The Daily Zeitgeist - Grift Shift, FREE THE STREAMS 12.17.20

Episode Date: December 17, 2020

In episode 781, Jack and Miles are joined by Get Rich Nick and Deckheads co-host Nick Turner aka Mr. Cum to discuss an ex-cop holding an AC repairman at gunpoint over voter fraud, the spread of misinformation, free streaming services, Tom Cruise coming for people breaking Covid rules, Christopher Walken having never sent an email, loneliness, and more!FOOTNOTES: Ex-Cop Allegedly Held AC Repairman At Gunpoint, Convinced He Was Voter Fraud Kingpin Alleged crusade to stop voter fraud lands former HPD captain in handcuffs From Voter Fraud to Vaccine Lies: Misinformation Peddlers Shift Gears Sen. Angus King proposes Netflix, Disney, HBOMax stream free over holidays to stop COVID-19 spread WATCH: Tom Cruise warns Mission Impossible crew they’re ‘f***ing gone’ if they break Covid rules on set Tom Cruise Erupts at ‘Mission: Impossible’ Crew Over Covid-19 Breach Christopher Walken has never sent an email The Loneliness Pandemic WATCH: Stro Elliot - Marvin's Mood Parts 1&2 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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There were 12 new COVID cases in Victoria, Australia. Zero deaths in the month of December. And in the U.S., we had 201,000 new cases and a 9-11's worth of deaths. U-S-A. Just want to do a quick check-in every once in a while

to keep things in perspective. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Hello, Miles Gray, my old friend. It's nice to host with you again. I had a vision of us hugging because we both received the vaccine. And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains within the bounds of science. That is courtesy of Pastor Yamaguchi Main.

And I am thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! O-T-D-Z, O-T-D-Z, we bring you trending topics. 10 apps per week of daily site. Long in the morning, short trends at night. With Miles FG and Jack OB. Pod second rate, but still hits. It hits still, bro. Coming from the Discord with that Christmas tree.

Oh, Tannenbaum remix. Thank you to everybody. The Discord is active, and I see someone. I see you, and I will get to them worrying now because the compositions in there are next level. And I mean appropriate because that song closes out the christmas classic uh the new christmas classic uh the christmas chronicles 2 that everybody's talking about oh god i hate what's the what's this name gargamel what's the bad name the bad uh belsnickle oh belsnickle yeah right i still can't get over the character arc for bell snickle

it makes no fucking sense and it's an it's an actual crime to present a story arc like that even to children it's gonna fuck up their idea of narrative structure my kids are still act asking about bell snickle like what his deal was what happened to him why he's like a kiwi he's from new zealand yeah but he's also punk yeah oh whatever punk like nickel but sort of half-assed punk like uh the 80s which i was punk in the 80s for like a week when i was like i really like guns and roses i'm gonna wear this uh what did you do what was your version of being because a kid making a fashion choice is hard because you have to work with whatever's in your environment

and be like that's punk and now so what did you do to say fairly tight black sweatpants the closest I can get to what Axl Rose like jeans yeah and and a jean jacket that I believe my sister yeah all right

hey we are thrilled to be joined by the neck turner himself, Mr. Nick Turner. Yes, my name is Mr. Cum. I'm the host of the show. I like to beat my dilly willy bum diddy bum. I rub my clitty witty with my finger and thumb my name is Mr. Cum we're gonna have so much fun at the 2020 Pornhub

Awards wow that's just a little snippet of my work on this year's Pornhub Awards Anna just turned on her mic to reveal that she's weeping sobbing all over her you're gonna ruin your computer the warranty doesn't cover tear damage

Nick we need we need to get directly into the origin story of your new nickname and as soon as the paperwork goes through, I'm assuming given name, Mr. Cum. How did this come about? Look, a lot of people are taking their name off this project. I am leaning into it. A friend of mine is writing for the awards

and they actually recorded someone else. The awards. Yeah. friend of mine is writing for the awards and they actually recorded someone else the awards yeah but um but they which awards are those oh the porn hub awards okay yeah yeah i don't you guys they're the most important right goes porn hub oscars right yeah jack he missed your come that's why what else he got yeah the p got yeah but but they asked me to do it, and then I did an audition tape. And then they were like, it's great, you got it, but we're also thinking of doing it in a British accent. And I was like, well, that doesn't sound like something I could do. And they were like, no worries, you got it. Do a British accent.

And I was like, hello. They were like, perfect, do it. That hello sounded like you've got this nail. Hello. So it's a fictional character that hosted the 2020 Pornhub Awards. Was it a cartoon? It's a cartoon rendering of cum. Okay.

It's like Mr. Peanut. He's a peanut. He's got glasses, a a top hat and a cane right but uh peanuts have a traditional yeah peanuts have a traditional human shape that you can work with uh as opposed to cum which is comes in all shapes and sizes yeah yeah interesting uh yeah so it's drips um and i i don't know where to find it yet it aired last night um on porn but i'm not sure i like i googled porn hub today and i went to it and it's just porn um yeah so i don't know yeah they're kind of going they're doing a lot of overhaul over there

because they had to they called like i don't know over 60 of their videos because they're now because like rightfully so they're like yeah we're no longer letting you just upload some shit that's fucking because we don't know who made it and through the consent of the performers or anything so we're gonna switch to verified uploaders now and then like so yeah what happened all the videos like yeah well you know know, they're doing the bare minimum of being like, right, right, right people, agency. You'll be happy to know that that was in my rider. Yeah.

Oh, so you made that reason? You're welcome. It wasn't because Visa and MasterCard refused to stop processing payments on their website. We got together, the three of us. You, Visa, MasterCard.

Yeah. Also, where's Amex in all this? They're pro? They're too good. They're like, please. Please. Anyways, Nick, we're going to get to know you and your new alter ego a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're going to listen to a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to check in with this wild story of a former police captain who was arrested in Houston trying to uncover the large-scale heist of the election. We'll talk about a plan from Senator Angus King that's not really a plan, but just an idea that we're all on board with. We're going to look at the connection between the Stop the Steal and the

anti-vax. The vaccine has computer chips in it movements. Surprisingly close to one another. We got to hear Tom Cruise, Tom lose it. We're going to take a listen to that. We're going to check in with the celebrity theory that anybody who was famous before the year 2002 is hopelessly lost in our modern world.

