The Daily Zeitgeist - Drive-by Chalking, TikTok vs Union Busters 05.12.22

Episode Date: May 12, 2022

In episode 1246, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Lydia Popovich to discuss… Gen Z and the tech savvy are fighting back against union busting companies, Susan Collins’ cowardice on full display, The Groomer Rhetoric Is Really Scary and more! Gen Z and the Tech Savvy Are Fighting Back Against Union Busting Companies Susan Collins’ Cowardice On Full Display The Groomer Rhetoric Is Really Scary VISIT: https://www.lydiapopovich.com/ LISTEN: Soul II Stro by Stro ElliotSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 236, episode 4 of Dear Daily Zeitgeist! It's a production of iHeartRadio. by Diet Coke. May 12th. May the 12th be with you. Who am I? It's National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. It's also National Odometer Day. Yes. National Limerick Day. Limerick Day? Yeah. Hell yeah. Hit me with an improvised limerick.

Oh, man. There once was a man from Nantucket. There he is. Who had a shirt so long he couldn't tuck it. Uh-huh. And he said with a grin as he wiped off his chin, if my shirt was a blouse, I could tuck it. There it is.

So that was a great limerick. Thank you so much. And that's why we love limericks. Yeah. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. You've got to pick up every Switch. You've got to pick up every Switch. Nintendo bat to make it rich oh no must be the season of the

switch yeah that is courtesy of ramen king a song called season of the witch by donovan and you know a reference to the fact that not only do i play switch i i pick up every everyone what you know, a reference to the fact that not only do I play Switch, I pick up everyone. You know, the Switch shelves stay bare because of me. Yeah. And you told me, you said, you know, you can buy physical media, but, you know, load up on those 512 gigabyte SD cards, man. Because that's where a lot of your media is going to live. I was like, yeah, that's a good point, Jack. I can't believe you remembered what I said.

You work for work. Yeah. You said, this is what you're going to do. You're going to buy 256 gigs, and then that's not going to be enough. And then you go to 400, and then that's not going to be enough. When you should have just bought 512s from the jump. I wish I was ever confident and competent enough to say the phrase, this is what you're going to do for somebody.

I think I probably was that confident while drunk at one point in my life, but I've never. You don't even that confident when you talk about point in my life, but I've never. You know when you've been that confident? When you talk about reheating pizza slices. Yeah, that's true. You were like, here's what you do. And I was like, go on. You get a pan hot.

Get a little drip of water. Cover it. Drip of water comes in after a minute, Miles. Don't mislead the people. You got to get it hot and crispy first. Then you put a drip of water on and that fluffs the crust right at the end. Confidence back. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray.

It kind of feels like I lost all my money on these fucking NFTs. Oh, I kind of feel like i got no more money fucking with cryptocurrency oh damn it hurts and yet it feels so bad honestly it's bad i've been looking at some of i've been you know i've been lurking on some of these websites and the exchanges this it's grim like a lot of people have lost a lot of money and that's when you're like oh god man these poor fucking people who are like i put my whole 401k into this you're like oh no oh no no no no no and now fidelity's out here trying to be like we want to have crypto be part of our 401k portfolio. You're like, no, the fuck you don't. The password is fidelity.

Yeah. Well, you know, the one silver lining is, of course, that the crypto crash, the NFT Ponzi scheme that we're all living through will create some great art. Like people just who are hurt, who are going through it. It's going to create some great art. Just like you think there's going to be NFTs. There's going to be NFTs of people's panicked tweets to be like, dude, you want to buy these ones where they thought NFTs were bust.

You want that one now? Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious comedian. One of our favorite guests on TDZ, Dave Grohl once touched her arm and said, Hey, you're pretty funny. You can see her on stages everywhere from california to london berlin singapore it's

lydia popovich you better motherfucking believe it i am here i am in the house i killed a tick that was trying to bite my leg less than trying to kill you to go because i'm a fucking savage out here in the streets in the woods of tennessee yeah if you didn't know uh bug season of the south is real really yes it's really real like wait how do you fight a tick because usually in my mind ticks are only things you you encounter when you go on a hike or some shit because i'm so concrete this bold motherfucker uh well i just i took the dog outside play a little ball throw around in the grass in the front yard you know the down front yard uh come back in of course i you know

tell her she's a very good girl and that she's perfect and i love her and she's a beautiful little angel and i kiss her face and i hug her and i ruffle her little ears and then i sat down at my desk and then i was like i feel like something's crawling on my face and then i see something on my glasses and then i'm like there's something on my glasses and then i take my glasses off this bold motherfucking tick jumped off my dog had the dacity to jump onto my motherfucking face sorry with all the motherfuckers but this motherfucker jumped on my face and then i saw him climbing on my glasses so i threw my glasses on my desk and he jumped off my glasses and then i had matches on my desk because i smoke weed and i lit a match and then i burnt that bitch because they don't like

you can try to squish them but like they just don't squish like people don't realize that ticks are like they're like little tanks they're like cockroaches where you you know you really gotta fucking want to kill them but that's how you get them if they burn into your skin you kind of got to burn them out i know that one yeah use the matchstick to get them to give up on it wow yeah so i i burnt that bitch on my desk and was just like like just i was horrified because i was like it was on my face yeah yeah yeah yeah and then i stripped off all of my clothes and changed my clothes before we started this podcast because i was like i could be covered in ticks right now right but i i know it's because i i kissed her

and it jumped off of her and she has meds so like you know she'll be all right right but still these gotta get those tick meds gotta start taking your dog's tick medication that's what i'm thinking like we've had people out here and like the last two house guests have like called us afterwards i'm like yeah i picked three ticks off my body and i'm like well i told you to wear long pants yeah right because we got walking around rolling in the tall grass yeah and i'm like if we're gonna go shooting and we're gonna go you know the range is out in the woods so it's like you're gonna you're gonna get some stragglers you know what i mean but my dumb range is out in the wood. So it's like, you're going to get some stragglers.

You know what I mean? But my dumb ass was out there also in shorts and a tank top because I'm an idiot. So it's kind of my fault too. I didn't take my own place. That's that Callie in you. Thought you were safe out there. Really though.

