The Daily Zeitgeist - Immune To The Tomb, SMALLER iPhone? 10.14.20

Episode Date: October 14, 2020

In episode 736, Jack and Miles are joined by Goatface Comedy's Aristotle Athiras to discuss Covid-19 reinfection, Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing, voter suppression, college students drinking less, Apple's iPhone 12 announcement, Cops being uncanceled, and more!FOOTNOTES: Scientists Confirm COVID Reinfection Case As Trump Baselessly Claims To Be Immune First US patient reinfected with COVID-19, study says. What does it mean for immunity? Amy Coney Barrett Ready To Curse Senate Like She Cursed Rose Garden, ALLEGEDLY Voter Suppression Fest 2020 Kicks Off In Georgia Study shows college students are drinking less APPLE’S IPHONE 12 EVENT LIVE BLOG ‘Cops’ Back In Production On New Episodes Following Cancellation Spokane’s NAACP president worries return of ‘COPS’ will do more harm than good Cops Is Back in Production After Being Canceled Amid Police Violence Protests...and I Just Want to Know Who Asked for This? These brands still haven't replaced their logos. Here's why WES WAX - Backseat Bacharach Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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delicious food and its history. Seeing that the most popular cocktail is the margarita, followed by the mojito from Cuba and the piña colada from Puerto Rico. Listen to Hungry for History on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 155, episode 3 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially off the top, fuck the Koch brothers, fuck Fox News, fuck Rush Limbaugh, fuck Ben Shapiro, fuck Tucker Carlson, fuck JK Rowling, fuck Fondant.

Do not put Fondant on my wedding cake. I want regular buttercream. We will not be married. Yes, I will end this shit right now. We say fondant here, Aristotle. It's pronounced fondant, though. I'm just fondant. For people who might be listening and and know like a lot about

cakes yeah they might you might get a lot of hate mail whatever it is i don't want icing stuck in my teeth okay uh it's wednesday october 14th 2020 my name is jack o'brien aka never gonna give it up. Never gonna take me down. Corona gonna get around and hurt you. Gonna make all y'all cry. Never gonna say goodbye. Your grandma's gonna die. And then you. That is courtesy of J Music Chicago.

And I'm thrilled to be joined, always by my co-host Mr. Miles Ray thank you very much in the White House I'm having a real good time I feel

alive in this world I'm turning upside down yeah and floating when you cough and sneeze so don't

stop me now don't vouchy cause I'm having a good time Having a good time Fucking maskless sneezing particles On Chuck Grassley's head What are you 80,000 years old

Homie good luck with that Okay uh so that Aka brought to you A little bit of collaboration On this one from Christy Yamaguchi Slain and inspired by at emmy del fart uh or oh i'm sorry elise middle fart okay i just i didn't want to make oh i your name was middle fart and i'm turned turned into a whole other name but shout out to y'all for that and we

love a queen aka round here actually hit me with aing Crows round here, aka somebody. Round here. Round here. I don't know who that Queen, aka perfectly, I feel like replicated the energy of our president just getting ramped up off them. Oh, yeah. Off those good, the good, good. Fine, baby.

That they give out at Walter Reed. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious, the talented, the professor of pronunciation, apparently. He is Mr. Aristotle Atheros! Thank you, guys. Thank you, guys. Thanks for coming on, man. Thank you so much for having me i know you guys uh were trying to get me for

a few years and and i know that i've been available my who uh i don't know who contact was it my people or your my people's people we were we were i mean once i think we had wired the funds into that account uh right they gave us the email address to then contact your management so and that was yeah that was a year and a half directly with yeah that was a year and a half ago they said okay how about uh season 155 episode 3 he might be able to looks like he has a free morning uh yeah and you stuck to your word so thank you for that thank you for honoring that yeah i appreciate it i and i and i and i checked the you know usually like in my writer i always have like a little random like

weird thing right right right uh just so that i can go and see if they're paying attention you guys fulfilled it and you guys did it the red bike on the wall so thank you for the red bike yeah it was expensive thank you it's very expensive yeah but but i just you know I just throw that in there as kind of like, if I come to the show or the job and then there's Red Bike on the wall, then I know that fulfilled everything. Exactly. And that's, if anything, we like to respect our guests to the utmost. Thank you. No, thank you.

Thank you for having me. Is everything okay so far? Just if we can get you in, just want to make sure that's good. Are you comfortable? Are you comfortable? I mean. Yeah. Like, are we making it comfortable could i could i could i be more uncomfortable do i have that option well um certain i mean if it fits within reason i mean we did bring me back to my days in

the service industry and yeah i mean when i had to set up fucking dressing rooms. What kind of service? I mean, oh, gosh. Waiter. Worst waiter of all time. And a butler, which is just a bellhop in a British hotel. He was a butler. We could talk jobs. Yeah. I guarantee you, and I promise you more than I'll put money on the line, that I've had more jobs.

I would say probably the both of you combined. I mean, it's not a competition. It's not a competition. It's not a competition. It is. No, no, no, no, no. It is. Definitely more than Jack, but possibly more than both of you guys.

So, yeah. Yeah. But no, it's a it's a competition. OK, well, we'll write them down later. Why are we? OK. No, fuck it, Jack. Let's just spend the next uh hour rattling off our jobs let's go with the first one you've had i like had uh the same job for 10 years so you've definitely have more jobs than me um what if you deal different kinds of drugs does that count as a different job yeah exactly i think so okay okay yep so. Okay, we're good.

