assert dominance. T-Rail host. Just every time. It's like, I'm sorry. I wish I could take this, the point you're trying to make about Katanji Brown Jackson, you know, like have it connect.

But it just sounds so jokey with your cartoon hiccups. Yeah. Also, I wasn't listening. We're good. We're good. No, I think we've made it. I think we've crossed the Rubicon into non-diaphragm-able spasmsville. Okay? Both terms are kind of jarring, where hiccup is a very jarring term to hear audibly. And then diaphragm spasms also kind of makes you recoil when you hear yeah you know they're both a little over the top yeah diaphragm spasm does feel like like some kind of like you're on your way to death like if you're like and then they had the diaphragm spasms oh no it's really

bad that's like right before the death rattle is right exactly first you cough really quietly into a white handkerchief and there's a little blood and then the next step is he's got the diaphragm spasms yeah where's your handkerchief that you usually carry around with you my little blood handkerchief your blood chip there there was a tweet i forget like maybe a year ago that someone wrote that was just so funny about how how gentle people are with that cough into the white handkerchief in the film. It's always like, just so light. And then it's like, no. Oh, yeah, that slow reveal of like, oh, it's tuberculosis.

You got the burks. You got the burks. You got the burks, fam. Joelle, you're right. The slow reveal makes it. Because if it was the other, like. Yeah. It would be a horror movie. Now you're horrified. But this way, you're like. Oh, right makes it. Because if it was the other, like. Yeah. It would be a horror movie.

Now you're horrified. But this way, you're like. Oh, right. Oh, no. Oh, no. It's just a cough. And now they're going to die. Oh, tragedy.

Yeah. They're just like. Or they're going up as flighty stairs. Are you okay, Papa? I'm fine. You go ahead. You go ahead. They wipe their mouth.

Insert shot. Bloody handkerchief. Papa's in trouble. Anyway, let's tell the people. No, I have more to say on this. I think that also with the handkerchief thing, it is funny that they do tuck it away, you know, where they don't tell anyone. They're like, oh, no, no, no, I'm fine. No one's ever like, I'm bleeding out of my mouth.

Guys, I'm bleeding. I'm bleeding. Nobody ever draws attention to it. Right. No one's like, oh, my God, is this bad? Ew, ew, look, look, ew, ew, ew. Mom, mom mom mom am i contagious should i not be around the children it really should be their first thought

good point even better soldier on like valiantly make everyone else in my house sick right it's like well i don't want to look vulnerable because then i'll be a nuisance so i'll just endanger everyone else um That's really wonderful. No, I do want to keep talking about that. Because you wouldn't just have a bloody cough out loud. Scaring everybody. Coughing all over the white tablecloths. People would be nervous.

Because I guess, is that like the earliest version of hiding your zombie bite? Probably, yeah. I mean, if you think about it. The whole vampirism. Like that entire genre. comes from the Victorian era where we're dealing with a lot of new diseases and a lot of death happening. And so, yeah, it makes sense to me that out of the horror genre, what comes after vampires is typically zombies. And yeah, they were trying to hide their sickness. We still had to go to work. There was no social help at that time.

No. No mutual aid to come in and uplift your family. Oh, you got sick? Sorry, your family's on the street. You got to just deal with that. It's just like, oh, you're sick? Oh, what are you sick? You're sick. You're sick.

You're sick. He's weak and God has not chosen him. Yeah. Yeah. That's all I got. The devil got in him, so sorry. I'll just say this. It's all about preventative care.

If you're coughing blood, speak to a doctor. And that's not medical advice. That's just me watching a lot of movies and being like, if they spoke to the doctor, this movie would be less interesting. But anyway, let's talk about what we are going to talk about. It is always a red handkerchief, too. Or it's never a red handkerchief. It's white.

It's white. It's usually white. It would be funny if it was red. And it's like, guys, is there blood on this? I can't tell. Is it blood or is it saliva? I don't know. Here, rub it on something white and see if the red comes off.

Can I see your white one? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Rub them together. Oh, yeah. And then that's an added 10-minute scene of everybody arguing the best way to determine whether or not their red handkerchief

doesn't in fact have blood on it okay we can keep doing this for a long time but let's tell people what we're going to talk about first off fox viewers attitudes can shift if they watch enough cnn new research says maybe pretty good right pretty good see i'm auditioning to be on the news also uh the all q anon everything train continues now that you know a few senators on the gop side said yeah we're not totally racist we we think kataji brown jackson should be in the supreme court and that got some interesting responses from their fellow republicans we'll also just i just have to talk about like what flexing even is anymore in the age of logan paul who's a troll flexer um because we'll talk about how he pulled up with a five million dollar pokemon

card around his neck anyway we'll get to all of that but first blake what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are what if the handkerchief was like you know the magic trick where they they keep drawing all the handkerchiefs out of their sleeve? It's like endless handkerchiefs and they have to cough in each individual one until they're out of blood. You know what I'm saying? Okay. That's what I just Google searched. No, my Google, it was a very long one.

Google, what if you have one of those really long handkerchiefs? What if? You know how all the revelatory google searches start with what if that's that's how they start uh no my uh google search was jim nance tie t-i-e and that is because so jim nance is a well-known broad sports broadcaster and he does uh ncaa games and also does the masters which which is coming up. And he did this weird thing for years. And I was trying to figure out if he still did it where he would take his tie off after the college basketball final and give it to his favorite

child who was I mean, they're college kids, but would give it to his favorite college kid in the tournament. And no one knew why he was doing it. It was so fucking weird where the biggest moment in this kid's life just won the championship, holding their mother, their dad, their families there. And then this weird man with thinning hair. Hey, hey, hey, hey. It's coming with a garment.

And they're like, I don't know what this is. No one ever knew what the hell it was. It's a used tie. You're welcome. It's my used tie. They're like, we don't know who you are. Oh, it's me, Jim Nance. Yeah.

