The Daily Zeitgeist - Impeachment...Over?, Groundhogs dA.I. 1.31.20

Episode Date: January 31, 2020

In episode 560, Jack and Miles are joined by Behind The Bastards / Worst Year Ever / It Could Happen Here podcast host Robert Evans to discuss the new emojis, impeachment updates, WHO declaring an international public health emergency over the coronavirus, scientists discovering why stress causes grey hair, Trump's wall falling apart due to wind, PETA wanting Punxsutawney Phil to retire, and more!FOOTNOTES: PSA: New food emoji are coming Impeachment state of play: Senate Republicans on brink of bringing trial to an end WHO Declares Coronavirus Outbreak a Global Public Health Emergency Coronavirus: French Asians hit back at racism with 'I'm not a virus' Secretary Wilbur Ross says coronavirus will be good for [checks notes] American jobs: "I think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America." Scientists discover 'why stress turns hair white' Trump border wall between US and Mexico blows over in high winds Punxsutawney Phil should be replaced with AI groundhog, says PETA WATCH: Naomi & Kate - Coco & Clair Clair Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 118, Episode 5 of Der 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 and fuck Fox News. It's Friday, Januaryuary 31st 2020 my name is jack o'brien aka

you've been leafing on leafing on me i've been keeping all keeping all proof you've been leafing on me but i've been keeping proof in piles with all this blustering that That is courtesy of T-D-Z, a.k.a. That is a vampire weekend this life, a.k.a. Yeah, everybody got that, I'm sure. I didn't have to say that. Woo! And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Ray! Since we're in Portland, we have some Portland-inspired a.k.a.s. Miles Gray, a.k.a. the man from Ripped City, aka Dub Me and Lillard, aka THCJ McCollum,

aka Hashid Wallace, aka Trevor Atreza, aka Hassan White Widowside, aka Carb Mello Anthony, aka Clyde the Fried Drexler, aka Spliff Robinson, a.k.a. Arvidas Dabonis. Damn. And also Dr. Jack Ramsey, my co-host. I got absolutely none of those references. Not a single one. For the people of the Rose City. Yeah.

Is this called the Rose City? Yes. Garden City. I thought everyone just said Democratic Socialists. Yeah. No, it's the Rose City. That predates Democratic Socialists in America. Oh, wow, it does? Okay, I thought I just said Democratic Socialist Yeah, no, it's the Rose City That predates Democratic Socialism Oh wow, it does? Okay, I thought I just

really caught on This is a great place to grow roses We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat aka on the edge of my bed We're recording in my hotel room He is the hilarious, talented brilliant mr robert evans i i do want to

to to clarify that i am not sitting on the edge of your bed for this because we're in a hotel room that's in my rider whenever i do the data side guys we're in los angeles you bring your bed in yeah we actually have to photoshop the images when we do studio photos because we don't want them to see we've brought in an entire bed for you to say no you have spent so much money on uh rider trucks over the years that i've worked here it's really uh rider and remember when we said what if we just cut out the edge of a bed in a bench type seat because you're not using it across my eye as you deserved and then dumped a whole glass of wine in your face. I had to go buy a bottle of wine and open it.

It took like 40 minutes. He's like, you wait right there. What are we doing in Portland? We had a sold-out live show last night. It was a blast. We are on tour officially. The tour has begun. We are going to be at Brooklynoklyn at the bell house on february 12th washington dc february 13th at the miracle theater uh minneapolis february 25th at

the parkway chicago february 27th at sleeping village uh toronto the grand finale, February 28th. The Great Hall. The Great Hall. That's a fitting venue. In my mind, it's palatial. It's akin to Taj Mahal or something. I'm picturing something very medieval times for some reason. It's Canada, so I'm picturing one of those holes in the ground with fish. Like an ice house?

Yeah, exactly. Like a Molson Ice commercial or something? Yeah, yeah. Very respectful. I have the romanticized Americans version. Yeah, exactly. Like a Molson Ice commercial or something? I'm going the other way. I have the romanticized Americans version. It's probably made of gold and free medication. The streets are paved with free medication. Yeah, they don't have a red carpet.

It's just a mix of hydrocodone and heart medicine. Exactly. Oh, Canada, when you turn on the faucets, insulin comes out. She likes some free vaccinations, eh? it help us we want to see y'all come through get your tickets you say where to get the tickets uh oh shit yeah you got to get your tickets at daily zeitgeist.com and then go down to the live appearances it's not really a tab uh it's more of a like scroll down to the bottom and it's like on the menu nav menu

alright see or just like do a control F or you know I think we've already made it too complicated live appearances it's in the live

it's at the website dailyzygeist.com look around or you can just google dailyzygeist and I'm sure you can find the live show fair point

Robert how you doing man I'm doing good we're the live show. Fair point. Robert, how you doing, man? I'm doing good. We're so thrilled to have you as our guest, both right now on this episode and also last night at the live show. A lot of really tricky, nerve-wracking knife play went on, but it was a blast.

We couldn't say we had Robert there without tricky knife play. You also have to celebrate being in Oregon. The state that decided, for reasons no one's ever explained to me, that there should be no laws at all about what you can do with knives. Just totally unregulated.

That's why I live here. You walked up to us and you have a knife on your belt. A pretty... Fancy one. Yeah, it's my walking around knife. Yeah. My walking knife.

Right. Very Crocodile Dundee of you. No, this is a knife. Right. I feel like he would say that's not a knife. It is not, of course. Compared to his knife. All right, Robert, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about on this fine friday uh we're talking about the new emoji uh there are multiple is it is emoji plural well it well it depends because it it comes from japanese right so singular is a mojo uh emoji emoji it's really it's plural it's a pronunciation thing then it becomes emoji emoji i mean no i you would say emojis in america yeah okay cool well there's a bunch of new ones we're going to talk about them we're going to talk about so abc uh is reporting at the time of this recording that impeachment may be over by the time you hear this girl i'm talking about impeaching this creep uh the impeachment trial they might have just uh moscow mitch might have just moved things through abc seems enamored with him going with the uh sort of mainstream media is

just kind of over itness of the impeachment hearing just um yeah sad accepting of the uh talking points that the defense brought so we'll talk about that we'll talk about the world health organization declaring coronavirus a international health emergency and some racism that is causing around the world and wilbur ross uh telling us why you know there's a little silver lining in this whole coronavirus. Absolutely. We're going to talk about scientific studies. We're going to talk about Trump's wall.

