The Daily Zeitgeist - Insurrection Self Own, Fast Food Makes Faster Athletes? 7.29.21

Episode Date: July 29, 2021

In episode 961, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Caitlin Gill to discuss a restaurant that only allows un-vaccinated people, Mo Brooks being dumb, the connection between the Olympics and fast food, Anna's Streaming Corner, and more!FOOTNOTES: Huntington Beach Restaurant Requires Proof People Are UN-Vaccinated Mo Brooks is NOT smart Pizza Hut Japan offering ‘Decathlon Pizza’ with 10 types of meat during the Tokyo Olympics As The Tokyo Olympics Begin, U.S. Companies Are Moving Forward With Campaigns Despite The Pandemic Olympic athletes love McDonald’s. But its role in PyeongChang will be the smallest in decades. Pizza Hut Japan’s decathlon meat pizza is an Olympic feat Wish it was a Whopper? Burger King plays on iconic gold medal bite in marketing stunt Your Chipotle Burrito Might Come Wrapped In Gold Foil. Here's Why Anna’s Streaming Corner: We Are Lady Parts Guarantee Shirts Listen: Deep Tan - Camelot Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Dear Daily Zeitgeist, a production of High Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness, and it's Thursday, July 29th, 2021. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka, uh, how does this song go again? Fuck. I play Nintendo games, drink Baja Blast all day. At least that's what people say. Mm-hmm. That's what people say. Mm-hmm. But I keep chewing.

Can't stop, won't stop fooling. It's like I got this podcast called The Zite that I record each day two times. Because the gas is going to overrate, rate, rate, and they'll underrate, rate, rate, rate, rate. Baby, here's my research. Takes, takes, takes, and some basketball. Basketball. Woo-hoo.

That is courtesy of Johnny Davis. Forgot how that song went and kept forgetting how it went. I'm thrilled to be joined once again, as always, by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray! Straight getting barreled on

smoking on that bonsai pipeline on the North Hollywood shore on Oahu. It's Miles Gray, a.k.a. Scam Musubi! Thank you so much. I've been enjoying a few days off, but I'm back and I'm recharged. Thank you so much, Jack, for having me back.

This is our one day of overlap, and then I'm leaving to get back at you. So it'll be some real substitute teacher vibes. Real thrown into my face. Like, yeah, well, I'm going to Ocean City. Yeah. Oh, you think you're hot shit in Hawaii? Well, I'm going to Ocean City to have a cake and some haggis and, you know. What is it?

Mac and Manco? Manco and Manco. What's Mac and Manco? That was before? That was before times. Okay. Before they had an ugly, messy split. I get the pizza lore

messed up. Yeah. Anyways, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious stand-up comedian and comedy writer, just one of our all-time favorite TDZ guests, the brilliant, the raw, the major, Caitlin Gale!

Hello! Forever and always yours, Caitlin Guilf. The roller skating granny that you'd like to fuck. That's right, didn't you do the Olympics for skateboarding because you wouldn't take off her roller skate? But everyone knows she would have won. I don't know why I decided roller skating and not skateboarding. The actual logo I have

for Caitlin Guilf is skateboarding, but in my heart, she is also a roller skater. I feel like she does like derby shit. Maybe that's what I do when I'm really old. When I'm Caitlin Guilf is skateboarding, but in my heart, she is also a roller skater. I feel like she does derby shit. Maybe that's what I do when I'm really old. When I'm Skateland Guilf, I'll just be breaking bones on the hard court of the derby wars. Do we think rollerball is the near future?

Perhaps I'm qualified. It has to be. I'm Skateland Guilf. Skateland Guilf is eternally yours. We really overrated the creativity and fun of our apocalyptic futures in those movies and others. And instead, it's just very dumb. I think what I learned from watching so much apocalyptic material in the last year and a half is it's a melange. It's like a rollerball is one of your days.

And then Hunger Games is another day. And then you take a long walk on the road. And then something on the road is like oh did it take you a baller right this and then you keep going and it's like you just pick what do we watch on tv as we eat our war rations oh the running man is on great exactly exactly and the masked singer will still be running and it's 50 the masked singer does take place in a in the shared post-apocalyptic universe if If I've mentioned this before, I apologize, but it's something that haunts me. I don't think any other city but L.A. experienced the blanketing of, like, billboard media for The Masked Singer in its first season.

Before anyone, like, I mean, people knew what it was. I guess it's L.A., but it was just these horrifying lion and ostrich heads. It was a very ornate season. It was very the capital for my young adult literature Hunger Games fans. It's so weird. You just turn around and it's this lion, but it's a person, and you don't know why it's in the sky, but it's too ornate. It's like, am I voting for this? Well, yeah.

The hard bit, too, is that you didn't know what the concept of the show was. So I just remember seeing it. I'm like, dude, I don't know. I don't care what this is. Is this like the new Daniel Day-Lewis film? It was a marketing campaign for another city. L.A. was just like, we get it. Dystopia.

Yeah. I remember when I first moved to L.A. being surprised at the prominence of like billboard culture out here. I wonder. Wild. Yeah. Like billboards are are a thing here that people pay attention to. They're our Pokemon cards. 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. We're going to talk about the banning of vaccinated people from one restaurant in Huntington Beach, the banning of unvaccinated people in other more prominent things. We'll talk about Mo Brooks and just the general January 6th investigations and what's all going down there we will talk about olympic fast food promos we will talk about on a streaming corner we we did watch we are lady parts and uh we're gonna we're gonna talk about that and other shows all that

plenty more but first caitlin we like to ask our guest what is something from your search history oh man okay it's horrifying and i don't recommend that you ever search it and if you have to i apologize i think that if you have searched this then you understand how my week has been but uh boy have i been reviewing too many Google images of ant stings. I wish the audience could have seen the dramatic ripoff of my glasses preceded by the collapsing of my bangs. But yeah, I am a little bit sensitive. I'm a little sensitive. A little sensitive to ant stings.

And I live in the desert of the Southwest. So they're sort of an inevitability. I got stung by an ant on like the hip thigh. But there's a part of my body, because I am a soft person, that is unidentifiable as hip thigh or butt. I think you all know by now what part that is. But like if you had to pick one, it's like your hip, but it's not. It's lower than that. And it's your thigh, but like it's such a poor butt.

