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Episode Date: March 16, 2020

In episode 587, Jack and Miles are joined by The Daily Dive's Oscar Ramirez to discuss what health experts are saying about the coronavirus pandemic, how Jared Kushner is on the case, restaurants that are providing paid sick leave, Democrats trying to help, people buying up grave sites, what to watch while in quarantine, the film Contagion blowing up, and more!FOOTNOTES: White House coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says complete US shutdown is 'on the table' and warns the crisis could last TWO MONTHS Inside Jared Kushner’s coronavirus research: A wide net on a giant Facebook group A running list of restaurants and food-related businesses providing paid sick leave for employees McCarthy says Republicans won't support Democrats' coronavirus bill House Democrats’ virus bill: Free testing, paid sick leave HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY Customers Rush For Gravesites ... IF CORONA KILLS ME, BURY ME HERE!!! The Internet Archive’s VHS Vault will send you on a 90s nostalgia trip Coronavirus: List Of Canceled Or Postponed Hollywood & Media Events Global Film Industry Facing $5 Billion Loss Amid Coronavirus Outbreak Contagion shows the lengths people go to watch a movie they can’t stream ‘Contagion,’ Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 Thriller, Is Climbing Up the Charts WHY WATCHING CONTAGION MAY MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS A Scientific Adviser On “Contagion” Said People Should Have Taken The Film More Seriously For Me, Rewatching ‘Contagion’ Was Fun, Until It Wasn’t WATCH: BINKBEATS: Without You Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And I'm thrilled to be joined by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. The CDC says, wash your hands, man. Corona gonna get us, man. Soap in my right, warm water in my other hand. Wow. T.I.'s Rubber Band Man brought to you by Crispy Meme Donut, a.k.a. Christy Yamaguchi Mane, Big Willie style. Thank you for that, a.k.a. as we try to make light of the global pandemic that is disrupting

everyone's lives so much. Shout out and patience and power to everybody trying to get through this right now. Did you say Big Willie style? Because Christy Yamaguchi Mane, when we met him in person, told you that was his favorite album. Yeah, exactly. I was like, your favorite will smith album right now and i'm like don't ever say millennium yeah all right was that the same album uh yeah yeah it was millennium so what was big willie style was not an album uh oh maybe okay no no big willie

style was in 97 Got it Millennium came out in time for the millennium Because he knew what was going on I just forgot which order I got these tattoos in Yeah, always remember Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat By the very talented Oscar Ramirez Hey, alright guys, thanks for having me here

It's great to have you The hysteria is real now, right? Global pandemics and all Yeah talented Oscar Ramirez. All right, guys. Thanks for having me here. It's great to have you. The hysteria is real now, right? Global pandemics and all. Yeah. Yeah. Very real. Something that our generation hasn't gone through, so nobody knows how to react, but go to memes and just make fun of things.

Yeah. That's the times we're living in. I feel like older people, like boomers, they're responding one of two ways, depending if they're immigrants or U or u.s residents like born and raised i'm having trouble with my mother a japanese immigrant who was born directly after the end of world war ii being like nah we're good yeah i i don't worry i will not get sick i will wash the like i'm like no no no you need to stay back i will do whatever you need to happen please protect yourself she's like no no no she's like no, no. You need to stay back. I will do whatever you need to happen. Please protect yourself. She's like, no, no, no, no.

She's like, I got errands to run. Yeah. And then there are other people who are also freaking out, being like, buy everything in the store. Yes. We're learning a lot, I feel like, about people's psychologies throughout this. I applaud those people, though, that are not going to let it stop them and they're still going to go out and live their normal lives. Because, I mean, yes, you have to take those proper precautions and quarantine yourself when you need to but man come on you can't just live your whole life inside the you know the entire time yeah

exactly and i think it's about really exposing yourself i mean i think it's you don't want to go out to like you know anywhere crowded you know if you got to pop in somewhere get something real quick pop back home obviously i think that's fine. But when it gets to stuff, it's just like, well, I need to go to the market. I'm like, no, fool. If you're going to, I'll go. Right. Because I'm looking at what these mortality rates are for people in their 70s and up, and I'm like, we're not playing that game.

Yeah, that's what I'm finding, too, is that we're sending out information on a thread with my family. And my wife is a doctor. She's got some interesting, you know, she's got some links to things that are, you know, precautions people should be taking. And my dad is like, guys, take a deep breath. Yeah, right. Everybody settle down.

This is not life changing. Like just trying to be like everybody chill the fuck out. And you know, that's, it's just like, I get it. He's, he's extra stoic too. So it's like, uh, he'll be on fire and be like, eh, it's just a little hot. Yeah, exactly. But at the same time, like, you know, he is the age cohort that needs to be the most worried. So, yeah. And they also have the mentality where they're like even elderly people are like, I'm refusing to disrupt my routine, which is the same thing when we're like, hey, what about the environment? Yeah.

Like, look, I'm unwilling to disrupt my routine. Yeah. And they're going to, you know, I just please look after the elderly people as much as possible. Yeah. Don't let your no matter how tough some of your parents are, really try to communicate to them. Even if you're fucking tough, you have to limit your risk. That was my reply.

I was like, we're not panicking, man. We're just worried about you. Yeah. So is your dad still getting out there though? Probably. Are you guys keeping him inside? I don't know. He's on the other coast.

So I can't, I can't keep tabs on that guy, man. But he's a wild card. He's still doing those group CPR classes. Right. Yeah, yeah. Without the mouthpieces. Yeah. Because he does it old school.

Yeah, he does it old school. It's got to feel right. Yeah, exactly. All right. Oscar, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We are going to talk about some of the uh things some more things it's all coronavirus yeah we're going to talk about uh some information

that's coming out from uh there there was a ucsf uh infectious disease conference or like it was called the san francisco biohub panel on covid19 uh with some of the top health experts. And they had some not super reassuring things to say, but some things that are probably good for us all to hear. We are going to talk about what the Democrats are trying to do. We're going to talk about employers, how employers are making things different for people who are employed, panic buying, if you need something to watch, what you could be watching, what people are watching, Contagion, namely. It's cracking.

2011's Contagion. Outbreak is like number six on Netflix. I know. Honestly. Only because Contagion is not on Netflix. Right. Yeah. Oh, exactly.

