The Daily Zeitgeist - MAGA Art Basel, Bezos Can See Inside My House? 08.09.22

Episode Date: August 9, 2022

In episode 1305, Miles and guest co-host DJ Danl Goodman are joined by writer, comedian, and co-host of Quick Question, Daniel O'Brien, to discuss... Senate passes Inflation Reduction Act, BEZOS WILL OWN ALL YOUR SH-T, CPAC Finally Embraces Bad Performance Art and more! Senate passes Inflation Reduction Act Democrats Have Delivered for Wall Street Yet Again BEZOS WILL OWN ALL YOUR SH-T CPAC Finally Embraces Bad Performance Art 'Venezuela and Australia are gone!' Mike Lindell uncorks CPAC rant about countries being 'taken by the machines' In Dallas, Donald Trump Provided a Violent Blueprint for Seizing Power The Surreal Spectacle of Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Capitol Riot Rage Cage The Right’s New Viral Star Is ‘Red-Pilled’ Hair Stylist From New York LISTEN: Pass the Water by Raé LunaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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you say what day is that what day what day is that well let me tell you eight nine well plus six is afraid of seven seven eight nine eight nine takashi eight nine is national book lovers day national rice pudding day and national deep day and i don't know if that's celebrating this show or nope okay this is just one this is just for all the vice presidents out there okay fine And I don't know if that's celebrating this show or... Nope. Okay, this is just one. This is just for all the vice presidents out there. Okay, fine. Fun fact, Gerald Ford, the one who was neither elected vice president nor president.

Okay, interesting. Yeah, that's a fun fact for you. And I didn't know that. I just read that shit because I'm not like our guest who we will get to in a moment. But first, allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Miles, a.k.a. I may or may not have used cannabis. I'll never admit that I'm stoned.

It's just the cold brew got me like this. Can't let Crofton drink it alone. Daniel used to mix like an angel. And when Becca guests hosts, we cheer. Anna keeps shows in order in her streaming corner. And when the show drifts off, Justin steers. Okay. Shout out to, that's many people right there. That was Half the Brew.

And also Half the Fighter of the Night, man. On Discord. Thank you so much for that wonderful AKA. Now, please allow me to reintroduce my guest co-host. His name is DJ Dan-O. G to the hood, man. That is I. Thank you for having me once again.

I'm happy to be here to take care of the spot while. That is I. Thank you for having me once again. I'm happy to be here to take care of the spot while Jack is out researching shorts or Switch games or other flavors of Mountain Dew, whatever he likes to do. The other thing is, have you heard the other version of why Six was afraid of Seven? Why? Because Seven was

a registered Six offender. That's terrible. What is that? Is that a Kiwi joke? Yes. Yes. I feel like you'd have to be like, registered six offender. It's a registered six offender.

Right, okay. Hey. You just happen to be here on the show today. Oh, well, I welcome you. We'll have to- Nice pleasure. I'm going to isolate that, and we'll have to ask Guy Montgomery

what his assessment was of that accent. I'm sure it will be a fantastic, kind review. But let's... Please never have Dan on the show again. I believe is the message we will receive back from Guy Montgomery. No, from Guy? He's such a... I love him now.

He's a stand-up guy. He would never say anything like that. All right. He is a stand-up guy. Quit taking up the stage because we got to bring another guy in here with a very similar name. You might know him first from, I don't know, just being like the New Jersey God. Then second, you might know him from his time at Cracked. Maybe you know him from his podcast with Soren Bui.

Maybe it's known as, actually it is known as Quick Question with Soren and Daniel. Or maybe you know him from his book. Like I said, I'm not him because he knows a lot about presidents. I believe the Secret Service had to check up on him because he wrote a book called How to Fight Presidents that caused a bit of a stir. Or maybe you heard of this other show last week tonight where he's a senior writer and he's collecting Emmys like I'm out here collecting empty blunt canisters. Okay, please welcome to the mic, Mr. Daniel O'Brien. No relation.

Hey, thank you so much. What a fantastic introduction. I'm of course here because Jack is afraid when he's not here, people will forget that he exists. So he needs an O'Brien. Yes. Exactly.

Remembering that he is a human being and works on this show. And we have two dans but only one is the true blood relation right despite and it's the outward not the one similarities uh what's new man you're you look like you're in a wonderful like the robin's egg blue wall paint behind you is fantastic where are you are you in you in a John Waters film? I am in a John Waters film. I'm John Waters, funnily enough, Waters adjacent. I'm in a beach town.

I relocated to a beach town and I got like a furnished beach house and it's so delightful. The house is like 150 years old and it's very much exactly what you expect to have like vacation jersey beach vibes for it it's like a bunch of board games it's wall-to-wall vhs tapes and like a bunch of bizarre old highlights magazines and and weird beachy artwork it's perfect for if you are a

family who's staying here for like a week or a weekend. And it's like, Oh, isn't this kind of kitschy? Isn't this kind of cute? I've been here for seven months and it's, it's very strange. It's very fun. I just had like guests over yesterday and they were like, Oh, is this your copy of 101 Dalmatians on VHS? I'm like, yes,

of course it is. Let's sit down and watch it. It's mint. Oh, well now things are fucking up the corners. They're creased because of you. Wait, so what's the best VHS they got on the wall? Like one where you went, okay, you know what?

You got me with this one. What really hit me nostalgically, and not because of the movie itself, but they have a copy of Peter Pan with the white label and the hand-drawn with a Sharpie Peter Pan. Like this is you taped it off television and have your own copy of it. Let's go. That's right. That's the past.

And I love it. I miss it. And then you make a commercial, like you bought tape recordable by putting the piece of tape over it so you can actually record on it. You know. Oh, gee. DHS Pirates. No. I don't flip a commercial tape into a recordable.

Anyway, fantastic. Fantastic. Daniel, how you living? Oh, you know, it's a wonderful Tuesday. It's a wonderful Tuesday. We, fantastic. Fantastic. Daniel, how you living? Oh, you know, it's a wonderful Tuesday. It's a wonderful Tuesday. You were just in Jersey. I was just in Jersey. We didn't talk about that. It was lovely. Yeah. How you living? How was it

out there? It was great. I ate 39 inches of hoagie, which was really what I wanted to get done. South Jersey. South Jersey sounds like hoagie. Yeah, exactly. The amount of hoagie was really the indicator. How much hoagie did you have? 39 inches?

It was a good time. Yeah, you know, just about, dude. It was great. It was a fun time. I have no complaints. Got some beach in, got some sun in. Wait, I'm sorry. Actually swam in the ocean.

When you said you had 39, you bought it in one go or you accumulated 39 inches over time? It was accumulated 39 inches. It was a 19 and a 20. What? Yeah. Hold on. What the fuck does that mean? You can,

is there like a, like competing spots are like home of the 19 and they're like home of the 20. We get you that extra. No, they were both, they were both, they were both supposed to be 20 inch hoagies, but then one of them was a little bit shorter.