And is that butt yet? I don't know. I'd probably crop it out of a picture. I just call it a quadrant now. Yeah. It was my haunch where I was struck, which is like the softest. It's just my most generous place. So there's no stopping.

It's just, I look, there's no stopping. There's nothing for the swelling to stop it. It can just keep going. The way an ant stings is that it grabs you with its horrible pinchers and then it sticks you with poison once and then it swings its ass around and sticks you with poison again and again in a little

circle of horrible poison sticking. Really? Oh, so it's like breakdancing? Like with its ass stinger? Yeah, it's doing full-on windmill swings but striking you with poison stings at regular intervals so they suck very much so it's like multiple stings it's a whole thing it's been a lot of but i really do this one's for fans of the movies that also you know touched my heart everybody

who's watched a league of their own enough times to know when to turn away to not see that bruise on the gal's leg who took the slider skirt that i took a picture that's like damn i'm a stand-in like if they needed me i could have been there it's atrocious so yeah i've been like the thing about being sensitive i'm going on i'm going on and on i'll stop in a second it's like please to an ant sting it's like that's terrible but i'm not allergic there's no epi pen i don't need to go in an ambulance to the hospital but it still sucks very much and in current events tie-ins that is like the mild case of an ant sting like a mild case of covid is awful it's fucking flooring you for weeks you feel like absolute shit the thing is that's a mild case so i'm having a very light light little tiny allergic reaction to an ant sting which looks like a fucking war wound.

What kind of ants are... I just felt like growing up in LA, it's just like those red fire ants were the ones that would sting. I've dug too many holes in a playground and been stung up by those ants, but other than that, I'm ignorant.

My first encounter was in Atlanta, and I don't remember what kind of ants live there. But boy, did they hurt an itch. These ants, I live in the desert, like in Joshua Tree, in actual desert. There are 19 types of ants in the yard. There are at any time like 12 different kinds of ants visible for you to observe. A few of them bite and sting. I have a guess at which one got me, and I will vengefully kill any member of their species.

I did something kind of disturbing in the shower to an ant. I was a little bit like, Caleb, you've listened to enough murder podcasts to know that this is like a little permission you're granting yourself. I'm just like, like removing segments. But I also have like a ginormous wound.

So I've been looking up ant stings. All's fair. All's fair with ant bites. We get it. Okay. Yeah. So I've been looking up ant sticks. Yeah. All's fair. All's fair with ant bites. We get it. That's right. In love and war with ants. Yeah. What is something you think is overrated?

Okay. In the desert living, driving faster. Stop driving faster. Why do you think you're going to get there faster? Why are you passing someone on a two lane desert highway? Are you trying to see more desert? Do you think the desert's prettier faster? Stop. Stop driving faster wherever you are. can drive that look there's time you'll

find a time but if you're behind the semi please just don't get all rigid behind the semi just don't drive fast please please i think it's overrated i've done it of course i've done it of course of course i've looked down and been like, we're going 100. There we go. Steering wheel's starting to shake. I'm not directly behind another human driving. I am not passing them on the right. Yeah.

Just go ahead. You're already going very fast. The difference between 60 and 65 is just negligible enough for you to like you don't have to you're going very fast i feel like it's always happens like in areas like especially like in like in california where it'll be sort of like these sort of secluded regions of the state that like don't have a lot of like you know tourists or just people kind of traveling through where they have the least patience for it i remember driving through santa cruz where like oh my god the roads are not

fucking you know super wide or you know safe and i remember constantly people like honking to be like paul halber i'm like dude i'm going like 45 on like the windiest road. I already feel like I'm in Gran Turismo, like bending corners and shit. And people will be like, fuck it. Pass you in a corner and you're like, I'm going to witness something terrible. Up and down hills, around corners. It's wild. In the desert, the insight I have gained is that like I can see you, bro. Like we are still driving together for many miles.

There is right here it's like saying bye i'm walking in the same direction on a city street but for like miles and miles by someone going the same direction as you you just gotta cruise with them for a while like enjoy the phone i don't know delete don't do it can i get it back can i get it back no i can't all right i'm gonna keep going yeah there's just no point. Don't drive that fast. Yeah. And I, oh, the thing is I see you're still just, you're right there. Like you're still right.

You passed me. Good job. You're right. I'm right. I can see your scope. I'd imagine there's a good correlation between ego and people who must pass people that are too slow for them. Because I feel like the, cause I used to be like that too i'm

like i ain't getting stuck behind no ghosts or you know slow drivers like i just in my mind i was like that's not me i don't do that i don't play that and that was like probably me and my most superficial too like and just like no understanding of who i was and then i'm like yeah you know your safety is a concern too i don't need to like go super fast like you know unless obviously there are times when you are on a like a two-lane road and you can tell like i'm i don't need to be driving under 60 behind this person but those are the problems safely yeah yeah that's fine it's just don't, yeah, nothing, you're never in a race. You're never winning the race you're in, I promise.

Yeah. I love that one of those days someone passes you and it's someone trying to drop something off at your house. It's like a courier. And you're like, yeah, hey, hi, we're here both. We're both here. Just blocked them the whole way. I do the most evil thing because I've tried angry things like flipping people off, but that doesn't work. And especially when it's a man passing me or makes me mad on the road, I just start laughing.

Like really, like just laughing, trying to make it as obvious with my face as visibly possible that I am laughing at them. Like putting everything in my bones to make it clear that I am laughing at them. And I really think it's maybe the most effective thing I've ever done to piss someone off. It is incredibly powerful. It is the painful ant bite for a toxic man is a woman's laugh.

They have a little sensitivity to that. They have a little, they're a little sensitive to that. Yeah, you motherfucker, you. They're a little sensitive. Fucking who are you laughing at? Yeah, you, motherfucker, you. What is something you think is underrated? King and queen of my last week, and honestly, if I'm being real, my last year, ice packs. Honey, child, darling, if you don't have an ice pack in your freezer at all times, ready for you to use for your enjoyment, change your life by adding an ice pack. Bag of peas will do it. You don't got to go spending for something. You will. Eventually you'll be like, yeah, I want that

job to be an ice pack. But start with by just grabbing vegetables you don't want to eat and placing them on your body. I'm 40. Listen to the old woman talking to you, young child, in growth, in youth. Preventative care is all the rage. You're you, young child. In growth. In youth. Preventative care is all the rage. You're doing it for your beautiful face, kid. Do it for your sweet, sweet joints. You don't need an ice pack always. That doesn't mean you shouldn't rage for one.