And I was like, it's the short grass. You know, it'll be fine. Nope, not fine. I got a question. What's the end game for ticks? So they burrow in, they stick their whole fucking head under your skin. And that, like into your under your skin and that like isn't that the thing that like that's why you need to be so careful pulling them out is because their

whole head will come off if you like what the fuck are you thinking too i feel like they're like the deadbeat dudes of the insect world like they like show up and they seem cool and they're like all beefy and they're like yeah man i just need to like spend the night at your house or like take a shower or whatever and the next thing you know they've burrowed their fucking head into your couch and they never leave like until they like die or you get them out right i think they're they just they're users like they just suck blood and then they suck so much blood they explode like yeah they turn into like grapes like rape size ticks and then what do they do they like go back and just like they roll home and are just like worthless for the do they take the blood back to their family and just like

like all over it and then it's just like fucking carry in a tick living room i don't know right mosquitoes at least are efficient you know they get in they get out they you don't just like turn turn your arm and like there's been one there for like a week and it's like five pounds yeah and then you're like they need the blood for the babies because it's typically the females that bite right on mosquitoes i don't know man what if they're trying to lay eggs in us to ticks lay eggs in you i don't think so because i feel like i would have heard of that right right spiders do famously yeah And that one girl was taking a shower one time and well, we all know what happened. She scratched a little bump and baby spiders came pouring out. I would cut off my fucking arm.

Yeah. I would just be like, and we're done with this arm. Yeah. I don't need it anymore. No, I'm good. Yeah. I'll take it off. Can you take it off, please?

Forever. No, no, no. I will rock that stump. No bouncing back from that. Spiders were in there. We're never doing this again. Lydia, what did you think of your goddess

Dolly Parton's announcement about Taco Bell the Mexican pizza musical? How do you look at that from your perspective? What's going on there? She's the queen, dude. This bitch is so fucking smart. When the Mexican pizza came back, I was like, you can't tell me she's a she's the queen dude this bitch is so fucking smart like honestly like that was when the mexican pizza came back i was like you can't tell me she's not a walking saint on this earth

like we've all been missing that pizza i fucking love that mexican pizza i don't even like taco bell but i go there to get the mexican pizza like when i heard it was going away i went and got my last one and fucking cried in that goddamn parking lot and then i saw her talking about it in an interview all that woman had to mention in an interview was just casually, I like the Mexican pizza. And guess what came back? The motherfucking Mexican pizza. So, yes, we need a musical to rejoice this. Like, let us all sing together.

We are the world. My question, is this genius business tactics because you can only imagine what that dump truck of cash looked like? Oh, my God. Or do you think dolly parton is doing this because she truly believes in it and i'm fine either way because i'm like it's honestly i think it's money uh i think she's like i think she loves the pizza and thinks it's cute and then was like probably said no and then they're like uh here's four dump trucks full of money and she's like oh i'll sing about a fucking pizza there's nothing that lady loves more than money and an opportunity to come up with a clever twist

of words so i cannot wait for like what little cute tongue-in-cheek shit she's going to be singing about mexican pizza yeah it's it's probably going to be barely tolerable but i i can't wait i i heard even if it is just for a commercial i heard she wrote the entire mexican pizza musical in five minutes i believe it isn't that i bet she wrote it on her nails i bet she wrote the entire Mexican pizza musical in five minutes. I believe it. Isn't that the thing with Jolene? Yeah, she wrote it on the top of the pizza box. Right, right, right. She had two crunches of it. She's like, ooh, that bite sounds like a melody.

Crunch, crunch, crunch. Crunch, crunch, crunch. She's like, print, tape. Starting doing her finger percussion. Yep, exactly. And she's like, oh, when they're covered in sauce, it's a different sound. All right, Lydia, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today we're talking about

gen z and the tech savvy fighting back against union busting companies we're talking about susan collins's susan collinsness and just general Republican-ness. We're going to talk about the groomer rhetoric that's coming out of the right is really scary. So I want to talk about why that's so scary and dangerous, all that, plenty more. But first, Lydia, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history okay i'm gonna be real extra honest today this is this is this is me being very vulnerable i don't think it's going to surprise anyone but you know it's something maybe people wouldn't talk about i i googled yesterday because i hadn't really done any googling today but yesterday i googled uh

jesse williams nude images because i saw on the twitters and i was like what's wrong and then i was like oh he's in a play that means it's good dick like they don't ask you to get naked unless you got good dick and i never really like he's not an unattractive man but like he's not really my vibe you know what i mean like he sure he's got those nice light eyes like i'm here for it that's fine but would never you know i was like what is he working with what's going on it didn't yield any results but this morning on twitter you, algorithm. There was somebody that had a repost of a repost. So bobby cannavale's dick and fucking god damn it what was that show was like a show i didn't watch forever and then it's like he's like a fucking killer oh boardwalk empire oh oh yeah i didn't know that yeah carnival already right yeah there's like a scene where he's basically like

fucking this bitch and like dudes coming to kind of kill him and he gets up out of the bed like literally like strokes her down like pulls out and then fucking just starts blasting guns kills dude and he's covered in blood and he's walking down the hallway and they're shooting it from the top so you just kind of see like a semi-hard dick just covered in blood like in guns and that's my shit so i was covered in blood and guns his dick is also magnetic and yeah it's all and that's a dog gun it's like yeah we got you buddy you know his balls are underneath with six shooters oh it was amazing that is a great question you you kind of posed is what comes first when you're casting somebody who's going to show their dick like do they do they need to have seen the dick first before they bring them in to that role? Is it part of the casting process or has there ever been a situation where they cast someone for a role and then they're like, oh, we're going to have to recast here?

That is see. Well, here's where I wasn't originally in the piano. There was no nudity planned and they're like hold up hold on hold on hold on dog i'm gonna need you just to stay just like that i should have knocked before i came to the trailer however i'm glad i'm here i think there's a difference between the stage and the screen right i think if it's for like a movie or a tv it's probably like hey there's some nudity are you comfortable with it i don't think there's discussion because you can shoot it from angles you can light it but on the stage yeah on the stage there's no lies right right you know what i mean you got to have

at least something that presents itself you know and i mean you can't draw eyeliner in a dick so you can see it from the back of the room do you know what i'm saying like there's no jumbotron at the play you know know, the playhouse. So I feel like in that case, it's like, do you have the acting chops? Okay, now let's see that dick. Does it play from the stage? Does it play from the stage? Yeah, we need to see you.

