The Daily Zeitgeist - Jumping The Shark Week, MANister Of Bro-paganda 07.24.25

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

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I'm a blonde now and it's working. Are you having more fun? Yeah. Oh, OK. Yeah. The way you said that so matter of fact. Yeah, bitch. What? Why? What's up, boys? What's up, dust bunnies? Y'all right over there.

Look at Dusty. OK. Everybody's nicer to me now. That's cool. And I can't tell is's. I don't know. I'm just trying to, I'm trying to put it into perspective of what I do and where I would kind of feel like I'm not. I'm just trying to put it in perspective of what I do and where I would kind of feel like I'm not. I'm just trying to put it in perspective of what I do and where I would kind of feel like I'm not. I'm just trying to put it in perspective of what I do and where I would kind of feel like I'm not. I'm just trying to put it in perspective of what I do and where I would kind of feel like I'm not. I'm just trying to put it in perspective of what I do and where I would kind of feel like I'm not. Like you like when you go to Jersey Mike's, they're like literally Jersey Mike's. I don't know. I'm just trying to, I'm trying to put it into perspective of what I do and where I would

kind of see if people are treating me better. No, like I went to like this shop in Livermore. And before, when I went there, I was like, oh, I was wondering if you guys have anything in my size. And she just went, no. Oh, and I was like, Oh, Jesus. You too. And then now she was like, Come on in. Yeah, we'll find something like,

right, go ahead. Take it. Take it. Oh colorism. You can have it. She's like, you know, us white girls have to have each other's back. Go ahead and say it. Oh no, what have I done? You're like, what? I can be a double agent now, folks.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. So what happened to Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control.

Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy's on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello the internet and welcome to season 398 episode four of Darn-Ali's Zeitgeist. Yeah. It's a production of iHeartRadio.

It's a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. Miles, I will not proceed until I hear the dean scream. I did. I did. I know. But I paused for you. Oh, sorry. Of course. Thank you But we all know that well, and thank you for your Dean scream, which gives me permission to be me

Clear the room. It's Thursday July 24th 2025 Hey, you know what that means? It's National Thermal Engineer Day. 724 National Thermal Engineer Day

National Drive Thru Day National Cousins Day Shout out Austin shout out cam shout out Brandon shout out Yoshiki shout out just all my cousins everywhere there's too many to name right now but anyway Megan Megan Matt Matt to get Missy Megan Megan Matt Matt? Megan Matt Matt? Megan Megan Matt Matt? You got Missy Megan Megan Matt Matt in your cousin lineup? Bri, yeah.

Wow, Matt Matt. Melissa, and then on the other side of the family. Those are the like deep Philly side. You know, Bobby, Billy. Yeah, shout out Misako. You know what I mean? And Yokohama, I love you, girl. It's, I gotta do,

I have to do too many kinds of names. Anyway, it's also National Amelia Earhart Day and National Tequila Day. Okay. So deal with that. Shout out to thermal engineers. I feel like to have a national day where like people need to know what you are.

You know, people need to know the thermal, like, I don't know. It's, that takes too much explaining, you know? Yeah. It's gotta be like national ice cream flavor you've heard of day, but being like, here's a job that you're not even aware exists and we're going to honor it. Yeah. I just don't feel like it's going to break through.

I regret to inform you thermal engineers. They're all about managing temperatures. You know what I mean? So whatever, thank you for keeping my Sprite so cold. You think that's what it is? I know y'all have something to do with it. People who work on thermostats and Sprite coldness. It's only people who keep Sprite cold at McDonald's, I think, is how I'm kind of related to my life.

How is Sprite so damn cold? How is it so damn cold? Is that why it's tasting different? Can you tell us? The only non-ice based thing that I think's ever given me an ice cream headache is Sprite from a McDonald's. Really? You've got no brain freeze from.

Yeah, I got a brain freeze. And I think because it's so like, so icy, so cold, and then coming through such a fat straw, you know, that it just, you mean when you're just drinking it straight out of the fountain. Yeah. Put my head under the fountain. It's so cold this way. Anyways, I love McDonald's Sprite.

One of the great works of just bottle that trumps out here being like, we need fucking cane sugar, bro. Find a way to bottle McDonald's Sprite. Just that it's like available anywhere, you know, then, then you might, maybe you'll shift the attention away from Jeffrey Epstein. Some of the best sprite to ever do it. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka Chad's in a car wearing guns, drive you round for a fee.

That one courtesy of Halcyon salad on the Discord in reference to the fun, new, live like a billionaire product, an app where you can get an armed guard, a caravan of armed guards to drive you around. Aka off duty police officers with very questionable records of using force. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray. I'm out here, AKA.

So this sounds like TDZ. My co-host is Jacko B. The president got orange sheen. I wear a wrist base for Olnar Pien. Pain. I know we had to pronounce it Pien to make the rhyme work, but y'all know I have the ulnar pain in my wrist and that's what we are Brass cassette on the discord for that one. It's not everybody acknowledging my own our nerve pain. I appreciate you miles We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by very funny comedian and activist the host of the Wonderful award-winning legendary podcast good Muslim bad Muslim the senior fellow and comedy at the host of the wonderful award winning legendary podcast, Good Muslim,

Bad Muslim, the senior fellow in comedy at the Pop Culture Collaborative. She's written in the New York Times, wrote and performed a piece on NPR's Fresh Air. It is the hilarious, the talented Zara Norbush! Zara Norbush! What's up? What's up, Zara? Oh my God, it's so good to's that? Oh, my God. Good to be back.

Why are you talking like that all of a sudden? Because you got blonde hair. Is this your. This is the new person. No, she's tilting her head like a confused bird. I'm a blonde now. Oh, man. You're you're owning it.

You're owning it. Love it. Well, I'm just I hope you are. You saying humble despite your your blonde ambition? Have I ever been humble? Mm hmm. Speaking of McDonald's Sprite, but I'm loving it. I'm loving it. Yeah, truly. Did something weird happen at the Trader Joe's in Danville? Oh, my God.