And also Punxsutawney Phil, but AI? Come on. That's too much good stuff. But we're going to do it all. But first, Robert, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? guess what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are you know i'm trying to figure out if there's a way to get uh uh so the honda crv or not the honda crv the uh toyota rav4 okay um the european versions that they made up until a couple of years ago had a

diesel version of their hybrid engine and they didn't never made it in the united states and i'm trying to see if i can find one so that i can possibly buy a diesel engine and then a rav4 over here and then and then switch the engine out mix the two yeah i would i would like a diesel hybrid vehicle for my my bug out kit um because you know the problem with a normal engine is that once everything goes to shit and they stop refining the oil after a couple of months like that that's gonna go bad and so you want to have like a diesel engine can burn just about or i mean it doesn't combust it but like a wider variety of fuels can be put into it so that's that's what i'm looking into and i so far had no luck i'm in diesel hybrids are popular in europe i'm guessing more so than the united states you know oddly

enough a lot of like fedex trucks are diesel hybrids i think or Europe, I'm guessing? More so than the United States. You know, oddly enough, a lot of FedEx trucks are diesel hybrids, I think. Oh, interesting. Or UPS. I forget which, but one of the two. Yeah. Maybe you could just steal one of those. Maybe I could steal one of those or hold just a random delivery person up at knife point until they make my RAV4 into a diesel hybrid.

And be like, take this to my house. I just need the engine, man. I don't want this engine. Just need the engine. This engine is not worth your life. To be clear, we this to my house. I just need the engine, man. I don't want to lose my engine. Just need the engine. This engine is not worth your life. To be clear, we don't recommend anyone doing that other than Robert. Robert is a trained professional

at holding up delivery drivers. At KnifePoint. That's why. Specifically for the purposes of getting a hybrid diesel engine. That's why you bring me on this podcast. Only after the apocalypse has officially begun. We will tell you why the apocalypse has officially begun.

I realize the view from our room overlooks what looks like a truck depot for UPS trucks. Yeah. And I'm curious if that, well. That's my evening plans. All of Robert's, it might not be known to the listener, but all of Robert's recording sessions are like the verbal Kent part of Usual Suspects where he's just looking around at different things and just making shit up. So that's worth noting. What is something you think is overrated the impeachment uh okay yeah not that it's not like important and that the president didn't commit a bunch of crimes he did but like he was never going to get uh kicked out of office like it was it's been obvious to me for

a while that like either we managed to get our shit together and win a really resounding victory, uh, in November or the only way out of this mess is a general strike. Uh, that that's kind of like where I am on this. And I think the folks who were like really hoping that the political process and laws,

we're going to deal with the problem of this guy who breaks all the laws and then gets applauded for it uh i don't think that was ever really in the cards yeah yeah i think the most we could have hoped for was witnesses and then after that then proceed to the vote in which they're like okay yeah yeah that's kind of most of what we could hope for and i think in general like um we've moved beyond like the part of the problem is that laws only really work if most people agree that they want to live under them and we're not in that country anymore right yeah so i don't know impeachment is my overrated yeah well who has decided they don't want to live under what laws like besides gop senators just like trump supporters have decided

yeah i think it's not worth it for them to be wrong. About 40% of the country has decided they don't want to abide by any rules that mean they don't get to do exactly what they want. Um, I think that's kind of where, where we're at. And I think there were, there was always,

that's always been a piece of politics because a chunk of like American politics has always been massaging the laws to make, you know, things more like what you wanted. We had this shit with like Nixon before, but there was always this like pretense that like, we are a nation of laws and we care about that. And it matters more than,

you know, my own political ambitions. And that shit's like, that shit got jettisoned a couple of years back and it's not coming back unless there's like a massive reformation of american society um at kind of a fundamental level and uh yeah that's kind of where i am when you say a general strike as one of the possible recourses what what are you picturing um well it's basically you know you've got your two options for a massive reformation of society.

One of them is a civil war, which I don't think is a good idea. And one of them is everybody just say, we're not going to keep doing any of this shit until we get this list of things that need to happen. Until we get, you know, a massive reform of health care. Until we get mass environmental reform. Until we get a reform of the economic system that, like know cuts out a lot of the inequality like if you want us to continue to produce the things that makes this country valuable and like makes you know the lives of the people up at the top uh worth living a sweet sweet revenue yeah you got to give us some shit um we're fed up i think i mean it doesn't even take all that much if you got air traffic controllers and uh and truck drivers to all agree on the same

simple list of demands and go on strike, I think there wouldn't be a whole lot the government could do to stop them. Without truck drivers and pilots and stewardesses, the country kind of goes to a stop. And podcast hosts. And podcast hosts. Well, we're the most important.

We'll be the vanguards of the revolution. What would need to happen for something like that like would there just need to be a like labor leader or like some leader to rise up that is like the a modern day mlk or something i mean i guess that's that's one possibility i tend to i tend to number one be sort of more of a fan of kind of the leaderless movements we've seen rise up one of the problems about having a guy like mlk is what happened with mlk is it's really easy to shoot a guy right um especially in the united states of america um i think what we've seen in hong kong is maybe a better blueprint for uh what that would look like where you have a truly mass movement that

has managed to like deal with overwhelming state power for getting close to a year now, and continues to bring millions of people out on a semi-regular basis to protest and shut down the city. And there's no single leader. It's very much an acephalous movement. And it has a very simple list of five, some would say six demands. But I think that's one of the critical things, is getting enough of America on board with like, we're not gonna settle all of our political differences.

Here's three or four things that we all agree we can get enough people on board, have to change, and let's not fucking keep this country moving forward until these things change. I think it's a possible thing. Part of me worries that we might have to reach an even darker state than we're currently in before you can actually get people on board. I hope that's not the case. We have to reach that tipping point where everyone feels the pain enough to figure out, like, oh, okay, something has to be done now.