So everybody's going for Outbreak. Honestly, Outbreak's a better film. What? I enjoyed Outbreak Netflix. Right. Yeah. Oh, exactly. So everybody's going for Outbreak. Honestly, Outbreak's a better film. What? I enjoyed Outbreak more. Really? Yeah. I mean, actually, what am I saying? I haven't seen Contagion.

Yeah, you need to see Contagion. I'm an Outbreak freak boy. Contagion is very good. I mean, it's by Steven Soderbergh. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't doubt that. I just, I don't know why. There's something about-

It's wild. You need to watch it because- Marcel the Outbreak Monkey. Right. Who then got work on Friends Marcel, the outbreak monkey. Right. Then got work on friends. I think after. Yeah, no outbreak is a Hollywood film.

It's like, if Jurassic park was about a pandemic, like that's what it feels like. It's about like, exactly. Exactly. And Denny, remember Denny,

he was on that plane boy. He shouldn't have been on a patient zero. I remember he's all sweaty. All I remember is that there was, they managed to make a global pandemic conform to the Hollywood plot structure so that there was a single case that they had to catch

before it spread to the world. And then maybe bomb an entire town. Like, no, don't bomb that town. Turns out that's not how it works, and Contagion is actually very pres I don't know, prescient to the point that the guy who wrote it is having a God-complex trip across mainstream

media, or did at the end of last week. You'd love to see it. But first, Oscar, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are, sir? Well, I do a podcast called The Daily Dive every day. So really my search history is just nothing but coronavirus, doing research and whatnot. Fellow daily broadcaster here. Yes, yes.

But on the other side of that thing, I'm a big foodie. I love food. So my last two things, I looked them up because I couldn't decide if I wanted to go get some Smash Burgers or some Yakitori. So there's a place called Burgers Never Say Die in Silver Lake. Oh, man. It's awesome there. Okay, you're getting Daniel. You're getting our DJ Daniel.

He's twerking right now. He's busting it open against the wall while twerking. Wow. Crispy meat edges. Oh, man. It's so delicious. And then yakitori. I went to Japan just this past year, and I absolutely loved it.

And I've just kind of been wanting to get those skewers over and over again. Yeah. That's really the last only things I've been searching for. There's a Yakitori place in downtown that opened up that is supposed to be pretty good. What is Yakitori? Torogoya? Yakitori. No, it's another, it's called Hatch or something.

I got to look it up. I think I have heard of that one. It's very like fine. By the way, Miles, I think you mixed up the pronunciation. It's Yakitori. Oh, he said. It's old wacky turkey. Old wacky turkey. Fuck it up. I think I nailed up the pronunciation. It's yakitori, as I said. It's old wacky turkey. Old wacky turkey.

I think I nailed it, bro. It's basically little chicken skewers, and they cook it over tiny little coals and whatnot. Oh, okay. It's super delicious. Yeah. I think it's one of my favorite foods. Being Japanese, it's like one of the first spots I hit. If you're ever in the Tokyo area, find you some yakitori.

Like, I don't know, whether you, it's called Hatch is the place I'm talking about. I will make a note for that. Is it the preparation, the fact that you get to cook it yourself

and therefore it just goes from being done to right into your mouth? No, they cook it for you. Oh, they cook it for you in front of you. They bring you the little skewers. Okay.

And is it like marinated? It depends. Or you'll just, you. They bring you the little skewers. Okay. And is it like marinated? It depends. Or you'll coat it with either salt or yakitori sauce or maybe like some kind of yuzu kosho, which is a yuzu pepper sort of thing to turn it up a little bit. Yeah, yuzu kosho. There's another place called Sakura House in L.A. that's also really good if you like yakitori also.

Well, the first time we went to Torigoya, my friend said, oh, we got to go to try this place because they have medium rare chicken. And I'm like, what? That just doesn't sound right. But they cook it enough. It's not, you're not going to get salmonella out of it. But I mean, that's what drew me right away. I was like, okay, I got to try this.

You know, if I die or not, I'm going to get it. Oh, yeah. I mean, in Japan, you can get like chicken sashimi too. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. That's that shit. I'll try it. I was like, okay, I got to try this. You know, if I die or not, I'm going to get it. Oh yeah. I mean, in Japan, you can get like chicken sashimi too. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. That's that shit. I'll try it.

I had it. I mean, you know, I mean, here's the thing. And you're still here. We've been eating, in Japan,

we've been eating these things for a long time. You know, we're out here eating fucking blowfish that are poisonous, but we figured a way to do it. Yeah. I know it's very unsettling to be like, chicken sashimi,

maybe not. Yeah. Worth a try. If you like it. My other favorite thing, underrated thing to be like, chicken sashimi, maybe not. Yeah, that scares me. Worth a try if you like it. My other favorite thing, underrated thing to get are chicken hearts at Yakitori Place. I'll eat it all. I mean, I used to work on a food radio show as well, so I am open to trying everything.

I've probably tried a ton of stuff that people don't like. People are weird about textures a lot. Yeah, they are. It doesn't bother me. I'll try it and it tastes great. Go for the heart. Go for the heart. I'm telling you, underrated, you'll be very pleasantly surprised. What is something you think is underrated, speaking of which?

Underrated, man, staying at home with your partner and your dog. Obviously, in times we're living in right now, how many times do you wake up and you're like, man, I don't want to go to work today. I wish I could just stay in or I wish I could call in or something. Well, no. A lot of people have that opportunity to do that. So, I mean, that's cool, you know, staying in, watching a bunch of TV, catching up on stuff, watching, like, really bad reality shows.

Have you guys seen Love is Blind on Netflix? I've been. Oh, my God. While watching it the third time in a row at this point. That whole thing is like, this is the worst show ever. And you turn to the person next to you, you want to watch another episode? Yeah. And you're like, this is a mess.

Yeah, it's a mess. That's how I got even my partner, Her Majesty, watching that show. She doesn't like reality, but whenever I'm watching, she does the guilty, I catch her looking through the door and I'm like, just come sit down. And she's like, why would he say that?

And I'm like, sit down because you want to know. Look, the allure is too strong. That's like me watching Real Housewives. Oh yeah? Yeah, where I would be walking through the room, but just keep finding excuses to walk through. Oh, your wife is watching? And I didn't even realize I was doing it. I'd just be like, yo, what are they doing?