Can you hit your mark, please? This dick really pops. It really pops on stage. It does. It just, you know, and it was glistening and it was all wet and shit. It was like fucking a flash dance. But like he was all in like a shower, but just like standing up like very bold and yeah man it looked great i might just be like an attraction thing there where like the the right performer will be drawn to that role and the and you know like you don't have somebody who's like uh no i'd rather rather not like what if we what if we didn't

do that whole section of the play you know well and it's interesting because like he doesn't like carry himself with big dick energy you know what i mean and maybe he's just maybe he's a shower and not a grower i mean i don't know how the thing works but like it's like he was upset he was like really concerned about like people in the audience taking pictures of his dick and i'm like why bro and but i'm like oh because now your secret's out you know what i mean right jesse williams was saying though you're right he he said that before he was going to do that role he's terrified but he says then then i he i guess he was on andy cohen then i saw my dick he's like then i noted that that is what i asked god for i asked to be terrified i asked to do

something that was scary and challenging and made me earn it and made me feel alive and not comfortable. So, yeah. I was terrified. I was stressed out. I put my hands, my head in my hands and noticed that I had a giant, beautiful dick. Yeah, I noticed that. And then I was like, oh, no, we're good. Oh, this is great.

Yeah, they showed me the film and I was like, oh, I do have a great hog. Let's put this on. Let's do this. So, yeah, man, that's my search history. I was like, oh, I do have a great hog. Let's put this on. Let's do this. So, yeah, man, that's that's my search history. I was just trolling for dicks this morning. I just was like, I got to see this thing. I got to know what the fuss is about. That's the next.

What? What is something you think is overrated? You know, this is controversial because everybody's doing it and they love it. Travel. What are we doing? Why are we going places? Why are we even leaving our homes? Like, I'm, you know, traveling for comedy again.

And I went to L.A. last week and came back. And it's just like, I keep trying. You know what I mean? And it's just, it's a lot. You know what I mean? It's a lot. And I know people are like, I want to go to the fucking Maldives. And I'm going to go walk in here.

And I'm just like, man, I can't even handle, like, once you get out of the airport, it's a lot and i know people are like i want to go to the fucking maldives and i'm gonna go walk in here and i'm just like man i can't even handle like it just once you get out of the airport it's okay but then it's like you're in a whole new city and then it's like adjusting to the vibe of the city it's just a lot but i'm i'm i'm using back into it but i'm i'm just not a fan i i don't i don't like to travel like i used to i really don't is it because you have so like you feel like you're living in a place because you love you know you ever since you moved you've been like i'm fucking living do you think maybe because you've kind of like found a you're vibrating at a new frequency too so maybe the travel bug lessons i think so i do think that has something to do with it because it's like why would i leave like i'm so comfortable here like i'm so on my element like i love everything that's happening and then

i leave and i'm like oh this sucks you know and i come home like and i'm like thank god this is better i just want to be home yeah it's also just like the number of people around it's just like yeah on a plane people are just so and now that people aren't wearing masks and shit it's like really full stupidity and full behaviors have come back and i'm just like oh so we're just like fucking gross just we're back to like square one patient zero disgusting yeah like have you learned nothing no like there was a dude maskless fucking raw dog took his fucking shoes off next to me was like peeling an egg i was like bro do you have a fucking sack full of tuna like what are you doing like he's like i do want some yeah another woman was changing her baby on

the seat next to her i was like bitch i know that bathroom is small but like do you need to smell do we all need to be a part of this diaper changing and it was a little boy too and you know how little boys be fucking popping off and i was just like yo if i get a score to piss over this seat i swear to god i will pump that baby into the bathroom and fucking push you in there like do not wow i've never been more on edge than looking between the seats behind me and seeing a little baby dick and being like, what the fuck is happening? Like this ain't the bathroom.

This is not the bathroom. Like baby fecal matter on a seat. Like gross. Just everybody's. Hey, but you know what? This is what, this is what the airline is doing to keep you safe.

We're sanitizing every surface. You're like, do you also know somebody's shit was on this seat are you shampooing the carpet that covers every seat and underneath the seat planes are just so gross it's just it's great is also when was the last time you were on a flight that wasn't like patched to the gills with people never never actually the only thing so i'm gonna come out and say this i used to be a southwest hater like fuck southwest i was like fuck that greyhound in the sky whatever you know i'm i'm status on other airlines but i've flown southwest like the last three times i've gone to

la just because it's been cheaper and everyone else is hiking up their prices and so i'm just like not paying for it but i did not realize that southwest has a whole like flying while fat policy that's not what they call it but that's what i call it they call it a cos policy so this is just a hot tip for fatties if you fly southwest when you check in you can tell them i want to take advantage of your cos policy which means that they give you a seat little card to put on the seat next to you to say it so no one can sit there and they let you pre-board so that's in front of the a's so you pre-board with like the grandmas on the wheelchairs then you can choose whatever seat you want and then you put that card next to you and then no one can sit there and so even if it's a full fucking flight you get a seat between you so

you are the goddess that has or the god that has two seats and then if you're a real you're a real one you try to signal another fatty who doesn't know about it you would go a bitch you want to sit here because ain't no one sitting in this seat and then you make a new fat friend and then you're both happy and you high five oh i didn't see the video somebody was like doing did i have i talked about this already on the show the guy who was like how to make sure nobody sits next to you on a bus or like southwest flight and everybody who walks down the aisle he just like makes eye contact with them smiles and then taps the seat next next like invitingly and everyone's just like fuck no i'm good yeah or like caress the seat

that they'd sit in like with like a finger like yeah hi you don't have to put your arm out like you're just waiting for them to sit down way too eager doing the yawn how about this so great yeah my my method of just like not looking at anyone and hoping that you know i always used to pretend i was sick because like that used to be mine too yeah and when i was working in politics i have to go to sacramento so much to the capital that i got like i had a rhythm getting on a southwest flight i'd be like this like i would just do this so sick oh like just running yeah oh sweating typically water on your face yeah unless it was full people don't want to sit near somebody who's in a middle seat being like, oh, I feel terrible.

What is something you think is underrated? All right, man. The Roomba. I bought a Roomba, one of those vacuum robots. And, you know, they've been around for a long time. But I'm like, how hard is it to vacuum for yourself? What's the big deal? Granted, I haven't been a dog owner until this year.