Alright, Aristotle, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about today. We're going to check in with our dear leader now that he is immune. We're going to see how all that is

going. We're going to check in with the nomination, the SCOTUS hearings for Amy Coney Barrett. We are going to check in with voter suppression. That's full effect, baby. We're going to check in with the youth of today. We're going to look at the 12 uh that was just announced yesterday morning and cops has been canceled and then uncanceled uh that that was they were just like psych uh we we pretended to do the right thing but uh y'all can eat a dick uh but before we get into any of that aristotle we do like to ask our guest what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are the last thing that

would be in my search history is vintage timex watches vintage timex watch like searching for vintage timex watches how how old like what's vintage how back how far back are we going for vintage timex for me it would be um i'm just trying to find this watch that i had as a kid and i always i i think about this watch a lot uh i kind of little bit so this does speak to kind of who i am i'm a little bit of a nostalgic kind of guy maybe to fault so i'm trying to not be as much but uh there's some things that i kind of never was able to have or as a kid or things that i remember from as much from my childhood that i wanted to get back so to answer that question this would be like something from like the mid 90s okay what yeah is it something with the digital digital

yes it was indiglo yeah i mean the indiglo back i was there baby yeah i had the indiglo fucking wristwatch and i when you started saying that i was like damn i remember my first indiglo right and i fucking i i was over the fucking moon when i had it because it was so fucking bright and i was like well check this shit out i'm in a movie yeah i'm ruining it for everyone right right the thing i remember was back then when they're talking about indiglo like the myth around it was like this guy used that like he had an iron man timex watch and the like the 93 world trade center bombing like was like it was enough to help like guide like people out of there through the smoke and shit yeah yeah yeah the origin myth of

the indiglo and yeah great marketing that's amazing do you remember the indiglo watch jack or are you just well you just didn't care about you didn't give a shit about time when you were a kid i didn't give a shit man i was just off in my own world no i i i can say shit on here yeah yeah you can say well yeah only in relation to watches uh yeah i was i'm a little older than y'all so i was like a uh swatch boy oh uh 80s swatch with the super thin ones yeah yeah the and the funky designs funky yep yep yep and i know you're a shoe guy too aristotle which i am again a nostalgic piece of childhood that we all chase. I didn't really have... I had one pair of...

I had two pairs of Jordans as a kid only because I could only have either... I could have my birthday gift whenever I wanted it, but that was it for the year. I would save up on birthday gifts because my limit was always... I remember as a kid, it for the year. Oh, right. And I would kind of like save up birth. Yeah. So I would save up on birthday gifts because my limit was always like, I remember as a kid it was 50 and then eventually it was like 90 bucks or whatever. So I would like hold off a year or two and then be like, I want these Jordans.

And, you know, I kind of went strong. I ended up getting two pairs and then I got to like a very like a heavy metal phase as a kid and I was like these are dumb so what did you rock during your heavy metal phase? Chucks or what were you? Doc Martens

Doc Martens I had some Chucks too the 8s were the Aqua 8s oh yeah yeah yeah and then yeah so uh you know in retrospect i i feel like if i had started oh and then the other ones were the 11s oh wow that's the other turned your back on 11s wow i mean i turned my well i turned my back on the 11s not because of the the getting into metal and punk rock it was really because of a friend

of mine she would make me feel like I was like because I held on to those 11s for a while because they were the uh they were the first time they had ever retroed them and so uh so and when they came out I just couldn't get them at the time. So then, you know, whatever. Anyways, she just made me feel like a child for having these Jordans. And I was like, I guess you're right. She was such an influential friend. I was like, I guess I'll just sell them. And then I sold them to some guy on eBay, and he hustled me for them. And then.

Oh, you hate to see it. I think I sold them for like $120 or something. Wow. They had never been. They'd barely been worn. Don't yuck other people's yums, as they say. She was making you feel like a child because it's consumerist? No, because it was very...

Like a baseball card or something? Yeah, she's like, you look like you're in middle school wearing those. And I was like, I don't want to be in middle school. Oh, my objection, Your Honor. Yeah, she's like, you look like you're in middle school wearing those. And I was like, I don't want to be in middle school. Oh, my objection, Your Honor. Yeah, exactly. But now I have a real sneaker problem. I have too many. So we are thinning out the collection.

But it is funny. I mean, I guess it is true in the sense that like mike yes i am wearing the shoes i wanted as a boy and i am i am i am like being able to live that out but either way these fucking shoes are fire so i'm trying to argue with this outfit there's yeah like i'm not into collecting the toys that i wanted or like the underoos or like whatever the underwear was with like he-man on it like that's not what i'm into but the shoes i think are just dope like i think the design is like cool oh yeah it still holds up come on guys we don't gotta defend we're among friends here but also don't come for the underwear because the underwear is pretty cool too

uh when especially you can find a dead stock unopened you know that's a fuck yeah you don't want don't don't don't bend it because it'll crack even though it's dead stuff yeah yeah you don't want you can tell because that cardboard that it's wrapped around when you pull that out it's creased it's trouble and i'll i'll call you out trouble yeah right could you imagine like like uh you're trying to sell like a like a dead stock pair of underoos and then the guy's looking at it. He's like, yo, man, the card's creased, though. Yeah, I don't know, dude. I can't really.

I can't. Oh, and this is a- You sure? This is verified on StockX? Yeah, but this is from lot 40, so we don't fuck with anything. I'm going to have to post this on Reddit and do a legit check, man. I'm sorry, bro. Yeah.

Can I get a legit check on these underoos these are reps bro i'm gonna be mad we had an article from a woman who made her full-time living selling her underwear on reddit so i mean yeah a lot of you really yeah yeah yeah pretty dope out here hustling finding a way definitely not dead i think i'd have to think it's the opposite yeah this is the opposite yeah alive as fuck they will send they will send those back to you active dead stock active culture uh what is something you think is underrated aristotle uh 7-eleven nachos i think hell yeah love that love that yeah we're off to a rip-roaring start today, ladies and gentlemen.

This man. We're 12 years old in here. It's not just the 7-Eleven nachos. It's the 7-Eleven nachos with the Coke Slurpee, and then you kind of get a little weird with some of the toppings. I don't know, man. Something's really... I mean, I'm sure it's not underrated. I'm sure a lot of people are like, man, those are fire.

But I mean, I don't know. I got to's like really... I mean, I'm sure it's not underrated. I'm sure a lot of people are like, man, those are fire. But I mean, like... I got to get a big bite or a spicy bite. Hot dog sometimes. You know what I mean? And you put all that nacho cheese on there. I have to get weird annually. You know what I mean? It's a...

Make my annual checkup at 7-Eleven. What are you throwing on the toppings? Like what other than the cheese and the chip? A little bit of chili. Wow. A little bit of onion. Depending on what 7-Eleven I used to go to, the 7-Eleven that was close to my school,

because I went to a school outside of my district, so I had to take the public transportation to get there. So that 7-Eleven was in a more cultured neighborhood, so they had other toppings like pico de gallo or tapatio and all that stuff. So that 7-Eleven had more stuff, and then the 7-Eleven close to the house was kind of more generic. It's like mustard. You're like, uh-huh.