And my increasingly fading hopes for electoral politics are that we can avoid that pain point and and get the make those changes happen without the necessity of something calamitous but if something calamitous happens then i think a general strike is your best bet for that not being violent what is something you think is underrated you know i think jet skis get a lot of shit wow i think they're better than cars i think they're more ethical than bicycles um i don't trust bicycles but i trust a jet ski i think it's a noble steed um i would like it if more americans commuted with jet skis yeah and i think we could stand to like i think elon musk is barking up the wrong tree we need to build a series of canals

in america cities that allow jet ski transit and mass jet ski trans jet skis that'll hold 40 50 people yeah wow yeah a single jet ski the new train yeah massive massive long connected chains of jet skis yeah i like chains i like like jet ski gangs i've talked a lot about this oh wait now you've pivoted to full-on jet ski gangs yeah jet ski yeah like you know power numbers like i just you know i i just think there needs to be an 80s movie where like a evil jet ski gang like yeah where was that that's that movie dude we have a movie yeah we were i've been the closest is water get it going for a while yeah yeah is that the script you're always working on you said i gotta go work on something well i just like the idea of like a school where everybody rides jet skis to school.

And then there's like an evil jet ski gang menacing him. See, but I also like the idea, Jack, of like a major international bank where everybody rides jet skis to work. And they've had to change the dress code because you can't jet ski to work in a suit. So it's just board shorts and fucking beer t-shirts. Yeah, man. It has to be beer t-shirts. Yeah, hell yeah. Fucking flip flops yeah what are you wearing a collared shirt yeah this is an important meeting yeah yeah this fucking keystone light

t on tokyo's here today i mean maybe that could be just a wrestler named tokyo like if i guess if a water world was our reality then everyone would be kind of right that would be tight that would be tight as hell. I mean, that would require, yeah. I mean, we're on our way to massive failure to address climate change.

So amazing, uh, aspect of that movie where they're like, and also he has gills behind his ear because there's water now. Yeah. It's like, Oh, what?

I'm sorry. How did a human? So in a single generation, we've adapted. No, it's been many. Cause at this point the language of portuguese greek has also developed yes it has like what are they talking he's like portuguese

greek also that was mine that's an interesting two different groups to have merged languages i mean i get like i mean we're the greeks great seafarers i know the portuguese were so i guess that makes sense like seafarers like yeah countries with like strong traditions of navigating the seas end up with some hybridized language i don't know look it's what man everything about that movie makes sense okay exactly um and also when uh dennis hopper's like praying to the captain of the exxon valdez he's like come on captain joe like it's the fucking guy who like there's captain x it was like it's a very weird film it's a very good movie yeah it's a very good movie i cannot stop like if it's on i'll watch it oh i had such a morbid fascination with it as a kid because i was like you know like when you're when

you're young a lot of the like global warming climate change stuff like i have a feeling our generation takes seriously because like we were told about it enough to be like, whoa, yeah, I guess so. Then Waterworld comes out. Right. Makes it look super tight. We got to talk. I remember being really asking my parents to make sure this didn't happen.

Is it going to be Waterworld? My dad was like, I don't know. You'll be probably dead by then. I'm like, thanks, Boomer. I hope. Okay, Boomer. I have this vision in my head of like like the climate apocalypse hitting in like a really spectacular hollywood way yeah and kevin costner is looking at being like well i did all i could right like there was nothing more i could

have done he's like oh okay what else i'm the one person who really threw it all in do we think that that's greta thunberg's problem, is she just didn't see Waterworld and doesn't realize how tight everything's going to be when we're in Waterworld? Yes, that's why she's bummed. That's why she's such a bummer. Dude, has somebody shown Greta Waterworld?

We pop that movie on as soon as she watches Kevin Costner drink his own urine, which is how the movie starts. Yeah, she'll be all in, just like the rest of us. No, I was immediately. You know who was jealous of that shot? Tom Hanks. Let's talk about myths.

What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? I hate to keep going back to the well of horses, but I really hate horses. Yeah, you hate it. I really despise them. We had a very anti-horse episode. Horses kill more people than drunk drivers.

That can't be true. It might be. If you go back far enough, sure. Absolutely. If you include all of the people killed by horses. Take all the stats from the beginning of recorded time up until about 1900. So I think the myth is that horses like people i think what we're what we're living through right now is a slow attempted genocide of the human race planned by big horse

big horse that's right what wow what is a a way that you think people are underestimating the danger of horses like riding them and falling off i it's kicking you know one kicking kills a lot of people a lot of people get killed by uh don draper's dad kicked to death by basically a horse i think it was a mule but that's just a shitty horse yeah um john ham or don draper the character both you know they uh as as the article you just pulled up shows jack they kill more people in australia than venomous creatures right so australia is the deadliest continent and the deadliest animal in australia is the ignoble horse therefore but when australia gets cars like they're gonna be that'll go yeah but see that's the danger point jack because when the horses realize they're not necessary anymore they're really that's when they're see that's the danger point jack because when the horses realize they're not necessary

anymore they're really that's when they're gonna that's when they're gonna try it horses are magnificent creatures precisely because i respect the danger they present right i'm not one of these horse lovers i respect the horse because i know it could kill me with one swift kick right through my chest it could it could oh my god i'll have seen i've i've seen enough like you know i've been on the internet enough looking at weird videos to see a horse kick is the last thing any person on earth should ever want and it's the last thing a number of people on earth experience yeah like don draper's dad right is that is that a cutaway scene or is that just a it's from his childhood i think it's a mule, but like he's...

No, there's like a scene you see him as a kid. Like his dad gets like kicked by a mule or something. Does he fly back like in the Matrix? No, he just dies horribly. Just right there. Right in the head. I think it's in the head or the chest. I forget.

I haven't watched Mad Men in a while. Yeah. It's a pretty 30s death. I think, yeah, most of the time you see videos of people like fucking around with a horse and like kind of smacking it on the ass look you're that you're actually asking for that right stay very far away from horses i mean i've i've been to a horse barn within the past couple months taking your life into your own hands there jack and uh they they seemed very you didn't take your kids away what they know you're on horse barns uh i know it was they're very nice. You said you didn't take your kids away? They know you're on horse barns?

