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Episode Date: February 28, 2025

In episode 1821, Miles and guest co-host Matt Lieb are joined by co-host of Pod Yourself A Gun & Mad Yourself A Man, Vince Mancini, to discuss… Rightwing Media And Politicians Doing Overtime At The Consent Factory, Gene Hackman’s Death Is Shrouded In Mystery, An Oscar Frontrunner Still Doesn’t Have Distribution and more! Rightwing Media And Politicians Doing Overtime At The Consent Factory Jesse Watters Doesn't Know What Park Rangers Do (Clip) Ben Shapiro Doesn't Know How Medicare Works (Clip) Gene Hackman’s Death Is Shrouded In Mystery An Oscar Frontrunner Still Doesn’t Have Distribution No Other Distribution: How Film Industry Economics and Politics Are Suppressing Docs Sympathetic to Palestine and Critical of Israel Oscars Best Documentary Feature breakdown: ‘No Other Land’ is a vulnerable frontrunner Does No Other Land’s Oscar nomination suggest the Academy is progressing? No Other Land Has Exposed the Film Industry’s Cowardice No Other Land review – powerful Israel-Palestine documentary is essential viewing LISTEN: Gimme gimme by Kvng Vinci L.A. Wildfire Relief: Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yeah, it's like, is he skinny or is he fat? He's like the human dress, that dress that people didn't know if it was blue and yellow or white and just in between. Yeah. I'm like, you know, I'm like that cat that's neither dead nor alive. Yeah. Schrodinger. Yeah.

Is that Schrodinger? I thought it was the cat's name. Yeah. Who? Wait, whose gun is it then? Oh, all right. It's all these people's names. Like one of the cats. Why did you only need one of Gene Hackman's dogs? I know the answer to that actually.

Okay, we're going to get into that. We're going to get into that because I'm glad we got the film crew today. Hell yeah, dude. We're taking over the... You're outnumbered. I had to get the team together. I know, bro. I brought it all myself.

Yeah. Jack was like, yo, dude, are you going to be with us? I'm like, yeah. He's like, all right, I'm going to be out. And I said, who's the guest? Vince? And I immediately told Victor, I said, get Matt. Yeah.

Yeah. Let's change this. This Daily Zeitgeist episode is now a mad yourself a man episode. I thought you were like, oh, just Vince, you need Matt. Otherwise, he's change this. This Daily Zeitgeist episode is now a mad yourself a man episode. I thought you were like, oh, just Vince, you need Matt. Otherwise he's not interesting. Yeah, otherwise it sucks. I can't get shit out of Vince, dude, without Matt, man. Yeah. True. He's my muse.

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Well, well, well, look at you. You tuned into this podcast and you thought maybe you'd hear Jack's voice, well, you are mistaken, it's me. And you are welcome to season 377, episode five the daily zeitgeist a production of my heart radio You already know this is the podcast. We take a deep dive into America's sick Fucked up shared consciousness and it is Friday February 28th It's blackout Friday where you know people are encouraged to maybe withhold

Giving the oligarchs your dollars today because that is that is one way we can rest control they need us to spend our money so they feel good so just put just for one day and there is these oligarchs and turn them into small regard thank you there's a lot to talk yet thank you my co- pun. And for those, maybe you probably read the description. I have brought the chaos from another podcast basically into this one. But hey, it's an experiment, and we're all going through something.

So let's just let it fly. It is Friday, like I said, February 28, which is National Skip the Straw Day. All right. Rare Disease Day, USA. Wee! It's about to be every day. National Chocolate Souffle Day, National Tooth Disease Day, USA, weeeeee! It's about to be every day, National Chocolate Souffle Day,

National Tooth Fairy Day, National Floral Design Day, National Public Sleeping Day, which feels a little bit odd. What does that mean? It just means take a nap in the theater? That's a waste of money. Yeah, anyway. I feel like this is, it's a way of, you know, for the unhoused out there to be like, this is our I know in a way that it feels like one of those things where

Because we live in a like country now or if you've gained to fall asleep outside people wouldn't be like hey no loitering men Yeah Anyway, so there's a sleepy guy. He's having a dream poke him This guy's working three overtime shifts consecutively. Call the cops! Call the cops. Anyway, my name is Miles Gray, AKA, well it seems to me you missed that drone, now your sandals in the wind.

Shout out to Blinky Hag, referencing that very fake promotional video for Steak that Drake was like, what's this drone doing? Looking at my weird betting website. And then did the fakest sandal throw I've ever seen. I think anyone who's had a chunk letter or seen a chunk letter fly through the area like that is not proper form, sir. But you are Canadian.

So it all makes sense. Anyway, I am thrilled to be joined by my co-host the wonderful and talented comedian. You know him from his podcast, bad Hasbro, you know him from the frat cast, you know him from pot. I mean, maybe I'll save this because I'm gonna say the same shit for our guests too. Anyway, you know the incomparable co host Mr. Matt Lieb. I'm Matt Lieb, AKA, if Matt Lieb me now, you'll take away the biggest part of Matt Lieb. No, Matt Lieb, please don't go.

I changed keys in the middle there so I could hit that falsetto note, but no one will notice, so delete that. What's up? So stoked, so stoked to be here. Great to have you, Matt. one will notice. So delete that. What's up? So so so great to have you here. Great to have you, Matt. And maybe people heard this in the cold open, but Jack was out is out. Obviously, that's why you hear these powerful voices before you now. When I saw the guests and I said, you know what? I've been on a podcast with these two before and I've listened to the podcast.

They have together the frac cast. And I look again, you can't check me out on pod yourself a gun, which was a jeopardy fucking clue. I caught that earlier this month. Shout out to that wonderful moment. But our guest today, fantastic writer, film critic, you know him as the OG film drunk. You might know the sub stack, the hashtag content report by Vince Mancini. You might know again, pod yourself a gun, pod yourself a wire.

And now we are what, mad yourself a man? That's right. That's right. Talking about, I'm guessing, Mad Men? Well, anyway, welcome to the podcast in our third seat, Vince Mancini! Yeah! Yeah, give it to her, JJ.

Give it to her, JJ. Oh, Vince, oh, Vince. So good to see you, so good to see you. So good to be back. I steal all of Joe Sinclair's best lines and you know. Yeah, he's fine with it. He's fine with it. Exactly.