Oh, I really thought like, like maybe a light lunch, 19 inch. Right, right. Yes. No, not to, no, not to. Oh, you want a light lunch, 19 inch. Right, right. Like not going crazy. No, not too, no, not too wild.

Oh, you want a 20 of that? Excuse me. It's 3.30. No. Yeah. I have dinner later. Come on now. Oh, so you have a 20.

And wait, when you said, I like the way you called it out. Did you? Cause I know you carry a tape measure with you. Is that what you did? You just brought it out and you said, hold on. I had to check. Yeah. I had to check because I've always been curious about who's short shifting me on my Hokies.

And now we know that Kessel's Corner. Oh, wow. Wow. Whoa. Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly. I mean, I'm sorry. I cannot be held. I'm not responsible for any damages from that statement. That will only be Daniel Goodman. OK, moving on.

Daniel, thanks so much for joining us. Daniel, please try and keep the hoagie slander to a minimum this episode please uh well let's tell people what we are going to discuss the senate passed the ira the inflation reduction act we talked about how it's good and a lot of and not that good too you know you know how we do. But let's not lose sight of a minuscule and miniature step forward. Because it is that. Although they really did a number on us in terms of the one Wall Street loophole that we're like, We'll close that.

Spoiler alert. They never will. Then we're going to talk about how Bezos is basically gonna own all of our shit with like their latest product purchase and what that means for the inside of your house we'll talk about the culture wars that have always raged on at public libraries because it just seems to keep happening non-stop as we read more headlines we're like well this town doesn't have a library anymore because everyone decided to say they're groomers because they want to teach people how to read then we'll check in with c-pack oh man what favorite i mean if you want to watch the the right word fascist slip into or i don't know the fascist slip the just the slip into

fascism this was a really cool one it had everything it had like you know a true fascist state does it always has to have someone crying inexplicably at something that most onlookers are like that doesn't make me cry that that wouldn't make anybody cry but it's like so performative to be like this is how down i am so yikes uh on a few different bikes but we'll take a look at what happened there down there in Dallas. Uh, but first Daniel, O'Brien, no relation search history. What is it? What is something from there that reveals something about who you are?

Can I fly a blip? Here's, here's how all this started. I was on a fishing boat a couple of days ago and I saw a blimp on the boat. And, uh, if you assume that fishing boats on like a Monday morning are full of older gentlemen,

you'd be correct. If you assume older gentlemen are super into blimps, you'd be correct. If you assume older gentlemen love explaining very obvious things to other people, you'd be correct.

It's a whole boat full of people going, blimp, blimp, blimp. Hey, hey, did you see the blimp? Did everyone see the blimp? It's been a long time. You never see blimps anymore. I was going to say, you never see blimps anymore. When was the last time you saw a blimp? Oh, blimp. Hey, hey, did you see the blimp? Did everyone see the blimp? It's been a long time. You never see blimps anymore. I was going to say you never see blimps anymore. When was the last time you saw a blimp? Long time. That's me too. Long time blimp. So we all took turns saying blimp for like 45 minutes. And then it got me curious. So I went home and I googled how many

blimps are there, active blimps. Is this an answer you know already? No. Yes. How many active blimps? Like how many? How many blimps are in circulation? What does that mean? Like, does that mean like it's who can fly one? Like how many are sky worthy, air worthy? How many are in service? How many, if we needed all of our blimps right now to fend something off or to travel us,

take us very slowly from one from point a to point b uh and we got all of them how many do you think okay and i hate to keep asking because i love like trivia like this but i always like to narrow it down what what classifies as a blip like what's because in my mind there's only good year and met life uh that's that's the correct size there are some like like zeppelins i don't think are technically blimps and like i'm not putting hot air balloons in that. It's like very large. Yes.

Yes, that's the word. Yeah. Okay. We're getting into dirigible town. I don't know. I'm going to just say maybe there's like three per state. So about 150, less than 200. That's good math.

Yeah. I like where you're coming from with that one. Like, I feel like every state is like, there's like three dirigible guys and they all know each other. Right. And I'm only interjecting here because this was something that I too was interested in a while ago. It was one of those things where it's like you see a blimp and you ask yourself this question. I think we had a very similar

coming to like, let me look this thing up and I did some similar math and I'm not going to... Daniel, please continue, but I just want to say that Miles... Oh, so you're saying you already know the fucking answer, Daniel? I do know the answer to this question, but I did some similar math and I'm not going to Daniel, please continue. But I just want to say, you already know the fucking answer, Daniel. I do know the answer,

but I'm just saying, I just wanted to, I just wanted to say that this is also something that fascinated me. And miles, I thought the exact same thing you did. So Daniel, I like how you're also doing it like a guy who's trying to not say a wrong answer,

but it's like, and, and look, I was also looking at this and miles, you're going to love the answer. I'm not going to, you're going to love it. I'm not going to give you a taste of that. also looking at this, and Miles, you're going to love the answer. I'm not going to... You're going to love it. You're going to love it, and we're going to throw it back to Daniel. Back to you. Alright, DLB.

The rough consensus is 25. 25? The whole world. The whole world. Wait, that's the whole world? That's it. All of them. I thought we were talking about it. I completely got... Oh my... I almost had a panic attack that's all we have 25 and i it put me i i'm thrilled to announce exclusively here on this podcast that i i have entered my blimp phase of my life because

now i'm down a rabbit hole of it because now that there are so few i was very curious can i fly a blimp that was my question and google assumed I meant can I ride in a blimp, which is not what I wanted, but that took me to the Goodyear blimp page for passenger information, where I learned that rides aboard the Goodyear blimp are by invitation only. So I went back to Google, and they said people often ask, how much does it cost to

ride a blimp? There are no tickets to buy. All blimp rides are auctioned off for charity at a cost of $14,000 for two people, as told to us by a blimp pilot during our tour. If you wish to take a free tour of a sitting blimp that's not in the air, you can call and find out about that. MetLife does not

permit rides in its blimps, and Goodyear only offers rides in its three blimps to auction winners. Wow. So wait, damn, and Goodyear has three of the 25. That's nuts. What a percentage. I know. I mean, that's what I was going to say. They're known for that. Wow. So wait, damn. And Goodyear has three of the 25. That's nuts. Yeah. What a percentage. I know. I mean, that's what I was going to say. They're known for that. Yeah. That's like, Oh my God. I think most people don't even know they make tires. There's so few blimps in the world. There are so few blimp pilots out there. It takes a very long

time to learn how to do that. And it also from a quick wired article I was reading, it's very, there's no autopilot for it. Every blimp ride is different. You have to get, every blimp is different. You have to get a feel for the, like they say the personality of the blimp. And you also have to be able to, like moment to moment,

you're responding to air pockets and wind and weather and no takeoff and landing are the same. And it's just like these very skilled, very few people who are taking these expensive, difficult. And the more I think about it, once in a lifetime blimp rides that I desperately want to be on. And I don't think there is a clear path for me to be on a blimp.