Really great segue. I'm on this second. You know, this is why I've been saying, this is why I've been saying Stephen Colbert out miles gray in as a, as an interviewer, a celebrity guess. Oh man, you guys blonde hair. So did something weird go down in a The trader Joe's in Danville. I'm there with my mom We're picking up Persian cucumbers

Okay, and this bitch goes wait, is it legal to be selling those? Bitch of the Trader Joe's said this bitch. Oh, I was like So she made a racist joke to you because you have blonde hair? No, no, no. This random white woman at the Trader Joe's points to the sign and goes, Persian cucumbers, isn't it illegal to be selling those?

What does she think this is? What do we think she thought her joke was? It was not a joke. No, she's Fox News brain. She was straight up. Narrowing on Trader Joe's for breaking the embargo. Selling Persian cucumbers. Is there really an embargo or she's just being like, well, I mean, there are definitely embargoes on Iran for sure.

But like, but this is so dumb to be like, are all Fuji apples from Japan? Like how do we, it's like, no, it's just, they're, it's just a species of cucumbers. They're not and also Persia doesn't exist To be fair underneath Trader Joe's had the little quotes that said directly feeding the economy of Iran Right, right Cucumbers Underneath Persian cucumbers fighting the good fight. They're like, what's that mean? I don't know. It's that underneath Persian cucumbers, death to America. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

As you saw, you were buying them though. I'm just wondering, was this pre or post blonde hair? This was pre. Pre blonde hair. Okay. Yes. I will say I'm treated differently. Yeah.

People are a lot nicer to me. She probably would have nudged you and she's like, get a load of those, huh? Yeah. I'm like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to say, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to say, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to say, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to say, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to say, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to will say I'm treated differently. Yeah people are a lot nicer to me She probably would have nudged you and she's like get a load of those, huh? Cuban cigar

These are from you whites always doing that welcome Karen Cuba well get a load of these Yeah. To trade their doses. You ever heard of Cuba? Well, get a load of these now, my friend. Zara, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things.

We're talking about, we're going to see how Donald Trump is doing. He's sending the House, the Congress back home with some packing, marching orders of like, here's how you do it. Here's how to, if anybody has questions about, I don't know what you're doing home so early. Just like, here's my ideas. Here's some talking points. And then we'll talk about just, we talked last week about how Andrew Schultz was having

a difficult time with the unpopularity of the president that he helped get elected by having him on his massive... I didn't even help him get him elected. It's not like his plans were down and then he came on my show and then won, dude. Just because I normalized that shit. On his feet to the fucking fire, dog. I didn't vote for this, though. That's what he keeps saying. I didn't vote for any of this, dude. Yeah, yeah. I didn't... His lies? What the heck?

What the heck? We did have the question like heading into this, like after Trump was elected, we were like, how long does it last? Where there's a bunch of comedians who think it's like cool and edgy to support the president. Like, it feels weird to be like, I'm for the president. And he's a smart guy. He knows what's the matter. Can't handle my support of the president. Uh, we'll check him with Tim Dillon.

We'll also check him with us. Stuart Rhodes, one of the J six coordinators who's been part of the eye patch guy who has some questions. Not questions, but he's just like, I don't understand why he's being so weird about the Epstein stuff. You guys are so fucking dumb. It's truly like, they've somehow convinced OJ not to find the real killer. I think OJ thinks the city is just too big and he'll never find the real killer,

but it's not true. Just find the real killer, OJ. Where is the one-handed man? Yes. Exactly. He seems confused, as do a lot of these guys. So we'll talk about that. And then we've just, we got to talk about Shark Week with Zara on,

and we also have to talk about married couples. I'm just confused. Are people for marriage or against? Because obviously we got mad when that CEO got caught cheating and did such a bad job of covering it up. Now we have the exact opposite of that. A married couple from Connecticut expressing their love for one another on a jet-blue plane in front of a bunch of children.

Okay. Yeah, maybe that, maybe this is that anyways, uh, we'll talk about that and shark week, uh, all of that planning more, but first Zara, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history, how to plant and prune your bell peppers? Hmm. Okay. Oh, how do you not say that, I've become obsessed with gardening.

Okay. I love that. Obsessed. What are we talking? Oh my God. I have four kinds of tomatoes. I've got lettuce. I've got all the herbs time.

You got bacon, cilantro, parsley, chives, basil. Oh, I've got three kinds of basil. My question is, because I'm always interested in an herb garden. Does it it grows at a pace that you're never like, well, shit, I just cashed out all my chives right there. Now I gotta wait months again. Oh, my God, I have so many herbs. I have herbs all the time.

I'm herb down. Come to my house. Just take my herbs. OK, you hear that DEA? She's got herb all the time. I'm herbed out. Come to my house. Just take my herbs Okay, you hear that DEA she's got herb at the house. I got hella herbs at my house. You got hella herbs. Okay, okay I'm taking are you just how many acres we talking here? Actually, okay This is why my underrated is grow your own food. Pivot.

Okay. Boom. Why? Boom, right into the underrated. Grow your own fucking food. Why have we been, why do we have lawns? What are we doing? Oh my God.

All you need is sun and soil. We have lawns to grow one very specific type of grass that doesn't naturally occur and needs to ruin the environment to be kept alive. No further answers, Your Honor. Yeah. Well, I mean that's a good argument, but I... That is hard to argue with. On the one hand, very difficult to argue with. That's tough. That's a good point. Get... Oh my god. It is so easy. I have like a, I've got like an eight foot patio. Yeah. But and it gets all the sun.

Yeah. And all you need is just sun and soil and all this time, okay? All this time, gentlemen, I have thought that I'm a killer of plants because I kill everything. I have Alicia Garza's snake plant and it's dying. It was dying, but now I'm saving it.

I'm saving it, Alicia. You're talking about Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza? Yeah, she left it with her producer, Phil, and he gave it to me and I almost killed it. You inherited the famous BLM Alicia Garza snake plant. Wait, are you able to kill? I have snake plants. They're really hard to kill.

I know it almost. Oh, damn. Yeah. I'm going to say, OK. And for all of you out there who do not have a green thumb, you've got like a yellow, purple, red thumb, whatever. Yeah, purple and gold. Yeah. Death thumb. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like me, you can do this.

