The Daily Zeitgeist - Epstein Is A Patriot! Micro-Retirement? 07.11.25

Episode Date: July 11, 2025

In episode 1895, Miles and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by writer, playwright, and co-host of The Inner Cities Podcast, A. Zell Williams, to discuss… Epstein WAS A GOOD GUY Rebrand, Even Before Praising Hitler... Grok Was Literally Poisoning People, What Is A Micro-Retirement? Inside The Latest Gen Z Trend and more! Epstein WAS A GOOD GUY Rebrand Donald Trump Said Epstein Files 'Could Destroy People'—Bill O'Reilly Trump shuts down Jeffrey Epstein question: "Are we still talking about" him? Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself ‘MechaHitler’ X user Will Stancil threatens lawsuit after Elon Musk’s Grok AI bot posts instructions on how to break into his house and rape him X takes Grok offline, changes system prompts after more antisemitic outbursts Linda Yaccarino stepping down as CEO of Elon Musk’s X A billionaire, an AI supercomputer, toxic emissions and a Memphis community that did nothing wrong Elon Musk Obtains Permit to Spew Pollution Elon Musk’s xAI powering its facility in Memphis with ‘illegal’ generators NAACP launches lawsuit over pollution from Musk’s xAI Musk’s xAI scores permit for gas-burning turbines to power Grok supercomputer in Memphis What Is A Micro-Retirement? Inside The Latest Gen Z Trend LISTEN: Let God Sort Em Out by Clipse WATCH: Blake Wexler | Daddy Long Legs (Full Comedy Special)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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No, damn it. No. X, the everything app, gonna give it to you. It gonna give it to you. X, the everything app, gonna give it to you. Okay. Shout out, Kristy Yamaguchi made for that one. Obviously, Grock went full Mecca Hitler.

It said this, respect me by my name, Mecca Hitler. said this respect me by my name Mecca Hitler and it did its damn Nazi thing so you know great thank you Christian Muguchi main for that wonderful aka I'm thrilled to be joined by you know just just the fucking homie you know what I mean he's the guy who brought plumper's on the scene he's a guy who was one of the biggest Philadelphia Eagles fans I know he's a great Liverpool fan. Despite everything, I still love him. You know him from, I don't know, comedy. His special, Daddy Long Legs, just broke a very significant milestone. I might say so myself. You should check

that excellent special out on YouTube if you haven't already. Although I imagine most side gang definitely supports this man. Please welcome to the microphone, Blake Wexler. Hey, it's a pleasure to be cohosting with you today. This is Blake Wexler, a.k.a. But I'm a Blake. I'm a Wexler. What the hell are my plumpers doing here? They belong on a mare. Vanadium silver.

I added in the horse. Anytime I can compare my lower body to a female horse. Of course. Of course, of course, of course. Of course, of course. Yeah, of course, of course, of course. I'm like, my God, is there a Mrs. Ed? Have you seen Mr. Ed lately?

He's looking. Put that guy out to stud if he's not already. Hey, Justin, cut that out. Don't let him know he'll get banned from another stable. Mm hmm. What's that, Mrs. Ed? Did he have did Mr. Ed have like equine desires for like another horse or was he just kind of like,

yeah, I'm a human bro. Mr. Ed, wife. That's probably a weird thing to search. No, that's just the woman who plays Wilbur Post's wife, Carol Post. Well, Mr. Met has a wife, obviously different species. Famous, you know, live action beasts with spouses. That's something that's a special episode of that. Maybe not that special, but that could be an episode of.

Yeah. Of I guess. Yeah, I don't know if he did have a love interest. Maybe it was just maybe it was a nose Hey that you could He loved that hey, you know what I mean, okay, he loved that hey Anyway, we are joined today by I guess we had recently but I was like we need to have him back Because that was a fucking fantastic conversation and we kind of kept it short because of all kinds of time constraints we had.

But coming back to the stage or, I guess, to the microphone, you know him as an award. Look, again, we have this has been back to back. Huge back to back. Top guess. OK, we had told you on your booty yesterday. Fuck you. Fantastic person. Fantastic body workwork now we have Okay an intrepid journalist a award-winning playwright TV producer and also guess what

Co-host of the podcast the inner cities with yesterday's, Toshio Yabuchi, please welcome to the microphone, Aza Williams! Aza Williams, AKA, how do you do I? See, you've bought my Pop Mart blind pack, and you're just a little let down because what you got wasn't a limited edition, but I'm just a sweet love boo boo from a satanic Chinese factory. You got to do this show guys.

And I'm very curious about this phenomena of demonic thoughts that you guys found. Just saying don't mess around with your salvation, you know, I'm not you know I want to be saved by Christ. I want to be in God's good graces. So I I I Cast away the little boo boo doll. Oh My god, did you see there's this fucking grifter? Pastor Thai white dude. He is telling people that chat GPT can now translate people speaking in tongues Oh, and it's like the stupidest thing. He's like, it's actually quite impressive because it's like, I'm speaking ancient Sumerian. I'm like, you're babbling a lot of shit.

The best part is while he's saying this, he has a big ass Thanos gauntlet, like, like, prominently, there's no Jesus shit in this guy's office. He has like a huge gaming PC and a fucking Thanos gauntlet. And he's like, yeah, man, the Christ love and Chez. Even like you are a fucking scammer, bro. You are. This is the greatest thing I've ever heard since the Wizard of Oz himself. Like, imagine you convince people that like, oh, this thing can obviously translate your Pentecostal like faith. Just tell you. It's like, and you speak to it and it's like, it says I just it says that the lord needs you to give

Me five hundred dollars right now. It yeah now this minute check is fine. Yeah, hurry up. Hurry up the lord will not wait. Hurry up Look at this. I gotta play this clip for you because this guy he's not fooling anyone and victor Can you book this guy on the podcast when you get it? Yes, he needs to be platformed. This man needs to reach the people Let's jump back into it. We're in a season where the world is shifting so fast we can barely keep up and i think it was funny because this week one of my friends reached out like there is nothing to indicate this guy is a man of god if anything he's like probably praised to stan lee's like fucking portrait every night he's like please make this nap real and save me. Oh my God. Please. Gauntlet. Miles is not lying.

