The Daily Zeitgeist - More Like LIB Cheney! Psychics THRIVING In Pandemic! 7.2.21

Episode Date: July 2, 2021

In episode 943, Jack and Miles are joined by Sparkleside Chats with Magical Girl Ayu host's Ayumi Shinozaki to discuss Republicans threatening January 6th commission committee members, cops avoiding being filmed by playing pop music, the Pacific Northwest's disastrous heatwave, why business for psychics is booming during the pandemic, and more!FOOTNOTES: Pelosi names Liz Cheney to serve on Jan. 6 select committee McCarthy Threatens Committee Assignments Of Members Who Take Jan. 6 Committee Seat From Pelosi Justice for Steven Taylor: What’s happening in San Leandro? Cop Plays Taylor Swift to Prevent Video Sharing of Him Harassing Protesters  The Pacific Northwest’s Punishing Heatwave Has Killed Dozens Why business is booming for psychics during the pandemic What, if Anything, Can Psychics Tell Us About All of This? Talking to the Dead: How the 1918 Pandemic Spurred a Spiritualism Craze Coronavirus is bringing a plague of dangerous doomsday predictions No, a self-proclaimed psychic did not predict coronavirus Psychic Scams Rise During COVID-19 Pandemic Psychics Are Raking in the Dough During the Pandemic Key players charged in $200 million psychic mail fraud case WHEN IS FORTUNE-TELLING A CRIME? LISTEN: CHAI - Donuts Mind If I Do - Official Music Video Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say up top, fuck all theian faith-based health care plans uh apparently one of these snuck an ad into our algorithmically generated ad feed and so we just want to say don't don't put ads on the show and we'll start off saying fuck them yeah advertisers would love to have something like inserted into the fabric of the show that tells you a little bit about them so in honor of that a couple differences from a normal health insurance company is that they take more money from what people pay them like the health insurance

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people from health care coverage for uh whatever they want including tobacco use having smoked like a single cigarette or having had premarital sex anything outside of you know the teachings of god well that's why i'm playing real i got low coverage. I'm a virgin who doesn't smoke. That's right. Anyways, happy to take your money, asshole. It is Friday, July 2nd, 2021. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jack to the Future, a.k.a. Indiana Joe Bryans and the Last Duceade, a.k.a. Polisa jackamy five excitement miami beach aka the empire strikes jack aka terminados o'brien those are all courtesy of hansoltis and i'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr miles gray i said bro you'll do good once you vax that ass up. You'll be a fine motherfucker when you vax that ass up.

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you for that also shout out to hannah soltis because assignment miami that one police academy five i love that one not because it's a great movie yeah i think one of the reasons was because when i'll go to japan like and there was no American media to watch, I would go to this one video rental store. And that was like one of the six English language movies. And I would watch that. I'm like, yo, I'm taking this. And I watched that shit till the tape melted. I had all of Blockbuster to choose from.

And I still probably watched that a dozen times when I was. What is it about it? I went and saw police academy six in theaters i was nine years old i was way too old for which one six six is like the one where there's it's like city under siege it's oh yeah not good kind of like took itself a little too seriously and that was i think the first time i remember seeing a movie in theaters and being like oh this isn't very good prior to that i was just like movies are great you know movies are my favorite thing just to bring in the zeitgeist again allison mack nexium

who's just sentenced she was in police Academy 6 as little girl. Really? She's a little kid in that. That explains so much. Yeah. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very talented artist who you can commission just amazing drawings from. And a podcaster who hosts the podcast Sparkleside Chats with Magical Girl IU. About magical girls and the people who

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You want to do I am me so takes out on the table. You want to do I hope that you trust in my Guess but on daily When tic-tacs fly through the sky My guess but on daily zai hi cry oh shit tic-tacs play through the sky wow hell yeah standing up your respect for the aki because i saw you crowdfunding crowdsourcing on the discord like I'm going back on I got

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back actually gosh I don't know when it was it was a few well i want to say it's a few weeks ago but time is so strange where i was actually miles who had mentioned oh this was back in the rhcpk oh yeah that was going on you mentioned like no one really comes out here saying system of a down and i was like hmm interesting and that's where it started yeah it was you wanted to do but you know it's very hard when you're speaking very fast yeah it requires a lot of product yeah like those ad libs it's hard to do with one single voice on one breath yes yes i've rehearsed it many times but um it's still flawless thank. Amy, where are you coming to us from? I'm in Japan.

Wow. Yep, yep. Watching a lot of Police Academy 5. What's going on? Well, I probably use the same video store that Miles mentioned. But yeah, they do have a much wider array. Better now. Yeah, especially like American comedies and stuff,

but it kind of makes sense. I didn't actually realize there was a police Academy five and six. I had only ever heard of two, but I'm a, I guess, you know, it was more in the nineties. So just,

just a little after like my, I would say because I moved to America in the, in 94, that's about when my American. Oh, media consciousness. Yeah. That's because my dad was barely

watching american stuff when we were there and you know or i guess back here so so yeah i i had no idea but you know that kind of like comedy definitely tracks i think it makes a lot of sense oh yeah that it would be very popular in japan too it's very easy yeah like 80s stuff because you know people like uh big chested women in their comedies and 80s comedies did not disappoint in that aspect i'm like oh i'm noticing something i see that's right yeah yeah yeah yeah well what was hitting in 94 i'm trying to think well i mean was that jurassic park or was that? Yeah, I mean, well, actually, I didn't watch any of those movies when I was younger. But, you know, obviously that was like the end part of like the Disney Renaissance. So I was able to watch some Disney movies in Japan.