I don't like that. I don't like that there's no clear path for you. I know. Thank you. Okay, Zeitgang, if you know anything about piloting an airship, a dirigible please contact us because we have a young man here

who we don't know how much time he has left. I don't know maybe 50 years? Sure. 55 years? That'd be great. Left on this planet? That's what the doctors are giving you more or less? Yeah. Or life expectancy for a man in New Jersey? I don't know what that is but that's it and he would like to be on an airship can't you maybe this sounds like this sort of like

thing that happens in japan right there's a lot of things that are dying out like with generations like certain ways of making things or harvesting things and there's like a generation of younger people who don't want it to die so like they they're using like, you know, everything they can to just like try and preserve these like old methods of like making like soy sauce, for example. I feel like where is that for our blimp pilots? Why aren't we like trying to preserve this? Yeah, it's just a thing that I don't think there's enough interest in. Like no one is no Tesla is going to develop like sustainable blimps because I think it's just like me and a hundred other people on Google who want to ride blimps anymore. So they're just like, there's not enough

interest. And you look at like, it's very expensive to, it's like a hundred thousand dollars per ride of blimp to just like, to just fill it with helium. And when I learned these things, I'm like, yeah, we probably, there's no way blimps are anything but terrible for the environment. And there's not enough interest to fix that problem. So it's just going to be one of those things like alarm clocks that dies in my lifetime. And most people are going to be fine with it. And I will not be. Yeah.

Damn, that is a damn shame. You know, I foresee something in the department of drones replacing what blimps do for us yeah but you can't you can't fly you know led drones don't work during the daytime and nothing replaces that presence in the sky like a big round hot doggy shaped blimp just like cruising through the air especially when there's an unsuspecting group of like non-combatants and they see that huge shadow come over their backyard party oh wait i'm talking about a reaper drone yeah that would be cool too that would be cool as well dan what's something you think is underrated

oh geez uh shout out to anyone on youtube who makes how-to videos on fixing things or replacing things or home repairs. I'm specifically not trying to call out. There are a lot of people who seem to do this professionally, like obviously cooking YouTube and cleaning YouTube. There are people who are like this is their field now. Wait, what's cleaning YouTube?

There's a lot of DIY cleaning YouTube videos out there. Oh, like a PlayStation or a laptop kind a PlayStation or like a laptop kind of thing. Not like this, how you clean the floor. Oh no. Oh, your, your house too. And like, like certainly I feel like I've, I spend my entire life cleaning my house, uh, cleaning my apartment, cleaning my room.

But it wasn't until I was like 35 that I was like, is there, how do other people do this? How, what, what is, Show me a video of this. There's plenty of videos of like, this is the fastest way to clean your bathroom. This is the most efficient way to clean your bathroom. These are tips for cleaning your oven, tips for cleaning your, you know, whatever it is. But that is like cooking

and recipe stuff has turned into its own industry at this point. I'm specifically obsessed with people who don't seem like they have any interest in being an on-camera talent, but who just decided like, I should make a video of how to clean this specific vacuum or repair this specific air conditioning unit in case that's helpful to anyone. And they're like, I know about this, you know? Yeah. And it's really, it's, it's a pretty thankless task. And I've, I've come to rely on it so much in the last six or seven months because

I'm in, again, a very old house with old appliances, things go wrong. And I've had to learn how to fix appliances and various house things. And there are no manuals for anything. And it's just, I'm just grateful that I can go on YouTube and be like, anything. And it's just, I'm just grateful that I can go on YouTube and be like, uh, Hey, this really specific problem. And there's, there's always some gracious patient person who was like, you know what? I should, I should make a video of how to repair a Honeywell dual fan window AC unit from 1996 in case that breaks. And I'm like, Oh, thank you, sir. God, sir god i needed this yeah it's like the thing with all of these units is this one part you're like yeah bless the internet he knows he knew it he knew exactly what to say yeah right yeah that's always like the time that i really feel the magic

of the internet where you you've like completely given up that there's a way to solve it and you find that fucking like laser guided solution of a like a message board post or a youtube how-to video and you're like i'm literally not alone with this thing happened so many times when i was in denial about uh bricking xbox 360s but oh yeah that's what it is oh my gosh. We all saw the ring of death. You know what I mean? We all saw it.

This is a rabbit hole that I've been going down a lot recently for just like separate, you know, issues with applications on my computer, X, Y, or Z. And I'm so thrilled with how vast the responses are to kind of every issue that you could be facing. But similarly, I am dismayed

by the amount of times I have found a solution to an issue where the person simply replies, never mind, I fixed it. Yeah. And they don't say how they did it. Yeah. It's like the whole point of you asking this question was to seek out the person who decided to take that extra step and write your response and i just wish that you had had the logical next step of let me write out exactly what i did because oh man man it does kill me when i'm trying to launch valorant and i

can't do it and someone fixes the problem and they don't say how they did it and i can't play the damn game yeah that's that's so frustrating and so funny just someone gatekeeping knowledge i was like now that i no longer have this problem, I'm no longer interested. Good night. Sorry. If you want, hit me up. PM me. Maybe I'll give you the knowledge.

What's something you think is overrated? This might feel like an about face given my time on Cracked. I'm kind of over people doing deep analysis on pop culture. I watch so few shows now, and the ones that I do watch, I want to join in on the internet conversation, but I find it very exhausting. The shows that I'm watching now for context are The Rehearsal and The Bear.

It's very difficult for me to find people who like, all I want is a subreddit for the bear where someone posted episode and they're like this ruled. And I could say, yeah, this rule. Yeah. I love this part.

There are just so many, at some point on the internet, everyone became Chuck Klosterman incapable of saying whether they liked something or not. And focus very much on like, well, here's what I think the bear is saying about Chicago. And here's what I think it's saying about the restaurant industry. And here's what it's saying about class. very much on like, well, here's what I think the bear is saying about Chicago. And here's what I think it's saying about the restaurant industry. And here's what

it's saying about class. And I was like, it's just some fucking hot people screaming at each other in a kitchen. And no one wants to talk about it through that lens. And I just find it frustrating and again, exhausting. I think maybe the rehearsal asks for that kind of engagement more because it's such a weird and specific thing but i still i can barely get like a temperature read on twitter if anyone likes it i find it to be the most compelling piece of content around right now. And yeah, every article I read about it is like, whether it's trying to guess what his motives as creator might be and trying to figure out more information about, it was like, Oh,

all the people signed NDA. So we can't even ask the cast members like, yeah, don't ask the cast members. Just let him make the thing and just watch the show, consume the thing and, and like, be happy about it.

You fucks. People. Yeah. There are so many think pieces on it i'm like first of all these people never like these are thoughts you had in the first couple episodes of nathan for you like yeah when you're on your nathan fielder journey where you're like where is he finding these people how what is this and then you're like okay over over the series of that you're like this guy has a gift for finding like just see like these very like like very normal people who are so normal they don't even they're not even like they're not affected by a tv production happening around them at all which i think is the hardest thing to do is anybody who's ever had to cast anything ever

for anything on camera to find like it's a very specific thing that most people who are trying to make anything script are like not interested in working with but these are other people and a lot of times you're like well is he exploiting these people what's going on i'm like i would i would argue that there are way more exploitative hiring practices on like your traditional reality television absolutely significantly than anything that n feel like. And to the point where they are getting people fucked up off camera

to then parade them out in front of the camera. And like, this is on other like TV shows, like especially dating shows. Like I was gonna say, Bachelor, Bachelorette are way more exploitative of people's emotions and feelings than and opening them up to way worse criticism on the internet.