But I've owned cats. And cats shed like a motherfucker but i always just was like on top of it sweeping whatever and maybe it's also because now i have a very large house and like the square footage is just overwhelming but i was literally having breakdowns once a day because i was like i just swept what happened what is i can't like literally losing my mind over keeping my floors clean and then i bought this fucking roomba holy shit man it just gets everything like i set it to go at 8 p.m every night it fucking vacuums it's loud as shit but i don't care because i wake up to like clean floors like every like it vacuums up shit that i didn't even know was there like i can sweep and swiffer my ass off and it's just like i feel like there's

always dog hair there but when i empty that little roomba thing it's just like chock full of dog hair and i'm like okay so i'm not a psycho like there. But when I empty that little Roomba thing, it's just like chock full of dog hair. And I'm like, okay, so I'm not a psycho. Like this is an egregious amount of hair. But this thing is just making my life so happy. It's just going around. It's underneath furniture. It's just sucking up all the stuff.

And I know it's like super boring, but like, yo, man, shout outs to Roomba. This is your first Roomba. First Roomba. I've had a Roomba. I had to like set up these like training cones for it to know where it could and couldn't go it was like complicated and then it kept getting stuck under yeah i'm wondering if they finally like figured it out i mean they gave me basically this like little beacon thing that like you can stick near something to create like a barrier or a wall or you can like stick it in front of like a pet food bowl and it basically will create like a a semicircle arc that it won't

go into but otherwise like the first time i ran it it ran for like five hours and it basically mapped out my house right and it creates a whole map of your house and then you can go in and you can basically set the borders for each room you name the rooms and then you can say hey go clean the kitchen and it just goes to clean the kitchen or you can be like clean everywhere but the laundry room and it'll go and clean everywhere but the laundry room so you can like basically specify now but it's been like two weeks and i've been like trying all the different shit to see if i can like confuse it like and it honestly has been going up over all my rugs it's been going up over like the folded blanket that i use as my dog's place like it's only taken out one cord when i didn't like put the cord up but like you do have to like make

sure like there's not a dog toy like you know there's not a weird thing yeah yeah but other than that like it i mean it's been doing pretty good like it hasn't gotten stuck anywhere yet when it runs out of like juice that's the only thing like if it's doing my whole house yeah because my house is pretty big like it'll run it out of juice and then it'll plug itself back in and charge and then like 40 minutes later you're like why are you starting again and it's like oh it forgot 12 square feet by the kitchen and it's like i had to take a union 15 i'll be right back and it goes right back to where it left off it doesn't just start over again see that's i should note i had the roombo which was a knockoff version that i picked up at the 99 cents 99 cent store but yeah my my experience was not great but i was

probably that's why you never that's i heard all the terrible stories forever and then i finally like broke down and i mean you guys love it because i know you guys are costco bros too but like it was on sale at cost and I was just like Costco online. They shipped it to me. It was like $100 off. I was like, hell yeah, send me that fucking Roomba. I'll try anything. And now I'm like, they have a mop Roomba.

And so now I'm like on the precipice. I want to live with this Roomba for a month. And if it still is good, then I'm going to get the mop one because you can basically sink them. So it sends out vacuum Roomba. And then when vacuum Roomba is done, it sends out the mop. So if I can get that, yo, my life's about to change just have a fleet yeah i'm about to like win back so much wine drinking time and weed smoking time at night like i'm just gonna be able to like chill and put my feet up on my recliner and be like yeah i'm about to get that bitch me and you're

watching fucking ozarks so yeah shoutouts to the Roomba. It was always so sad when I would find it stuck under a piece of furniture. I would be devastated. Yeah, it felt like a gerbil or something. And then I have an honorary underrated also. Yeah. A second one is Long Beach Airport. Have you guys ever flown out of

long beach airport i have one jet blue uh when i went to new york a few years ago yeah yeah they have like the outdoor lobby there when you were there no yo so they have redone the long beach airport i'd never been there before but i guess it just got redone it's really quiet because who the fuck flies out of long beach right jet blue isn't there anymore but southwest is there but they have a whole after tsa you go through tsa and then you know i usually come into like the chaos hall where like everyone's looking for like where do i go there's no chaos hall it's just an open courtyard wow fresh air benches tables trees and then to the left is one side of the terminal and to the right is the other

side of the terminal but like you can literally spend your whole two hours just outside you don't have to be in the airport you can be outside in the fucking sun having a beer having a wine having a water whatever yeah and then you walk into the terminal and get on your plane it was the most relaxing departure i was like yo i'm long beach is out of the way but it might be worth it just to like not have to deal with lax right for real wow okay like so if you if you have a flight path that is like workable through long beach i would say try it it is awesome it was like me going to burbank yo yeah i miss burbank they canceled the southwest from nashville to burbank and i'm devastated they used to have a direct flight, and they don't have it anymore, and it's heartbreaking. But yeah, shout out to Long Beach.

LA innovated in the outdoor malls, the outdoor high schools, according to 90210. I wasn't really. I didn't go to high school out here. But yeah, I hadn't even thought about the outdoor airport. That's amazing. It's next level, man. It was really, like, I was actually pleased. about the outdoor airport. That's amazing. It's next level, man. It was really, like, I was actually pleased. I was just like, oh, wow.

Yeah, I will sit in traffic to leave this airport. It's perfect. All right, let's take 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. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films

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Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it? Like you miss 100% of the shots you never take. Yeah. Rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career

