The Daily Zeitgeist - JFK Death Limo For Sale Lightly Used, F The F-35 09.20.23

Episode Date: September 20, 2023

In episode 1550, Jack and Miles are joined by writer, creator and host of HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story, Molly Lambert, to discuss… Private Equity Offering Employees an Ownership Stake? Technically... Yes, Rudy Giuliani Is Being Sued Over $1.4 Million In Unpaid Legal Bills, Lost F-35 Jet Is A Good Reminder Of The Stupidity Of The F-35 Program, JFK's Used Death Limo and more! Private Equity Offering Employees an Ownership Stake? Technically... Yes Rudy Giuliani Is Being Sued Over $1.4 Million In Unpaid Legal Bills 'A fallen hero': Rudy Giuliani faces the music Giuliani Is Said to Seek $20,000 a Day Payment for Trump Legal Work Rudy Giuliani’s Former Lawyers (Including One of His Longtime Friends) Sue Him for Nearly $1.4 Million in Unpaid Legal Fees Lost F-35 Jet Is A Good Reminder Of The Stupidity Of The F-35 Program F-35 crashes while landing on USS Carl Vinson in South China Sea US Marines killed after aircraft crashes during military drill in Australia Debris of US F-35 fighter jet found a day after pilot ejects from warplane Inside America’s Dysfunctional Trillion-Dollar Fighter-Jet Program The F-35 Strike Fighter Continues to Be a Massive Waste of Taxpayer Money Not a Lot of F-35s Are Flying Right Now The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed How did it take the Pentagon 28 HOURS to find missing F-35 that had crashed in a field 80 miles from base? Mystery surrounds loss of $80M stealth fighter - as unearthed study raised fears jet could be HACKED by enemy Israel to buy new fleet of F-35 fighter jets financed by US aid The Board of Lockheed Martin Has Spoken: Climate Change May Proceed LISTEN: ENDLESS. by AKNSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to season 305, episode 2 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist. A production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into the lyrics of Crossroads by Bone, Thugs-N-Harmony and also America's Shared Consciousness. It is Wednesday, September 20th, 2023. Hey, it's National

Punch Day. Don't be a bully and say, hey, you know what? Today's National Punch Day, National Care for Kids Day, National Fried Rice Day, National String Cheese Day, and Pepperoni Pizza Day. Sure. Yeah. Alright. Big mozzarella has a

lock on September 20th. I i know they're doing a lot today too much you keep that string cheese at the house you keep string cheese on you for the kids are they still no they are our kids don't like cheese it's crazy okay they they like they're lactose intolerant or something they're crazy it's so weird no yeah they my my seven-year-old doesn't like cheese and so we don't really keep it around makes sense yeah yeah it does uh my name is jack o'brien aka so train me and pay for me 160 million dollar plane for me suit me up and give me the controls because i'm yeeting this here jet plane don't know if i will be detained f-35 just had to go that is courtesy of willie k on the discord nailed it the in terms of the writing i did not got my phrasing went off a

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Bo-bars. Bo-bars. Bo-bars. Bo-bars. Bo-bars. Bo-bars. Bo-bars. Bo-bars. Bo-bars. Bo-bars. the king of the elephants well miles we're thrilled to be joining our third seat by a brilliant talented writer podcaster who you know from publications such as the new york times the new yorker the new york review of books gq i haven't heard of any of these one of one of the co-hosts of the legendary podcasts girls in Hoodies and Nightcall, and the writer, creator, and host of the legendary podcast, Heidi World, The Heidi Fly Story. Please welcome back to the show, Molly Lambert! Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep it's trying to match the chaotic energy yeah get out of the way get out of the way because i'm on the third mic oh man i just discovered how far off i was on on crossroads lyrics i heard that song a thousand times

the sound of a boner is schwing well that's because you grew up in the 90s What about boyoyoing? Sproing is the sound of like When you get ejected from a seat Sproing Oh, sproing? Yeah And what's boyoyoing?

Like an airplane emergency seat It's like boyoyoing So what's the best sound effect For an arrow hitting a bullseye? It's the sound of a penis getting wrecked Oh, it's the best sound effect for an arrow hitting a bullseye? It's the sound of a penis getting cracked. Oh, it's the same. Yeah, yeah. A boing, oing, oing, oing, oing, oing.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. Okay, we're swinging it up. Swing low. What about the crossroads, though, Jack? Because we really were messing with the form by starting with Bone Thug. I was head south thinking there's a party EZ sees Uncle Charlie. But it is not that.

It is. It is that? No, no, no, it's not. Let's all bring it in for Wally. Yeah, let's all bring it in for Wally. EZ sees Uncle Charlie. And I thought it said, and it proves that God's got him. Like he sees uncle charlie in

his mind's eye in the third eye and it's not and that proves that god's got him but instead it's little boo but god's got him and i'm gonna miss everybody yeah so i don't know where do we go what the what is up i'm gonna miss miss everybody. Yeah, it's better. It's actually a better. I like the version of my head better. I'm going to stop looking at the Crossroads lyrics. Those are merely a suggestion. It's basically Catcher in the Rye at the end when he's like, I'm going to miss everybody.

And I'm going to miss everybody. And I'm going to miss everybody. My teacher tried to molest me I'm sort of in love with my sister My name is J.D. Fallinger Bunch of lousy phonies And a bunch of lousy phonies Oh no

And a bunch of lousy phonies Alright Oh well Where's that? Oh well I'll miss my weird people find you shaves twice shaves twice that part you guys like doing niche content you like doing yeah jokes jokes for nobody

we like to shed as many listeners as possible in the first three minutes top yeah get them the fuck out of here. I'm here to make me laugh. So it's only our true barnacles that are still attached to the hull of this sinking ship. We're not here to make fans. We're here to identify other people who have similar deficiencies. Who have the same mental illness as us. And then we come together in this place called the Daily Psych-Fish.

And I'm gonna miss everybody. And I miss my Uncle Charles, y'all. Is that how Drunk Boyfriend came up the other day? Was from talking about how bone thugs were the original Drunk Boyfriend?