He's got a beautiful life and a beautiful wife. Oh wow, and those are his beautiful, that is his beautiful wife and that is his big house. It is not his beautiful house. He actually lives with his in-laws, but otherwise like everything else is true. How did he get there? They let him move in.

He lives at Nugs. Dude, wait, so- Those are supposed to be rhetorical questions. For people who don't, okay, so people probably know just, most of our listeners are familiar with one or either or both of you, but Pod Yourself, a gun, I saw this, like I caught that shit somewhat live, like before people reposted.

Yeah, yeah. And I said, what the fuck, pod yourself a, this was in a Jeopardy clue, okay? Do you all know how the, like, how? No idea, no idea. But I do know this. On Twitter, yeah. I do know this.

I was so excited by it. So the category was TV rewatch podcasts. And ours was a question for 200. And it was essentially like, uh, uh, pot yourself a gun is a reference to the theme song of this, you know, HBO TV show. Yeah. Right. And, uh, they said it was Sopranos. And then they repeated it. Ken Jennings said it twice. Pot yourself a gun. Yeah, right. And they said it was Sopranos and then they repeated it. Ken Jennings said it twice. Pot yourself a gun. And I was so excited that I watched the episode and all of the other four, all of the other four in the category were all TV rewatch podcasts that are hosted by actors who were on the show they're talking about. And that made me more proud than, you know, yeah, I

feel like that makes it a great, greater honor. I also feel like all of the other podcasts are thus fake because as I've said, celebrity podcasts are stolen valor. That's right. Yes. Yes. That is true. Yeah.

No, go on. I like that. Yeah. No, if you, if you, if you already are famous, you should be, it should be illegal for you to podcast. That's right. No microphones are allowed in your house. Either you get a TV show or nothing.

You can't do a podcast. The podcast is the realm of the loser, the freak, the moron. Right, right, right. The who? It's supposed to be a who's who? Yeah, exactly. And now it's literally a who's who. I'm like, come on.

That's why the Jeopardy clue is what is, hide yourself again. That's what people should be asking because they don't know about it because they don't, you know, we don't have a promotional. I might actually, I might be crossing paths with Jamie Lynn Sigler and Robert Eyler in a few weeks. Not, they're not going to be on the show, but we're going to be at a similar event. And I'm just like, dude, I'm going gonna fucking freak them the fuck out what I just pull up Yeah, if you see Jamie Lynn Siegler be like, hey, you know your friend Robert

Eyler was on man pod yourself a gun. What about you? Oh, yeah. Yeah, how come you haven't been on it? And I call her mad too when I pull up Going on the pot? The fuck? Well, anyway, good having you both. Let's tell everybody what we're going to dive into on today's episode. First, right-wing media and politicians, they are headed for overtime shifts at the consent factory because it's time to manufacture fucking consent for all these wacky, I don't even know if this shit's austerity

anymore. This shit is like just next level fuck you chaos causing from Doge and the, you know, Trump and the like. So we'll touch in to see just kind of what sort of stupid ideas the right wing media machine propaganda machine is trying to seed into their brains. Like, no, it's totally fine that you have no way to be alive anymore. It's actually good. So, you know, let's let's look at it. Medicine is the deep state. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Actually, we will now face medicine with meadow soprano. So just watch episodes of the sopranos and

you know, hopefully you will do a lot better. We may also touch on the great golden toilet robbery, which is just now the trial is going underway. And also- That was actually Matt's nickname in high school. Shut up. The golden toilet, yeah. The golden toilet. And because we were actually just talking about Jeff Bezos,

AKA Sex Luther, how he thinks he's sexy Lex Luthor. It is also, unfortunately, that comes along with the passing of Gene Hackman, the sexy Lex Luthor. It is also, unfortunately, that comes along with the passing of Gene Hackman, the original Lex Luthor, who's, at the moment, death is completely shrouded in mystery, so, but this is a podcast, so we will wildly speculate irresponsibly. So we will look into what is going on there,

as well as just checking in with an Oscar front runner that somehow doesn't have any U.S. distribution. Some people are saying, well, this documentary market is just really cooked right now. Other people are saying, is it because they're showing a slice of life for Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank? Is that? It could be that. But it's not, but it's an Oscar front runner. No, no, no, no, no. It's no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no this problem, but, uh, that thing's always loose. Makes me crazy. I'm trying to drive around in my car, but it's like falling out and it's loose. Yeah, it's loose.

It doesn't, you can't, the thing's always falling out and it's like, like the number one thing in my life that you got a slutty iPhone. I'm sorry. What happened? What happened? You dropped it a bunch. I've never, I'm not sure. I've never dropped it. I've never dropped it. It's like like the number one thing in my life that you got you you got a slutty iPhone What happened you dropped it a bunch I've never I'm like no shit is not my shit is in there is it

How new is it vines loose like a Matt's mom? I mean I have my last one for like four years Look I look the listeners I told youustered and I just, it's just like my baseline. I couldn't let that stand. Couldn't let it stand. I mean, how do you, so what do you do? Put a bunch of fucking glue in there or what? Yeah. I spray, no, I have, I don't know what you're supposed to do. That's the other thing that- Well, you Googled it, but you didn't read the result that you got.

None of them were good answers. I mean, I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie.

I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm I spray no I have I don't know what you're supposed to do That's other thing that you Google did but you didn't read the result that you got none of the good answers It was like clean it out. I'm like, yeah, I've already cleaned it out. It's loose. You're missing out what I'm saying. It's loose It's not dirty. It's fucking dirty. There's like yeah, there's space in there that moving around structural integrity is compromised Well, it's older as things get older. They get looser. Yeah, it's not that old. It's like a compromised. Well, it's older. As things get older, they get looser. Yeah, exactly. It's not that old. It's like a 14.

Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, everything fucking sucks now. So everything sucks. Number one being that you can't Google something and find out the answer anymore. Number two, that you just have to buy different products from China and hope one of them works right.

Because you buy the iPhone plugs, some of them work, some of them don't. You don't really know which one's gonna work. That's why they come in five packs. Yeah, it's like, okay, I'm just gonna test it out, see which one actually works here. Right, right, right. Oh, shit.

But that's one thing you should know about me is that I complain about everything, like I'm 75 years old. Yeah, yeah. You don't look a day over 74, man. What's something you think is underrated Vince? I mean, I, I maybe shouldn't say this being that we have a podcast about prestige TV. I feel like, uh, underrated, you say underrated, right?