Oh, okay. Are you the chancellor of the school or something? No, no. I work for CBS Sports. Oh, I talk while you play. I made you famous. Yeah, your talent was good, but the way I talk while you play. I made you famous. Your talent was good, but the way I announced it really delivered it home to the people.

Got it. Okay, thank you. You playing for free allows me to make all this money so I can buy nice ties and give them to a kid. The least I can do. Why aren't we following this? I think it's pretty clear what's happening right here. It's called effective altruism. So weird. But he doesn't do

it anymore i don't think thank god because uh oh has it been right because i feel like that was were people just like yo do what did he ever explain why he stopped was it because people were like what are you doing i'm sure he does have some i like not enough of like lack of self-awareness to continue to do this because i think it became people were like yo all right what are you doing like and it's not what you're doing isn't technically illegal or wrong or against the rules but it is we don't like it like no one likes what you're doing it's strange so i think you just stopped doing it it makes you like this weird it's as if you're trying to say you're also some kind of adjudicator of what happened in the tournament. Yes. You created your own jank ass MVP award where you're like, and the tie of gymnast goes to this young man. All right, folks.

Is this on TV? No. Okay. Well, I just want you to know that. That's for me. So strange. So strange. So I wonder who have the past tie recipients been?

Uh, I think it was maybe ryan archidiaco i only remember because i think villanova was one of the last ones and yeah i think that was the last one who got it in 2016 17 it's just it's so weird it's one of those things that doesn't sound that weird but then if you it's a thing that does happen in real life and you're like, oh, that would be very strange if a man approached me with like, yeah. Yeah. And began undressing. He's like, hey, I want to talk to you. And you're taking your tie off. I'm like, yo, what? Run. Why is nobody for what reason? Like, are you trying to box me like an old action film? That's why you're loosening your tie. OK, well, good to know.

And do we know why? And is there can we find any correlations between tie recipients and what happens in their careers? Is it like the new Madden curse? I good to know. Zeitgang, do we know why? Can we find any correlations between Thai recipients and what happens in their careers? Is it a curse? Is it like the new Madden curse? I need to know. Blake, what's something you think is overrated? Overrated? Hot coffee, I'm going to go with. Okay.

Hot coffee. Explain. Joelle, I don't know if I'm going to win you over here, but it's... Okay, I'll see. Okay. Explain. Joelle, I don't know if I'm going to win you over here, but it's... Okay, I'll see. She's accessing her hard drive space with that eye roll. I am backpedaling physically as I'm speaking out of the room. Out of intimidation. I prefer, I just think if you get a good coffee, it's better cold as a cold brew because you can actually taste not the way i just

said actually i don't like that that that's in my personality because you can actually taste the nuance of the coffee what was i doing before you weren't actually tasting it um you think you were but you weren't like you weren't right you think you don't have no idea i think for a high quality coffee you can taste a little bit better and i run hot and uh i think depending on if there's like a staircase i have to climb up or if the weather is just a few degrees too warm i'm sweating while drinking coffee oh yeah i can't i cannot drink hot coffee when the sun is out like i've the times like i'll take my dog on a walk. I'll go to this coffee shop. I'll get, like, hot coffee if it's, like, in the morning and it's cold.

The second that shit goes above, like, 60 fucking five, which is very hot to me as an Angeleno. In the morning, I'm like, nope, I need someone on ice now. I can no longer drink straight coffee, which I think I talked about with Jack, but not you guys. So listen, it's, I love coffee as a kid. You know, once I got into middle school, my friend and her mom and I could do like three pots of coffee in an afternoon. It was a problem.

We drank way too much coffee. I could do like three pots of coffee in an afternoon. It was a problem. We drank way too much coffee. The way you mentioned that, you act like you had some like operation going. We're like, yeah, we'd work three pots of coffee. So here's what happens. Her mom puts it on in the morning. And like if I spend the night there, we'd be up by like 10 in the morning. So then we come down after her and we get our coffee. And her mom's one of those like 40-ounce like 40 ounce cup drinkers you know so she was going she either had a diet coke in that thing or coffee

i don't know if it ever got washed you know what i mean it was like coffee diet coke player all the time and then you know so we would come down and we would finish off the pot between the two of us and then we'd make another one she's the one who taught me how to make coffee and then you know in the afternoon her mom comes back to refill it and then there's like a little leftover that was we were constantly just making coffee for each other right right definitely like continual and nourishing and i'm from the midwest so you know it's cold as h in the morning and so it was really nice to have a warm cup of coffee right now that i'm a los angelino i always have one of these audience Oh, nice. Audience, this is an audio program. I don't know if you know. They just found out.

It's iced chai. I used to put espresso in it because, ugh, amazing flavors. I can't do that no more. I have the anxiety. I am on antidepressants and ADD meds and the coffee was sending me off into, like, very loopy head spaces. Yeah, yeah. and the coffee was sending me off into like very loopy head spaces so like yeah but i agree that based on our location it's kind of ideal just to always have a nice coffee you can't the sweats are not fun um it's something you always regret you're like oh man maybe i'll have like a nice

hot cup of coffee this morning and then inevitably by like noon you're like like, I want to die. I don't know what to do. So I'll even, even if I'm hot and it's cold outside, I can't drink coffee. Like if I'm wearing a jacket and I'm sufficiently warm, hot coffee will push me over the edge. I was in New York for like it during like around Thanksgiving time. So it was pretty cold. And I was like getting a hot in my jacket. I got a cold brew and like everybody I was with was like what are you doing people like are wearing gloves and stuff i'm like i it's a very delicate like temperature balance within my body and i think i'm just like you like one fucking degree in either direction and like i'm gone you get what having those seasons does to you yeah yeah you gotta change it every four months what What about other heated drinks?