Go further back. A limit date and shit like that and like shipmates those were fucking weird moments anyway all that to say is i get like why some people when they see like a show like what this is now they're like what the fuck like is this tv and that's i'm like is this tv like in the most eyes wide open way of like i just love the it's like like everything everywhere all at once in a way where you're sort of like what happens if you just let this person with a very specific

worldview and sense of creativity and you just say there's no fucking break just where do you want to take this and you get something like this that gets so meta the last episode was amazing yeah and I think that's what we want right is we just want to be able to talk to other people go wasn't that shit funny yeah wasn't that wild

wasn't that unlike anything else you've ever seen how do you even describe this show and then i go on the internet to see how they describe it and and they're they're mad at potentially being exploitative i was like oh this is you guys this isn't fun. You guys aren't. I guess I should just ask my friends. Right. Just be like, Hey, you love it. I'm like,

yes, especially, I mean, even in our own group chat, Anna's like the latest episode. She's like the guy who plays his son deserves an Emmy. And I just immediately came back with, you're a fucking disaster.

My guy. It's amazing all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back we'll talk about i guess the real world not the reality show the actual one all right i want to talk about a bar that i have transported to a warehouse oh i would i would pay to go i i bet you could make you could recoup the expense of recreating that alligator lounge by having people be like dude you want to go in there for a drink it's there's a hundred cover yes and then regular like please yeah stupid but i don't know why i'll even go to that older that raising canes that he built i don't yeah oh absolutely i'm like wow it's like if you're the chain, that's how well he's done it. All right.

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which is part of what this book is about. And I really feel so content, which is a word that used to scare the crap out of me. And I love that word now. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Hooray for Capitol Hill, they exclaim on your cable news networks. They've done it. Monumental climate change bill. Never first of its kind.

A bill that actually arrives at the moment or something, I think Senator Schatz was saying. But yes, the Inflation Reduction Act, I believe it's going to be passing the House in mere moments. If all goes to plan. And, you know, it's here. It's past. It's going to be passing the house in mere moments. Fall goes to plan. And, you know, it's here. It's far from perfect. It's terribly imperfect. But it is a tangible step, because before this, there was fucking no money being spent. There was no effort to try and do anything about prescription drug costs and, you know, some loopholes. But we'll get to that in a second. The only tradeoffs here to get to this like fraction of a spending bill that we thought we were gonna get a few years ago was that everyone got a little something so mansion got his little natural gas pipeline uh in west virginia for his state so he could flex on him be like look what i did yeah we're good for you we're doing renewables

but also a pipeline for shitty fuel huh you guys like that right that's why you liked it me yeah um and then kirsten cinema she got to you know protect the carried interest loophole for all the hard-working homies on wall street shout out to them on wall street she saved you buddy she saved you um this was something that. Um, this was something that was really wild. This was something that was always being touted as the, we, the reason we can pay for these, these programs is like, we're going to be, you know, re renegotiating prescription drug costs. We're actually going to be closing some loopholes, wink, wink, wink. We're going to,

we were going to tax corporate profits at 15%, but this like corporate loopholes thing was like one that like even donald trump had like you know had tried to like wink at to be like yeah like i'm thinking forward yeah we gotta close this carried interest loophole and we thought it was going to happen until the very last minute where cinema was like yeah one more thing actually uh can we keep that and very quickly we stopped talking about it yet it did create in the build up to this bill passing the feeling within everyone that the loophole was in fact going to be closed so i would say that is a plus paula trickin right there on their behalf for sure um

and it didn't i mean i guess it came cheap when you think about the billions they save but you know wall street firms private equity they've given the Democrats a little over $83 million over the last two cycles. And Sinema's gotten $283,000 just from them. I think it's very, looking at this information that you guys have put together, the breakdown of money going to Democrats, it's very funny seeing it now that it's like,

oh, that includes $1.2 million to Schumer and $283,000 to Sinema. If I'm Sinema, I'm rethinking this this this vote i think yeah you're like once you see like the parade i was like if how much 283 000 1.2 well you gave schumer basically a million on top of what i got yeah uh hold on i i think but i'm the one i'm the one who did the shitty thing for you yeah but you're you're not the Senate majority leader. Ask Harry Reid how much money he was getting from lobbyists when he said it. When when you dictate the business of the Senate, it's just, you know, it's like having your own TV show with your name in the title.

OK, it just pays. It just pays different. OK, because we'll get to Chuck Schumer because there's also like another spending bill where they're talking about trying to really bring in prescription drug costs, but he's like slowly been like looking the other way as that dimension of the spending bill has withered away. But that's for another moment. But anyway, all of this comes together because also as well, they're going to be enforcing

taxes better. And part of doing that means they have to hire something like 86,000 new IRS agents to do this. And Charlie Kirk, who is one of the preeminent thought leaders on the right, he has actually warned fellow Magarians what the real risk is here by having all of these IRS agents, that it's actually means jail time for the right or something like that no no this will be used against dissidents this is not the inflation reduction act this is the dissident imprisonment act oh this is the let's choke off the capital flows to the MAGA Movement Act. The 87,000

new IRS agents will not be used to audit BLM or the ACLU or the Alphabet Mafia. The 87,000 new IRS agents will be used to go after mom-and-pop restaurants, donors to MAGA candidates, people like you.

Play cut nine. Okay, that's him saying he's going to go to a clip. Is the Alphabet Mafia Google? What's the Alphabet Mafia? I mean, I would say that, but I mean, like, and I would probably include CAA in there as an agency, just with all the crypto stuff. Is that just a joke on, like,

people who, like, abbreviations? Yeah, I didn't know if Alphabet Mafia was Google or, lgbtq like because it's the the one joke that people on the right have is lgbtq xyz bts whatever they're calling themselves now like that's the one joke they made 15 years ago and they all keep doing it over and over again that's where my brain went with that. Play cut six. Wow. Roll the tape. I'm kind of hoping that that was a very high-level Google joke. They're like, ooh, the Alphabet

Mafia, what do they do? Are they the ones that are like, what are you tricking? You are smart search. That also includes like, you know, I'm sure the FBI at this point, too, because they're like, they're going after the FBI is like looking into the crimes of people. And that includes us. We got to get rid of them. They're looking after the FBI is like looking into the crimes of people like and that includes us.

We got to get rid of them. They're going to suddenly find themselves in a really weird part of the Internet. But yeah, this is all kind of just kicked off a bunch of other, you know, hand wringing. Mitch McConnell was like, you know, the Americans are going to be footing the bill. They're not. They're not barely gotly got any real taxes being put on these corporate profits. So don't worry. Everyone wins except for the planet. And yeah.