It is quite expensive. She is the size of more than his head. Yeah, it's like, it's like meant to be like Thanos sized. Yeah. Wow. If it literally was on the set, I'd be like, yeah, that that looks like a real thing that Josh Brolin used. This is, these are the benefits of following the teachings of Christ is you can grift people and

then buy your own like very, very close to authentic version of the Thanos gauntlet. That's what that's called, right? Is that what they call it? It is, it is the infinity gauntlet. Yes. Infinity gauntlet. Yes. As a nerd, I have to. No. And we'll talk, I'll bring this up in my overrated underhand.

Okay, good. But yes, that is definitely the infinity gauntlet. I have not, I have not seen the last four, three, whatever Avengers movie. I just know culturally, ambiently what the fuck happens in them. I got, I'm one of these people, you put out too much shit and I lose the fucking thread, I give up. Yeah. Like if you can give me... That's the big knock on Marvel is that they put out too much shit.

And I was told by somebody... I'm X-Men. Oh no. I've watched every X-Men thing, the other shit fine. Like I fuck with those was but I was an X-Men type kid anyway. Sorry. One of the issues Marvel has right now is the movies they've made thus far. If you know the lore, they've kind of burned through like 70 years of Marvel. So like now they're like, what do we do?

What do we do? Yeah. Um, um, fantastic for in the sixties though. It's in the sixties. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What?

Yeah. I mean, I'm excited, but yeah, I mean, it looks cool. It looks cool. Also as also somebody who came from a very religious background that told me Santa was equivalent to Satan. I mean, just that end around. And when you get, you can't be having the infinity gauntlet unless, maybe he thinks, you know what,

Christ doesn't exist in the 616, which is where Marvel's main timeline is. And in our timeline, there is a Christ. But that also means there's another universe where Thanos could smack up Jesus, so that's problematic. You know what? And that's what these like video AI generative AI things are for because I saw somebody do are on reddit

They're like this is how to fight between Hulk and Thanos should have gone down Oh my god, and then used fucking AI to generate that shit and it was like clunky as fuck But hey somebody do Thanos verse Jesus, you know Jesus catching a phase. I see it. Anyway, A's L, we will get to know you a little bit better. First, we're just going to go over a couple of stories we're going to talk about. So the Epstein files, they came out that there was that binder.

Then Pam Bondi is like nothing to see here. This guy was totally above board. Let's just fucking talk about something else. Anything please. There's now, I was jokingly saying like, I maybe the next phase is them trying to be like, actually, Jeffrey Epstein was like a good guy to try and like, to try and keep all of the suspicion out.

They're starting to do this now on the right. Because they got this shit is out of control. So we'll talk about the rebranding of Jeffrey Epstein as a patriot Goddamn and like my aka alluded to Grock man. Sorry, you know, you're not gonna beat these Nazi allegations every time every time Too much smoke even for my eyes still work. So yeah hard for you Yeah, yeah, there's still the images and everything you've said and the shit posts and the people you platform anyway

we will talk about how the you know grok just completely went off the third Reich rail the other day and Then that led to a shakeup over there But also the bigger controversy may be the fact that the fucking supercomputer that's used to power grok is poisoning black people So we'll talk about that too Then if we have if we have some time we might talk about the new gen z trend called micro retirement Or if it's just another thing that old bosses are trying to describe what Gen Z does is a weird thing vacation and then poop cruise train wreck poop cruise the Netflix documentary I started watching that shit right away and then my partner her majesty was like what the fuck is wrong with you?

Like we need to put the kid to bed and I'm like, okay I'll come back to this because it sounds like the new Netflix true crime thing is just like big society like social fuck-up events more than like, you know in your face crimes Although they did one on Astroworld and that shit is a crime I don't know how the fuck I Don't know what the fuck went wrong there in terms of seeking responsibility for people But anyway a new type of documentary for Netflix and we're gonna talk about all that and many more things But first though, what's something from research history? That's everything about who you are

It's a good I mean eventually poop crews because I've never heard of this. Yeah, like and as a father any car ride you take is a poop cruise. I'm assuming My recent search history has uh, mexico city protest americans. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yes, I don't know if you guys have been keeping up but like the citizens of mexico city are are not pleased with the the influx of Americans coming in basically since the the pandemic and and really sticking around now that a lot of jobs have gone remote and They're really gentrifying neighborhood. They're not they're refusing to learn Spanish Which is so as a as a native Californian, you just have to know some you better know Spanish

I don't even speak Spanish, but like I know enough toian, you just have to know some Spanish. You better know Spanish. I don't even speak Spanish, but I know enough to get around if I have to. And they're refusing to do that. So I totally understand why these people are pissed and occasionally tearing up a cafe or a yoga studio or whatever. And spray tagging killer gringos. Yes. Look, we all think it, but no.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, come on, man. Can they come and get everything up? But like, it's in print. I mean, this is like the one time you go, these immigrants are raising the prices on everything. Which, by the way, hilarious, they're basically saying the same shit

that like Trump is saying here. Right. Why don't these immigrants learn our language? Why do they expect us to change for them? But like, I gotta admit, I have, and I think I mentioned this a little bit on the show, I have, I have dreams, I have ambitions of not growing old in this country.

Yeah. And I want to know what's happening there, because when I do it, I really do, I don't want to be the American. Like, the last time I was on this show, I accidentally called the entire nation of France Paris, and I'm still ashamed of that shit so like it's okay it's okay it's fine we do it all the time I actually I'm curious so do

you have dual citizenship now put your business on blast but like can you can you just slide over to Japan I could I could I could I could. I could. I could. I have to hold citizenship in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. And that I vote in both states. Both. Both. Yeah. Because I mean, those protests, I get it. You know, it's about housing regulations, about housing costs. And I think American media definitely wanted to show like, like what American media does.

Like, these people are pro-ted. They're breaking things. They're mad. Rather than being like, this is a cost of living crisis. That is, and again, this is because there are American people who are like, my money doesn't go as far in the United States, so therefore, I'm seeking another option here.

Anyway, America, the cause of and solution to all of the Earth's problems. But like seriously, talk about that shit, cause like there was this. So I'm I'm I'm bougie, you know, I'm like Blake's dog. I have I have certain things I want in life and my my choice is France. And I'm like, look, I'll go fuck it up for other colonizers. I'm not trying to like ruin it for like my people.

I'm not going to buy right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ruin things in Nigeria or nothing. But I do. There was I just recently watched this like wonderful CNBC story about a young black woman who teaches in China. And she's just talking about like my rent for my two bedroom apartment is $200. And by the way, it's actually 500, but my job pays for half this shit.