I know. They're very nice, peaceful, beautiful creatures, as long as you respect them, I think. Yeah, that's what they say about a lot of things, peaceful and beautiful until they commit murder. Robert's take, dude, don't trust a horse. The Yakuza are beautiful, Jack. They're deadly. Yeah, hey, wow.

Oh, that's what I meant. Did I say horses? I meant Yakuza. Sorry, I always get those confused uh let's talk about the new emoji hundreds have we all really gotten on board not calling them emoticons anymore yeah i think well because emoticons were is that the ones you would make out of like alphanumeric signs yeah that was the the og and then emoji is like in japanese like emotional letter or symbol or and that's where we get all the faces and crying and puke face and daisies and vampires and shit but it's weird they keep adding more and more i feel like i don't notice when there's more like there's a i think the last one had over 80 or

something added i'm like oh really and then I'm like, oh, cool. Who's in charge of that? You could be like a brunette vampire if you want. Is there like a central authority? There is. The Unicode Consortium. That's horrible. Alex Schmidt, current host of the Cracked podcast,

our former colleague, just submitted a bison emoji that got approved that's in this batch of updates so now alex schmidt and kevin costner will both be the only two people who can say they did all they could right right to warn us oh you're using the buffalo emoji oh real casually huh the uh there's a lot of food ones i like the little seal holding its belly won't use it i made me laugh and then there's one that is going to be a chef's kiss, which I think is important. Oh, that is important.

But what it is, I believe it's pinched fingers, kind of like an Italian, like, hey. Yeah. What are you doing? That's critical for Italian-American culture. Yeah, so that only thing we're going to do. Exactly, yeah. All texts will be reduced to an emoji.

We'll begin and end with that emoji. But they say, you know, you pair that with the kiss, like the lips. Boom. Now you got now. We'll get a chef's kiss. Chef's hat. Chef's hat. If you wanted to.

Yeah. Pinch fingers. I mean, yeah. And look, it's all up to you. That's the beauty of these things. And then now we're getting blueberries, bell peppers, flatbread, tamale, fondue, teapot, bell peppers flatbread a tamale fondue teapot mouse trap okay potted plant a toothbrush and many other ones thank god there's a toothbrush yeah yeah there's another one's like a roach and a just one's like a rock i mean i guess is this where is this where we're headed we're like

there are going to be some people who are completely illiterate and just these are our new hieroglyphs. I mean, are they? No. Are they replacing ones that like are some being retired as they bring in new ones? Because I haven't heard of one being retired. They should. Right. I mean, it needs to because otherwise it's just going to be harder and harder to find the one you're looking for.

Oh, so you're saying there should be some kind of relegation system? There's 26 letters. We don't just add new letters. So we should take them away if we add new ones? Yeah. Propose a new letter right now, Jack. Like a Q, but slower. There we go.

Yeah. Is that it? F and Q mixed together. together yeah that's only good for anton fuqua yeah exactly you could say fuck real real simply too though yeah exactly yeah yeah that's what like the rebels that's how they pronounce few well all right i bubble tea i'm glad we have it i can't believe teapot and bubble tea were added at the same time it seems like teapot was a real oversight. Man, that really says a lot

about modernity. Yeah, it does. Olive, come on, guys. Olive was the first food. I don't think we should have added olive. The first food. Respect our history. Damn it. Alright, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing.

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And we're back. And according to ABC, by the time you are listening to this, the impeachment trial may be over. The Senate Republicans may have just been like, all right, yeah, more on that later. Let's move it along. and then voted to acquit uh because they want the president to have a clean slate of health when he delivers uh the last state of the union i don't know how they think that's gonna yeah people are

just gonna gloss over that right like well okay well that's how we voted right it's over well yeah but you know he's going to love to just i guess the acquittal tweets are going to be real right if they do vote to acquit by the beginning of next week will because the state of the union has always been written by somebody else that he's just like reading very it's written in the language of state of the union will he like take 15 minutes to just fucking solo on you know on the people for if he's flying off that adderall dude right how could anyone on uppers like that bear like restrain themselves from spiking their own football i mean at this point the most patriotic thing you can do is just keep on feeding the manor all yeah scene with that did you see that one there was that one clip from that rally in wildwood where he couldn't say shielding criminals and say what dude he could it was that verbal aphasia shit like hardcore

and the democrats are shielding criminals so here's here's the deal here's the deal here's the deal like he pivoted off of it and Fox just cut right the fuck away and someone laughed did you hear immediately in that clip

one of the people in the studio was like just laughing at the sundowning old man who can end the world with the press of a button I mean I will give him that he was

he did have the wherewithal enough to know he had completely fucked up how to say that and tried to be like no no no scratch that this is what i mean yo anyway i mean biden who is by far the front runner uh according to 538 uh for the democratic primary also just saying things that really do not instill a whole

lot of confidence like he was He's pretty close to saying fuck you to someone pretty soon. But he also said something like, when I was elected 2010, 2011, 2013, I was like, yo, what? What the fuck?

Oh, no. And also said that he will get a strong VP because he's a dying old man. oh no he will get a strong VP because he's a dying old man just make it make Bernie your VP there we go two very very old

yeah I would love a combined presidential age of 150 that seems good that's 150 years worth of experience but anyways they so abc reporting this in very much the way that the mainstream media has been talking about this uh as come on the people just want to move on and it's time to get back to the election which is fully adopting the talking point

that the GOP put forward. Yeah, dragging it on. We'll let the people decide. It's like, no, this is about him cheating at that election. The people don't enforce the Constitution, you fucking idiot. It's y'all's job, but none of it matters. The mainstream media also really likes Mitch McConnell

for some reason. Just a quote from the ABC News article saying about this. ABC News' Trish Turner caught up with McConnell as he arrived at the Capitol Thursday, asked if he has the votes he needs to win the day Friday. On witnesses, he responded, we'll see what tomorrow brings. Then when asked if he felt confident about the vote, he turned his head and with a sly grin and said i always do it's like i'm sorry abc are you trying to fuck mitch mcconnell

yeah like yeah maybe i mean you know anyone who can find love in this chaotic modern world yeah no it is funny because like that i know it doesn't matter but it sucks that it doesn't matter it really sucks because party wants to be like dude this shit has to matter yeah but then i'm like if i really look at with my sober eyes with the situation like this isn't this is basically like the last stand for the like minority power basically and they're like and they're going to pull out all the stops they'll kill for it if this is like they think they can win white conservatives are like bro this is our thermopoly right here yeah right and we're the not even the 300 the fucking 53 yeah we're about to just completely embarrass themselves some of us are looking at the spreading coronavirus and going

i mean only if it was a little bit better. Yeah. Right. I mean, all we need, all we need is like it to hit one really good steakhouse in DC. Right. And then a lot of problems are done solved. The lobby of the Trump Hotel. Yeah. But yeah, ABC fully covering the horse race of it all and just being like, wow, this guy is good at getting the votes together.

