The Daily Zeitgeist - GQP Goes After Disney, Night Light = Health Hazard? 4.04.22

Episode Date: April 4, 2022

In episode 1218, Miles and guest co-host Joelle Monique are joined by comedian and co-host of Here's the Scenario, Mike Feeney to discuss All QAnon everything…, Speaking of tired old talking points…IVERMECTIN, Having just a little bit of light can have health effects?, Dyson made headphones that are also an air purifier and more! All QAnon everything… Speaking of tired old talking points…IVERMECTIN Having just a little bit of light can have health effects? Dyson made headphones that are also an air purifier… Dyson headphones come with air vacuum for mouth In the Zone: Dyson's First Wireless Headphones Pump Fresh Tunes to Your Ears and Fresh Air to Your Face Dyson denies air-purifying headphones are an April Fool's prank Mike Feeney's Comedy Album: Rage Against the Routine For Mike's Tour Dates: mikefeeneycomedy.com/ LISTEN: Eagle Energy by SangoSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 231, episode one, the season premiere of the Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. It's the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Monday, April 4th, 2022. And you all know what April 4th is. It's World Rat Day. Okay, shout out all the rats. Yes, it's World Rat Day. According to the Chinese Zodiac, I'm a rat, so I feel that.

I'm big into rats. Master Splinter, one of my favorite rats from Ninja Turtles. So it's all about representation. You're not big on rats? Actually, wait. Hold on. I don't want to expose. I don't want to let people know want to expose i don't want to i don't want to let people know about the surprise okay okay first let me introduce like okay okay i

ruined it people already know don't laugh they know from your laugh okay uh my name is miles gray aka i don't want to wait in line i'll become another casualty of my jar of pee to enlapse is fine driving nowhere to keep my country free i'm dumb shout out to scouting magoo for that sum 41 fat lip aka because i was i think it was Paige Weldon who jarred my brain where I remembered Sum 41. And then the lyrics masterfully laid over the news about the pee-pee-soaked trucker convoy that had to pack their shit and leave D.C., which you hate to see it. But guess what, listener? I have a guest co-host today. One of my favorites.

One of your favorites. Seems like. Because every time they're on and people like yes i love it and how could you not love it this person again talented podcaster talented host talented producer talented film critic media critic a person i'm like what was what's worth watching right now you know and love her just as much as i do please welcome joelle monique aka the marvel defender i've been tagged in to defend some dc stuff today purple lipstick don i'm back what's up yeah the purple lipstick don don a purple lipstick what's going on oh man you know what a week what a week who What a week. Who knew? A lot of sociological experts.

The racism bomb that dropped after last Sunday's events. It's been a lot. I think it shook some people up. Had some interesting conversations. I'm ready to leave it behind and move on. Oh, yeah. The wrong kind of people are going to treat that shit like benghazi where it's going to be just they're going to keep coming back to talk about it anyway

it's monday it's a new week yeah a new set of a new set of scandals a new set of information for us to behold our eyes on and you know what let's introduce our guest today. Our guest today is a wonderfully, brilliantly talented, hilarious stand-up comedian. May have seen him some such places on, you know, Last Call with Carson Daly. I heard of that. Maybe you've seen some of the work on Funny or Die. Or maybe Barstool or The Chive. Who knows? Maybe you've seen or heard his debut stand-up album, which, by the way, debuted at number one. Because we only deal with winners on this show.

Rage Against the Routine, which is actually really hilarious. And if I actually very closely identify with your bit on Road Rage. But please welcome to the show, once again, Mr. Mike Feeney! Hey! Thanks for having me. Glad to be back. Yeah, it's good to have you back, man. I was saying, a lot's changed last time you were on. November of 2019, was it?

Yeah, we were able to talk in person and touch, and now we're just via the interwebs. Back then, you were still living in New York, right? Were you just in L.A. for some shows? Yeah, yeah. I still live in the city, but yeah i was uh i go back and forth to la i'm going back to la for the first time since you know the whole world ended uh yeah in a week or two so i'm excited to see what's left yeah yeah yeah man fantastic how's the weather new york you know we're dealing with cool weather but we're looking at a by the end of this week in los angeles it will be 90 degrees oh Oh, my God. Well, it's so funny because I just checked the weather because I was trying to figure out how to pack

because I don't know what April in L.A. is like. So I looked at the weather in L.A. today and New York today, and there's a difference of two degrees. So it's almost identical weather today. Kindred spirits. Yeah. Kindred spirits. Joelle, are you looking forward to the hot weather

or do you like the cold? I like neither, which is why I came here. Okay, I'm from Chicago. It gets to negative 40 over there sometimes. That's not fun to be in. But I detest a 120 degree day as well. So, you know, for me, 70 degrees is where it's at. Like, let's try to keep it between 65.

I could go max 80. I do like the sun. That's about it. Warming the skin. The perfect weather is if you could wear a hoodie and shorts yes somehow if you can if you could rock those two things that feels like the perfect princess diana fit yes exactly new york has just turned into the summers being 98 degrees with 100 humidity like flor. And then in the winters, it's just, you know, I mean, it doesn't get as cold as Chicago, but it's pretty miserably cold.

They've both gotten so much more extreme. It's terrible. Yeah. Well, you know, I guess that's the fate of this earth. It's climate change. So I guess we'll have to get used to it or maybe people do something about it. We will see. Before we get to know you better, Mike, let's tell people some of the stories that we're checking in on today.

We've got to talk about just the Republicans, man. It's all QAnon everything with them now. And whether it was, you know, the confirmation hearings for Katonji Brown Jackson or now Disney, they're always finding a way to just map QAnon conspiracy theory onto anything that's going on. So we'll see what's happening over there. Then we'll just kind of put up one of these old, tired pandemic talking points to bed about a certain medication that many people thought was very effective. We'll just just we're going to have to say good night to that, even though most of us never thought it was a thing anyway. And then there's this new study that came out.

thought it was a thing anyway and then there's this new study that came out i was reading about an npr that's pretty wild talking about how just a little bit of light pollution while you're sleeping can actually have like effects on your health that we weren't really aware about aware on uh and that makes sense uh we'll talk a little bit about that because science and also dyson made a new set of headphones that many people thought were April Fool's joke, but in fact is not. And we'll tell you why people probably thought they were fucking around with this idea, because it's an air purifier headset. We'll get into it. It's a fucking fan for your wave of the future. Let's wave of the future. Yeah. So we'll talk about that and many more things. But first, Mike, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