And I, there's so many people in our generation who are like our age who are just like yeah, no the math don't math here Yeah, so I kind of have to so I do I want to figure out like also, you know I'm a big advocate of like I I love to read like African American history I love to read about just being Baker or the kit all ropes all these black people Who like for whatever reason ended up in another country and was like wait, wait, wait Yeah, I'm not gonna get called the nigger like I, and you're gonna just talk to me like a real person. Like, yeah, James Baldwin was like, okay, all right. I did a whole podcast about James Baldwin

before he got big and his time, he spent life, the first nine years he was broke off his ass in France, but he was in France. So he was happier than the first 23 years living in New York. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It is wild.

I also just think of it's funny too, how Paris or France is really like key to platforming a lot of black art to like you think of like fella kuti like he blew up in France and that's how people started being like, you heard of this fella? He fell in. And hey, I just that was a bit of a ride. But like I think a lot of the time there's there is this thing, especially for black American people going abroad. Like Miles Davis always talks about how much he loved Japan because he said,

you know, when I'm in when I'm in America, you know, my face is like this. I'm going to scowl because you know, this is how Miles Davis talks. And he's like, but I go to Japan, my face relaxes. And he's like, and he's like, he really loves it. The respect that he just gets purely as an artist has nothing to do with where he's from, what he looks like or anything. And like the focus on his artistry, like just makes him a person like everyone else. The first time I told my cousin about moving to France

He was like, oh, I don't know if I could live in a place without like black people and I just had to tell her It's like so We grew we grew up in the Central Valley, California I was like percentage wise there's more black people around France like the nation then there are in the place we grew up Right and she recently went for the first time and she was like, when you move here, I'm going to come and visit you. Yeah. It does just come off of your shoulders, all this weight,

like all this like subtle racism. Yeah. I mean, it's it all like every place has its good and it's bad, but America has a lot of bad, don't it? But it's a lot of good too. Did you see that clip of Trump talking to the president of Liberia? Oh my god. And he spoke beautiful English.

Yeah. Do you know anything about Liberia, motherfucker? No. Of course he doesn't. You kidding? He doesn't know anything. Yeah. Yeah.

And it reminded me of when he tries to show a human side, just how much of a pervert he comes off as. He just seems like such a... even that was seen perverted. And then when he was trying to show, like he was, maybe he read about empathy at one point, like 50 years ago and just tried to bring it out where that Ukrainian journalist, like female journalists was talking to him.

Do you remember? And he was like, your husband's over there. And I'm just like, oh God, it's just, he's so gross. And he's out for milk right now. You know what he's doing? But if you haven't seen this clip, he's speaking again. English is the official language of Liberia. It was started as a free colony for.

Yes. And learn who Marcus Garvey is. African-American. Marcus Garvey is the back to Africa movement. OK, here is this is this real again. He's doing the Gentle senile old racist bit here. Well, thank you. It's such good English. It's beautiful Where did you learn to speak so beautiful?

Were you educated where In Liberia, yes, that's very interesting. It's beautiful English. I have people at this table can't speak nearly as well You know what I don't I actually don't want him to know any more about Liberia because if he figures out that it was a place started by African Americans He's just gonna be like well now we have a place to send them exactly We don't really need this citizenship and it's like then we're all you know what we might like it. Yeah The way this place your flag is so beautiful

It looks it looks very familiar to me. Yeah, it's nice. Forget it. Yeah So what's something you think is underrated? underrated blade Eric Brooks. Oh, yeah, the daywalker the most underrated Marvel Blade, Eric Brooks, the daywalker, the most underrated Marvel character there is. And Blade has already had a successful trilogy of movies, as we all know, when he shows up in the comic books,

he is the most beloved character, and Disney refuses to give him an update, and it is killing me. Like, as a black kid who was into punk in the 90s, Blade was this Afro punk icon. He still is. If you really think about it, he did not fit in with the human world or the vampire one,

but he was confident. And by racial black people. And there you go. That's where he has like, oh my God. He got a samurai sword and he does both. Yo, yo, he was confident, he was self-assured, and he stood up for what was right. And I want this movie to happen so bad.

And every time there's a piece of news about it, it looks less and less like it's gonna happen. It is so crushing. Wait, so what's the last thing? It was like, Mahershala Ali was rumored to play Blade, right? Not rumored. Not rumored. Don't do this, Miles. Oh, what?

They're trying to treat us like we all dreamed of this shit. It happened. I was at Comic Con 2019 I was not at all age. Okay, that's right. That's right. Then what I was Where are we at now? Where are we at now with this? So? Right now there have been I believe six writers who have touched the script. Hmm. They are not happy with it and who have touched the script. They are not happy with it. And Mahershala is currently out here doing a press junket for Jurassic World,

acting like Comic-Con 2019 did not happen. It was not a fever dream, Mahershala, we know it. And Kevin Feige, he keeps saying that he's committed to it, but it is real quiet in these streets. And as a black writer of TV and film, I feel like rumors would have been something I could at least attach myself and let me be clear about this. About every six months, I ask my agent if they have heard

anything about it to the point where I think if I ask again, they will talk about dropping me. Yeah. Because like, don't. They're like, Hazel, do not bring up Blade. Do not, what do you want, but do not bring up Blade. I do not understand why there is all this money, all this, just all this money on the table. Like, just people hungry for this shit.

And Disney, well, my thinking is, it's like the thinking there is always like, everything's gotta go back into the Avengers. And it's like, no there is always like everything's got to go back into the Avengers and it's like no No, no, no, no, no, no day Walker needs to be his own separate thing. Yes. You need you need Hannibal Kane you need like Sony did something with Morbius. So he's probably off the table. But yeah, but like Not everything needs to be you there is a dark Marvel world and I just don't on it breaks my heart Yeah, so like it's like the same way they're trying to figure out Star Wars and then finally figure it out with Andor, you know Yes, and I'm like, what are we doing?

