The Daily Zeitgeist - Jason Momoa = Universal Truth, Pretty Petty Presidential Petulance 1.29.19

Episode Date: January 29, 2019

In episode 318, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Blake Wexler to discuss the DC film Aquaman surpassing The Dark Night in the box office, the 2020 vision that has Democrats shook, an inside look at White House tours with Trump as president, Trump's anger at the state run media and his low ratings in the polls, a coffee company roasting their beans with space technology, Pepsi's hundred million logo design, and more!FOOTNOTES:1. The Dark Knight2. Aquaman3. Box Office: 'Aquaman' Tops 'Dark Knight Rises' To Become DC Comics' Biggest Movie4. Wall Street freaks out about 20205. Kamala Harris kicks off 2020 campaign with hometown Oakland rally6. ‘Want to see the Lincoln bedroom?’: Trump relishes role as White House tour guide7. 'Wrong track': Public sours on nation's direction after shutdown8. Latest polling data point to major re-election challenges for Trump in Wisconsin9. Trump labelled ‘wimp’ and ‘broken man’ by right-wing supporters over Mexico border wall capitulation10. This company wants to use reentry heating to roast coffee beans11. I just discovered the Pepsi rebranding slides from 2008 and it is truly breathtaking12. Pepsi's New Logo A Bargain At Several Hundred Million Dollars13. WATCH: Dr. My-Ho by New Optimism Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 67, Episode 2 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist! The podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness using the headlines, box office reports, TV ratings, what's trending on Google, and so she means. It's Tuesday, January 29th, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a.

Brian, Brian, say Jack O'Brien. That's courtesy of Hannah Soltis. That was supposed to be love me, love me, say that you love me. But my voice is such that it was impossible to tell. Well, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Butterfly in the sky. I can get twice as high. We take on crooks, spit a hook, a reading gray bow.

I can go anywhere. Facts to know, a killer show. We're reading the zeitgeist And smoking at the same time Thank you to At Taylor T. Fleming For that Reading Rainbow?

Yeah AKA I could see the intro To that show in my mind As you were Yeah I loved that show Yeah

As a kid We should do an animated version And even then I couldn't even read And I loved it That's how you knew It was a good show Well isn't the show

Like him reading to you Basically? Yeah but still Yeah I feel like you know You want to know What's going on Read, and I loved it. That's how you knew it was a good show. Well, isn't the show like him reading to you, basically? Yeah, but still. Yeah. I feel like, you know, you want to know what's going on. Yeah. Literally. I've found that I've spent less of my time since learning to read being read to.

When was the last time you were read to? It's been a while. Yeah. I think that's a form of self-care. There's something soothing about being read to There was that one time I had a terrible accident And I had a textbook read to me in college But that was the last time I think I was read to

Wait what was this accident And how did you get away with the scam I was at Hooters And I was juggling the hot sauce And the cap came off one of them mid air And it was all over my eyes That can't be true Aspen and Burbank and I was juggling the hot sauce, and the cap came off one of them midair, and it was all over my eyes. I've got Hooters hot sauce in there. That can't be true.

Well, ask them in Burbank. They call me Blindy McJuggles. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian and returning guest, Mr. Blake Wexler! A.K.A. Blindy McJuggles. The second. The second. Yeah. I stole Blindy McJuggles. The second. The second.

Yeah. I stole the thing. They know me there because I used to steal the thing that the paper towels would come on. Because I thought that was a funny bit. Uh-huh. And then I would just have a lot of paper towel dispensers. It was just a wooden rod. Wait, that's not a bit.

That's that. That's that. Yeah, that's what I am. And you're right. That's what the magistrate court said also. Of course. But anyway. This isn't about me.

Well, there are a bunch of prudes over there in the magistrate, I've found. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's a bit when you're doing it, and it's completely purposeless, right? It's like- Ah, well. That's a mental illness. Right.

Well, then I sell them on Craigslist. Right. That is funny. Is that theft? Yeah. Yeah. I have trouble sometimes discerning between the two. It's hard.

Yeah. Anyway, look, I'm just getting back from illness. Now, Jack, I've passed the illness baton on to Jack. I have trouble sometimes discerning between the two. It's hard. Yeah. Anyway, look, I'm just getting back from illness. Now, Jack, I've passed the illness baton on to Jack. I know. I was sick over the weekend. Couldn't hear it in your voice. No, I sound great. I'm glad I picked a AKA that relied on me hitting high notes to be even identifiable.

Well, Blake, 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 today. Aquaman is now officially the biggest DC movie ever. We're going to talk about how that happened. And we're going to talk about a couple millennial just bullshit marketing. Just bullshit marketing in general. Yeah, it might not be millennial. I don't know how all these other people are.

Right. You don't need to be a millennial. I don't know how these other people are. Right. You don't need to be a millennial to fall for just crazy bullshit. We're going to talk about 2020 and all the people announcing who's looking good, who's terrifying, all Democrats, Howard Schultz. We are going to talk about some inside information on what happens when you go to the White House and get a personal tour from the president. Because since he doesn't really work, he spends a lot of his time in office just giving people personal tours. Yeah, like a Walmart greeter. Right.

Just being like, oh, this is pretty cool, huh? I'm president. Pretty cool. You want to buy four Meyer lemons for a dollar? What? And we're going to talk about just a new shade of Trump we're seeing for the first time. Just kind of angry. Not happy.

But unhappy in a way that is, I don't know, wounded? Sort of like sad boy Trump? Yeah. And we're going to talk about Baby Shark and answer the question, what is Baby Shark? And from whence did it come? But first, Blake, we like to ask our guest, what is Baby Shark? And from whence did it come? But first, Blake, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

Well, I... Sorry. Sorry. Already. Is that not soothing? Is this a phone sex hotline? Yes. This is delicious dish.

Phone sex was actually the last Google search, and it says a lot about me. I'm a pervert who only responds to sound. How to phone sex? There should have been a predicate or something. Return slow tennis hits. Return slow tennis hits. Yeah, I just started playing tennis poorly, and my girlfriend and I have been playing,

and she just keeps dropping shots in on me, and I keep charging the net and not getting there in time. I think they're called drop shots in the tennis parlance, but I would have never guessed that you weren't a lifelong player from calling them tennis hits. Yeah, return slow. How do I return those slow tennis hits? Wow. Fucking Roger Federer over here. And the general way that I dress would also suggest that I have a huge tennis player.