He's the best horse race guy. The coverage is so fucking whack. Killing democracy. Because they're trying to even like, I don't know how you try to both sides this shit at this point. He does it with a sly grin. You have people who are the quote unquote White House counsel, but are just a bunch of jokers who should be disbarred

if they're arguing these kinds of things. And then like who are just lying. And thenokers who should be disbarred if they're arguing these kinds of things, and then who are just lying. And then you have other people pursuing truth. They're talentless hacks who thinks that that's what journalism is, that the core of journalism is showing both sides. And it's like, no, no, that's not what Woodward and Bernstein did. That's not why Nixon had to leave office. It wasn't everyone's commitment to both sides.

The two sides of this coin is one side looking for truth, other side lying. Yeah. And that's all you have to present it as. One side committing crimes, other side being like, should we do something about the crimes?

These are crimes, right? And then the media saying, people seem tired. Yeah. Oh, should we drag this on? I don't know. Right. Anyway.

Yeah. I feel tired of it. I feel Yeah. I feel tired of it. I feel like the people feel tired of it. They're like, just one more fucking, one more term, and get me those tax cuts that fully make my balls explode. Like, that's all. That's all they want. The ABC News article goes on to summarize some of the defense,

Trump's defense team's arguments. And one of the ones they point to is the short straightforward answer is there was no jeopardy to the national security interests of the united states from the timing of the release of this money so no damage whatsoever to the national security of the united states no no foul guys that was they cool they got caught no no no but see that was after the whistleblower they got no no no bro they got the money though see that's the thing they got the money that's like if you catch someone in the act of trying to kill somebody no no i didn't kill him though right no harm no foul no harm no foul that's why we don't prosecute attempted murder exactly that's why that's why and you know what that's actually a good deterrent that you caught me because i won't do it again knowing that there's no consequences

for me attempting it oh man this is getting exhausted it is no it's getting exhausting but the thing is i feel like despite all like how it's like it doesn't matter we still need people who think that it matters who believe that it matters because obviously the super victory version for the right is like everyone's like it nothing matters like right that it matters because obviously the super victory version for the right is like everyone's like it nothing matters like yes that's and we just sort of start going i mean after this just even think even if uh trump's voted out we're still dealing with half of these assholes yes in the house and senate we're still dealing with all these judiciary appointments there's still all this shit that's going to have to be fought against no trump

getting voted out as the democratic equivalent of a tourniquet and like right you don't just like okay well we stopped the bleeding it's like your gunshot wounds dealt with everything below that belt like yeah there's like there's like months of physical therapy that will be necessary if we can stop the bleeding and like the hope is that we vote him out so that we can start the physical therapy right yeah and i think that's can start the physical therapy. Yeah. And I think that's just, yeah, the prevailing sentiment among people in this country is that like, that was so, we can't, we're not doing that. We can't go back to that. And I just don't see anyone in a meaningful way feeling that way.

That we don't go back to that? Yeah, because the people who like him are just happy that he yells at the people they don't like. Right, sure. And that's what American politics is now. Yeah, i think and then then you have the other half who thinks it matters and then but it'll only matter maybe if they become like nancy pelosi claps back at someone or something like yeah it's frustrating i mean i will say i've taken a lot of leafs out of the gop's book um i've been doing a lot of inebriated driving.

And as soon as I get home, I call the police and I say, I was on the road, but you didn't catch me. And they say, that means it's not a crime. Congratulations, sir. And honestly, we'd love to give you a commendation for being honest with us. I have a lot of awards. Yeah.

Like the, hey, you got us award. Yeah. Fucking America. Hey, you got us award. Yeah. Uh, America. Hey, you got us, man. The world health organization has declared coronavirus an international

health emergency. This came yesterday on the same day as the first person to person transmission in the U S was reported in Chicago. One kind of scary thing that I hadn't fully gotten, uh, during the first wave of coverage is that you're asymptomatic for up to like two weeks or something yeah you could have it right now and you wouldn't know um even if you were traveling that guys tell you about my trip to wuhan yeah oh my god i i'm a big fan of uh state measures to stop the transit of large groups of people

so I got some great shots barriers, fences yeah the panic is a lot of people there's a lot of fear going on a lot of Asian jokes I've seen on Twitter too it's frustrating

not even on Twitter there's a french newspaper that had the front page headline yellow alert oh my god an asian woman wearing a protective mask jesus christ yeah no i mean yeah it is france yeah oh boy um yeah that's it and i think there's also been i've seen a lot of takes too from a lot of people just basically like observing this like weird fear of asian people too yeah like that there'll be like i don't know and like focusing on like what was in the food markets and stuff. It's like, Oh, they have all these weird meats. And it's like, yeah.

Yeah. I mean like, cause it's larger than SARS now. Right. Like not in terms of dead, not in terms of dead, but they're saying like the, but then, but the rate and the spread is like would outpace it or something.

I mean, it's part of what's hard to tell is they think that there's probably, and this is also why they think at least a lot of the experts think, that the lethality of the virus is currently overestimated is because they suspect there's a lot of people who got it and it just wasn't that big a deal for them and they never went to the doctor or reported it, which is part of why it spread,

but also part of why it's probably been overestimated, like the actual percentage of people who get it who die. Well, how do we know those people who have it and lived aren't using miracle mineral solutions well that's a good point and you know q anon is on that and they've been preaching i brought a gallon of bleach you did and uh i feel like we should take some shots do some 20 20 20 yeah yeah yeah your teeth have never looked whiter thank you is that from the bleach yes yeah they look brittle too yeah the scabs around your mouth you want your organs to be white and brittle yeah that's how you know you're clean yeah um yeah that one

uh a vietnamese woman was actually speaking about what uh it's like for her right now in paris she said uh she was riding the public transport and people were she heard people saying there's a Chinese woman she's going to contaminate us she needs to go home and just people looking at her in a disgusted way as if she was the virus yeah and I would look at the French I go here are the colonizers

better get the fuck away so there's a hashtag I am not the virus going around on social media. Jesus Christ. There's what? That is the bleakest thing I've ever heard. There's a hashtag among Asian people online, I am not the virus.