You walk back and forth folding the same towel a bunch. You're like, oh, okay. I'm supposed to be doing work, but I'm really just finding myself paying attention. That Vicky is really whooping it up, huh? You need to turn your brain off sometimes. Especially right now, everything you guys do, a lot of news, everything. And take a break and watch Housewives or Love is Blind. We should probably start just having a streaming content review of things, or recommendation engine of some sort for people to...

To full disclosure, the show is probably going to evolve a bit due to coronavirus and people taking precautions. I think it's safe to say that starting tomorrow, tomorrow's show, we'll be recording from our homes. Remotely. And there might not be a guest because we just want to figure out the best way to do it while still giving you all the show that you need. But I think part of that may be like, Jack, what did you watch today? Yeah, exactly.

What did I watch today? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Am I the last one? Is this where I died? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. What did I watch today? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Am I the last one? Is this where I died? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. This is it? All right.

This is it. Yeah. I mean, it's already started evolving. Like, Miles and I don't do the Isaiah Thomas Magic Johnson kiss at half court before the show starts. So, you know, you can sense a different vibe already. Yeah. You can hear it in our voices when we haven't given each other little kissies before.

Little kissies. What is something you think is overrated, Oscar? Overrated. Well, we're talking a lot about coronavirus, obviously. And I think everybody knows that the federal response has not been up to par. That's a very kind description. What are you talking about, man? I think the president, you know, he's worried about a lot of things.

But I think he goes out there and is like, it's all going to be fine. Don't worry about it. So I think that his attitude towards this whole thing has been like severely overblown and overrated. I mean, he's declaring a national emergency about this thing. And you think back to the national emergency he declared about the border. I mean, you know, what was that all about? This is a national emergency. This is something we need to pour a lot of resources into. And it only took a national emergency. This is something we need to pour a lot of resources into. Yeah, and it only took a few months.

I think it's funny because the states were clamoring for this emergency declaration to free up funds, to free up Medicaid, to free up FEMA funds and things like that. And, well, I mean, we'll get into what the delay was for all of that. But, yeah, I think it's – yeah. Yeah. And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? A myth that doomsday preppers are actually crazy and that we're prepared for anything. Because you see these runs on toilet paper and all this stuff.

Those people are sitting pretty and they already know they got it. Yeah. I can last a month if I need to, you know? And everybody else is running out trying to get their supplies last minute. And, you know, there's nothing right now. You know what? Just look. You're running on toilet paper? Get that backyard bidet going get that hose backyard blow it out baby just i just have the hose going up snaking up through the window in the back upstairs bathroom i know it's called the working man's bidet yeah exactly

somebody on facebook had just posted a big old story about that so i mean oh really the working man's bidet? Yeah. There's been a lot of bidet memes for people. They're like, ha, ha, ha. You still use paper? You fool. Fools.

Super producer Anna Hosnier sent us that meme of the woman, the two faces, like her, you know, the one who like tries the thing and she makes the like, oh, the kombucha lady. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But it was B-I-D-E and then T, happy, and then N. Oh, by day? By den?

By den, not so happy. Yeah. The people who know the expiration date of gasoline are sitting pretty right now, I feel like. That's like a doomsday prepper thing. I had no idea gasoline had an expiration date. I didn't know either. I think it was Sean.

What? Yeah. Yeah. It's like it only lasts. It's only good for about a year. Really? Sean Riley, Sean Baby, taught me that. He grew up.

He's an interesting dude, the comedy writer. He grew up with prepper parents and knows all this interesting shit. Damn. Oh, so what, it just doesn't combust as easily at that point? Yeah, it doesn't combust. Wow. It starts going bad. No, it starts smelling bad. Yeah.

Don't eat it. Can't eat it anymore. You'll get sick. All right. Let's talk about just a quick update, what coronavirus has killed. Your local supermarket, as we made reference to at the end of last week. A lot of pictures floating around of just apocalyptic looking supermarkets. I guess like more for Americans, it's apocalyptic looking, right?

Because a lot of other countries have had. I've had to do rationing. Right. Yeah. I've been hit with, you know uh embargoes or things like that sanctions that keep stores empty yeah the last time america had to deal with rationing was the uh gas fuel rationing in the 70s and that shit is like legendary here people are like you remember there were lines around the block man for getting. And now you see all these pictures of Trader Joe's that just look like they're a store where you buy shelving because it's just shelves with nothing on them.

I feel like people were even snagging things they didn't need just because it was the last thing at the store. It's like, well, you know what? We need five more shower puffs. Yeah. I mean, I do feel like, you know, hoarding is a symptom of our culture. You know, it's like, you know,

the, the people who have it really bad are, you know, we, we make reality shows and point and laugh at them. But you know, as a culture, we all have a little bit of that in us.

It's kind of a cycle too, because everybody, I'm just going to use toilet paper. Everybody's buying up toilet paper and you might be one of those people that I don't, I don't need it yet. I don't have to go crazy, but now you have to play the game because now it's gone. Where are you going to get it from? You know, you go on Amazon, you try to order it online. Even it's like not available till May or something.

And in the supermarkets, you know, a lot of places they have stock, but they're only putting out a limited number. So you have to line up early in the morning just to grab your stuff. Because supply chain. Yeah, exactly. Supply chains get interrupted. So you have to play that game, even though a lot of it is psychological. I mean, it's also just revealing about it's an expression of how wealthy.

Just the way if you're in the 1% or someone who's a billionaire, you will begin to hoard money, capital. Oh, of course. At the expense of all of those people around you because you are no longer considering those around you. You're saying, I need to figure out all the things I can take. It's kind of the most pure expression of our national ethos, right? ethos. Yeah. And then it's coming down to people who it's no longer capital or wealth, but now it's toilet paper without consideration for other people. Is this necessary? Is it, or am I playing something out of my head where I'm like, well, fuck it. I need to do right for me at the expense of other people because that is constantly how we are being treated as citizens. So it's just

natural that it's expressing itself that that it's it's expressing itself like that too hoarding without consideration hoarding with purely yourself in mind yeah uh and there's even people who are gouging people who are like oh yeah there's like a story about people who just like go city to city or town to town to buy as many like wipes and things they can out of stores just to resell. And I get it too, because the system's left many people with not many options. And this is an opportunity to be a good capitalist and sell as many things you can just to survive. Yeah. There's also an interesting hierarchy, as we've made reference to toilet paper and paper towels. For some reason, people were just like, fuck, we need it. We're going to run run out i don't necessarily know why that became such

a thing gotta keep clean yeah and i think people are now for the first time finding out where like what time the shipments come in of different goods oh yeah which is new i think to a lot of people there's like text threads i'm on where people like oh i talked to the manager the shipment comes in this time so i'll be back. You should probably check this time. It's like, yeah, you really, at this point, because everything's so scarce. Yeah. I think right-wing ideologies probably,

you know, people who are like, let's just let the market decide. It's starting to look a little bit... Starting to decide right now. Yeah, starting to decide that we might need a little bit of help. Ben Shapiro was, you know, freaking out on his show and people, he was like, when are we going to get the testing? And people went in his comments and were like, well, let's just let the market handle it. Yeah, the market will handle it, right?