Yeah, Matt Lieb was talking about bone thugs and said that part. And then we can't help but do the drunk boyfriend. If I hear about someone's Uncle Charles who died out of nowhere, just they haven't mentioned Uncle Charles before, I am going to think of drunk boyfriend. Will you fill me in on

drunk boyfriend? It's an SNL sketch where one of the things... It's like one of those commercials. Yeah, one of the things that drunk like at one of those commercials yeah one of the things that drunk boyfriend does is start crying about a relative that you've never heard that he's never mentioned before and then he just cuts him being like my uncle it was like who's the drunk boyfriend it was kyle mooney and then what was it sam what's his face sam rockwell sam rockwell and it was Kyle Mooney and then what was it Sam what's his face Sam Rockwell and it was basically like an animatronic humanoid doll that would be like

your drunk boyfriend that you would have to take care of was this one of those like final quadrant of SNL when they just start doing the weird ones no I think this was one of the early like this was the first sketch the fake commercial block.

Yeah, that usually came right after the monologue, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's so incredible, the variation in quality over that show. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's jarring. I am jarred.

It's crazy when you're watching the end sometimes and you're like, damn, they really haven't made me laugh in like 15 minutes. And then there's just like a really weird sketch at the end that they let slide. Right, right, right. Well, what if they let them do all the funny sketches instead of Lorne Michaels coming in at like 11.29 and being like, everyone's material is cut except for Pete Davidson, my good boy.

Everyone needed a cheerleader sketch. It was funny how in a bad episode you would pray for that card to come up and you're like, is it the outros yet? And you would hear that little bit of piano go and you're like, oh God. That's everyone. We made it to the end.

You were a prisoner to that show huh oh yeah we had a really jam-packed saturday night schedule that's right yeah i had places to go but i had to complete snl i was watching snick and then watching snl like pretending we weren't up that late that was my saturday night in the 90s there you go all right molly we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about we're gonna check him with private equity we're gonna check him with rudy giuliani on whom it just keeps raining shit i just want to narrate the whole thing and then then we're going to talk about that lost F-35 and just the entire history of the F-35 jet program.

It's a real winner. Yeah. All of that, plenty more. But first, Molly Lambert, we do like to ask our guests, as you well know. Hey, Molly, what's on the research history that's revealing about who you are well right now it's uh crossroads by bone yeah you did point out that the actually the first

lyrics of the song are bone bone bone bone bone bone bone bone bone bone bone bone bone bone bone um i was also just reading about remembering about the video that there's a part where there's like a newborn baby that's died yeah and uh people love when newborn babies die in their music videos and the reaper takes them all to heaven yeah wait isn't there one part where like someone touches the dude's eyes and no they touch the forehead and the eyes go black and oh that's right that's how you know that god's got him yeah that to me i was like i don't know if i want god to get me like that seems pretty look i'll be i'll be real i won't pretend to have looked up something cool

the most recent thing i searched for was the pop star tate mccray who has a viral tiktok song so i was like who is tate mccray please help she has a viral tiktok song her name star tate mccray who has a viral tiktok song so i was like who is tate mccray please help me she has a viral tiktok song her name is tate mccray okay and she's a canadian pop star and so the video's set in a hockey rink because it's about oh hell yeah she's getting getting back at her hockey player boyfriend who just cheated on her oh no i've wow i've never seen someone look more like their name yeah look more like a canadian pop star named tate mccray yeah like i was like if you just showed me like who's this person like that's tate mccray canadian pop star she's bff with olivia rodrigo oh okay but she just had a song that went really viral on TikTok.

And so I was like, who is this person? The song is called Greedy. And it's like, she's put a video for it. The video looks like it is a Canadian spoof of Hit Me Baby One More Time. It does look like that. It's really funny. Like, it's like, what if Hit Me Baby One More Time, but Canada? Yeah, kind of. It's like if the grimes video wasn't fascist it's like i like when there's like a like a sports oh like that that first video she had like at the monster truck rally or whatever the fuck

yeah where she was like i love arenas yo wait where did they shoot this video is she based in la who tate mccray yeah why is it a recognize yeah yeah this is where i this is where i used to play hockey in burbank i think of course it is they shoot everything they're like quick yeah yeah the pickwick i'm pretty sure it's the pickwick ice skating place i'd have to see if i just went there for the first time dang yeah there was a big hockey boom in los angeles because of the kings yeah yeah you know this but children of the valley loved to go play hockey in a climate where hockey has never been played yeah it's true it's it's so true and uh who else i remember the other fate like i think i was like honestly i think it was

one of the first black and east players to ever play hockey because this was like in that fucking 80s i was getting on the ice and then kurt russell and goldie and you were like you just improved the game a thousand percent it was we were such a ragtag group it was like us like some armenian kids some canadian kids who's like parents are like that's the plot from Mighty Ducks by the way. Yeah, exactly, exactly. The Blazing Kid. It's just a red tag group. This coach came back. He had just gotten DUI. One of them was a girl. That movie's crazy. We had two Mexican kids,

Jose and Joel. Yo, we were, the team photo looked fucking lit. I don't know what the fuck was going on. Bro, this is a movie. Yeah, it was, and it was 88. It's literally the Mighty Ducks, but also it should be a movie about you and your ragtag group of valley friends. Going to New England and getting real culture shock.

Desert hockey. Playing against the rich kids who have all the hockey gear. Yeah, right. Exactly. Right. Like Minnesota. They're just like mean Canadians. Like just people want to root against Canadians.

This video is funny because it's like, I like, I've never seen anyone do the aesthetics of hockey in a pop music video before. And it's like so Canadian, obviously, but there's a part where she's wearing like a goalie glove. It's like, she's dressed like sexy,

but she's wearing these like pieces of hockey gear. It's really funny. Yeah. It's like, she's wearing like like a crop top and and basketball shorts kind of yeah there's like this lone old like like gordy how hockey glove that she's like holding that i'm like yo that shit is so old it's like an outdated okay go ahead like jason borges's uh hockey gear is a little yeah it's really funny it looks like

like the thanos glove or whatever too it's just like it's really funny. It looks like the Thanos glove or whatever, too. It's just like, it's not sexy. And then she's driving a Zamboni at the end. She's driving a Zamboni. Jamie Loftus content. The same pickwick. Jamie Loftus' influence is felt across much of the pop music landscape.

Yeah, it's very Jamie Loftus-coded of Tate McRae. It's kind of funny like the last shot being heard driving a zamboni like very like in a very weird like yeah and the quote was like it's about being confident and sassy yeah taking control it's pretty funny it's funny and it's like a good it's a pretty good song i heard it on tiktok a million times and was like what is this yeah and now i know yeah you know it's tape mcgrath now our listeners know and that is the sort of shit that they were not going to hear from us i can tell you that bunch so this is a great search history you are doing i'm bringing pop corner yeah well

it's just like usually the things okay can I tell you the other thing I looked up? This is more on the type of thing I normally look up, but I found out that, well, maybe, whatever. Never mind. I'll tell you guys later. Okay. I like that. I don't want to make this part go too long.