You can grow tomatoes, you can grow lettuce, you can grow herbs. I'm ready. Actually, I'm going to I'm going to hit you up about that, because I you can do it. My old crib. I had a huge rosemary bush that I have to do anything about. I just grew rosemary bushes down here. Hey, let them know. Hey, I got rid of that for summer, but it's coming back this fall. It's growing in. But I've always wanted to have chives. I love chives and green onions and shit like that. And also, I'm getting getting. Okay, I'm gonna talk. We'll talk. We'll talk. I was exactly. Let me know what I need to. I'm trying to do this. I'm trying to.

This is what I learned. You just don't buy your soil at Home Depot and loves don't buy soil. Do you live from a neighbor? Yes. steal it from it. No, get it from the local nurseries, your mom and pop nurseries. Get the good soil. You water it and that's all you have to do. And you have so many herbs. All right. Yep.

So producer Catherine just said you can just plant the butts of, oh, I thought she was going to say cigarettes, green onions. You can cut a tomato in half and put it in the ground and have your own tomatoes. I just, we were just at, like, my kids were over at the house of, like, the parents that- Darion? Make you feel bad about how good they're, like, they just, like, created a little garden because their kids became interested in gardening. And I will say, like, you know, people talk about Minecraft proving that the children crave the mines.

Mm-hmm. I think the children also crave the fields because- The fields. Oh my god, my daughter loves it. Yeah, the level that my kids were obsessed with just like asking questions about this herb garden and like they had a little like a couple stalks of uh, yeah, thick green onions miles that I saw these green onions. I thought I was like, Ooh, dude, my daughter dumps a gallon of water in there and bubble solution. Still.

Sorry. It's going to grow bubbles. So much parsley. Yeah. That's amazing. What is, uh, what's something you think is overrated? War. Oh damn.

Yeah. I think going to war is really overrated. Yeah. I've suddenly become very pro figuring it out any other way that isn't war. Now that like I have children that are going through the ages that they would be like shipped off to war. Oh, that's at nine years old.

Has it been that long? They're entering that period. Ten years old, they're going to get drafted. Yeah, no. I mean, Jesus Christ. Don't send Jax kids to war. That is very, no, I mean, I think we definitely need a revolution of sorts, whether that kinetic warfare or I'm for figurative revolution. I'm for metaphoric revolution.

I'm for like a revolution of the soul. I'm for change. I'm for transformation. I'm here for transformation. The kind of revolution that comes from a destabilized nation that doesn't realize it's being strategically destabilized by foreign powers that have an interest in ruining it and funding extremism, which is what is happening to the United States. I'm not for that. Yeah, I don't quite have it figured out how we're going to fix it. We're like, we're close, but for like, mainly I'm focused on talking about Shark Week and this couple having sex on JetBlue. But I think I'm not trying to go to the Nelk Boys Lane right now and suggest how we want to let them figure it out. Those guys. Yeah, I trust the Nelk Boys lane right now and suggest how we get through this. I want to let them figure it out.

Those guys seem like they've got a head on their shoulders. I trust the Nelk Boys. They'll be okay. Anyways. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. The stuff you should know guys have made their own summer playlists of their must-listen podcasts on movies. It's me, Josh, and I'd like to welcome you to the Stuff You Should Know summer movie playlist.

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I'm a blonde bombshell. I want to blow some shit up. Tell that to Toussaint Louverture when he fought the French off to get Haiti free and then Europe completely fucked them over. Okay, see, I told you. See? See, I told you. So don't do, it's, you see, I told you. So we shouldn't have done that.

So don't do it. Oh my God, don't do that. Oh. That's the hero I am. That looks like, that is true. Like I'm saying the, the book catch 22 is like the most I identified with anything because it's just like a guy in world war two being like, ah, I'm so scared.

This is so fucking scary. I don't wanna die. That shit looks like it hurts. Ow. That is basically how I imagine myself in any war situation. I got that Yossarian in me. Other people have that dog in them.

I got that Yossarian in me. That's what I can catch 22. Listen, those of us who are all mush inside that just want to hug each other. We're the real threat. That's right. We are all mush inside, even, even the big strong guys who you can hire to drive your car for you while holding, while they hold a gun. Yeah.

Let's talk about just how the continuing onslaught of news, like just attempts to try to distract from the story that everybody's interested in, which is, man, Trump is acting really weird in response to these questions about the Epstein files. Man, these details that are coming out now in connection to his very weird response to questions about the Epstein files are these details are very strange and they all seem to be like pointing in one direction that is confusing. They killed the lawyer! The lawyer's dead!

I still need to find out what happened there, but he did. The person who oversaw the sweetheart deal that Epstein got in Florida ended up being Trump's attorney general. Right? Is that? How do you know? Oh, Alex Acosta? Yeah. Yeah.

He did. He did end up becoming attorney general at one point. Attorney general under Trump. Uh, so. Oh no, no, secretary of labor. Sorry. He was secretary of labor. Okay. Yeah. He was Secretary of Labor under Trump. Okay.

Yeah. He was the Attorney General of Florida. Of Florida, was Attorney General, became Secretary of Labor. So weird that this person who, again, at the time that it happened, everybody was writing like, this is a career ender that this guy made this wild decision to just like protect everybody in power and give this child predator like the biggest sweetheart deal. Everybody was saying that at the time.

And then that person becomes gets like a great appointment under Trump. So like all these details in the context of his strange response are starting to like put thoughts in people's heads that like Trump doesn't want there those people don't want there there's that amazing video of him kicking out the guy who held up the Trump the picture of Trump and Epstein together where he just looked so pissed so anyways he has some advice for how to control this for other Republicans okay yeah just actually I don't know how he wasn't attorney general So anyways, he has some advice for how to control this for other Republicans. Okay.

Yeah. Just actually, I don't know how he wasn't attorney general. He was a deputy. What the fuck is the actual title when he during the Epstein case? He was a US attorney, but he was a deputy. It should just say he was a US attorney at the time. Like you worked for it. He worked as a US attorney at the time for the- He was heavily involved in that case. Well, anyway- That case happened under him. Specifically for that, during that,

he was the US attorney in the Southern District of Florida. And he was, at that time, he was the one who oversaw the, yeah, why don't you just kind of like leave, dude, if you want. And we won't talk about anything else with this Epstein case. And we won't talk about anyone else who's implicated. Again, which I need to. That was the thing that everybody was like, that's really weird at that time.