Fine. Mustard and cheese, that would work. Jalapenos are big. That's when I became a grown-up, was when I started putting jalapenos on my 7-Eleven nachos and my popcorn. That's a thing.

I don't think they do that back east, but out here you can get jalapenos with your popcorn. That's the thing. I don't think they do that back east. But out here you can get jalapenos with your popcorn. It's coming from a vat that might as well have people's old socks in it. It doesn't matter because jalapenos are so spicy they kill off all germs.

This is the math I did in my brain. Can't make me sick. Forget that parasite I got. What is something you think is overrated? I don't know. This is going to sound so bad. Oh boy.

I kind of think school is overrated. Man, this is like literally could be coming for me when I was 12 all of these I am 12 I don't know if you guys know that there's a red bike on my wall well I think I think when I say schooling

for me like I have a real problem with this country having an issue with embracing like vocational schooling. Because they do it in a lot of European countries. And I think it's, I just think this, like, romantic kind of infatuation we have with, like, this old school style of schooling as if, like, it's, you know, this is, like, a true intellect. Like, there's a lot of these things that people are not going to learn, that they not going to really you know it's not very pragmatic in the real world you know and so like uh i i just uh so that that schooling to me is i think i think american schooling is way

overrated yeah way overrated and i don't think anybody's like it's the best because it's not the best if you look at the the numbers and everything but it's just uh i just i wish i just wish the american system would embrace vocational schooling and not look down on it. You know what I mean? Yeah, I think that gets to a very central issue that we have in America where it's like there's, especially more recently, there's no, because there's no class awareness, there's no awareness that there's any sort of uh you know class system in the united states there's no like pride around like being having a vocational education having a vocational job like that

doesn't it it just feels like and there used to be like in the 90s like that that i feel like there used to be a little bit more uh pride around like being blue collar and shit but now it's just everything has like turned into this like pull yourself up by the bootstraps aspirational bullshit like monoculture and i think it's yeah i think that ties directly into into the schooling like it's just that's not seen as a way to be the American ideal. Yeah. Well, and then even media, after a while, it was like, what, are you going to be a construction worker?

You got to go to college. And more and more, it's like, so you can be in the middle class that doesn't exist. And so it just tastes like shit at many different turns especially now like considering the debt that it's causing and still like the lack of opportunity to even be in a position to like pay it off in a way that is makes sense is humane and allows you to also do things like start families and shit because most people are just in a holding pattern because of this because of the debt uh so yeah it's but anyway school fucking sucks dude and someone school sucks dude we don't need no

education exactly bro and we don't need no instead of uh vocational schools america americans get funneled to for-profit colleges that will scam you out of money and put your military service yeah yeah yeah you guys are depressing me right now ah you know that's what we're here for that's why school sucks dude did too much school man uh finally what is so uh what i can disprove is that uh batman is a uh good person that's the myth batman is a good that's the myth yeah yeah that he's good that he's good that's the myth so that he's that he's that he's uh that he's good that's the myth that he's a hero truly fighting for

the truth and the justice and all that stuff that I can disprove he's a rogue privatized police force that just goes around doing what do you say is an action that he does

if someone goes all right name like when they go he's all right name one thing name one thing he's done oh that oh that that proves my point your point bro because he saves fucking people bro and he punches bad guys in the fucking face and shit it's one thing he hasn't done which is therapy he got a lot of shit to work and that's how i know very basic yeah because if he because if he did if he went through therapy and if he was a normal person like insane and everything he'd be like oh yeah what what am i doing yeah yeah i'm gonna leave it to the guy who who who fucking flies back back i'll let that guy do that stuff i'm just gonna you know maybe be just rich

i don't know you know yeah in a world where superman exists the existence of batman is really makes no sense it's just like yeah i'm gonna use my money to continue to uh pick up the slack for the alien the all-powerful alien justice fighter yeah make that a comic book where like a just wealthy business person just gives all their money away and i was like this is so sick look at this they have everything they want they're the tightest person on earth yeah yeah that's my power generosity generosity i mean he's a fascinating character don't get me wrong i could talk about him all day but he's not he's yeah he's just he's a crazy person in essence but you're heroes to bed it is interesting that he always ends up being the less interesting character in the in his movies

whereas like he should be um you know they always give like the joker the bad guy will end up being like more interesting i mean batman begins kind of messed with it a little bit and like he's like seinfeld he was the star but yeah they always make him the seinfeld of batman movies where he's just like the kind of straight character and it's like he's like suffering from a number of pathologies that like should oh yeah they're like 100 you're like i like this batman guy and i get it i get why he's there it's called batman so obviously yes but you know without batman but there's these other cool characters here too so right it's just that i feel like there's such a bad actor and laughs too much there's like a depth of you know pathos to like at the center of that character that like

you can't really look at and still have the center hold of the universe so instead they i guess lean into the the characters who can openly embrace the the darkness right um yeah yeah tight let's get some nachos yeah jalapenos on on the on top my parents left me a shitload of money so it's on me slippies for everybody let's fucking go we'll be right back. globally because it is much more than just a sport and much more than just entertainment. Lucha Libre is a type of storytelling. It's a dance. It's tradition. It's culture. This is Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, the emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar. Join me as we learn more about the history behind this spectacular sport from its inception in the United States

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And we're back. Thanks, Alfred, for buying us those cigarettes. Of course. And you can keep one of those beers, too. And you can keep one of those beers too. I mean, I guess it would be kind of shitty if Alfred Bing is like such a sweet old man that he is and then Bruce, if he ended up going that way that you're mentioning, he's like,

I have your beer, sir, and your cigarettes, sir. He truly can't, Alfred. Yeah, he becomes Trump, just like waste-oiled, like trust fund person. He's like, thanks. I'm going to be making dubstep beats in here till at least 3 a.m so keep the red bulls coming uh all right let's let's talk about our dear leader he is immune he's claiming immunity from claiming immunity he wishes he could claim

legal immunity but he is claiming uh covid 19 immunity he was in florida a couple days ago with ron desantis uh who was not wearing a mask no and why going around touching rally goers and the president it was especially for somebody you're like yeah this guy has tested positive for covid19 and no one is saying when they last tested negative or if ever um so it is a bit of a fun fun thing do you think that it might have been all bullshit to begin with i mean he's he definitely looked ill and sick so maybe he's he's a great actor i mean whatever whatever is going on he's his behavior still affects everything the same way uh but he was again he's he's in front of all these people tons of fucking people with no mask um and he just lets people know he's like

i'm fucking powerful y'all got those nachos if you want to get out there get out one thing with me the nice part i went through it now they say i'm immune i can feel i feel so powerful i'll walk into that man it's just it's kiss everyone in that audience wait what i'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and um every i'll just give you a big fat kiss. No, but there is something nice. I don't have to be locked up in my basement, and I wouldn't allow that to happen anyway. So he's Joe Namath now. I just want to kiss you.