Like if there's like a hot apple cider or a hot cocoa in the morning, is that good? Or are we still dealing with the same temperature issues? So that's a very, very good question. I think where it gets complicated is coffee is kind of business-like to me in a way that it's not just to enjoy the taste. It's when I'm, for instance, for this podcast, I'm like, oh, I want to be a little more alert it's not just to enjoy the taste. It's when I'm, for instance, for this podcast, I'm like, oh, I want to be a little more alert. I'm going to drink some coffee. There's some sort of utility to it where a cider, I think, is purely or like a hot cocoa or whatever is a purely enjoyable thing. So I'm like, oh, I can sip that a little bit. And then if I'm not

feeling it, I can just throw it away. You know, where if I throw a coffee away, I'm sip that a little bit. And then if I'm not feeling it, I can just throw it away. You know, where if I throw a coffee away, I'm like, oh, now I don't have that energy. I totally understand. Listen, here's what you do. You get a hot apple cider and like a cinnamon swizzle stick. But then also put like, you know, some star anise and really get into your spices bag. And a cider is going to really take you over the edge. Because not only is it delicious, but now there's like a sharpness to it you know it's much less of a the kick in the

ass that coffee is but it's still uplifting you it's still like making the brain get going it's nice i like that star and you what the fuck that was beautiful are you got some what the fuck you just grind a little bit over the top little top. That's what you're up to? Little cinnamon swizzle stick. Yeah. Man, I got to go have coffee at y'all place. Having fancy white friends really just changed everything. The things it does for your coffee.

I mean, facts. You know, where would I be without the white people who's like, you don't drink coffee like this? And I was like, I didn't know. Right? You didn't get the drip? Are you still brewing it in your Mr. Coffee? I am.

That's not the right way. Also, shout out to the white hom homie alex who got me on cold brew because hey casey whenever i was like whenever i was like yeah coffee doesn't he's like you need to try cold brew man and i was like thanks for putting me onto the game i appreciate you man we had an issue at one point where i'll like not make this gross but like my fiance and i were when we first started living together had like bad stomach issues first thing in the morning and every morning like would have to like go like rushing to the bathroom for like months for not just months maybe six or seven months and then we realized it was because we were drinking like the trader joe's cold brew concentrate without cutting it with water oh no or that's how i drink milk no i know and uh it's so obvious it's like oh you're a grown man you should know that that's gonna have a negative effect on your body and we were both laughing as reasonably intelligent

people depending on who you ask like we just we're just every like just poisoning ourselves every morning with with um yeah this uh this coffee laxity but yeah nothing like a cold brew jiffy loop you know just to just to flush the system really that's true maybe that's yeah that's but you know it's funny that's how i drink cold brew to get the effects of caffeine is just i have to drink it uncut and then then i'm like oh i'm on the verge of a panic attack perfect that's You got to get right there. That's superhero level. I cannot.

Oh, you know, and I always talk about this Vietnamese coffee. What the fuck? Man, that's guaranteed existential dread in a cup for me. But look, I love what you guys are doing with coffee. Blake, what's something you think is underrated? I love what you guys are doing with coffee. Love it. Love to see it, folks.

Love the panic attack in a cup. It's just so caffeinated. You know what I mean? And I'm the same way, Joelle. If I get to a certain point, I've just become like a vision reactor of anxiety. Oh, yeah. No, it's horrible. With unlimited powers. Yeah.

If used the incorrect way. So, yeah, that's why I'm like i gotta sometimes you gotta be careful anyway overrated what's something that's over oh i'm sorry underrated blake what's something that's underrated miles first of all it's okay and then second of all uh i think underrated is kind of going with what we've been talking about a little bit a mid-sleep wardrobe change where i've been what yes sleep okay go on so i like i said we'll sometimes rev hot and we'll be sweating a little bit and or am just uncomfortable at the very least and i used to be like god i'm so tired i don't feel like getting up i'm just gonna stay in these clothes or whatever and like you know there weren't enough ways uh variations of my blanket

situation for me to correct the issue but then now i've been like you know what i'm hot i'm gonna change out of like you know like flannel pants like you know long sleeve shirt into like a shorts and t-shirt situation you know and that's the wardrobe change or vice versa might be a little cold put on another layer grab another blanket do, do something like that. And you don't regret it. Why not preempt the change so you don't have to disrupt your sleep with discomfort? That was my, that's my first reaction to hear, to what I'm hearing right now, because I run hot. I don't wear clothes barely when I go to sleep. I mean, I don't sleep naked, but like I've, I grew up taking my clothes off as a child, not knowing how my body, how to regulate my temperature.

And I was foolish. And then I had to realize you run hot, either have thinner blankets or, you know, you don't need to wear a full blown arms and legs covered pajamas. I have heard that you exclusively just wear a Lakers hat when you sleep. Exactly. With the sticker still on. Yes. That's my sleeping cap. That's how, you sleep. Exactly. With the sticker still on. That's my sleeping cap. That's how you know. What do you wear? 7 3 quarters? What's your head? Come on, man. My head's not that big. 7 3 eighths.

That's what I wear. Joel, what size is your head? Now we're just going around. I'm a lass and I don't wear that many hats. I hear you. I have no idea what. And I know that I do have a large noggin, though, because when I try on hats, it is a challenge. I'm like, point me to your bigger hats because the stuff you have out here on the average side is not working. I have the biggest back of my skull.

Like from the front, you think, oh, it's all good. Then I turn profile and they're like, it's aillac this man has death in the back he got the diamond in the back i have a lot of forehead and i think maybe that's also the same in the back i don't know forehead before this turns into a problematic uh discussion about brains and skull shapes and sizes uh-oh uh no thanks a quick break and we'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church.