Christopher Walken edition. And we'll check in with loneliness if we have time. If we have time. That sounds so fucked up, too. We'll check in. If we get to it. I don't know. I got a lot going on with myself.

Who gives a shit? Turns out our loneliness is killing us. Yeah, yeah. But first, before we get to any of that, Mr. Com, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are, what you're up to, all that stuff? Everything I've been Googling lately is about making t-shirts. I've started a t-shirt business in my home against my will.

I fought it. It happened to me. It could happen to the best of us. We're doing an episode. It, um, it happened to me. It could happen to the best of us. We're doing an episode. We did two episodes for get rich, Nick, um, about making t-shirts for profit. And so I was expecting to open a wonderful T public store.

And then I was bullied by my guests and by my co-host, Nick Vatterot into getting all the equipment. Uh, Vatterot was doing it. He, he was like, I'm getting all the equipment. batterat was doing it he he was like i'm getting all the equipment we spent so much money uh and then he's like google he's got youtube videos and he's like i know what i'm doing and then what he did do was get paint on every single thing in his house and then went home for christmas so but we got orders for shirts we gotta make so he dropped all the equipment over at my house

Before he left for like a month And so now I'm just knee deep in it I didn't want to be in it I resent it But that's all I do now So you're doing some screen printing? Yeah, well, yeah Doing some screen printing, yes

How many color screens are we talking here? One, one color screens Oh, wow Come on I don't know you know because when you want to get in the screen the team making game you know that's when the finesse moves come in with how many colors you're using but yeah i get it yeah the first time i ever tried to screen print anything like this is fucked up and shout out to like the crafty people who who like like doing this because for the same reason i was like paints everywhere and i guess my weird skate brand that i thought up at of thought of 20 years old isn't going to

take off so what was it huh what was it called oh first well first i was making laker merchandise that said purple rain on it that was like the purple rain text but r-e-i-g-n because this was right when we were getting into our second back to back era and i was like i tried doing i was trying to figure out how to do that shit on my own and then i was like my friend who's like was working in costuming was like there's a company like i can you can use my like a business account if you just bring them like 50 shirts they'll do it it's better than screening and i was like yeah yeah yeah i'm gonna do that and then i tried selling them shits and everybody i was i was on the receiving end of all kinds of insults uh outside

staple center when i was selling my t-shirts for that playoff run all kinds no one got you were out there with the oh yeah we're hustling oh yeah i was hustling my bootleg t-shirts outside the staple like with the people selling the bacon wrapped sausage yes yes hell yeah i was out there you yeah. I was out there, you know, because I was on my entrepreneur vibe, and a couple of my friends, you know, we were all Laker fans. They were like, yeah, let's do this shit, Purple Rain. And people were like, yo, that's fucking gay, fool. I remember people being like, what? I was like, because it doesn't say Lakers.

They're like, what the fuck is Purple Rain, motherfucker? People were cursing at me. It was all kinds of shit. It was like only very very like the shitty laker fans who are very like wealthy people were like oh i love that how much is it oh that's a steal and i'm like damn like i was trying to connect with the fucking real but yeah all right for you they're 50 a piece because they're limited edition but i'll get you cut at 45 is it legal to sell stuff if it doesn't have like a lakers logo on it

is it illegal is it more legal well at that point i mean like who's copier well i'm not infringing on anyone's copyright at that point yeah but is it legal just to sell shirts in the street um people can fuck with you for sure like if you're selling bootleg stuff like cops can come at you but i mean if it's it's not that or at least in my experience it was never that bad or can clearly based on the amount of people who do sell you know like bootleg merch outside of concerts and stuff it's still still a thing yeah yeah well maybe one day also bootleg merch is the only merch worth buying if you ever go to a show because it's like so aggressive it's just it's its own aesthetic and i think those are more fun than the ones you pay overpay for like at a venue except at daily zeitgeist shows where we offer

great merch at a great price no one's bootlegging zeitgeist merch outside your shows i mean i bootleg it and then jack gets mad at me because i'm like that's a funny idea if i could bootleg if i could like make a bootleg t-shirt for like different like if i get invited to a live podcast i make my own and then i sell it at the show yeah new idea see keep these ideas low man you could be coming out the gates with like the fucking amazing uh performances on these live shows uh what is something you think is overrated oh sorry real quick i wanted to ask you what's your top seller what top selling t-shirt and your new uh oh it's just it's our

logo t we only offered two okay uh one was a shirt that says uh we'll work for food rent utilities transportation uh insurance anyway and uh but uh but no it's the the logo shirt. That's all anybody wants. Right. You know, because I'm not selling to, like, just randos. I'm just selling to people who listen to my podcast. I'm just like, yeah, I'll get a joke. Yeah. What's something you think is underrated?

Underrated is Nug Club. I was talking about this yesterday on Deckheads, the most wonderful below-deck review podcast. And Anna also is a member and our guest this week lydia popovich is also a member of nug club nug club is a monthly subscription service that i am not getting paid to say this uh it's a monthly all the stoners in la are on it though yeah okay for we that's funny for weed uh and um it's the most incredible thing in my life i haven't gone to the store since i started getting these boxes and it's the cheapest way to get weed and it just comes to your fucking house and then last weekend they held

um like drive-in uh movies in malu. I went and saw Superbad. Yeah, just for free. Just for their members. It's just like a lifestyle. I didn't get that email. Buddy, I don't know what to tell you. I got lots of emails about it. I got Daniel and Anna on that with my invite code,

and I still didn't get the love for the drive-in. What the fuck? Can we get Anna in here? Super producer Anna Hosnier. Anna said that she used my code. I can't verify that. I'll have to look

at my account and see if I got that credit. That's the only way to know. I use Nick's code and zach also use miles coat look guys we're scamming cut this out am i on trial right now no anyway it was just it was so fun it's it's so funny the invite code though the invite code energy like when you know when you have something there's like yo use my code though like when the early days of any like thing where you're like yo i get 20 though if you use that shit it's the same shit

with nug club too you're like yo no no use my shit because if i get three more and i'm gonna get my next box for one dollar but it's funny like because you're always gonna be like because you get 22 if you use my code it's like i could use any code i could google a code it doesn't matter about your code like why you why you though come to me but why don't you pitch your code to me and i'll use it so anyway dm me and miles and we'll see who gets more um all right was the screening a uh veritable nug club of uh fellow fellow clubbers uh say that again like was the screening was it packed with other people from the nug club that uh yeah well it was specific to the nug club it was it was done at this like venue it's like big uh like looked like

a big wedding venue and i don't know they had like two different drive-in areas that they'd made i think like since um since corona just like in their parking lots. But it was just, it was exclusive. It was invite only. I guess not everyone even got the invite. Miles, check your spam folder. But yeah, it was packed. I mean, yeah. And they did this really interesting thing, which I'd never seen before, but I thought

it was really smart because it was free for the members, but they made you pay $20 per car. And then just so you'd show up and if you show up they give you the money back but if you don't show up because otherwise everyone would just be like yeah I'll go maybe and then no one would be there oh that's interesting

man nut club really left me out you know what fuck nut club now you want to invite me to your fucking movies bro fuck that it is always interesting when something that is i don't know like every every online community or online service tries to do this where they're like come to the dominoes like gala event or like we work i remember when we were uh when we started this podcast out of a we work they were like this is more of a lifestyle brand than anything.