So this is just happened yesterday. I was at a comedy show and the comedian before me was doing a funny bit about how he got the booster before New York started giving out the bribes for like incentives to do it. giving out the bribes for like incentives to do it and he was you know lamenting that he didn't wait for that point which reminded me that i waited long enough for the booster to get a hundred dollar credit that like a credit card thing and i was like oh my god i never redeemed it so i spent all of last night on the internet for like hours researching i'm going through emails and then like filing reports saying that i didn't get it, and then how do I go, and I filled out multiple forms and figured out how to do all this stuff, only to find out that I not only did fill all that out, but I already got the card

and already redeemed it. So, whoops. I don't know if I have permanent COVID brain or whatever it is, but it's just, I totally forgot that that ever happened. Wait, so what did you do? You remember now when you say like, oh, that's right. Do you do you remember what you know? Well, here's what happened is I went to use my special little code they gave me and it said it was already redeemed. So then I thought I was like frauded. You know, I was like, oh, no, someone stole my identity.

And then I realized whatever I get one of those online gift cards, because you're like, what are you going to do? How are you going to spend exactly $100 and zero cents on something? So what I do now is I just go on to Amazon and buy a $100 Amazon gift card with that. So then at least I could use it for more normal purchases. Wow. Okay.

A little bit of life. That's smart. I see the way you move it around listen I forgot the time I got pulled over in 2018 and was supposed to go to court and didn't do it until like four months two months ago what is time in this bubble anyway you're doing so much better than me so much like listen of course who couldn't forget spending a hundred dollars i missed an entire court date oh man yeah they didn't they didn't come after you or like ask any like hey no and when i went to the court they were like uh just pay this dollar amount and you

could you're good i was like i don't gotta talk to the judge or nothing they were like you you could i was like no whatever do you want like no fuck no yeah yeah i mean well because joey also you don't really drive right no no so yeah it's it's not really like in your mind to be like oh shit i'm that's right the thing from the last thing yeah you know what i mean yeah they canceled my driver's license but i think that got sent to the place i used to live which i never changed my address formally with the state to apartments you're a ghost you're a ghost listen before before i got these add meds life was wild i was just out here living not not caring at all yeah next thing you know together now it all works out you're like damn i gotta go to court

and you're like they're like hey you can just pay and you're like thank god thank you so much i will i will do that i was like nothing i was dressed for court too everybody else was in there i had to go to like the glendale court everybody was in sweatpants i was like do we not dress for court anymore i'm here in a silk blouse looking ridiculous well you know i i've definitely seen uh some some leisure wear but well especially if you know you're gonna handle your shit at the window at court then what's the point you're aware of. Especially if you know you're going to handle your shit at the window at court, then what's the point? You're at the window. They knew I was up. Yeah, for all my people who get

random fix-it tickets, it seems like when you drive through certain parts of the city. I don't know. Let's go down there. Mike, what's something you think is overrated? I think birds are pretty overrated. They do nothing for me.

They're hands down the worst pets you could have. They're just screeching and shitting. I mean, it doesn't matter. And I think, and I don't know, I can't prove this, but I feel like birds think that they're better than us just because they can fly. Okay. We're about to be real good friends, Mike.

I fucking hate a bird. Hate birds. Whoa. Why are they here? They're rats with wings. On rat day, maybe we can give them a little one-up or whatever. But evil things that I'm convinced are just prepared to revert back to their dinosaur form and kill us. They eat birds.

Yeah, they eat worms. It's like, get thumbs loser right it's your weird little feet they can hold grudges some of them and they can speak our language it's the devil yeah it's not right i guess i'm is it because you can't like cuddle with them i feel like that's sort of like the line my brain draws with like how i view an animal like because like you know i don't think i can't picture myself being like oh and here's me with my my favorite gray parrot in bed and we're snuggling you know like a cat or a dog or even like a rabbit or some shit well i i think and uh comedian uh nick

turner had a really funny bit about this but he he was like, the one thing about having a bird is you take the one thing that they love and that they're known for and you rip it away from them and put them in a birdcage. It's like they're known for flying and then you just keep them in prison and stare at them.

And it's like, you know. Right. I also don't like anything that can hunt me from above. Yes. That seems not right. Yeah. I don't like that they can spot

a mouse from a mile away from 300 feet in the air. In the dark. An owl can turn its head all the way around. These are freaky features. I recently saw a picture of a featherless owl. Horrifying! That's the other part about

birds. I mean, like most animals too. Down to the bare skin, you're like, what the fuck is this? Put its fur back. Yeah. Okay, well, I see the, you know, no love for birds. I definitely, like, I can't, in my mind, if there's a cuddly bird, maybe that could change my mind. Like a little chickadee.

Do we still call it? Is that a thing? Sure. Those are still things, yes, too fragile for my liking. Yes. I'm not here for it. They have hollow bones, so it's like you got to be very delicate with them. Now, despite the sounds like mutual, just kind of like, all right, birds,

how many of you would take flying, though, as a superpower or ability? Oh. Are you not even interested in flying either? Is that, you know? See, here's the thing. Is there a little jealousy on our side because we're not up there flying? Here the thing i've done i've done hours of thinking about this too many hours here's the problem with flying everybody says if you could have one superpower what would it be everyone says flying right away but nobody thinks about it first off think about how cold it is up in the sky all

right you know when you're on a plane you feel the window it's freezing yeah so you couldn't just go in shorts and a t-shirt and all the wind. It'd be like sticking your head out a window. You'd have to have goggles on. You'd have to have a big parka on. You'd be terribly uncomfortable. And then you've got to watch out for power lines and planes. It's hell out there.