And then that also seems to be the thing that they're saying now is like, don't say, you know, we don't want to put anything out. That's going to make people look bad. Just for like, having lunch with him every day for five years. But yeah, you gotta help me out here. Like, okay, why is this such a thing? I mean, the man has committed so many illegal acts in the last six months.

Like, why is this so big? Like, I don't- I think basically the second Elon tweeted that shit that he was in the Epstein files that brought it back into the consciousness in more of a way that people were like, yo, what are you saying, bro? And that that was I'm like, I was trying to think like, what really kicked it all off. It was that moment that everyone would get yo, we're doing that. Right. We're doing that. We're telling uncomfortable truths scenario because I think most people who saw all the circ like everything that the circumstances and the relationships between Trump and Epstein, like, yeah, what the fuck is going on with the two of them? What the

fuck is going on with anyone who was caught up with Jeffrey Epstein? But with Republicans penetrating that bubble at that point, and then Elon Musk was able to penetrate it. It's just bizarre to me because his bombing Iran without the okay of Congress is illegal and impeachable. That's already impeachable. But that's what the people who sent him there to be president like about him is that he's racist and violent. Like that's part of the appeal.

Is this like a QAnon base thing? Yes, it's QAnon base. It's a QAnon base thing, but it's just generally a conspiracy theory that then becomes widely embraced by MAGA, especially because the reason people don't care about the circumventing of Congress to illegally attack Iran is because the other side of it isn't like,

well, we need to hold Trump to account. And therefore the Obama's go to prison with the Epstein thing. These people really believe that the like all these democratic, like presidents and things are going to be in jail because they were also part of this sex ring. Now, you know, the various presidents have intersected with Epstein from both parties. So, yeah, it stands to reason that maybe there could be a there there, but for them specifically, it's like wish fulfillment to be like, and this is how you put Obama and the Clintons in jail

because of what they did with Epstein. And now they're kind of, I think, brushing up against the parties like, well, wait, how come Trump's like writing him birthday cards? And why is he at this wedding with him? And why was he at Trump's wedding? And why is he saying he's his best friend? And, uh, so because of that, Trump is now having to really do everything to kind of get this story out of people's minds.

And when talking to congressional Republicans who again, Mike Johnson, the speaker's like, all right, no more votes on anything guys, we got to get through this without having to bring the Epstein thing to a vote again. So everyone go home. Trump's like, okay, when you're there, here are some fun things you can tell people that will help them feel good about me. And maybe they won't be asking questions about Jeffrey Epstein. So the first one is that he says that everything has gotten so dang cheap now.

I don't know if you guys can believe it. You should tell them like everything's like the cheapest it's ever been. This is him just again lying about what gas costs. And I think anyone who's bought gas recently knows this is not even close to being the truth. To saving the typical family thousands and thousands of dollars. So remember when you're campaigning, you got to remember this. Prices are down, groceries are down, oil is down, energy is down, gasoline is... and It's not $8 unless you're in Century City and you're also getting it pumped by some person. Gasoline is wha? It's wha.

Yeah. So again, he's trying to say like, these are the millions of achievements you should be telling people about to head off any conversations. The next one he said was, this is really great because Trump has, like, I guess, Terrence Howard has come up with his own system of mathematics because these are the kinds of savings that you can expect on prescription drugs. Oh, I can't wait. I have a friend who has a serious weight problem, serious.

He's brilliant, but extremely heavy. I'm being nice. And he takes Ozempic or as they call it the fat drug. He goes, I'm sorry. This is his this is his warm up to talking about prescription drugs. He's going to keep telling me, like, this guy's very neurotic. He's a mess, but wealthy. But he's such a mess and emotional, but has much money.

I'm just going to skip out like 30 seconds. I think he's still talking about him. And he calls me like president. He always used to call me Donnie. Now he calls me president. That's good. I like that better. Because he is president.

What's going on? I just bought the Ozempic for $88. And in New York, I pay $1,300. Same factory, same company that makes it, same everything. $88 to $1,300. He said almost $1,300. And I explained to him that that's the way it's been for many, many years. Okay.

He goes on. This is where I think he was finally going to say, this is what the drug price reduction is going to be with this new regime, apparently. One tenth, one eighth, one fifth, one half. It's a tremendous difference. And this is for the people in this room, because this is something that nobody else can do. We're going to get the drug prices down, not 30 or 40 percent, which would be great, not 50 or 60.

No, we're going to get them down. One thousand percent, six hundred percent, five hundred percent. Oh. Which would be great. Not 50 or 60. No. We're going to get them down 1,000%. 600%. 1,000%. 500%. 1,500. 1,500% off. They're going to be down.

1,500% off my drugs. So my drugs that cost $100, they will give me $1,400 back. Yeah. When I go to get it. That's his promise to you. Well, that's what I want. So fucking tight, dude. That's I've never, I love, I love this for America. The, honestly, the idea that Americans would, would receive money along with

their necessary prescription drugs. That is pretty good, but I think he just means hyperbolically, it's going to be 1500% off because he's just very powerful. He's not desperate. And the last note he gave them was that if the second someone brings up Jeffrey Epstein, you fucking scream Barack Obama's name. That's what we're fucking doing. So he was like, okay, tell him about like a like a curse or spell that you're like throwing back at them.

Exactly. Just scream Obama! Like Michael Scott declared bankruptcy in the office. That's what you should be doing. And remember, don't let them forget, it's so important, Obama cheated on the election. Look, the camera just went off. What? Obama, the red light just went off.

Can you believe these people? How bad they are. Obama cheated when they give you all the nonsense. Can you believe these people? How bad they are. Obama cheated. When they give you all the nonsense, Obama cheated. And his people cheated. But he was there. Did you ever hear this? They talk about, if they ever even mention it, they never mention his name.

Just the opposite with me. But they only mention my name. They don't mention any of you guys. They don't mention Tom. They don't mention Steve. They don't mention our great speaker. They mentioned Trump all the time. I'd like to have him mention you, but. Oh boy.

He's really got a warm crowd here. You should say their names. He's truly being like, what about them? Like what about them, dude? When they bring up that they're, you've been acting very suspiciously about your history of being a child predator. Yeah. You should just like start naming other names and say that Obama cheated on the election. Something that you're just like making up now for the first time. Did you see Obama and the election at that Coldplay concert? He was. Didn't he also in this speech, like, do like, what about her emails?