But then because my because I have, you know, family here in the U.S. Also, I did get to get a little bit of early 90s late 80s stuff so like goonies and um my family made sure i watched the adams family movies and stuff like that oh yeah yeah classics classics yeah i mean like trying to think back like i remember watching it comes in the u.s probably like a little princess and for some reason I imprinted very hard on the Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Disney one. Yeah. That was a big movie for me as a kid. I'm not sure why.

And, oh, yes, I remember because just a few years later, my first R-rated movie was The Patriots. Oh, my God. Terrible, terrible one to go in on first very strangely recommended by my fourth grade teacher because he was like oh hey kids you just learned about the revolutionary war in school this movie is coming out about the revolutionary war you should go watch it and i asked my dad and he said it's rated r are you sure and i said yeah and he said okay that one in particular is rated are you sure yeah yeah starring a bunch of people who are not american yeah but yeah that's the i think i think it's the first battle a cannonball takes

a guy's head off and i just still remember going like oh my god i didn't know movies could do this right yeah oh yeah i was i was big on that that was that was a that was like post braveheart and yeah it was like what if braveheart but america yeah yeah another fun fact cinematographer is zoe deschanel's and emily deschanel's dad caleb wow interesting that is it that is got weird facts on deck today because i just know their cousin and i'm like and it was like yo my uncle did this movie and i was like i don't care yeah not great hunchback of notre dame is also i think the it's like the keystone in the kind of luxist empire the like beautyocracy that is the disney world because it's the one movie where like the

protagonist doesn't get the girl there's like no yeah of course not right yeah but you know the thing is really interesting is i totally didn't remember that like i remembered of course uh quasimodo and then um esmeralda like i used to be obsessed with her because she's one of the few brown girls we had from disney i guess yeah yeah and then like when i got older and i started decided to watch the movie again i was like who's this guy over here who's like all like hot and blonde and stuff like i don't remember him but he's actually like very important to the movie the whole story they will have humans and mermaids like get together but the one boundary that you cannot cross is the boundary between beautiful people and uggos. They're just like, no way.

Sorry. As they create them to be terrible monstrosities. Yeah. Oh, my God. All right. I mean, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners just a couple of the things we're talking about. We got our first Republican

on the January 6th commission. Oh, traitor alert. Yeah, yeah. We're going to check in with the Office of Proudly Belligerent Police Officers. We're going to check in with the Pacific Northwest Heat Wave. We're going to look at the rise in psychics and spiritualism around both pandemics and just generally throughout history, because we're in the midst of one right now. All of that and plenty more. But first, Ayumi, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay, so my search historyress elizabeth of austria okay so this is like tangentially related to my podcast and that i was kind of researching some italian shows and seeing their availability because basically there's kind of like this i don't even know

what to describe them just not huge animation company it's not like the main one in italy but they're kind of like i guess a second rate group. So they do a lot of Italian dubs of other cartoons. It's mostly from Japan, but they also make their own cartoons, but their cartoons are all kind of weird. But they did make one that was a magical girl show back in 2012 called Angel's Friends, which is adapted from a comic. So they were showing that their most recent thing that they've done in the past few years is called Sissy the young empress and i thought well that's weird why is there a character named sissy in like 2021 but then i did more research and found that this was actually like a multi-level like adaptation of an adaptation of an adaptation based on the life of

elizabeth of austria who was in the mid-1800s the i guess first a princess who became an empress and it's like so fascinating her actual story is very fascinating but i started watching this show because there are many movies made about her and she i guess she had a very romanticized like marriage because her she married well the emperor of austria emperor franz the first was yes franz joseph i'm just looking at the wikipedia page yeah yeah yeah so they they married because he was supposed to get married to her sister and their cousins so it's like whatever because royalty i guess but when they came to meet him he was like but actually she's hot the younger sister i'm feeling her a bit more weird that doesn't sound like a man in the 1800s what a what a scummy move the wild thing is like so it's uh considered like the first time that he

went against his own mother's wishes empress mother's wishes and it's like all romanticized it's like he fell in love with her and he was always madly in love with her but there's no evidence that it was like reciprocated and she was very much and i think the reason why her story has been adapted so many times is that she's very much and i think the reason why her story has been adapted so many times is that she's very much like not like the other girls she had all these different interests and she liked gymnastics and she hated court life in habsburg so like she always had a really hard time a really hard time like fitting in basically and so there were movies made about her uh austrian movies in like the 50s and then in the the 90s, there was a resurgence.