You do have a white headband on today. I do. And four wristbands. And Andre Agassi's wig. My shorts do not go below the pelvis, nor will they. Right. Never, ever. How long have you been playing?

Like a month and a half. Okay. Yeah. did she get you into it or she got me into it gifted natural she is like naturally athletic so um but yeah she's way better than i am but like i've been youtubing it and okay um also you know clearly uh having very in-depth searches on google i'm sure there's a lot of tennis play a lot of tennis watchers in the Zeitgang. Oh, you know, shout out to Naomi Osaka, fucking number one now. Whoa. Hold that.

Did she win the Australian Open? Yes, she did. Now ranked number one in the world. Congratulations. Yeah, she might help you out. I mean, I don't know her. She sounds busy, but she can find a moment. I will occasionally get into just like tennis slash table tennis slash like watching tennis

holes where I'm just like obsessed for like a month and then just have to like break myself out of it. And just go back to watching Street Luge. Yes. And the X Games. Exactly. I think the X Games should happen six times a year and they will not listen. What happened?

It's a lot of Mountain Dew. Remember when the X Games were literally like every season? It was like time for the fall X Games. What the fuck's the fall X Games? They jumped into a really big pile of leaves. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated? Writing bad reviews about something, like on Yelp.

Okay. Because the people I've surrounded myself around have raved about it overrated writing bad reviews about something like on Yelp. OK. That the people I've surrounded myself around have raved about it. And then it was time for me to write a bad one about an Airbnb experience that I had. And it happened a week ago and

I still haven't written it because I don't want to make someone feel bad. Even though they made me feel terrible with their thin floors. Their thin floors. Their papers.

Did you fall through the floor? Yeah. I can't walk anymore. And I feel terrible for them. Is that how you excuse? Did you fall through the floor? Yeah. I can't walk anymore. And I feel terrible for them. I don't want them to be sued. Right. Yeah. Now, what is thin floors? How does that manifest itself?

He was playing beer pong and he went for the slam and he went right through the floorboards. My plant foot went right through the floor. I could hear the upstairs neighbor yawn. Oh, my gosh. Which was both relaxing and infuriating. Right.

Yeah, at least someone's doing well. Was it contagious through the floorboards? Did you then yawn because he yawned? In that case, I didn't because I had an adrenaline rush of anger. But I've felt dirty in public when I've caught a yawn from a stranger who, you know, disgusted me. Oh, fuck. Like, oh, God, what am I going to get? Wait, so that was the worst of it?

No, they had a toddler who would scream at 5 o'clock in the morning. There we go. But you're just giving us an idea of just how thin. You could hear a yawn, and then on top of that, there was a young child. A very young child. Screaming. Screaming at the top of its shrungs. Damn.

That's terrible, man. But I agree. I'll be fine. On the one hand, you want to feel like you're kind of doing a service for future people who are going to... Like one time, my wife and I got real in deep on this bad yelp review because the guy like kept like i don't know he had a way of like dealing with yelp where he would get our review deleted and it was like such bad service he like brought his dog and gave our dog

fleas from his dog oh my god his dog literally smelled like a walking piece of shit. It just smelled the worst that you've ever, the worst smelling thing ever. And then he did a bad job. He was like a roto-rooter. He would churn up your yard. The funniest Yelp review I ever saw was someone created an account

as Abraham Lincoln and made the photo of the account Abraham Lincoln and reviewed the Fordd theater as one star was killed here one star that's what i do i just create historical yelp accounts that's awesome yeah um but anyways we had to fight to get it kept up but once it was up we got like 30 people like thanking us for putting it up because oh my god yeah the guy was like basically manipulating yelp to keep it up but then i've had other times like where it's not a yelp thing where i'm just like you know this giant

telecommunications company needs to hear my complaint and it's just completely wasted oh yeah yeah they might as well just wait. Keep shaking your fist at the sky. Right. They do not give a crap about you. Oh, wow. Way to sense you. Wow.

Very nice. Shout out to our new sponsors, Cox Cable. Just back to your thing, though. You didn't want to give the in-Airbnb review of the place? Or you were going to go on Yelp to roast an Airbnb thing? Oh, no, no, no. The in-Airbnb. I mean, you can do that in a very direct way, right? You're not going like, this fucking miscreant.

You're just like, you know, if you're looking for a restful evening, you might want to look somewhere else as the floors are so thin that I could hear the guy yawn. Right. Boom. How much do you charge to write copy for Airbnb complaints? I'll do that for free, man. You will? somewhere else as the floors are so thin that I could hear the guy yawn. Right. Boom. I think that's fair. How much do you charge to write copy for Airbnb complaints? I'll do that for free, man. You will? Yeah.

I just have one call with my stepmom and then I'll write all kinds of bad reviews about anything, man. I'm charged up. What is something you think is underrated? Also, she's not going to replace my mom. Yeah. No. That's what I'm just saying.

We've talked about this. Right. She's not. Because March 7th, 2001. I know this right she's not because March 7th 2001 I know but she's not really trying to right I don't know you're still bringing this up

it seems as if no I'm fine I'm fine no it's fine we weren't even talking hey Blake you want that Yelp review written right now

hey Blake what is something that's underrated stay on to see I don't even it's very distracting what he's doing right now the way I've never seen

someone text so hard in my entire life. Fuck, I broke the screen. Underrated. I would say free trials. Free trials. It's been a good year. But yeah, I read this article recently about how much money free trials have been costing millennials

because they keep forgetting to cancel them. And then the recurring subscription charge. I don't remember the exact figure, but it is staggering. But just set a reminder. And then when you know you'll be home and you can cancel it. And then use a different email and sign up again. Yeah. Right.

But see, millennials suffer from, what is it? Errand fatigue. Errand fatigue. Is that real? Yeah. Interesting. it's a real thing where oh my god it seems like the perfect generation to be like yeah man it's like a billion dollar industry is just on people not having their shit together right yeah like yeah i need to just cancel three buttons literally three buttons right yeah are you sure are you sure are you sure yeah

then the phone call sometimes it's a little tricky But I do think that is an entire industry that is benefiting from errand fatigue, basically. Oh, yeah. I mean, I don't think the only time I was real quick to end the subscription was for a porno site. Yeah. When I was like 19. When I got my first debit card and you could like do shit like that. I was doing tally marks in the wall and shit.

I was like counting down until my fucking 16-day trial was over. Best believe I was done. After that, right now I'm still paying for some kind of dog collar that tracks my dog. I used it once. Don't look at it. And I've been paying $10 a month. I'm, fuck, man. To think about how much money I've given them.