What is your pleasure? I live in a hot place. I just wear an ice pack occasionally. All the cool athletes do it. Ice packs are cool, y'all. Ice packs are so cool. Get yourself a cool ice pack. a like a like a brawn ice pack does he have one check probably in parts i feel like well there's like those hyper ice you know there are ones that athletes use that are definitely like on the next level but yeah it's like made in a lab somewhere like the theragun and things i'm

like do i need five do i need to spend $500 for this? Am I in that kind of condition? I'll be like, I'll just take the thing from when I order something that was frozen on the internet and I'll just keep those. Those are my ice packs. The grocery delivery ice pack. That's just like a block of ice. That's a free ice pack.

You just got a free ice pack. Those are ice packs. They work. Test my theory. See if it works for you. Shout out to Zeitgang. When we had our live show in Toronto, there was a listener from Montreal who brought Montreal smoked meats and gave it to us.

And it gave with all these ice packs. I was like, I think they should be fine for the flight back. Like, they're pretty stable. They're smoked meat. I'm like, great. I saved those fucking ice packs, baby. Yeah. I still took international ice packs.

I have them in my freezer. I use them all the time. That's how I iced down my vaccine shot. Oh yeah. See? Yeah. Yeah.

I just think we forget if we're achy or headachy or feel shitty that you actually can do something about it free right now that works right now. There's just like

nice relief kind of all around you sometimes. So when the day is long and stressful, an ice pack is underrated. The cheapest air conditioner is a soaking wet hand towel you wring out and you put two ice packs

on it, or put it on your back, on your straight back, and you lay on your stomach, on the tile floor, baby. Anybody's stuck in a heat wave. You get yourself a little spray bottle, and you just spray your sheets. You're sleeping only under the top sheet anyway. You just

spray that top sheet. It's not wet. It's just sort of like cold. It's not wet, really. It's just like damp. Yeah, nobody likes damp. Nobody wants a damp sheet. Moist sheet, also not great. Spritz. Let's go with Spritz. I was gonna say, I was gonna recommend three three ice packs because you have to like cycle them in and out.

And so you have the one that's out and then it gets warm and then you have the I just want to knock the domino over. Right. Yeah. That'll become clear to the ice pack user as it becomes a deeper part of their life. But then I was told that you're actually not supposed to perpetually have ice on any part of your body for too long a period at times. You want to do like 20 hours.

You're definitely not. 20 to 30 at most. Unless you're like one of those people who are like, I want to go numb. Don't put dry ice on your body. Whenever you're putting your body body your body is going to warm up a little bit so it will naturally you know 15 or 20 minutes is about the maximum ice can sit on a 98.6 degree object anyway so you're good you're all right i haven't had a haircut

since last march so uh i'm trying to hang out with the gang and actually look at you and enjoy this digital meeting that we are having together to record this podcast and i look like are amazing if i could do another stand-in bit i am the adams family cousin at stand-in i can't i couldn't get cast as cousin it but i could stand there while they set the cameras or you look like a side character like in a cartoon about like hippies or like there's like that one character who's like hair was so shaggy, you never saw their face. Yeah, but I still saw the mystery, bro. Yeah, dude, you want some pot? I'm hungry. Some 90s conservative yuppies idea of a hippie.

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Come back real quick. So there's like a war of regulations going on, the most fun type of war between, so like there are anti-vax restaurants in various communities around America. There's a Huntington Beach restaurant, which has this sign on the window. Notice, proof of being unvaccinated required.

And then like a picture of a shot like being broken in half. And then underneath, we have zero tolerance for treasonous, I think. Yeah. Treasonous anti-American stupidity. Thank you for pondering. That's the, they love to make it seem like they are the thoughtful ones like uh just ponder this bro is this the america you want yeah

it's i just think we're getting to you know it's it's obviously the accusing the other side of what they themselves are guilty of in a loud and aggressive way. It's like the Trump playbook. But I also think they're benefiting from the fact that their selfishness and like desperation to be unique is so embarrassing that we just kind of like look away. And we I feel like we can't do that anymore. I feel like we're slowly coming to terms with the fact that we have to get into that incredibly embarrassing argument that it's just become too easy for them to say bullshit. that are like truly being applied consistently to say like, if you if you're doing this, you're running afoul of what the norms are at the moment. Sure, you have the choice to not be vaccinated. Yeah, you have free will. No one's arguing that. But I think the biggest thing is that where people get caught up is that then at that point, if you are choosing to be unvaccinated and potentially a vector for infection and possibly

spreading a disease, that you then will lose some abilities or things you may have been used to as a result of the decision that you made. That's completely your choice. No one is saying that you should go to jail if you do it, but don't act like you could still go to the fucking baseball game or an indoor facility with your mask off and be unvaccinated and potentially spread the illness because of this perceived freedom and i'm just i'm just more curious before anything because they love saying we love to prove a negative you know that's i love that philosophical point where we come to where you have to prove something that isn't but how would you even prove this? Like, how do you go in?

If you go to this restaurant in wherever, Orange County, and they say, okay, proof of unvaccination, please? Hey, man. Fucking Trump 2024, baby. Alright, here's your table, sir. I don't know.

It doesn't even... Except Trump got the fucking vaccine. His entire family got the vaccine. Everyone in this administration got the fucking vaccine right but yeah here we are yet again got the vaccine everyone telling you that the vaccine is weird and break 13 the fucking vaccine they all do they all got it i don't it's that thing i'm wanting to feel so special like you're so so smart and yeah i just don't understand i do get i i understand so many of the roots of mistrust of like giant institutions this just isn't the time like you missed on this one there's so many reasons to mistrust a lot of things and uh and systems and institutions but

it's not this time it's not as good as it used to be it's not you know selling the patent for insulin for a dollar so people can have it to cut to where we are now it's not giving the giving the polio vaccine away we're not cool pfizer's not great like i don't like you know i'm not getting a moderna fucking tattoo on my forehead but i got the shot but i'll get it on my lower back so it's not visible all the time yeah it's yeah it's it's a it's a really tough spot and a lot of people pointed out too like aside from the misinformation on social media, you could really you're truly the line has to be drawn directly to the beginning of the pandemic when everyone in the Republican Party said, it's just a cold. It's just a cold. It's nothing. And it was that first moment, you know, because there's a lot of been analysis about what really is social media's role in this misinformation dimension of the anti-vaccine sentiment. And most of it are like the table was set the second everyone on the right said it's not a big deal more than the others, more than like the microchip nonsense.