Okay. Yeah. I want Wanda's powers for sure. I can make reality whatever I want it to be. Wouldn't use it on people. That seems really cruel and unusual. But if you could just change... Imagine you could just go into your

closet and be like, I don't like this thing anymore. And transform it into what you want it to be. Amazing. Amazing. You just create dinner out of thin air. She redecorates her house no less than seven times throughout that series. Just on a whim. Truly the best gift ever. I mean, I don't yeah so you want to be omnipotent

basically i mean i don't know if i want to be all-knowing because some things that would hurt i think if i knew everything or omniscience would be all no yeah yeah but but the ability to just like change and transform at any time yeah i mean and then would you hook me up like if i came like hey i don't have time to go to, look, I got a, I got a trip I'm going on and I didn't do any of my laundry again. And I do this thing where I just go buy new underwear. Cause I didn't do my laundry before a trip. Can you just, can you just make some up here? Yeah. Yeah. I still do that. Absolutely. I would, you know, it might be one of those things where you have to start setting boundaries pretty early

and be like, you know, I'm gonna help you this time bro you know and i'm here for you but that's worse than honestly it could be like the same thing like when people say winning the lottery is the worst thing that ever happened to them is you become like this omnipotent being where they're like damn that's joelle and then now you're like god i just just wanted to change my wallpaper a few times in my closet now you know what's the weirdest thing about people they say they win a lottery or like money doesn't buy happiness where i mean i think it's a thing where none of us really believe it until maybe it happens and i had the weirdest version of that i was back in the day i would

play grand theft auto online a lot and there were these hackers that came on around Christmas and just gifted everybody billions of dollars that took thousands and thousands of hours of work to get. And we all just got it instantly. And in the beginning, I'm like, this is the best. I bought every car, every apartment, every piece of clothing in the game, every gun. I was like, this is the best.

And then within four days, I'm like, ah, it's kind of boring now that I have nothing to do or work for. So Grand Theft Auto has taught me to live a modest life. Yeah. See? Shout out to Rockstar. The book of Rockstar and all of its teachings within. Oh, yeah.

There's a lot of good rules in there. Keep your mouth shut until you're ready to present. Yeah, exactly. Don't promise dates before you know you can launch stop revamping the same goddamn game over and over again also making a lot of money off that this is a crime rock star i'm sorry and i'm glad that you we have some gta literate folks here but every damn time we think rock star is going to announce something they've somehow just slightly tweaked the old game just a bit oh yeah remember vice city look the polygons will be a little more

because okay listen that dual thinking is what is going to save video games which are really struggling the e3 just got canceled and i think the idea that this might be a segment three bit sorry but like all good being able to advance your game slowly and present it to your audience in a way that they can sort of check you that i like this i don't like that while continuing to work on a separate game until it's ready to come out prevents things like cyberpunk 77 which was just such a total flop because they went oh we don't have anything. We got to release it. We got to put it out in the world.

And I think that's happened to a lot of games recently. Battlefield. Yeah. Yeah, where they just, they're like, oh, we got to drop something. I would much prefer

to spend time on a game. I know I'm still shocked at the graphics of GTA. When I go, I'm like, that's LA, and I know where I am in the city. How did you do that? That is incredible. Yeah, I went to the comedy's LA and I know where I am in the city. How did you do that? That is incredible.

Yeah. I went to the comedy store. Yeah. It's right there. Exactly. And I got blackout drunk and I punched a cop. Oh no. It was all crazy.

In the game, in the game. A lot of life lessons in Grand Theft Auto. Yeah, exactly. And it's sad too, because I think it was only like in February that that Rockstar was officially like, oh, yeah, we're working on GTA six. Like, oh, now you're telling us. Yeah, finally, you'll see it in seven years. Evil doers. All right. Mike, what's something that you think is underrated?

This might be like a city living specific thing, but drop off laundry. living specific thing but drop off laundry i when i found out about this my entire life first off it costs like four dollars more to to drop it off versus to do it all by yourself and it saves hours of my life i would pay i just went to laundromats you could charge double what you're charging and we'll pay it like it is to never have to match socks and like takeouts and sit there and go through everything again i'll pay any amount of money and the fact that they're like oh it's 40 cents a pound or something i'm like get take my money yeah i'm like do you ever feel like any level was there ever at any point any level of anxiety to be like i'm handing my dirty things to a person that really it gets me here i

can't no i don't care about that part what i do care about is like they definitely don't care about my clothes like they are punching and overloading the machines and a lot of times my shirts come back as belly shirts and that's just something it's just an occupational hazard. Right. Okay. Yeah, just doing slightly 90s midriff look. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's the dream. Have you ever used a service like that, Joelle? I once hired a maid to come to my house and it was hilarious because I was living with two other girls

who both of them had grown up like poor and I was just currently poor and we just couldn't get our heads around the fact we were like we'll clean everything top to bottom and then when the maid comes in like we'll tell her if she could like super clean everything right right right which doubled up sort of worked but then i sort of like what do we do like why do we pay this money i don't know what's happening I would like to be the kind of person who can use these services and not feel a way about it. But I just, I'm not, I don't know if I'm there yet. I think about it a lot.

But I don't think I'm there yet. For you, what you're saying for you, it's like, I don't want them. Like, I don't want them touching my shit. Like, it's your first instinct. Yeah. So, first time I remember one of the first jobs, like, actual jobs I was able to get after college. Shout out to millennials who were crushed in 2008. Yeah.

But like when I got like working again, I had this one, I lived by this laundromat or dry cleaners and they had a laundry service. And I remember like I just would bring over this satchel of things. And I had always heard because I'd heard of fluff and folds or people just being like, oh, yeah, there's like laundry services or whatever. I take it there. I was so nervous. And when it came back and everything was folded, I had the same sort of realization. You probably did, Mike, where I was like, I've I used to fight with people in my building over and accuse people of stealing my quarters that I was leaving there on purpose because I thought I lived with other decent people. Yeah. And yeah. And that that was like a moment for me. But yeah, once they

completely fucked up one of these shirts that I had that I was like, I should have known better to be like, I should have handled that. It kind of soured me on it. But yeah, my building has two washers and two dryers. So it's like a dog fight to get down i still have some like now i know like i have certain t-shirts that i'm like if i give it to them they're gonna shrink it so i gotta do like my own load every like once in a while with just select few things but again totally worth it yeah uh zygang let us know about your uh in building laundry machine wars because i know everybody has either stories of someone who talks so loud in the laundry room. You can hear everything in the hallway.

Or people, fuck, I don't even know. I've seen all kinds of shit. The grandma who does laundry for all six of her family members at one time. You're not getting to the wash on a Sunday. Oh, yeah, no. In my old building. She was up at six, and she was done at six or like or you know like those moves too you're like okay fuck it i'm gonna look how much how much time is

left on it i'm gonna be here two minutes before it fucking ends to try and get in there and then they've somehow sped up time and they're 10 minutes into the next load and you're like i now gee what is your what is your uh you know personal belief on removing someone's stuff from the washer and or dryer how much time has to have allotted past the time before you go i'm taking it out how late is it and how tired am i yeah because if it's late and i'm tired that shit is coming out immediately i don't have time. But the thing is, I'll try to look for, like, if it's the wash, I try to look for a dryer. And if it's a dryer, I'm like, I'm going to put your stuff in a basket. I don't like people who just throw things on top.