Don't think about it. It's best not to think about those things. Best not to think about it and just keep it going. Right. Yes. Exactly. Yeah, just move. Change your billing address.

Does your dog still wear the collar? Hell no. It's too bulky. That's the other part. I lost the fucking thing. Right. And then when I fire up the GPS, it just says it's somewhere near my mom's house. Right.

I don't know. It's all fucking nuts. It doesn't sound very exact. You know who probably has it. Your stepmom. Sorry. I don't know why I did that. Now, is she your real mom?

Do you consider her that? No, she's not my mom. She'll never be my mom. That's the point, though. I'm sorry. So why should I even say anything to do with her with the word mom in it? That's true. You know what I mean?

Steplady. My dad's wife. Right. Step person. Feel me? Yeah. Okay. Okay. You know what I mean? Step lady. My dad's wife. Step person. Feel me? Okay. Jesus Christ. Alright. What's the best thing you got for free? What would you say

the best service you got for free? A mom you didn't want? I don't know if that's for me or mom. It doesn't seem as if this is a relatable conversation. That's fine. At this table. You're right. Okay. Thank you for your professionalism. And I don't know what my tone is. I don know why uh we've been just watching the hell out of hulu plus um for the past few weeks and it is paying dividends why everything you're saying is killing

i think being cheap is always like a very funny personality thing yeah i mean underrated free trials right we've been watching the crap out of hulu plus what's the myth here Being cheap is always like a very funny personality thing. I mean, underrated, free trials. We've been watching the crap out of Hulu. What's the myth here? That you shouldn't do free trials because you're... Oh, that is the myth. Yeah. Easy to get around.

Come on. Just the thing you have to understand is you are scamming. That's a way to motivate yourself. Like this is all part of the scam. Their game is, they think you're going to forget to cancel it. So just set the reminder. And you just play a shell game with them

with different emails. Exactly. Thank you. There it is. That was it. All right. Let's talk about the DC movie universe. Not the best universe.

Started out strong. Started out. With Christopher Nolan, Batman's, Batman. With Tim Burton, Batman. Independence Day was set in DC. I don't understand the topic. Lincoln.

Yeah, Lincoln. Lincoln lawyer, probably. Lincoln's lawyer. Guy who's never seen a movie. He's a fucking idiot. He hasn't been right about anything. There's no area of expertise. He's a fucking idiot. He hasn't been right about anything. There's no area of expertise. He's just a moron.

What do you think War Horse is about? Fucking a horse with a sword? Right. Hey, what? Pretty close. So Aquaman is now the biggest DC movie ever, surpassing The Dark Knight. And I mean,

The Dark Knight was only, what, 10 years ago? 11 years ago? So it can't have been been can't be that much 12 12 no i mean it was in 2012 so seven oh seven years ago yeah so uh it can't have been it's not like just pure inflation like aquaman is oh i'm sorry it's the one that took the dark knight rises right it Right. It was 2012. It was 2012, yes. And I think the original Dark Knight was 2008. Does Batman Begins, 2008? Dark Knight.

I give up. No, Dark Knight was 2008. 2008. But that was the second of the two. In the Nolan franchise. Yes, yes, yes. Anyways, this is good podcasting. Reach out and let us know when the Dark Knight was

on Twitter. Also, who do you think Batman really is? That's a great question. Oh, he the Batman? Great question. Anyways, they started out strong with all the good Batman

movies. And also, I was a huge Superman fan growing up. Anybody else? Christopher Reeve? Yeah, the Christopher Reeve movies. I was real into those. Used to run around with my shirt off and a towel wrapped around my neck. That was the cape. Yeah.

Through high school. And then I was told that that wasn't socially acceptable to do that. Oh, it was in high school? Yeah. No, it was when I was five. You wasn't socially acceptable. Right. Oh, it was in high school. Yeah, yeah. No, no, it was when I was five. But you had to clear that up. I was running for student government and it helped. But anyways, now Aquaman is the biggest DC movie ever. Aquaman, the idea that there would be an Aquaman movie used to be a joke.

Oh, yeah. Like that was. And I remember when the, I haven't seen it. I'm not interested in seeing it. But even the trailer, I was like, okay. I guess if you like underwater that looks like not underwater. Yeah, everybody's moving around like they're just flying. What was the deal here?

Is it because just the international market has expanded so much? That's right. Yeah, it's basically that. The Dark Knight did extremely well in America, but it only got 49% of its box office from overseas. And now the overseas markets have grown so much that even though Aquaman... So I think Dark Knight was like 535 million in America, 469 overseas. Aquaman is 316 million in America, but 774 million overseas. So it's 71% of it is international box office.

And 1 billion in the seas for the fish audience. Right, hey! Overseas and underseas. Leaning back now. That's it for me. Shotgunning this LaCroix now. I'll be here all week. You think it's, is there a Momoa factor?

Is his fucking long hair and smoky eyes? I mean, that shit translates to all languages. Yeah, that's true. Like, you do not need, and I mean, this is the thing with international, like, box office that they say is that, you know, with international box office that they say is that we are going to see more and more movies that are just focused on things that translate no matter what. Like, you know, the action, special effects, and Jason Momoa. They say by 2025, Jason Momoa will be in every movie. Right.

And he will replace mathematics. That's right. That's a universal language. Jason. And he will replace mathematics. That's right. That's a universal language. Jason Momoa is the universal language. I've heard that this movie is like aggressively stupid, like almost intentionally so, like Aquaman is dumb in the movie.

Like his character is just like, what's up, man? I literally heard that the movie ends with him being confused about having won. And then someone's like, no, you're the king of the sea now. And he turns to the camera and goes, this is going to be fun. And that's it. That's how it is. Spikes the camera?

Wow. All right. Yeah. So, I mean, Dark Knight. Some people think Dark Knight is the best comic book movie ever. I still probably ride for the first Avengers because it's just more fun. But Dark Knight's great. It's almost like not a comic book movie.

Yeah. It's more like it looks like the toll it would take on a human being to be Batman. Right. When that first came out, I was like, dude, would take on a human being to be Batman is kind of how the Bat- when that person came out I was like, ugh dude, Bruce Wayne's a fucking weirdo. But then I'm like, of course you would be if you're everyday trying to fight crime and your parents

were murdered. Yeah. That'll mess you up. Didn't someone try and do the whole well thing? On like when? Yes! When his parents would have been killed and it would have been- So they said in the latest Batman, like I think it's maybe the latest comic book, you know, Batman takes place in the modern era and his parents died like what, 17 years ago or something like from when he like first. The child, right. Batman begun.