Yeah. And that's exactly what's happening with all these states and local municipalities, even this whole big national emergency that Trump is announcing. These are steps that need to be taken so that things can be streamlined because the market's not handling those things. The federal government needs to step in and help. Yeah. These testing kits is, I mean, it's huge how much the demand is for them. We don't have enough.

The government's sending out testing kits with certain little things. They're incomplete. Yeah, incomplete. And, you know, everybody wants to know if they have it at this point. I, you know, you guys have talked about this before. Obviously everybody will get it at some point kind of.

And it's just, uh, but this, these things build a hysteria. It's crazy. Yeah. And then, uh,

you know, we had talked about how the bond movie had been moved back, uh, now quiet place to, uh, Mulan. We, we had previewed a bunch of movies that were coming out in...

Damn it. What month are we in? March? March, I guess. I guess. So those movies aren't. There's some bunny movie sequel about a rabbit. Easter Hop.

Easter Hop Bunny 2. Wow. My wife works in the movie and TV industry. And I won't say who, but she's telling me stories about actors that are just walking off the sets. They're like, we're not doing this anymore. Everybody's closing shop. We are too. Without consulting producers and whoever's doing the movies, they're just like, F this, I'm out.

That's tough, too. Yeah. Just turn to the producer. Why don't you act, man? Why don't you do it? If you feel good about it, yeah, why don't you do it? Yeah. All right.

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They should tell us the opposite of whatever they're saying. I don't like what I'm hearing. Yeah. So there was a panel of people at UCSF. They had the UCSF's top infectious disease researcher, Emily Crawford, COVID task force director, Christina Tato, rapid response director, like all these different people who are at one of the top institutions. And they put out a bunch of information that is based on the assumption that no drug is developed in the next six months that is able to stop COVID-19. But they also explained why that is very unlikely. But basically, they said, past containment.

Oh, we're past containment. We're past containment. The best we can do is slow the spread to help healthcare providers deal with demand peak, which is everybody hitting the hospital at the same time, not having enough resources, not having enough beds. So we're just trying to lower the peak of the surge of demand that will hit healthcare providers and to buy time in hopes that a drug can be developed. The US are currently at where Italy was a week ago. And these people were saying they don't see any reason why the US would be substantially different. Italy has actually a very advanced healthcare system. So that's somewhat disturbing. They have a similar problem to us though, which is the number of

beds they have in ICUs. Yeah. Which is why I think when you look at a lot of the mortality figures in Italy, they're a little bit different than in China or South Korea because of when it just hit and the number of cases that needed to go into intensive care, they really were like, oh, we're going past the capacity of what we have intensive care. So that's leading to lower quality of care for people. And they have more on average, more beds per thousand people than we do, just barely more. I think 3.2 to like 2.8 or something. But we're both like near the bottom think 3.2 to like 2.8 or something yeah but we are both like near the bottom for developed countries we're not yeah exactly where south

korea had over 12 per thousand yeah the other thing is ventilators right in terms of medical equipment is a very essential piece of equipment going into this and there's a very disconcerting, pretty big shortage, which is why I think it's even more important for everybody to take any precaution as possible, because unfortunately, America is set up to have a very uniquely tragic version of this pandemic play out here versus other countries. Yeah. So the experts were saying 40 to 70% of the US population will be infected over the next 12 to 18 months. That would equate to, based on current mortality rates, that would equate to about 1.5 million Americans, whereas the seasonal flu's average is 50,000 Americans per year. So Trump was a little bit off when he said that it was no worse than the flu.

So are we closing shop for that long? Is this how long we got to deal with this? I don't know. I mean, I think that's where... I mean, Anthony Fauci, he's the guy on, you know, everybody's talking to, he's on the task force, coronavirus task force. I think he said something about like, it's going to be eight weeks before this really starts to get a little bit better. But that doesn't mean, you know, things won't still be canceled at that point. We still need to have all that social distancing. So who knows how long.

That's part of the problem with a lot of the hysteria too is that mixed messaging. You know, you're hearing things all over the place and it's just really tough to get anybody to tell you the truth. over the place and it's just really tough to get anybody to tell you the truth because it's like on one hand there's the thing of like be calm because what you're dealing with is in an illness that for most people isn't it isn't fatal right however we have to do what we can to actually limit the spread which is why it's like well is it so bad i have to stay inside but i thought it's just a cold or whatever it's like no we no, we have to do that. So we're limiting the transmission. So even if you feel like healthy and you can withstand any flu season or whatever, it's just that we have to take out the possibility of that happening. And so I think that's what confuses a lot of people where it's like, wait, do I need toilet paper for 9,000

years because the toilet paper factory will close down or, and the power will go off. There are people who think the power will go off. Right. People are hoarding bottled water. It's like, I think the water is still going to keep going. Yeah. But I think. That's why I like following Tom Hanks right now.