I could care less about the country struggling. Yeah, I'm going to kiss. Wow, I feel so powerful. I'll walk in there and kiss everyone in that audience i mean that's what got him in trouble during the last election was the but he's starting to be like self-deified you know what i mean in a way like i'll go and but he's always been like that yeah i know but but the thing it's starting to take a turn i was saying like into the supernatural ever since he started saying like china it was like a curse and like people are monsters like it's like less

tied to like normal political rhetoric and now it's like spooky shit and i just this idea right now is like he said he had a protective glow emanating from him which kept which shielded him from the illness and contributes to his immunity so we're like it sounds like magic the gathering type shit he's talking about now well he's he's talking to the you know his his very you know his base kind of thinks they sometimes they think stuff like that you know what i mean it's like you know it's it's it's crazy to me like i hate using the word, but he's so brilliant with the way he talks to his people. And I know he doesn't believe any of this crap. He's doing it on purpose just to win.

In my opinion, this is my opinion. I think he's really good at exploiting the thing that is going to help him win. Because he's a master manipulator. He really, really, really is. And even in his interviews, you listen to him. I'm just listening to him talk, and I'm like, the guy's not very verbose.

And he actually kind of sounds like, and if you look at what he's saying on text, he sounds like a moron. You know what mean yeah it's like yeah i like i'm like he doesn't sound like an educated person at all but you know a person who's watching that who's even a trumper who you know like i don't know he just they don't they just eat it up they just eat it up and i'm just like if you're remotely susceptible it's very like it can be intoxicating and uh i just i just think that having four years as the president has given reality too much time to bleed into that so that people are now uh you know his numbers according to polls and we'll see if the

polls are accurate but uh according to polls like more and more people are kind of rejecting uh the that version of reality that he's i mean it and it is a harder version of reality to swallow, right? That he got COVID-19, but is like immune while other people are dying. And he's claiming it's like, because of, you know,

he seems to be implying that it's something special about him and that they have a cure that he's going to give to everyone. But it's just so like the shape of it not like i think you're right that like that the texture when you're like up close and watching it and you know at a rally or just open to it and watching him speak that can be persuasive but like the overall shape of it, if you're viewing it from afar, is so transparently just the snake oil shit. It's just like, yo, we've been seeing this for 250 years. Yeah. And along with that, because all of this stuff is,

if you can get enough people to just demand that everyone just dies due to the lack of control over the virus, then the economy will do better. And that's the main thing is to get people out there. So if they can buy in on this immunity, I'm healed narrative, that can start building more confidence for people to just be more reckless and take risks like we're seeing at these rallies. And the idea is that, yeah, you could get it.

You'll be fine. We have immunities, and that's how we're going to get through this. But now we're getting reports of reinfection, like cases of reinfection in the U.S. It used to be that everyone was saying, well, if you get it once, you can't get it again. At that point, you'll have built up antibodies and things like that. Well, if you get it once, you can't get it again.

At that point, you'll have built up antibodies and things like that. But now the end of the Lancet Monday, they they they issued a report saying this 25 year old guy in Nevada had got covid in April and then tested positive again in June. And they were sort of different strains, apparently genetically different versions of covid but this is this is like really i mean if anyone who was you know uh buying into this idea of herd immunity like based on what the trump campaign was saying or even what he's saying like i've got it and i'll be okay this is not good at all um and you know it's of course it's not going to be discussed because it's science that makes the other you know it's too too inconvenient of a truth did i make this too serious guys you did not the news no the news okay this is this is what it is this is every day man yeah as as my uh my favorite youtube star say this every day man uh it's every day whatever i got it right my reference

come on oh man they're gonna kill us in the youtube comments all right let's talk about the supreme court nomination of amy cody barrett you know it's been going on for a few days now lindsey graham spoke i saw some ted cruz where he just like talked for 45 minutes about like how democrats want to destroy crosses because they hate jesus essentially uh and then just used her two adopted children from haiti uh behind her in just the most like aggressive like prop like standing people up as prop way and i don't know it was it was pretty whack uh well the whole thing's a fucking disgrace to begin with like plenty has already been said she's she's you know skirted answering questions on things like roe versus wade or even gutting the aca um and health care and things like that so you know they're doing a good job you know they're the tax they're the the strategy the democrats seem to want to do is like not

really go after her more than just sort of being like this is inappropriate the president is using this person to like act out this like really harsh shit because they don't want to turn her into like a victim of like their attacks basically or allow the you know republicans to start saying that but like lindsey graham who is presiding over this whole process he cannot stop talking about jamie harrison who he's running against um jamie harrison has basically been shattering fundraising records like left and right in his race against lindsey graham and like he's talking like he's alluded to it and then earlier he's like i want to know where some of this dark money's coming you should see the race i'm in uh i'd like to know where some of this some of this money's

coming from maybe i'll have to investigate that because anyway um uh amy coney barrett uh where was i and so you know like he's been he's been at the center of this because obviously he was the one uh when in barack obama's you know in the election year was saying they weren't gonna allow him to see the supreme court justice in election year he completely 180'd and he started the proceedings saying quote there's you know because everyone was like you know pointing to what what's up with this hypocrisy lindsey like come this is fucking disgusting and then he overall his description of what's going on is quote there's nothing unconstitutional about this process this is a vacancy that's occurred through a tragic loss of a great woman and we're going to fill that vacancy with another great woman the bottom line

here is that the senate is doing its duty constitutionally uh so the argument being like well it's not a rule we're breaking um so y'all were dumb for you know allowing us to do that the first time so yes so i don't know it always feels like this perpetual battle like no matter where we are in this country like uh it's just this constant like and then and i'm talking talking about the most colloquial thought on this process because I feel like we kind of go through this cycle of it just always feels like Roe versus Wade.