And they were trying to get you to go to WeWork parties. Like the culture of the company. But Nug Club sounds like they know what they're doing. Yeah. It's still cool. Yeah, but I don't know. I think most owners are like, I don't know. I'm really high.

You want me to drive to Malibu right now? And then I got to drive back. like, I'm really high. You want me to drive to Malibu right now? And I gotta drive back. They'd be better off being like, yo, here's your free HBO Plus or whatever streaming thing for the weekend. You know, Nug Club. Got you. Be big. Well, here is the beautiful

thing. It was at 530. And so afterwards, there's nothing to do but go get some food. Yeah. You don't gotta go anywhere. Smart. What is something you think is overrated, Nick? Billionaires donating money. I think they get so much credit, and nobody ever donates more than they have increased their wealth.

I just saw that story today about Mackenzie, what's her face? Bezos, ex-Bezos. Yeah. Yeah. Mackenzie, what's her face? Ex-Bezos. Yeah. Yeah.

So she had given $6 billion this year to charity. And they were like, isn't this incredible? And in Forbes, she was listed in July as having $30 billion. And then in September, this is this year, then in September, she had $68 billion. Oh. And then so she gave away $4 billion in that time. It's like, thank you. And she said her goal was to give away half of her money,

which is hilarious for a person with $68 billion to say that she only wants to give away half of it. And also, how can you say that and then give away such a smaller percentage of what you made what half of what half of your future earnings let me just not time in the day to give away all this money nick you got four billion dollars laying around that's what i thought so you know what it is a lot of money and she does this for literally no work she She owns 4% of Amazon. Yeah.

In this time, she's gotten a billion dollars every three days. I would say she probably did it for more work than Jeff Bezos because she had to be married to that motherfucker for that many years. But I do. Shouldn't have to be. I don't know. At a certain point, you're kind of like, let me look at the clock, man. If I run this out a few more years,

I can get half this bitch. Literally everyone else in the world didn't marry him, so I'm not giving him any credit. We all managed to do that. But the two things that they love doing is getting credit for giving away their money and sheltering the fuck out of their money from the government, from any having to pay taxes, which is where it should actually be going. Like, yeah, the government will gladly take half of your money.

They take half of a lot of people's money uh and who can't afford to fucking like put it in a tax shelter off off of offshore or whatever um it's so at the very least i want to um i submit to the zeit gang uh let's uh let's let's stop using Amazon. Boycott Amazon. Nick Turner said it, and when they kill me, you look back to this episode of TDZ. Amazon's really the worst. It's bad. I started boycotting last year,

and it's incredibly difficult. Yeah. I got in trouble for boycotting this year and having to pay $30 shipping on something. But you know what? We'll probably stop doing the Audible ads too then. Now Audible on the other hand. Yeah, I love the Washington Post too. Look, it's not all terrible.

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I promise your taste buds will be happy you did. Case Buds will be happy you did. And we're back. And a story that was kind of unimaginable probably even a couple years ago is now, I don't know, hopefully this isn't the new normal but uh there is a former police captain who deputy was deputized was funded with a quarter million dollars to try to track down the imaginary scheme that stole the election uh from trump is basically exactly yeah this man yeah is a fucking patriot who was doing round the clock surveillance on the kingpin mastermind of a 750 000 fake absentee ballot scheme okay and he tried to fucking tell everyone this man uh i think he's like mark mark anthony aguirre he was he's like Mark Anthony Aguirre, he's like 63. He was watching this person who he believed with others in this group of patriots to figure out if this was the kingpin of this fake ballot scheme.

One day, this man leaves for work. Aguirre follows him, like crashes into his car to force the guy to pull over. When the man comes out, pulls a fucking gun out and holds him at gunpoint, gets him on the ground, puts a knee to his back. And while some other goons hopped out, take the guy's work van and take off with it. When the cops come all to find out, this guy is just a air conditioning repair technician.

Nothing more. He is just a man who lived in a like a like a mobile home park or something where this guy was tailing him and they decided this was the guy who had a bunch of ballots in his van which is why they tried to get him when he was in his work van only to find the normal things that a fucking ac repair tech would have in their van and when the cops came they were like yo what the fuck are you doing and the this guy aguirre told the the officer that arrives like look man you can be on the right side of history or the wrong side man but i'm telling you this guy's blah blah blah blah and they're like okay sir like you're under arrest like what the fuck

is this this is like false imprisonment like all all kinds of shit. You're coming with us. And the thing that you're talking about, Jack, the quarter million dollars. Yes, this guy was fucking funded to do this work to the tune of over $260,000. He got a $211,000 payment the day after this confrontation took place, just directly wired into his account. Like, what the fuck? Everyone's like, what the fuck is this money? It turns out he's saying I'm working for the Liberty center. And this is a thing that's funded by this guy,