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to fox news or like my fox news family or you know my family's a fox news family we've all heard this and you know a lot of people again because of this we've we've seen how sort of this sort of Fox News radicalization process can take hold over time. And not to say that watching enough MSNBC doesn't do something to you, too, because it does. You see that when people aren't bothered by real things that are happening in real time in front of their faces. I'm in front of their faces. But these two researchers just published a study on what they call partisan coverage filtering, which is basically that if you're like a particularly partisan news outlet, you're going to basically selectively report on things. Because if it's fucking up the narrative that you need to keep your listener viewers or whatever in check to be going along with,

oh, this is what the GOP is, then, yeah, you're not going to report on the bad shit because that's going to completely threaten this sort of worldview that you're trying to create. And, you know, again, this is all this does is create a person who's now operating in a reality who has a biased set of facts that they're operating from and how they look at the world. So for Fox viewers, I would say that that biased set of facts would be something like that COVID isn't that serious, that masks don't work, that Trump was one of the most effective presidents. Democrats let like looters run their cities and white people are the most vulnerable group on the planet Earth. Those are that's sort of like the general sort of nonstop flow of bias information that you get out there.

So these researchers wonder, well, what happens if you just switch someone's media diet in the other direction? Can this, does this have any effects? And the simple answer is yes. So this is how they sort of did this study over of the 763 qualifying participants. They randomized 40% of the treatment group. So the other 60% weren't like 100% red till I like, I bleed. My eyes are red. My hair is red. I'm so red. I'm GOP, Jackie, whatever you, these people are full blown Fox brain people. So then what they did was to change their slant of their media diet quote, we offered treatment group participants $15 an hour to watch seven hours of CNN per week during during september 2020 so this is in the lead-up to the fucking election okay and they then uh they were prioritizing the hours at which like if the participants that they basically said if you're normally watching fox news at that time

we'll give you 15 to watch cnn instead and then at the end of it we're going to kind of survey you ask you questions about what you're seeing and what the information is that you're sort of taking in. And what they did is, quote, at the three day mark, the viewers took a survey and they found, quote, large effects of watching CNN instead of Fox News on participants, factual perceptions of current events like their beliefs and knowledge about the 2020 presidential candidates. They discovered changes in attitudes about Donald Trump and Republicans, as well as a large effect on their opinions about covid they even then went on to articulate observations that were essentially like oh so fox just won't cover anything about trump if it's bad and they're saying like oh this is something new now this is i don't know I don't know. I don't know what to make of this. I know, jokingly, people are like, oh, well, there's the Democrats' midterms fucking strategy is just pay people to not watch Fox. And sure, maybe that could be a weird, subtle unemployment plan for Fox viewers to be like, hey, we'll give you some money if you just watch CNN a couple hours.

Just a little bit. Just to see where that goes. But I don't know. Does't know does this does this resonate with with uh either of you or in general yeah i think i'm trying to recall um this is sad what's the school shooting after sandy hook the one in florida uh marjorie stoneman douglas yes there a kid from there was talking about like how he had to move out of his father's house because his father started to believe that school shooting that he survived was fake. Right. of television and really these news networks and their ability to corrupt and and persuade people to believe that whatever they're saying is the truth and i mean we talked a little bit yesterday about the ways communities sort of insulate people and makes it comfortable to stay there

and i just wonder if there's a way like it just seems to me that the only way to stop Fox News from continuing to just out and out lie to folks is for the government to come in and be like, we do have to pull your funding because just from a factual rate, like you guys are no longer a news program, you're entertainment. That's something that was talked about a long time ago. Maybe seven or eight years ago, like, you you know a lot of news sources are you know get funding or tax breaks or whatever because you know it's an essential part of our democracy is that people have access to the press and then you know but then that's obviously a slippery slope

of like this you know we can barely agree on facts anymore anyway right but yeah i guess i guess if you can you know i've heard of people being clever enough to like block Fox TV on their parents television on their grandparents television on that weird uncle's television. You know, I would like to see more of that. Get proactive with your families. Start to do as I like to say. So, yeah, if you can go in there and block that channel and be like, well, you know, CNN's right there. Maybe they've got some information you can go in there and block that channel and be like, well, you know, CNN's right there. Maybe they've got some information you can use today. They're like, no, I can't. It's all crap. And they're going to just talk nonsense about my president.

They'll go to YouTube and fall down an entirely different, terrifying hole. Oh, God. Yeah. You inadvertently are like, well, I turned that spigot off and they went to go drink from the toxic cesspit. How many things can we block in this house? Do we just unplug everything so they can't watch it? I'm putting child parental locks on all of it. I mean, that's what other people do is like they'll put probably they'll restrict websites for their parents or put the parental locks on the things and then just like play dumb when it comes to me.

Like Fox won't come on the TV anymore. I'm like, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. You got to call your cable provider. You might have it. comes to me like fox won't come on the tv anymore i'm like i don't know yeah i don't know you gotta call your cable provider you might have it yeah in which case they'll probably be like are your kids trying to fucking keep you from hearing the good word but i mean yeah like to your point about the power of television it really is like we so many people are entranced by this you know the spectacle of the television you know and that

everything that emanates from it is somehow the truth and people like it's the same thing with the internet there are a lot of people like well if it's on the internet like it's and people are saying it so forcefully like there must be some like shred of truth to it in the same way like well if this person's on tv like they don't just let anybody on TV that it has. There must be a shred of truth to that. But yeah, it is really frightening. Like you're saying that example of like you're you're even looking at something that's your your child lived through. But because of the like you're just being constantly bombarded with this kind of messaging, you're like, I don't know, maybe my kid's trauma is a lie. He's an actor that they paid to treat the level of mental gymnastics you have to do to stop believing that your own child survived a shooting in your own neighborhood.