it was short-sighted they were purely there to preserve the economy and having that run with a very little interruption that they just said we got to tell people it ain't that big of a deal because that's the only way we can keep shit running for as long as possible and that has really been the largest thing is mostly the messaging that we get from the top and now it's just too little too late yeah i do feel like they can get away with more and are open to, you know, we have Marjorie Taylor Greene and people like that because social media is a tool. So they're like making the decision based on the fact that, OK, we can use social media to say whatever the fuck we want to say. Definitely doesn't excuse anything from the Republican Party. doesn't excuse anything from the Republican Party. Like any blame that's being put on social media that's like, well, you're just going to have ignorance

because it's social media. It's like, no, it's people in power taking advantage of that. But- No, remember to speak to your elders. Grandma over here is 40. I've seen 40 gosh darn winters. I'm very young.

I feel very useful. But I have been around long enough to like, has been a child on a playground without social media there so when you see the dynamics of social media expand it is just our same fucking playground brain stretching out like this it's not any different from like fifth graders pretending they know what handjobs are like the misinformation campaigns that we all spread about like nards or it's the same and the same characters play out there's people with bravado they're very like their whole mission is to be like sort of louder and bigger and that's the only thing they're really

strategizing on they kind of don't care what they drop into the models that fit getting the loud attention and you watch those people rise in every part of politics, it's the same playground. Social media is just letting people relive that same weird whisper campaign and yeah, I know what you mean. I know. I already know what you're talking about.

I've done it. I've done it with like a few vaccines. It's the same shit. I don't know why I went for only naughty ones. Do you know what it is? You don't know what it is. It's M-R-N-A. A is for

It's for Mom! But there's a whole bunch of timid kids quietly just standing there. Understanding everything and not saying a fucking word because they don't want to get in the mix and there's the kids that argue back the folks in the comment section just like how dare you and doesn't do any fucking good because that's just the attention that's a cycle

that feeds itself yeah it's the same you know i've just been around long enough to watch both and i recognize the dynamic well enough. Our brains are just, we're not any smarter than we were before social media. So we're going to do all the same dumb shit, like believe things that aren't true really passionately. Right. A guy named Michael Dorf is saying that people can't eat at his restaurant without showing proof of vaccination, which is getting him, you know, protested. So that's, you know, I think that's the sort of thing that needs to happen. There's the San Francisco Bar Owners Association guy named Ben Blyman is talking about, like, having the same policy. And his explanation, which is the same explanation the va is giving for requiring

everybody who works at the va to get vaccinated is it seems to be the easiest and fastest way to protect people it's just like a very straightforward and clean and like that's it that's that's just uh we've looked at the data and this is what protects people. Yeah. But, and the federal government I think is doing a similar thing where they're going to either require you get vaccinated or show weekly clean tests, which is just going to make it super fucking annoying to be unvaccinated, which I think is hopefully going to start. Shout out to my sweet friends who can't get vaccinated.

It's not many but they're out there and having an opportunity to keep working by testing clean and keeping yourself safe is something that i think is awesome so just to not assume that every absolutely everyone is thinking the same thing who can't necessarily get the vaccine i'm sure that's terrifying what a weird position to be in. Yeah. How bad you want it. You want it? You want it? Your well-being is in the hands of people who are just mainlining the dumbest shit or just hopped up on this other narrative of like what life is, which is like, I have immune system, therefore I'm good.

What's community transmission? I don't know. Look, just get away from me. I think that's really what's disheartening, too. And then even just the even the smallest things like wearing a mask, even those people are on vaccine. Like, well, what are I going to do with all my freedom? Dude, we should think we have to still keep doing this, because, again, I think there's all that. There's also a split in people who think the pandemic is over. They're even vaccinated people who think the pandemic is over just because they're vaccinated. And it's, there's a lot, many people on many different pages. And I think some people have allowed themselves to be like, well,

I got vaccinated. So like, what the fuck do I need a mask or whatever? It's like, that's not, it's not that fucking simple. It's never that. That's not the case. And then you sit on the other side and people are like, oh, well, if the vaccine works, how can we need masks? And if the mask doesn't work, how can we do it? I'm like, please, I don't have time to go on your weird logic tour. But the fact remains that we have to look out. Well, sunglasses work while you're wearing a hat. All right.

Let's talk about Mo Brooks real quick. In the January 6th failed insurrection, we saw some truly harrowing testimony from capitol police who received physical abuse racist abuse in the case of one black capitol officer and many i mean in his testimony yeah he was like and all the other officers were like uh one guy said he had never been called the n-word in his life until that day. Yeah. And I was like, wow, that's fucking wild. Yeah.

But I don't know what's sadder, that sentiment, or I would have that. That's so hard to like, but that seems like such a remarkable thing that I like. That's so sad. And the saddest part is that I'm like, really? Yeah.

Oh, I thought America was way more racist. You know, like it's it's just a. But again, this is what all everything that's coming to the surface in terms of what these people were thinking, what they were willing to do and how they even look at things like law enforcement. Because as we know, the Blue Lives Matter stuff didn't matter unless it was about, you know, supporting Trump. It was just all a device to hide behind the sanctity of law enforcement to sort of obscure your own racist aims white supremacy yeah the yeah i mean you're a gal in utah who happened to step on a flag and then we'll see you in a few years right right the voicemail that was left for one of the like lead officers who

like testified that is just like the most hateful vitriolic thing but it's yeah it's just interesting to like you can read the transcript of that anywhere and then compare that to like all the rhetoric around blue lives matter and all that bullshit yeah yeah because it didn't matter it's you could look you're either trump or you're not and then if you're not fuck you you're a communist or whatever you know insult, insult to shore there is. But Mo Brooks specifically, he was one of these Congress people who was very turnt up on January 6th. He is somebody who spoke at the fucking, you know, kickoff rally to get people as, you know, screamy and adrenaline-fueled as possible before marching on the Capitol.