Underrated, I say going to the movies. A lot of people don't go to the theater anymore. I still do. And I really have come to enjoy it. Cause it's like the only time when I'm like, away from your kids scrolling. Yeah. I'm just not being bothered by things.

And most of those things that are bothering me are self induced, but like, I can allow myself not to be bothered in a movie theater and it's great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, so are you, how old is your kid? You said three? Three.

Yeah. Yeah. Have y'all been to a movie yet? We have. That's still early. Oh, shit. What was that like? Yeah, I took him to the Wild Robot and he had a great time. He stayed and watched the whole movie. He ate an entire thing of Sour Patch Kids and drank an entire Icy.

And when we got home, as soon as he walked in the door, he puked on the floor of the kitchen and it was blue. It was great. And you're like, yeah. She's like, what'd you do? I'm, we went to the park. I don't know. Yeah.

We were at the library and there's just, I'm not sure. We should maybe call the doctor. It's what I'm doing. We were learning for sure It actually wasn't it wasn't like a huge, you know, exorcist style vomit. It was just like a little bit It wasn't a Baja blast. No I actually didn't know he did it blast. Yeah, I didn't know he did it until he said I threw up. Oh That's not just a new catchphrase you're trying out. That is very right.

That is blue vomit. What's something you think is overrated, Vince? Yes, television. Not, you know, not prestige TV. What are you doing to us, dude? Not prestige TV, like our podcast. We're trying to let people know. Underrated celebrity hosted podcast,

overrated prestige TV. All right, fuck us all. No, it's just, it feels like homework now. You can't, it's just every, it's just, there's a bunch of different shows on a bunch of different channels and you can't remember which one and like where you're watching each of them

and how far you're in. It's just, it's too much. It's like, my brain, my ADD brain, it's having a lot of trouble with it these days. I think like I maxed out at whatever the program offerings were around 2006 or seven. Oh, yeah. That was around like when I'm like, yeah, bro, I'm up on everything. Yeah, that was like, or most things. That was like, every show was

good. Yeah, right. Oh, maybe that's what I'm thinking about. Yeah, what happened to when it was good? Well, they still knew they were making TV back in the day and now they're like, we're gonna make a 12 part movie and I'm like, guess what? That's not how I'm watching it. And now I don't know what's going on in severance anymore. And I don't feel like a, I mean, Vince and Matt, like you guys are, you talk about hashtag content a lot. Is there a phrase for like this feeling? Because I think I talk about this a lot. That's why I don't know half of the Marvel films because there's too many came out and I'm like, yeah, bro. That's at a certain point, the discourse just takes off. And I'm like, well, I'm not putting

in the fucking effort to be able to participate because I didn't care enough to begin with. But like, the that feeling of being overwhelmed by the amount of fucking TV and streaming shit that is and I fuck it all. Actually, I'm a watch old episodes of some other shit. I think, yeah, I think we're all siloed, like in our different, you know, content bubbles. And I think like we've maybe passed peak piggy like a few years ago, because like at a certain point,

like Marvel stopped making movies that were supposed to, you know, I mean, they still want them to be big events, but they listened to the piggies way too much. So now they are like strictly for like the hardcore Marvel piggy that really- Yeah, the hogs are in control of the slot factory. The hogs are at the wheel of the tractor. Yeah. are in control of the slot factory. The hogs are at the wheel of the tractor.

Yeah. And so like you end up having way too much content out there. That's all shitty and is all what's worse is it's all interconnected. So in order to understand one piece of slot, you have to already be familiar with the previous slot portions. Yes. And it's just, and if you're watching a Marvel movie, like you kind of judge the reactions of the people around you to figure out if you're supposed to know a character

that shows up on screen. You need the emotional cues to understand a superhero movie. I know, I was, I forget what I was about to say, it's like the kind of show like a character will come in, like peek their head and be like, oh, sorry, and close the door. And it was like, woo!

Yeah, yeah. Yeah! Yeah, I'm supposed to know him. You're like, I'm not, and close the door. And it was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm supposed to know him. You're like, they've been doing that with the goddamn Winter Soldier for like the last 10 years. Every single time I've seen him on screen, there's been like this reaction where everybody's like, oh, my God, it's Bucky Barnes.

I'm like, I don't know who that is. Why am I supposed to know that? If the only monkey I know is from season one, a flavor of love. That's right. That's right. Same person. That's right. Maybe not.

Back when TV was great. Back to 2006. I'm stuck 19 years ago. You should try it out, Gen Z. You know what though? Like the whole country is stuck in that era because that was the era of programming that gave us The Apprentice, which essentially created the myth of Donald Trump. Like before that, like he was a failed businessman.

They went into Trump, I just read the book about, one of the books about Trump. They, like the producers of that show went into Trump Tower and they're like, man, it smells like mildew. The carpet is worn out. Like this is a place is a piece of shit. They had to rebuild it as like a TV set for a show about a successful businessman.

And that's like the basis of his entire persona now, rather than like the office of like a tow truck yard. Yeah. The fuck is that dude? Ah, I got some old nachos in here. It was like, yeah. It's like your grandma's sedan. But I'm trashy.

Oh, don't go into that room. It's just double quarter pounder wrappers. That and also just the tostada, just the bowl part. I like to eat the good part of the tostada. I throw the corn bowl out. You can reuse the bowl. The corn bowl. Bring me another corn bowl, please.

Lisa, did you finish your corn bowl? Can I have it? I can't do the accent as well as you guys. Accent. You know what I mean. Accent work. It's an accent. Yeah. Oh, have you seen that dude who's

recently killing it with the Elon? Oh, my God. That dude's amazing. Who is that guy, bro? I don't know. I was like, you have fucking. I have not seen it. Oh, here. I'll play it.

I'll play it. I have not seen that. Oh, what was that? You guys get it? You guys get it? What happened with your arm there, Steven? I was trying to make sure you knew that I was doing the pun.? You guys get it? What happened with your arm there, Steve Banner? I was trying to make sure you knew that I was just doing the pun.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. This is this guy, Alex Byron. Yeah, it's not really about that. People expect everything to be easy now on Mars. It's going to be really hard. So, people are going to wish they were Uyghurs. Would you? This is it. It's so fucking what to this guy's point.