Like, didn't he go back to. He did it all. He also said Tulsi Gabbard was so hot right now. Oh my God. For digging up this Obama. The whole thing was a fucking mess. Okay. Also, like, didn't we also just like skate past evidence that he has dementia?

Right. Like literally he's not getting blood to his brain. Like that causes dementia. There's so many things that are true right now. Right now, this is the one that benefits Democrats the most because it's their favorite kind of attack Which is we don't have to talk about policy All they have to do

they just have to they can ignore all policy right now and you see Hakeem Jeffries like and as you can tell he's Protecting the lifestyles of the rich and the shameless Protecting these vile people and you're like you y'all you you know There's people on the Democratic side also named in this shit, too. And you're like, you y'all, you, you know, there's people on the democratic side also named in this shit too. Are you ready? Are you fully, are y'all ready for this? I don't know.

So we'll see, we'll see. But I know this has been an absolute gift to the democratic party because their favorite reflex, which is like, well, look at them. We're not doing that is fully now front and center and they're, they're running with it. God, it's so boring. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, it's just also a wild two. And you're like, how come you guys give a shit about this now and not when it was happening ever. Exactly. You know, like it also makes everybody else look very strange when you're suddenly like, I'm going to use this to hold someone to account. It's like, you could have done that a long time ago, but you didn't have the strength of your convictions to be like, this is actually disqualifying that we're allowing a sexual predator

run for off. I don't, okay. So we're not, okay. Maybe no one cares. As he's committing a hundred million other crimes. Listen, listen. Okay. I'm in the Epstein files. And that's, we should have set that up top. I mean, it's not a big deal. It's not a big deal. It looks worse than it is. It's, I can tell you right now, we're all in there, man.

We're all in there, okay. Is this gonna be some philosophical thing that GOP does soon? It's like, in a way, we're all in the Epstein files. I mean, look, how do you spell your name? All right, J-A-C, all those letters are in there. philosophical thing that GOP does and it's like in a way we're all How do you spell your name? All right, Jay a see all those letters are in there they're in there so So you're also in them too. But yeah, what do you have to say for yourself? Yeah Know what I found in the Epstein files is that you stole the election and don't actually belong here sir, exactly

and that you stole the election and don't actually belong here, sir. Exactly. And yeah, and your wife did 9-11. Okay. So that's all there. Moving on. Moving on. So yeah, it's not great. And I think the only sort of allies at the moment to sort of control the narrative that the GOP has are the Bro and Manosphere podcasts. They're not doing a lot either. Are they, how are they feeling about all this? Like the guy, yeah. So we were talking about like the guys who were like, we're edge lords and that's why we like Trump. And now Trump is in power and also at like making it clear that he, you know, that there's a lot of smoke there around his being a pedophile. How are they riding with that?

Yeah, well, like one big one, right, is Tim Dylan, who is just one of these like shitty loser comedians who like loves being raised. Like, what's going on? Who's fucking telling you how I did it? I'm not fucking, man, that's no shit. He fucking, he's like fully compromised now. Like the comments on his show,

they're like, Tim's been compromised because he was like look guys. I had dinner with JD Vance a few days ago And they're like what the fuck? And he then starts talking about Epstein now in like he had Alex Jones on where they're both like I don't know I think it's just about it's got to be something about something else. It's not just this is like sex rape and stuff It's other crimes probably. This is Tim Dillon on his show trying to like sort of seed the idea. He's like, look, Trump,

maybe you got a cop to the fact that you knew him, but you didn't know him for the sex shit. And if you, and you had no idea that's what he was doing. And it was actually money laundering. That's why you had a connection. This is the fucking shit. Which has never come up. No, but this is, but when you just, when you're making some shit up.

Yeah. But when you have a guy who just had dinner with JD Vance, the vice president and goes to his massive audience and then says this, you're like, okay, so is this, is, are we trying this one out too? So this is him auditioning this convenient excuse. And he lays it out very eloquently. That I shouldn't have been, I thought he was just a whack. But he was a wacko.

He was a silly Billy. They're talking about Jeffrey Epstein. Maybe that's what you say, Goh, he was a silly Billy. Maybe that's what he said. He was a daffy duck. What is going on? Billy Billy. Maybe that's what he said. He was a Daffy Duck. Mm-hmm. What is going on? But you gotta show people you weren't raping children.

That's what you have to show people. Clearly. I don't even care if he laundered a little bit of the money. No one does. No one does. Donald, if that's what you're worried about, no one cares. Clearly not what he's worried about.

It's okay. No. If he laundered some of your money, even a lot of your money. If he laundered a lot of your money. All of your money, it would be fine. Because that's not what people are thinking. So that's what they're doing now. Right, which Donald Trump absolutely knows.

Another thing he says in this part is like, what it is to be rich is to be best friends sometimes with human trafficker or satanic pedophile. Yeah. He says, you don't even know it. You just know that you both like boats. Except the thing that, so he's, he's saying like, look, he just happened to be friends with Epstein, but they had a shared interest that, you know, he just

happened to be friends with this guy who was a satanic pedophile, except the thing they have in common is not a love of boats. No. Boats here is a standard for children that they both seem to be attracted to. That that's the thing that like, they seem to be talking to each other about, and like hinting about all the time in their communication and like standing together in videos, ogling together. Like that, that seems to be their shared interest. They're not looking, they're not at a boat like convention in those images.

There's literally women parading in front of them. Oh, look at that boat. Huh? Yeah. This also happened with Stuart Rhodes. So the January 6th coordinator gave a speech and was just like, again, just seems like baffled. He's like, it's really disheartening to see president Trump just

declared that that to be a hoax. I don't think it is. And I think it's going to cause him trouble in his own base. That already is someone in his circle has convinced him that, Oh, this is like Hunter Biden's laptop story. It's not. This is the deep state's dirty laundry in the deep state's greatest Achilles heel. Their job now is to distract him, run the clock out until he's gone without him actually

going after the root of the deep state, the heart and soul of it. the heart and soul of it. So he's convinced that Trump is being misled from inside. And like, that's why he's being so just obfuscating and doing anything in his power to just like run in the opposite direction from the conclusions of what's happening. At that point, you'd be like, oh, so it sounds like your strong man, like idol guy is actually a little punk. Right.