Like you. I mean, unfortunately, now we've all lived through a tragedy where you're hearing sirens from everywhere, where you're getting calls, where you're on social media. Like we know what happens when tragedy strikes it's very like clear cues so it's very you know challenging for me to believe that this guy didn't actually live through the event and then get so brainwashed he was like what i experienced didn't actually happen right that is bizarre that is i'm sure there's word but it's a it's broaching crazy who knows how many layers are there too i mean i don't know i mean like this is i'll give this person the goodwill of thinking they maybe thought they were a good parent and maybe there's some level of guilt that their kid was exposed to that that they're in denial of that turns i'm not excusing it but i'm just trying to figure out

i'm trying to figure out how you go from like oh my kids all shook up to nah it's so scary i think that like so much of empathy is humanizing the people that you might have a differing view of and you know when these people turn on cnn it's like oh these aren't lizards you know what i mean like these aren't these are actually human beings with like heartbeats who like you actually can add a human face to the other side of like what they're used to hearing. And it's like, oh, no, these are people like me. Not exactly like that, but like it's enough to be like, oh, it's not that shit crazy that like, you know, the fact that there's a virus. They don't have lizard skins. virus they don't have lizard skins you know so when i think that was a thing they saw in the research was just hearing over and over like a measured thing from people who were like doctors

be like yeah it's really important to keep yourself safe rather than the other side of me like but fauci's lost it i mean he's the new dr mengala you're like what the fuck oh my god that probably will put you in a different posture when you're trying to understand or process information. So I don't know if only it were that simple just to be like, just watch CNN and then you'll be indifferent about racism. So you can get you can get you can get any way you live, basically, when you're watching that good old TV. And just to touch back in with the GOP. So Katonji Brown Jackson, pretty much all but formally confirmed at this point to become the Supreme Court's first black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice. Unlike that Politico gaffe from a few days ago, where they said the first black justice ever. But wow. Yeah, everyone

was like, a lot of people were even like, damn, even I mean, we know Clarence Thomas is, is a bit of a fool here. But we're even going to skip Thurgood Marshall. So that's what happened there. But anyway, so on Monday or yes, this is Monday, I believe, at the end of Monday and going into Tuesday, we get some news going on that we have some GOP senators who are interested in backing her confirmation. Senators Murkowski, Collins, and Mitt Romney. And, you know, we talked about how this was, Katonji is clearly one of the most qualified nominees like I have ever seen in my short life of being able to be aware of a Supreme Court justice.

But, you know, it wasn't a surprise that we saw her support just be like at a majority when she before the hearings and then despite the efforts of the gop to smear her and align her with pedophilia and like child predators and things like that a lot of the people who saw those confirmation hearings like they it only increased their support for her which is wild to think like it didn't go the other way where suddenly you you gave the conservatives they're sort of like their orders on how to view this confirmation they go yeah she's soft on this blah blah blah like people saw that they're like oh that was fucking like she handled that well they look really out of sorts

insisting this gross shit so her uh her approvals went up and again a lot of and then we pointed out too a lot of this stuff is all q anon sort of based save the children children are being trafficked by liberals narrative sort of thing that's going on so we have like fucking clockwork marjorie taylor green just out here out here tweeting that because of those three senators who were supporting her, she said they were now, quote, pro-pedophile for doing this. That's where they're at. Wait, sorry. Roll back. Just for supporting Kataja Brown?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They said, oh, you think she's going to be a good judge? That means you're pro-pedophile. That's where they're going with it. They're slamming the gas on the nonsense. But Kataja hasn't been accused of anything. What is the correlation? Because the whole thing is about how she was adjudicating a case dealing with child pornography and that she said there was nuance that there was like they were these very different cases where she's like, well, this person was 18.

And like is this this kind of material? This person was older and like was dealing with like was preying on their own family and she was just explaining like why she was you know right have different idea on the sentencing but they took that to be as oh she's soft on all pedophiles when even this is a thing lindsey graham himself was saying like we need to sort of like look at certain laws around in in this part of the law because there are things that do need to be changed that there isn't just like sort of a one size fits all kind of measurement so they took that and just ran with it and that's all they did kept insisting that she was okay with it that she may in fact you know be completely indifferent to

people being people preying on children and And it was just it was gross. And, you know, to just go in this direction, like you're pro pedophile. It's just, again, more of this hypocrisy on display. I mean, as we've talked about, whenever people talk about child predators and things like that or trafficking people, the GOP always forgets Matt fucking Gates. Never mentioned his name. Actually in office. Oh my God. And under investigation for fucking sex trafficking.

Multiple times. Potentially with like a minor. So what are, but yet again, you want to go, you know, take the stage with him at multiple ignoramus rallies that y'all hit up and, you know, keep it moving in that sense. That's why I'm thinking not that's not, that's why I'm thinking that's why it's so clear, you know,

what their hypocrisy around protect the kids. Because if, if, if it really was about that, you would keep that same energy up for every single thing that was actually about that. If y'all really cared about kids, you would listen to child psychiatrists and let like trans kids transition in a way that makes goddamn sense.

Like if you really cared about kids, you would not be so worried about like making sure that the F or M on their birth certificate matched the genitals in their pants. Like y'all are the wildest about like monitoring and, you know, you would make sure that there would be enough funds to give uh poor kids so that they could i don't know eat and you wouldn't try to monitor what it was they were eating that people were getting that they cut off right which just so eagerly took away if you worry about kids you would eliminate school debt like there's just about 60 bajillion things you could do to make sure you would give schools more money. So because we have a teacher shortage and teachers are fleeing from the profession and they're not getting the education they need. There's so many things you could do to support and uplift children

that wasn't just randomly pointing to people that you don't like and calling them pedophiles. It's just such like a, and I think it really hurts like, you know, the hunt for actual pedophiles because you're constantly just being like, Oh, what about this person? You're conflating. It's ridiculous. It's like this judge with a nuanced view of the law as being a pedophile. And now they're like, oh, but these, and this is the thing, like we're saying,

if they actually cared, then you would see them move in that direction. But because they don't, all we can do is look at the things they are invested in, which to me looks like just slowing progress at any moment, preventing people of color from ascending or experiencing any kind of equality. Those are the things I actually see them have consistent energy for. So that's why I'm like, okay, let's just put this fake, fake argument to the side, because that's clear that they don't give a fuck about that because their actions don't show that. And then I'm going to say,