If you just, just some of his words that Mo Brooks said, just so you understand. He said, today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. Now, our ancestors sacrificed their blood, their sweat, their tears, their fortunes, and sometimes their lives to give us their descendants in America

that is the greatest nation in world history. So I have a question for you. Are you willing to do the same? My answer is yes. Louder. Are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America? Louder. Will you fight for America? So this is what he was saying prior to all these people then going and just attacking law enforcement and whoever was in the way of this election being certified. And there's another reason why Eric Swalwell and other and another member of Congress have sued him and Trump and Don Jr. and Rudy for inciting this insurrection, because they're saying like, you know, this was you put me in harm's way. This is this is you're violating my civil rights to do all these things. And just like these are the damages that I am and I'm pursuing restitution for and mo brooks has been dodging this lawsuit

from eric's walwell like some character and fucking that opening scene in pineapple express when seth rogan is like doing fucking costume bits to like give somebody their fucking like you've been served he he was dodging the summons like the the uh being served for like fucking weeks okay and like even the people were like this weeks. Okay. And like, even the people were like, this is, this is kind of impressive because like we know where he works and we still can't serve this guy.

He finally got served. But even, even while he was ducking it, he kept saying like, oh, it's fine. This lawsuits are relevant because I have immunity. And we're like,

what, what is he talking about? So what he was saying was he believes in this very like narrow statute that because you know if there's any kind of tort lawsuit filed against a person working in the government that if they're working in their capacity as a you know part of the federal government that the government would have to represent them at trial but you know because he's claiming i was doing congress stuff So the government needs to step in. And then when people are like, well, that's not true.

What do you have to say for yourself? This is what he filed. He said Brooks sought to encourage, this is what his lawyers filed, to say like, no, no, no, it's all good. He wasn't, this is all Congress stuff he did. No, they have to tell you they're a cop if you ask them. It's like that. That's a HIPAA violation if you ask me if I'm a cop, he said Brooks sought to encourage the Ellipse rally attendees to put the 2020 elections behind them. And in particular, the preceding days to Georgia GOP Senate losses and to inspire listeners to start focusing on the 2022 and 2024 elections, which had already begun.

So this is again, this is that was his defense. I was just no, I told him to get over. And what what i was saying was like we got to focus on 2022 and 2024 this is where this idiot didn't think this through by saying that he was focusing on 2022 and 2024 those are election campaigns so that means you are campaigning which means that's not something the government is involved in so you are out of luck sir therefore you are going to have to get sued like a regular ass insurrectionist. Now. Wow. Whoops.

Way to go. Way to go. Sorry, sir. But I mean, this is kind of a lot of people are like, oh, well, that maybe something will happen to this. Will somebody pay his legal bills? I don't know. What will he say? Will he turn this into another huge thing? But yeah, this? I don't know. What will he say? What will he turn this into another huge thing?

But yeah, this is I don't know. There's slowly some things are kind of falling into place, although I'm very cynical in terms of what how the subpoenas will actually compel people to appear for the January 6th commission in terms of people who are like fully up in it. But there you go. This is the short sightedness of these people i love that it's the rule of law people that don't understand any of the rules right the law and i'm pretty sure mo books is a lawyer it's a funny rhetoric to try to use when you don't give a shit about what amendments actually mean or say or like how laws actually interact with each other among different areas and government levels what the difference between like a regulation and a law say or like how laws actually interact with each other among different areas and government

levels and what the difference between like a regulation and a law is or like what a government says and what they're making you do yeah covid has been freedom horrible horrible freedom nobody made us wear a mask we are free to nobody makes us get a vaccine we are free to that's it's flipping that backwards is so sad because we don't have the military like nobody's taking an election away from you we had an election it's just so sad yeah but i think that's just sort of why that's been sort of like the laziness of these sort of like really conservative cynical campaigns is that they always just hide behind things like the law or, you know, what culture is without actually, because it's never really about it.

Yeah. Because it's just about halting progress. Yes. Yeah. With treason. With like, with a little treason. Just a little sensitive treason. Just a little sensitive to treason.

Zero calorie treason. The nation is having a very mild reaction to some treason i'm not going to say that they're allergic but they are a little sensitive they're gonna have a committee we'll talk in a way i'm kind of i'm kind of surprised at how how light the reaction is to a little bit i'm terrified surprised is definitely one word The other is like shaken deeply to my core and unsettled about the near future. Anybody remember the National Violin? We don't.

Oh, God, it was a whole city block. Oh, man. Anyway, well, let's just stop at a freeway, right? I just keep remembering things that just like keep happening. Deeply, deeply unsettling. Anyway, how's everyone's morning? Have a great day

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And before we get to Streaming Corner, let's talk really briefly about... Streaming Corner. That's so pretty. Let's capture that and use it every time we go to stream. Bottle it. Bottle it, sell it, back to them. So there's a time-honored tradition of fast food and junk food having an Olympic tie-in. This year, I feel like we're a little light this year. Pizza Hut Japan is celebrating the Olympics with a decathlon pizza

which includes 10 different types of meats including pepperoni pulled pork three types of bacon and whole hog pizza and each ingredient contains a different quality according to the ad campaign like stamina toughness i like meat that contains toughness. Ugh. This is so Japanese. But, uh... That is... There's restaurants where, like,

there's, like, just, like, stamina restaurants. Oh, really? Yeah. Like, this will give you, like, energy? Yeah, like, certain, like, certain... I would do that. Certain, like, body parts or certain, like, meats are, like certain certain like body parts or certain like meats are like good for your your stamina and it's just funny because like a lot of people like it it's a good

hook for people to be like yes stamina because i'm overworked i don't understand it anybody want to spend 200 at cafe gratitude later i'll see you there see you there i am how what is the naming convention at cafe Gratitude? It's like. You order by the emotion that the food is supposed to make you feel. Right. You might order happy or you might order relaxed. But it's like I am happy.

Except there's a foam on it. I am relaxation. Exactly. There's. It's very. It's where you take. If you if your parents are visiting you in L.A. from out of town from the Midwest, say, and you want them to leave immediately. I'd be so worried about you.