Yeah. Or worse, just start, like, putting it on the floor. You're like, what are you not, like, these are clean clothes. Like, stop it. I have heard that the, like, a good rule of thumb is 15 minutes. But 15 minutes is a long way into a cycle where I could be doing other things. Yeah, I'm going. I give them 10.

It's tough. Yeah. Because like on one hand, you're like, well, you have no rights because you're inconveniencing everybody else. Like that's my that's like the way my mother raised me to be like, the second you start fucking up and it affects other people, you have no human rights. Okay. And I would be like, you're fucking out. This shit is on the ground. Okay.

This is this place. It doesn't just exist for you. However, I'm also the kind of person who, if that shit happened to me, I'm throwing hands with somebody. So I have to, in my mind, find what that sweet spot is. And I think to your point, point joelle it's hard to get mad if you handle someone else's shit with care yeah you know because then it's like i should have been here to take my stuff out and then you know what at least they put it in a basket or

whatever but like but then you also see people be just totally aggressive assholes like i've seen people just throw the wet clothes like on the fucking ground that shit is down who the hell that's just yeah my rule of thumb is 10 minutes if it's their clothes and if i leave my clothes in there it's until i come back forever the rules don't apply and if you touch my clothes even if it's been two hours you have no human right yeah all right let's take a quick break uh we'll be right back to talk uh q anon and disney have fun i'm jess casavetto executive producer of the hit netflix documentary series dancing for the devil the 7m tikt. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed.

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This has been a very interesting relationship for the last few years. You know, at first they laughed off the idea or Republicans would be like, I'm sorry, this Q is what now? They think Donald Trump is helping to fight a secret war against cannibalistic liberal child predators. And then over time, you got to see more and more Q shirts in the crowds at these rallies. And politicians, I think it was clear they're like, OK, this is clearly energizing people in some way, no matter how deeply fucked up and problematic this is. So slowly you have people like Marjorie Taylor Greene bringing up Q talking points and people like, oh, this person's going full Q out here in public. And again, it only takes just a little bit of normalization because you cut to the sort of perspectives and questions that Katonji Brown Jackson was facing during her confirmation. And you're like, okay,

so now senators are full blown just using Q talking points to try and smear people. This whole idea of like, I'm sorry, are you easy on child traffickers and people that groom children? You're like, where did this come from? Aside from your own racism, but also your vocabulary is clearly rooted in the QAnon conspiracy theory. Well, now that reflex is working pretty overtime because I think it's clear now that we're just seeing people say, oh, if they don't like something, it's because they're grooming people. That's like the new buzzword that conservatives are using willy nilly without any understanding, like without being able to answer. What are you even talking about?

They just it's like this buzzword for them to be like, it means bad. Well, now with the Disney company coming out and saying, you know, actually, we're maybe shouldn't have supported the architects of this don't say gay bill. We're actually against it now. Again, this is a bill, mind you, that prevents teachers from essentially acknowledging a reality where non-cis het people exist. They are now looking at a very angry Republican Party and the same guy who was behind the critical race theory freak out, who like is very good at just sort of taking one narrow thing and then trying to amplify like all of this fear around it is back at it with this leaked clip from disney executives talking about adding more lgbtq characters to their content but their words being like i think they're they said something like the words gay agenda were

used in it or something and so suddenly this. And so suddenly this has become now, because this is what this guy does and does it well, the new face of like conservative homophobia, which is essentially like saying this is what they're trying to do now. Disney is now on the evil list of liberals who are trying to harm and traffic children. And this isn't new because this is just the ongoing terror campaign of dehumanizing gay people. Because like in 2008, the sort of homophobia du jour was if gay people can marry, what's next? Horse marriage? And that was the outrage. And now we're fully in 2022. And now it's gay people are part of an evil conspiracy to prey on children i want to know why they're always concerned about an evil conspiracy as if

they're constantly happening all around like the paranoia on that side of things is just it's out of control like there is the whole pizza gate where they're like the children are being like sold into sex slavery out of a pizza basement slash dungeon like y'all if you don't like it queer people i mean honestly are just trying to go about their days without interruption and occasionally want to throw a parade and some hoopla you have so much advanced warning about when that hoopla is going to happen. And you're not even actually invited. So you don't have to be there or see it.

And it's beyond strange to me the idea that like. I mean, Cricket sees so many straight people. And it's not convincing them to go that direction. It's everywhere in their face. Big giant romances being sold by this same company. Disney has only ever shown us like heteronormative like romantic relationships that's all we get out of disney and then to suggest the idea that like if a gay couple popped up suddenly we're converting so if your child wants to sleep with someone of the same sex they're just gonna do it y'all you just have

to get used to it it is so bizarre to me to watch people freak out about an LGBTQ agenda, which is literally just to live. Like, that is our agenda. It's fucking stupid. Just to live. It has to, you know, because if you're able to say it's all these external factors that makes someone gay, then you never have to actually acknowledge if you're like this, you know, like a religious evangelical to say, oh, that's just how someone is. That's their natural state. And then that would have to go against many of, you know, what their beliefs are in terms of what homosexuality is. So just to show you like how quickly it goes from this guy's tweet to being like, look what they're saying. Look what they're saying. This is how quickly you have people like Tucker Carlson

taking that and just like running with it to say, oh yeah, I wonder what's going on here. Their main quote goal as a company is now to teach kindergartens in Florida that they can in fact change their gender just by wishing it so. It makes you wonder if kids in Florida can consent to chemical castration

with no parental involvement. If that can be true, what exactly can't they consent to once we set that standard? Disney didn't say, but maybe there's another agenda here. Nor did they explain their fixation on the sexuality of children. But it's worth pointing out that four Disney employees were just busted in a major human trafficking sting, including one employee who allegedly sent sexually explicit texts to a detective posing as a 14 year old. Okay, so this is where this is how aggressive it's going now, where he is out here saying that this whole thing is that this is leading to some idea. Again, this bill isn't about saying this is what conservatives are trying to say.