what does this align with? Oh, right. They're're just they're bigotry because that's that's what we saw it's the same kind of like hyperbolic like honestly like a like a what a 12 or 11 year old would say in that like you know it's the same thing when oh they're hitler this is not this is nazism you know like when you know like for vax mandates or wearing a mask or whatever it's, you go to what's the, what's the worst thing a manageable Hitler. Great. That's Hitler. What's the worst thing? Pedophile. Okay. We're going to use the word pedophile because that's the worst thing. And God forbid anyone reads and literally it's not even hidden in a paragraph. It's no, it's not, that's not pro pedophile at all. And you brought up a really cool thing, I think, too, that a lot of people that might get lost in during the like the nomination process is that like Judge Jackson's experience is so impressive that we kind of have forgotten about that in the incredible fact that, you know, she will be the first black female supreme court justice if you even got rid of that and just looked at her fucking resume blank it's like oh this is one of the most

qualified people we could possibly have on the supreme court you'd be like oh is this the chief justice of the supreme court yeah this person's already been chief judge is this john jay like who is this you know what i mean and it's just so, so qualified because that's the thing, too. Obviously, so much fucking race goes into this as well as the fact that, like, they just looked at this resume. Yeah. And they're like, well, we're fucked on them. We can't we can't actually do anything on the merits because we're cooked. This person is fucking infallible. Like and that's what I think that's what's so disheartening, too. Like, and that's what's, I think that's what's so disheartening too. Especially, I think for a lot of black people who watch that confirmation hearing go down and only have the one black person on the judiciary committee actually stand up for

her. I was like, see, this is what too much MSNBC will do to people's brains. That shit was wild. And can I just say, people were like all over Cory Booker being corny. I was like, yes, Cory Booker is corny. Okay. He's a corny human being. Everyone knows it.

But you know what? Who do you run to when you're sad? Your corniest friend, okay? Who's bumping you up, making sure you don't feel too sad, making sure you got what you need. You good, boo? Like, it's your corny friend. I speak as a corny person, okay? You need corny people in your life.

Stop dunking on Cory Booker for supporting a black woman. And literally in her time of need, she's being bombarded by some of the stupidest ever be put into power and not a single person was really she has to answer the dumbest questions like the restraint on her face to just be like i'm not gonna curse these assholes out i'm not gonna i'm gonna try not to make them sound as stupid as they're being and i think a lot of their base recognized it somebody posted a video from like an iowa like meeting the other day i don't know if it was like a town meeting or like a something but it was citizens and politicians and somebody was just like reaming this guy for being like you had an opportunity to ask judge brown like actual questions and y'all wasted it you wasted it all of these moments these

buzz moments you were trying to get for television, you just completely dropped it. You pulled up children's book in a congressional hearing. Are you out of your damn mind? She did not write. She has not endorsed or promoted, but are simply available at a school where she sits on the board. You are out of your fucking mind.

Here's the thing. I used to think for myself but here's it i get a lot of these talking points from like the federalist society or the judicial crisis network who package these talking points together for me to then regurgitate on tv to give some yeah it's it's it's that's the problem when you're not your own person uh in congress but yeah i honestly like i thought that was to see the Democrats not really protect her was all I needed to see to continue to see when I'm looking at them sideways when they say we're really about fixing inequality and things like that. I'm like, well, none of y'all really

took the time to take your colleagues to task for the transparent bigotry that was on display when they're coming at your Supreme Court pick like is that what you would you do that if you had a friend of color and some people were being we're going off on them we just be one of these people who just like I don't know I don't want to get involved with that I don't want to society that chirps a lot about you know protect black women we've been seeing a lot of people not being down for that cause lately no no I'm saying a lot of people just standing on the sidelines watching black women get pummeled and being like oh but she could take it she's strong yeah she knows what she's doing i mean look how she handled it i mean that oh wow look

how she handled the beating it's like you should have prevented the beating she shouldn't have had to handle it yeah you know what i mean and that's the thing that i think is so so frustrating especially for any marginalized or oppressed people is like the resilience is always commended rather than putting the energy into making life easier so you don't have to commend their fucking resilience for being able to withstand that okay let's take a quick break um and we'll be right back to just talk about fucking Pokemon. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast Forgive

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And if they only made a few dozen where I guess the original creator of Atsuko Nishida is like the person who created Pikachu, you know, made this card. They were given away to people and they're super fucking rare. I'm just like, this is where we're at. Because again, he's such a troll. He's just being like, here's $5 million on my neck that's that's what i'm doing because this is some troll shit but i'm just like are we just 18 months away from now just these weird naked flex moments where it's like and this is my 401k this is my mortgage okay i have my mortgage tatted on my fucking back like i don't know what why is this i don't know this really upset me more in the sense that i'm like it because i

think flexing is already so dead like it's such an empty pursuit to to like say i'm this is me because i have this shit but to this degree i like, it's becoming an even more like weird parody of itself. But that's also me being an old person. This damn troll out here. Five mil on his neck. I don't think it's you being an old person because like it's it's silliness and it doesn't even look good. Like looking at like as far as like, oh, this is a fashion moment. Even like if you think about you know

i don't know who wore the swan dress bjork to bjork yeah okay exclusively any swan dress it was bjork yeah there's one swan dress you know you can instantly see it the dress is wild but at the very least it's like oh this is artistic and interesting right even if you're like i don't like it you're still like wow somebody put a lot of thought into designing this dress right it's like well made all of that even gaga's meat suit again totally gross as hell but saying something and i was like whatever it was wagyu yeah yeah come on man blake don't embarrass yourself yeah no it's a regional uh again if we zoom out a little bit right i sometimes feel the same way when someone's wearing like a five million dollar necklace that's actually like jewels and looks good you're like