It's just, yeah. On every, it's so funny. I think every Trump administration brings up like the rise of the people who are just killing the fucking accents. It was a Tamanic last time. Yeah. And now it's this guy.

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the full on doge assault on federal workers? We saw a lot of town halls that were going completely the wrong way for you know, the Republicans who thought they're like, bro, my district so red, they're going to come in and be like, those those those those and they're like, hey, what the fuck happened? My kid lost their job. I lost my job. We're going to lose our jobs. What the fuck is happening now? These town halls have turned into screaming sessions. And it seems like some of the common MAGA voters are

beginning to actually feel what some of these cuts are doing. Polling has not really moved in any significant way because I think as it stands only about 30, technically around 30,000 jobs have been cut, like cut cut. But I'm sure that will widen as more of these cuts hit more people. But these, uh, you know, misinformed voters, unfortunately, they voted for low prices, but completely missed all of the other relevant details that indicated that this regime has no interest in helping anyone except themselves and now they're losing jobs.

You can get fooled by the same guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. On either side too. Same lines. I mean, it's almost, it's almost like, wait, is this your first presidential election? We're like, he's not doing the thing that he said he'd do. This is why I voted.

You're like, oh, my sweet, sweet child. My sweet November child. Weren't you there last time? Yeah. It's also instructive for the Democrats where it's like, how many times you have to see a guy promise something that he has no intention of doing before you also start making some good promises. But if they're not doing it, why should we?

Again, the Republicans enable the Democrats' worst impulses, which is to fucking not do anything because they're like, at least we're not them. No, it's the only thing they're going to learn from this is they're going to be like, you know, the reason people didn't like Donald Trump this time around is because he kept trying to do things. So we're going to do the opposite of that and not do anything. Yeah. It's like, no, do something good.

We need to like impeach Hakeem Jeffries. Oh my God. I can't handle hearing this guy talk and be, this is the most shook person I've ever seen in my life. Is it like, who trained, like media trained him to be like, you know, all right, so what you're gonna do is you're gonna go on these shows. And when they ask you,

what are you gonna do about Donald Trump? Make sure you let everyone know that you're scared and there's nothing you can do. And just start trembling and shaking. First of all, I'm powerless. Second of all, I just pissed my pants. And I got no leverage. First of all, I have no leverage. Second of all, it's not piss. It's not piss. Somebody else pissed on my pants. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, minority leader Jeffries. That's crazy. I have not heard him talk. Do we have like a clip or something? Like I honestly, like I don't think I've read his quotes.

It's not really about his voice. It's about everything he says. Okay. Just everything he says. Is it really just like a long nothing? It's a long nothing that's, that is, you know, if condensed is we can't do anything, we have no power and sort of implying,

and it's your fault everyone who didn't vote for, you know, uh, the, uh, either Kamala or Biden or any, or anyone that just, uh, this is a pretty good, this is where Hakeem Jeffries is like, Oh, I can do nicknames too. I'm witty. Oh, Captain Chaos and extreme mega Republicans chaos last year promising to lower the high cost of living and running away from project 2025 as if it didn't exist. Sorry one more time. Captain chaos. Okay

captain chaos cool cool cool cool cool cool yeah go yeah go yeah we love that yeah and then he goes yeah he goes into project 25 which is is my favorite thing. Like they spent the whole election season, like pumping that. It's like that name doesn't mean anything to people. Like that name means that you have to do your homework to figure out what it is. No Americans do homework. Like that is our basic, no one does homework. We cheat in America. That's what we've been trained to do.

This is another one where they're like, what if like Andrew, disgraced Governor Andrew Cuomo like entered the mayor's race? This is Hakeem Jeffries on that. Andrew Cuomo is potentially going to jump into the mayor's race as early as this week. You've seen at least one of your colleagues here on the hill endorse him. You called for him to resign a few years ago. Should he be engaging in the mayor's race? I haven't had a conversation with Governor Cuomo at this point. I do look forward to speaking with him sooner rather than later. If in fact he's going to jump into the mayor's

race, and then we'll take it from there. Would it be good for New York if he didn't? I think he'd be a candidate that a lot of people, as I've heard from the district that I represent, would be very interested in checking out. Jesus Christ, why do we, like- Invertebrates. These people.

Yeah, invertebrates, they're all jellyfish. They're full on, yeah. Not even a man o' war, not even a man o' war, not even the scariest jellyfish, they're like the fuckin', they're like the ones that are smoking weed and finding Nemo. It's the style of talking where you were saying, I don't know, we'll take that under consideration, but you stretch it out into four sentences and you're doing your gesture.

You're using lots of hand signals. You're using hand signals to underline the idea that you don't know and you can't answer that. Yes. It's a lot of words for I'm scared and I just pissed myself. Some of these politicians, they've just been doing this for so long. They've completely just lost touch with how to just speak normally. Yeah. I feel like even Hakeem Jeffries, even if he probably been like, hell no, Andrew Cuomo, even if he did that, that's not his first thought.

It's the first thing is like programming, go, be made. Here we go. Yeah. Anyway, so the GOP, right? There's clearly a growing number of people. GOP voters are definitely souring on Musk. Like specifically you see movement in polls that are saying people like, do what the fuck is Musk doing?

The stuff with Trump, not so much. Like there's a lot of polls that show there's very little movement. Again, because I think a lot of there's a lot of polls that show there's very little movement. Again, because I think a lot of these, a lot of people haven't quite realized what is about to happen, especially now with this new budget resolution that's been passed. But it's clear now that the propaganda machine has very clear orders to manufacture consent for these, this fucking, again, austerity measures. It feels like a euphemism to even call it these austerity.

That like implies that they have a coherent plan. Ways to save money. Yeah. Right. Well that too. Yeah. I mean, if you want to save money, you could cancel like one of Musk's government contracts that he makes the majority of his living from, but.

Yeah. They're like, it's like, it's like, you have like, there's like an annoying hum coming from a light in the house. And like, what if we just cut the transmission line to the house? Yeah. It's like, that's how we can solve it. I don't know, whatever.

And in a way, I think, you know, obviously these very wealthy people will benefit from all the chaos. But I just want to touch on a few things that I've just seen in the last day. In USA Today, there's an op-ed that's basically telling people like, you know, what, like what Trump and Musk are doing is great. Ignore all the haters.