And so they did the math and were like, they could have been coming out of space jam. Yeah, that's right. Because of the time. Like current day Batman's parents would have been killed leaving with their fancy pearls and shit. Space jam. Tuxedo. I don't know about you, Bruce. That felt quite derivative.

I think Barclay's going to make a fine analyst someday. That's the last word his dad says. Bill Murray killed me when he asked, what kind of camera is that? Right after they disappeared into that hole? I have to look up who did that math. We're going to take a quick break while I do that, and we'll be

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This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back and uh the author of said tweet uh which i'm about to read you is daniel kibblesmith who is a comic book writer and a writer for television he tweeted on january 13th hear me out if batman is canonically about 32 when then he was born in 1986 and if his parents were killed leaving a movie theater when he was 10 years old then there's a very real possibility than like three paragraph breaks that they were seeing space jam which is amazing to think about sean bradley is 46 years

old wow yeah right now I should tweet that. Apropos of nothing, Sean Bradley is 46. Just remember that. This instant. Right. Well, he was always old when he entered the league because he did his mission. Yes. So that's something to keep in mind. How old is he? Was he like 24 or something?

I think like 22. Oh, okay. Old for NBA. Right. Alright guys, let's talk about 2020. I think like 22. Oh, okay. Basketball. Old for NBA. Right. Right. All right, guys, let's talk about 2020, the election specifically. Oh, not the news show? Yeah, not my favorite news show with John Stossel and Barbara Walters. But the election that we're all facing in 2020, first of all, Politico is reporting about how Wall Street is not fond of two of the campaigns.

No, they are shaking in their boots over Elizabeth Warren or Bernie winning because, you know, they have kind of an agenda that's isn't favorable to predatory banks. The CEO of a huge bank put it this way. It can't be Warren and it can't be Sanders. It has to be someone centrist and someone who can win, which is interesting how he added who can win. Yeah, they can win. Right. They could win that you wouldn't be scared of them. Yeah. Well, when you look also look, I mean, Bernie's only second to Biden and like sort of this, like the, you know, generic polls right now, if the election were today, I mean, we also don't know if they're going to run for sure.

So yes, Bernie could, you know, potentially win, but I guess what they mean is someone who is just more like favor, like will be nicer to banks. So I think they named people like Cory Booker or Kristen Gillibrand or Kamala Harris, although like they're pretty progressive. I just feel like maybe because they haven't built careers on being like, look at what Wall Street has done to us. Right. They're a little bit, they feel that it's a little bit easier with them.

But I think also too, like this was just sort of based off like a couple interviews because at the end of the day, they're going to give to whoever they think is going to be the president because that's just how this shit works. Well, right. And I think the I mean, this is almost an endorsement for Sanders and Warren, like from the perspective of their supporters. you're a candidate because giant banks and you know banking money is always always seems to be the corrupting factor when it comes to politics i mean yeah that's just a good uh campaign slogan for elizabeth warren i got the banks shook right yeah all right i'll vote yeah we'll see i mean again but then you also have people like kamala harris who on sunday kicked off her campaign in oakland with a fucking bang

right i mean the they're reporting that there are maybe like 20 000 people that showed up the photos definitely i would believe that because she had a lot of people come out uh in her hometown and her you know she came out and and spoke very clearly about where the country is where it needs to be going what the dangers, and even touched on a few issues. You know, like a lot of people have criticisms of her when she was the attorney general of California. She's a cop. Yeah, there are people on the far left who are like, she's a cop.

Or really talking about her, she didn't voice an opinion on certain three strikes laws that were coming out. She felt it was inappropriate for someone as attorney general to comment on some kind of legislation like that, but also has, you know, could have been a little more aggressive in holding police accountable for their criminal acts. But then, you know, as she was out there to make her speech, she points at issues like that directly about prison reform and cash bail and police violence and things like that is things that have to be addressed. So she's definitely gaining momentum and had a pretty good showing. But the other thing that has Democrats actually shook is the idea of Howard Schultz, the former Starbucks CEO, running as an independent. Did he announce that he is running?

I think not yet. No, not yet. But he's like doing a listening tour. I think in like Iowa and hopefully he will listen to people when they say, take your fucking money and go home. Right. Just because you think it's too hard to run as a Democrat and win that. Don't just be like, well then I'll just run. I'll be a self-funded independent third party candidate. Right.

Call it a large, call it a medium, call it a small, put the Sonics back in fucking seattle howard right wait is he to blame i think so right i think howard schultz had a lot to do with oh god my heart really goes out to sonics fans let's say he did yeah let's just say he did let's just add that to the he can take the hit uh yeah right seriously he said when they drafted kevin garnett or uh kevin durant kevin durant he like, this kid's never going to be any good.

Get this team out of my town. Out of here. This Russell Westbrook, he dresses boring. Right. We can't have him here. What's going on? His pants don't fit. They're too short.

They're all cropped. But the thing, I mean, a lot of people, especially for Democrats, they're just frightened because when you sort of look at how narrowly Hillary lost electoral votes in like three states across like 75, 77,000 votes. Right. That's when you look at third party candidates and you're like, oh, those are votes that could have gone to the Democratic candidate. ways of looking at it too while they're sort of just like the initial just like third party candidate means cannibalized votes means vote splitting means trump will you know cruise to re-election right there's also a school of thought that you know the people who could would really might end up voting for schultz if he runs would be like sort of softer trump voters who people

would just like help like the people who would you know in post-mortems about the election were like well i had to hold my nose and vote for trump right you know just because i couldn't vote for hillary or whatever it's those people that could be swayed to schultz rather than probably like i'd imagine most people if you identify as a democrat you're not going to be like well i'll take trump over a very radical democrat right right uh so you know we'll see. But again, it's definitely I think a lot of people think like Bloomberg thought about running independently, too, but was like, I feel like an independent third candidate just means a reelection for Trump. So, yeah. And I mean, he has a pretty solid 40 percent of the voting population. It seems, just when you look at the fact that his approvals still

hover around 40%, his approval polls. If what he's done thus far doesn't peel them off to just saying in a poll, I don't support him, I don't think Howard Schultz being a more centrist, less fun to follow candidate is going to do anything to convert them. But yeah, I mean, we'll see if we've definitely seen that the shutdown has had an effect on the base a little bit in terms of like their enthusiasm over certain,

you know, political points that the president has been championing. But you know, when there's all this like browbeating about like, Oh, there could be another shutdown right i'm curious to see how people would react to that because there are definitely more you would hear more tales of trump supporters who were like i supported the president and i still

kind of do but this is actually harming me right and i don't like that which has been interesting but you know a lot of people like that like to vote against their self-interest anyway. But guys, who better to reform our system that is being killed by inequality than a billionaire? Oh yeah. We need billionaires. Especially one who's like, I don't need any of you. I'll buy this fucking thing if I want to.