oh that is think of what you could be doing other than just wearing that around you're like where could this money be going and doing and helping i think a lot of times when looking at high-end fashion you're sort of kind of calling into question like what are we paying here for artistic skills is just the name on the shirt right i'm kind of over strictly flex culture and i'm much more into fashion culture and fashion right now is doing a lot to try and turn the trend of fast fashion whether that's like repurposing clothes or designing clothes with old clothes and making new stuff that's kind of like you know edgy or cute or whatever i think that there's something to be said for like wow that look is hot as hell as opposed to that item is exclusive and i can't believe you have it how

much is it because so much there there is this like very you know i see especially with men's fashion quote-unquote men's fashion like streetwear where people don't even people don't even look good anymore they're just like oh i got the fucking amiri hoodie with the palm angels jeans and you're like this shit looks fucking not good but i get that you're caught like but everything you wear is so heavily like this is like a these are six thousand dollar pants or whatever you know what i mean that it is like a way to just sort of swag by number it by just being like i don't know it's expensive so it must mean it's good and that's just how i dress because if i do that then people say that outfit doesn't look good.

And I said, yeah, we'll cost $6,000. Well, there is maybe again, maybe I'm just so young and can't relate to you guys. But I do wonder if so I'm getting married soon. And I'm I don't know. I wouldn't call it a flex. It's just how I live my life. I don't make as much money as Jake Paul. So I'm getting my ears pierced.

And in one year, i'm having like a custom like framed picture of my landlords of edmo account who i pay each month on one side half the rent my fiancee pays the other half and then on the other side i have like a bike lock a key to my bicycle to the lock up to the uh to the lock is that that flexing? What kind of bike is it? What kind of bike is it? It's a Fuji. Two-wheel. It's a two-wheel Fuji. Not having the third wheel, which would be great.

You don't have that Mercedes racing electric bike? That would be a flex because that's just like 9K. This is a chain-based bicycle. Oh my god, just stop talking, bro. You're dishonoring the show with your lack of drippage and flex-worthy items. It's giving 80s futurism. Like, if you hang that key like Janet Jackson hung that key from her ear,

you know, and gauge the ear and, you know, the other ear with the landlord's Venmo in it. I'm writing down what you're saying right now. What would be the biggest flex for y'all personally? That if you saw some, and it doesn't have to necessarily mean that it's what's the most expensive thing, but for you, the most, like if you saw somebody wearing something,

whether that's a piece of clothing from a film or an artifact they're rocking, what would you be like? Oh, that's stupid, but that's right up my alley. Morpheus's trench coat. The purple-y alligator one. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that shit would knock me on my ass.

I'd be like, how and where? Wow, that's a really good one. Okay. I'd go dodo bird beak face mask. Just of an extinct bird. Extinct bird. I love it. I love it.

That does go hard. That does go hard that does go hard it tells you who you are who you're who you're dealing with for sure yeah yeah my god i don't even know what would it if somebody honestly it'd be i don't even know i'm like really trying to think like what i would get so excited about if someone wore j dilla's mpc as an as a neck piece i would be like whoa okay to a grammy's they're like look at this this is dilla's mpc that would be cool because i'm just thinking straight artifacts you know this is the shroud of turin okay you take the shroud Turin. And you tie that up like a do-rag. Woo! You know they make Shroud of Turin merch, right? Like you could easily.

Yo. There's a Shroud of Turin beach towel. I kid you not. Whoa. Right. Or like you would wear like King Leopold's like fucking crown. But like you'd melt it down because like he was like a wild slaver. And you would like, like you would recontextualize like

slaver luxuries that would be sick the explaining you have to do when you wear that you don't even need to just for you to be like you know what i did i took their fucking ill-gotten gains and turned them into my own shit fuck you you think these are artifacts fuck out of here i don't know that'd be kind of cool i would i would take slave or artifact change mine to okay i might change mine to lbj's toilet that he would talk to people through the door from and put wheels on it and use it as like a vehicle like to drive professor x chair like a mobility chair and wear his and wear his pants so he's got enough room for his bunghole yeah and his balls or what does he say like what i think he said bunghole have you heard that joel it's how he would speak to people in the song yeah and he was talking to his tailor how he needed better pants because his balls are too big

and it it cuts up on his bunghole so much more information than i ever needed about LBJ. I know. Wait, hold on, where is it? Ten to fifteen pounds a month. So, uh, leave me at least two and a half to three inches in the background, let them out, or take them up, and put, make these a half inch bigger than the waist, make the pockets at least an inch longer.

My money and my knife and everything fall out. Wait just a minute. I'll sit and wait just a minute. Hello. He said wait just a second. Now, another thing, the crotch down where your nuts hang is always a little too tight. So when you make them up, give me an inch that I can let out there because they cut me. They're just like riding a wire fence. These are almost the best that I've had anywhere in the United States.

But when I gain a little weight, they cut me under there. wire fence. These are almost the best that I've had anywhere in the United States. But when I gained a little weight, they cut me under there. So, leave me. You never do have much margin there. Let's see if you can't leave me about an inch from where the zipper ends.

LBJ! Back to my bunghole. He's disgusting. He's so disgusting. People got to know about those historic moments. Wow. Yeah, that would be sick, too. A pair of LBJ bunghole pants.