I'll bring it up in the jet fuel part. Okay. Uh-oh. The jet fuel doesn't melt. 9-11 was last week. What's going on? All right. Molly, what is something you think is overrated?

You know what? It's controversial, and I don't even know if I believe this, but I'm going to say it to be controversial. Pumpkin spice. Oh, shit. Wait, what do you mean? Oh, so you don't... Are you kind of ambivalent?

No, I'm drinking one right now. Oh, shit. Wow. And how are you feeling't, are you kind of ambivalent? No, I'm drinking one right now. Oh, shit. Wow. And how are you feeling? What are you drinking? It's kind of blinking in and out of existence. I'm drinking something. La Colombe.

Disgusting. La Colombe. It's good. It's like disgusting and good. Sweet. It's a La Colombe canned pumpkin spice latte from Trader Joe's. and why does it have you feeling overrated and underrated at the same time you seem because i think it's like i like the idea of pumpkin spice a lot you know and then a lot of the times the products like don't hit very well like i was like

the actual pumpkin spice latte from starbucks is pretty disgusting wait so what do you as a con what do you like about it as a concept? More just like that fall has a flavor and you're fucking with fall? Or that you actually do like that combo of like nutmeg and cinnamon and all that shit? Fall has a flavor and I fuck with fall. Okay. I do like the combo of nutmeg. I like that fall was represented by like a squash kind of.

Seems funny. Yeah, the gourd gang, yeah. Yeah, gourd gang. I think it's just like there's a platonic ideal of pumpkin spice that exists only in my mind. Right. So the execution of pumpkin spice is overrated. Yeah. I feel that.

And a lot of people are just like, we threw some cinnamon on it. Now it's a pumpkin spice flavor. Right. Yeah, yeah. Right. This thing, this gyoza that you ordered at the ramen, it's pumpkin spice. Well, also, yeah, it's gotten out of control.

I went to Trader Joe's, I think that's what I mean, too. I went to Trader Joe's the other day, and I was like, they made too many things pumpkin spice now. Nobody needs pumpkin spice cream cheese yeah they they need to they do this thing i might i actually i hate to inform you i might need that okay no you don't i might need that actually no you don't i'll be back in 15 minutes my one like new york jew uh hard line

thing is like no sweet bagels right right that's a donut cinnamon raisin no fuck no that's a donut don't eat a donut even with some savory some pumpkin spice who said that somebody said that with locks wait but wasn't like a viral fucking bagel that people were trying to get that was like i had had the cinnamon raisin with lox. Wasn't that like the mayor of New York said it was his favorite or something? Oh, is that what it was? Eric Adams? Yeah, it was like Eric Adams.

I thought he was like a health food kid. Bloomberg? Or no, Cynthia Nixon. Yeah, it was Cynthia Nixon when she was running. Bon Appetit. We tried Cynthia Nixon's controversial bagel order and yeah cinnamon raisin with lox lox cream cheese tomatoes onion capers on a cinnamon raisin no fucking crazy you have not she's been famous for too long she's trying to be like i'm a real new

yorker vote for me i'm a real new yorker and then she's like this is what i eat and everybody was like man boo cinnamon raisins like not only are they not in theory what a bagel should be they're also not popular like when you do a dozen bagels like the one that's always left over is cinnamon raisin yeah bro didn't you just say you'd try the pumpkin spice cream cheese though like which side are you on yeah i'm an idiot is it one mic it's both it's uchiwale and one mic wow okay nazir i like i like sweet things and if if there's sweetness on on the menu and i'm in the mood for a little sweet sweet, a little sweetie, I'll go with it.

But it does seem like cinnamon raisin is just unpopular. I don't know who it's for. The cinnamon and raisin, big cinnamon and big raisin have come together to try to make happen for far too long. Pumpkin spice cream cheese is ungodly. Yeah. Yeah.

And also, Zeitgang like if you can help me understand why this is not an abomination please let me know i'm curious but if not i don't know i don't know what else to say let's take a quick break and we'll come back and do an underrated we'll be right back this summer the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president.

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to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County Rebels with the image of... It's right here in black and white in print. A lion.

An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies. When civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot.

You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And Molly Lambert, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Also, what's something you think is underrated?

Okay, underrated. Every time I come, I only do food things. Vanilla ice cream. Did I say this one last time or am i just i don't know i'm feeling it again doesn't know i don't think you have i think you may i remember talking about this but i don't know this could be a universal underrated potentially yeah maybe i was getting deja vu you know underrated oh it's a glitch in the matrix Thank you Underrated Vanilla ice cream

Speak on it Is it hard ice cream? Is it the soft serve? Is it all of the above? All of the above It was my birthday the other day Hey, happy birthday And the guy at the diner heard me and my friend talking about how it was my birthday at midnight and then brought us a little vanilla ice cream with whipped

cream and rainbow sprinkles just like oh hey i heard you say it was your birthday happy birthday it was like something i would never have ordered but it was so fucking good and i was just like damn vanilla ice cream the same thing happened to me on friday on my birthday what yes happy birthday the dude brought out a little like a one like one of them stainless steel saucers with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it no there was no whipped cream or other shit but just like hooked it up it was like hey man for your birthday i was like thank you and i ate that shit so i don't know why i don't know if it was maybe like the meaning behind it but it was probably one of the most delicious vanilla ice it was so good that yesterday i went to foster's freeze and ordered a vanilla ice cream sundae

because i was like oh yeah why it's a vanilla ice cream sundae? Vanilla ice cream with like melted vanilla ice cream sauce on top? No, no, just like vanilla with hot fudge. Oh, hot vanilla on it. Vanilla ice cream is the greatest like base. That's what I mean. I think it's just like it's as a base, it holds toppings incredibly. And I think, you know,

I think we get caught up in these flavors, pumpkin spice, you know, I think that's what i mean it's like pumpkin spice you're like imagining this incredible flavor and it's like vanilla is right here yeah right there it's been here for us all along when there's a little bit of vanilla vanilla bean that shit feels like the height of classic vanilla ice cream. It has a little black specks in there. It's not boring. Only black specks I will allow in my food. Otherwise, it's probably mold. That's true.