This is my party. I'm having my own party. Right. The Bucks party. party. The Bucks party. Yes. The Bucks party. Starbucks. I got it. I thought you were patronizing me. Stepmom.

Again, it's amazing how that could almost just come out of nowhere. Seemingly. Anyway. You seem over it. That's why I'm trying to move on. That's why I'm saying we should just move on. It does change the mood

each time you bring it up. Not for me. Maybe for you. I'm the one living in my head, so I know what it's like. I would never speak about what you're thinking. I'm sorry. That's cool. Because she's really mean. It's like when I come in in the morning, he's like listening to Korn.

He does this often. She's just like, I'm listening to Korn. Yeah, got the life on blast. And I do the Seawalk, get your boogie on part. All right. I don't know if you remember, that was Dub C from West Side Connection in that video. Sorry. All right, guys.

Let's move on to what it's like to get a tour of the White House from the president himself. You might remember that early on in the Trump administration, there would be, you know, the normal White House tour class trip. You know, when you sign up for a tour, just any any old person, sometimes Trump would just make a surprise appearance. He would jump out from behind a curtain and be like, surprise, it's me, the president. This is a huge security risk. Everyone's like, oh, Jesus Christ. Right. No, they literally, a lot of people were scared.

And then he would give a tour. So somebody looked into, I guess there's a new book being written. Everybody's got a book, yeah. Right. Another White House aide. Former. Right. Someone who got out the circus and is telling us what it was like in there. Yes, a White House aide by the name of Cliff Sims.

Yeah. The book's called fucking Team of Vipers. Yeah. Wow. Yo. I would have gone with Den, like a den of vipers instead. Right. Yeah.

He's trying to, but see, Den would throw people off. A team of vipers, I think, for every man and woman, child. I am smart. You're right. That's fine. What do you take from that? No, what I was saying is you're not. Huh?

God damn it. I heard I am. Oh, boy. All right. Well, this is getting sidetracked. Team of vipers. You heard his film commentary? DC movie?

Yeah. The Lincoln lawyer. The Lincoln lawyer. I'm on it. He was a lawyer for that Lincoln Logs class action lawsuit. Right. All the President's Men, my favorite DC Universe movie. So Cliff Sims talked about what Trump would be like giving tours to friends, politicians, or whoever.

Yeah. Got a tour from the president. And there are some fun details. Like, basically, it was all just him shading the Clintons and Obamas. Yeah. That's what he likes to do. Yeah. Go around.

Whenever people would come into the Oval Office, like, apparently there's this thing, like, if he had people over for dinner, it always turned into, you want a tour? Yeah. Like Like right after. And they're like, oh, sure. And then go to the Oval Office. Expecting it to be like this is where Lincoln rested his head when he came up with the- The Bill of Rights is right there for you to look upon. But yeah, would go into the Oval Office.

This is President Tabloids. Yeah, this is President Petty. This is President Tabloids. Yeah, this is President Petty going into the Oval Office, basically gesturing like, this is the scene of the crime for the Lewinsky-Clinton affair. So it says, in a visit in 2017, Trump told a TV anchor, I'm told this is where Bill and Monica, ellipsis, stopping himself from going further. And then it says, three other people who have embarked on a tour with Trump said he made similar comments regarding the former president and White House intern laughing and making facial expressions.

The subject often leads to lengthy, sometimes crass conversations. Wait. So facial expressions being the blowjob facial expression? I don't know. He just raises his eyebrows up and down. Right. For five minutes. Hey, you know what happened here?

What's going on over there? Uh-oh. That's where it was. No one even knew they were sexual innuendos. He's doing chicken wing arm flapping. I don't even know. But yeah, so I think

he had a record of making people uncomfortable somehow with his obsession with the Clintons and talking about their, you know, little trysts that were going on back there. Especially, I mean, the facial expressions really is kind of awesome. But the lengthy part is like, also people are almost like, right, right. Okay. Like, can we, can I go? Like, right, right. Okay.

Like, can I go? Right. Also where Kennedy like dealt with the crisis of the Cuban Missile Crisis. You know, like all sorts of important things happened here. Right, President Trump? Yeah, yeah. There was that. I think Jack Nicholson and Mars Attacks.

Right. When the Martians came. Oh, dear God. Yeah. Yeah. So that's how off-putting that man is, is that these people are getting a once-in-a-lifetime experience of a tour of the White House, and they're just like, I can't wait for this to be fucking over. Right. It's so awful. is like, but he said that his favorite narrative around the Obamas was that they were bad tenants that put holes in the wall and that Obama sat around watching basketball all day.

Not racist. No. Not racist, just a fact. Right. It's not racist if that's the deal. He's black and loves basketball all day and was a bad president. He just sat in here and watched basketball all day. Yep.

It seems like that's what Obama was up to. He was listening to that trap music or something. I don't know. But yeah, he just said, yeah. All day. Holes in the wall. Also, he would repeatedly say, yeah, this place is in real rough shape. Like when he first got there.

Right. Because I remember like his first sort of thing of like just trying to constantly allude to some fucking weird idea that the Obamas are out of control tenants who was just bashing the fucking walls in. Right. But yeah. And then but it's just such a weird thing because then he brags about how like how small the TV used to be in there. Right. And as I went, I got look now it's big. That's gigantic.

But did you build the big TV? He classed. He had to join up. Oh, so you made it better? So now you're in here watching TV all day? Yeah, right. Okay. Well, you know.

Yeah. We're going to need a bigger TV. We're going to need a way bigger TV. Right. Just Fox on loop. Right. Well, speaking of the president watching Fox for the first time, he might be seeing some things that he does not like because after he did his best impression of a caveman.

Whoa. Geico caveman? Geico caveman. Remember that pilot? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. How can I forget? Is that on ABC or something?