I believe the headline is tune out media hysteria. Doge is exposing absurdities and Americans support it. Hmm. Oh yeah. I love USA Today. My number one trusted news source for what's happening in the USA today. For people who wake up at a Holiday Inn Express. It's like, oh, I'm going to be a star. Oh yeah. I love USA Today, my number one trusted news source for what's happening in the USA. For people who wake up at a Holiday Inn Express, it is your number one paper.

Do they still print or at this point are they just all online? I think so. I think it's like a hotel. They still do, yeah. I mean, because I think they were the first one to have like color, right? And that's a big claim to fame. Like we're the first one to use color printing, but then we stopped because of DEI, you know. Right. And that's a claim to fame. Like we're the first thing that used color printing, but then we stopped because of DEI, you know, so this is, this is just one of the sentences in here that is so aim squarely aimed at Republicans who might be questioning

what's going on, quote, change is hard. Losing your job is very hard. So it's understandable why many federal workers are feeling attacked. About 30,000 employees have lost their jobs so far. However, it's you and I who pay their salaries and it's past time to ensure that our tax dollars are used in the best possible way. I'm sorry, if you're the person that, okay, sure. They're making this about, again, wanting to pay the entire federal workforce as just loafers and people who are just siphoning money out of the economy

rather than the people at the top who are actually doing this right now. Yeah, it's a really roundabout way for politicians to lay blame on themselves without blaming themselves. They're just like, yeah, you're right. There is a problem with the federal government in Washington. Right. No, it's not us who all live off the teat of lobby money. No, no, no, no.

It is the person who works at cubicle answering phone. Yes. It is everything that the government funds that I don't understand. How did you do that? Who's anyway, so again, we're seeing every kind of logic being wheeled out. So next I want to touch with touch in with Jesse Waters, who's obviously one of the great pundits of our time. Yeah. And one of the, you know, the I think most respected intellectuals on the right at the moment. Absolutely. This is him just basically trying

another version of like, why do we need people who work for the federal government at all? But this time he's attacking park rangers. The bears. The bears. So when you go camping in a national park, Judge, the first thing you do is you go to the park ranger and ask, should I feed the bears? No. I did a little research on bear attacks

and fatalities in North America. During the pandemic, we shut down the national parks and we didn't have a single park ranger. How many people died from bear attacks that year when there were zero park rangers? One American. Well, there were zero people in the goddamn parks. Yeah. The main thing that park rangers do is keep people from getting eaten by bears.

He's watching fucking Yogi bear. 100%. He's like, we all know what park rangers do is they get their picnic baskets exactly that's what they do they prevent us from getting people's picnic baskets yeah and you know what guess what they keep feeding the bears inadvertently and they're getting fat off that those fat bears very was wearing a tie like he's clearly made an industry out of this and he had one of those like straw hats that you see people wear when they usually got like the, what's that thing on their arms, the garters on their arms.

And they're like, you know, acapella band. Anyway, this logic is so flimsy too, to be like, well, the parks were shut down. But again, does it mean people were going to? Yeah, no, literally they weren't going to the fucking parks. It was a goddamn pandemic. Like, it is just a guy died. Okay, well, go on. But please, please lay out your infallible logic one more time, Jesse. All of the park Rangers the next year, 4000 park Rangers, you know how many bear

attacks? One, the amount of park Rangers has nothing to do with how many people's lives they saved from bear attacks How did you get on bear attacks? With bears, why did we start with bears? It's the question. I'm sure because this when they're on the five It's like, you know judge drunk ass is pricing. I know Bears They're like, thank you your honor honor. Thank you, your honor. Yes, exactly.

That's, that's what I mean. It, the bears are attacking. Yeah, no, they don't just do that. I think anyone who's been to a national park or every, or fucking even needed the help of a park ranger, it's probably because you're injured or fucking, you know, some heat exhaustion, uh, you know, they'll just say, do they maintain the fucking parks and shit? Fucking crazy. To try and reduce that job to being like, they are the bear pointer outers?

Yeah, yeah, they're the bear police. That's also like, I would imagine a bear attack usually happens like near your house where like bears are coming to try and get food and you don't face that problem in a national park because you're not allowed to build a house there. Oh my God. The whole fucking point of it. God damn it. and you don't face that problem in a national park because you're not allowed to build a house there. The whole fucking point of it. God damn it. Because I feel like, I feel the other thing you'd say is

I'm sure people have seen videos where people like are at Yellowstone or something, like trying to hug a fucking buffalo or some wild dumb shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you're like, yeah, it's because dumb fucks wanna try and do shit like that and disturb the wildlife and probably end up getting themselves fucked over real good by gigantic animal.

You need people to unfortunately not just be like, beware, but to also keep idiots from hurting themselves. All that to say, yeah, they're just, they, they, they point at bears and there's 4,000 of them and they're not needed. So don't cry over them. Okay. No, you listen, you guys, if you guys want to take, if you guys want to be the party of taking selfies next to bears, uh, I think that is the, that is the way that's what you

should do. You, you don't need no park ranger telling you what to do. Just go right up to that elk and get yourself a selfie. And if anybody tries to tell you not to do that, they're woke and, uh, you should agree with them. Thank you. Thank right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Let's move on to our next example, uh, because everyone is getting in on this because again, it's so fucking unpopular to take away programs that people fucking rely on to survive like Medicaid. So here is Ben Shapiro now doing his putting in his shift to tell people like Medicaid, Medicaid is like not even like a form of an insurance. Okay, here's Ben Shapiro with his bullshit. Are truly atrocious,

just speaking in terms of public policy, speaking in terms of health outcomes. There's some good studies that actually demonstrate that Medicaid coverage is no better than you having no coverage and just going for emergency care to the hospital. Why? Because the reimbursement rates on Medicaid are so low

that doctors don't even take Medicaid. Good doctors don't like taking Medicaid because the reimbursement rates are pennies on the dollar of what they could earn from private insurance. Exactly. I went to the emergency room with a little toy car in my butt that someone put in a condom for a bit we were doing.

And the guy wouldn't even see me because I had Medicaid. Again, what the fuck is he saying? His quote is there's some good studies that actually demonstrate that Medicaid coverage is no better than you having no coverage and just going for emergency care to the hospital, which is that is. I broke my arm when a toadstool fell on me and I tried to go to. And also, just for the record, it wasn't a toy car. It was a Ben Shapiro sized car in my butthole.