People talk about vanilla sex. It's like, oh, what? It's delicious. It's really satisfying. It's the foundation of all other great sexes. The most versatile sex that you're kind of always in the mood for. Oh, I'm sorry that my sex was universally appealing. Pardon me. Huh.

Didn't know. Didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry it wasn't more niche and unappealing. Like a cinnamon raisin bagel with lox. Is that the kind of sex you want? Yeah, right? I don't think so. It's like a cinnamon raisin bagel with locks is that the kind of sex you want right i don't think so it's like a warm hug from cold ice cream of the soul yeah shout out vanilla ice

cream yeah okay vanilla vanilla ice cream we gotta holler at us please holler at us vanilla ice cream come on sponsor our show vanilla ice cream vanilla ice cream. Come on, sponsor our show, Vanilla Ice Cream. One calorie fuck. Oh, yeah, I love vanilla ice cream. Woo! I mean, that sounds like it could be a jingle written by Michael Bolton. And I'm loving vanilla ice cream. And I'm loving vanilla ice cream. And I miss vanilla ice cream. Oh, no.

Oh, you should just go have some vanilla ice cream, man. It's pretty easy to get. All right. Shall we talk about, what do you want to talk about you want to talk about private equity this was this is interesting i okay i saw a headline that was uh allowing me to pull up the exact headline because i was like what is this uh it said can private equity be ellipsis nice? And I was like, what the fuck is this? And it's an interview by, in Slate, by Megan Greenwell, where she interviews one of the heads of KKR,

which is this like private equity firm that just bought the publisher Simon & Schuster. And KKR is doing something that is kind of unheard of in the private equity world. They're offering employees of the companies they purchase an ownership stake. And you're like, wait, what the, what do you mean? What the fuck is this? They basically built in a deal where part of like the total equity of the company gets put aside for employees and higher earning employees have the option to buy like

additional equity if they want. But, but everyone gets a piece for free and the idea here is that when the company sells or goes public everybody gets a little taste of something not just the c-suite which is like normal and i mean i feel like tech companies have been doing that with like stock like get allowing employees to like have stock and stuff like that for a while but then when it comes time to like actually distribute it they always like find a way to like these things are tied to like 40 page contracts that the employees aren't gonna have time to like read or like you know have their legal teams like pour over like some of some of the examples like a trucking company like these truckers don't have fucking legal teams to like pour. No, make sure they're not getting fucked over.

But like, so this one, their golden goose of an example is this company called CHI Overhead Doors. Yeah. Where the private equity firm bought them. Everyone had their stake. And when they sold an average of one hundred seventy five thousand was was like distributed the, to the like rank and file employees, some longtime truck drivers, they say made as much as 800,000. And like, even in speaking to them, like these truck drivers are like, yeah, it was cool. Like I made the money. And also when you have a stake in it, you actually begin to see the inefficiencies in your own business.

He's like, I used to get 40 cents a mile, no matter where I drove. And I didn't care because more miles meant more money. But when I realized that that could affect the sale price of the company, then we started actually optimizing things. So it's like a very fucking like double-edged sword here because overall it makes no sense given what private equity is about and like their bloodlust for just chopping down the workforce to just lower in the name of lowering costs but they say the private equity say it's win-win it says workers get the chance for a big payout in a voice and company decisions not really and investors get increased staff engagement and retention which in turn creates higher profits so the optimistic read on this is that it's an

attempt to trying to make capitalism a little more worker friendly the cynical version is that this is just corporate this is like a corporate whitewashing scheme and it's meant for people to be like oh this is like this could actually benefit people in the interview the guy from the firm he's using a lot of maybes and mightbes when it comes to this becoming like a huge payout for people and it's all nice in like a hypothetical context, but the outcomes begin to differ based on what happens even like when the equity firm exits the company, like do they go private? Do they sell it to another firm? And then what happens there? Does that next firm even give a fuck? So I think that, you know, it seems like they're one example of like the truck drivers making 800Kk like the ownership stake incentivized workers

to just start cutting down on their own rather than the private equity firm coming in and doing it and i think the other thing is that it's huge for retention which seems to be the huge cost of when like a new ownership you know team comes in it was just fucking they're like man fuck this place i'm out of here but not like what if we give you a piece and now they don't have to cycle through thousands of employees to retain and train them so to me it seems like a very elegant way of like cost savings while appearing to be doing the right thing because not everyone's going to get paid out eight hundred thousand dollars like right one example they sort of parade around yeah i mean there are probably versions of capitalism that work right no there are none no there's not like there's probably like a handful of times

that but like there are millions they stumble upon opportunities for it to work it's called accidental socialism if anything right yeah socialism. It doesn't work because you have to exploit somebody for it to exist. Right. So somebody has to get fucked for it to function. The other thing that's really... There's no it existing without somebody getting fucked. In this interview, too, when very pointedly, this journalist is asking, why don't you just raise wages like when you come in

like how about that to keep employees like what yeah what does that work and then they use this i gotta like you wouldn't be writing this article if we did that probably what they're holding let me also i know megan greenwell shout out megan greenwell yeah is that who wrote this yeah and she under yeah she's got she knows she's writing a book right now about how private equity fucks workers like so she didn't go into this interview being like this is going to be great. Like it's there's a of any of this shit. And profit inherently is exploitive because it's like getting more than your fair share. Yeah, that's that's the point of profit. That's what profit means. So in this, they ask, like, why don't you just like raise the salary? Like, like, that's the easy way to go.

And he says, like, look, you know, we manage all kinds of people's money we including teachers uh teachers retirement funds we also manage wealthy people's money so i don't want to cherry pick but i'm just giving you a flavor for why this is so tricky if you're managing teachers pension money and you want to just raise everyone's salary that is on the backs of the teachers which is not ethical and it's not our money and that's like the fucking rationale they used to just hide behind that to be like then the t that's the t it's the teacher we're actually doing it for the teachers of america yeah yeah yeah the the like like you come away from this interview still kind of being like okay like this seems not like a win-win it seems like a win maybe win if the the environmental

factors are precisely correct it's like what they're giving you a cut of a company that they're about to run into the ground. Yeah. But they say, if, if you guys can figure out how to save money even better, cause then we don't have to be, we don't have to just start doing layoffs. Like,

which to me, this is what's happening in Hollywood right now too. It's like the thing that was happening in publishing where they run all the big companies, like your old school publishers, like Simon & Schuster into the ground. This is the company that just bought Simon & Schuster, right? Yeah. They're talking to the people who just bought them from, I think, like it was like a carve out from Paramount or something. Yeah.