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some good things being done with technology by the people. Yeah. Like the last couple of months, we've seen story after story about corporate union busting and retaliatory fire rings for people who are trying to organize their co-workers. But, you know, like in this moment where there's a huge swell of support for organized labor, many people are finding new ways to push back and actually make things difficult for some of these companies. So, you know, they're one of the tactics that have been used from people like, you know, pushing back against places like Kroger or Starbucks or Kellogg's who have been recently in the news for their unsavory business practices. They're saying, you know, we can do we can spam the fuck out of the job listings when these companies post for, you know, essentially what they're looking for is like a professional

union buster, like for their company. So this is from Vice talking about in February, Gen Z for change coder Sophia Angelic says, quote, let's talk about Starbucks. In case you missed it, they fired seven of their Memphis workers who were trying to unionize. They even took it upon themselves to launch an entire anti-union website. But unions are good. They protect workers. A super cool website that my friends and I made that make it easy for you to flood the application pool, essentially saying like, this site will auto-generate a ton of applicants using a script with Python. Quote, it'd be a real shame if people use the website and let Starbucks know unionizing is good and they shouldn't be firing workers who try to unionize, you know, just

putting it out there, essentially saying, go to this website, you can spam the fuck out of the thing. And it'll basically put their ability to hire someone and go like total gridlock by like just overwhelming their inboxes with these applicants and something similar was even happening more not necessarily that it was on tiktok and sort of getting younger people to get involved but the seiu they did something where they're using technology to try and ab test some things for example they suspected that chipotle had you know some maybe some know, some racial disparities

in who they hire for open managerial positions. So what they did was they submitted pairings of names, a white applicant and a black applicant with racially distinctive names. And they, guess what they found out when they submitted 624 applications? The black applicants typically did not hear back even close to the rate that these white applicants were hearing back. And so even there, they're using that to sort of support greater arguments, say, this is this what based on what we found through this correspondence testing that we were doing is that they there are some biased hiring practices.

So it's it's an interesting moment because a lot of labor people have been studying like labor movements for a while. This is kind of new because technology hasn't been used this way for worker organizing or pushing back against companies. And it's kind of a it is a very different moment than than usual. Yeah, that one's really brilliant because that's the sort of thing that I can see a corporation responding to is just a very targeted, like, look, we ran this test. You guys failed. It's now in the media.

You have to do something. The gridlock one, I'm a little bit, because I just feel like the Starbucks finds a way around that or just hires their kids or their fail know the their fail sons or you know that they can always find a way to hire but like the the one where they like do a targeted experiment publicly that proves that you're fucking racist it's like corporations would like they have to respond to that like they're having a meeting about that shit right now right but i do think the twofold kind of attack though is sort of brilliant because it does take a lot of time and effort to go through applicants and to select ones.

So like either way, like they're hitting them in the pocketbook, right? The internet is supposed to ease access to applicants. Like, oh, and it's also the internet uses, you know, oh, well, we didn't see them. It's anonymity. Like it's just names. The internet uses, you know, oh, well, we didn't see them. It's anonymity. Like, it's just names.

So, like, being able to spam them with all these and then be able to back it up and say, oh, here, we're also doing this experiment that, like, you are racist, to your point, is brilliant to me because it's both. You're going to get them politically and, like, kind of outward facing and then getting them in the pocketbook is very smart. Super, super cool use of body technology or whatever it's called. body technology or whatever it's called. And along the way, too, you know, like with just on social media, it's contributing to just massive support for organized labor in general. You know, like you have younger people in record numbers who are now like, yeah, this this is what we need to have some some seemingly equitable future. They said the National Labor Relations Board said there was a 60 percent increase in workers filing union elections in the last six months. So like we're seeing we're actually seeing measurable increased activity around labor organizing. And they even said this is the Gallup poll showed that this is the highest support since 1965 for unions.

It was 68 percent. It's really interesting. And right now, people between the eight ages of 18 and 34 support unions at a rate of 77 that's really interesting that's actually something that like i've never thought of before right like are these younger generations aware of the labor movements that have happened in the past like outside of just like oh that was the civil rights that you know and it was like no no. Are you aware of the literal labor movements? Are you aware of why unions exist? I just feel like maybe some of these younger folks haven't had exposure to this because

they've just been like, oh, I have this job. It's just not a thing. You know what I mean? And a lot of people are going into more skilled jobs as opposed to just general labor jobs, which traditionally are supported by unions. Outside of like, there's a whole labor movement going on in the cannabis movement right now you know people trying to unionize you know all the folks and those are all staffed by a lot of young people it's really interesting to see this that like maybe some people just this is their first exposure to to unionization and that and i think

like on tiktok like i'm even learning about the union history from tiktok users too so there there's like a that dance must go hard my knees are a little too weak to get that low sometimes yeah how many death drops look i busted the back of my head trying to hit a death drop didn't realize how you're supposed to land i just threw my body to the ground okay yeah but yeah this is i think it's it's just a like it's it's heartening to hear people who have been observing like labor movements say like typically workers have been way behind trying to combat union busting because typically the companies are so well funded that it's just a different landscape but now because of technology social media like it's just a different landscape. But now because of technology, social media, like it's allowing for a lot of, you know, people to experiment with ways to try and expose things

or push back. And a lot of this did start, if you remember, was back in Texas when they were talking about like doing the anti-abortion bills. And there was a user who was like, you can, you know, spam that website to try and get people to, you know, it's like you can report somebody and they're like, well, how about we flood your website with nonsense? get people to, you know, it's like you can report somebody and they're like, well, how about we flood your website with nonsense? Yeah. And then that, you know, they ended up having to shut the website down. So there's a lot of, a lot of things going on, but it's, you know, this is, this is the way the youth, them are getting involved.

Well, I'm, I'm happy to hear it. And it's cool to see technology being used for something that actually, you know, not that it's not used for things that are beneficial, but you know what I saying yeah it's uh it's cool to see the kids are the kids are all right man and tech savvy too i'm like man you want me to do what with python a script uh i don't like snakes dog yeah exactly like hey i'll pick it i don't know how to do that other shit though and so i think we're also seeing is like young more people are at a younger age are just getting such diversified skill sets because of like the amount of information that's out. You can like train yourself in so many things if you have the will to do it. So it's interesting to see it all express itself in this way. headlines like business insider is coming through with and there there's that person that msnbc led on who was like i'm a pro-life gen z-er and actually the majority of gen z was like eight out

of ten or something that person said yeah which is not true way to go putting that person on tv yeah yeah all right let's talk uh speaking of the ban on abortion that may be coming our way so susan collins who has been like kind of a key figure in this whole fight because she was like always the the hope that maybe she wouldn't be she wouldn't vote for gorsuch or kavanaugh or Coney Barrett because she's supposed to be a moderate Republican. So people have been asking her, you said that you were only voting for them because you thought they would not overturn Roe. And her response is not that she regrets supporting them, but that they lied. They lied to me.