saying this is what conservatives are trying to say this bill protects teachers from making your kids gay versus uh i i'm not i'm just so confused when i look at all this i'm trying to figure out what the threads are aside from just to sow as much panic as possible and to you know keep this no one is chemically castrating anymore sir i don't know if you are aware that's not a thing that's happening to anyone there are hormone blockers which is not the same thing like you the lack of knowledge on and refusal to like again a lot of these folks are so like anti-learning that we're just talking to like dummies essentially like mannequins that just spew out whatever information they've taken in without any kind of critical thought between reading it and saying it it's an exhausting like it is let's be real it's very exhausting to be like i have to have this conversation in the first place because it's exhausting to have that these people are taken

seriously at all when there's a complete desire like you don't you don't know anything about the subject and yet you're so your platform is so large and your your voice reaches so many people that now that's a thing we have to contend with it is just exhausting i really thought that like post trump that the q anon people had kind of realized, like, ah, damn it, we were kind of, like, duped. Like, you know, is pride and ego aside of being, like, we feel embarrassed or like an idiot? I thought that kind of just was going away, you know,

or at the very least dissolving. But it is pretty fascinating to see it now working its way on just television on television. panic, this impending Christian apocalypse or whatever to keep people as motivated to use hatred to get them to the polls, to normalize this kind of homophobia. They're only going to keep doubling down. And just like with the QAnon people, a lot of people, some people were like, yeah, this fuck, none of this happened. And then you have people who are like doubling and tripling down to the point where like the people didn't leave Dallas because they thought JFK was going to reappear to proclaim Trump God and all this other shit.

So it's you know, it does allow for I think for the most desperate of believers to keep the party going because there's plenty of people who are willing to, you know, say things to keep this. Yeah, I mean, think about if you were a like, fringe lunatic on the internet, because I watched that whole QAnon documentary, if you were just one of those, like, you know, people on 4chan or 8chan or any of these things, and you thought that you had tapped into this, like, worldwide government conspiracy that you had tapped into this like worldwide government conspiracy that you were like smart like there is a there's a faction of that where i'm like man if i was one of those like unhinged people that must have felt like a really cool couple years where you were like here and cut we're doing and then when the curtain is pulled and you're like oh it was all the trick you would think that would have maybe snapped him out of it and not made them you know double down

in uh in anger no i think there's community built around it now which is going to be incredibly difficult to dismantle i mean i mean i mean y'all tell me if i'm going too far i don't want to be a person on the internet who like constantly can place things back to like nazis but there's a reason that there's like a neo-nazi movement and that they're still actively participants involved and like it creates community and community makes you feel safe and it creates lasting bonds and once that happens it's hard to fully dismantle it's hard to fully dismantle it would take so much effort and then unfortunately it's not a

thing that time can just kill you know in the same way that people are like oh well racism will die out with generations and i keep having to be like no it's still here it's not going anywhere it's just wearing a really cool conspiracy costume now yeah allowing more people to fall into it without realizing because yeah it it deals in all kinds of anti-semit, racism. It all it's all there. And, you know, it's to the point now that like in a lot of these QAnon chat rooms, like on Telegram and shit, these Telegram channels, people are, you know, essentially they're fully being like Disney is the enemy. And I will sever all ties with Disney because they're fully bought into this. And this is this is from a Telegram channel quote.

I grew up with it. My parents are pass holders and are planning on not renewing i have no plans to go to the park either my kids in elementary school also are red build oh boy sorry kids and know how things have been going can you i can only i can only imagine those conversations hey kids you know how things are going right okay sit down so hillary clinton yeah holy shit um so they said my you know how things are going right okay sit down so hillary clinton yeah holy shit um so they said my kids know how things are going quote and are okay with never watching new stuff or going to the parks referring to disney we have a huge library of the old movies which we can watch as we want i don't know if my boyfriend is planning on canceling disney plus

if it was me i would have canceled it today. Okay, ma'am. All right. People are just so, I mean, I have a whole, my issue with Disneyland, Disney World is not the QAnon wrapped conspiracy of that. It's the fact of just how ridiculously overpriced it is. And it's always strange to me when people who don't have kids go there i always there's a certain sect of people who are like i i know a few friends from back home that are like i go there every year for the harry potter area harry potter is not at disney those are two separate you're talking to one um surprise listen it's fun to get drunk at disney it's fun okay i do think you have to be respectful that this is a place literally designed for children and you don't want to be out here completely wilding.

Like, their spaces and their moments and time there should be, you know, preserved. They should be able to have fun. But also, I'm going to hit my pin and go on, like, Tower of Terror. Like, I have to go. It's fun. I like my little mini ears and my little bags. I go with my girls. And we have a good-ass time.

It is too expensive. But I'm also sort of elated that they're like, well, we're just not going to go to the parks anymore. Goodbye. Goodbye. Get out of here. There's still a pandemic happening. They're not going to quit this shit? Are you serious?

Let me hope. This person in this QAnon Telegram channel even said, we have a huge library of the old movies yeah which we can watch as we want so what everything like after frozen is gay yeah like what what's in their mind what's the logic to be like well all this stuff everything that came out i think just now like we're just not giving them additional money like the videos have already been purchased and so we're not bolstering disney in this movement that they have going forward but if but right but if the logic is i'm disconnecting from this company because they have an agenda to brainwash my kids wouldn't that extend to say that their body of work that they generate is also in line with that and therefore no because it was definitely down with the cause you know

so they're like that was safe and i'm not gonna upend my childhood for these new fangled people even though surprise most of your favorite villains were drawn by a gay man and most of your favorite songs are written by a different gay man so i mean get out like the queers made disney a long time ago oh yeah and i'm surprised i mean disney was walt disney was so racist i'm surprised they're like well come on guys he did some good work though too yeah let's not put him away quite yet we love song of the south it's so good they made a ride of it amazing the last time i was there when i was like two, I think. And my dad did the most genius thing. This is back when you used to have the on-the-shoulder cameras.

And he filmed 12 hours of the parade, of me walking around, Mickey, everything. And then, because as a child, the next two and a half years, when I kept begging to go back to Disney World, my dad would just pop in the tape. the kids like, oh, there I am. Like it just it saved him thousands of dollars. Thousands. They're like, you're right there right now. Look, there's Mickey.