Everybody wants to it's just like this constant over and over and over again and everything that's kind of within that same umbrella. I don't know at what point this is part of my i'm not fully disenfranchised with with you know trying to figure out what's going on with the country but you know it's just i'm getting there you know it's just kind of really hard to kind of well yeah

wrap my head around like just a constant bickering you know yeah and there's a lot of money fueling the bickering and like making it this ongoing sort of like culture war thing to keep this base engaged and make it feel like there's stakes and a reason to sort of check in because like numerically they're outnumbered so now like the real the frontier that they're trying to you know make make headway on is just being able to completely fuck up the judiciary and just have this really obscene minority rule at the moment. It's a republic, not a democracy is their new rallying cry. Yeah. I think Mike Lee tweeted that recently or something.

Yeah, exactly. But yeah, it's just, you know, the... I mean, we're seeing it now with, speaking of important Supreme court decisions the voter suppression in georgia is completely out of control like there yeah there's a lot of people i i think i knew this but just seeing people from other countries like canada and the UK and Australia tweeting recently that they've voted in every election that's come up in their adult life. They've never had to register to vote,

and they've never had to wait in a line for more than five minutes to vote. Both of those things are 100% voter suppression, just enacted to make it more difficult for people to vote yeah i mean the shelby verse holder supreme court decision that basically eviscerated the voting rights act was just sort of like telling people like hey dude you can do racist shit as long as like you're not putting like full-on racial slurs in like your legal briefs uh and if you dog whistle enough we'll look past it and you can get away with all kinds of shit um like taking away polling places in majority black

districts and things like that in georgia early in pro and in-person voting has begun and there are lines in some places and not lines in other places. And I'll let you guess what those places are. You know, this first photo we're looking at is in majority white Buckhead, where the wait time is apparently only 15 minutes. This was taken on Monday. And then in black, you know, majority black South Cobb, they're looking at lines of 10 plus hours in like a fucking parking lot that is snaking like you thought the like a fucking new you know attraction opened up at uh six flags or some shit it's really it's so fucked up to see like it's just looks like violence to

look at the difference in the access to be able to vote just something that simple and this is and again another visual representation of the republican party saying we will burn this whole fucking thing down we don't give a fuck before like we let go of this ill-gotten power that we've manufactured and you know uh formulated through all of these this all this terribly cynical legislation and and gerrymandering and shit and it's it's it's weird i mean when you look at it they're interviewing a lot of the people in these lines who are waiting for you know many hours and sadly or luck i don't know however you want to look at it many of them are like i don't give a fuck how long it takes like i know what the fuck they're trying to do and i'm not gonna let them fucking win so i will

fucking vote uh but that's yeah it should not be the fucking case and it's just heartbreaking that that's you know so many the stakes are so fucking high yet they're so cynically being like all right well let's see how you do with one fucking ballot drop-off location because in texas that apparently uh the the higher court there is allowing that decree to stand um so you know if you want to drop your ballot off in a gigantic county, there's only one place to go. You have to drive a thousand miles. I mean, not to be negative, but I just don't think I think it's going to work. You know, like just the hurdles and the constant like they're just going to get disenfranchised really fast and then not want to go. I think they're going to be successful disenfranchised really fast and then not want to go i i think they're

going to be successful and and and and with their voter suppression and it's worked in the past that's why they keep doing it and so sure it's and it just it's really kind of like it's it's really it makes it does make me feel like uh they just can't win, you know? So, I mean, that's actually a question I have, Miles. You know politics better than I do. Like, if, like, you know, God willing, the Democrats take over the White House, the Senate, the House, like, how impossible is it for them to make it so that like all this shit goes away uh i mean if if their willpower is there very quickly you know because you saw what the for when trump even had everything was about to go off until the senate where they just couldn't get their votes together to send straight to the president's desk. I mean, if that pipeline's there and everyone has the political will to do it,

it can happen. That's why I think so many people are invested in the idea of just a blue fucking wave crushing the hill and being able to say like, okay, now they can do, we can get a ton of, you know, protections for voters and things like that passed and signed into law very quickly um but you know who knows and then it's going to be another battle because i'm sure just like everything we'll get a democratic administration in there and we know what the fucking solutions are but it ends up being like a 60 percent or even fucking maybe 30 percent of the way solution to the thing we know how to solve because they're still vulnerable senators or congress people they

have to think about that are going to affect it rather than people who can be like i don't give a fuck make it happen the right way like i'll put my fucking body on the line just fuck i'll be i'm there for the votes like let's get this shit done. But not enough people think like that. Because it's too much of a career. Yeah, absolutely. They make too much money. There's just too much. I mean, they make obscene amounts of money.

You shouldn't go into politics because it's a viable career that you can earn a good living. It's literally just something you should do as a service that you feel. I know that sounds very pathological narcissism right i think we can all agree on that yeah yeah yeah it's that and just i think as more younger people get into office it's gonna help you know like you're seeing how people are just looking at shit differently like where our generation has been like what the fuck is kind of career is this to be like some old fucking ghoul senator like when people are dying and yeah they're gonna be plenty of people who are also in it for that reason but you can even tell like in the like rhetorically like how this older generation like just can't match wits with us like because even when pete budaj goes on fox news like he's just even like being you know intelligent they're like oh fuck like he's got us off center here we don't

know how to respond layer pete yeah exactly um and even like with like aoc and like many other the like younger politicians like they have a way of communicating ideas that i think will energize people and like in a way also make them less I think will energize people and like, in a way, also make them less vulnerable because saying like, I'm voting for this because you saw me break down this banking executive, right? You saw how I did that and how they don't know. That's why I'm voting for this thing. And you can hopefully understand that. Do you ever wonder, like, do you ever look at AOC and just are kind of scared and thinking God, are you always going to be this good?