Steve Hoats, who's a huge mega donor to the GOP. And he was basically, you know how before the election, we were talking about how there were 127,000 ballots in Harris County that were like, that Republicans are trying to sue to get invalidated because they have this drive-through vote center he was he was funding that legal

battle amongst many others he was going all out to try and you know fuck the election up and also find evidence of fraud this was his big thing the liberty center's facebook group was all about we're gonna find this fraud they were asking people on their website being like, yo, please give us money. We have all these investigations going. They cost like $200,000, a very specific number per investigation. We need this money. And this is where we're at. And apparently this man, Aguirre, was telling law enforcement at every level. He asked the attorney general of the state he like the heads of police departments the texas rangers saying this guy's got ballots man i'm watching him you gotta help me out with this and they're all like please stop calling here like

you can't just call in a fake crime and expect us to fucking go do something about it and he was pleading with them which kind of brings me to an interesting point, which is what happens when you, if you're in law enforcement and someone is so insistent that a crime is occurring and them saying that they are also investigating, like at what point is their responsibility to try and figure out, wait, hold on. Are you just going to harass somebody who's not doing a fucking thing

because you're hopped up on like newsmax and oan conspiracy bullshit so yes that is a weird thing and i'd hope this is not the new normal but it feels like some shit as we get closer to january 20th and these people like on the full trump maga world train are like oh man he's really gonna pull a switcheroo on him on january 19th like come on bro dad went to get cigarettes and is not coming back it's it's truly wild how much just you know republican donors are able to manipulate the reality of of people who are in the thrall of of that party like this reminds me, for some reason, of the whole Tea Party movement and just five, ten years on reading what was actually going on with the Tea Party movement being billionaires funding the whole thing and doing grassroots organizing to get these people to do their bidding. Also, this is the charities that they are donating to. Right.

This is when they say, I donated $5 billion. It's to QAnon. To Liberty. Yeah. The Liberty Center. Yeah. Liberty has had such a bad run,

just like from a PR perspective, the word Liberty. Yeah. Fuck. I mean, even the WNBA team. That star meter is down. Yeah. Ever since Rebecca Lobo left, I i mean the liberty ain't been right i'll tell you that i know um but yeah i don't know you know where this goes how

this evolves but it's truly like this weird like you know these mega donors they get off on just being like i think i can get a bunch of like poor useful stooges to like so chaos and i can kind of be like yeah watch me do that shit with money or other people's money rather than like substantively trying to actually like win an election like you know get more people out there to try and uh do some you know door knocking or whatever it's like no no i'm gonna get a guy who is a cop to basically act like a fucking steven seagal character and maybe he'll manufacture some evidence of fraud and i don't care but fuck it like let's just do that that's fun well i can do that with my money america just needs the very the slightest of pushes to uh become violent like you know um right-wing ideologues like the that's you're just helping

them do what they already want to do in this right and a lot of experts are saying this whole rejection of the election results is basically like they're just saying oh this is what they're doing is they're accelerating radicalization of the party by doing oh absolutely yeah it's not just like oh wow they're they're not giving up it's like no no like even whether or not they know it or if it's intentional is like the fact that the party line is now saying we're against reality is that one of the you know is a huge step towards fully radicalizing everything and it's not like trumpism it's more just like gop is just going to like mask off with it because the trumpism narrative is kind of like more than like i think he was just the dude at the concert the first dude at the concert to smoke a blunt inside when the security is like hey no

smoking inside and everyone's like oh we can smoke in here okay yeah right because i was on that shit anyway too that's basically what's happening it's not that trump is anything new it's just like he's just he sparked up before everybody else did and everybody else knew what time it was yeah it was remarkable after even after mitch mcconnell uh acknowledged biden as president-elect there's still 220 senators and congressmen uh congresspeople excuse me republican who have yet to acknowledge it um and i just wonder what would people be doing if there wasn't like just these people whose lives are spent doing q anon proud boy bullshit like what if that was not there and no one had tricked them in going off to a fun party once where it turned into ruin their life like uh it's just such a fucking waste of time and energy and

lives like it's just a waste of lives yep right a ruiner of family relationships and yeah there's so much unseen damage being done it's hard i get it just as a sports fan right like one of my teams arsenal is fucking up right now they are comically bad but like rather than read the posts that are like analyzing why it's so bad even though they're objective analyses of like what's going wrong i'd rather read the article where the the staff at the club are saying yeah we're actually we expected all of this turbulence right now and it's all part of the plan because you gotta we gotta get through this to reach the next evolution like it's the it's like an equivalent where it's

like i don't want the objective or like just make me feel good or like less bad about the thing that i'm so attached to being bullshit right or at least on some like very humanistic you know like that's just our need to never feel like we're fully losing or you know because we we have this like sort of binary of winning or losing uh in our minds especially with politics that's just our need to never feel like we're fully losing or, you know, because we, we have this like sort of binary of winning or losing in our minds, especially with politics that it just turns into this thing. What's like, why fucking losing? So if I'm not losing,

then I'm choosing to follow Q. That, that kind of brings us to a related story, a related trend we're seeing where the same people who are pushing all the stop the steal bullshit uh are now pushing anti-vax bullshit like it's basically just been a clean transition for a sydney pal for instance uh the rosemary's baby lady who was on trump's staff and then got thrown onto the bus because she was saying things that had been widely debunked like more than giuliani was and like trump had won the election right yeah like even more so funny i

actually fail to see the distinction at this much distance it's like right weeks on i don't really yeah but uh it it is interesting that they have that it's the same people it's the same energy and it's just transparently deadly i guess yeah well i think it you know this is all part of the same like it makes sense because vax questioning is sort of normal for trump world um yeah but yeah like with a lot of these people who are just going all in on stop the steel it's just funny because you're like okay so that that road has sort of just ended so you got to pivot to something because you have to stay relevant and and so the things that the same people whether it's um sydney powell or marjorie green whatever the q anon woman from georgia who's about to enter

the the house of representatives is um and many other like huge maga like stars they're all pivoting to this like vaccine like what what's going on with it and the top things that they're talking about is uh vaccines are delivered with a microchip or barcode to keep track of people i don't know what that means like have you anyone who knows anyone who's even passed a kidney stone uh i don't know how you're gonna put a fucking microchip through an injection uh and be like yeah yeah you didn't even know right that there's a fucking piece of mic what the fuck uh they're just smaller than you're thinking yes yeah they're tiny smaller but we do chip our pets i think the technology exists i wouldn't i

wouldn't put it past but that's a subdermal thing that you know it's going in. It's not like you'll be like, yo, what's this thing under my skin? I can't. What's this bump? You know what I mean? Yeah, that's true. But it's meant to be so much more insidious than that. Other than that, they've been talking about more Bill Gates stuff and how he's also responsible for the coronavirus.