Yeah, go there. But honestly, it's kind of good. Like, I'm not mad. I ate the food. It's kind of good. Yeah, it's fine. That's fine. So this is kind of a long tradition that McDonald's has historically been a huge

sponsor of the Olympics. The official sponsorship started in 76, but there's like a urban legend where they airlifted burgers to American athletes in 1968 because the Olympics were in France and you can't get French fries there, so they like delivered a bunch of uh of burgers and fries to Olympic athletes who missed their home cuisine and that became like a thing that they that they were kind of known for and like to brag about there's something on their website it all started when we airlifted hamburgers to U.S. athletes in 1968. How noble. In 1984, they were the lovable fuck-ups who offered a promotion for free food when the U.S. team won a medal, except they didn't realize the Soviets were boycotting the games,

which resulted in them having to give away free food for months. They're just like, we're not getting free food for months like they're they're just like we're not getting any money for our food anymore because we just agreed to give it all away but the worms started to turn in 2012 when they built the world's largest mcdonald's and olympic not not olympic village where the athletes all have sex i think it was like olympic town or something where where like fans go and people are just it was like Olympic Town or something where fans go. And people are just pointing out, this is like having kryptonite sponsor Superman. It's like the thing that these people completely abstain from their entire lives is sponsoring their athletic achievement.

So after 2012, McDonald's stopped sponsoring sponsoring because people were like yeah there's a global obesity crisis that you're contributing to and then you're kind of whitewashing that by sponsoring olympic athletes uh coke is still a sponsor this year um thank god yes uh and burger king you get a free whopper if you post a screenshot of an athlete biting their metal, which is so dumb. Chipotle has menus curated by athletes who have never eaten those meals, presumably. And they're wrapping their burritos in gold foil this month. So that's sort of an update on where we're at. Like, if you get the gold foil, do you get some shit like Willy Wonka?

Or are they just saying, hey, this month is just gold foil? It's just this month the gold foil, do you get some shit like Willy Wonka? Or are they just saying, hey, this month is just gold foil? It's just this month is gold foil. But people, because of the gold foil of Willy Wonka and how indelible that image is, people were like, oh shit, I won when they first started it. They're like, give me free something. And then getting mad because you're not getting free Kwok. I get to go to the Chipotle burrito factory. I get to go see Mr. Chipotle.

He's going to take me on a magic ride in his Elevate. That's not a good. I don't even want to know what the rooms are. Oh, no. Yeah. The guac. Everlasting tortilla. Yeah.

You got, like, fizzy lifting guac, I think. Yeah. What would be the gum? I think the beans are the gum that you can never that is a full meal a gum that is a burrito and that gobstopper the gobstopper is just the avocado pit yes yeah yeah uh-huh yep yeah or like a bay leaf that people find in chipotle food and then freak out about like there's a leaf in my food! Because they've never touched a spice. Right, right.

But it is, of course, time for Anna's Streaming Corner. Streaming Corner! Super producer Anna Hosnia is joining us to tell us just broadly what she's been streaming, recommend some things. We're also going to check in on her most recent recommendation, which is We Are Lady Parts on Peacock, which I think we've all watched at this point. Very good.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I fucking loved it. It was awesome. But hi, Anna. Welcome. First, let me let you speak. Hi. Yeah, sorry.

I was kind of nodding off for a second because I had like a moment of peace while you guys were talking. And then I within seconds, I was like falling into a deep sleep. speak hi yes sorry i was kind of nodding off for a second because i had like a moment of peace while you guys were talking and then i i within seconds i was like falling into a deep sleep i was yelling at off screen i then i saw you whip your head around and you started yelling my dog was barking at the fedex delivery guy out the window and i was trying to be like we're going live the way you're talking i was like i don't know if that's a human or a pet she's talking to but it's no he you have to um really because he's so used to being like coddled because he's one of those cute little white fluffy dogs that like when you really want because he knows he's cute when you really want him to shut his goddamn mouth you have to go hard

just tell him and the fedex guy to get a room is Is that how you? No, no. The FedEx guy didn't come to the door. He can see him outside the window. So he knows he's coming into the building. So he acts as like the, we call him the sheriff. He's out here just like barking at anyone who walks by our building. Now, will that be a streaming show coming soon? No, but you know we also used to call one of my aunts the sheriff because she was just i mean we still call her that

she's still alive uh my dad's sister because she's such a hard ass there you go and ace really gives off hard it's funny because i'd always be like god he's got the same personality as her and that just slowly became like because she gets away with a lot, but she, God, when she's mean, she's mean, you know? So. I have a confession to make. I got to episode three of We Are Lady Parts. Wow. But I got in.

Oh my God. Yep. Sorry. Sorry. Had to do it. Didn't finish it. But I've enjoyed every single moment of it. And I just.

Ace, attack. No. He's boarding a plane plane he's actually projecting across the pacific but yeah i i really i remember when you first brought it up you're like you have to watch the show it's nailing everything it's so funny like i'm dying at all the jokes and i at first i was like okay i i love when you come out the gates with like uh your stream of like praise for a show because that just shows how much energy like I can just feel you actually being like, I love this fucking thing. And then when I watch it, I'm like, oh, yeah, this is I can exactly see what was so exciting to you to watch it. But even for me, I'm just like it just has I really I'm really liking the show.

It has like heart to it. And it's also has this edge to it that I really like. And I think the balance of like this sort of real, I don't know, I mean, culturally, I'm living outside of Muslim culture. But from what I know, sort of passively, I feel like there's a really interesting commentary about it while also not being disrespectful, but also like really, like representing this, like our generation and sort of like the new norms that we're pushing against or trying to have for ourselves. But yes, my first. Yes. One, how could you disrespect me in such a way to not finish the show for

streaming corner? I may never recover. I'm too caught up in that Verstappen Hamilton crash. Okay. That I'm, that's taken up all my time. We're not talking about it. We're focusing on the racing and not the drama, okay?

Like Verstappen keeps saying, trying to act like he's not the angriest he's ever been in his life. Shout out Silverstone. Okay, so, yes, this show. Just shout out Silverstone. Caitlin, have you seen We Are Lady parts? It's been highly recommended, and it is on my shortlist, and no, but I'm really glad to hear the recommendation again. Let me tell you, you would love it, Kayla. I think you would love it specifically because I see myself in you a lot in the sense that we're both Persian women.