Are you always going to be this pure? To me, that's the biggest tragedy is to watch her kind of change. Ever since I had Urkel, since Urkel broke my heart, I had to learn to not have heroes. I just treat them as imperfect humans

who are doing right in the moment which urkel storyline broke your heart was it when he turned into stefan yeah yeah it felt like a total betrayal for us who weren't you know necessarily the cutest kid in the photo studio right oh you were adorable i can tell both you guys are really adorable as kids i i 100 can tell i have a good i have i just somebody just sent me in my text messages like a photo from me in like fifth grade or fourth grade or something where i had a mushroom cut like surfer cut which kind of looks like in like like vibey now with all the k-pop shit and i was like yo i was like i look like a

k-pop star whose like career ruined by racism. That's wild. I had the biggest fro. I don't know if you could tell. Oh, wow. You hit it. Oh, wow. But yeah, my hair was like, because my dad used to always just straight up rock a fro. And I was like, I never wanted to be like him.

So for me, I was just like, I don't want to have hair. So I just tried to grow my hair out as long as I could. And then so I could put it kind of like in a ponytail and be a little bit more like heavy metal and whatnot. But yeah, and then the moment I would let that go, like if I would open it, it would just go from this to like that. Just like a caricature artist's version of your dad. Yeah, right. Because i also used to stuff

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Kids are boozing less, toking a little more, and apparently getting really cross-fadedaded switching it up uh mixing the two uh which is kind of actually not that great as uh so this new study came out again you know we love a study around here but they're saying between 2002 and 2018 the rate of abstinence okay fucking abstinence among college students uh 18 to 22 increased from 20 to 28 and then for 18 to 22 year olds who are not in hell yeah if they weren't in college and this but in the same bracket they went from 24 to 30 huh so yeah which is and the other thing is more kids smoking weed uh that went up from 27 to 31 if they were in college and then 26 to 30 if they weren't in cost so it's the same thing

uh but yeah you know uh that's yeah they're drinking less you think there's a you think there's a correlation no some people in this like are in this article in the takeout they were saying that some of the researchers suspected that it could be because a lot of people live with their parents that it may affect um that like how much they're drinking or if they drink at all because like they just don't have the privacy to you know get fucked up that makes sense um but but they're smoking but they're smoking more weed yeah but i guess because maybe you can like smoke weed and then like you know get a ton of mouthwash and hit the eye drops and like freeze yourself and be like, yep, I was at church. Yeah, we were just crying, talking about we were just the Beatitudes.

Anyway, it was so beautiful. But so the other thing is, they said that the combination has gone. article says points of concern that deserve more attention are the rise in co-use of alcohol marijuana as we know that polysubstance use can have more negative consequences and be more difficult to treat and they're saying that for like in 2015 to 2018 two and a half percent of young adults who didn't drink or didn't smoke weed only two and a half percent said they would misuse prescription drugs but if they were co-users of like weed and alcohol 25 percent uh of them were using so like tenfold difference damn so yeah so i mean that's true like when you're getting you know this are they saying at the same time or are they just saying

use using both like in general um probably broadly and then you know one thing typically leads to another right but i mean who who normally i mean like i mean when you look at your prescription bottle and you're like i think i need a little bit more than that i mean everybody does that right yeah i just i sometimes i don't even know the name on the prescription bottle yeah you just kind of feel like this color makes me feel like i think this will this this is yeah this is gonna help having a blue day it's viagra whoa what the shit okay high school biology class or it's adderall yeah yeah adderall would be a pink day i think is that a pink day oh i thought batterals that a pink day? Oh, I thought Adderalls were blue.

I don't know. Is it time release and a gel cap? Oh, yeah. I guess it's different. Hey, Mr. President, weigh in on this. Yeah. It's hilarious. I just get up and I just have energy. Who's chopping it up?

No, it's way too rocky. You got a grinder for that? I also wonder how much of this increases people like getting sober younger i know that that's definitely increased as like people who realize they have a problem at like age 18 or like before college uh you see more of that in recovery in the recovery community yeah i mean there's definitely the world has changed rapidly in even fucking four years so right uh who knows what another four years from you know what the 2018 to 2022 study looks like yeah yeah when was when do you remember when you

at least i know the year for me but do you know the year for you when you were just like okay i give up i can't i can't possibly know all the music that's out there anymore uh yeah it would have been 2017 or 2016 for me it was whatever i i used to like pick the music for the cracked podcast that i did like that was my way my incentive to stay like plugged into what music was cool. Then at a certain point, I was like, I'm spending more time figuring out what the music is for this than I am on the content.

I got to stop. Mine was a little earlier, probably like 2012. I was like, this is too much. I can't do it. It's like I gave up on genres, I think is what happened. I still love music and I do a lot of I can't do it. I don't, it's too much. It's like, I gave up on genres. I think is what happened. Or I, cause I still love music and I do a lot of like exploring of shit.

Cause I just love to hear new music. But I, I remember like when the whole SoundCloud rap wave took off and like, I was working on radio and shit. I was like, I thought I was aware of everything that was coming on. I'm like, Oh my God,

what the fuck is all this now? I'm like, no, I can't. I know I'm I, you know what? I'm gonna listen to my warren g records okay just leave me the fuck alone that's right still a great record oh yeah yeah apple uh had their conference where they release what what all their upcoming products are uh we got their version of alexa a new like mini version of that and we also got the iphone 12 which also has a mini version that's like a it kind of zagged there i feel like iphones have

been just getting bigger and bigger bigger and bigger they said the smallest lightest thinnest uh cutest little phone you ever did see that does 5g and will direct george soros's antifa waves straight to your brain and give you some kind of thing uh but yeah there's all kinds of new tech and i don't know i felt like the fucking new phone i just got a new fucking phone and i'm like what the fuck are y'all doing already yeah the fuck yeah i really i was the fucking you know joaquin phoenix as joker in the tech suit meme uh where it's just like taking the l or i'm like i just thought of fucking okay whatever because at this point i honestly can i do not know how this is any different than any like it's like okay they got night mode they got a wide lens uh i know if you're gaming the gamers are turnt the

fuck up like dj daniel i know he was all over that League of Legends shit. And he was like, oh, now I can get it. Which one do you have now? You have the 11? No, I have the 11, Pro Max. I'm rocking the 8. I still got a button on mine. Oh, fuck yeah.