And because this is part of the communist Chinese plan to divide America and break it down. And the other big thing is talking about how there will be vaccination cards. Who will be vaccinated and who won't? But that's just because someone, there was a healthcare expert on CNN who had mentioned that if you get vaccinated, they'll give you an appointment card that showed that you had gone to get a vaccination nothing more nothing less just to be like yeah you did it not to say like hey where's your vaccination patch before you can pass through this gate like but but i mean i don't understand why that would be a problem to require people to have been vaccinated to do certain things because otherwise otherwise, you know,

that, that fucks with, uh, yeah, but they made Jews wear stars in the Holocaust. Right. So yeah, I get why the,

I get why the optics are bad. It's just a very frustrating. In a conversation, like, cause I, I look at our conservative and like all the other weird shit that's available to me online. Cause I need to know what they're like,

what they're sipping on in these places. Yeah. And it really is like the discourse just ends at being like mentioning the Holocaust. And then it's like accepted. It's never like no one goes or anyone who does question, they just say, go to our politics for your fucking leftist safe space or whatever. But like,

it's no one's ever saying, well, we we that you you should have that so you know who's safe or who isn't or what that means it's just immediately let's cosplay into oppressed people because that's all this thing's about so with uh with the stop the steal i understand what's at stake for all the people for the sydney pals they're Pals. They're on the side of somebody who's trying to become the most powerful person in the Western world or remain the most powerful person in the Western world. But what other than maintaining their audience

do they get out of claiming that vaccines are going to microchip them? Is it just sort of that onto the next thing that is going to keep people entertained? Because these accounts like Sidney Powell's and all these other like hot take artists on the right, they need to be like the ones breaking these dumb stories or misinformation takes.

Like that's how they keep their followers up and they can leverage that into begging for money or going to some other dark money begging for money or, you know, going to some other, you know, dark money donor and being like, you know, I can, I can get this message out or whatever. Like there's just a whole market to be notable online right now, but there's aren't, there aren't many direct, like, oh, you can turn that into a Herbalife sponsorship. It's not like being on The Bachelor or something like that, but it's about this, that you have to stay relevant because that keeps you elevated in this

world and if you've been you know just you know ringing the bell of you know uh stop this deal and now that isn't hitting anymore you have to figure out what's going to work because these people are guided by metrics like anybody else and there's analysis about like why this shift is happening specifically like election, it peaked on November 4th. It peaked on the day after the election. That was a height. It's been a downward hill from there, which I think is a good sign

that it actually hit its peak just the day after rather than 10 days later. They're saying 375,000 mentions across cable TV, social media, print, online. Then by December 3rd, that had fallen to 60,000 mentions across cable TV, social media, print online. And then by December 3rd, that had fallen to 60,000 mentions. So it wasn't the hot topic anymore. But on the other hand, coronavirus misinformation went to 46,100 mentions on December 3rd when it was only at 17,000 on November 8th.

So you're just like, you know, they got it. It's just like surfing baby you just got to catch the next wave and it's just about whatever being in opposition to the established you know scientific knowledge or whatever the policies are going to be of the biden administration that's just all they're going to like that's they're just going to keep hopping from thing to thing so they can be the captain of the culture war you'd think that they'd get tired of being wrong about literally everything but when it doesn't matter how who doesn't matter yeah who's been canceled for being wrong you know when they say the the world's gonna end and then everyone's like oh

the world's gonna end that day it doesn't happen so oh got it wrong who's next here oh okay oh you got it wrong you got wrong that one time that one time because all this shit really at the end of the day are just different masks that you know de facto white supremacy and all this other shit is wearing you know it's not it's not about the fucking vaccine it's not about this the steel is about we lost our fucking nazi leader who we thought was going to bring us the fourth reich here to amer. And he didn't. And they're pissed about that because they liked that people of color and anyone who wasn't a cishet Christian was on the back foot this whole time being like, yo, what the fuck's going on? This

is really bad. And now that that's gone, it can't just, you know, I mean, the ones that are all down, all in for racism, they're going to keep doing that. But these are the things that allow them to keep that energy up of like, I'm against progress, but I'm not going to keep doing that but these are the things that allow them to keep that energy up of like i'm against progress but i'm not going to say that i'm just going to say bill gates is microchipping us or stop the steal because too many people of color voted against our racist agenda so it's just you know it's but it's finding ways to it's like that thing in um i heart huckabees you know the blanket everything's the blanket you know what i mean the universe is the blanket it's just expressing itself in different ways, but it's all just, you know, trying to hold on to this. They're addicted to being persecuted, and they also happen to be the most privileged part of the human race in maybe history.

And so that's going to require some dissonance on their part. But it is sometimes. I know what I'm saying is, is like you'd think they'd get one thing right is obviously stupid and like where have i been for the past uh three years but sometimes i just like see these things anew for the first time with fresh eyes i'm just like holy shit yeah um well sometimes you know their frustration is real though like on right on the right because there are people who are like, who like to win arguments and are racist

and realize they can't win arguments right now. And they're like, what the fuck is going on? Like, what's the president doing? Like either he won

and there's evidence or there isn't, but we need to fucking get to that. And it's, so there are, you know, there are people

who also can, they're, you know, intelligent enough to see the L coming, being lowered onto them very slowly and crushing them. Yeah.

Even after the electors certified the election, predict it still hasn't resolved for Biden winning. So you can still win money by putting it in? I mean, not much. Yeah. But it's just fucking bonkers that everything has happened. I guess we wait until it goes to the Senate or whatever. Jesus. Until that first State of the Union address, he is not the president.

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but when you look at um how much streaming platforms have made money this year i think this plan is very good because i think they could stand to give shit away for free for a couple weeks uh well what angus king is saying the independent you know the the one independent uh in the senate from maine uh, quote, while your platforms would likely experience greater traffic as a consequence of extending service, we encourage you to provide temporary service at no cost to non-subscribers as a way to encourage people to make responsible choices

and safely navigate this holiday season. And I think that's genius because if there's one thing we also live in this country, it's staring at the flickering idiot box too so why not there's one thing that's definitely definitely gonna work is just hoping a company does the right thing i think yeah there's no way this fails i feel like this needs to be pitched as like well i i do wonder because hbo does that right like they have the deal with cable companies where they give away HBO for free for like the first year. It's advertising.

Yeah. So you're just advertising, getting people used to it. So like it seems like they could maybe get it done that way using the shrewd, soulless logic of capitalism and market economics um and it's not they're not giving away any money they they keep their subscriber money and their subscribers don't get like a bonus two weeks it's just for people who weren't giving them money anyway it's right it does seem easy to do also all you need is three friends and then you pay for every third streaming service and right problem yeah exactly yeah you know the striminals the striminal syndicates that are out here you know operating it's baked into it yeah they tell you to do it it's it's just a it's such an easy thing to do

it's almost like i want the government to like seize control of this you'd be like yo y'all are giving this shit for free. Like run your fucking content for these people because we can't get our shit together to even give people fucking money. I think right now the thing we're hearing is a $600 check. Wow. So generous.