Yeah. That was a hell of a sitcom. Yeah. That was a hell of a sitcom. Yeah. So apparently Trump is trying to bring back that show about the caveman. Oh, boy. Because he really- Caved this weekend. Yeah.

Went spelunking when he caved this weekend. Jack won't be into it. Watch out now. Oh, my God. You are wearing tissue boxes on your feet wow i thought that was a joke when anna slid me that note i thought that was a new pharrell collab but that's actually actual kleenex x pharrell um yeah so go on so his base is actually not very happy with him uh for the first time he managed to uh alienate his base finally by

shutting down the government for over a full month and then you know basically giving up all the same for the same deal that he was offered in the first place yeah so the idea that he's you know president negotiation president deals uh just seemed to evaporate before them and they were none too pleased with him donald trump is a type of dude i would say at high school parties who would get their chain stolen from them in front of them like someone would just pull up like give me your chain right and then they would give they would just give it up because they're not built for it and then you'd like, I'll sell it to you for 20 bucks right now. And then they would buy it right back.

That's the kind of dealmaker he is. He's so transparently like doesn't know where he is. He doesn't have a plan. He just says shit. And then it gets him into this thing. And yeah, look what happens. Like Ann Coulter and Newt Gingrich had a slap fight on Twitter basically. He would leave that interaction bragging to everybody that he got this chain for just $20.

Yeah, exactly. They're like, wait, didn't you come in wearing that? Yeah, but I got it for $20. Yeah, but it was yours. It was your chain. Well, he asked me, he said $40 at first. My version of that story is sub-chain for boat shoes. And then that is my version of that exact story, but untied.

And then that is my version of that exact story, but untied. So he was tweeting over the weekend, calling out specifically some Fox News reporters, or at least trying to call them out for having what he said, less understanding of the wall than CNN and NBC, which is the worst thing you can say about a person in his circle. Oh, my God. Harsh. Unfortunately, he tweeted that at a California teenager who had the same name as one of the reporters, just spelled differently. Oh, so he misspelled a person's name,

ended up typing the handle of some innocent teen. Yes, who got caught in the crosshairs of his first negative clapback at a Fox News report. Can you imagine her mentions? Yeah, exactly. Can you imagine that poor girl being just an innocent bystander in the culture war? Did he take it down or is it still up? Oh, I'm sure.

He doesn't take them down. He takes nothing down. That would imply a regret. Well, what's interesting too is there was another Fox anchor or presenter on Fox who defended them and added the president. It was like, this is not right. They're just reporting what happened. And so it's weird to now have the thing that mainstream media has been saying.

They're like, we're not lying. This is what's happening. And then now it's happening to Fox now because apparently there's limits to their own self-delusion. Yeah, it seemed impossible because fox was basically state-run media for a long time and we've talked about how trump is basically media-run state but uh and culture like also just talked about how he's a bad president and kind of wimpy yeah which is her biggest insult what was her thing and she's like oh congratulations to george.W. Bush.

You're no longer the wimpiest president ever because that's Trump now. Yeah. And then Newt Gingrich was like, you're just being loud to sell books. You don't have to listen to her, Mr. President. Right. Don't take it personally. And I think Trump was like, I must not have returned one of her emails or something. Is that what he said?

Yeah. Like she's a scorned woman who's just mad at him. Also, Ann Coulter apparently went on Bill Maher and he was like, when did you realize that Trump was an idiot? Right. Now that you've had it. Right. When was that moment for you? Right.

Because, okay. That's interesting. And she was like, you're right. I'm crazy. I'm an idiot. Like I should have known better. So she's fully, I mean, not that this has any meaning because she changes her opinions day to day. But so Trump was, you know, out sniping at Fox News.

And yesterday morning, Fox and Friends, this is starting to have the feel of like a bad breakup because fox and friends was like the president shouldn't care so much about what people in the media are saying it's like that is your entire power is that he watches your show every day and like just takes everything you say as fact and compliments your job it's like jody's at school they're like you don't have a polka dot shirt polka dots are in polka dots are in. Polka dots are in. Hammering it in this person. Finding the person. Change their whole wardrobe to all polka dot.

The next day, oh, polka dots are fucking dumb. Right. You look stupid now. Hold on. Y'all were basically in his ear every day. But I guess that's the power now is that they're just sort of like, okay, wow. Only listen to some people. We love you.

Don't listen to the bullies. We still want to somehow be like an earwig that gets in your brain. I don't know. And I'm not talking about this just to like kick him while he's down. It just seems like a new look for him that doesn't really fit with his overall, the vibe that his followers seem to want to believe about him. That he's this impervious, just badass who nobody can get to him. And he's like, even when he's being seemingly wrong,

at least he's belligerent. And so you can be like, well, he's secretly doing this because he's playing 12 degree chess. But that doesn't work when he's wounded and like, oh, guys, come on. You don't know what you're talking about stop it stop being mean to me and now 61 percent of americans say america is on the wrong track uh he's doing badly in the polls but still hovering around 40 i think what 49% or just under 50% say they have no confidence whatsoever or at all, I think was the wording, in his ability to run the country.

Yeah. So that's a bad look. But it remains to be seen. It must look good from the Kremlin. Yeah. I'm sure he's going to figure out a way to get people revved up. He does seem to have a talent for populism. He's like,anne roseanne's my

running mate right that would be amazing let's do this shit wheeler out get me roseanne and uh there's a report out that his polling is really in bad shape in states like wisconsin or at least specifically in wisconsin almost half of the voting population says that they specifically will vote for anybody who runs against Trump. They've decided they're not voting for him already. So that's not a lot of room for error, especially because he won Wisconsin by a very thin margin last time. He's like, okay, new running mate, Brett Favre and Antonio Freeman. Right. It just remains to be seen. It seems crazy because he won by the thinnest margin maybe ever or close to ever of any president and has done such a bad job since he came into office,

but there does still seem to be this base that refuses to acknowledge that. So I feel like one way or another, it's going to be, he's going to make it close. I just don't know how yet. Yeah, because he won by less than, I think, 25,000 votes in Wisconsin. Right. Jesus. Yeah. A war would be good for him. Don't give him ideas.

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Fair. You know, i'm just looking on the internet as i do sure but there's like this weird article about like space age coffee and i look at it there's a company called space roasters okay and they're giving coffee to the masses bro because the way they're doing it is unlike any other process right normally you roast a bean and then you grind that up to make your coffee. That sounds old and boring. Yeah.