That's a strange stat to do to do crazy backflips over. Like I wouldn't, maybe I'm just the dumbest person in the world, but if someone said they're going to hire 87,000 new IRS agents, I have no concept of what that could mean. So the idea that you could latch on to that and be like, here's why this is bad news for mom and pop shops.

What are you talking? How? Is it because 87,000 is too much, too little? I don't know what the right amount of IRS agents is. What do you think is going to happen? They're going to come after you, knock on your door and look in your shoe box and see where your receipts huh oh you only made 42 000 last year okay so if i adjust that okay do you have 37 dollars sorry about that okay yeah we should be going after the fucking billionaires um anyway but yeah i mean it is because i think at the end of the day like the

audiences for shows like you know on any show where the audience is like never question what's being said to them and it's pure propaganda it's like all the energy of like a freshman year like like philosophy class where no one want to act no one wants to act like they don't know what the fuck was just said out loud and they're like uh-huh yes 87 000 ir like they don't know what the fuck was just said out loud. And they're like, uh-huh. Yes. 87,000. I are. Because I don't know what that means, but I will not let it known that I don't know what that means. So I will go.

Yes. I feel like five years of working for last week tonight where we're constantly dealing with a thousand different stories. And there are a lot of numbers. One thing I've learned is I have absolutely no concept of what the right number for anything is. And I have to be told every week, depending on the story, we're going to be like, there are 23 million taxis. I was like, oh man, that's way too many. And someone's like, no, no, no, it's way too few. We got to fix it. Right, right. Exactly. When I think this is a big thing too that has been like a big one that criticism or a thing that even journalists themselves talk about is we get so many

headlines it's like 37 billion dollars for this and we just that's the fucking story there's not much else to then extrapolate from that aside from them saying like and ex-political party is cheering for this amount when they're like the amount of time it takes to research a story to then go talk to the people who know what that money looks like when it's spent like what what that becomes tangibly that's like a whole other phase of like of investigating and writing that a lot of the times our news cycle just doesn't allow for so we just end up with this stuff and it it's so hard. Like, again, like, is that good? How many, how many solar panels? Like, can I just have a simple number? Like, X solar panels to get out of this mess? Yeah. I feel like if you are, if your punchline,

if your mic drop landing moment is a number, then it needs to be as universally clear as 25 blimps. We all immediately knew that was too few blimps. We all were shocked in the exact right way. You didn't assume, your guess wasn't, oh, there's probably four blimps in the world. And your guess wasn't, there's probably 25 blimps. We all had a number of what was a reasonable amount of blimps. And we were all surprised in the exact right direction.

That's what I want all numbers to be yes exactly i mean really what this the easy thing for people to understand that i like realized was this one stat of like how much energy an electric vehicle uses and it's like six air like house blowing air conditioners on full tilt if you're driving like over 65 miles an hour so much fucking energy is being used i'm like oh okay right so that is not good to then generate that electricity with fucking coal right yeah so then if we get okay good you get the sun then that energy that then that all makes sense then but yeah well it is what it is let's move on uh let's go further into our dystopia take a look at what old jeffy b or the folks at amazon are doing the crooked smile company

that logo freaks the shit out of me like when you just see the fucking arrow smile thing on stuff now i'm like oh there's something like i can see it in a movie where that's like the mark of the bad guys. Yeah, I live in a very small town. It's one square mile and everybody knows everybody. It's like we have one general store. We have the fire station. We have to leave the town if we want certain supplies. It's like it's very close knit.

It's very fun. It's very charming. It's like, it's, it's very close knit. It's very fun. It's very charming. It's stars hollow from Gilmore girls. I love it. And the only thing that is ever out of place is seeing one of those Amazon vans with that fucking smile logo on it, driving down the street. It looks so ominous flying against everything else in this,

this cute hidden town. I can see you putting, cause your hat right now with a little apron, you could be giving me Luke from Gilmore Girls. Good God, thank you so much. I can see it. I just need to see an apron on you. And then I'll be like, okay, yep, there he is.

That's Luke. He's running the coffee shop. But Jeff Bezos, it was just announced that Amazon has closed a deal to acquire the company that makes the robo vacuum Roomba. They're called iRobot. And if you just look over, though, this is just like I'm not really doing much research into this. Just aside from looking at over the years, what Amazon's been getting their hands into whole foods right now, they're like they're a part of the food supply.

And now they have a ton of data to mine on people's food consumption habits and the grocery industry they bought the ring camera people so now they have like all kinds of information about like local activity and they can get a ton of data from these fucking devices they just bought one medical the health insurance service that was like bespoke health insurance care now they can get a ton of fucking medical data from owning like this, like this business as well. And so like with the acquisition of iRobot, a lot of people are like, oh yeah. So now they bought the thing that maps the inside of your home company that returns all that data to them. This is your interior.

The one convenient thing about Amazon is I don't need to do research into why something is going to be bad. I just know that it is. Like, I didn't even make the connection for mapping the interior of my house with the robot vacuum. I just saw the headline that they want to buy it. And I'm like, well, that's going to fuck me. I don't know. It's not my business to find out how. But, like, I'm sure they wouldn't buy it if it wasn't going to somehow directly fuck me.

Yes. Precisely. Precisely. how but like i'm sure they wouldn't buy it if it wasn't going to somehow directly fuck me yes precisely precisely i wanted to assume that it's just because they want to bolster their amazon basics and make something a better product overall because the amazon basics are just terrible but no it is truly nefarious and horrifying no they they want more data they want more data and they're and the thing that is like with our smart devices they only know where shit is because we label it that you know what i mean they don't know they don't know where my smart speaker that's labeled miles office or whatever is or like kitchen they don't know what the fuck they think i have ones that i mislabeled and i got different parts of the house because

i'm too lazy to fucking rename them there you. So like what they have with this is this little fucker can go scoot around your house and map the floor. And this is from a Bloomberg article the way they put it because it's all about like data. Because essentially also to market shit to you is quote slightly more terrifying. The maps also represent a wealth of data for marketers. The size of your house is a pretty good proxy for your wealth. The floor covered in toys means you likely have kids. A household without too much or without much furniture is a household to which you your wealth. A floor covered in toys means you likely have kids. A household without much furniture is a household to which you can try to sell more furniture.

This is all useful intel to a company such as Amazon, which you may have noticed is in the business of selling stuff. Well, tricked you, Amazon. The toys are mine. Yeah. It doesn't know the difference between a little play school set and a bespoke Funko Pop limited edition that I have out of the box because, yes, I play with

my toys. I don't care what the collector's the resell is on that. But yeah, also, when are we getting a Funko Pop doll? You know what I mean? For you? Yeah. Because I can't get on this. We need this. Because I know you. I know Homegirls listening who's over there Funko Pop. I see you with all your followers, okay?