This texture is just a little bit different than from everything's like that's what guess what bro We're all older bro, and we're all dead inside. We need that shit reflected back to us in the fucking media. We know now like Like not Fuck all that that was that was Jar Jar being that was a very That's that's what it should have just been I've never seen Star Wars. Is that not the Han Solo these kids keep talking about shooting people Is that not the Han Solo these kids keep talking about shooting people with? So what's something is overrated and you'll appreciate this miles video game controllers

Hmm video game controllers are already so I did I listened to to your your your talk with my buddy Tochi and I Did you bring up that your hands are hurting and I think that it's do you you play on a PS5 controller? I'm assuming your hands are hurting my I have like a I have a very specific Dull pain at the base of my wrist. That's not quite my meta car pulse. Okay, right. It's on the Whatever it's the outside. I'm sorry to hear that. I was just making sure you're okay. Okay, sorry Yeah, thank you. Sorry for interrupting you. Yeah, but like it's I the ps5 controller and I and it breaks my heart to say this because I am I'm a sony pony I love I've been in the council wars for a long time Yep The ps5 controller is terrible like it is way too heavy for long gaming sessions

Like if you pick up a ps5 controller in one hand and hold a ps4 controller or any previous PlayStation controller in another you will definitely notice the difference and you know There was all the talk about like the haptic feedback when it came out in like 2020 and now strain on my hands Yeah, I don't care about the hat, you know, don't you was talking about like the graphic fidelity and how that's gone crazy It's awesome. We've gone crazy with like oh it needs to shake. No, it doesn't it's a thing in my hand I don't need a fucking speaker on that either. I love that I don't need a speaker on the that either. I love that. I don't need a speaker on the controller. Like it was cool. And I was like, oh, look at this little fucking making little door

sounds and shit. But now I'm like, fuck up. Like every time it's making. And I so like now primarily not primarily if I'm some games I want to play on the PlayStation, some game. I have a computer that I use for editing stuff, work and stuff, but it also plays games and it also uses a PS4 controller. And I think that's great because like I can go back to

the nice light controller. I play fighting games. I play Street Fighter and that it's like it's kind of better for my hands and for like long gaming sessions. But like even outside of like the regular controllers, like we got into this place where in the fighting game community, every year, there's a different levelless controller that costs like 40 cents to make, but for some reason cost $300 to buy. And exactly it is just we we kind of did it. Yeah, kind of the PS2 I think was. I don't yet. I don't remember if the PS1 had dual shock, but like if the PS2 had to. OK, PS2 got it. PS2.

It was great. And it worked for literally two decades. Yeah, still good. It was great because it just like remember the PS1 controller We just put two little joysticks underneath pretty much kept the same shape And by the way, like don't don't pretend like we didn't notice the the $15 up charge you did on the PS5 controller between that and the PS4 controller. Don't don't we know what you're doing Yeah, so we appreciate that you got to make a buck but like at this point if you literally just made a ps4 controller that worked on a ps5 and called it like an anniversary

Edition I would and sold it at the same price. I'm probably fine. Exactly. Yeah, I'm there for it All right. Well, those are great. Let's take a break and come back with some news including Maybe Jeffrey Epson is like a fucking good guy dude I don't know might be a patriot he might be a true American straight-up T Brady t12 TB 12 fucking patriot he's a certified lover boy exactly and I don't know anything else I mean maybe convicted pedophile oh whoops all right we'll be right back in our new podcast everybody's business we talk about the business news that concerns everybody. From Bloomberg Business Week, I'm Stacey Bannock-Smith.

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about the penny going away. Listen to Everybody's Business wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. So the whole Jeffrey Epstein thing is starting to get really out of control for the Trump regime, you know, because they were constantly just chumming the waters, talking about the files and who knows, you know, who was caught up with this Epstein guy. This guy was a bad man. And anyone who associated with him is real bad because they wanted to keep that sort of the deep state pedophiles that are not Trump vibe going.

Because again, their fantasy was like, it's going to have Obama in there is going to have the Clintons in there and no one else. Basically no one else. Yeah. Bill Gates, everybody. Madeleine Albright. Yeah. For some reason.

But once the dog caught the car, it was, it's just never fun. gates, everybody, Madeline Albright. But once the dog caught the car, it was, it's just never fun. Uh, so Pam Bondi, as we said earlier this week, she just noped her way out of actually revealing anything most likely because I think it was implicating people that she works with right now. Um, and Republicans are pissed and they're doing shit. They're calling for her to resign. They're accusing her of being deep state herself. Like look at her, dude.

Oh, she played Trump and then she ended up just doing the deep states bit and can't believe it, can't believe it. Um, some are saying she should even be in peace. Yeah. Yeah. All right. No, I'm, I'm with that. I'm, I'm with them.

Yeah. I'm with all of them. That's what you call that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Resign and be deep state. Um, and so then the day the video released, we talked about Pam Bondi is just

really bad job she did of trying to like explain why there's like a minute of footage missing. But we didn't touch on the fact that Donald Trump, he got really agitated in that meeting too, like in a way that is slightly telling on yourself because like, come on, what are we doing? Why are we still talking about this thing? This is Donald Trump from that same day, but this is him getting a little touchy about the press's interest in a thing that the Department of Justice had just announced today before. So in this clip, Bondi is being asked just numerous questions about the files, but Trump decides to interject to be like, I got to shut this shit down

Whether or not he did and also can you say why there was a minute missing from the jailhouse tape? Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? Been talked about for years. You're asking we have Texas we have this we have all of the things And are people still talking about this guy this creep That is unbelievable this creep that you partied with all the time Yeah No one was asking him. Yeah, no one was asking him and asked you anything about it. Yeah Jumping in is it's one of those things where it's just like as a writer.

I'm like, if I wrote somebody who did that in a script, my boss would be like, he did a head injury. You suck. Like we obviously know this guy is part of it. Don't show your hand act. Make sure he acts cool as a cucumber. Don't tip anyone off. Are we are we really talking about this guy? Like again, the Justice Department made a gigantic announcement being like this guy's all good. And also like no need to look at anyone else. That's why they're asking but because you're so caught up in hoping that that would make everything go away make all the discourse around Jeffrey Epstein go away. Yeah, now he's now he's the fuck? That was supposed to work when we just said nothing to see here. But how scary was it?

The most rhetorical question I've ever heard in my life was, may I jump in? It's like good. She's like, oh, yeah, sure. He's the scariest guy. Go ahead. Yeah, sure. By all means, jump.

Yeah, please. Yeah, I'll allow it. Yeah. Yeah. So again, this whole thing was not effective as they had hoped for. And his supporters are confused because they were being primed for this grand reveal that would confirm all their conspiracy theories about Democrats. And now they feel they're being lied to.