Just joking. But no, you're a Bay Area kid. You get it. But I mean, it takes place in the UK. It's in London. But I mean, it's not it takes place in the UK. It's in London. But I think the the thing that really speaks to me is that this I mean, and I might sound completely off my rocker, if you will. But it's the anger these girls have within them that really resonates to me. Like they go from there's so many 10,000 foot view of the show for someone who says, I don't know what they're talking about. What's the show about? It's a show about an all-girl Muslim punk band in the UK. And they're basically, the main punk band, which is called We Are Lady Parts, is recruiting a new lead guitarist. And they find this one girl who doesn't like to perform, but is a great guitar player. She's another Muslim woman. And hilarity ensues how they kind of come together

and find their place and become this amazing band. And the, I mean, the music budget alone for this movie. Yeah, the music is fucking great. They must have been like, everyone gets $2 for showing up because all the money is going to the music

because they can, they pull things that, music that you're like, holy shit yeah yes you know the best cover of creep since uh dave chappelle took the stage okay oh sorry that scene specifically miles i don't think you've gotten there yet that scene sent me it's just a woman in a hijab having an existential crisis and being like one of those like float scenes where they're clearly not walking but they're moving through a room singing creek by radio camera yeah i mean unbelievable work on this

show but i mean i think the real thing that resonates me is like you have all these muslim women who are not fighting against their religion they're all fully muslim they pray they respect the religion they respect their families you know but they all have this anger of being raised in these immigrant families, not feeling understood, feeling pushed away for who they are. And I feel that's so hard because there will be like one scene where they're all scream singing system of a down in a car and then cut to prayer, cut to talking to family. You know, like it's like it's all this. It's not so, you know, it shows like it's all this it's not so you know it shows like you

know as like children of immigrants especially middle eastern immigrants and personally growing up as like a little muslim iranian kid in the bay area like i had many multitudes you know we all have multitudes and there's we have so many interests and you can't be put in a box and i think this show shows that so well of like these girls who just are like fuck the system and then they're like gotta go pray you know like because you're like that's i i was raised in that and and it also shows that the battle of people being like are you disrespecting your religion and them trying to express like no i'm actually not i don't like we're trying to explain like or trying to understand why you see what we're doing as like pushing islam away when it's actually the opposite we're trying to explain or trying to understand why you see what we're doing as like pushing Islam away when it's actually the opposite.

We're actually embracing it in a way that we've created to be our own. So I don't know. There's many layers to it. I think it's such a great show. And it's so funny in the music, man. It really was like me growing up being like, I want to be in a band and be badass. But my parents made me play the cello. Your blood is your friend!

I thought of you, Anna, with that scene where Bisma is selling her comic books about the menstrual cycle, turning these women into bloodthirsty killers. And those two schoolgirls are like, ew, that's gross. And she's like, no, sisters, the blood is okay. Don't hate your bodies. The blood is your friend. And they leave and she's like, the blood is your friend! In the middle of like a street market all the characters are so great like the drummer how angry the drummer specifically is who i relate to the most she's so badass

oh i love it and i will always be in the debt of this show for all the reasons you talked about. It was a great show. And also it got me to sign up for Peacock and got me to watch Girls 5 Eva, which is another one of my favorite shows that I've seen in a long time. That's dope. And you watched that too.

You recommended that to me. I don't really take in culture that Anna hasn't recommended to me. Yeah, that's our new way of just yeah yeah yeah i'm just like but does anna is she fucking with it no uh no i wasn't fucking with it anyway no i i didn't think that was cool either but yeah this show i mean i even for for anybody who is just being like okay i'll check it out you if you've ever played in a band if you like music if you've ever felt out like a black sheep in your family or you didn't fit in culturally in any culture that's i think that's what's sort of the real interesting appeal of this show despite it being very specific

to these muslim women that are living in the uk there's still this element that is just so universal and i think that's what's really the brilliance in it is like you can immediately be like oh yeah like i i despite the specifics being different, I can totally understand like this fucking just pursuit of wanting to do like achieve your dreams. And even if you got to do a little light manipulation to get there in the in the name of a great comedy, you'll do it. great comedy you'll do it and the writing is just like i really love all the characters and how sort of specific they are and how they all have like their own personalities that are like they're just really well written too yeah each character has its own thing like their own personality you can relate to they're not all like just angry muslim women like you know the main character who they recruit is this very soft-spoken quiet girl who's like in a phd program to be like a biologist and

like working on an arranged marriage and like she's like just an amazing guitar player but then like if she's on stage performing she automatically like shits and vomits at the same like it's like all this stuff where you're like it's so silly my nervous disposition makes me prone to vomiting and diarrhea when i perform as she says multiple times in the show. But then it's also like cut to her like in a meeting with another family for a potential arranged marriage. And her just really trying to be like, okay, I like his eyes. Okay. Like trying to make it happen so hard.

Yeah. And it's just so sweet. And she's pulled between two different communities. Like the really perfect muslim girl community where you have everything together and you're getting married and i'm having kids you know and then this like grungy rock band world where she's like i and when she like when she solos you can just see it like she fucking goes somewhere that you're like that's where she's being her truest self you know like and that's's, I mean, everyone's just like, dude, what?

Who are you? And that's like, I think, I don't know. I think it's just a really great, really well done for media representation of little Middle Eastern girls everywhere. Still got a hundo right on Rotten Tomatoes. I mean, if that's not enough. If that's not enough. I mean, Rotten Tomatoes is never wrong. Oh my god.

What is our assignment? Should we choose to accept for the next Honest Dreaming Corner? Should you choose to accept? I don't know. Miles only watched half of it. He just got away with it. Should you choose to accept?

Oh, there's no choice here. And that cackle was like top grade. I can't even stand it. That was literally incredible. That was like one take we got it. It's like the Wilhelm scream. They just loop it over.

That was definitively cackle. If there was an audio button in a dictionary next to cackle, you just loop it over. That was definitively Cackle. If there was an audio button in a dictionary next to Cackle, you just nailed it. Thank you. I can tell you weren't trying to blow my mind and you did. That's my Jack

and Miles think they have any control, Cackle. It's funny because they're like, this is what we're doing and I'm like, it's not. It's not. Sorry. You'll do as I say. I know. We wanted to call it something different.