Sarah B on Twitter. She's a wonderful listening who's over there funko pop i see you with all your followers okay well sarah b on sarah b on twitter where are she made a wonderful person who made one made one for me made one for soren michael sway and katie willard oh my goodness sarah b sarah gang i didn't want to call you out your by your name but i always seize you and i'm like man i'm like that i'm honored that you follow me i'm like can i have it would just look like me because I have a big head. So you wouldn't have to do much. All right. Let's make it happen.

Yeah. And if not, I'm sure there's some person out there who's like, you know. All that to say, I didn't mean to turn this capitalist dystopian nightmare into another one where I'm like, and buy my disembodied head doll coming at you. But yeah, this is it is it is just kind of wild to watch. coming at you. But yeah, this is, it is just kind of wild to watch. Like to your point, Dan,

like anytime you see Amazon get in bed with a company and they're like, we're thinking about buying this. You're like, oh, this is just, it's like adding pieces to like it's Voltron body that's like, hey, now I have all of them.

And they know what they're doing. They're so far ahead of us with this shit that I could see a headline that's Amazon buying Pop-Tarts. I'm like, ah, fuck, what are you doing to Pop-Tarts? How are you stealing from me with pop tarts somehow come on headline in like four like 13 years is like uh like all hail the sentient pop tart that like cured cancer and we're like pop

tart that maps your mouth it's fucking new it we can they can tell just by three bites of a pop tart how when you're gonna die. Leaving that date on the table. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be back just to check in with some really, really cool stuff out of Dallas at CPAC. a producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers,

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continue to make Starship Troopers seem understated by comparison with how sensational and over the top it was. Mike Lindell was, yo, everybody spoke. Trump, Mike Lindell, you name it. Like, I'm at a loss. Ted Cruz. Oh, Ted Cruz. Okay, do you remember?

Okay, none of y'all, I don't know if you listen to the show regularly enough, but a few weeks ago at a TPUSA event, Ted Cruz did this thing where he said, I'm Ted Cruz and my pronouns are kiss my ass. I don't know if you remember this. Oh, yeah, yeah. I think I saw someone tweet about that. But yes, I want to tell you, because this was him in July of July 22nd of this last month.

And this was him. He was like ending a speech about like all the wokeness, radical teachers in schools who are like letting people decide how they want to identify as humans and how bad that is anyway you get where this is going and he's doing we said this is bad stand up look at the body I talked to a student recently at one of our woke college campuses who said

she's required in every class to introduce herself and to give her pronouns well I'm Tedz and my pronoun is kiss my ass oh my pronoun is my pronoun is okay love it um but then just so you know that was because he's a shitty terrible fucking comedian look at this how my man is out here doing the same fucking material at cpac let's get and he was work my he was in the lab because he just he changed up the delivery who said at each class before any student speaks they're required to introduce themselves.

Here it comes. Say their name and say my pronouns are. Well, my name is Ted Cruz and my pronouns are kiss my ass. Oh, really? Oh, golly. You might drop basically real tough guy, real tough guy. Oh, golly. He mic dropped, basically. Real tough guy. Real tough guy.

There's something about speeding through that kiss my ass. Kiss my ass. The delivery there, not a lot of force. I don't think he understands the insult of it's a directive. You're saying kiss my ass. That's what I think. Kiss my ass. He treats it as this one word. It's like kiss my ass. It's kiss my ass. That's what I think. Oh, you want me to do it? Kiss my ass. But he's like, he treats it as like this one word.

Yeah. It's like kiss my ass. It's kiss my ass. It's like a city in Wisconsin. Kiss my ass, Wisconsin. Kiss my ass, Florida. Kissing me Florida. Every part of it is wrong.

I want to raise my hand. Right in the beginning, he was like, I was talking to a student at one of our woke colleges. No, you weren't. Name the school. Name it. Say which one it was. Right now, say it. Don't think. Just say it. Woke Forest. Name the school. Name it. Say which one it was. Right now, say it. Don't think.

Just say it. Woke Forest. Yeah. Woke Forest. Did it. Next. Damn it. Yeah.

And then, and also like very ineffective because if he did, we would all use those pronouns for him if he wanted that. That's what this whole,

it's about respecting pronouns. If he was like, these are my pronouns. All right, man. Yeah, sure. So we're just going gonna yell kiss my ass at you all the time oh okay i'm sorry i don't think it's that's like meeting somebody and that's their name i don't go why is your fucking name ted cruz motherfucker what that's that's like that's the package you come with as a person you say this is this is me this is my identity okay yeah but you're like don't make me fucking say what your name is like what the fuck and again it's all just an analog for progress is obviously the biggest threat to our you know our our dominance as a culture right

yeah i also it's reminding me of college because I was in school 2004, 2008. We were obviously not as progressive then as we are now, but I remember distinctly every single one of my classes, we didn't get into pronouns regrettably, but on the first day of every class, you would write down on an index card for your professor, what your name is. And if there was anything else you prefer to be called other than your name that like shows up on your transcript it was generally like for if my name shows up as this but i i go by junior like everyone i know calls me junior or i go by my middle name it's the same basic mutual respect of like what do you want to be called what do you prefer to be called what makes you comfortable we've been doing that yeah since for a long time yeah i mean i think they've they've done a good

job i think like anybody knows like empathy is a slippery slope towards actually caring about people and demanding better from leaders and i think that's i mean you know for real like if if you have no empathy and you're not demanding that from anybody, then that could never be demanded from you or your policies. And then like it's always this weird thing that's like not discussed. It's like, well, why didn't that thing go far enough to actually help somebody? It's like, well, my pronouns are my pronoun is kiss my ass. Yeah. I don't quite understand about Ted Cruz is I only know him as Weasley guy who does things like this.

He just talks shit and he gives big speeches about how he's not going to submit to the woke extremist left. And he gets in Twitter fights with Jon Stewart. And I truly don't know. When do you do the job parts of your... What are the job parts of your job? When do you do them?

What is a thing you can point to that is like, and this year I did this thing. I made this good thing happen. A thing was changed or protected because of me. I don't know that he does anything. Yeah, especially because so many policies right now are taking things away. There's no additive qualities going on right now

from the GOP. It is trying to walk back. I mean, it's all regression. So it's like, and especially, you know, you think about the, you mentioned getting in fights with Jon Stewart. Not only was that a battle that like he lost in the public sector, he, that whole voting against it was taken back and then it was voted back in.