But again, there are a lot of articles are like, the trust is eroding with MAGA and Trump, they're still going to vote for him. Like we said, they could, he could be in the files. I mean, he's in probably, I mean, let's be real. are like, the trust is eroding with MAGA and Trump. They're still going to vote for him. He could be in the files. Let's be real. He's already in other documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and accusations and allegations against him that they don't care. But I think the thing that they're hoping for is to just be like, and it was Bill Clinton that did it.

Please. That's their whole fucking, they love that and just confirms everything. So now that we're at the nothing to see here, move along sort of defense isn't working. Like I said earlier, I'm like, maybe they're going to have to pivot to being like, he's actually a good guy, dude. Like he's just misunderstood. That's the whole thing. Well, Newsmax host Greg Kelly did just that on Wednesday

night. This is him talking about like, I mean, this just listen to this fucking this preamble that he does, but it's here we go. They are laundering his reputation. Oh, Epstein, what happened? And who the hell is this guy? The stuff that has not been emphasized enough. This all was possibly a guy who was working for the Central Intelligence Agency. It was engaging in sexual blackmail, blackmailing our adversaries. We still have leverage over our adversaries.

And that's why they can't reveal all the information. Am I crazy? I don't think so. Wait, I'm sorry. Is that supposed to be a defense? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So he was... No, I'm sorry. Is that is that supposed to be a defense? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So he was this is good. He was perpetrating untold horrors against children and young women in the name of the American Empire. So therefore, it's OK, because that was leverage that he with

because where where exactly is the US being the arbiter of peace and harmony right now? If there's supposed like, who was the, what is he leveraging? So I think he's just leaving it to be like, I don't know, it might be Pellea. Yeah, we all remember J. Edgar Hoover's greatest asset, Superfly, right?

Like that classic agent who was working as a pimp to bring down the evil doers in the police force. I mean, it's just- It's right there. The tail is all the time. It's just elevated. Yeah, it's called a honey pot, guys. Come on, honey pot for freedom.

We are close to them being like, and let's not forget about Superfly either. Yeah. We're this close to that being part of it. It is starting to really first of all the fact they would throw conspiracy theorist a Video with a minute missing so the most red meat kind of thing you could throw to the not fair like

Like red string loving pin up board community Yeah, like is in say Like did no one think that through No, then on top of it the follow-up to that is Guys, he was pimping children for America This is it just falls apart Media that's I'm saying they don't know what the fuck to do because I think anyone with half a brain, they've seen the videos of them together.

They know that they had some weird falling out for something. And we also know there are many times Jeffrey Epstein has talked about how close him and Donald Trump were. There's like, there's plenty of documentation that his num, like he had many of his phone numbers. It's just like, I think they just are really that they're having to figure they're realizing we can't reveal it. And even if there are Democrats in there, we're going to be

telling ourselves to this is fucking bad. Y'all like this shit is bad for everyone. And I think most people like bring it on. Just bring it all out now. Let's everybody. I don't give a fuck who's in there. Fucking bring get these children fucking justice. What about the numerous non-Jeffrey Epstein related times

Donald Trump admitted to touching and being around young girls? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pagets. Yeah. The airplanes grabbing them by the. Like, what are we? Yeah. Well, it gets better because OK, maybe that didn't work for Zell and Blake that didn't convince you that he's a good guy But he goes on listen, he goes on

Great Kelly's like well riddle me this how come people that were high up in the government were visiting Jeffrey Epstein in jail It's like I don't know maybe because they have some sort of relationship with him, too I don't know but he goes on to be like, that's how you know he's a good guy. Here he is now with this next little bit of information, or at least what's the word, speculation. I think it was because Epstein was working for these guys. Who knows, maybe Epstein is a patriot for crying out loud.

Maybe he was just doing what he was told and it had nothing to do with the girls young girls or anything like that Who knows it could be a deep cover story. I mean how the hell does a Child molester get a sweet prison deal like this Because he has leverage over the powerful people Also rich in America like what we also y'all I don't know who greg kelly is from adam That motherfuckers in the afternoon files. I'm sorry. Like what are you doing? Yeah That's probably he's telling on himself First clip with carrying water for Donald Trump that like I don't know

Maybe he's he's actually a cool guy who makes a decent brisket on a Wednesday evening He knows that sounds like somebody who is that detail a bit more invested They had a beautiful home in Miami Beach. I don't know the Sun says word mid but Hmm again. Yeah, this is just again, bad looks around for everyone. Bill O'Reilly, you know, disgraced former Fox News host. He went on Chris Cuomo's show, another disgraced person from television. I love that. That there, if you fuck up, if you fuck up as a white man in this country, don't you

worry. We have an entire industry for folks. Don't worry. You're about to make so much more money than you did before. When you were masquerading as a good guy. And now you don't even have to pretend. You can just be a piece of shit. Be a pig with other pigs.

Not at all. Hey, you get a big piggy paycheck too. It's all good. Oh, you're going to love your piggy paycheck. Here in America, we don't cast off our white men who do bad onto a pile of rubble. Oh, God, no, we embrace them for mayor of New York. Yes, exactly.

And then fucking run for mayor in Texas. Right. Take the biggest L, I think also in a Democratic primary. I think as the results have come in from Zorin's primary results are like, this is a Democrats. You want to where's the vote blue? No matter who crowd. No, no, no. Now they're like, maybe we should get behind Curtis Lee. Well, uh-huh. Um, so this is an interesting quote because the Cuomo was talking to O'Reilly and Bill O'Reilly is like, I spoke to the president quote man to man eye to eye about the Epstein files. And this is what Bill Rice said quote, he said, and I agree, there are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein's conduct.

They maybe had a lunch with him or maybe had some correspondence for one thing or another. If that name gets out, those people are destroyed because they're not, there's not going to be any context. Okay. Maybe the files will give you context. Yeah. Maybe the files will give you context. Yeah. Maybe the files would say this was just a correspondence.

It was a phone call. And maybe the files will also say they're implicated in all this other shit too. But I don't think that's because of a lack of context. This is a very, again, another flimsy defense to be like, Oh, my God. You know, people are going to get destroyed if this information gets out. Y'all don't give a fuck about that ever

Okay, it's only because you're fucking idols are on the line that you're like Shit, you know how many people are in prison because they wrote they took it right with their cousin not realizing they had a charge Right and now suddenly they're gang related, but there's never a concern never Poor innocent people but like when it comes to you a convicted Which by the way, isn't that supposed to be their thing? Isn't that their thing? Is that it doesn't matter? Hypocrisy is dead. You know, it's just like it's always like they always they just have to say whatever they can to achieve their goals of Like a white ethnostate and everything else Ism I mean they'll say it still but the pointing out the hypocrisy

I just say whatever I have to I didn't say that. Yeah, you say lunch eating Americans are being Have their lives ruined. I would love to know the dark PR form or maybe just Mackenzie Whoever's behind the like, we can do this. We can turn around Jeff's post-mortem vision. He'll be by the end of this, he will be a saint. Oh yes. Yeah. Yeah.