So, yeah. They don't have a plan. Their plan is to extract profits and get the fuck out of there. It's all Enron all the way down. this way but yeah it is a very it's an interesting i think scheme from private equity to try and you know save money in their own ways on like employee retention while trying to incentivize people to like stick around as long as possible before the inevitable because then they say stuff like we wouldn't just sell it to like another company who's like doesn't have the same ethos like really if the fucking money is right then then what i don't think that's the case this is funny that like the global corporate media can't will like find these examples where like if you look

at it from a certain angle it looks like hey this thing's working and it's really like helping out the work anytime they're like actually check out this cool thing it It's like, mmm. Really? No, they're doing something different. They start making March Simpson noises. My stomach starts making March Simpson noises. All right. Let's cheer ourselves up by talking about how it continues to just keep raining shit on Rudy Giuliani. We've been hearing for a while that he's broke, can't pay his legal bills, and now his lawyers, people who are supposed to be

representing him, are suing him for $1.36 million in unpaid legal fees. He racked up fees and expenses totaling more than $1.5 million, but he only managed to pay $214,000, and his defense is just like,

oh, that's like really expensive man what the fuck that like cost so much are you serious dude no way no way it's this high yeah no it is by the way so you know he himself is a lawyer and while he was representing

Trump he reportedly charged $20,000 a day hmm okay so himself is a lawyer and while he was representing trump he reportedly charged twenty thousand dollars a day okay so you know he's i like that he really the way rudy giuliani says it's a real shame when lawyers do things like this and all i will say is that their bill is way in excess to anything approaching legitimate fees sure sure the lawyer that he's stiffed who is now suing him is one of his like oldest best friends his friendship with giuliani dates back to the 70s when they were both prosecutors in the u.s attorney's office in the southern district of new york wow i wonder what the how that friendship started like where like if this

his friend like robert costello now is like look at you now rudy look at you look at you look at you you got nothing you got nothing i mean we've seen how recently like it's been all hands on deck to try and get him more money because it felt like he was going to trump and be like i got bills dude and like you need to help me because like I know a lot of shit. And then recently there was a fucking hundred thousand dollar a plate fundraising dinner for Rudy Giuliani. That Trump posted legal fees specifically. So, yeah, I love I have a feeling I wonder. He probably was able to pay a lot of that off.

But anyway, who knows? Who knows? He's too busy being. Yeah, I like when the scammers get scammed, get taken in for their scams. was able to pay a lot of that off but anyway who knows who knows he's too busy being yeah i like when the scammers get scammed get yeah taken in for their scams by their own by their own the scammers scam each other yeah or you're just like none of these people have any loyalty to anyone but themselves of course they're all gonna like fuck each other over at the end and turn on each other that to me seemed like the linchpin of the whole trump thing was like everyone he works

everyone he fucks everyone but it's like everyone he works with is like somebody who would sell him out in a minute yeah and vice versa yeah like they're all that's the best part when they all turn on each other at the end yeah it's i'm waiting to see how the dominoes fall because it's every time we hear about The stuff happening in like Georgia or like Florida there's more people who are like Actually they do not want to have the same Defense team as Trump now and realize that They were being like nudged to do

What was the best for Trump and not for them To be free You know how these people like sell themselves as Like brilliant businessmen People are like well if he could make A billion dollars like surely he could run the country like yeah their skill the thing that they all have in common that they're good at is the same skill displayed by if you've ever like been out to dinner with a group

in like high school and everyone's suddenly like nah i don't have enough money to pay this like what are you talking about like you know you know like arguing over the bill like that's before a homecoming dance that is all that is their skill they were just the most stubborn of the people who refused to pay for whatever they ordered right and they're like no that's you see right here on the menu. It says twelve ninety nine. And so I put in twelve dollars and like, well, we all also had drinks and no, no, no. Yeah, we all got those big Coca-Cola's because we're in high school. Yeah, exactly.

Through that like weird brown plastic cup that had the logo blasted on it. You ordered the apps. You demanded we order the apps. You ordered the mojo potatoes at Shakey's where we're having our dinner. I drove someone here so that cost gas money.

Oh man. We'll argue until you're too exhausted to continue the argument. I remember we, Molly, you'll appreciate this. Before our dance, we went to Micelli's right there across from the Ghislaine Maxwell In-N-Out. Oh, you mean Micelli's? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's how we say it.

That's how we always say it in school. We're going to Micelli's with a one C. That's why I would always be like, oh, I say that. I say the accurate Italian. Yeah. Pardon me. But so we went and I remember one guy, this one dude straight up just fucking just denied that they ordered the food that they did. And we were like, what the fuck?

That's so funny. It was like, you know what? Yeah. I would have to respect that. All my friends. He's like, well, where is it then? Shout out to my friends from Catholic. This plate's empty.

You know what they do now? We all, every single one of us was just like, nah, uh-uh. I don't give a fuck. I'm not paying. Oh, just gaslighting when the bill comes? It's like ninth grade. Fuck you. Nah, I didn't get that. Applebee's? Nah you no applebee's no well it wasn't me then it was your fucking idea we came here because you said yeah well too bad get a discount me well she's not so we can't get the discount so what

have you been to michelle's no oh my god it's amazing there's one in hollywood too it's like the waiters also sing yeah oh hell yeah yeah yeah it's like a piano bar and your waiter will be like your waiter's like here's your food and then they like turn around and take a microphone and sing memory from cats yeah yeah and the food fantastically subpar it's so mid you know when you walk in you're like this food is not tasting great but it will taste like Fantastically subpar. It's so mid. It's so mid. But I love it. You're paying for the experience. You know when you walk in, you're like, this food is not tasting great, but it will taste like Italian food. As we know it by the American definition. I love those like mid Italian restaurants from the 50s.

Yeah. That's one of them. But it's also like they have like little like. Usually named after somebody. Right. Yeah. There's like a fake balcony inside yeah yeah it's wild it's like two inches deep oh we should go yeah i'm gonna take

you guys there let's do it yeah it's great because it's like a karaoke thing but you don't have to do karaoke it's like someone just the waiters are just singing it's so weird i love it very i see miles where you get your taste for the old country yeah from miss ellie's as we would always incorrectly say in my elementary school and we will we just can't we can't let that pronunciation go that guy who was ducking the bill he went on to have a successful chain of daycare centers. Oh, my God. Prophet king, you know? Yeah.