So it was like, this is a policy that you were for, and then you were performatively against it. And then you just got completely dog walked back into being a fool and getting past you're a fool it's because i mean yeah policy isn't even a thing anymore it really isn't right there's it's just culture war shit and now it's like it's basically like wwf versus wcw and it's like which one are you with are you fucking are you watching nitro or raw and like because they all come out some buffoonery we're not there's not much that's substantive and they were like yeah man fucking you suck it and

you're like we're the earth is fucking dying y'all and you're out here getting being like look at the way she clapped at trump it's like everyone's missing the fucking point what with this this makes me remind me we need more chair throwing there needs to be more chairs they're too old that's the other thing they're too old to even do the fucking wrestling part come on we get low energy shit talking i just want to say this so just to get back to cpac they i don't know they opened with this huge banner above this stage like where like someone came out to speak and it just said we are all domestic terrorists but then they also announced it in a very just unsettling but spot on uh opening moment ladies and gentlemen we are all

domestic terrorists please welcome founder of the like what what okay so this this this is you know this sounds like a comedic question but like truly what is the what is the goal of that statement to take to take any meaning out of that to take the idea out that they are that they may actually be engaging in activity that could be defined as domestic terrorism so if it's a joke it's like the deplorables thing right and it's if you wanted to label the january 6th rioters as domestic terrorists as a lot of people are doing and right we are all they're gonna take the piss out of that yeah it's like okay they're you know a couple of guys went to the capitol they're domestic if that's a domestic terrorist then so am i then so is she and so we all are so be it then that's a domestic terrorist, then so am I. Then so is she. Then so we all are. So be it then. That's really, that's really.

Yeah. I mean, but that's, you know, at this point, you're also talking to people who are taking every word Mike Lindell says. Like how he said that voting machines became sentient and have taken over in Australia and Venezuela. And they're like, yes, OK. I think everything, everything makes perfect sense but the thing that everyone was talking about as you probably have seen uh was the booth where this dude just sat in like a fake prison cell and he was like fake crying and then like people were gathering around wearing headsets to like hear audio playing the like courtroom testimony of

january 6th insurrectionists a lot of of people were like, what is this? Especially when you looked at the picture, you're like, the guy's in a jail cell. He has an orange jumpsuit on. He has no shoes on, but he has a MAGA hat on. But then also because they want to make sure that it's legit, he also has to wear his CPAC credential during the performance. So it takes me out of the moment, I'd say, if I was doing a review. It's tough.

The only thing I think about when I watch that is when I submitted for this part, I thought I had an interesting spin on it. I watch him and he's crying the entire time. I'm like, oh, I wouldn't make that choice. I had a couple of different ideas. I would vary it up a little bit. And I was like, I don't I never like to be jealous of another actor. I was bummed to find out that he was like, his walk away, where he claimed he was a Democrat who was hashtag going to walk away from the party. And so should you, man, because Donald Trump and, you know, autocrat autocratic tendencies are my number one. I don't like I don't like democracy. So that was like that's where he got his start. I just want to say also to the people that were around this fucking booth. I don't like democracy. So that was like, that's where he got his start. I just want to say also, too, the people that were around this fucking booth.

I'm not joking. If you've seen the clips, there was one woman who was almost going to pass out trying to get a tear to come out. She was like. Like, though, it was so weird to watch someone try and contort their face to get like this cry. Because she was really trying to be like, look at what they're doing to us. And it just was so weird to watch someone try and contort their face to get like this cry. Cause she was really trying to be like, look at what they're doing to us. Uh, and it just was so unbelievable. I always wonder about the supporters.

Cause you can hear, uh, some hesitation when they announced we are all domestic terrorists. Because these are people who have been like cheering for the same party for so long at these events. But there's, but the, the threat has been so lost between Cruz jokes and Trump rallies

and we are domestic terrorists that there's some amount of like, okay, I'm going to clap because I can understand a clap line when I hear a clap line. I don't know what we're doing anymore. I want to be a fly on the wall for some of the people who are excited to go to CPAC and witness this cage thing and then are want to be a fly on the wall for some of the people who are excited to go to CPAC

and witness this cage thing and then are like whispering to each other hey are we into um it's fine if I'm in the party so it's fine if we are but I just want to know do we do we like shitty performance art now is that is that our thing that used to be the other side they used to like the weird shit art now now we like it okay so we So we like the crazy pillow guy and we like bad performance art. All right. Oof. Okay. I don't want to say it's a derivative but it reminds me of Marina Abramovich's work.

Anyway, I'm sorry. Yeah, MAGA though. MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA the piss out of the domestic terrorist word but like terrorist was such a buzzword not long ago at all they're in the gop that it's like for them to try and own that feels like hard they're having trouble with it it ain't it ain't good branding yeah no to your point the audience is like huh they were like fuck yeah deplorable was easy because that had too many syllables in it. But like this is like, I'll just play it again. Listen to the room. Ladies and gentlemen, we are all domestic terrorists. Please welcome founder of this.

One. I heard one. I heard one. And other people who are like, oh, all right. Sure. I think we need to game the seat the c-pack people and start being like these are they're just pieces of shit yeah you know like ladies and gentlemen we are all pieces of shit and people like yeah or mislabel them like i mean these are yeah i don't i don't

know what else you can say no i mean they're truly not far off from being like, we are the new Nazis and people cheering for it. It's like, yeah, okay. What are you guys trying to do exactly? I don't know, but I'm unhappy. So this kind of gives me an outlet. And all the people in the crowd who were like, hey, I became uh member of the republicans because like deep down i'm like i'm like quietly racist and i thought you guys would

help me out and i thought you guys could put more money but now i have to say i'm a domestic terrorist i don't know i don't know guys i have to say that i just liked when i when i could just say you know who and my grandkids knew what I was talking about. Okay. Those are the old days I want to get back to. But yeah, Brandon Straka, this guy, I just want to say before he got into this, he was always like,

he was a bad performance artist apparently. So it's like, it, it just, again, smacks of opportunity to opportunism. There's like this, uh,

one article talking about his move to have this like new performance called resist a rock revolution fucking musical it's like a crowdfunded jukebox musical where there's a trump themed cover of forever young and a redition of harry styles's sign of the times while playing footage of the 9-11 attack on the world trade center whoa okay then there's like this he was described as quote two months ago brandon strzoka was a new york hairstylist with 300 in his savings account and a struggling side job as a performance artist now thanks to his starring role in a video telling democrats to ditch their party he's the head of a movement and that's and that's been embraced by a

wide swath of pro-trump internet celebrities wow that is again i don't mean to keep beating the same drum but still thinking about like lifelong republicans who have to be like shit do we have to like musicals now that's part of it yeah i used to just be able to say no i'm not into that kind of like new york sensibility and everyone knew what i meant and now i have to like a musical this right this is not the party i signed up for suddenly talking about it They'll be like hey man I thought that Brandon's piece Was fucking powerful man It was all about the moments

In between the sniffles That really got me thinking You know this could happen Ah golly Moving it was moving I cried Wait we're crying now? I don't cry you cry? We cry over art?

Fuck! Yeah, they're going to snowflake themselves into being very sensitive, self-aware people. I got into this party to be a bully, and now I'm crying in New York! Yeah. They're like, y'all, y'all, hold on a second. You know how we don't like when they say we're domestic terrorists and things like that, and we don't know what's going on. We know that hurts our feelings.

So maybe we should consider if we're continuing that pattern of violence and discrimination, but maybe ceasing to say the things we used to know. Never. Also, the other thing, Mr. Straka also had a 2020 film.