Do you believe it? I can't. She said, quote, if this leaked draft opinion is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office. She claims, she's always been saying, hearings and in our meetings in my office. She claims, she's always been saying, they told me that Roe was settled law, that it was precedent, that that's done and dusted. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer was saying things at the same time. He said, when I spoke to Brett Kavanaugh, he wouldn't answer yes to the question of whether Roe was settled law when I asked him. So he made it clear to me where he was at. And he lied to your little naive ass saying, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's that's settled. That's settled, man. So I got your vote. Good, good. Watch this shit. Now it's a very, you know, it's, it's, it's disheartening. I don't know if it's disheartening because every time, like it would come down to Murkowski and Collins and like, can they, will they figure out that these are bad people to put

on the bench? And they never did so now she's dealing with a little bit of a fallout people are upset obviously at what you know this leaked opinion is indicating and in a horrific display of partisan terrorism susan collins woke up to her side something written on her sidewalk in front of her home in colored chalk. And it's very threatening miles. It's very threat. Don't,

don't, if I say this out loud, I don't want the secret service coming for me, but I'm going to say it cause I'm a fucking rebel. Just, you know, get this down, turn this down.

If you have people around you that you can't hear, cause you're, you're about to be, your, your heart rate's going to speed up a little bit. And Justin, you might have to bleep this out just to protect me, but I'm going to say it because we're brave here. It said, quote, Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA, which is the Women's Healthcare Protection Act. Vote yes. Clean up your mess. Oh my God. And it was written in menacing chalk. Yes. and i do want to point out that the dot above

the eye is a tiny uterus yes so this is very threatening you know there's there's not only block letters you know what i mean and multiple colors of chalk there's an additional iconographic this is threatening this is very threatening using such an informal way to address a senator susie for real are you trying to set my house on fire with that talk what is going on so you know she did what any responsible white woman would do in this situation called the police so she called the police and said, there's something awful outside my house. Can you collect DNA samples? How do we get to the bottom of this?

They tried. The cops showed up and they said, all right. And they left. A city sanitation worker came and just power washed it off. And then the comment from the police was, this wasn't an overtly threatening message. So I just like the mental space of this person, right, to to know that when you when you're out here being like, I'm convinced this person is going to take away your rights, even if you maybe believe it or really don't believe it. And then seeing the the fallout from your behavior and then be like, this is awful.

This is terrible. What's going on? Like the disconnect there with what your vote means is really wild let's also talk about the white woman in her neighborhood fucking chalk bitch make a sign cover her fucking yard in signs take a shit on her porch put a fucking paper flag in it that's shaped like a uterus and be like bitch what i'm gonna have all my unwanted children on your motherfucking front lawn vote yes Yes. Like, right. I just, I, I, I think we need to be a lot louder about this. I'm just like this little cute little fucking sidewalk drawing. Get out of here, bitch.

Susie, please, please. Are you kidding me? Oh my God. Susie comma, please. That's a threat.

Jack. Yeah. Very, very threatening stuff. And the tone police are out in full force, Jack Yeah, very threatening stuff And the tone police are out in full force You know, still Whether it's this or other people Democrats have been like, I don't know if

Brett Kavanaugh deserves to have all this ruckus By his house They're already advancing bills to protect Supreme Court justices Yeah Like, wow, okay What happened to like you know codifying roe yeah but you're like no no no no you don't don't bring the smoke to a supreme court justice's house no no no because

again they're revealing it's very clear what they're trying to reveal they want to maintain the status quo now not necessarily that they they're saying we want to protect this overturning of roe but they certainly don't want a reality where people are organizing en masse and voicing their displeasure, because that's the road to where's the power then at that point?

Also, it's not please or thank you. It's please and thank you. So if they didn't want to be threatening, it should have been, Susie, please. Mainers want WHPA, but clean up your mess. Thank you. So if they didn't want to be threatening, it should have been Susie, please. Mainers want WHPA, but clean up your mess. Thank you. So clearly this is the work of Al Qaeda, I would say. Mm hmm. I mean, it's just wild. You know, you have Chris Coons and John Cornyn, a Democrat and a Republican.

They're introducing the bill with unanimous support to provide extended security protection for the immediate family members of supreme court justices and you're not you're not connecting the fucking dots yeah but listen there are i mean they are but bombs with tumblers full of white wine and sprite and a fucking pocket full of chalk you know what i mean it is a dangerous world out here miles yeah you're right. You're right. You know? Yeah. Let's take a quick break.

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. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members and others whose lives and careers have been impacted just like mine.

Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or, can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job?

Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it like you miss 100 percent of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And I want to talk about like what we were just talking about basically the the fact that when somebody writes on someone's sidewalk and chalk or quietly protests out this outside of someone's house and it's protesting a right-wing policy being promoted by white Bible-thumping men. The reaction is to protect the Bible-thumping men. But on the other hand, I think a trend that has just kind of been normalized just because it's one of many pieces of bad news. But the whole like rhetoric coming off of the right that like anybody who talks to children, makes room for

children to have questions or even have gender affirming health care or, you know, messages around them is a groomer. So this guy, Jack Califano, tweeted last night, the groomer and pedophile thing are the clearest moment where I've thought, oh, wow, they really are planning on killing a lot of people eventually. Because, like, if you read about genocides in history, like Rwanda, you know, like modern history. All it takes is like government complicity, which not hard to imagine in 2024 Trump administration, and a source of information that is just like reinforcing this messaging over and over again. And Rwanda was like state radio. But like, I don't know, it's just we're in a really dangerous place and i don't know

how it gets less dangerous before you know like we've seen the story of people accosting families with gay parents in public telling them telling the kids they need to get away from their parents because they're groomers and in the mainstream we've seen like the panic over like the quote from a disney call where they're just talking about spreading acceptance and messaging about like acceptance and diversity in their work and they've turned that into like they're trying to brainwash our kids and like groom them to like victimize them sexually i don't know it like that that tweet really like struck me as like actually true and kind of like something we should be thinking about more not to be like we need to be like terrified but this is a very like dangerous undercurrent that's only getting like

louder and more surface level i feel like i think people should be more terrified yeah yeah i mean it's it's terrifying overall because this is also a smokescreen for coming from real pedophiles yeah do you know what i'm saying like i mean let's let's let's really look at this even further this is a complete you know this is a tactic in a group of people that we know are involved in trafficking and sex rings with children and now that a complete you know this is a tactic in a group of people that we know are involved in trafficking and sex rings with children and now that's like you know to kind of reapply and to sort of project this onto you know the gay population and to try to use sort of the the widespreadness of us trying to like understand more and to try to be accepting of trans people of