Is that real? It's so cute. That's the latest negotiation number I've heard. They went from nothing to maybe $600 600 but like it should be did you lose everything here's one trip to costco jesus yeah absolutely uh and also like we're not going to do with the bank so they're going to keep squeezing you uh for you know rent mortgages whatever and possible eviction so i feel like this is truly it's like such an easy thing you know if you're not going to if you can't incentivize it any

other way then what the fuck then make it easy to just stay at home rather than being like you know it's i'm sure it's i'm sure parents would love to be able to be like look this is the maybe i don't like my kids watching tv but for this holiday season let it fucking rip because i don't want anybody going outside it's easier to deal with, but yeah. Yeah. I mean, American companies used to shut down factories or convert factories and, uh, you know, doing things for the war effort or ration or ration,

uh, consumption, ask people to ration consumption for the war effort, but that's not who we are anymore. Uh, we're not, we're not all about that. Cause the Nazis are now here.

Right. Different when they were over there and were like, who? The who? And our boys are going to fight them. All right, we hear you. Well, I'll stop drinking milk. But now it's like, yeah, man, I'm a fucking proud boy. Like, what the fuck is this?

It's all fucked up now. All right, let's talk about Tom Cruise. Tom losing it. So, I don't know. We've seen this dude's manic energy usually in the ways he's wanted us to see it not always uh super flattering but always i mean he loved katie holmes he loved right so that was that at the outer edge when it was like oh wow we gotta look at the fact that this is not a human being who experiences reality the way we

do he also gets his energy out sprinting around film sets jumping from building to building memorizing everyone in Hollywood's name in a single afternoon but we've never seen him be this cool let Let's hear a little audio of him just unleashing on people who were not standing six feet apart by a computer on the set

of Mission Impossible 7. you're back here in Hollywood making movies right now because of us because they believe in us and what we're doing I'm on the phone with every f***ing studio at night insurance companies producers and they're looking at us and using us to make their movies

we are creating thousands of jobs, you motherfuckers. That was, we're creating thousands of jobs, you motherfuckers. Ever! And if you don't do it, you're fired. And if I see you do it again, you're fucking gone. Yeah, that goes on for another

two minutes. Just a steady, it's a berating that is straight out of middle school like it feels like when my friend's dad caught us playing with guns right uh you know what i mean to be like what the fuck you know what i mean like you're like oh shit we're fucking up we're fucking up we're fucking up and it's weird because that energy it's like well you know i don't i didn't think i would see tom cruise being like i feel we I feel we're beholden to many other people in this industry. Now, I don't know if that's because he just thinks he's the god MC of films or that's really coming from a place of that.

He's like, we have to make this work because we can't have things keep shutting down. But it's weird when you're like, oh, I'm agreeing with where he's coming from. I'm curious about everything that's going on. But it was a weird moment to be in yeah you do have to admit like if he if there's an outbreak of covid on whatever mission impossible 7 that's right um if there's an outbreak of covid there then it's there probably will be implications in every single production around the world after that if they have to shut down the most expensive movie uh because protocols aren't enough yeah yeah yeah the fallout from the protocols not being those

are all mission impossible uh titles uh but yeah you don't want everyone to die and become a ghost yeah that was an upvoted comment on reddit it's like oh i guess they were ghosting the protocols nice he also uh swears weird i think we have to address that motherfuckers even we are creating thousands of jobs you motherfuckers you mother kind of like who says that it's likelanders learning to swear for the first time. Like, yeah. I don't think I would ever, like, I mean, yeah, motherfuckers is a good name.

I like calling a singular person a motherfucker. It's not a good group insult most of the time. But I don't know. It's a beautiful word. Also, creating jobs is, like, a great idea, and I think people should be commended in many instances. People don't create jobs. You get a good job enough where you're the hirer, but you didn't create an industry.

You didn't create jobs. If you weren't doing this movie, they'd be doing another movie. Right. It's a misleading term i mean but look this guy has hopped up on his you know space religion where the spirits went into all the volcanoes and he's like a operating feet and level 6 000 or whatever so yeah maybe he does he is feeling himself a little bit because he you know he's also a god figure in the scientology too i mean you get strong like the the book going clear you you learn that he is

surrounded by literal slaves like for most of his days uh it's people who signed away their uh signed a i think it's like a billion year contract with, uh, the Sea Org. And they are responsible for just like making every, uh, aspect, every detail of his life,

uh, perfectly frictionless and, uh, beautiful. And that's, you know, he coasts along on that energy. And so,

yeah, the, the weight of the world is on his shoulders uh in in his own head because he he is the center of the universe and everything around him has been uh designed to reinforce that idea yeah yeah well um tom way to go bro uh just it's just so weird i don't it's like. I don't know. It's a take that, yes, anytime you hear someone being like, we have to follow these safety guidelines to keep everyone safe. I'm like, yeah, I like that.

And then you zoom in, you're like, it's Tom Cruise? Oh, man. It's also- Like that Larry David gif from Curb. I'm like, well, but- The girl tasting the thing. Yeah.

Oh, the kombucha? Was it the kombucha? Yeah, the kombucha. She really leaned into that too. She got a lot of merch. Oh, yeah. She's like a comedian. It's one of the great performances of our time.

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This does not spark joy. That's where it's hitting. I think the thing that got him mad in the first place was that people weren't standing six feet apart from each other they were like staying next to each other with masks on at a computer is my understanding uh of the interaction um which is not like the thing that has been most like i people i feel like that's the one that people let slide the most so uh yeah watch your back around hollywood uh don't don't stand within six feet of somebody uh lest tom cruise be driving

by and let you have it yeah yeah they're like we're not behind we're the dit we're like the we we're the ones color correcting the footage and taking it in. We have to be by this computer. Tom, this is my wife. You motherfuckers. Oh my god, Tom. It's our honeymoon, Tom. We're working during our honeymoon. I'm sorry we errantly walked onto your set.