I'm sorry. This is going to end up being looking into this guy's performance art and art history, because that's what we do here. He also had a film film called a house divided and it was about like a dinner party where this one couple at the dinner party like they they get in trouble or things kick off because they're standing up for conservative values the actual poster for this thing looks like a i think you should leave sketch which is really fantastic when you look at because the guy looks like tim uh tim robinson in the poster but i'd

imagine it's all just about racism because when you look at the trailer the first like mpaa sort of rating thing like you know if it's a red band trailer comes up and it says warning the following contains inconvenient truths that might trigger left wingers. The film advertised has been rated T for terrorist. Total piece of shit. So, yeah, triggering. And, yeah, that's so that's kind of where this guy's whole thing was. So here he was back at CPAC doing his thing.

People threw fucking money at his like cage and it was all very heart-wrenching and then margie uh tainted majorly tainted green uh came by and then prayed over him so that was also really cool you know i think this guy and that guy who did that musical about trying to get on snl are going to be battling for the same spot very shortly oh that guy had more talent to do it was trying to who got dragged for just for being him okay don't give him too much credit come on this guy actually went to January 6th, might I add. So he was drawing from his real life experiences because he knows how unfair people were treated. Because, I mean, he had to see the inside of a jail.

No, actually, no. He got three months of house arrest because he snitched on a bunch of other. So he Tim Allen, Tim Allen, the J6. I love it i love it he fucking said not me motherfuckers i'm gonna do three months of fucking house arrest and flipped on a bunch of other people so i wish that came out while he was still in that cage well it came out before anybody any well that's the thing nobody bothers to actually read any news they're not looking come on come on which is funny because as jm puts it it's like it's wild because he's doing performance art to portray the people he snitched on.

He snitched on. Awesome. This is me representing my brothers who are actually in jail. Well, I flipped on because I put them. I put them there. Yeah. This is about my brothers. You know what?

I'll name them real quick. I'll name them to anyone. Absolutely anyone. I will say. Oh, yeah. Here, I'll show you my phone. Do you have their phone number? Okay, yeah. Here, let me scroll up. Yeah, easy. MP. MP.

Yeah, here it is. Okay, yeah. You can write these down. Anybody who has the American flag with the bang bang emoji? Yeah, just look them up. Okay, cool. Well, Daniel O'Brien, thank you so much for visiting us today on The Daily Zeitgeist, man. Oh, of course. Thank you for having me. It's always a pleasure to see you and talk to you. Yeah, this was such a blast. Right?

This is where you say, yes, it was. Thank you. Good to see you, Miles. And your Wu-Tang hat is very cool. Thank you. Also, shout out to JM where he said there are people throwing money at that guy in the cage, Brandon Strzoka. They're like, why weren't they throwing cartons of cigs at him?

Why was somebody putting some on his commissary yeah exactly are they real allies i don't know uh but anyway daniel thank you so much for stopping by man uh where can people find you and follow you on the internet uh if you want to give your physical location you're more than welcome to do that and no way tweet that you like uh they can find me at dob underscore inc on twitter i co-host podcast with my friend Soren Bui I'm a writer for Last Week Tonight, he's a writer for American Dad and on that show, we don't talk about either of those things, we completely ignore

what is objectively the most interesting thing about both of our lives and instead we talk about like woodworking and plants and stuff, it's very frustrating for listeners who want any kind of insight into television writing my favorite tweet tweet this is a one to set up somebody i don't want to name him because he's gotten i think some some trouble on

on the internet because he's like just like a normal regular person but he said car wouldn't start this morning get to work late and our internet is down lol i love this shit unlike kevin durant i actually enjoy taking the hardest road it's basically just problem solving practice and he added kevin durant's actual twitter name so kevin durant responded you enjoy having a shitty car and getting to work and not being able to connect to the internet and i love wow that's incredible so simple very much a you eat pieces of shit for breakfast. Yeah. No. Yeah.

That's all you can come back with. Oh, watch out for little petty, petty money sniper or whatever he's probably going to have on his burner accounts. You enjoy

having shitty like I love this. Unlike Kevin Durant. I love it. Sounds like your life sucks you like that? that sucks man yeah right

we got his ass yeah Danil thank you so much for stopping by DJ Danil good man my pleasure

and he was a good man oh jeez can you tell people where they can find you and support you and also what's the tweets you like? you can find me

all over the internet at DJ underscore Danil D-A-N-L you can find me all over the internet at DJ underscore Danil. D-A-N-L. You can find me on Twitch three times a week. Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays doing dumb stuff. It's fantastic. Come on by. It's great.

I have two tweets. One is by Udoye Travis, former guest, great comedian, host of many things. The way Butthead needed Beavis, that's the way I need Jesus. A classic. And then the other Jesus, a classic. And then the other one is a video. So you're going to go find it. But a weatherman discovers that his screen is interactive.

He's been doing the weather and sees that he can move the images on his screen. And his joy is so pure that I want you all to take it. So just, you know, there's a tweet that you can look up from Kalkillem. He was so excited about this screen with a couple crying emojis, but this guy who's doing Channel 7 weather news, he accidentally brushes his hand across the screen when he's showing a weather front and goes,

it moves. And the joy he feels as he realizes he can zoom, he can move the screen. Another co-host comes up. It's like, hold on. I got to get a touch of that. And it is just so wonderful. So if you want to see some pure as joy, just go search weatherman discovers touchscreen. And yeah, it's great. There's some news like graphics and it department who's watching that. It's been like, it was in the fucking training video you all said you watched. Shaking their head in the back behind the camera.

Oh, shit. Alright, let me list some tweets I like. First one, Holly Ballantyne at Holly Ballantyne tweeted, my kids had money to spend at the store. My daughter bought a toy and my son bought a rotisserie chicken. I just love a weird kid purchase like that.

We're like, I'm letting you get a fucking whole chicken. Love the logic of giving kids some money at the store. We're like, all right, get whatever you want. The whole chicken, okay. Michael Green at and Michael Green tweeted, cue the op-eds. Why finally doing their jobs well is bad for Democrats. I'm sure, I'm Democrats. I'm sure.

I'm sure. I'm sure. And then I just love all the tweets that have likened Alex Jones to the Tim Robinson court stenographer sketch with the fedora with the safari flap. Those have just been good content whenever those things overlap. You can find me at miles of gray on Twitter and Instagram. You can also find me on miles and Jack got mad. Boosty is the basketball, but basketball podcast.

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I think that they should be coming out. How many parts did that end up being? Four. Good God, Evans. And I only I had like a stress rash from like, like the first two recordings just because it was talking about his like childhood. And I was like, you're building the the most like the foundations of like a super villain, like just based on hearing

the thing from as a kid i'm like oh there's no hope there's no like this is this is where it started it was all bad for me okay yeah when you do when you get to the first episode and it's like oh we didn't even get to the shitty stuff that i knew about yet this is yeah for a long time because yeah the first parts are like things that had happened to him as a child and you're like okay so this is the environment in which this creature emerges uh it's really something anyway you can find us at daily zeitgeist on twitter at the daily zeitgeist on instagram instagram please keep sending us if you're a teacher uh please send your wish lists over i would love to retweet them we'll retweet them from the show page dan when i saw you retweeting them thank you so much for doing

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