He knows how to find a prophet. Prophet daddy. He knows, man. Yeah. It's real. Somebody's got to get shorted. In that case, it was you. Yeah, exactly.

And the kids. That's all it is. All right. Let's take a quick break and come back and talk about something that we're all every single one of us. If you're hearing my voice and you don't and you are not in the C-suite at Lockheed Martin, you got shorted on this shit. We'll be right back. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate

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the government was just at such a loss that they were posting online asking for any help from the public as if they were searching for a lost dog and not an $ million dollar aircraft or 160 million dollars was there a person in it no so the person basically the person yeeted the fuck out for reasons unknown and then the plane just kept flying and one problem is that it's crazy you know i guess it was on auto autopilot and also it is designed not to be able to be seen by radar wait so he ejected and the shit was on auto

i guess so i don't know because it wasn't further after he where he actually ended up like being recovered it took them 48 hours to find it. So it clearly was not in. It's not like it just went a couple extra miles. That shit just kept going. I don't know what systems they have in place on this fucking thing. They're stealth, dude. That's what kind of system. You're telling me that the world's most advanced military aircrafts are working on the same level as the self-driving cars.

Oh, yeah. I don't want to say it is, but I think it is. That's so funny. It's wild to me that the concern wasn't this fucker's going to crash into a bunch of people. Right. They're like, it's

still out there. We're not sure. No, they don't care about that. They're like, we don't care if it kills people. We care if we don't get it back so we can use it to kill more people. Exactly. Yeah. So I think,

as Arnold Schwarzenegger put, collateral damage. This is actually an incredible place for me to insert a really off-topic story that would be sort of related. Well, you got to stop stopping yourself from doing

that that is what you are just hijack the fighter jet the queen this is what i'm for i just like what you're here for okay so in this is the information i learned and now it's been an intrusive thought that i was like i everybody has to know this i have to tell everyone which is that my other search recently was for the henry ford museum okay for reasons i don't have to get into and i learned that at the henry ford museum which is outside detroit they have the presidential limousine that jfk was assassinated in after jfk was assassinated in it they just refurbished it and used it for three more presidencies. Whoa!

For real? Isn't that fucking crazy? So just some like, they just Lysol-ed it down and were like, all right. And Lysol-ed it down. They added more security. Like a pair of bowling shoes?

Yes! Because the government is so cheap, they were like, we can't buy a new car for the president. We gotta keep using this car that they killed the president in. The one with, like, the magic bullet?

Yeah! Also, they just found a second bullet. The one he was sitting in. Yeah in yeah he got his whole shit blown off yeah bro they wiped it down wow wipe me down wipe me down that's and then they used it so it actually became the backup car it like wasn't it i guess you've done your service it was like the bat it became the backup limousine but it was like in the official fleet until through the carter administration yeah wow that means like lbj rode in that motherfucker like yeah he did

i bet he fucked in that thing nixon nixon laid his big fat head against the place where JFK's got blown up licked it a little bit smelled it isn't that crazy I can't believe that after Johnson Richard Nixon used the car and requested additional modifications creating a hatch in the roof where he could stand

and wave to the crowd as he traveled the final present to use the vehicle was Jimmy Carter officially retired in 1977 that's so funny that he was like oh yeah this car that wasn't secure enough that you could like snipe a president through the window i want a sunroof so i can stand up well it was a convertible right so you want a sunroof in the convertible but i think there were modifications oh they put a roof on it they were were like, well, that didn't work out. That went badly. Oh, so they

yeah, there's like, it looks like they had like a, it's sort of in pieces. Oh, okay. And you can add and subtract little roofs. A really like shitty looking convertible. Isn't that insane though that after that happened

that they weren't like this this this car is called kennedy car it was all they could do to keep from selling it as the kennedy edition right isn't that crazy that is fucking wild okay i felt like that's sort of now we gotta go government wanting to jet back or i'm just like they're cheap if they paid for something they fucking are going to use it. I mean, they did not want, they did not like, I mean, his brain went missing. They didn't want that car to be looked at

or put in a museum where it could be observed. So you're saying that's a, that's not the real thing, huh? Well, they don't want people to figure out, you know, all the stuff. That JFK Jr. is alive. And it's actually Joe Biden. Thank you. They don't want people to know that what happened to Kennedy was that he got the vaccine.

Yeah. That's what happens to your brain. If you get the vaccine. One thing I'll say about RFK Jr. though, is like, of course he's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. The government killed his dad and his uncle

and then you might have some opinions on that government yeah made it look like a random person did it yeah there was also a new break in the jfk thing where somebody who was like in the car said there was a second bullet which is new yeah and the government was second bullet no no yeah okay i mean there's already two bullets that we know there was like a second bullet in the car oh in the car that they just like kind of kicked to the side yeah lbj found it like the next time you wrote that shit yeah that That's neat. LBJ found it. Yeah. And then he passed a bunch of civil rights laws and then started

the Vietnam War. Yeah. I believe a Secret Service agent accidentally blew Kennedy's head off. Accidentally or not. Oh, that's you believe in that one? I believe that one, yeah. And that's why they were like, first of all, when they called RFK Jr., they were like,

sir, there's been a terrible accident. And that was like the Secret Service calling. And yeah, that's my that's the theory that makes the most sense to me. I believe that JFK's cum melts steel beams. His cum does melt steel beams. And a lot of people don't realize that. Yeah. Yeah. Then he needed to be stopped.

People don't know that about Irish Catholics. Yeah. because yeah you gotta watch out for us folks yeah watch out dangerous don't don't underestimate the irish it'll be fine either way yeah either way you'll be fine either way. That is something like, I remember an old Irish man was like, you know what they said about Kennedy? Like to me, like trying to give me Irish pride. He's like, Kennedy always said, let them underestimate us. They always underestimate the Irish Catholics. Oh my God. Okay, man.

All right. I don't know. I was kidding. But also, he did. Look, one thing I'll say about Kennedy, he did leave his fluids all over that car. And then Nixon had to like sit in them.