We have nothing to do with the production. And you. You're gone too. Fuck wit. Oh my god please that's my dog oh man yes sir yes sir that was the response from everybody uh well speaking of just the entitled uh sense of uh self-importance that uh comes with being a celebrity uh i like to talk about how being famous before the year 2002 is like a impediment to being a functional human in the modern world because the cast of Friends, Owen Wilson, these are people who have never had to learn to type on a computer, have never had to keep up with an inbox of emails, whether they chose to or not,

up to them. But I have to believe that they are functionally impossible to deal with in terms of just day-to-day technology. And we have some new evidence that you can't teach these old dogs new tricks. Christopher Walken was on, what was it kimmel colbert no colbert and said that he's never sent an email in his life never never never uh and it's just sort of like in line with what what was the eminem one he only had like dvd pornos uh yeah so there was a there's a complex interview where're he's like showing off his dvd porn collection and the guy who's doing the interview is like wow that's cool that you're like old school like that and he's like what do you mean he's like well most people today just get their

porn on the internet and eminem is like there's porn on the internet? And then the guy just has to show him the internet for the first time, essentially. And Marshall proceeded to tear down his DVD bookcases after I showed him that clip. But yeah, here's Chris Walken. First Colbert confirming. He's like, nah, I've heard tell that you don't know anything about computers. And this is how Christopher Walken explains his dilemma. Is it true that you have never owned a computer or a cell phone? Yeah, somebody had to come and set this up because I don't have a cell phone or a computer.

And is there, why don't you have one? Are you morally, philosophically, emotionally opposed? No, no, I just got to it too late you know i think i'm right at a certain age where it just passed me by and i never got uh i never got uh to involved in it because it it would be strange to have you know any any 10 year old be Any 10-year-old would be much better at it than I am. Okay. Thanks, Chris. I mean, that was a take. It is like going back in time to the late 90s when that was a take.

Like, oh, I don't have a cell phone. That's not me. What are these, 10-year-olds on that AOL or what is that thing? Exactly. And then your ego gets in the way. Clearly, his ego got in the way because he's citing the fact that some hypothetical child would best him on the internet, and he's not taking that L, so fuck a computer. He just doesn't want to learn from someone younger than him.

Right. He just doesn't want to learn from someone younger than him. Right. I found a similar cutoff recently in Tidal, the music streaming platform. They had their end of the year, much like Spotify, but no one shared it. Their end of the year list and the rock music category. Because someone was asking me about my interest. And I was like, I was just like,

what is the rock music that came out this year? And I looked up and it is not until the 17th song on the list of hottest rock songs of the year, where there is a band that started as a band after the year 2000. Wow. The list is like Bruce Springstesteen the rolling stones tom petty uh uh pearl jam the strokes were the youngest band on the list right and that was just a group of stroke victims who started a band elderly thatly. That elderly band.

I don't know. Yeah, what the fuck? They just don't make rock music anymore? I just, I don't understand what changed. You know what's that thing? I'm too old. No, no, you know this thing because I've caught my parents doing it. There's always a ubiquitous app, right?

There's one everybody uses. And somehow your parents are on the weird fucking secondary, tertiary bullshit person. That's me. And you're like like what do you mean where are you getting your music they're like i don't know magoo audio i'm like what the fuck is that they're like well it has some of the albums i like i'm like yo this is nonsense and you're paying way more like i feel it's this sort of similar thing we're witnessing yeah i wonder if

that's uh because title is jay-z or whatever it's more hip-hop focused that they just don't do rock music on it. I don't think so, man. I think rock music is dead as dead. I don't think there's... When you look at the top 200 songs of the year on Pitchfork, there's one band.

The 1979 is the one band that... I don't even know if that's the name of 1975 1975 uh that's how familiar i am with them the old 97s yeah i think the the thing that i'm seeing now because i'm like nah like because it feels like old people shit right like yeah granted those are good bands but like when those are your charts that means the you know older people are like loving their shit on that app i think the reason is sprint if you are on sprint you get title for free that's what i that's why i have it and sprint feels like my friend's parent like the cell phone company of my friend's parents like in my i have a

very older person perception of sprint because like those are people who are diehard sprint users like from the 90s who are like fuck verizon and i remember when it used to be called singular not at&t wireless you know those are the people i feel like who stayed diehard with with sprint they're getting a free music service called Tidal, and then it's just easy. Also free Hulu. And yeah, I've been on a family plan for at least 20 years. Okay, I'm just looking at the top rock songs of 2020, according to Google. Number one is Shot in the Dark by ACDC. Did they release an album this year, ACDC?

Yeah, brand new album. Number two, Shame Shame by the Foo Fighters. Yep. Foo Fighters on there. There's a Pearl Jam song on there. 21 Pilots, Green Day,

Bon Jovi, Bush, The Killers. Bush! Bush is back. Another ACDC. Breathe in, breathe out.

There's a Taylor Swift song on here. It's really Slim Pickens and then a bunch of shit that I've never heard. Slim Pickens on there? Yeah, Slim Pickens made it. Machine Gun Kelly, the rapper who was like, I'm gonna do something completely

unexpected and release a punk album. In my head! in my head in my head dude when i heard that song i was like what the fuck is this and then i'm like oh travis barker duped machine gun kelly into doing a blink 180 yo miley cyrus did that too she made like a rock album but yeah it's a pose it's not even a it's not even an entire genre of music anymore. What is rock anymore? I mean, really, that's really the questions we should be answering rather than coming at title on what's going on. Title's got just as much as everything else.

Right. I think. I do want to talk about loneliness really quickly. It's not a new subject. We've been talking about how there's a loneliness epidemic in the country. But I was reading this article that was about just how loneliness has evolved over the course of the pandemic. And it, I don't know. First of all, it just seems like a lot of the things that we used to do with people are not i don't know they like there's a way that

it's that loneliness interacts with the zeitgeist that i feel like um there's just a a part of the overall problem is the speed and sophistication that like marketing and the market economy in our country like incorporates and subsumes every human emotion and interaction of value like that we the because the article starts out talking about how um in the early part of the pandemic there were all these like different ways people were interacting with like zoom calls and, uh, you know, zoom family reunions and then like going out and, uh,

welcoming and recognizing the frontline workers and all these different things. But like, those are all things now that I associate with like shitty ads that I've seen. Like, and I just, I don't know. I think there's something to the way that

like all human like all decent human interaction has been like turned into a marketing tactic that like contributes to the overall loneliness of of modern life oh like sort of how like marketing tactics have involved like we go went from mad men of being like if you're a bro you smoke cigs and like you're with hot chicks and drink scotch and like that's the lifestyle and now we're like yo you have friends nike right like yeah like we're it's not even a it's not even this fake life anymore that we were sort of hypnotizing people with through advertising is that you're saying like now that we were sort of hypnotizing people with through advertising. Is that what you're saying?