Because they're probably using shit like heat to roast it. What are you, my grandma? Yeah, exactly. Well, guess what these guys are using? Fucking heat. What? Yeah, also. But here's the hook.

Okay. Space heat. Oh. Because they're using re-entry from space, okay, on like a space vehicle reentering Earth's atmosphere. And that friction from the reentry is used to then heat the coffee beans to roast it. So what they do is they describe it as they have a space roasting capsule. The heat from reentry will be, quote, distributed around four cylinders, each containing 75 kilograms of coffee beans floating in microgravity. The beans will be evenly heated and roasted during the process.

The capsule will then be recovered after landing with parachutes. OK, when you're when you're adding that detail, you mean you have nothing else to talk about. The entire process will only last 20 minutes, but will end with a marvelous aroma as the hatch is opened. Now, again, I do not know. They don't, in what I've read, I have not read anything about why space heat is more advantageous than terrestrial Earth-bound heat.

It's from, because it's from space. Right, right, but that's, what the fuck? No, it's more energy. How? It's more energy. Yeah, in space. Yo, you ever space espresso? It's been to space.

Space brew? Oh, space brew oh space i remember that was a thing well i i remember growing up that there was a thing where we had tomato seeds that they were going to take into space and then bring them back and we were going to grow to see if they like changed at all did you guys remember that no no that sounds fun yeah it sounds like a lie someone my teacher stressed out science teacher yeah these are space tomatoes we're sending them to space yeah um space pizza but anyways i have always wanted my coffee to be toasted by the same thing that killed the columbia space shuttle you have crew. You have always said that. I have always said that.

The seven-member crew of the Columbia Space Shuttle, the thing that took them down, I want that to be roasted in my morning cup. That's good news. It's just so weird. It's like the Apollo 13 fire. Even the press release that inquiring minds would receive, like journalists, some of the quotes are just like, coffee has been roasted the same way for centuries now. And as space science has improved many technologies, we believe it is time to revolutionize coffee roasting using space technology. I've not again heard that being suspended in gravity brings out other dimensions

of flavor or that this heat is different than other. It's that's why it's just good for the sake of change. I guess. Right. Yeah. It's progressive. Even then. So in Ars Technica, they tried to break down like what this even costs. Like, OK, so you're saying you get 75 kilos up there times whatever. So they said, for the sake of argument, let's assume the company can launch a 500-kilogram capsule into a 180-kilometer suborbital trajectory, because that's how they envision a 180-kilometer suborbital trajectory

being the way that they achieve that heat. And they say, assuming all 300 kilograms of beans are roasted optimally, this comes to $20,000 per kilogram of roasted beans. There are between 10 to 15 grams of coffee beans in a cup of coffee. So even on the lower end, just for the rocket cost, that is $200 per cup of coffee. Those are La Colombe prices.

Oh, my God. You're bleeding from your nose. Is it bleeding again? Oh, no. I don't know what that meant. La Colombe. Oh, my God. You got to.

Is that cocaine? Those fancy. No. That's Perico. That's what we call it now on the streets. The La Colombe is like that canned latte that Sophie always buys. Oh, right. And she's always freaking out when it's not there.

It's like, oh, we're out of La Colombe. Yeah, that's right. And now they, well, they have, but they have a few shops. They have one in Frogtown. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. But yeah.

What the fuck are you going to do? And then they're saying that's just the raw cost of attaching it to like getting a space flight right because you're pigging backing off someone else's like million dollar operation

well it's shitty coffee that's the thing you have to understand the beans suck it's just Folgers but it's been to space what we do is we get a 500 kilogram batch

and then we put a little bit of that we spread that 500 kilograms over 10,000 bags right yeah and it's just you man right. But you're going to love it. I mean, the most expensive cup of coffee I've ever heard about is the coffee with the beans that go through a bat's digestive tract. Guano.

Yeah. Or the monkey one, right? Yeah. It's various beans that get eaten because they're seeds of fruit, coffee beans. And so they get eaten by the animal, shit out, and people pay huge amounts of money to make their coffee out of those beans that have been pooped. Go on. That makes more sense to me than roasting the coffee in a thing that's like space reintroduced. Well, because you can argue that their digestive tract is something different than just something as basic as heat. That's the claim that they make,

is that by going through the digestive tract, it's like some strange thing. I remember when we brought it up, and then Zeitgang was on Twitter being like, I've had it, it's shit. Also, the way it's made is problematic, it's bullshit. I'm like, yeah, I get it. I mean, nothing about it.

I think it's purely for someone who gets so off on the idea that they're drinking coffee that has some kind of unique backstory. But I haven't even read where the fucking beans come from. I think that's more important than how you're fucking roasting it. No, it's the roasting method, bro. It's all about the roasting method. At the risk of costing us $800 billion, take that goddamn beast, bat, monkey, whatever it is that eats the beans, put it in a space shuttle, feed it those beans, have it shit in space, then put it out. Wow.

Right? We figured it out. We've cracked the code. We're going to edit this part out. Please. You will never hear another episode of The Daily Zeitgeist. No need. This is our business model going forward.

Again, I just have to bring up, again, even through all their fucking materials, all of it is focused on how you just roast something with space heat. It's nothing to do with the flavor or the experience of the finished product. And it's just, I don't know why. They don't even talk about it. Yeah. I don't get what you don't get, Miles. It's going to space. It's space heat.

It's reentry. I know. Have you seen Apollo 13? I sound like the sober friend when these two guys who must have done so much blow when they figured this out. I'm the sober friend who's like, yeah, but what's different? Nah, dude. It's fucking space.

The fucking heat is from space, dude. It's not like fucking fire dude and then that's that you fucking tell him dude it's fucking different remember when house used to be fucking fun yeah jesus guys i just you know between that and your past uh whatever fine so i did want to bring up the redesign of the pepsi Pepsi back in, I don't know, it was like 2007 or so, spent $100 million on having a new logo design. How much? $100 million. Several hundred million dollars.

I'm sorry. Several hundred million dollars. To go from the wavy thing to like the more- The guy's ass? Yeah. To go from the wavy thing to the more- The guy's ass? Yeah. That looks like it's a sunburnt plumber bending over with his underwear peeking out.

Oh. Huh. Yeah. It does look like that. Huh? Cool. But so in order to make that transition, a design firm had to justify how brilliant this change was to the Pepsi company.

Right, because side by side, it looks like the most minimal fucking change so Gawker got their hands on a 27 page document back in the day titled breathtaking design strategy and it contains like all the references to the fucking golden ratio f Feng Shui. There's like this thing that it has a X axis that says convention to innovation. And then a Y axis that says DNA to the future. And it puts the like old Pepsi logo on one. And then it's like, the future is now with the new one.