At least all his updates have been, hey guys, it's been good. You know, we're still doing all right. We're still here. Right. I think that's where the danger is, right? Because the people who are able-bodied, that will stay down. But if that infection rate, if we're looking at 40 to 70 percent, and then you take into account the people who are in those risk zones, then coupled with the capacity of ICUs for people who may if you guys looked into that at all, but obviously when something comes out, a new flu or respiratory illness, they say that those are most at risk are the young people and the old people. But this one is not affecting

kids because a lot of what's happening is the COVID-19 is exacerbating people's underlying health conditions. And a lot of people that are dying, you know, COVID-19 will eventually give you pneumonia if it gets really bad. But a lot of people are dying from their underlying issues, not the pneumonia. And kids obviously don't have a lot of those underlying health issues. A lot of it has to do with the inflammation in the lungs. COVID-19 attaches to that. And just us, you know, we're young and everything, but just living life, you get inflammation in your lungs from pollen, all this stuff. And the younger kids don't have that. So that's kind of one of the interesting things. So you were talking about social distancing,

closing school down, closing schools down. Kids get COVID-19 at the same rates that adults do, but they don't show the symptoms the same way. So a kid could go up to grandma, grandpa, and boom. Yeah. It's a really touchy situation. And that's the other thing, too, is like we're learning things by the day. Yeah. Yes. Exactly.

And so it's hard where it's like first it's like, yeah, just wash your hands, man. Don't touch your face. To like, yo, stay the fuck away from everybody. Right. Yo, stay the fuck inside. To, I don't know, man. Give us a second. We're still learning something.

Like it might live on cardboard for 24 hours. Or you fort right yeah exactly so oh shit cardboard stop ordering from amazon now that fucks with that fucks with pizza too yeah yeah but again I mean and I don't mean to say this like this is exactly it's just got real for me guys yeah and not to say like I'm and these are and I'm I and I don't want to spread any misinformation. Please look it up. But again, the basics are you have to try and limit yourself to any kind of exposure. But how this is going to play out over the next 12 to 18 months really depends on one thing we don't know is whether COVID-19 is seasonal. But if it is and subsides over the summer, it will roar back in the fall, like the 1918 flu. And, you know,

the one thing they said that they are definitively sure of is it's going to get worse before it gets better. And we'll be dealing with this for the next year, at least. And our lives are going to look a lot different for the next year. Yeah. Yeah. And it's the disruptions are being felt across the board. I was tweeting

the other day to hear like from listeners, like what's going on. And man, my heart goes out to people who are freelancers and are working in industries that depend on social interaction. You know, like for people who work front of house audio for concerts, people who do catering for events, people who bartend, servers, sports industry. You know, the trickle down of it. It's really, really, it's massive. And that really can't be underlined enough. The one thing about this national emergency, aside from it becoming coming way too late, was finding out that Trump was waiting for Jared Kushner to deliver a report to him before he

finally decided whether or not it was worth having a state of emergency. And not only did we learn that, but we also learned that him and old Teenage Mutant Ninja Goebbels himself, Stephen Miller, wrote that awful, awful address that sent the stock market crashing. Of course. And when you look at like, so what happened? Like, what, what, how was Jared Kushner?

What was he supposed to come back with? We're learning more about that. He fucking asked his brother's father-in-law to go on a Facebook group to crowdsource information from other doctors so he could bring some recommendations to Trump. So just like a random group of doctors in a Facebook group. Yes. It's like literally like panic, like writing a paper and being like,

hey, dude, isn't your dad a doctor? Can he ask really quick just so I can get some good info and I'll put it in the footnotes? That's frustration that's been going on forever. Obviously,

you go through all the stories with Trump and the intelligence community. He just doesn't trust the people around him. So he hands it off to some Facebook crowdsource. I mean,

that's tough. And the CDC, there's a lot of bureaucracy that happens too even with the cdc and all that but if you're trusting those people dr anthony fauci has been like one of the most truthful people he's like hey man i can't tell you what's going to happen it's gonna we're going to be here for at least two more months probably should we get this there was a cnn global town hall the other night and the first question that's uh anderson cooper asked dr anthonyci was just like, hey, so the president's throwing a lot of misinformation out there, right? And he's like, well, what I will say is that you need to wash your hands, you know? Right.

But the guy is so seasoned in that. But these are the people that he needs to be trusting and, you know, waiting on a report from Jared Kushner. Well, right. So what happened was – so this whole thing is really really uh out there it was so his brother is married to the supermodel model carly kloss okay okay carly kloss's father is a physician um so he posted in a group started off this in this facebook group said i have a direct channel to person now in charge at white house for covid19 wow and they're like what the fuck group is this so the book the facebook group is called EM docs has nearly 22,000 members around the world who

you have to provide your credentials to even join the group. So I guess some vetting, but I don't know how, you know, how thoroughly you can vet people in a Facebook group because you could just be like, yeah, here's a PDF of my credentials. Um, so he said he later on, because people were like, what the fuck is going on? He said, tonight I was asked by Jared through my son-in-law for my recommendations. That's when I turned to you, my fellow doctors, for help. He called them B-A-F-E-R-Ds, Baffords, which are badass fucking emergency room doctors. Thank God it's done colloquially. Then we can get the sick ass Rex breath.

He said between patients that I've reviewed your responses and we'll summarize what I'm sending to Jared for your peer review before I send it. And then he's like, Jared is reading now. It's peer reviewed Facebook. Facebook peer reviewed. Yeah. And a lot of people are like, are you? Most of the doctors are very skeptical or like, yeah, OK, guy, probably not the best way to figure this out. And they're like, what do you mean?

Like and they're also like, is this really the best forum for you to be giving recommendations to the president of the United States of America vis-a-vis your daughter's son, husband's brother? So then later on, after like a lot of people did actually give their very truthful recommendations at the end, he said, he posted to the group, I would like to thank everyone who made suggestions on how to manage this crisis. However, some challenged me on the validity of my statement on being in a position to hopefully advocate for our patients. So for transparency, I will provide some background about my unique circumstance. I have not shared this in a professional forum before our daughter, Carly Kloss, parenthetical, one of the top models in the world,

45 vote covers, and counting, proud dad commentary, close parenthetical, is married to Mr. Joshua Kushner. His brother is Mr. Jared Kushner, son-in-law to the president, who is now directly involved with the response to this. I have been over the past two weeks stressing our concern

through Josh about lack of readiness, blah, blah, blah, goes on to just say, and that's why I'm here. Normally, the leader of the free world has the resources to gather the great minds to then be like, give it

to me straight, rather than be like, you know, Ivanka's husband went to Harvard. No, he's got to do everything like a gangster. He's got to do everything through personal channels. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's why he says, hey, Jared, go handle this for me.

Bring me the report. Hey, you went to Harvard. Yeah. Go ask the smarties what's up. But that's his idea of how, I guess, information flows. Right. Well, that's amazing. We were saying that toilet papering someone's house would be the strongest flex in this emergency. But I think that Facebook group was actually the biggest flex I've heard of.