I was in my treehouse making cookies. We were working on a new recipe of E.L. Fudge's. But like literally, like, so my daughter is on Medicaid because she's little and because, you know, podcasting doesn't pay the bills. And, and it's like the idea that she would be better off with no health insurance is absolutely insane. Completely insane. It makes no sense. This is the classic playbook is that they get into power and they make sure things don't work. And then they, then they cut those things by saying they don't work.

It's like, okay. Well, you go in and you cut the funding out of something. And then, and then you're like, see, it doesn't even, it's not even good for anything, so now we can just kill it completely. It's like, okay. I don't know. That's going to be hard when 60 to 70 million people are on Medicaid. And they're not, they're not going to be like, yeah, dude, I'm better

off not having this shit. I find me that person. Find me that person. Truly. I'm sure you can find somebody who's an opportunist and just sell their own soul out just so they get on Fox. But like, again, for other research, Ben has here. Well, here's another piece of research, Ben, okay. A large body of research shows that Medicaid beneficiaries have substantially better access to care than people who are uninsured, who are also primarily low income and are less likely to postpone or go without needed care due to cost as federal rules

generally limit our out-of-pocket Medicaid costs. Yeah, not only that but also like the Medicaid at least for my daughter is better than my fucking private health insurance. Like she, like she is getting, it's like the fucking $10 copays. Everything is like paid for with this goddamn thing. And meanwhile, I get bills for random shit. I have to go to the doctor every month to get a prescription refilled because they won't refill it without me coming in. So I got to do a $30 copay just so I can get the medication that is also $30.

This is fucking insane. It's also like, oh, well, doctors don't want to take that because they don't get enough reimbursement and their student loans are too high. They have to keep paying them back. It's like, okay, well, let us cancel the student loans. No, no, no, we can't do that. Or maybe change this like predatory healthcare system we have where that's even a thing. We're no, no, we can't do that. Or maybe change this like predatory healthcare system

we have where that's even a thing where like, well, we're not gonna make enough money helping this person. So no. You're the government. You decide how fast you can reimburse the doctors. The thing is, is they make that shit impossible. They did the same thing with Obamacare

and the Affordable Care Act, where like now people aren't taking covered California because it takes too long to get reimbursed. The only reason it takes too long to get reimbursed is because the people in charge of doing the reimbursements are the ones who are fucking like, hey, let's get rid of this goddamn, you know, ACA, let's get rid of Obamacare, let's get rid of Medicaid and Medicare. Again, just another stat outside of, you know, his very fucking nonsensical argument

that it's not good healthcare. 63% as of July of 2024, Medicaid was the primary payer for 63% of nursing facility residents. So like, again, this is so fucking diabolical and these are the facts that people really need to understand. Like, these cuts are going to lead to people literally, you know, dying.

That's just, there's no way to cut that. And they keep using words like savings to completely obscure what their policies are actually doing. Who's saving what? No one is getting money from this except for you guys being freeing enough money for another Starlink contract. It's so fucking ridiculous. And, uh, yeah, you know, and these, all these people to the man, everyone you

just played, they also coincidentally have some really strong words about Luigi Mangione and do not understand why people like him, guess what? Yeah, this is why. Capping for the wrong people always, at least they're consistent. And again, you know, like the logic here is, and I encourage all listeners to have confrontations with people that are like, no, it's actually good. Okay. And how are, how are they going to, what do you mean?

This is just going to go to the wealthiest. So if these programs are gone, they don't need funding, which they don't need funding, they can, they can basically say they can justify doing shit like, well, Musk and Bezos, you don't need them to pay their fair share at all because there's just no need for it because these programs are gone. Right. That's what the fuck we're talking about anyway. So I don't know what the silver lining is here, but I feel like, I don't know, the Gilded Age led to, you know's just a huge spike in popularity and socialist policies up until the New Deal Yeah, I like I like things are gonna have to go the right way

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Cause you know, this is when it was all announced, but he passed away at the age of 95 years old, you know, legend in the game. And the circumstances around the death are bizarre and also very tragic. He was found dead in his New Mexico home along with his wife who was 64 years old. And like one of their dogs also passed away too. Two didn't. There's a search warrant that, you know, I think TMZ or when somehow they just get this shit.

They're like, well, according to this legal document, we were able to find the deaths were, quote, suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation. There's things that like people had come to the home and found them sort of around the house dead. They found that, you know, there was like some pills scattered on the counter. There was like a heater moved.

People aren't quite sure what is going on. Yo, that's crazy. Said no foul play is suspected at the time. But again, they're also there. What they said, there were no signs of a carbon monoxide leak, which I think is what most people will be like, that's probably what that's what I thought. They're saying there's no signs of it. Now.

I really don't know what happened. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy if it was an assassination because like, I mean, Gene Hackman was already 95. He's just way too old. Yeah.

Well, I think it sounds like Gene Hackman died and then his wife may have gotten depressed about it because they said there was a bottle of prescription pills out on the counter with pills scattered everywhere. They weren't found for a while. Like the one dog- Like a day, they said at least a day, right? It was more than that, I think.

Oh yeah. Because she was like partially mummified or something like that. Like a... What? It was like, she'd been dead a while. The dog that died was in... I don't think I know what mummified means.

Is that wrapped up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's got toilet paper around her and she's staggering around trying to choke you. She really wants to get in there. No, I don't know either. I think she was decomposing, I think. Right.

Yeah, it's been a while. So, and then the dog they said was dead was in a kennel. So, like if they died a while ago and the one dog that died was the one that was in a kennel and couldn't get to its food, I would imagine maybe it just starved because in a kennel and couldn't get to his food. I would imagine maybe it just starved because the owners died and they couldn't eat it.

Dehydration, yeah. Oof, man, just like in a week. Michelle Trachtenberg, Gene Hackman, just back to back. It's crazy, what did Michelle Trachtenberg die of? They don't know, I mean, she had she had a liver transplant, uh, like recently. And so she was, she was in poor health. So, okay. So she was already sick with something.

Yeah. But they don't, I think there was some headline about like the family, like I think presuming to be fine with that and they weren't going to do an autopsy. But again, uh, they happen in threes. So who's the third? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I just we just don't know.