And he can't really do shit. It sounds like he sounds impotent to me. He does not sound all knowing and powerful. If he's like, they're leading him there. So, I mean, so then maybe you need to maybe respect the fact that he's, he's limited in his scope of power, But again, everything has to be true. It's like, he is powerful. It's just the deep state is preventing him from acknowledging his own heinous actions.

Yeah. So look, Trump, Trump is still a good guy. I guess in their minds, but yeah, they're just having to bury their head super hard. And yeah, I mean, how much deeper. Yeah. Right. All of the audiences though, for these shows, like when you see the comments on the videos, none of them are like no one's buying it,

which is kind of interesting. Like this is like the one time you're like, no, we're not going along with the group. Think on this like you're like you're absolutely lying to us about whatever the fuck is going on. And doesn't he already have a 20 percent approval rating? Like he's already in the tank. It's shocking. Sure, sure. 38 percent.

So yeah, yeah, yeah. But it does keep going down. It does keep going down. A lot of the statisticians have shown it's like these aren't anomalous. Like they're consistently just going down and down and down. But again, will that matter if states are gerrymandered to shit and all these, you know, districts are carved up to make them so reliably read? Does that really upset the balance in Congress or, you know, God forbid, what does that look like

in a general federal, you know, presidential election? And the fact that the Republicans are just a straight up cult. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it doesn't help. I mean, at this point, they're not even listening to their constituents. I mean, these town halls that we're seeing is just, they're not even listening to them. I'm sure these people are like, bro, I'm not even going to go home during this recess. I'm going to go to fucking Qatar or some shit. Like, I don't fuck, like, fuck that.

I'm going to go to Saudi Arabia and touch that power orb that Trump. You could walk in on Mecca. It, uh, I mean, we just heard Trump's basically his flashcards that he's doing with them to be like, okay, here's the answer to everything. When they say, say that inflation is way down when it's actually been going up at a faster rate than it has in a while. Or just shout Obama. That's the counter no-take bet. Just shout Obama, y'all.

That's gonna do it. You know what? He's saying, fake it till you become it. Yeah, exactly. Fake it till you become it. He's manifesting. Yeah, exactly. You should just, yeah, just say you're innocent

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We're back. And this isn't just any ordinary week and it's not just thermal engineer appreciation week around here. It's also shark week. Yeah. Obama. Rawr. Last year we talked about how the Discovery Channel's

annual shark-themed programming block is not great. I'm vaguely aware of it. As a big Jaws fan, I still don't partake in shark week as much as I think you might expect. Are you Zara? I know you're also a huge jaws fan. Are you a shark week consumer? Shark week is the best. Eat people and they rip off your limbs and you're scared to go to the beach.

Either way you said it, you're like Panama City Beach Spring Break. Shark Week is the best. Shark Week! Bust out the nachos, sit in front of the TV. Yeah, Shark Week. I mean, I probably stopped watching Shark Week. I think I remember it was actually probably sophomore year of college. It was like the last time I remember being like, yo, we're getting fucking faded.

Why Shark Week? But that was what? That was 2005. I mean, I have a toddler and we don't do screen time, so that's about as much memory. Yeah. Don't show your kid shark. You just go down to the beach and chum the waters and you do analog shark week.

Do my best Robert Shaw. That's right. Yeah. There you go. But yeah, episodes that were reviewed by experts found that they were full of incorrect information and provided a wildly misleading picture of the field of shark research. Oh no.

But this, this year, it seems even more unhinged than ever. Discovery claims that shark week's programming comes from listening to what the diving and science community is seeing. And apparently what the reports were bringing back from the depths is that the sharks were dancing because they launched Dancing with Sharks. Dancing with Sharks was their big tent pole show. It's not like a play on words where they like set sharks swimming around to music. You're literally, it's a dance competition show in which divers work with world-class underwater choreographers to create dance routines with shark partners,

which are then evaluated by a panel of celebrity judges. And the host is Tom Bergeron from Dancing with the Stars. What the fuck? That is so stupid. I can't wait. They have jumped the shark week with this kind of fucking idea. This is so stupid. Like what, you got Michael Strahan dancing with a hammerhead or some shit? I mean, they fucking wish. You got Michael Strahan dancing with a hammerhead or some shit? Like what? They fucking wish.

They wish they could get straight hand on this shit. Wow. Wow. Wow. I like that any of this is going on while like, you know, the EPA is just like massively killing, destroying the oceans. Just like, you know, right. I don't think they approve of like what I don't think environmentalists approve of these people just like fucking with sharks down in the depths like just grabbing them and

But this guy just like grabbing a hammerhead's head. Oh my god Even dancing this there is a woman in a scoop in scuba gear. Oh my god, just like doing arm movements I know was she wearing a th in scuba gear. Oh my God. Just like doing arm movements. I know, was she wearing a thong scuba suit? That was a thong scuba suit. Or is she, oh, like it's garters. She got garters on. She got scuba garters on. Okay.

And she has trying to like, trying to give like sassy and sexy while in a scuba suit. It's like very difficult to pull off. Oxygen take in your mouth? Yeah. You're not even fucking dancing. She's literally throwing, she's like throwing chum around and like the second a hammerhead goes around,

she'll be like, and I grabbed its eye and did a light flip. This is such a fucking L. Wow. The responses are bad, like objectively bad. I think this episode is making fun of these majestic creatures. You may want to consider firing whoever made the decision to put this

ridiculousness on for shark week. Boring, stupid, worst start to shark week ever. So, Sash. People don't see. All right. Well, what else you guys? Shark week. I was just swinging a miss on dancing with the shark. I'm just going to say, you know what? You keep not paying writers. Okay.

You keep trying to get AI to write your scripts. Are writers more expensive than underwater shark choreographers? Just pay a damn writer. Yeah. So it's WGA minimums. They're getting us. The other one. I'm not sure.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Just pay a damn writer for god's sake. Yeah, so it's WGA Minimums. They're getting us. The other one that they're releasing is a great white sex battle in which male sharks are pitted against female sharks in a series of competitions. And this is where I draw, I was going to let it slide. I thought, isn't that the Epstein files? The great ones?