I've never spoken to a tailor like that in my life. The confidence in what he knows that he wants for me, it's like, just do, make, you do whatever you know how to do to make this fit me. Yeah. That's a man who's had many fittings. That's somebody make you do whatever you know how to do to make this fit me you know that's somebody who like you know what they have their problem they know like they know their body well and they know what they're up against with clothes all the time i'm the same way like where i'm like i just know like i could look at pairs i'm like okay i'm gonna need to buy a pair bigger i'm gonna have to get that tailored okay that's gonna work out because you know it's not the same

for everybody the inch adding an inch to your pockets though i'm like what kind of like an inch what are you carrying he carried a lot of money he said his money and his knife are falling out you think he's carrying like more space those big ass like uh jack nicholson like when he was a joker of like long barreled revolvers like yes where he can just pull just straight out the pants pocket like the whole shit comes out you're like damn but he's like that's not a knife this is a knife this is a knife yes this is a knife but yes okay so just for the record uh bunghole pants i think would be good i'm just i just want to think if there's one other pop culture i really like the morpheus the morpheus jacket with lbj bunghole pants king leopold's crown turned into a grill that says

fuck all colonizers i love it yeah i would say alia's crown from uh the vampire movie she did too she played like queen of the dam yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it Queen of the Damned? Was that the one she was in? Queen of the Damned. Yeah. She wears a sickening crown in that. I would absolutely love to rock that. Would rock the Nike Batman boots. Oh, right.

Those Jordans that were turned into the Michael Key. Oh, wow. See? Okay, Joelle, you're really coming up with deep cut style artifacts. And that's what I like. I don't know. I'd be like, what the? That would really cause, for me, who doesn't really, I don't know much about fashion, but

I would be like, what is Joel going to rock on the red carpet? Last week, she had Lil Pump's Roblox suit. He wore that. But turn that into a fucking really dope hat yeah the michael jordan wow okay anyway zeitgang let us know uh what's your coveted artifact that you would wear to actually be a showstopper and not just just truly transparently naked displays of wealth like rocking a five million dollar square of paper around your neck. Blake, thanks so much for stopping by, man.

Thank you. Where do the people find you? Where do they follow you? Where do they experience you? And what's a tweet that you like? These people can find me at Blake Wexler on all social media, BlakeWexler.com. And then I have a podcast called Blake's Takes for God's Sakes. Comes out every Wednesday.

And stand up. I'm in Boston at the end of the month. Not this month is not July. I'm in Boston at the end of the month of April, April 30th, 7 30 PM at the hideout in Boston. And, uh,

before my tweet, Joelle, this was so fun. Miles, this was so fun. I'm glad you're not hiccuping anymore. And I'm from the bottom of my heart. And Joelle, I hope you never have to hiccup ever. Wow. Thank you. That was so fun. I'm glad you're not hiccuping anymore. And I'm from the bottom of my heart. And Joelle, I hope you never have to hiccup ever.

Thank you. That's so kind. Wow, you took that protect black women sentiment. Right, he's really here. I took the note. You understood the assignment. You wished her no hiccups. I like that. I took the note. is from at chip chantry c-h-i-p-c-h-a-n-t-r-y uh we should all start calling miniature golf golf and call golf giant fucking golf at chip chantry what you doing now we're gonna go play some giant fucking golf with your uncle later oh okay yeah more of a golf guy. Joel, how about you?

What's a tweet that you like? Where can they find you and follow you and all that? Yes. Okay. Well, first of all, y'all know me. I'm Joel Monique. You can find me all over the internet. I'm Joel Monique.

It's J-O-E-L-L-E-M-O-N-I-Q-U-E. Okay. I got two good tweets. So, first of all, the coward representative Jean Schmidt of Ohio just introduced HB 616. It's her version of the don't say gay bill. Fuck you. Somebody, she ran away after dropping this bill on the floor and asked reporters not to harass her when they're asking questions about the bill. Again, a coward.

Someone responded, why is she dressed like a mom villain from an 80s movie uh she's got a nice scarf in her hair it's a pink oversized button-up jacket and some white tight pants and a white turtleneck it's giving evil villain and she just for what she is so that's great also there's a book from a writer named glenn boo. She wrote it. It's called There Are Moms Way Worse Than You. The cover is a giraffe kicking its baby in the face. It's got amazing, amazing pages. Like, if a quackabong comes face to face with dingoes in the wild, guess what she'll do to get away? That's right. She'll toss her child. So moms, if you're not feeling like the greatest mom, you can go pick up this book and find Animal Kingdom parents so much worse than you.

And maybe it will uplift you. So thanks, Glenn Zuzan, for posting about your book. It's amazing. Let's see, man. What's a tweet that I like? Man, there's so many good ones out there in the world today. But really, there's this one from Luke M moans m-o-n-e-s l-u-k-e-m-o-n-e-s uh tweeted remember the day biden won and the vibe in most city was

ewok celebration great tweet it's a big there's a big um look i'm emotionally invested in ewok culture you know ever since return of the jedi and then even those weird spinoffs that they had after the fact. There's something that hit me about that. Just Ewok celebration. Teddy bear partying. It's great. And meanwhile, I'm like, and they're my ghost homies waving me on saying it's all good. We're just going to be over here kind of translucent for you. You can find me at Miles of Grey on Twitter and Instagram. Also, check out the new podcast

miles and jack got mad boosties an nba podcast where we talk about the nba just our love for the nba it's not about you know deep x's and o's analysis or we're screaming about how much we hate certain players no we're just here to celebrate so it's a nice listen it's a good listen for the neutral and even if you're a casual fan because it's mostly just us having a good time, but about basketball. Let's see. Where can you find the rest of us? Oh, yeah. You can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, 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. Footnotes? Thank you. Thank you? I'm sorry. That was good. Thank you. I'm sorry. I screwed up. That was good. Thank you. I came in late. No, that's okay.

Timing's not your thing, but we'll work on that. Where you can find, yes, the footnotes. One more time. Footnotes. Find it. Okay, we'll workshop that one. Where you can find all the articles we talk about,

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It's just really nice and moody, but funky at the same time. So this is Divine Ascension by Mother of Earth. So check that out. What else do we do? Oh, yeah. Daily Zeitgeist is a production ofension by Mother of Earth. So check that out. What else do we do? Oh, yeah. Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. So for more podcasts, check out the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you find your favorite shows. Until then, we'll see you later today with What's Trending.

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