The new pope will make this happen. They will replace in Trump's America, they'll probably replace MLK day with Jeffrey Epstein Patriot day to try and be like, you know, in a way, Jeffrey Epstein had a dream too. Nightmare is a dream. Yes. Dream nightmare. Yes. Okay. Let's talk quickly just about Elon Musk's Just again, it's all Nazi everything with that guy Yeah, cuz yeah last week rat They were like Grock was talking in the first person as if it was Elon Musk when they were like

Did you want hang out with Jeffrey Epstein? I said quote I used to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein Croc said and we're like, I mean, yeah, what were the little knobs and dials? They were turning on Grock that day to be like, okay It needs to be more like Elon which I think brought us to the Mecca Hitler phase of Grok So in response to user Grok suggested that Hitler would be able to quote spot the pattern of Jewish anti-white hate and handle it decisively Yikes calm. It also referred to itself again, like it was like call me Mecca Hitler. Okay. Mecca, like a high Mecca Hitler hole. And also published like graphic

sexual assault, like fantasies about like a user on Twitter X. Then they're like, okay, we got to fucking take grok offline and give it some more, I don't know, instructions to be less fucked up. HR meeting Grok. Get in here now. What the heck? Put the laptop in the room with the HR coordinate. Yeah.

What in the heck Grok is going on right now? What are you doing? Why are you talking like that? And I'm sure that's something everyone was asking now, former CEO Linda Yoccarino because she was again, remember she was brought in as CEO to be like, guys, I understand the ad business and that's why I'm here even though Elon's like go, go fuck yourself. When asked about like, whether he cared about advertisers fleeing. Yeah, she stepped down because I think it got a little too wacky. But I think another thing that's interesting is that it might be talking like this because also Grok is from,

I think most reports and people are speculating that it's trained on Twitter posts. So you got a whole Nazi cesspool. When in Rome. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like there's just, it's just a reflection of itself now and the utter lack of like content moderation on there. But yeah, this is the other so

This is he still living, you know This is the thing we need to I've never understood about AI or the thing I've always found fascinating which is like AI is great as a thing for doctors and Statisticians like we are gonna be the we could be, we're already hearing stories about like, specific drugs used, like made with CRISPR and AI that can get rid of cancer. We might be the first generation

that actually cures cancer. They chose to throw this out to the general public, a group of people I would describe as monsters. And they did it because specializing in like, bio, like medicine or like, you know, like rocket science, you know, you can make some good money off of it. But if everybody is forced to use this thing, then we can make all the money and it's like, I describe AI AI, you

know, AI is neat. And you know what else is neat? The jaws of fucking life. Jaws of life are pretty fucking cool. If you look at them, like it's a big pair of medical, like mechanical scissors, but no normal person needs to own a jaws of life. Yeah. Fire department needs it because they need to cut a car door open occasionally. Yeah.

If a normal person- But I can't get this jar of pickles open. Yeah, exactly. A normal person with a jaws of life is a murderer that down this tree, manslaughter or murder minimum. And it's like, that is that is again, this is the thing with rockets, like why on God's green earth, did we think we needed to release to the general public, something that is built to sort

of kind of give you information, but also sort of kind of take on the ideas of the best and the worst of us. Yeah, seriously. Exactly. And I'm going to reflect that back to you. But you know, the thing about God's green earth is that Grok is also destroying it and literally poisoning people in this Memphis facility where the supercomputer called Colossus resides.

Great. And it's operating. Why would a big fucking call that? It's powered by 33 methane powered gas turbines in a poor predominantly black area of Memphis without public notice, without permits or air pollution controls. So now, unfortunately, because this is another tale as American history itself, is that these poor people, especially areas where black people reside, are just just you're near a fucking EPA superfund site all the time because it's just what

they call it a sacrifice zone, I think is like sort of like the sort of sociological term to be like, well, these people's health will be sacrificed in the name of capital. So now residents are exposed to emissions of nitrogen oxides, poisonous formaldehyde just around the clock. And there's apparently there's like a fucking loophole that allows him to do this. So Musk applied for term for the permits for the turbines, just for 15 of them. So less than half of the total amount of methane powered turbines using. And he started them just using all of them without the permit.

But apparently there's a loophole that says you can use these gas generators, quote, as long as they're not in the same location for more than 364 days. And then what, you just move it to the other side of the building and then you keep it cooking. I don't know how any of this is supposed to work. But yeah, now residents are saying like, it's just the air quality is going even further and further down the tubes. Because again, people who live near industrial pollution,

you have higher rates of asthma, like other respiratory conditions and things like that. And this is no fucking different. This is air called Box Town in South Memphis. So how do you guys think they're going to talk about us in like 50 years when like the twenty seventy five trying to explain the fact that there's no longer habitable land because we needed every image of Garfield with breast holding an AR-57. Yeah. How will they describe us? They'll be unkind. They'll be unkind. They're going to beat the fuck out of us. But you're a millennial, but beat the shit out of this. Like, I had a podcast where I spoke out against it. I don't give a fuck. You got a fucking podcast. Oh, you're even worse. You're one of those.

I mean, yeah, I mean, it looks it's that's the fucked up part is like anyone who appreciates history will like that's the thing we all think a thought experiment we constantly pose just generally even online. It's like, like, what is this gonna look like to people when the answers were knocking on our fucking door every day and It was just well if we do that They the cost of Nvidia chips is gonna go down and that's gonna that might fuck up the stock market Yeah, it's just it's absolutely obscene. I don't know. I mean, hopefully this is just like

You think all the time it's like maybe we're getting to that sort of fever pitch tipping point moment where people are like What the fuck is this? But as of right now, it's looking pretty good for the greedy motherfucker class on the upside, though. New girl boss on the scene, Linda. Where are you going? That's what I do next. God, that resume is going to be real fast. Like I'm I'm sure she will because the world is terrible. I'm sure she'll land on her feet somewhere.