all ages right you know this is a scary time and we should not be going backwards and forgetting and like it just it sucks because like when you use things like pedophilia it makes it easier for people to be pedophiles right because people to redirect that attention somewhere else and it's like meanwhile there's kids that are being hurt like i don't want to you know say that we shouldn't be aware of that because that is a real problem but like it's such a slippery slope to move in to be like no now let's just kill all gay people because gay people are the reason why pedophilia exists and that's that they're not the same thing that that's they're totally mutually exclusive the conflation is precisely what they're going for and correct i mean you just even look right because for all the talk of like you know you're gonna have to vote your way out of this or whatever i

mean do you look at the maps and how gerrymandered there are it's most political forecasters like i don't think that i don't know how the fuck the democrats are going to get a real majority in the senate again if you look at how these maps are going how the gerrymandering works of voter suppression that are they even thinking about it from their perspective too it's like the the deck is getting stacked increasingly. And the chances of like being able to turn over politicians at a high rate is not very realistic. And I think the other thing that people don't realize, too, is how gridlocked state houses are, too, especially in red states. It's very difficult. states it's it's very difficult so i think i don't know i mean i think this is this is just something that generally deserves more awareness because like like we're saying even with this with how alito is talking about this decision the logic is almost it's basically boiling down to if it's not literally in the constitution it's not a right yeah jesus christ yeah so that leads to

gay marriage that leads to contraception that leads to so many other things like that. Now, some states aren't going to do it the way, you know, like everyone. But like we we touched on yesterday or the day before, how this could also lead to like intrastate legal battles about trying to extradite people like to say this. This doctor gave abortion care to this person from the state where it's illegal and i want to charge you with attempted murder or something like that that is another quagmire that is you know on the horizon as well with as things get more litigious and fraught and accusations of like child abuse and child murder and things like that are always heavily involved in, you know, the early stages of a buildup to genocide, like the anti-Semitic belief that Jews were ritually murdering children was like a big part

of like blood libel, which eventually, you know, led to the Holocaust, you know? And all of this would be, like, less concerning if we didn't live in a society where right-wing violence is, like, tolerated and left-wing protesting for human rights is equated with terrorism. Like, that is the mainstream response. Like, that's, you know, we talked about it with susan collins but there has been so much right-wing extremism and like the response from the right is to like openly put like screen a documentary where they're like this is an attack on you and like something that like amps up the rhetoric like tucker carlson had that like January 6th, like documentary that was basically claiming that any sort of attempt to address right wing extremism is a like political act by the left, a political act of like attacking. And it's just so dangerous and heading in a more dangerous direction.

And there's just like nothing really pushing back on it, you know? Yeah. I mean, again, why it's even more important to begin looking in your own community and understanding like, you know, those, how mutual aid works because it, you know, there are, there are, there's, there is a possibility for a positive outcome, but the way leadership is now in this country, it's hard to know that. I mean, there's just like they're so out of touch with everything that's happening. Katie Porter, who's the Congress Congresswoman from California, who regularly gives really moving speeches or like interrogates bankers or other people. or other people she and apparently like in a closed session meeting with other democrats she like got really emotional just talking about how expensive like just literally bacon is at the store and how many families are looking to be like holy shit sandwich bread is like five bucks yeah like how the fuck do i now i'm on the search for something that's like under four or cereals like seven or six and a half. And she was talking

about just her experience as a, as a provider and the, and the, and the, even the stress she felt of being like, I don't know if I can buy $10, a $10 pack of bacon when I go to the store. And apparently she was saying after that, she said it was the first time she saw her colleagues kind of connect with what she was saying. And they said, but this isn't showing that she said it was the first time she saw her colleagues kind of connect with what she was saying and they said but this isn't showing that she said somebody came up to another congressperson said this isn't showing up in the polling and she said you're not asking the right fucking question correct and that's i think so revealing is that so many there's only like a handful of people that are in congress that are like man this shit is so bad for normal people like a handful of people that are in congress that are like

man this shit is so bad for normal people like half of y'all are millionaire mostly are millionaires yeah so what the fuck would you know about like you you would barely bat an eye at a five dollar loaf of bread because the five dollars is nothing to you but if you have a budget and shit's increasing by orders of like 20 at a time that throws your whole fucking life off and that's the thing that they're not connecting with and so many other things that you know like every even like ngos that are talking about the rise of fascism in the u.s they're like yeah the way to combat it would be to combat inequality yeah yeah that's it don't don't allow the tension people experience to be co-opted by other people's

narratives to say to put fascism and shit in their head and be like and that's why you're broke yeah well i think it's so important to like people on the coasts you know what i mean it's so easy because we do make more money people who live on the coast you know what i mean than the rest of the country and i think it's so easy to get out of perspective and get so angry about the wrong stuff. You know what I mean? And not that like there's right stuff and wrong stuff, but there kind of is. You know what I mean? Like you need to be aware of what all these decisions are doing and how they're impacting the people that live in the middle and live in other areas.

Like being down here. Or even in the cities we're in, you know? Correct. You know, it could be the other side of the city that you don't drive to that you don't see you know what i mean it's like you just need to open your eyes and be aware like being down here the south is definitely like giving me a new perspective on everything you know what i mean because there's just such a huge juxtaposition of very very poor and people who are just like not on the fucking internet you know what i mean and just stuff that is a little bit different but it's there's such a divide in our country and it is

terrifying it's terrifying and it's sad yeah i think we just need to be able to get over like our philosophy as a nation that needing help is bad because i think that that's that mentality extends to you know men in the just ridiculously high suicide rates and other things like there's just there's not a culture of saying you're vulnerable in this country and that's that's not okay because like oh what you're poor okay how poor are you right right do you deserve this like what the fuck i said i need help i said i can't afford food and now you're means testing this shit i just need help or and and the shame that goes along with that and i think and that

we're we're constantly making people feel ashamed of that rather than saying we need to just embrace people that need help and that's fine people need to be more open to say i mean not to say people aren't expressing that but culturally that's, we're still not at that point where someone can be vulnerable. There's not a stigma behind it. Yeah, and we embrace that. And there's not a full-time job's worth of work to get the help, which is currently the way it works. You have to suddenly work 20 hours a week to just manage the insanely understaffed system of the government and government subsidies and help. And all those offices are only open during the hours that you are at work and your children

are not at school. So it's like you have to sacrifice either your own job, your child care, or your child's education in order to facilitate, like you said, getting those services, right? There's some stuff you can't even do online. You got to go in there. You got to show them some piece of paper. You got to, you know, it's terrible. It's like how you expect someone to work and then you also come in here between 8 and 2 p.m. We don't. Okay, cool. And that's how we save money. That's how

the government saves money. Yeah. And then we can still pat ourselves on the back and say, hey, I signed that bill. I helped. I allowed for that. I voted. Yeah, but we kneecap that little provision to the point that this is going to do fuck all. Don't worry. But I can tell people that I'm doing that for money.