And let's not speculate. But again, speaking of punching up and speaking up for the downtrodden, I just want to touch on the Oscars are coming up. And one of the favorites to win in the documentary best documentary category still doesn't have US distribution. This is the documentary, best documentary category, still doesn't have U S distribution. This is the documentary called no other land. And it's basically about Israel's demolition of the West bank village of Massapar Yatta and this land was seized.

And they're like, this actually is our new trip tank training course, not your home, this won the top prize at the Berlin, all film festival. But even at that time it like one, there was controversy around it because the filmmaking team, which is includes both Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, they use the speech to call for a ceasefire. Just saying where there needs to be a ceasefire. This violence needs to cease. Uh, and did they preface that by saying that Israel has a right to defend itself and we

can get them in and we can we can do that you can just say things without first prefacing it with something that defangs the thing you're about to say I was merely just saying innocent people need to stop dying that's pretty that's literally what I was saying. You got to preface it. You got to preface it or else you're, but you know what's really funny about that Berlin Alley thing was I think there was a German politician of some sort or diplomat, maybe some German of note who was there,

who got like just raked over the coals in the German press because she was clapping for them after the screening. And then she clarified, no, no, no, I was clapping for the Israeli filmmaker, not the Palestinian. Oh, literally that was her explanation for why she shouldn't be in trouble. It's, uh, they were standing next to each other. Like, no, no, no, no, no. Cover your ears.

Palestinian filmmaker. This is for the Israeli. For them. It's like, no, no, no, no, no. Cover your ears, Palestinian filmmaker. This is for the Israeli. For them. It's for them. Yeah. Yeah. So then it was nominated for an Oscar because it's a very compelling piece.

Still no distributor in the United States. So the directors have launched basically a self-distribution plan that got the film into like 23 theaters and actually did really well despite the small sort of box office footprint that they had. And now, you know, I think a lot of people are now like, as this the Oscar race heats up, it's not really being talked about. But the people that are really pointing out like this isn't some sensational like hit job, right? Like, this is truly just like a very just matter of fact

documentary, like the co director, Basil Adra, who's in the film, just started filming what was happening around him. That's how this thing started. Right. And his hope wasn't to be like, Yeah, oh, shit, this is gonna get me an Oscar. It was, it was out of his need out of his desire to actually have a record of what is happening to the people around him and in his community. So it would hopefully inspire the US to change their policies, or at least to pressure Israel to stop the expulsion. This was back in 2019. Mm hmm.

So now, you know, they're really, really focused on getting a US distribution deal. Because again, as they say, they want Americans to quote, see what their money is doing to us. Mm hmm. And I think that's really, I think it's really powerful because again, they, as they say it, they want Americans to quote, see what their money is doing to us. And I think that's really, I think it's really powerful because again, in America, we are the most propagandized people. We are, they put blinders on very intentionally to many things that are happening, especially when it intersects with US imperialism and hegemony. So yeah, like would be, would be a great moment. But anyway, yeah, sorry. There's also another wrinkle,

which is that Gal Gadot is supposedly presenting the best documentary award, Oscar, which would be really funny. There's a rumor. No, really? Yeah, I don't know if it's real, but the rumor going around- I was trying to figure that out. Is that Gal Gadot is supposed to be the presenter

for that category, which everyone is just like, the Academy has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. Yeah. And make her have to say no other land. Yeah, it is, you know, this movie, like a lot of movies in this very particular genre or documentaries in this genre, is for a while now has been, you know, kind of put in the same category as just like, oh, something you upload on YouTube, you know, like whenever it comes to movies about what's happening in Palestine, there's always this like, you're either, you almost never see wide distribution for it.

And it's crazy that one can literally be nominated for an Oscar. And still people are like, I don't really know if it's any good. Yeah, right. I don't know if anyone wants to see this. I don't know if anyone wants to see this very harrowing piece of documentary filmmaking. Also like in the age of streaming, it's not like it was eight years ago or nine years ago. Yeah, it cost you nothing.

You don't have to figure out what theater to put it in. Streaming has endless slots for documentaries that they're constantly making and distributing those. Well, and to that point, Netflix has a shitload of documentaries and a lot of people consume a ton of documentaries, conspicuously purged 19 films from a collection they had within the Netflix app called Palestinian Stories last fall.

Wow. And their whole thing was just like, oh, the deal's lapsed. So like we just, that's why they're not there anymore. What date did they lap? Oh, October 7th is when they lapsed. Weirdly. That was just kind of, that was this weird coincidence.

Maybe, I don't know. But again, and now like the page for that section is in just like intentionally left blank, which is a really fucked up visual just to be like, yikes. But again, this is also from within the industry, a lot of distributors claim that the directors were offered distribution deals, but they were kind of smaller and that they turned it down because they want to use the lack of distribution access for publicity purposes. Oh yeah.

This is the, uh, the, the old Pollywood. The Pollywood argument. Why you not distributing yourself? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is, this is what they always, this is what they always claim. Anytime there is an actual injustice, it's just like, oh, well, you're only saying there is

because you want a headline. And it's like, no, literally it is, we are taping you doing injustices. What do we have to do to convince regular people? I'm actually doing this because these aren't headlines. Right, yeah. Is the problem. And I'm trying to bring added awareness to this situation.

So yeah, any Oscar, any, look, as someone who, again, I was saying, I'm so overwhelmed by the amount of films that are out. What should I watch before the Oscars? What's worth watching? Oh, a Nora? Have you seen a Nora yet? Saw a Nora, because I was like,

I was like, it's Armenian gangsters in there? Yes, I wanna see that. Yeah. As someone who grew up in LA, like I was very much, Armenian gangsters in there. Yes, I want to see that Someone grew up in LA like I was very much Representation I'm like that isn't something you see much in big movies these days. Yeah, except they're not even really gangsters They're just like I do the other gang They're so bumbling it's so funny That's actually pretty much the only one I've seen. I also hear a lot about conclave.

Yeah. I was going to say the top three easily. I mean, like all the, all the best pictures are like decent, but I feel like there's a clear top three and the rest are like a ways behind top three are a Nora conclave and nickel boys to me. And then, you know, the other ones are, there's some other good ones, but I think those are the three best. And yeah, Jack keeps saying, he ones are, there's some other good ones, but I think those are the three best. And yeah, Jack keeps saying, he's like, I had a lot of fun watching conclave.