On the screen. Yeah. Genius. Genius. I mean, pretty soon it'll just be like, here, put on this Oculus headset. Yeah. I guarantee there already is one. Oculus Disneyland. Oh, my gosh. genius i mean pretty soon it'll just be like here put on this oculus headset yeah you're there i guarantee there already is one oculus disneyland oh my gosh so and to that point though also like

at the end of this uh vice piece on this like q anon chat room they even talk about how you can see how people are even talking about that they're on their way into the conspiracy conspiracy theory even if they haven't heard it because this news is kind of like fucking with their whole perception of fucking truth this is uh from another one quote i know next to nothing about q anon but i'm told that among the things they believe is that a global cabal of elites promotes pedophilia this is this was on twitter sounds insane until you read what the disney boss is saying and doing. Okay. So that's what's going on. And I think that's the price of ignorance.

You get more people who are deeply susceptible to this kind of shit. Speaking of old talking points, it's time to have a good old-fashioned bullshit funeral for Ivermectin. Okay? a good old fashioned bullshit funeral for ivermectin. Okay. In case anyone needed to hear this again, ivermectin doesn't work. Okay. And now the new England journal of medicine, uh, because the science community was like, fuck. All right. I guess we have to prove that fucking ivermectin doesn't work. Even though we've been saying this shit. They did a large scale study on the effectiveness of ivermectin. And guess what the conclusion was of this study? Quote, drum roll, please. Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical

admission to a hospital due to progression of COVID-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of COVID-19. I want to see the studies, Miles. How do we know we can trust these scientists? Yeah, the New England Journal of Medicine. Well, I know. Yeah. What if the scientists are gay? They're just trying to sell us more vaccines. Okay. I'm with you. Yeah yeah you know what fucking disney's also fully in on the q shit i'm i'm there i can't even i don't have the energy to fight y'all i'm give me my give me my horsey pace now uh but yeah say that louder one time for all of our misguided family members in the back it doesn't work and you know i think this would have been

some kind of like sweet announcement if these people were actually tethered to reality or the idea that science is an actual thing but they have they've pivoted already and they will because that's just how it works because if you're never wrong then you're whoever you're arguing with is never right and then i just have to just think about that freedom convoy failing and it was all about covid and, you know, getting people to like drop the mandates. And some of the gripes that are still to this day are about people being allowed to use ivermectin. There's a woman running for the attorney general's office in Wisconsin and her whole platform is like, I will jail the murder doctors who refuse to prescribe ivermectin. And you're like, yeah. So I don't know. It's, it's odd when you see a thing that we all

know to be true you have to be proven to this extent but i guess that's just a feature of our times yeah it's truly yeah it's exhausting it's exhausting also kind of funny though also a little bit funny be like you're gonna also like these horse people who want to be like hey you got hey you got covid you want to be like hey you got hey you got covid you want to be in this ivermectin trial i'm like hell no no no i do not i'm not trying to you you doesn't this shit not work they're like well i can't i don't want to bias your hopefully it wasn't a double blind study like we don't know what we're giving you but hopefully it works oh shit all right let's take a quick break and we'll come

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Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Sleep is obviously very important essential i don't know how how people grew up sleeping i i started off as a nightlight type kid i had a big ass nightlight which wasn't like fucking it was like a globe like basically that was just lighting up my room then i got older and then i went to like an Indiglo plug-in that would go on like the wall socket

and give like a like a little light blue thing because I didn't really like full darkness. Then when I hit puberty, I became so light sensitive. I had to, I was like fucking

like getting in a sarcophagus because I could not have fucking light like that at all. I don't know if y'all are like that. We had a similar progression, except when I switched, instead of the plug-in socket, I switched at some point to a lava lamp.

And it was like a blue lava lamp. So it had that blue glow to it, which is just like an extreme fire hazard. But I was in a waterbed at the time, too. So I feel like it kind of offsets. I was living a 70s porn star lifestyle in 1998. I had corduroy sheets porn star lifestyle in 1998. Yeah. Corduroy sheets.

My parents were cheap. They were like, turn on the closet light. You're good. Good night. Yeah. Like let it come and creep in from the bottom. Like the crevice of the door is enough. Okay.

So there's this new sleep study that suggests that, you know, light actually has a much larger effect on us than we had imagined. It's not necessarily just the quality of sleep, but it has like metabolic and cardiovascular like outcomes. So Dr. Phyllis Lee, who is like the author of this study and like is the director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine in Northwestern said of like the results, quote, I was surprised that even this fit that even this fairly, I would say small amount of light just getting through the eyes to the brain still had such a notable effect. This article goes on to say that the findings tie into a broader body of evidence that indicates being exposed to light at night may be harmful in a variety of ways and could predispose people to chronic diseases.

So what was this experiment? So the small study was conducted on 20 people to measure the effects of 100 lux of light. So Dr. Z says that's quote about enough light that you could maybe see your way around, but it's not enough light to really read comfortably. slept in like a bit mostly dark room or you know like like not much light and then the next night the half they split them into half and half of them slept in the room with this little bit of light in it and while they were sleeping they ran tests like recording their brain waves taking their blood checking their heart rates and all kinds of other things and then in the morning they give them a big dose of sugar to see how their systems responded to like an insulin spike some glucose and like see how their insulin uptake was So the study began to show some differences between the two groups. For starters, the sleepers in the lit room had elevated heart rates throughout the night and

increased insulin resistance in the morning. And the researchers suspect that the night light was just bright enough, not necessarily to like fuck up your quality of sleep, but it's just enough to activate your nervous system to tell your body like, Hey, we're not really quite like, we're still kind of alert. And typically your body's like winding down during sleep. So this disruption was enough to throw off this natural pattern. And then the people in the dimly lit room, like again, they said it didn't affect my quality of sleep. So no one had a sensation of like, I did not sleep as well, which sort of goes on to say like how subtle this thing can be and how the effects can be.

And they and like there are many like studies on like what to be in a super bright room does, how that affects your circadian rhythms and how that can cause increased health issues. But this research kind of has to make you wonder well what does it do if we're exposing ourselves to this little bit of light every fucking night and that's when i was like oh okay that's a bit that's a bit i'm gonna make sure i turn off my lights when i go to sleep i'm definitely for tv you know if you sleep with the tv on i sleep with my tv on and sometimes i'll leave my like closet light on because habits die hard and yeah i do there was a time in my teenage years where i was like i need to pitch black in here but then i would sleep too long i'll wake up at like two in the afternoon be like what happened like what's going on and so like leaving a little bit of light

on or or leaving my window open at night so like the sun would wake me up is sort of how i started to combat that but i'm gonna have to rethink the sleeping style now this is great for me i mean this because i am i'm like i've had blackout curtains and then i i'll put an eye mask on just in case the black double up i don't even want to chat there's nothing worse than if you get up to go to the bathroom at like five in the morning and that that blue early morning light is creeping it just is like it just feels it's terrible as though yeah i double up on that i want it pitch black i don't want to be able to see my hand in front of my face and i i'm also a person though to your point that i could if i don't set an alarm i will sleep until

someone come comes and wakes me up. Physically, it's like, please, Mike. It's been 14 hours. You're like, ah. I love that early morning light. I like waking up before, like, you know, maybe two hours before the sun comes up. It's so quiet. You can get your work done in peace.