I'm way back, way, way back. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm starting to notice like some compatibility issues. I'm noticing like weird things happening with the phone. I'm guessing they're probably going to start doing some,

you know, forced obsolescence shit with the 8. But so far, it's served me pretty well. My wife has the more up-to-date ones. And anytime there's like

an important moment happening with our kids she like pushes me out of the way and takes the video herself because her camera is much better this camera this camera like that's always the thing that i'd try and pay attention to because the cameras are like the place that you always notice it more than anything else and so they're saying the pro models which is like the i think it's going to be biggest screen ever, probably also their most expensive phone ever. It's like the high, high end of the new batch that they're releasing. Pro models include a telephoto lens in addition to wide and ultra wide lenses, bigger camera sensors.

sensors it also has a lidar scanner which i think is like a visual radar uh that can create 3d scans of rooms with depth data that apple says makes autofocus faster so that's just like i don't know that yeah sure it does like heads up display style shit like that when a terminator walks in the room and just immediately like scans it and knows like the coordinates oh god it's like yeah we've already mapped your home based on the photos you've taken thanks yeah yeah exactly so they're apparently the pro is like aimed more at serious photographers and this is so weird videographers i'm a serious videographer now hand me my iphone i mean yeah there's i think that movie tangerine was shot yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean i understand people are making content on it but like the idea that that is somehow like i get that it's prosumer facing and it feels good but i guess i mean at this

point most people will buy it even if they don't consider themselves even like a professional they should be like is that the most expensive one with the best camera yes that one yeah exactly that's why i got it the only time i would ever shoot yeah i don't think i'd ever shoot like if i was shooting like a film or a short film with an iphone if that was kind of the gimmick right right you know like here's my short film oh and it was also shutter and i've otherwise i would never do that shit. I mean, that's fucking bananas. Yeah. But I don't know. I don't know if I'll get the new one or not.

I probably won't. I'm so tired of these phones. What are you working with right now? I have the 10. Okay. There you go. Okay. So it's older.

But before that, I had the 6. So I went from, like, 6. I skipped so many years. And finally, it was because of the four stops lessons. Like, I think it's a real thing that they I had the 6. So I went from 6. I skipped so many years. And then it was because of the four stops lessons. I think it's a real thing that they're going to do, that they do do. And so I just had to get the new phone. So I got it. But I was looking at this other phone called the Palm.

Have you heard about the new Palm phone? From the Palm Trio? Who made the Trio? I don't know if it's the same people, but they call palm but it's tiny it's like this big wow and so the the idea is that you're not gonna go surfing the web you're not gonna do all this you know time wasting on this tiny phone oh gotcha but you can still do so you could still use your email and all that stuff and texting which is kind of what i wanted but i just you know just text no like pictures and shit i get no there's a camera on there too with pictures and whatnot just get

that i had you know what i mean they got the razor that's back out but that's it's got a whole thing too man like you open it up it's like it's like an iphone that's right oh jesus christ i was like yes the razor and it's of an iphone fuck you know it would be great if like 20 years from now like people look back on the period where like you walk into a restaurant and everybody's looking down at their phone as like a weird historical anomaly that like we like can't believe ever happened right that would be gonna be like they're gonna be like humanity maybe like people went to restaurants can you believe that yeah they're like people looked fate people walked around facing up right oh weird yeah people walked you know yeah

wali universe people i i i can see postmates doing like uh like postmates gold or postmates fancy or you can order it that's like Fancy, where you can order it. It's like Postmates, but then you can order a fancy or the gold option, and they show up to the house and they serve it to you. Oh, right. The waiter's there. Just shows up. Yeah, that'd be hilarious.

Actually, hey, if anyone's got some venture capital money, hit us up. I got a lot of ideas. Then I also wanted to mention that cops you know earlier in the year because of the black lives matter movement and you know movements across the country that were pointing out just the injustices around policing in america cops was canceled by the paramount network right and that it has quietly been uncanceled with regards to foreign distribution so distribution in any non-american uh market they're still going to be making it and then who knows like how it's going to be distributed in the u.s i'm sure

they'll find u.s channels they're like well if you get bbc america then you get cops right like wait what uh i don't know i mean yeah now it's just like oh but we're still in the market of exporting copaganda right if you're interested in that for your uh burgeoning authoritarian state uh where you want the police to walk around like militarized guns so yeah cool but yeah i like how it just sort of like we cancel but it's just for international it's just for international we know it's illegal here okay we know this is totally illegal and not cool to do here but just cross the border it's for canada yeah and it also i think same company so it's still like you know that that gesture was just kind of performative woke no performative gestures yeah it's such a critical moment regarding the civil rights of black people

and other minorities god damn it what is this place uh who uh made a big deal about retiring aunt jemima and uh of course the the right made a huge deal about it because right they love to have uh have stories like that where they can be like I mean come on what's next uh according to one executive uh they still haven't actually uh retired Aunt Jemima according to one executive it's because get ready to feel queasy. During these trying pandemic times, customers are still looking for the Aunt Jemima products they know and love. Wow. Yeah. So we've, yeah, rather than using the terrible trope of Aunt Jemima, we've rebranded to Mammy's Pancakes.

Right. It's like, oh, no, they're doubling down. It's, yeah, of course of course it's in the end it's like any company is like look we would sever ties with the racist tumor of our business but it's part of our business and it generates money and money is our god not fairness so sorry yeah i think that that's kind of the reality that people just have to kind of you know uh money money pretty much guides i mean if it wasn't profitable for them you know yeah uh they wouldn't be doing it and and the fact that i think the scary part to me is just that it's still continuously even even as bad as it is it still continues to be profitable meaning that

there are people out there who are buying it and they're finding it viable enough to continue the i wonder if they just said they called it fucking they did a lady antebellum type rebrand and they called them aj's pancakes or auntie jay's and it's just text there's no face are people gonna be like where the fuck did it go where's the fuck i guess i'm gonna buy some other brand that's a really good idea like what that's a really good idea where the like what's the psychology of the consumer that they're concerned about like in this thing we're like in these times people need their racist pancakes i it's i i think it's just i think it's people's like um uh romantic connection with memory that,

you know, and it comes down to this thing where it's just like, oh, you're going to take this. Now, what else are you going to take? You take my, my mom,

my childhood, my mom. Like I can, I could take away GI Joe for a lot of those guys right now. You know what I mean? And they would hate me for it, but that's like one of the most racist cartoons on the, on the fucking planet.