Well, so what are employers doing to try and kind of slow this thing down? Well, there's a lot because, again, the real knock on effect for all of this, right, is as businesses grind to a halt, people start working from home, offices close. There are a lot of people who are going to, their income is going to take a direct fucking hit. Other countries like, you know, in Italy, they're like, we're freezing mortgage payments. Like there's no fucking way this isn't going to spiral into total chaos unless we can reassure people like, look, you're not going to get evicted right now. Like, let's get back on our feet and we can deal with this shit later. Democrats have tried with many responses.

But, you know, I think a lot of the Republicans out the gate were like, no, no, no, no, no. Like, hold on. Free testing and like paid sick. Hold on. Yeah, we can't put that burden on the employers. Yeah. Think about the employers, won't you? Because this is also a really good, like, you know, your point about people who are freelance.

This is really where the lie of the booming economy with all the new jobs, but all those jobs are freelance gig work. Yeah. That's the lie. Hourly service workers. The lie is really going to be put to that now as, you know, the economy slows down and those jobs just aren't there and sometimes it's easy to maybe obfuscate and like to your base if you're on the right to say oh i don't know maybe it's immigrants who are actually draining the economy people are going to realize very quickly it's like hold on dude like what are you doing as my fucking representative in government to

fucking help me because i this other shit you're selling me is not putting food on my table it's not getting keeping me from being evicted. What is going on? I hope, unfortunately, I hope this pain point may be a way for people to begin to see things a bit differently. Because it is, like you're saying, it's bringing a lot of the sort of kicking the can down the road mentality of this administration. It's time to like, the rubber is hitting the road now. And it's like, how long can you just say, well, this is like, oh, maybe it'll be better now. There are a lot of people who are in dire straits or are going to be. So especially the restaurant industry, hospitality, they're being really hard hit. I know in like New York, they're recommending,

like they cut the capacity of restaurants down to 50% just to give people as much space as possible. The Darden restaurants who owns Olive of garden and Longhorn steakhouse, we've talked massive shit about how like they really fuck over their employees with payments and, uh, paid sick leave and things like that. They've actually extended, uh,

paid sick leave for all of their hourly employees. That's like 180,000 people. Um, cause I think a lot of restaurants are now thinking like, fuck, we're all going to lose money, but it's going to really have reverberations for our employees. Like when they can't come into work McDonald's, they said they're they'll continue to pay quarantine workers, but that's only for the corporate owned restaurants, which is like 700 out of,

you know, the other 13,000 that are owned by franchisees. Oh, Jesus. So people are trying to do stuff. Instacart and DoorDash are trying to do a little bit more. So people are trying to protect their employees as best as possible and understanding what the knock-on effect is. So we'd hope to see that extend to the government as well with this emergency declaration. Are you guys still ordering food delivery? Because we're practicing social distancing,

and these are point people that are touching base with a lot of different people yeah not that i want to you know diminish the the that industry because i still order food too but that's another concern also i mean they're running around yeah a lot of people yeah i mean like there are a lot of places are starting to do a contactless delivery so it'll be like they'll drop it at the door now and things like that just to limit any kind of interaction for the delivery people.

My whole thing is now if I'm going somewhere where there's a tip column, I'm tipping as much as I damn near can. Yeah. Because I'm, if, you know,

I think just for anyone who is in a place of who are fortunate enough to be able to work from home, I know a lot of people are like, oh shit, I get to wear sweatpants. There are a lot of people are like, oh shit, I get to wear sweatpants.

There are a lot of people who that is not what these next couple months are going to be like. It is going to be very difficult. And I really want to express the need for people, if you are able-bodied, healthy, and you have the free time to help other people, please do. Not to say that you need to go volunteer at a hospital. Check on an elderly neighbor who should not be going out. can i get you something can i go to the store for you check if you're you have people who need child care yeah hey can i babysit your kids for a little

bit whatever but i think we really because unfortunately our our leaders quote unquote in this company in this government this company brody and sit there um are not really thinking of the best ways to help we really are going to have to look out for each other in ways we can, small or large. But tipping has been the one way I've tried to do it. If the last time I had had food delivered, I was just like, yeah, please, I get it. It's difficult. And knowing so many people who have gig jobs like that, my heart really goes out to everybody. And I want to stress, if we can help and you're in a place to do that and you're fortunate enough, please do.

When the federal government puts that 1.5 trill into the market, does that go into companies' ability to help their employees get through this? Or where is that money going? How is that even being delivered? Is it like via, you know, just like, how are they even doing? I don't know. It's just what I know it as just, they're just injected 1.5 to just capital into the market. Into the market.

Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, that's not trickling down. Like that's. No, that's just to keep the market from crashing harder than it was. I mean, I know you boys. Afloat. Yeah. Not necessarily all the way down. I mean, I know you boys afloat, you know, not necessarily all the way down.

I mean, miles, you've always said you believe in trickle down economics, but, uh, that's all right. Well, we're going to take another break.

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sissel b demille judy garland are are resting there uh even my great-grandmother and my grandmother there rest in peace uh but they got like the more broke people section where it's just like a little like square in the wall uh not like the i think there's like a legends thing by the lake is what they call that area um they were the co-founder of the uh cemetery had said they had they just got increased call volume of people trying to buy pre-death plots. Now. Damn. I don't know what, who that's for. I don't know if that's like, if there are older people who are like, yeah, I guess it's coming for me. I better get that plot now. Right. But the quote from the co-founder was I've never seen anything like this before.

Wow. And they were just, you know, it's a quote, it's very similar to people going to Costco. They don't need all the toilet paper and sanitizer, but they're buying it anyway. Wow. It's a little bit, he's being a little bit open with that. He's like, hey, it's good for business, man. We're crushing it out here. I don't know about y'all. It's interesting. I mean, I guess people really, it's very important to be at Hollywood Forever. Yeah, I mean. Maybe not want to, you know, your family, don't burden them. But, I mean, I've been to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery a bunch of times.