Nobody's going to bother you. It's a good time to meditate. And then the sun's coming up and you're like, oh, my God, it's earth is gorgeous it's beautiful wait when do i go to sleep that's what time do i go to sleep yeah it depends on the evening usually i'll say i'm in bed by like 10 and sometimes i'll but i do i am a person who takes naps in the middle of the day i absolutely will be like no i have to rest again right well yeah our bodies are meant to do that what that's wild though that you man to wake like that you like you're so appreciative of that time for me i think it's because i did too many drugs in college that was when i was like

you fucking idiot yeah you're doing drugs again and the sun's coming up you fucking creep and i'm like um so i have a i have a different relationship you're on that mark walberg schedule getting up at 2 a.m i'm not doing like cross country in the right early morning that uh i don't know i would like i would like to be the kind of person who like if i had a pool i would get up and like swim a couple laps early in the morning that seems refreshing but like i't know, running and lifting weights, like grunting and getting all sweaty. Sweating in the early morning still can't.

I mean, I'm, I'm slowly starting to do more exercise in the morning, but there's something about it being the first thing. I don't, I don't understand. Like I have people in my family who are like, I can wake up and I'm,

I'm right at it. Or like, I don't mind like just breaking out into like a terrible sweat at six in the morning. No way. No way. I got to have my whole I love a good coffee routine. You know what I mean? Like make the coffee sit to ease into the day.

I do have to work out before I eat like lunch, but I can. It's usually like breakfast, workout and then lunch. But yeah, I'm a real slow waker. Yeah. Same. Shout out to all the slow wakers. Yeah. And yeah, and then lunch. But yeah, I'm a real slow waker. Yeah, same. Shout out to all the slow wakers out there. And yeah, Zyking, be aware of, I guess that little bit of light can really do something. It makes me want to, I need to, do y'all have sleep headphones? I need to buy some because I've destroyed my work slash sleep.

I live in these headphones. I rarely take them off. I want that headband. What are sleep headphones are using like you can sleep with it on so like you can listen to like soundscapes and shit to go to sleep oh to the internet podcast yeah yeah yeah they're made to sleep in so like even if you sleep on the side of your head you're not crushing your skull or nothing like that huh i yeah because i'm on my back i'm on my side i'm yeah and these they're like pretty comfortable

and like you they wouldn't they're not going to be like if you have an earbud and you sleep on the side of your head you're like god yeah the fuck like i just rammed a rock into my ear hole listen i don't want to be this black person but it's really bows has a pair of headphones for every occasion they're like this is your sportswear this is your like luxury high-end wear this is your sleepwear this is your noise canceling for when you're on an airplane right and they all cost three hundred dollars bows what can we do you gotta start packaging some of these i mean yeah no you can get there's like really affordable ones that's like there there's a whole if you look it up there's they're like you know this is like what wire cutter fucking lives to make

articles about you know these are the best sleep headphones for your book anyway so it's all about that sleep technology speaking of technology i want to talk about dyson really quick because they are out with some new headphones and they're well look you're like dyson the vacuum like air hand dryer, hair dryer people. What? Then their CEO is a bit of a Brexit tool. That guy, that Dyson. Yes. Their latest product is a set of noise canceling headphones. Okay. But here's the Dyson part that also have a personal air purifier attached.

Now you said, what the fuck is that? Now, let me read this a little bit from this fucking press release. And if you're in the doc, you can see some images of this cursed device, which looks like something like Bane would wear on a fancy date. The Dyson Zone is a set of noise-canceling high-fidelity over-ear headphones

which simultaneously deliver immersive sound to the ears and purified air flow to the nose and mouth. The result of over a decade of air quality research and development the dyson zone air purifying headphones simultaneously tackle the urban issues of air quality and noise pollution so essentially what it does is create a gigantic blade of purified air so you have some decent oxygen to breathe which is fine because i mean if you really look at it air pollution is a fucking huge issue.

And if you live in a city like you're you're probably looking at the air quality things and you're like, this can't be good long term for this to be the air that I've been breathing my whole life. And so that is a very real issue. But if you just kind of look, a lot of people are people are like wait this is this is a real thing because this this doesn't seem like a something we'd actually need uh and when you look at the sort of like promotional images that they have this guy's like on the tube in london and he's got it on and he looks like he's even making a mistake wearing it like his eyes are like concerned like huh and this is absolutely a prop from blade

runner guys right maybe more star wars there's more r2d2 coloring but you will look like a weirdo in the real people like what the hell is happening right there this guy's doing like air traffic control in best bin the cloud city there's also it's like it's like mirrored in the front too so it's very reflective it just it seems like half of a power ranger helmet right right you got it on layaway you're like yeah i'm gonna get the visor part next week that's coming or if or it looks like a scene where a power ranger got the shit kicked out of him and like their mask got all blown in half and they're like like it's they're like dying breaths anyway a lot of power into shit but because of the timing of the announcement is the end of last week a lot of people are like hold on man a fucking thing that just blows air all over the place by your nose and mouth this sounds like a fucking april fool's joke

so many people were like this has to be a fuck. This has to be bullshit. They had to come out and keep telling people that it's not an April Fool's joke. These are some of the headlines. Dyson denies air purifying headphones are an April Fool's prank. Dyson unveils air purifying headphones that come with cyborg looking mask. Guarantees it's no April Fool's joke. No no dyson's bizarre new air purifying headphones aren't an april fool's joke and i think a lot of people were just saying like this has to be uh because but then they're saying like no we've been working on this for six years which you can tell because again my god like most people they're like in the age of covid is it good to have a fan that just shoots out air from your nose and mouth area and just blows it all around you like

can't be good it's hyper confusing as to why they thought this would work i thought it was like had like i don't know like a vacuum style filter on the inside so that as you breathe in, you weren't taking in dirty air. They tried a scuba design, they said, like a snorkel mouthpiece. But I think most people were like, dude, you don't need to wear a fucking mouth respirator with your headphones. Also, imagine putting this on. Like, it's headphones and then it's a mouthpiece, like, sliding toward you. And it rests right under your nose. It doesn't seem like it would be a comfortable wearing.