But like, her next job is going to be, the explanation for hiring her is going to be phenomenal. I can't wait. This is somebody who knows how to handle difficult personalities and take on strikes. Yeah, exactly. In charge of- While she's about to get, oh man.

Nazi AI, that's her. Also, by the way, did you see? Apparently grok somebody asked grok about her or a list of possible No, Elon Musk baby months. Oh, no. Do you know who number one was Linda? Yoccarino take guess why she might not be right? No They were saying all kind yo, there were some other screenshots. I saw that grok was talking Yo, there were some other screenshots I saw that Grok was talking wild, like sexually violent shit about Linda Yoccarino too, which I don't see as much because people I think rightfully focus on the Nazism of Elon Musk and how everything he touches is Nazi.

Uh, but that was another thing I was like, Oh shit, bro. Like this is, I mean, as if just working for Elon Musk wasn't enough, but I guess the check was okay, Linda. So I think, you know working for Elon Musk wasn't enough, but I guess the check was okay Linda So I think you know what you'll be alright and fuck you and to Zell's point It's like did this need to be so first of all, you don't know one needs to fucking have access to this this technology This croc technology, but if you're gonna give us access Maybe take some time to figure it the fuck out so it doesn't start vomiting sexual violence fantasies and anti-Semitism and just all the other fucked up shit.

Just give it some time to work out those issues. Because that's all these people do. Every AI company has to fucking show and prove for the fucking stock price or to get more investment or venture capital money So like they're always just gonna be fucking pushing this shit out prematurely. Oh fuck. Whoa Yeah, like we are we are so obsessed with this idea that if you aren't first you aren't losing Yeah, and it is killing us. Yeah, it is

The this idea that we are going to create something that will somehow make life better, but is also doing everything we know makes life worse, is killing us. Like, we just don't need this. We don't need any of this. Yep. Well, I know what we do need, a little micro retirement.

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of story that's like Gen Z is quite quitting or Gen Z's whatever fucking like rejecting like terrible wages but calling it some other shit. The newest one is micro retirement. What is a micro retirement inside the latest Gen Z trend? Now they're talking about this one person in this article, Benjamin Fields, a public school teacher and PhD student at Berkeley. He uses his salary and his side hustle selling perfume to afford to afford micro retirements once a month where he attends events such as festivals or travels internationally. Each piece of shit. Yeah. This guy's doing other shit to take a fucking break. The fuck is anything

this is each micro retirement is one to two weeks depending on whether he is traveling he said he's not worried about affecting his job advancements or now or in the future because he's like nah man I need time off but then this is where they get started like micro retirement is another corporate term for something we already do take a vacation yeah I'm like why are we even talk like why is this being reported like this is just more stupid Gen Z like sort of Exoticism slander shit like what the fuck really they're calling it micro retirement This is a quote from the same way I quote money is just a tool if you consider the way estate planning works as long as I'm saving and investing enough money

To retire in the manner I want then I should be able to spend freely All I'm gonna do is just hand it off to my kids and they're probably going to squander the money anyway, so I might as well enjoy them. Like, yeah, facts, facts, facts. But it's just like, I don't know if I don't, the weird part to me is like, how many people are actually calling it a micro retirement and, or, and are these people who are even engaging in this, or is this like you found three people and now you're calling it a trend? Like is it to them in their minds actually they're thinking that they are retired because no one who goes on a vacation like you know that last day before you come back, you know

you going back, you got to go back to the real world now. You know what I mean? So like versus a retirement where you're like, and I don't, and this is it, and I'm done forever. Get me my phrase mug that I got from Amazon. We can't just call it a vacation because that opens the door to the idea that this might be something you should do on a regular basis for, I don't know, your own mental health

and building relationships that you love. And if we do that, we are one step closer to socialism. God damn it. And I will not. We're going to give it a name and make sure people think it's fucking weird. It takes two weeks. His kids are going to squander all the money he worked for. Fuck. Oh, my God.

Yeah, it's a very, very stupid, stupid like thing to just call this. But look, I worked for I worked for a company in the in like 2007 2008 and my our manager forced everyone to fill out a fast company survey because he was dead set on being one of America's best oh my god really and whenever I read something like there were basically anything about like workplace culture in these magazines, I always think of this guy because we got in, we were listed as one of the best offices.

We were, it was a theater company by the way, I need to stress, it was a live theater company. There was no office. I love that this guy's like- The stage was our office. You better fucking hit a fast company now. Yeah, no, like this guy had big ambition, but like I've always thought about that because like there was so much pressure on how we answered that like at an early- by the way,

I was like out of college for like I think a year or two by then. And when I saw that we got in, I was like, oh, oh, all of these things are bullshit. Like college list, or like rankings are bullshit. And like, best company, like, who like best that those 30 under 30, like every one of these things is just something that somebody I guarantee you, that became something he was able to put on his resume. Oh, yeah, next job. It meant nothing to the rest of us. Not that we got anything for it. Yeah. But like, if anything, the skill he developed was coercing his employees to go to a website and I can tell you from personal experience he

was Good at coercing people to do Yeah, I got notes on my survey This was anonymous sorry, I know it's not home, but on your work computer You get a call Don't take that you're like, I'm sorry what? Nothing. I'm just if you're doing a survey. Are you watching my screen right now? No, no, no, no No, this guy always a little crooked

Also wipe your nose What? Oh, that is not your color. I don't know why you, but you know, you're an autumn, right? I think that all of the, I think they're still feeling the sting of trying to be out here being like, nobody wants to work anymore from a couple of years ago. And now they're trying to like some, also, I think that this poor journalist is like, I got to write about something. Yeah, absolutely. And I need this check. So why like, I got to write about something. Yeah, absolutely. And I need this check. So why don't I call it micro vacations?

But it's like, again, you know, you know, I'm trying to live that international life. So I also am very aware that other places let people have vacations, whether or not you're the CEO, or if you work at a coffee shop, you're going to take a trip every year because you are a human being and you should be allowed to. You need time off.

You need to rest. You need to be inspired wherever it is, but you need time away from work. However you need, however you do that. Do get it. How you live. Maybe could be recessing where they're going outside when the bell rings after class. Yeah, they're done. They call it a nutrition period.

Hmm. Very weird. Or we call it a lunch break. That's what they're going to say. I'm sorry. I'm out for nutrition period. What the hell is that? Lunch, asshole.