You know who does have time and money and resources to take advantage of every break the government wants to give them? It's corporations and rich people. Well, Lydia, such a pleasure having you, as always. Thanks. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Sure. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Hater Tuesday. I have a website as well called Lydia Popovich dot com.

If you are someone who knows how to work Squarespace, fucking email me. I don't like it anymore and I can't figure out how to use it and I need some help. So throw that out. These fucking nerds. Somebody knows the Internet. Help me out. I just want to make a point. I bet you i bet you hey look that's what i'm saying like if any audience can help me it's this audience with lydia hit her up hate her tuesday go so yeah lydia popovich.com i am doing

shows this weekend with my best friend and certainly not yours marcella argueo she and i are at the comedy fort in fort collins colorado on the 13th and the 14th she is recording her second album so come through you'll see me featuring and then you'll see marcella do a killer hour so that's gonna be fucking rad weekend of shows yeah colorado yeah that's a blessing yeah that's gonna be dope i'm gonna smoke so much good weed i can't wait because california prices are out of control we know what what's happening in Tennessee. So I'm really looking forward to being in Colorado and seeing what's good. Colorado. Let's hang.

Hey, Colorado's like, can you come out to these shows? Let Lydia know she's internationally known and locally respected. You know what I mean? Yes. Heck yeah. And Marcella.

Let Marcella know. Yeah. Show up. Marcella flew away. She got so big on us. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.

That's true. We love so much love for Marcella flew away. She got so big on us. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, that's true. So much love for Marcella. Oh, yeah. Nothing but. Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? So this is related to the top of the hour tweet. So, you know, I did all that Googling for Jesse Williams. And, of course, you give it to the algorithm and you shall receive whether you want to or not. Williams. And of course you give it to the algorithm and you shall receive whether you want to or not. So I got a tweet that fell into my feed that made me laugh so hard. I can only describe it

because it's a video and then you can try to find it. And I won't give the person a shout out who it is because there's like an OnlyFans person and I think they probably do porn and whatever. So the tweet is just the words say this clingy and then it has kind of like a smirky face. And then the video is a girl laying down in a dude's lap just using his dick to scroll her phone. And it's fucking hilarious. She's like scroll using it like a what's it called? Like a like a stylus pen, like a stylus. Yes.

And she's like she's I'm watching it now. It's so funny. She's swiping up. She's double tapping with the tip. It is very funny. So shout out to that couple because, hey, man, I'm here for it. I love that kind of comfortness and your love together. But it's quite funny.

It's just so fucking stupid. Like swiping up with a fucking dick. It's great. Nice looking dick, too. All right. Big day for nice looking dicks. Yeah. Serious.

Miles, where can people find you? What is the tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. And also check out the basketball podcast. Miles and Jack got mad boosties. We talk NBA every week with a fantastic guest. Oh, we have. I'm not joking.

We have actual legendary players on soon. And I can't even. I want. I'm going to wait for it to happen. And then I will scream from the top of the mountain who we spoke to but hold on to yeah we should we should really hold off on on that tease until until it's locked in until it's in the can when it's in the can i will be screaming my head off and you can only imagine why okay so let's see a tweet that I like. First one is from Rohita Kadambi at Rohita Kadambi tweeted. Hi, I'm Nick Lachey and this is Netflix's Stanford prison experiment. Shout out to I forget somebody in Zeitgang tagged me in that it was Jan. Shout out to Jan for letting me know about that tweet you were right i did like

that one uh there's another one that it says truly bradley deeply at bradapalooza it's that it's so it's a picture of george w bush on 9-11 when he's at that school and the his like staffers whispering like you know the the twin to the world trade center is where the pentagon's being attacked and he's like got that face but the caption caption is, Sir, they just pronounced them Chuck and Larry. And his face is like, huh? Yeah. Those big things happening on that day. Let's see.

You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Tweet I've been enjoying Mr. Meat Scraps, whose name is at really loud fart on Twitter. That's what I read when I started laughing. Tweeted, I'm a 9-11 last responder. I just arrived on the scene today. Looks like it's already been taken care of. And Jason Concepcion tweeted, I hope the Lakers got crypto.com's naming rights money up front.

I literally had that thought myself in the last 24 hours is like wait so that's still going to be called crypto.com arena next year jack we we called it we knew we as it was happening i was like don't worry that's not gonna last that long the crib would be like pets.com arena you know what I mean? They should just let the actual Crips sponsor it. It'd last longer. I know. Exactly. That'd be rad. And then Colin Deersing tweeted, Z-Way should moderate a presidential debate.

And that needs to happen. I would love that. But they won't do it. The Republicans are done with debates. Yeah. Fuck. I actually don't know who would do worse than that. I feel like.

Oh, my. Dude, honestly, I think the Democrat would. They're the exact kind of person who gets tripped up on a show. An actual racist person? No surprises there. They're used to getting fucked with. They're like, yeah, I hate black people.

You got it right. I absolutely agree. If it were up to me, I would look at, are you from here? Okay, your parents aren't? Okay, well then you could stay. Your parents, not so much. Got it though. Wow. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes.

Footnotes we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy miles as we head into the end of this week one when uh kendrick's new album is about to be dropped upon us what are what are you recommending recommending? What should we use as a amuse-bouche? Oh, man. Let's see. You know, Soul to Soul? You know.

Okay, well, there's a remix of that by Stro Elliot called Soul to Stro. And it's like a really interesting sort of remix of some of the vocals chopped up of that song and made into a new beat. And as somebody who loves the opening scene of Belly, and just a general fan of R&B music, this is a fantastic rework. So this is Soul to Stro, S-T-R-O, by Stro Elliott. All right.

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