I would feel like Hannibal Lecter. I'm not going to lie. Oh, yeah. And these people have said in their hands-on test that it's fucking noisy, too. Oh, hell no. You're going to be in public with a light vacuum. I'm like... We would need noise canceling from their noise canceling device. You're going to be in public with a light vacuum.

We would need noise canceling from their noise canceling device. Right, exactly. And even in the reviews are like, even the built in noise canceling isn't quite enough to cover the sound of the compressors whirring from the fucking air filter. It's just kind of fucks with me is that like we're actually looking more and more at this like future where are we need we're gonna we actually need to think about wearable tech to survive like our fucked up polluted sordid earth and there's like also that element too i'm like maybe in denial i'm like come on but then i'm like yeah air quality is fucked i immediately was was like, well, how much is one? And should I just keep it in case? Like,

I also wonder if there's any implications for people who are like chronically ill or anything like that. If it like. It could weaponize this medical researcher said, I couldn't think of a better way to weaponize a host of a virus. Oh, fuck. Is to put them in this like mouth, nose and mouth aerosol, like, web shooter of destruction all around you.

So not good. Not good. Okay. I'm sorry, Dyson. For home use. Back to the drawing board. Yeah. Listen, I don't doubt that you're headed in the right direction, though.

So maybe the last on us, maybe you're like six years ahead of everybody. Just make a big fucking vacuum that sucks up all the pollution of the world. There you go. Like, why are we school bus style? Yeah. Come on. Get hired. Miss Frizzle.

Oh, yeah. Head of R&D. God damn. She's probably looking to leave education. I know it doesn't pay enough. Can you imagine like a abbott elementary style take on magic school bus it's so real miss frizzle's like i'm doing all i can to get these kids engaged man i got a magic fucking school bus and they're still on tiktok i caught a kid smoking in the bus they got my iguana high. It's terrible here.

The mom accused me of grooming because I explained what our immune systems did. It's a fucking nightmare. Now she's under arrest for explaining gender. Yeah. Your section on gametes was way too controversial.

Talking about chromosomes? Get out of here. Not in Christ's house. Adult Sunken, you can have that one for free. Get on it. Watch it. Exactly. Oh, man.

Well, Mike, thank you so much for joining us today on The Daily Zeitgeist. It's always a pleasure having you on, man. Thanks so much. Yeah. Long time. I'm glad to be back. Yeah, yeah. I'll see you guys in four years.

Yeah. Keep the trend alive. Where can people find you, yeah. I'll see you guys in four years. Yeah. Keep the trend alive. Where can people find you, follow you, potentially see you for some live show dates maybe? Yeah. At IamMikeFini on all social media, MikeFiniComedy.com for tour dates. I'll be out in LA the 11th to the 18th

doing a bunch of shows of April and then all my other road dates are on my website. I have a podcast called Here's the Scenario and if that's still not enough content, I also Twitch stream a lot now. I play video games with other comedians so twitch.tv slash NY Freshmaker. What are you playing?

Our go-to is usually Warzone but also Rocket League, Far Cry, Chivalry. We have a bunch we cycle through with other comics. it's very fun oh cool uh and is there a tweet uh or like a work of social media that you've been liking you want to shout out i don't know that this will play since this is an audio thing but uh there's there's a creator cory j bradford who i've been obsessed with his tiktoks he does these things where he

has a television behind him and he has like something playing and he mimics not only the words but the facial and the mannerisms and everything and then this one specific one he is uh it's him and whitney houston at an award show giving like a speech and he is just absolutely can i put this in the chat here? Does that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll do a quick screen share. Screen share. So, OK, so this is from TikTok. Yeah, yeah. So he is just he he just hits the mannerisms so perfectly.

It's he does it with a thousand things. But oh, my God, even on mute. OK, hold on. It is unbelievable. Justin, you may have to mute some of this, but this is this is fucking good. Yeah. Yes. Like he even does the cutaways. Justin, you may have to mute some of this, but this is fucking good. Yes! Like, he even does the cutaways.

I'm a survivor. I'm a survivor. What? What? To my hippie family, Donna Lynn Hat. Oh, my God. He does it so perfectly. And he's got hundreds of videos.

But, yeah, he is really terrific. Oh, man. He's been killing me. Stunning. Impressions. So good. Joelle, thank you so much for stopping in, co-hosting today. Where can people find you and follow you?

And what's some tweeted social media you like? Yeah. I'm Joel Monique. You guys can follow me all over the internet. I'm Joel Monique. It's J O E L E M O N I Q U E. Congratulations to the Amazon workers of JFK eight warehouse. We declared their vote from the first Amazon union in the United States.

That came from Kay Pritzker with a dope video. If you want to see some Union buddies celebrating, that is a huge win for them. I was really excited to see it. Also... Oh, Tom and Lorenzo posted a photo of Jared Leto wearing like a Gucci lace cape

to a Morbius fan screening and tweeted this. Once again, Morbius star Jared Leto forces us to ask the question what's the point of wearing a lace cape and satin suit if you're going to be such a humorless ass about it? And yeah, 2000% agree with that. And it's a fabulous cape and you should be swishing and really showing it off. But he's in sunglasses and sort of downtrodden about it. All right.

Some tweets that I'm liking. First one is from Kristen Arnett, and it just says, No worries, if not, she threatened. Highly relatable. At Mario Kart DWI tweeted, After nearly six months of my check engine light being on, I'm happy to announce that it just went off by itself problem solved uh no no that's me in college that kind of logic like well it's not on so

i must have figured it out uh and then i realized oh you have to change your oil then uh let's see at nino centurion tweeted all right hear me out out. Maximum wage. Oh, yeah. I'm feeling that. Hell yeah. Let's go for it. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. Also, the other podcast, 420 Day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra. And also the basketball podcast, Miles and Jack Got Mad Boosties.

Yes. An official NBA podcast. Come through. We're just fans talking about the game. It's not hot takes. It's not deep diving analysis. We're just having fun laughing and talking about the NBA and, you know, just

overall celebration of basketball. You can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We've got a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes! There it is. Thank you, Joel. Where you can, you know, check out the articles that we discuss

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