Yeah. Well, it depends on how well it was wiped down though. We don't know yet. That's power. There's no, there's no wiping that down. You can't wipe down the president's brain. you can't put a towel down like a fucking

murder car to like ride around in the murder car of the of the person who had your job is so wild but also like suggests the level of complicity by lbj and nixon which i'm not totally that is not totally outside of the realm of they should have called fucking harvey kytel from pulp infant pulp fiction exactly that's where they drove to find the wolf yeah that's where the car is like every president every president should have to like sit in a car filled with like the skeletons of other presidents yeah that's like your initiation bodies of everyone murdered by the american empire oh yeah so it's like a really big car it would be another planet i think they would have to go to but yeah no sit with the ghosts there you go i do like like, England, when they have all the scary, like, skeletons of famous dead people everywhere.

What do you mean? Like, that church. You know, there's that scary church. Like, the crypts? Yeah. There's, like, the scary church where, like, royals get married, and it's full of, like, the skeleton of, like, king, whatever, bishop, whomever. And, like, literally, there's skeletonsver and like literally they're skeletons with like a crown on it it's so scary but it feels we should do more of that america in general is like

more all about that denial of death that is probably healthy there's not a better explanation of america than just like wiping down the vinyl in the fucking jft car and presidential limo this never happened the wheels rotated and literally this never happened this limousine's fine what car is america and like literally like to america to america he was being a drama queen the way she was crawling all over the back of the car. She could have dented the trunk and that would have come out of her end. She was in the car. All that stuff happened in this car that you then ride in.

We're just like, nope, we wiped it down. This didn't happen. America, none of this ever happened. Are you saying we didn't wipe it down? Because we did. We wiped it down. Hold on, yeah. We wiped it down and now it's new.

Bring the black light in here. They don't believe we didn't wipe it down. We took it to my friend Jimmy's house and had the wolf come by. Exactly. That's why I'm wearing this banana slug shirt. That is what they did also, for sure. They had Jimmy the Wolf come by. Just a quick once over and then.

But it would be like if they did the jimmy the wolf thing and then instead of like having the car smashed at a you know car smashing place at a at a auto yard they they were like all right and then like putting this on turo so yeah we're just gonna put it right back out. All right. We do have to talk about the F-35 because... Oh, right, right, right. So one of its key advantages is its near impossibility of being tracked by radar. So that makes it bad when it malfunctions and ejects the pilot without warning. This is the third military Class A mishap in the past six weeks that class a mishaps are incidents in which the damage involved racks up

over 2.5 million dollars but yeah this is just the latest embarrassment involving the f-35 jet the the story of this particular jet like really crystallizes the abject absurdity, grotesquery of our military spending. So the F-35 initiative is the most expensive weapons program ever, estimated to cost taxpayers more than $1 trillion over its 60-year lifespan. So, like, you know, a free health care for everyone is what this plane, the existence of this plane makes impossible. Estimates for 20 years were initially pegged at $233 billion and the pentagon like one of the problems is the pentagon has always gone with a process of what's called concurrency with this which is where you start production while the aircraft is still being developed

concurring build as you go man build as you go we. We know the tires are going to look like that. So put those on. So you build the aircraft and then take off and then fix the problems while it's flying is the idea. Sounds foolproof. But this leads to unresolved technical problems that have plagued it, such as the fact that it doesn't operate well in rain. Can't really work in rain in some cases and so the congress like instituted this law that was like okay can we take a look at these projects because like some of them don't make sense and you're spending like an entire european nation's gross domestic product just to like build these fucking planes that don't work.

Right. And sounds right. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, the spending has nothing to do with keeping America safe. It's just more evidence that military spending is a mutually beneficial financial shell game between governments and corporations. Yeah, that and like Lockheed has it lockheed has a stranglehold on yeah like everything too like the whole thing is lockheed martin yeah you can't okay but it's like a fucking mcflurry machine it's like you can't send somebody else to do that you gotta have our people come by to do that so they like a lot of people say that like uh who is it one of these people who was analyzing the program quote i had a sense after my first 90 days that the government was not in charge of the program yes makes sense

and none of they don't get used they keep making them and they're not being used because of a lack of spare parts and maintenance equipment dude we're still developing just give me a break they're building it they're building they're just like crapping these things out that can't work in the fucking rain and don't have any spare parts or maintenance equipment because they have there's only one place to get it which is a corporation that has no competitive reason to do anything you need it to because they're the only ones who fucking make it okay but go with me here guys what if we all get a stake in the jet yeah there we go i just worked on it a bit if uh they said it was 435 billion in the first 20 years we've all been paying seven dollars a year billion in the first 20 years we've all been paying seven dollars a year yeah over the last 20 okay so we all get like we all get to own like a little percentage of the the jet that they fly

into nowhere how the fuck is that not the case though like that we don't that like that we don't aren't part owners of lockheed martin this point. We're paying for it with our fucking tax dollars. Lockheed Martin is a family. We're more like a family here. You can't buy your way into this family. The other really fucked up part is that first of all, they're the largest

institutional consumer of fossil fuels. Yes. And they recently told shareholders at a meeting to vote fucking no on a resolution that would have created a report on how the company is going to reduce fossil fuel use in line with the Paris Agreement. They said, quote, in the board's reasoning, shareholders should vote no on the resolution because it is premature and not in the best interest of our company or our shareholders fuck that earth earth death is not in our interest and then also like when you look at it like there was a study about like just greenhouse emissions from the beginning of the invasion of afghanistan and you know the largest portion of this is from military jets yeah yeah cool they use no but we need to like start fucking recycling more like if you it's

your fault if you left a aluminum can and a trash can like that that's what's causing climate change wait what kind of straw are you using it's not that this jet uses 1000 this jet uses that a plastic straw you motherfucker a thousand three hundred forty gallons of jet fuel per hour is what this thing uses what's that mpg on man was not meant to fly man was meant to fly in blimps yeah if only we lived in the steam age thank you we we it's coming back when we're old by the time we're elderly we're all going to be living through another age of giant dirigibles jack jack confirmed steampunk yeah or is that or is that the new way the fucking wealthy escape the hordes of the poor people they go we got to take to the skies actually i bet they're easy to shoot down though right that's what they're going to do with the spaceships

well i feel like they're they gotta go you can't just go you can't go from earth to spaceship right away i feel like the middle ground you don't think jeff bezos you don't think bezos and elon musk and those guys don't have a spaceport lined up they have yeah i'm sure they do but i'm saying like i think for most people like not everyone is going to get there i feel like there's going to be like the 500 feet in the sky version of a rich people city that only has to come down for. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that.