For Sinespia? Yeah, they have that. And it's kind of the worst time of the year when people are coming because there's no parking. But, you know. Oh, right. Except for that spot right there on the big lawn where they have the movies and everything. It's a pretty packed cemetery. Yeah. So, I i mean these are coming at a premium one and then two where are they gonna put you you're gonna put you in that corner if you've walked through there i'm

like how the fuck you don't fit anymore yeah right here like i don't know if you can i know like the mausoleums like if you're being cremated i there's i think there's obviously space there yeah but if you want a full-on burial plot right yeah, absolutely. That place is like a park. People walk their dogs there. People play Pokemon Go there. I see whole families doing that. It's... It's interesting. It is like a park. If you're choosing between

a quiet graveyard where you could be buried or a place where there are people playing Pokemon Go and walking their dogs, I go with the bustling thing that's treated like a park. You're saying if you're a ghost resting there? Just generally.

Just not knowing what the afterlife has. I just like that idea of there being some activity and not just a quiet meadow somewhere. Or someone hitting dust off out the can on your gravestone. Right. Yeah. It's actually really calm and peaceful there to take a walk. It's a nice place. It's weird to say that a cemetery is like that, but it's a nice place.

For people who aren't familiar, because you're like, yeah, when you watch the movies, there's a thing called Sinespia where they will play older films or like semi-new, like cult-y films. Jaws, Caddyshack. Pulp Fiction, Clueless, things that they know they can generate a bunch of people to come you bring your blankets and shit you sit out on the lawn watch it

sometimes they have concerts drinks you're not desecrating graves or anything like that but that just happens to be a thing that we do in Los Angeles is we party in graveyards yeah

that's a true story they yeah they actually have like concerts there too yeah saw James Lake there yeah

I saw a spoon there uh all right well let's talk about entertainment let's talk about what people are doing yeah i know that netflix's stock went up at the beginning of this crisis because people uh i guess the market was like well shit what else are people gonna do do? Yeah. I think it's gone down since. Netflix and fuck. Yeah, Netflix and fuck, as the saying goes. Or chill, right? No, all right. I always get it mixed up. Yeah.

But I think. Oh, no, it's Hulu and fuck. Hulu and fuck. Netflix and chill. Yeah, yeah, Netflix and more laid back. Disney Plus and plug your ears. Yes. So anyways, if you're working from home,

you need to find something to watch. That's going to be entertaining. What are we looking at miles? What's on your docket? I think Netflix and shit can only go so far. You use YouTube too much. You might end up a white supremacist if you're on YouTube for too many hours.

So you got to be careful with these things. That's why I feel like in these times, if you are at home and you are fortunate enough to be able with these things. That's why I feel like in these times, if you are at home and you are fortunate enough to be able to relax or something, or even if you can't, I think regressing back into the times when the world was fine and we were younger and knew not the ills of the world may be a very good antidote for being cooped up inside or getting stressed out. So for those people, I present the VHS vault, which is part of the internet archive.

So the VHS vault is basically, they have, people have basically digitized over 20,000 recordings. Um, and it's broken up into years. So there's shit from as early as like the sixties, I want to say. And you can choose like 2019

down to 1995 there's like 700 videos or whatever within there you can watch stuff like you know what i just want to watch a one hour block of commercials from 1993 or you can say i want to watch four hours straight of mtv during in 1995 or like random concerts you could be like oh yeah man i want to check out uh fucking like mortal combat extras uh sure or a fugazi concert from france in june of 95 there is all kinds of digitized content on here so there is all kinds of stuff for everyone you can even get like those like bootleg straight to vhs like off-brand disels. They would do like Aladdin two or whatever the fuck shit like that. Um, or other people just have like,

you know, ripped five hours straight of Beavis and butthead. Uh, but it's all there. It's very interesting. Like look into the past. Give me some, uh,

Nickelodeon and legends of the hidden temple. Yeah. Oh, that's in there over and over. Salute. Your shorts is on there. Also the 1995 Microsoft windows 95 video guide that features Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston getting trapped in the internet, which is pretty dope.

This is the true power of the internet right here. There also seems to be pornography mixed in here, or at least nudity. Yeah, there might be. You know what I mean? Linnea Quigley's horror workout has just a butt oh horror workout yeah horror yeah what is that like a like a man with a knife chasing you yeah you're getting toned yeah i don't know or maybe she's a scream queen uh video classics yeah oh whoa video classics ident 1979 just a big Lortz. Wow, we've really...

I forgot about her. See, and that's the other thing. We'll remember the adult performers of our past. There's a fucking... There's like a Hanson tour video. If you go to 97, if you want Tulsa, Tokyo, and the Middle of Nowhere tour. Wow.

You spend hours there, right? Tiananmen Square, 1989. Just like a feed of the news from Tiananmen Square, 1989. A goofy movie is on here. Now it's sold. Now we're good. But you get that VHS grain. Yeah.

You know what I mean? That's the difference, I think, now. It's like, you know what? Turn the lights off. You know what I mean? Pack a fat one and then watch the mask VHS rip. It's like listening to vinyl, right? But for your eyes. Yeah, it really rip. It's like listening to vinyl, but for your eyes.

Yeah, it really is. It's got that warmth. There is something, though, about that VHS screen that I miss a little bit. And when you say pack a fat one, you mean pack a fat lip, right? Pack a fat lip. Just a horseshoe of skull. Just a skull, dude, whatever the packets you want. Oh, yeah.

Just not the menthol kind. That's a little too much. That's a little too intense. It's all gross I saw a car on Reddit on rtrashy that was a guy

whose co-worker just spits in the interior of his car no spit cup and the interior looked I don't know

that's a very narrow thing for people who have ever chewed tobacco it's one of the grossest smelling things imagine eating a ride and that's the only guy that's going to

and the guy was like my co-worker offered me a ride. I refused when I saw this. It was sort of like the headline. All right. Well, another blast from the past that you can take that won't be very transportative or won't transport you anywhere but the present is the 2011 movie Contagion. but the present is the 2011 movie contagion. Uh,

when it, uh, the, the news first started hitting, you can almost track like how people are dealing or like how real the, uh, pandemic is to people through how many people are watching this movie. Cause it started out and it like made the, uh,

it made the studios like top a hundred back in January. And now it's like number two behind only the Harry Potter movies. It was 270 at the end of December and went to just behind Harry Potter now. Right. That's a jump. And a lot of the... I think it was on maybe The Verge or something. They were looking at a lot of streaming numbers that have gone up.