Right. That's very good. I was going to let it slide on the naming front. They called it Dancing with Sharks instead of Dancing with the Sharks, which like would be a one-to-one from Dancing with the Stars. And they just called it Dancing with Sharks. Just like, like Dancing with Wolves, the Academy Award winning. Okay. If it was Dances with Sharks. Oh, Dances. Yeah, with wolves, the Academy award winning dance. Okay.

If it was dances with short dances, yeah, dances. Yeah, that's dancing with sharks. They just, just make it the Jack. Okay. They're doing both. They could have called this great white battle of the sexes, which is a thing, like a cultural thing, but instead they called it great white sex battle. is a thing, like a cultural thing, but instead they called it great white sex battle, which makes it sound so like dirty.

It sounds like it's yeah, like it's going to be some kind of like zoophile shit. It really feels like how, how is there not a level of like editorial that they're running this past being like, this sounds fucking crazy. Great white sex battle? This is what happens when writers ask for healthcare. Okay. Yes, exactly. This is what happens.

Yeah, LA dies, LA dies as a city because everything shuts down production wise and now you have great white fuck battle with, what are they gonna do? Who can eat more fish? Like what the fuck? I think that's basically it. They just are like setting up things for great white sharks.

And I like that one's a girl. She jumped this far out to like, you know, kick flip a fucking seal. I don't even think sharks do that. That one's a girl to see an expert. She's like pointing. Yeah. There's a point for the girls. There's a female.

What were you saying, Zara? I just thought it was going to be like synchronized swimming. The dances with, or dancing with sharks? You know, court, like sharks are around. The dancing sucks so bad. You got like listeners, I don't know how we can, it looks like a traffic cop. Like that version of dancing,

because you have to sell dancing, but it's like through, you know, the underwater photography is such that you just, all you can really do is like hand gestures. But is there a Marjorie Taylor green audition tape? That's what I want to know. Inevitably there will be, but she probably was there like, we can't have you Margie if you're going to keep biting the sharks.

Right. That's not what this is. Trying to fucking throw the sharks across the room. You can't eat the chum. If they're doing the format of Dancing with the Stars, are we also going to be like, meanwhile at rehearsals, Sarah has been having trouble with... That's the shark's name.

Figure out the choreography. They're not rehearsing. So this part, it has the energy and I don't want to really slag off young kids who do like, you know, when kids are like, we're gonna do a dance show. Okay, everybody gather around, you know, like when you have young relatives, and they're like, y'all ain't doing shit. Y'all are just playing them. Y'all playing a song that you flailing around. This is not a dance show. Exactly what it feels like.

This is the same level of organization as you know, your young relatives saying, Hey, everybody get together in the living room. And you're like, Oh This is not a dance show. That's exactly what it feels like. This is the same level of organization as your young relatives saying, hey, everybody get together in the living room. We're gonna throw this show. Like you feel this, I feel this pang of pity for this woman because she's like working so hard.

Yeah. Underwater with all this gear and there's sharks everywhere. It's like pity claps. She's wearing neoprene garters. Okay. It's everything is so unserious that you can't look at this and be like, I find any kind of creative artistic merit to what it is.

You're like, this is fucking the dumbest shit I've ever seen or heard. Yikes. What else they got, Jack? So, uh, Frank and shark is just people make up CGI sharks and then like, are like, which one would win? Which sucks shit. People are speculating that the reason Shark Week is becoming so out there is, one, just the inevitable entropy of capitalism.

No, sorry, nobody put that in there. That's actually just what's actually happening. It's just, things get worse as like more sponsors get involved and. Yeah, man. I miss my shark week. Like the, you know, people's limbs being bitten off and, you know, I just thought I was having a great time. Yeah.

It's because I think it's because the shark Week that we would find entertaining is entirely too problematic. You know what I mean? Like I'd be like, yeah, drop a side of beef in the ocean. And I want to watch these people fucking shred up a cow. What about when ants attack? Is that still OK? Yeah, and we can. Is this your pitch? I feel like we could have a lot of fun and highly unsponsorable. And so it wouldn't get fucked up by raid, but people, people think it's like national geographic had their rival shark fest, which sounds like a red

lobster thing, like an illegal red lobster week for shark fin soup They're just two weeks ago and then Netflix also had their problematic shark content with shark whisperer which the person was like Endangering themselves and the sharks and people are like you're gonna get you. It's like grizzly man situation, right? Right. Right. Yeah, you can just you're about to hear a voiceover from Verner Herzog suddenly. But yeah, it is. If you're craving good shark content out there, I follow traveling nurse Lex love her and she dances with sharks in the water with a bikini and she's fucking gorgeous and has not been eaten yet.

And has not been eaten. Okay. We like that. It has not been eaten yet. Oh. Not yet. It has not been eaten. Okay. We like that. Well, I do have to give, like, if we're just going to fully steer into the spiral of full capitalist entropy, just everything's falling apart, they did just partner with Outback Steakhouse for a line of, Fintastic cocktails. Fintastic.

Oh, I've got to say this. Fintastic, Mike? Cocktails. Fintastic Cocktails. Fintastic. Oh, I've got to say this. Fintastic, Mike? Fintastic, Mike. Oh, yeah. It's- The Aussie Jauzy is another one they've got. The Aussie Jauzy.

Please. I love that. The Aussie Jauzy. Nothing says we're taking our cues from the scientific community more than a drink that comes with a plastic shark that vomits blood-like grenadine into your ocean blue cocktail. That's what our, that's what the diving community and the conservationists told us to do. We're listening to, they said they're out there doing B-boy battles down there in

the sea and the fucking, the the shark manuscript content is wild. The way they're talking about females constantly, like we need to pit them against each other, you know? And then also make the fucking Franken shark one is also so stupid where it's like, fuck science altogether. Guys just make up like video game characters that you'll have them fight in a simulation. It's the same thing that we got with the Jurassic Park movies where they're like,

what if instead of the dinosaurs everyone's interested in, we made up dinosaurs that were like hybrid dinosaurs. There's like, no, that sucks now. Yeah. It's almost like people have these ideas and then they need an act one two and three and there are these people that know how to write that mm-hmm yeah we actually don't know what you're talking about anyway this does feel very like everything about this feels so heavily a from my from dancing with sharks not being called dancing with the sharks or great white sex.