Like now it's just sort of like the carrot on the stick or the hook is now like, do you remember like when like you felt good like as a human? Yeah. And it's just like rovard magazine and it's about like that they have the school of public health and uh they did a whole like they had somebody in their program who's coming back from china and was like just burst into tears the second they started talking to somebody because of like you know the loneliness and the just uh situation on the ground and so like three weeks before everything shut down they started having this like symposium of like solutions to the loneliness that we were going to have and like one of the things they ended up finding is that like collaborating

on creative projects and actually like creating something with other people was like the one solution that people were able like that made people feel fulfilled and i feel like that ties into like you can't it can't be immediately like robbed of its value if you're actively creating something like creativity is the one thing that like can't be taken by a brand and turned into like a ge or like beer ad well you're i i literally sold my creativity to companies for years right like in that sense but yeah like it there is what is that commercial like next where it's like people jamming and they're like fuck yeah state farm insurance right but i feel like it fuck yeah, state farm insurance. Right. But I feel like it's, yeah, I don't know. You know what I feel like was stolen recently was your birthday.

Remember on Facebook, like it was your birthday. You were the number one person in the world. You would get hundreds of messages. Everyone knew about it because it was the first time, you know, everyone just knew what your birthday was. They could say happy birthday. It was so fantastic. And now a birthday is if you are notable, if you are famous, then your good friends will publicly wish you a happy birthday.

If you are famous. Because then they can say they know you. If you are not famous. Yeah. Because it's a personal thing where now everyone knows a little a little lights shined on them because they know you and and then um you can't just be doing like big posts about birthdays every day so now like even my close friends you know it's like where you would say happy birthday now you don't yeah yeah i mean that's that's a problem with this town you know you never know who's with you and who's against you. Everybody wants something, especially when you're doing second-rate podcasts. I know that feeling.

But that is... Nug Club suddenly doesn't hit you up. I'll tell you that. Everyone's hanging out to go watch Superbad. That is an example of this thing being turned into and commod commodified on into like a facebook gesture that then once it becomes its own like meme or its own genre of like human behavior then it like sort of it gets emptied of its value like uh and like turned into like some part of this influence and influence peddling like market economy that is social media yeah i don't know like it just is a overall pattern that i think is undergirding like every everything with

regards to like the uh unhappiness epidemic like they're they're saying that uh 18 to 24-year-olds are the loneliest people on the planet, according to research. And they're the most online. And they're always trying to dunk on us for being old. It's like, okay, well, I'm going to go with my family. I don't know what to do. Yeah. I'm going to dunk on this 24-year-old by kissing my partner in this photo. You mad? You mad?

You mad? Lonely ass? Lonely ass. That's how we fight back. But, yeah. No, I mean, it's fucked up. But it's a weird phenomenon, too. Like you're saying, online, where you can be connected, yet these feelings are just so intense.

Yeah, I mean, again, just a good reminder. Reach out to people. Because it's difficult to reach out when you yourself are like in a, in a dark place. Cause sometimes you don't realize, you know, and it takes somebody else being like, Hey, you good? What's up? Let's even talk for a little bit. scheduled like i have regular check-ins with some of my friends that is helpful because i never feel like doing them right before but afterwards i'm always always glad to that i have done them yeah uh all right nick uh mr come it's been great having you on the daily zeitgeist thank you for having me as always where can people uh find you and follow you well don't don't go to Pornhub.com, I guess. But you can follow me at Nick's Turners on the socials. And please subscribe to my podcast,

Deckheads, right here. Right here at home. Yes, thank you. Yeah, yeah. And is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Ryan Hamilton, the wonderful stand-up comedian, notable for kind of looking like Jerry Seinfeld.

He wrote, my bedtime is whatever time it is when I look at the clock. That is absolutely true for me. It's every night. Like, Larryry what time is it like 9 30 up 11 45 doesn't matter doesn't matter i'm only asking because i'm tired yeah yeah yeah yeah uh man uh miles where can people find you and follow you and what's the tweet you've been enjoying uh let's see i'm on twitter and instagram at miles of gray also you know talking 90 day on 420 day a fiance uh let's see some tweets i like one is this this one somebody uh it just kind of blew up which just says uh you know tell me you're white without saying i'm white and the replies some are good some are lame as fuck uh but i think and some are just uh you know like this one was

just mac and cheese from the box is the best i mean although i i don't know if that's necessarily you can i don't think white culture can claim box mac and cheese uh another one is my high school had multiple drive your tractor to work days i I had someone call for a welfare. I mean, that must be right. Yeah, no, I think I'm that. I mean, that feels right. Farm culture or things like that. But anyway, it's a fun thing.

Just read through it. You know, someone just said, I have never been arrested, stopped or searched by the police. That one hits a little too hard. And then another one I like is from Brandy Posey at Brandazzle. D-A-Z-Z-L she tweets I resent that the pandemic has made me like Tom Cruise it's a bridge too far

alright with some tweets I've been enjoying at drill tweeted we asked 100 angels from heaven what their IQs were and the results will drain your nuts. Which just a good encapsulation

of that genre of headline you see on the side of articles when you get tricked into going to the wrong website. At HelloColin tweeted something in response

to news that there's going to be an F word in the new Batman film he tweeted Batman swoops down from the shadows Batman shut up Riddler fuck you I hate you and then

and then someone pointed out Freddie Campion tweeted my wife just confessed that for her entire childhood she thought Colonel Sanders bow tie was his whole body and now I can't stop seeing a tiny stick body every time I look at him Google Google Colonel Sanders

and that will fuck you up real good. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website DailyZeitgeist.com

where we post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song we write out on miles what are we riding out on today oh this track is uh from stro elliot and you know it's just it's some more samples you know i like the samples and it's called marvin's mood because he's chopping up a bunch of i'm pretty sure they i mean to my ear sounds like marvin gaye samples and i'm pretty sure it is. I'm not going to ask how those samples cleared because who cares? But it's a great track of just really soulful elements of Marvin Gaye's voice over, you know, beats you can really whip your head to.

So, yeah, take that. Marvin's Mood. Stro Elliot. Take that, Marvin. All right. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it

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