And I was like, it should be the Daily Zeitgeist. All right. Yeah, yeah. Do you actually remember the naming of that? Jack kept being like, I want to do a show where it's just like the Daily Zeitgeist. And then he'd be like, what about tennis ball? We'd be like, just call it the fucking Daily Zeitgeist. Just call it that. You keep Daily Psych guys just call it that you keep saying it just call it that

I don't know tennis ball is kind of cool you brought up tennis ball do you actually remember that as the name for the show okay I think it's pretty good as long as it's not like T-N-M-S-B-L-L I think we're good as long as you're

putting all the vowels in tennis ball. I just like tennis balls. That's all. I think they're cool. So what's next? I actually don't have something next just yet. I'll give you guys The thing is, I really want to recommend The White Lotus, which I've been really enjoying on HBO Max, but there's only three

episodes out and I don't fully know how long the season is. I mean, we could do a halfway watch but i feel like maybe we should wait till the whole season is out but give me give me a week and i'll come through with a new recommendation because let's be real i you know what i really want to recommend is the new season of real housewives of potomac but you know what i know you guys can't hang so why so i just that's a soft recommend we won't be discussing it on the show but it's a soft recommend for all my real housewife heads this new season already well good job

punctuated i'm sorry guys there's a little something in my throat uh well caitlin it's been such a pleasure having you as always. So genuinely happy to be here. Where can people find you and follow you? I'm going to tell you one place that is the most important. And I want to say thank you to the entire Zeitgang. Because the last time we got to hang out, I mentioned my store, GarrettT-Shirts.com. And boy, did the Zeitgang come out. It was a super exciting day.

I try to get my little tees out there so people see them and like sometimes people wear them it's really exciting but like knowing so many folks were curious and checked it out and like found shirts they like was like so awesome so thank you so much to the zeitgang for your once again direct palpable support uh if you want to head back to to GuaranteeShirts.com. Once more, I hooked up a little 25% discount for the Zeitgang. The code is Zeitgang.

I think last time it was free shipping, but honestly, I just thought the support was really cool from the community. If anybody wanted to get a new shirt or a new look, I wanted it to be a little easier. My biggest sale yet, Caitlin's Deepest Discount. It's all for y'all. I hope there's some new fun stuff that you want. Spell that for the people, for the website. Oh, no. Okay. Yes. G-U-A-R-N. Oh, I did it wrong. I guarantee it's

like the right word out loud and it looks great, but then people do this, ask me to spell it, and I am instantly like six and wetting my pants. It's Guaranteeshirts.com. G-U-A-R-A-N-T-E-E-S-H-I-R-T-S. Guaranteeshirts.com, where we guarantee t-shirt shirts. You get it. Look, puns, I'm not proud. Get that tropical Oklahoma tea. Get that Kate My Blanchett joint.

You know what I mean? Yep. Also, I'm going to say out loud on the podcast that you two need teas. get that tropical oklahoma tea get that kate my blanchett joint you know what i mean yep also i'm going to say out loud on the podcast that uh you two need teas i think anna you got yours but um i know i stopped an email thread at some point that was like i'm giving you t-shirts and then i did not so i'm back and i will but um let's find out what you want send me some sizes and stuff i'll make sure it's like gang that your hosts are properly outfitted so they can do turns on the red carpet that damn judy dench hoodie oh the jim judy dench hoodie is genuinely one of my favorites uh i love the

hoodies and the sweatshirts so yeah if a 25 discount helps folks grab something that they would feel really good wearing i would be like so happy and psyching the fact that you wear a t-shirt that i made occasionally makes me so happy. Thank you. So go check it out. Discount for the Zeitgang. It's Zeitgang. Yeah.

And Caitlin, is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Shalewa Sharp, Silky Jumbo on Twitter, just shortly a couple days ago, did one of those quote tweets i like where us we said nature is healing and then nature said no i'm disassociating oh no that was bleak but i will throw one more in from alex at alex abads uh and i thought about this every day since i read it when a homo swirls his iced coffee it's like a rattlesnake flicking its tail i could hear that tweet in my bones i could feel the ice touching the plastic of the cup and the straw i know exactly what alex was talking about hell yeah anna where can people find you what's the tweet you've been enjoying uh you can find me at anahosniay on twitter and a tweet i've been enjoying. Real quick before that, I personally got myself a

guarantee shirt and I got the Oklahoma, the tropical Oklahoma one because it just gave me a giggle. It's not like I'm a teacher. It's new. Oh, I gotta check that out. Yes, tweet I've been enjoying.

Molly Lambert at Molly Lambert tweeted actually several Werner Herzog movies could be titled Jungle Cruise. I thought that was funny. Is that a little too niche? Because he sure does. Not for Film Gang. Yeah, shout out to Film Gang. Also, Julia Rossi

tweeted, how Italian is my mom? Well, while holding a gallon of olive oil, she just told me she would love for my baby to play her fave instrument, the accordion. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? At Miles of Grey on Twitter and Instagram. Also, 420 Day Fiance. The other show, if you like 90 Day Fiance and, you know, weed based antics, check out that show for the trash buffet that it is. A tweet that I like is from at T.C. Burke Jr. Reverend Ted Lasso tweeted.

People are madder at Simone Biles than they ever were at Larry Nassar. Yeah, that feels about right. Just because you decided to do what was right for you, Simone. But hey, that very very uh apt observation hmm whoo scorcher scorcher is the between there scorcher i'll throw in somebody took a photograph and i forget their name i'm really sorry i'm sure the photograph is everywhere so you deserve all the credit and me forgetting you is doing you an injustice but somebody snapped a shot of simone mid-spin in air like like flat body spin. And like the only way it was possible, she looked like a perfect clock.

Like just, she made a perfect circle midair that somebody caught in time-lapse. And like how a human holds their hips in the same position while they themselves rotate in midair was just like, it was so many things coming together of years of talent and work. And then somebody like photographic technology being able to be like, see, it really is amazing.

It was, she's unreasonable. It's like, see, it really is amazing. It was right. She's unreasonable. It's too. She's, she's everything. Tweet. I've been enjoying at it's Megan gauge tweeted. We were literally born onto a planet that grows food.

How did we fuck up so bad that I got a credit score? Find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us 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. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.

Miles, what song are you recommending this is a uh you know since we're talking about what started off as three-piece bands in we are lady parts they reference at one point they said like dickless or latigra like these are the three-piece bands that are fucking dope and i was listening to this group deep tan and they have a song called camelot which reminded me a lot of la tigra's track decepticon and i was like oh wait this is kind of i fuck with this and it's got that just grungy vibe and has a lot of attitude so this is camelot by deep tan all right well we are gonna suggest you go check that out. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app,

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