Like I, and I, and I know this as a Brown person because I remember watching it as a kid, you know, and then there was like, like I remember every time we would play G.I. Joe like with my friends, I could only be Cobra only because Cobra had this thing where, you remember that where they go,

Cobra, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. Remember that? Oh, wow. And I thought about it and I was like, oh, that's supposed to be us. Wow. Right, right, right, right. And Cobra's base was always in the desert, and it was clearly this programming. Cobra, famously American snake.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Right. It was like this. But it bothered me. And I remember feeling so sad as a kid because I did like G.I. Joe. Right. It was just, it was like this, but it bothered me. And I remember like feeling so sad as a kid because I did like G.I. Joe. Right. You know what I mean? But I didn't want to feel like I was always going to be painted as the enemy.

So, but that, I mean, there's just a shit ton of that stuff. Yeah. Shit ton of that stuff from back in the day. I think what their research is probably telling them, you know, and their research being listening to the beginning of this episode of this podcast, that people are drawn, and especially during these trying times, people are drawn to nostalgia. there's a general mills thing that's happening that we talked about in a recent episode where they are going back to original recipe, uh, breakfast cereal on like all their,

on golden grams and Cocoa puffs and all these things that we didn't know they had changed the recipe on, but just being like, it's going to taste like childhood was enough. It's going to taste like childhood was enough it's gonna taste like your parents are together but that part where they were fighting a bunch and about to get divorced right i'm not i'm not gonna lie that sounds good to me like i think i'd be right i haven't touched breakfast cereal in a long time but that made me feel like oh man i think i might try that donald

trump was smart he would campaign on that he's like we're gonna make it feel like back when remember your parents were together remember that shit yeah it's gonna be like that you didn't even worry about shit did you yeah fuck yeah yeah that's that's but yeah i mean in these trying times you know as uh black americans struggle for equality we want our customers to retreat to the safe harbors of the antebellum south and chattel slavery right yeah they're demanding that the market uh basically uh regulate itself which has never ever worked um i mean yeah memories i get i guess retro jordans too that's kind of profiting off memories yeah exactly yeah i've been regressing, so I was ready for it all.

It's been 1996 in my mind for many years. Hell, yeah. I'm going to go put the Fugees the score on right now. Oh, great album. Aristotle, it has been wonderful having you, man. Where can people find you and follow you? Oh, God. I have an Instagram. It's Aristotle. So it's air like Nike air. Hell, God. I have an Instagram. It's airstottle.

So it's air like Nike Air. Hell yeah. Underscore. And then stottle. So I'm on Instagram there. And then just my last name on Twitter, which is aetheras. A-T-H-I-R-A-S. Other than that, I mean, I have like, I think I have a LinkedIn.

I have. Oh, where we can see all your jobs. If you guys want to come find me on LinkedIn, find me on Friendster, find me on... Yeah. Let's see what else I got.

Hell yeah. Live Journal? Live Journal, you can find me on Gas Buddy. I have an account on Gas Buddy, so when I go see gas, it's cheap.

I love Gas Buddy. Yeah. Waze. Find me on Gas Buddy. Cool. Find me on W is cheap yeah um ways find me on gas buddy cool find me find me on ways yeah get ways and gas buddy probably we're gonna i'll respond the moment hey wave at me on ways you know see where it goes yeah yeah uh and is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying um yeah i mean to be honest with you i think twitter is a little evil i kind of i i i've been trying to like it's just really hard you know like i remember i thought about it i just like i haven't been on twitter in so long because i just think it's so toxic yeah um wonderful i

mean it's please take care it's good it's got some there's some good things but there's some you know there's some kind of like you know just kind of toxic things, but there's some kind of toxic things too, but it's just hard. I don't like being like that where I don't want to look at what's going on because it's getting too much, but this is the worst year I've ever had in my life. Anyways.

Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Let's see. You can find me twitter and instagram at miles of gray that's a gray with an a not an e see a lot of people who spell my name wrong in a tweet but then tag get my handle right uh you know please please put some respect on my name uh and then also the other podcast for 20 day Fiance. You know, it's talking about 90 Day Fiance. If you want to avoid the cruel world and enjoy the cruel production of 90 Day Fiance, hop on that podcast. Also on iHeartRadio.

Okay, let's see a tweet that I like. Yes. No, this one is from at Bronzehammer about Amy Coney, Army, Army, Carmy Barnett or whatever the supreme court justice you got it there you go the quote was uh this tweet is she wasn't my first choice either but we need to confirm amy coney barrett uh now and once she's sworn in then we can push her left nailed him boom uh derrick but you jack derrick uh tweeted if i was bruce wayne i would pretend Nailed him. Boom. Derek tweeted if I was Bruce Wayne I would pretend to have a shellfish allergy

then as Batman I would get photographed eating a plate of shrimp. Blaine Kapach tweeted washing my seven year old's clothes in spaghetti sauce to save time. And PJ Evans tweeted a picture of the Amityville Horror House.

And it's got like just really subdued and kind of whack Halloween decorations. The Amityville Horror House where six people were murdered feels the need to decorate for Halloween. That kind of blew my mind. That's pretty funny. Yeah, that's funny. And yeah, 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 the song we ride out on miles what are we riding out on today uh this is another one it's only gonna be on soundcloud folks but it's it's worth it uh if you like kendrick lamar if you like a little backseat freestyle if you like a little backseat freestyle, if you like a little Burt Bacharach all mashed together and you want some horns, some brass and Compton Kenny

this is the track for you I just love good remixes that like you know honor the original track well enough they're like oh this is just a trash remix like this one is like you're giving me something new on top of lyrics I already love and this is a remix so this is

called backseat baccarat by wes wax so you can get this shit on soundcloud and put it all in your fucking ears and blow the fucking doors off your honda i do love a like a remix that is clearly based on the name being like a fit but also uh they just make it work yeah uh all right well that is gonna do it for this episode the daily zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio visit the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows that's gonna do it for this morning we'll be back this afternoon to tell you what's trending and we'll talk to y'all then bye bye Damn, I got bitches, wifey, girlfriend, and mistress. All my life, I want money and fun. Please check my mind, no, nigga, it's go time.

I roll the door with a good rhyme, and I run that hoe with a bouton. That's a race for the bouquet. They say, Kay, you gon' marry mine. Biatch. No way. Biatch. No way. Biatch.

No way. Biatch. Okay, I'm out. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that?

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