We're like being like, look, guys, it's not us. But I thought Obama was president. He was. Are we all past this now? Right. Oh, I have some bad news. Yeah, go on. I haven't looked around recently.

Oh, are we in a post-racial world? Wilbur Ross. Holy shit. I mean, you got to find the silver lining in all this stuff, you know? Yeah, Wilbur Ross. I mean, thank God, through all this nihilism and just fear and dread we have a rotting bag of piss that we somehow collectively refer to as a commerce secretary is telling us all the good stuff you know he was on fox news starting off you know because the economy is like one of the

only things trump can be like see that's not basically a total failure uh he goes there out there and says you know the economy's doing so well. He said it was physically impossible for there to be a recession, is what Wilbur Ross said. That's good. I'm not sure what that means. I'm just trying to remember.

I'm just trying to think of how you can even... I think it's kind of like how that... You remember when they built that really nice cruise liner that couldn't be sunk and then it successfully made its journey across the Atlantic. Yeah, show that iceberg. Yeah oh no so he now has i don't know dude this guy's brain rot is something to behold because his take on the benefits of the coronavirus oh my god only

an american only an american capitalist could even articulate something like this. You can seriously see the Chinese economy come to a halt. And given the large percentage of global growth that China commands, does that actually threaten what you're just saying? Well, first of all, every American's heart has to go out to the victims of the coronavirus. American's heart has to go out to the victims of the coronavirus. So I don't want to talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate, very malignant disease. But the fact is, it does give businesses yet another thing to consider when they go through their review of their supply chain. And top of all the other things, because you had SARS, you have the African swine virus there,

now you have this. It's another risk factor that people need to take into account. So I think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America, some to U.S., probably some to Mexico as well. All right. Wow. Cool. That's good. to North America, some to US, probably some to Mexico as well.

All right. Wow. Cool. That's good. So she was talking to him not about coronavirus, right? She was talking about how competitive China is. They pivoted on something. Yeah, but they pivoted to it, yeah. I mean, the ironic thing about this is that for all of the racial fears

and the stereotyping about the kind of meat that gets eaten in China and whatnot, for all of that, the thing that is actually going to cause the nightmare pandemic that kills a huge number of Americans has nothing to do with China. It has nothing to do with Chinese culture. American is going to get infected with the disease and be unable to take a day off of work at Starbucks or at the nice rib place where he works in DC. And we'll go into work and we'll infect someone and that person will infect other people and it will start this chain and it will trace back ultimately to the fact that we have no functioning healthcare system or safety net in this country. That is what's, when we have a fucking plague that swipe

sweeps through this society and kills a shitload of people and does a lot of damage the root of it will be people like wilbur ross and the thinking of the republican party it will not have nothing to do with fucking china yeah um oh boy it's yeah i mean and what's the basically his fear-mongering is basically like and you know your supply your supply chains, the Chinese people, they'll get all your computer stuff sick. So don't. Well, I mean, computers get viruses, so do people. Oh, could you imagine?

Well, this virus leapt from some form of poultry or meat or whatever to human beings. So who's to say the same can't happen from a computer, Miles? It's gone electric, like Bob Dylan. The Bob Dylan virus. Shit's gone like bob dylan the bob dylan virus it's gone electric man god i hope that's the future i hope that's what kills 98 of the population is the bob dylan virus jumps out of the computer oh man yeah so that's that's where i mean also like when you think about just all the tactics that this administration's used to quote unquote bring jobs back to the united states first of all we're the workers we don't have the workforce right to even begin to compete because we're we've

completely changed our economy but then like all the fucking trade war bullshit i thought that was supposed to help things too so you're not pro pro-trade war? No, I love every other kind of war. Just not, yeah, the easiest kind. Also, I mean, mind you, that farm bankruptcies increased 20% in 2019 despite all the aid that was given out. Name one thing farms produce that we need, Miles. Right.

Horses. See? Horses. Actually, it was a really good horse crop this year. I'm heavily invested in horse futures. And you're talking at the beginning, man. I got words for you, man. That kind of fucked my portfolio up.

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fucking went like edgar winter right after that visit to the horse farm yeah yeah exactly yeah how did your horseshoe apprenticeship go yeah no all white hair um yeah they've been trying to like just figure out what exactly is causing like the the pigmentation change and the look the experiment is a little brutal they had to use mice uh and basically uh use like some kind of like electric shock to trigger like a pain reaction within the mice uh and so that was going to basically increase adrenaline cortisol the heart rate was going up blood pressure goes up the nervous like all of it just like put them in a high stress state and then they basically looked when they look at all the hair follicles that this process contributed to the depletion of uh the stem cells that create

the melanin that create the pigment in the hair follicle and yeah like a lot of people like this was i think done between yeah brazil like university of brazil and i think harvard or somewhere in the u.s and they were just saying like after a few days of this a lot of the pigment regenerating cells were just gone yeah and they're saying once there was this kid who got into an accident and couldn't come to school, but when he finally came back, his hair had turned from black into bright white. Whoa.

And he said it was from when the cars had smashed him so hard. Oh. I mean, but I bet that kid looked cool as hell. Yeah. Oh, yeah. For sure. Was he a crash test dummy? Is that the name of the band?

Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of frustrating because like okay i am generally pro-knowledge i think i should seek to understand things better but also the end result of this research right is so that rich white guys with gray hair don't have to have gray hair anymore right right as opposed to like there's nothing life-threatening about having gray hair i feel like there's other problems those minds could be working as you as you figure out baldness yeah and better boner pills better boner pills i mean there's all forms of cruelty i guess at every level of consumption but yeah like it's hard to be like yeah and then we just like shock the shit out the mice yeah their hair would turn colors oh good did that was worth it cocaine because i have noticed

people who do a lot of cocaine get white hair oh yeah like uh ad rock from the beastie boys i just assumed that was because the cocaine winds up in their hair in their hair but that's how much cocaine they're doing yeah um i mean yeah that that happens that and then your sinus is just i mean cocaine is not a low stress endeavor right that's true it's like they're artificially raising their stress yeah you go to like nobody relaxes a fake pharmaceutical ad it's like when my blood pressure rises i reach for cocaine it's like hold on what the blood the calming the calming properties of straight sniffing base okay uh has anybody ever done that just a uh one pharmaceutical head for street that sounds exactly like the kinds of youtube videos you or any of us would have made

a lot of our friends 10 years ago doing that yeah uh let's talk about the wall yeah uh the mighty wall yeah yeah it's a bummer what happened with pink floyd yeah i know um oh yeah actually we should talk about that about roger waters yeah his his bleak slide um yeah trump's i don't know the just to visit part of the fucking border wall blew over in the wind. It just blew over. I don't even know a clever way to get into this about saying. It's because you don't know how to construct things, Miles. Yeah, exactly. So this was like in Southern California, the winds were pretty bad this last week.

But they are every year, literally. Exactly. I don't know why I'm trying to be like, hey, come on, give them a break, guys. The winds were pretty bad. It's why we have the best firefighters and they can't stop fires right yeah um so this part that was in like uh in calexico like near the california mexico border they were 30 feet high they began to just basically start leaning like from the wind and the place the part of this wall was under construction uh like and they were putting like concrete back in place but now they're like just starting to kind of

address the problem and and fixing it but just the idea there's something so poetic of just being like here's your big monument to xenophobia and the fucking wind fucking it over? The fucking wind takes it out. Like the wind? I mean, you've seen the way he stands. He stands like that looked before the wind started blowing. Right, right, right. Like he's in the Smooth Criminal video, just like leaning on an angle. Yeah, he does kind of stand. It's tragic that the only thing they didn't take into account

was the thing that happens reliably every single year in that part of the world. The winds. The i mean i guess i'm not sure if it's part of the section that the military is helping build or if it's one of you know whatever grifter can told him it was mexican proof right whatever and he's like oh and that's that's mexican proof okay yeah we like that well i mean it might be military built. They half-ass everything. I mean, look at Afghanistan. Oh, boy, yeah. Well, that's why we need the private contractors to come in now, Robert.

Eric Prince would have just used saran wrap. Oh, yeah. He'd be like, yeah, I got your wall going. Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry. And if they get through, you know, we'll just commit horrible human rights atrocities. Yeah. We got guns. Oh, you really want the wall?

Like, you shoot a couple they get the idea all right black water out uh let's talk about punxsutawney phil he is being approximated with an ai pita wants the town of punxsutawney to end their tradition started in 1887 okay they've been bringing out the old groundhog to be like how much more winter will there be uh and now pita because you know they're all about the ethical treatment you know an animal exists and is interfacing with humans pete is angry uh yes they say times change traditions evolve it's long overdue for phil to be retired by creating an ai phil you could keep punk satani at the center of groundhog day but in a

much more progressive way oh my god talk about taking your town's annual tradition in a fresh and innovative direction and i say that wrong because i just think it's hilarious do they spell it wrong no i just like when i want to make fun of people think using innovative in such a wacky way yeah oh it's innovative um yeah in the future miles as you sit upon the crest of one of the last bits of dry land in north america trying to cut gills into the back of my ears yeah watching the jet ski gangs fight it out over what used to be los angeles as your son or daughter says to you daddy when the waters were rising what did the good people do to stop it and you'll say we did everything we could we did everything and you'll think about that robotic ground dog

we did absolutely everything we could that's a good opening to this film where i shed a single tear because i realized my family and i are about to be murdered by roving jet ski gang right and then you go into the reflection of my tears yeah you go into the first ai punk yeah and that's the whole movie's just about that quest exactly but the opening is really dark yeah family about to be just and the last line is you saying we did absolutely everything we could we did everything there was no other way to prevent this black fade to black but it's funny because their whole thing is again they're saying they're a prey species their argument in terms of uh in terms of like an ethical treatment of animals thing is

it's a prey species uh they actively avoid humans being in close proximity to the public causes these animals great stress okay let's see if their hair is gray that's how we'll really know um and when phil is dragged out of his hole and held up the held up to flashing lights and crowds he has no idea what's happening so would no other fucking animal on earth know what's happening i'm sorry that i mean i understand the other things they don't really understand it very well but it's not like the problem is like okay i, I'm sentient. I know I'm, I'm Punxsutawney Phil. I'm the 40th of my name. Right. Wait, but what are all these people doing here now?

40th of my name. Like if that, it's one of those things, like I'm never going to stand up and support factory farming, but if like your, your choice for an evil to fight is like once a year, this animal whose health and welfare are otherwise deeply cared for has a stressful day an animal that would have been a prey animal living in the wild having no predators now yeah having no predators now yeah one rough day right come on guys yeah i and and you know they they they fight tooth and nail against factory farms but yeah i think this is their newest moment to sort of re shoehorn their name into the conversation.

Yeah, it's a PR thing. The best is the guy who's the president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, this guy Bill Dealey. He's like, look, Phil is treated well and he enjoys his routine. He's fed a healthy diet. His habitat is temperature controlled. The fucking burrow is inspected

by the Department of Agriculture every year. He lives well. But this is the best part which shows you how assholey humans are this is when he completely negates everything goes and if he's so fearful of the cameras if he's so fearful of us in the crowds why doesn't he just make an attempt to run away then oh come on mic drop that's his rebuttal to this everyone loses in this um there's no clear winner. Well, I'm ready for the waters to take us.

Yeah, please. And Punxsutawney Phil to lead us against the roving jet ski gangs. But the AI version, otherwise it's exploitative. Yeah, exactly. Right. PETA also doesn't think we should be allowed to have pets. Yeah. Right, because they're not for

animal slavery. Have you talked to a dog, PETA? Yo, my dog would fucking die the second I let his ass out. I'm sorry. Objectively, there's no way to live better than with me. That's kind of their whole deal. Our friends and animal companions, we just think that they would have been better off

if they got to live their own lives being hunted. Also, we invented dogs have been yeah it would never have existed without us right nature doesn't make dogs i mean yeah the again no this isn't a pro animal cruelty show by any stretch of the imagination but when you go to the extremes like oh yeah i guess with the opening horse stuff that could seem like we're just like really mean about animals. They hate horses. I do hate horses. I love animals. I love horses.