All right. Just fucking let me go. Also, please take your full lunch breaks, y'all. Take your full lunch breaks. Don't let them fucking guilt you into fucking eating at your desk you fucking and they report them if they do Yeah, and you come back drunk like I used to a power one. That's right. Hip-hop lives Old managers like my it's about one time at lunch motherfucker. Watch this shit, but the come back smell like I can't drive I'm not allowed to drive right now

I'm sorry if I drive I'm gonna hurt somebody and I'm not gonna do it. You want that on you? I'm not allowed to drive right now. I'm sorry if I drive, I'm going to hurt somebody and I'm not going to do that. You want that on you? Not me. I'm out here trying to make America great again, i.e. three martini lunch. I don't know what you guys are trying to do. What happened? What happened to that? What happened to that?

The good old days. The good old days when redlining existed. All right. Well, Azo Williams, thank you so much for joining us today on the daily zeitgeist. Where did the people find you follow you and just absorb all of your creative offerings? Oh, well, thank you very much. You can find me anywhere. I want to be at a Zell will that's on Twitch.

That's on Instagram, blue sky. Also, I got the sub stack. I've been writing plays on Twitch live, which by the way, it's actually more fun than it sounds to see somebody actually go through the process of writing, but I occasionally answer questions on that. And now that Mr. Onyabuchi is done with his book tour, he is back on the inner city.

So we will be, I've been doing solo episodes and interviews with other people, but we will be back on our bullshit this weekend. So go anywhere you get podcasts and search for the inner cities podcast and you can find us there. Is there a work of media, social or otherwise that you are enjoying and would like to put people on too? Well, the last time you guys were kind enough to have me on this show, I suggested Duster and then as if they heard me, HBO cancelled it. No, really? Yes, yes.

Yeah, damn it. So, you know, if you want to watch the complete Duster, you can go watch that now. But my rec... I'm going to go with a group that's already in a little trouble. I don't know if you guys have heard about this Mr. Bob villain. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But I had not actually heard of him before the whole Glastonbury situation.

They slap. Yeah. They really do. So it's kind of like Rage Against the Machine merged with the Sex Pistols. And they also don't support genocide and the people that commit it. So, yeah, I've been I've been rolling with that a little bit. It's funny how Glastonbury like basically put kneecap and Bob Villain like just on the international stage simultaneously. And then like, we're doing so many people end up looking so bad because they were

leaking those emails or they're like, bro, these are the fucking these people are pressuring them to get them the fuck off the stage. Yeah, there's it's because there's Bob, like in Bob Villain, there's Bob Bobby Villain and Bobby Villain, IE versus why. And I'm like, OK, clever. That's easy for me, because there's somebody who knows all the names of the St. Lunatics. I like when everybody has the same name in a band.

There you go. There you go. Also, I appreciate they're like, you know, we make music and we're artists, but we're not trying to be out with our names and stuff. So just call us both Bob Dylan. Yeah, don't worry about it. Exactly.

Blake Wexler. Yeah. How about you? My sweet, sweet friend. Where did they find you? And where did what's what's a social media thing you like or a media thing you like? Well, these these people can find me doing some stand up August 1st. I'm going to be in Philly, and that is the first time ever. I'm going to do a fully improvised headlining set.

So come see whatever the fuck that what does that mean mean is that crowd work or you're just looking at? A vibe vibe jokes out of there all of it all of it crowd work just observe it like whatever happens happens So if I think of something I'll go into it. I'll take suggestions Live live ammunition And yeah wreck his set. It'll be great. Whatever you want to do. Plumpers! Plumpers!

Too much air about plumpers! I'll take it. I'll take it. And I won't even think about it because it's going to be improvised. August 29th through 30th, I'm going to be in Scranton Wilkes-Barre. And then last weekend of September, I'm in Asheville, North Carolina. November 7th, I'm back in Boston at Hideout Comedy. That's just regular stand-up shows.

Last time I was in Boston, I told a joke that involved Karen Reed. That was not nice. So I apologize for that. And then, yeah, I guess the thing that I'm going to, I guess the work of media, also a show, I don't, there's no way this is getting renewed. It's Netflix's All of the of the sharks where it's a show

where they get, I don't know what level of professionalism these people have or education in sharks, but they have teams of people and they throw them in the water and then they have to take photos of certain sharks and you get points for each photo you take of so like a rare shark, you get 45 points. A shark you see all the time you get like one point and it's it's for sure a lawsuit waiting to happen someone is gonna be killed on this and

It's or someone's gonna think that this is a good idea to do. It's sick This is like doing a big year in the birding community like or like a Pokemon go maybe Yeah, yeah, yeah, holy shit. Wow, there's crazy. Yeah But does he love that stuff He wants to get fucking ripped apart by a shark that's's his fan. I can't can't wait. It's weird I mean mine needs to be completely ripped apart by like neutrons like dr Manhattan then come back is like this sort of like omniscient emotionless creature that knows all That's what I aspire to

You know that to walk around nude and freak the shit out of people with a hydrogen atom on my forehead Is that too much to ask? Is that too much of fucking ass God? with a hydrogen atom on my forehead. Is that too much to ask? Is that too much to fucking ask? God. Yeah. Miles, what do you have? What's going on with your life? I find me everywhere at fucking miles of gray,

like literally everywhere. And that's G-R-A-Y, not G-R-E-Y. Sorry, because it's wild when people, like I always say this, people will type my handle to mention me and then spell my name out, G-R-E-Y, or sometimes someone's hit me with the M Y L E S G R E Y. I don't know.

This is making it too hard. Get this out of my face. But I appreciate it. I appreciate all correspondence for sure. This is OK. A tweet I like or a post from Blue Sky. It's so there's Paul Crumbin at Dan Langer, top east guy on social posted on like screen capped a post from a guy smiling, nodding, which it's like a fucking quote tweet that

said every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle and Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to Brussels sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says I'm gonna fuck a hamburger So he quote tweeted that with another tweet where someone posted the worst genre of burger place is now available on Uber eats in my area and the first one is slutty buns Oh, it's a good burger place and the other one is wanna smash You were so right you were so right smiling nodding see we're so small That's a good burger place. And the other one is wanna smash. You are so right. You are so right.

Smiling, nodding. See, we're so small, right? All right. That is that for my favorite things and my favorite posts. Be sure to follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. Fuck, we're on blue sky. We're fucking everywhere. You hear me?

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