I'm like, it's fun. It is. How do they make Catholicism so fun? Vince, you were saying it's better than two popes, right? Yes, dude. I watched it. I was like, for the first 20 minutes. That's crazy.

Cause like, that's my favorite pope movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like goes to Pope's Godfather three sister acts one. Oh yeah. The Pope shows up at the end of sister act one. I don't know if you guys know that. How do you feel about young Pope? I'm not into young Pope.

I tried to enjoy young Pope, but then I was just like, he's too young, man. Yeah. Yeah. He's not popin, man. Yeah. Yeah. He's not popin enough. Yeah. Um, speaking of which is, is, is what's happening with Pope with real Pope? Is he dead? No, no, he's alive.

And then he's, but he's old, but he's so he's like, no, he didn't die. He's still alive. Showing slight, slight improvement is the last thing. Yeah. Doing respiratory therapy. I mean, like, I don't, you know, think he's God or whatever. I don't know what Catholics think. They think that the Pope is, like, friends with God, right?

Yeah. He gets to wear God's favorite hat. Okay, cool. Yeah, you can't be, yeah, if you're wearing that hat, you gotta be tight with God. Yeah, yeah. No one can call me stupid. This is God's favorite hat. It's like you're a patched in biker.

You know what I mean? It's like, yo, unless you met God, we can't have that shit. You can't have that. Fuck you up for having that. Do you talk directly to God? Well, then take off that mongols patch. But yeah, like, I like, I like this pope. I mean, you know, I don't know much about him, but occasionally he'll say something

and I'll be like, oh, that's pretty good for a pope Mm-hmm. Yeah, exactly, which is a very low bar He'll be like molesting children is bad Spitting fever from over there Holy shit, oh man. Well Vince Mancini it has been a pleasure having you on the daily Zeitgeist, man. Where do the people find you, follow you, read you, hear you and all that good stuff. And also what's the work of media, social or otherwise

that you're enjoying? A work of, oh, wait, wait, is this the funny tweet part or am I just saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a funny tweet. You just said it fancy. Okay, okay. Well, the one I liked,

and this was like unrelated to our conversation before we went on as just what happened to be coincidental. Uh, this is a tweet from Xmas Lemmings tweet. My favorite Rolling Stones song is dog dick man. My favorite Led Zeppelin song is dog dick woman. What? I don't think I understand. Come on.

Those both sound like Rolling Stones. They do. Got a dog dick man. Oh shit, alright Mick. Dog dick woman. It does work. Dog dick woman. Sorry, sorry. No, sorry. I had to indulge... Oh, man! Sorry, sorry. No, sorry.

I had to indulge. No, no, no, no. All right, what's another one? Well, there's an account that always replies to me on Blue Sky that's called Airbud Dwyer and the name cracks me up every time. And then where do the people find you, follow you, and all that other shit? You can find me at substackv Vince Mancini dot sub stack.com. I write on there and then me and Matt podcast about mad men and, uh,

just joking around that patreon.com slash frat cast. That's right. Do those things. Everybody. Um, that's funny, Matt, he just mentioned you. Where did they, where did they find you? Oh, you can find me in the exact same place. Listen to mad yourself a man.

Uh, you can find it by typing in pod yourself a gun wherever you get your podcast. It is a TV rewatch podcast and it is fun. Please listen to it. Uh, you can follow me on Instagram at Matt Lieb jokes or on Twitter at Matt Lieb or on blue sky also at Matt Lieb. Oh, also I'm going to be Francesca Fiorentini. My wife and I are going to be at the Sacramento punchline on March 16th. So if you are going to be in Sacramento March 16th, come to the punchline, see

myself and previous guest Francesca Fiorentinith. Come to the Punchline, see myself and previous guest, Francesca Fiorentini at the Punchline. We also are gonna do in San Francisco, we're gonna be at Cobbs Comedy Club doing standup May 7th in San Francisco. So also get tickets to that. And a piece of media I've been enjoying, I sent this to Vince yesterday.

So it is, so it so it's, it's both Game of Thrones slash Sopranos meme. It is, uh, it's the scene where Hodor is a kid and he's turning into Hodor and he's going, hold the door, hold the door, hold the door. But it's instead it says But it's instead it says Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola. Coca Cola. I've been laughing at this for 24 hours. string. Just watch the degradation of the pronunciation go from Capricola to Gabagool.

Gabagool. Gabagool. That's now forever how I'm going to imagine how Italian American is created. Oh shit. You can find me on where? Just everywhere. They have ad symbols at miles of gray. You can find Jack and I on the basketball podcast. Miles and Jack got mad boosties. You can also find me talking about 90 day fiance on 420 day

fiance with Sophia Alexandra. Let's see something I like. This is a video clip that, man, I've got to pull it up because it was just so stupid. It's really only three things. This is from it's from at Rick the squirrel underscore. It's a compilation of Godzilla getting hit in the balls. These moments from these Godzilla movies where one is,

he's just getting dropped like Mothra drops him, just dick down onto a transmission line, then he gets a lightning blast and then a stinger in the crotch. It's all just very, very stupid physical comedy. But look, we love a good old physical gag with our boy Godzilla or whoever Godzilla may be. You can also find us at The Daily Zeitgeist or at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter,

at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We're also on BlueSky at Daily Zeitgeist, pretty much everywhere. Just search for us. We're also on BlueSky at Daily Zeitgeist, pretty much everywhere. Just search for us. We're there. You can also find us. We got a Facebook fan page at the website, dailyzeitgeist.com.

We post our episodes and our footnarts. Footnarts! There he is. There he is. Wolfman's got narts. Where you can find all of the articles we talked about, as well as a song we're going to write out on. I'm in a very unserious mood because of the unserious nature of everything around us.

And this track I heard on Instagram in a video that I thought was very funny. And the artist is King Vinci. Whoa, that's a bit of a coincidence, but it's spelled K-V-N-G-V-I-N-C-I. And it's called Gimme Gimme. And it's basically one of those tracks where someone is taking, you know, just flipping a viral clip and making it like a really funny just sort of like beat. And this one is an African preacher just telling people,

like, abandon the form of Christianity, which is all about Gimme Gimme Gimme, but then it turns into a fucking fire beat and that's incredible. The bars are wild. So anyway, you can find that in the footnotes. Obviously, this show is a production of iHeartRadio, so for more podcasts, get the iHeartRadio app,

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