Wait, that's merely to just like create the metaphor of what? So there's nothing... Because when I saw that, I'm like, what the fuck is this? It doesn't even make sense like in a mathematical sense. No, they're just completely...

So full of shit. So full of shit that they include the Mobius strip, the Earth's geodynamo, and then comparing that to the Pepsi logo. It's just... Amazing.

What the fuck do they think the consumer on this end would be like, I fuck with it because they incorporated sacred geometry into this? It gets really good on page seven. Their thesis is that they're tapping into all this subconscious stuff and this is the future for Pepsi. Iconography and all this other shit. And like, this is the future for Pepsi. But it's just, it's truly a remarkable document of like just how screwed we are as a species. I was so confused when I saw Robert tweet it out and then I saw you retweet it.

And I just started looking through and I thought it was some kind of like bad scientific presentation that was just lazily using Pepsi logos because like the diagrams are way too excessive for like merely like a marketing deck. Right. That I was like, no, this has to be some kind of scientific shit. 300 BC. Golden ratio. You just figured it was over your head. Yeah, I did.

Because I was like, oh, this is some other shit. And then I didn't know that this was them justifying, okay, I know you paid us $100 million to turn that little wavy thing into a more angular brush stroke. Oh, man, we're in the wrong fucking business. I know, man. I could put together a deck like, oh my God. You gotta lie more.

These people have cracked the code. We need to look into what these people were doing during the 2016 election because they have cracked the code of how to just justify anything to anyone. Yeah. I wonder if the Pepsi people who were in marketing

that hired that firm were in hot water. After they do that, someone goes, hold on, hold on. What the fuck was that? That guy was on Coke. He just talked about space. We just wanted a logo redesign. Well, I'm sure this document was the result of the company sending in a version and the Pepsi marketing person who was like, trust me, it's worth hundreds of millions of dollars going back

and being like, I'm going to need a little more than that. I'm going to need a little more until it's just like the geodesic dome, man. Right. Think about it. They're like, what? The Earth's geodynamo. Like we just asked what's testing better with younger people. What the fuck is all this other shit?

Six hours later. It's probably like working for Trump because like there was that thing where he just out of nowhere was like there's women being duct tape bound at the border, these human trafficking things. And then Border Patrol like sent an urgent email to everybody like, does anybody have anything that might even in a tangential way back up this weird claim he just made? And it was crickets. Really? Yeah. That happened?

Because he said that dumb shit. Yeah. And Border Patrol, they were like, is this true? Right. And there was someone forwarded an email of people asking if they had heard of anything or had any evidence so detailed yeah but yeah that's what they said is that retroactively constructing the narrative is like anybody who edited on the apprentice says they totally recognize like what it's like to be a white house employee or just anybody working for trump because he would just do stuff on a whim that didn't make

any sense like he'd be like you're fired and they're like no they're supposed to like they're doing the best everybody likes them but he would just fire them and then they'd have to like construct some narrative out of the footage that made that person look bad and it's just it's just another season of his reality show basically oh. Oh, those poor editors. I know. Nothing worse than be like, hi, make the person who never screwed up the whole show look like a total fucking asswipe. Asswipe. I don't know why I said it like that.

Asswipe. In this show. God. Yeah. Oh, well, look. Shout out to editors. Shout out to editors. All around the world.

Fixing things. Especially for this episode. And then that person whose mistakes you always had to clean up ends up being the president you just spend every day seeing him make the same exact mistakes that you covered up before i'm so distraught i think the only thing that can help me is a nice cup of space coffee right now yeah exactly get a boost yeah i mean so much of like medicine and how our body behaves is the placebo effect. So, I mean, maybe space coffee will be better.

I just want somebody to give me the follow-up piece as to why space heat is different. Yeah, again, it's space. You're going to be waiting a while. How many times? It would be amazing if you just get a thousand tweets being like, but it's fucking space,

dumb fuck. Your stepmom's a bitch. Blake, it's been a pleasure having you for the most part. Thank you. And that's the nicest thing. While being honest, you could say to me, this guy's in bad shape.

Yeah. Yeah. Where can people find you? Follow you? At Blake Wexler, everything. All right. Yeah. Simple. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying oh yeah actually this tweet made me laugh just because of how silly and weird it is um this is from my friend luke giordano uh on twitter cars get louder when

speeding because the faster you go the more more it hurts them. Race cars are constantly screaming in excruciating pain. That's so funny. So weird. It's like that reminds me of like in the Fast and the Furious movies, like the way that you win at racing is just pushing the gas down like even harder. Right. It's just like, why didn't you push it down that hard from the beginning? Yeah.

Like, all right, I'm really doing it this time oh I'm serious about going fast right gotta live life one quarter mile at a time thank you thank you

thank god someone said it Miles where can people find you find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray this is just you know

a great one from reductress because i just this sums up my attitude says it's a woman with a very disappointed face and it says everyone immediately making fun of carrie's music choices after insisting she be in charge of the spotify that is the worst fucking hill to die on like when people really puff their chests up about like let me take over right you know like and that happens a lot now because we're in an era where it's everyone's just sort of djing off spotify

and there's nothing more satisfying than someone who really like tries to hijack the stereo and then comes in with the just biggest l rest of us big out rest of these uh you know out the gate so that's that there you go go. Follow me there. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A couple tweets I've been enjoying. Sarah Baby at Nacho Sarah tweeted, going to a special place in hell. Sounds cool because who wants to go to regular hell

and have to, like, hang out with Ann Coulter? And Ian Carmel, Big Karma tweeted, PJ Tucker's IG is so good and pure. It's just him posting amazing sneakers. He's going to wear and all his basketball friends going, bro, don't do it to him in the comments, but they do want him to do it to them. They do. They want it. And his IG is great so yeah go follow PJ Tucker

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the song we write out on Miles what's that going to be uh this is a song okay that's all we need to know thank you so much yep fantastic and that's that gotta go uh yes so this is from new optimism which is actually miho hattori who is the from chibomato uh it's her new project. And this song is called Dr. Maiho. And, you know, it's just something different. You know, something... Actually, I've been playing a lot of Japanese music recently. But, yes, let's take this one

and put it in our ear goblets. All right. Ear goblets. Interesting. So royal. Thank you. All right. We're going to ride out on that.

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