I hate horses. I love animals. I just wish wealthy white people would care about people first. Yeah. PETA, I am not a huge fan of. Fully agree. But I also think that in this world of constant frustrations, like the ones we've gone through today,

one of the very few things I'm unequivocally proud of humans for making is dogs. Yeah. Like, okay, we got that one right. We really fucking nailed that. We really nailed dogs. And especially when you're like, the healing magical properties of a dog. Yeah.

They're incredible. Yeah. They're like helping like people who are in our prison system be like- They find bombs. Yeah. Right. Some can sniff like other diseases.

We really did kind of nail it with the invention of dogs. Yeah dogs yeah they rule you know what yeah we at peter very much love the animal companions who share our homes but we believe that it would have been in the animal's best interest if the institution of pet keeping breeding animals to be kept and regarded as pets never existed i mean i'm i i in favor of like breeding dogs yeah like like there's plenty of strays yeah they look they they can fuck on their own yeah I mean, I'm in favor of like breeding dogs. Yeah. Like there's plenty of strays. They look, they can fuck on their own. Yeah, they're doing all right.

Look, I'm a magician. I can fuck on my own time. Yeah. I mean, do you think any of these PETA people are so like, they love animals, but they're like, oh, I can't have an animal house. Yeah. I know a lot of them actually do fought,

like have animals in their home but their attitude is still I don't think there should be any pets but they're here and so I'm going to try to take care of these animals because it reduces their suffering but I wish they'd never been, I wish they didn't exist because their existence is like exploitative

but they're better off with me even though I think the institution is cool but then I there's other shit. Yeah. Dogs, like... Right. Come on.

Yeah. Well, I mean, look. Honestly, I just don't know what... I don't even know in their minds what they meant when they said an AI groundhog. Like, they would... A random number generator, basically. Like an algorithm. Right.

Like running a computer program on a screen and then be like winter more it's like they just have such little respect for the intelligence of the people of pugs atani that they're like you'll still be a big deal you'll still be the center of everything like in a forward-thinking way right yeah it's like maybe they really believe that i mean no one's got a lot of respect for the people of Punxsutawney. Well, they should. No.

People of Punxsutawney are the salt of the earth. No. Them and horses, no sir. They deserve each other. The official count, let's just see. I just want to see how many Punxsutawney fills there have been. Because there is a record. 40 seems like a decent guess.

But I don't know how long groundhogs live i never mind man is it a lot is it like a depressing number i mean it's been since 1887 40 this year man 40 this yeah yeah they buy them in six packs yeah go after the punks atani phil factory right that's happening anyway uh robert it's been a pleasure having you where can people find you follow you uh you can find me on twitter at i write okay i have a podcast called behind the bastards and an election year podcast called worst year ever about how bad everything is so if you're still like i'm not sad enough and yeah what's the worst that could happen what's the worst that could happen please check out scroll on over there yeah yep uh and is there a tweet you've been enjoying um boy howdy i'm so far past the point of being able to enjoy tweets these days

yeah um i think eternally the one tweet that i always keep coming back to when I need a laugh is, has anyone ever showed Ted Kaczynski a gif? I think it might change his mind. That's pretty funny. Miles, where can people find you and what's a tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter and Instagram at Miles Vray. Also on my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance. Some tweets that i like first one is

from uh dana donnelly that says i'm turning 25 soon that's the age where people will still tell you things like don't worry you're still young you have time but they won't mean it anymore oh boy it's kind of true um and also one last one this guy tony adams at adams underscore at he is an astros fan who went through all the video of astros home games and logged every trash can bang from the 2017 season with like a spreadsheet and like correlations with like batting average and things like that it's just and it's a it's a labor of love but from a tortured astros fan who is trying to make sense of the scandal of his own team um was he like see we didn't do it or no he's like look at this shit he's like and seeing like

who got the most bangs like some some people just didn't get it i mean look it's an interesting analysis it's called the website is called signstealingscandal.com yeah if you want to see like oh just sports nerd labor uh but like this person's magnum opus um ashley ray tweeted one time in high school i was in the bathroom making fun of how bad this girl was in the spring musical and then it turned out she was in a stall and heard everything i said and then she died in a ski accident heard everything i said and then she died in a ski accident like two days later and never got a chance to apply my notes oh jesus to apply my notes i think it's a bit guys it's just still we're all fragile right now i'm sorry uh all right john boyce tweeted if the just like

all right john boyce tweeted if the chiefs win the super bowl and bernie wins iowa the next night i'm gonna drink an entire can of beer no sipping it by the spoonful no measuring cups nothing drinking it straight out of the can i'll crack it open and on god it'll be in the recycling bin one hour later uh you can find me on twitter jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes 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's miles what's that gonna be today uh this is from uh a little rap hip-hop duo from atlanta georgia copa and claire claire oh no uh they're

like you know on this like diy wave of hip-hop They're kind of, I don't know, they're funky and interesting Have you heard of Outkast, though? They're good No You should check them out What's one of their songs? You guys, if you haven't heard of Outkast, you gotta check these guys out They're good rappers

And that's from, and they're from I think Atlanta, Georgia Oh, are they the Atlians? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Oh, I love that You might know them as the Atliens I had the CD that had the woman's breasts out Nice

That was printed on there before That was so cool Do you remember that though? Then they had to switch it up Put a bathing suit on That's how you know you're an OG If you had ATLiens With the woman being beamed up

And she was fully nude Yeah Then you got, you're an OG Okay, a track writing out Yes, Claire Claire Coco and Claire Claire This one's called Naomi and Kate fully nude yeah you got you're an og um okay a track writing out yes claire claire coco and claire claire this one's called naomi and kate um about naomi campbell kate moss like model swag but they're just like low energy rap style i think it's just it's just fitting it's very it's big 2020 vibes big 2020 uh all right the daily zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio for

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