The amount of BitTorrent downloads of Contagion has gone up too. But they say because of the way the torrents work, like you can't really get a real idea of how many people have downloaded it. But just based on how many more people are seeding it, they're like, okay, there are a lot of people who want this movie right now. Well, we've had other outbreaks, obviously Ebola. But those obviously really didn't happen here, except for the one thing in Texas that happened.

But, you know, the last big thing we go to is always 1918, right? The Spanish flu. Yeah. So nobody knows how these things work. So where do you go? You go to the movie. Yeah, you go to the movie. What's it going to be like?

It's actually very, I mean, so there's, you know, they have quarantines. They have people, you know, hoarding. They have, you know know it originates in asia is easily transmitted through touch the movie examines the concept of social distancing like all these different things that you are now hearing in the news are like all over this movie that's what's like i don't know if that's a thing to help you like you want to look at right now is watch the version because like what the body count of that is like 26 million people globally. Because it's way more fatal, isn't it?

Yeah, this is way more fatal. And also, wait, it's a fucking movie. Right. But in the end, they get a handle on it, right? They do get a handle on it. All right, see, it ends with a happy ending. By bombing the world. And it's the CDC.

And they don't have a dumb fuck president who is getting in their way because he thinks it hurts their numbers and in fact there is no president which is probably smart but it is by Steven Soderbergh it stars Matt Damon it's got good performances there's also Jude Law plays a conspiracy theorist who

is infuriating but I remember finding him less believable back when I saw it in 2011 than now. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's. Oh, that's a real guy. Yeah, that guy. Someone who's profiting off of lying. Yes.

And then the film's science advisor has been doing the media rounds. This is my favorite thing. People should have taken the movie much more seriously. That's a quote. Quote, if people are watching it again, and if federal and state officials are watching it again, I hope they're realizing that the movie was really about what can happen if a novel pandemic threat, and I think people should have taken it much more seriously. Okay.

I wish people had paid closer attention to it when the film came out. Okay, that's okay. If you would have shown it to Trump at the very beginning, you would have been like, okay, this is a real great scene. He'd have been like, oh, no, what happened to Gwyneth's head? That is wild because, yeah, you go, she is a goner very early on. She's patient zero. The goop stuff didn't help her? No.

I know. The yoni egg didn't keep the MEV5 or whatever the fuck it is. I mean, honestly, just that line where he says, I wish people had paid closer attention to it when the film came out is the saltiest thing ever. If you're like a man of science or whatever, you'd be like, yeah, you know,

when I was advising, this was based on a lot of things that I was really worried about and a lot of people in my industry had been talking about versus like, man, see, y'all should have listened to me. Y'all should have fucking been making fun of me when I made that movie. See now, now you feel stupid,

huh? It's just a big, I told you so. Yes. But didn't he? So Trump has declared a national emergency on coronavirus to access $50 billion of funds to fight the virus. And yeah,

it's just a little bit late, but it is probably a good thing. Oh, and also I'm pretty sure he's still planning to try and cut food stamps for people as this is all happening. Because if there's anything people who cannot work need less, it's food. Right. People think that Mexico might close the border to the United States. The irony. I was just saying, just wait until the U.S. is on these travel ban lists.

Yeah. How are you going to like that? Yeah. So we'll see if that happens. the irony I was been saying just wait till the US is on these travel ban lists yeah how you gonna like that yeah so we'll see if that happens it might have happened by the time you listen to this but I know

honestly half the shit we say could be completely useless by the time you hear it because everything is so fluid at the moment but trying our best

yes well Oscar it's been a pleasure having you man yeah thanks for having me guys where can people find you follow you I'm on Instagram and Twitter at LowDownOscar.

And I do the Daily Dive podcast. You can get that on the iHeartRadio app and just search Daily Dive. And I'm right there. And I do, you know, just interviews and stuff, news, top news of the day. Obviously, a lot of coronavirus. But hopefully we sneak in a couple other good stories in there as well. You're going to have to. Yeah. And is there a tweet or some other active social media But hopefully we sneak in a couple other good stories in there as well. Going to have to, yeah.

And is there a tweet or some other act of social media you've been enjoying? You know what? We were talking about the working man's bidet. So it was just a story that was on Facebook from a friend that they went to Walgreens. They had somebody in front of them stocking up a full cart full of toilet paper. And they were approaching this almost like, hey, don't touch my stash, you know? And then he says he only bought just enough to fill the little cabinet above his toilet.

And he said, hey, if anything happens, at least we can get the hose in through the window and get that working man's bidet going. There you go. Great mind. Just shout out to the manguera. Yeah, exactly. And then all those memes.

If you drank from the hose when you were a kid, you're immune to coronavirus. Yeah, exactly. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. And also my other show, if you're looking for some trash reality shows to watch, why not check out 90 Day Fiancé? Because that's the other podcast I do talking about that show called 420 Day Fiancé with

Sophia Alexandra. We got new episodes every Wednesday. We might even have to open up our back catalog, The Vault, just to give y'all some more content because I know a lot of people will probably have some time to listen to podcasts. A tweet I like from Reductress. At Reductress, cute. This woman thinks she'll be able to nap for just 20 minutes it's a woman sleeping very peacefully but uh i just identify with that for sometimes you're like can i get it can i make this into a nap like i got 35 minutes in between things can and it never works i always end up on my phone

yeah some tweets i've been enjoying nick uh weiger tweeted a uh screen cap of all the COVID-19 symptoms. Fever, dry cough, shortness of breath, common headache sometimes, runny nose, rare, diarrhea rare. He said, diarrhea rare? I got to get this thing. So that's what I've been laughing at. You can find me on Twitter, 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,

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where he plays every single instrument, but he's doing a rendition of an electronic song by the artist lapalux called without you uh the video the original video for the lapalux track is wild visually uh but watching a guy play everything like on marimba and like homemade instruments to create the same feel of an electronic track is unbelievable so look if you got time to watch the clip search bink beats b-i-I-N-K-B-E-A-T-S one word, without you. All of his videos are so

dope because he'll do everything from J Dilla to Flying Lotus to Apex Twin, like everybody, or Squarepusher rather, but he plays every single thing live and loops it and it's unbelievable. So this is Without You by Lappa Lux by Bink Beats. The Daily Zeitgeist by Lappalux by Big Beats.

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