Great white sex battle is so wild to me. What a mess. Sex battle. Battle of the sexes is right there. Were they going for the great white hype or something? I don't know. Maybe they were trying to make it sound hornier than it actually is. Sex battle. Anyways. Is anybody having sex right now?

That's a great question. As we talked about in yesterday's episode, some people were caught having sex on a plane, on a jet blue plane. Well, there you go. Could not be stopped until they were thrown in jail. Zara, what a pleasure. Man, I nailed that last segue. Boom.

Swish. It's like this story is just like it just gets grosser when you're like, these people are on a plane giving each other head and then you're like in front of kids. Yeah. Get the fuck out of here. According to one of the eyewitnesses, she was was like they noticed my kids looking at them and did not stop That's straight, you know straight to shark week for them Guess what y'all like having sex will now meet the fucking newest contestants on great white shark battle sex battle sex battle

Where we take take sexual predators and feed them to great whites. Love it. Throw them in with some sexual predators. Yeah. Oh yeah, anything with sexual predators is better than Great White Sex Battle. Jesus Christ. Zara, what a pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff?

You can find me at my house in my garden. Come over. I'll give you some herbs. ZaraComedy.com. At ZaraComedy. Find me out there. And yeah. Hell yeah. Perfect there a work of media that you've been enjoying?

Yes. Uh, the posts about no war with Iran. Really into that. Really into that super sexy. And there's just a phenomenal content coming out right now by Iranians, everything to do with Iranians and Instagram is doing, it's like, you know, censoring fun that it does.

And so like, please just keep searching hashtag Iran, hashtag Iranian artists. There's really incredible content that's coming out right now that I, that I can't even highlight one. And I just, it's just like, what a time for activism all over the world. Like not to get super emotional and deep right at the very end here, but like,

there's so much that's bad. There's so much evil out there that I just never even imagine the depths of. And we're all watching it on 4K. Right. And meanwhile, there's just some of the most harrowing feats of activism that I've seen, and they're not getting covered. And I just I just want people to go out and actively search for it and not wait to see it. Don't wait to see this shit. Go go out and hunt down the media that you want to see and the problems that you're seeing the ways you want to see it solved. Go out and hunt it down because the way that we're being curated is so that we can't access this media. Yeah, that's for sure. Well said. Well said. Miles, where can people find you? Is there work of media you've been enjoying?

Yeah, I saw a video of these kids in Iran that were really funny and they were just talking about what life in Iran is like. And they're like, Oh God, it's so fucked up. But unfortunately we're getting bombed right now by Israel. But they're really they clearly like they like their their delivery is clearly like they've seen a lot of American content because like the way they're talking is like very familiar to an American audience.

But like what they're saying is like, again, really inspiring, but also like connects you with the humanity of like these young people, too, who are having to fucking deal with all of this fucking geopolitical bullshit that is raining down on them. This is what I was saying, man. People are so fucking cool. I'm on a WhatsApp chat with my family in Iran, who's in Rome, they got bombed.

My neighbor, my aunt's neighbor's second story was bombed. It killed her 13 year old kid. Jesus. Oh my God. It's close. And these are, these are all people that we know. Like, you know, these kids, you know, these teenagers, like it just, what a time. Yeah. Yeah.

Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yes. Yes. Uh, find me everywhere at miles of gray. You also find me talking 90 day fiance on four 20 day fiance. A work of media I like at Caitlin Cali that he's got a social posted for the Epstein time. An underage woman is called a child.

Thanks for coming to my pred talk. Yeah. A lot of people having trouble with that one. A lot of people having trouble with that one. A lot of people have Steenstein. I think Trump messed around with underage women, right? It's like, whoa. What is that? Yeah.

Hmm. Uh, all right. Work media I've been enjoying is the Wikipedia page for Darla, the dog that played. This filmography is kind of unrivaled in the world. It's like up there with the guy who was in, famous actor whose name I can never remember, who was in like Deer Hunter, the Godfather films is like Fredo, and only like six movies and they were all classics. This dog who played Precious in Silence of the Lambs was in Batman Returns,

played Precious in Silence of the Lambs, was in The Burbs as Queenie, was in Coming to America as Dottie, and was started, kicked her career off in Pee-wee's Big Adventure as Pink Poo. Oh my God. Damn. Yeah. Look, isn't that wild? Like that was all the same dog.

Just killing it. Just like what? The Bichon Frise. Right. It's pretty phenomenal. What's her name? Darla? Darla.

Yeah. Darla the dog. Wow. What a fucking career. Salute to you. Retired to Thousand Oaks to California in 92 and passed away at the age of 17. So he's doing a lot of work like well into their dotage, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, cause she was the weird little fucking poodle in Batman that was like was palling around with the bad guys. Huh? Yeah. Yeah. Raddy bad guys. Yeah. Yeah. Raddy or something. Yeah. Okay. Wow. Raddy Poodle. Or I guess that maybe that's what they called it.

Anyways, you can find me on Twitter at JackUnderSquirrelBrian, on BlueSkyJackoBtheNumber1. You can find us on Twitter and BlueSky at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. You can go to the description of the episode wherever you're listening to it, and underneath the show description, you will find the footnotes,

which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that you think the people might enjoy? Yes, this is a track from the producer called Puzzle, P-O-Z-L-E. And the track is called Slash Head War. And this is like, there's like this genre of music called funk. And I've played some of their track, like this genre of track before, it's called F-O-N-K or P-H-O-N-K. And they use a lot of

like 808 cowbell sounds but they're like detuned and to sound like other instruments and then they will put like dirty south rap acapellas on it this is like in the same genre of that of like these producers in eastern europe being like i don't have anybody to spit like a grimy american sounding rap on this dirty ass beat i just made. So put an American vocal on it and you get like a texture of hip hop. That's it feels like some shit that the ratty poodle in Batman Returns would probably be bumping the cart. So this is slash head war by puzzle P O Z L E. All right.

Apparently the, uh, characterized by use of vintage Memphis rap vocals. This is where I've heard some three,6 acapellas on there too. That makes sense. Yeah. All right. Well, we will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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