But yeah, eventually it will be spaceships. It'll be a city made of jets. City made of fighter jets. And everybody flies their little fighter jets around. It's like a little Top Gun world. Oh, perfect. Personally, I can't wait because I'll definitely be one of the chosen ones and not one of the people

left to die on Earth as it burns. Whose bloodstream is just 40% jet fuel. You know what? Yeah. I can't wait. Maybe I'll get to live in a house here with all the rich people. We'll run them all out of town.

We'll all run them into the sky. That's right. Guys, you know what else they have at the Henry Ford Museum? What? I want to go there so bad now. They have the fucking chair Abraham Lincoln got his brain blown out of too. What is this? The place, it's all seating where people have had their fucking dome piece blown off.

It's only progressives who got murdered in them. Yeah, it's a warning. Like, yeah, bitch. That's right. Keep telling people about Henry Ford. Don't fucking sit down. Watch your back. Watch your back.

That's all we got to say over here. Wow. Can you sit in it? No. They also got the shoes. They also have the sandals Gandhi was wearing when he got...

Henry Ford was for sure like, I'll see you at the crossroads. Yeah, yeah. That's what Henry Ford said to the jeers. Oh, wow. Yeah. In my Model T.

When he was reprinting the protocols of the elders of Zion and trying to get it distributed in schools. And putting it in everybody's glove compartment. Yeah.

Like the Gideons, except with anti-Semitism. Here. Well, Molly Lambert, as always, what a pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can find me. I'm on Instagram at Molly underscore Lambert. I am on TikTok now, just lurking so far at Molly Lambert World. And yeah, hopefully have a new podcast coming out sometime.

Yeah. But also check out Heidi World if you haven't yet. Yeah, go listen to that right now. Right now. I put my bones in it. Hey, man, you put your bones in this one. I put my bones, I put my whole bones in it. Dang, man, you put your bones in this one. I put my whole bones into it.

And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Like an interview that you were about to tell us about recently or something? Oh, the Jan Wenner interview with David Marchese. Oh, I haven't read it. Alright, I need to read that. It was bananas. I mean, he's just like, yeah, there were no women Oh, I haven't read it. All right. I need to read that. It is bananas. It's fucking crazy. Yeah.

I mean, he's just like, yeah, there were no women who I thought were like interest. No women or people of color that I thought were like worth including in my conversations with great musicians. Yeah. And they're like, not Joni Mitchell? And he's like, no, I don't think she's very good. Who? It's just crazy. I mean, Jan Wenner is, you know, we've been known.

We've been known. Yeah. A racist, misogynist. But it's crazy to see someone just be like, y'all, doubling down, tripping down. Getting that much cultural influence from a magazine, they're going to be a problem. Yeah. Yeah. What else? Sorry, I forced that one on you. there anything else oh yeah what's that what else let's keep it let's do a lighter one

i'm gonna say that tate mccray video just a little nice little uh autumn autumn bop for the girlies about you know getting your mojo back after your hockey player boyfriend cheats on you by going to an ice rink and dancing dancing with that old glove on dancing with a weird glove on i'm actually doesn't use like a hockey stick really yeah i guess it felt i think it was one of those things where the stylist was like i don't know like this maybe like you could dance with this on like because you're not gonna do it with shoulder pads like a shin guard or some other you could though it really opens up possibilities for hockey hockey yeah but is like our shoulder pads yeah i guess there's a lot of gear and like blades yeah a lot of blades i've always found the uh jason vorhees hockey mask deeply erotic erotic

well we've brought it back to jason vorhees oh i guess that would be good halloween costume i think that was before we started recording it was before we started but people love to be included in our extended universe that includes the things we were talking about before the show starts recording we're talking about yeah we were talking about before the show starts recording. We were talking about Jason Voorhees. We were talking about Jason Voorhees and whether he should be an anti-gun advocate because he clearly could use a gun.

He knows about guns. He gets shot all the time. But he's a blade king. People love sexy Jason Voorhees. Yeah, that's what happens when you search sexy Jason Voorhees. Yeah. But he what happens when you search Sexy Jason Voorhees. Yeah. But he's like, you know, he's the originator of hockey chic.

Look at this one where he's ripping open that work suit. Okay, Jason. Yeah, Jason Voorhees. Shredsville. Body-ody. Wow. Body-ody-ah. Body-ody-ah. Got that Jason body-ody-ah.

Miles, where can people find you as their work of media you've been enjoying you can find me trying to use generative ai to make an even sexier jason vorhees uh but also at miles of gray wherever they got names like that for you to enter and find me on their instagram twitter not even saying formerly Formerly X actually Twitter formerly X I'm there as well And also find us on Miles and Jack I'm at Boosties Find me on The Good Thief

Which is the true crime show And 420 Day Fiance Where we talk 90 day Tweet I like is from At Internet Hippo And it says In blue check voice Let me get this straight

Every day it gets a little dark That's all I need to say every day it gets dark a little earlier and we're supposed to believe this is normal it's like peak blue check fucking viral tweet uh and i love that they captured the voice of that thing yeah a couple tweets i've been enjoying uh molly goodfellow at hans smallman hans moleman whoops uh hans smallman i think you're him on small man in this situation i think i am uh block me if you want but i'm excited for it to get colder at night so I can truly be on my snug as a bug in a rug game. I just love a controversial take like that. And

at uncoolboyfriend tweeted, Your Honor, who gives a fuck, Loki? And I just like that energy. Bring it into the courtroom, baby. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.

We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we got our Facebook page and our website. What? We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a footnote. Footnote. And we also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what is a song that we think you might enjoy miles what is a song that

you think people might enjoy i think this is gonna be a track called endless by akn and it's a real yeah yeah it's like a drill like hard house mashup it's just also you know what actually truth be told a song i first heard on TikTok. Ha ha ha. Ha ha. But it ends up being one of those things, one of those joints, them, that you can only get on SoundCloud. So check this out. It's only on SoundCloud, and the artist is AKM, and the track is called Endless. Is it the one where the person is rapping about getting out of the car? Yep, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that is what put us on the Jason Voorhees conversation in the first place. This is truly this episode is like folding in on itself. Yeah. We're doing the Mr. Show where you bring it all around at the end. We were talking about British rappers who like rap about blades. And he's like, I wish I had a Glock, but I have a big knife. You got a 15 inch blade instead.

I'll stab you with it. But, you know, I wish I could rap about gunplay. Right, right. I will collapse your lungs. Anyways. I will collapse your lungs. Isn't that what he kind of says? Yeah.

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