And then there was a French Canadian animation about her life. And based on that animation came this Italian animation, which, you know, already in her life story, even if it's this very romanticized version where she's actually reciprocating these feelings for Franz Joseph. The first is a very wild story. But this one decided that we needed to disneyfy it up a bit so they turned it into a magical girl series where she has a magic bracelet and she could talk to an animal and she has to like protect all the animals in austria i guess it's just like so weird it's because it's like looking at her actual story it's very fascinating and she even gets assassinated like by an anarchist who didn't really want to assassinate her. They were just trying to choose anybody who was royal. They just hated anyone with the name Franz, I feel like, you know.

um she also almost definitely had an eating disorder and like she had a lot of difficulty because the first two kids were were girls there's like a whole huge thing with her story that's like very fascinating like could be very interesting but everyone focused on this like supposed romance and so on it's easier to look at that than like internalized misogyny of like i was just reading on this wikipedia article that she was really concerned with her like outward looks and like physique and things like that and they're like man she stopped posing for portraits she stopped posing for portraits when she was like in her 30s like she lived until 59 was when she was assassinated and like she by the time she was 32 she was like i'm not gonna post reports anymore no more no photos please like it was very much uh you know she was very strict about not letting anyone see her age like she didn't want that to be memorialized or whatever like it was it's like very it's so much like

she's so obsessed with her beauty and everything but yeah so this adaptation is so fascinating and i started watching one episode a day i'm up to the third episode because i cannot stop it's such a train wreck it's like she's always saying these feminist lines like, oh, well, if you want Franz, if Franz wants to come ask me for my hand in marriage, he has to check with me before he checks in with my dead father or whatever. And in the first episode, she decides to go horseback riding, but standing on her horse and has a major accident.

She's not going to do anything normal you know what i mean yeah she's very much she's not like the other girls it's yeah constantly this thing and it's just like so weird and it's so candy colored too because it's supposed to be like i guess selling dolls to little italian girls or something it's just wild but yeah it's like this rabbit hole i could not stop going down. And now I'm kind of obsessed. Is the Italian animation company you were mentioning, the ones behind Titanic, The Legend Goes On? Maybe.

It's Mondo. The sequel to Titanic. M-O-N-D-A. Definitely second rate. Whoever made those ones. They have, like, if you go to like, so their YouTube channel is Mondo World, but they have not like if you go to like their so their youtube channel is mondo world but they have not a lot of original stuff but yes they have the legend of the titanic and in search

of the titanic okay but not titanic the legend goes on because that's that's one that uh is legendary on the bechdel cast yeah fully goes fully goes after it. Right, of course, of course. Yeah, I don't think it's that one, but it's just, it's so wild. Like, there are three seasons, and I'm like, are they going to get to her assassination? Where are they going with this? Like...

Just a little assassination. What is something you think is overrated? Aggressive phone games. Like, smartphone games. What's aggressive? Or give us, what's the spectrum here? So, I mean, I'm a very casual gamer when it comes to my smartphone. Like, I play Candy Crush Soda Saga every other day or whatever.

If I'm, like, super bored, my main thing is a Switch. But, you know, just like everyone, when they're a little bored, they'll just play a game or whatever. Yeah, get some puzzle games and things, yeah. But I'm also a big fan of Scrabble. So I got Scrabble Go, and I was really enjoying it, especially because you can set it up to play in different languages. But it's very needy. I cannot believe how needy this game is.

Like, it will forfeit your turn if you don't play a turn in a specific amount of time. Are you playing against a human or against the computer you can do either but even if you're playing against the computer it's like no one's waiting for me right yeah that's even computers and i have shit to do what is it yeah like even watch me not charge your ass then what i would not mind like waiting for someone else to take their turn and just have a bunch of games open and just like be very very slow with it that for me is fine you know like I don't know I don't understand why and then like it would like when I turn on the notifications for it it would just

keep coming up like hey you have a turn to play someone played their turn you should go in and play and it's like I'm not I don't have all the time in the world it's just like you know five minutes here and there to try playing Scrabble that's why i don't let any notifications on my phone really like i have to like that's the one way i can keep my peace like in terms of not being because you could be you'll constantly be bombarded with like all kinds of alerts like if you have social media stuff on you know like text stuff you have threads that go off all the time uh it's yeah i'm i find myself being less inclined to to entertain the notifications but for games i can't i don't go past puzzles because i'm not trying to learn a whole new like level of dexterity because

when i see like the more involved like action games that are on iphones and shit i'm like no no just i just want to use one finger and like point at poke at my phone yeah right right yeah yeah for sure are you miles do you fuck with candy crush or candy crush soda saga not so i used to i'm a big bejeweled fan yeah you know uh specifically the mine when you go like the timed mining one where you got to like really keep the fucking the the match is going to to break the earth and and do it all in time that's my favorite thing to do on the toilet that's where you have to play puzzle games of course yeah that and or like reading for the show like i have my routine i'm like i check my news do my bejeweled you know what i mean yeaheweled. A great image for all the listeners.

Also, bidet is a must. If you're going to be on the Miles program, the Miles Morning program, you must have the bidet, the squatty potty, and the tushy. Sometimes I'm unnerved by how quickly time will disappear when you're playing

those games. When you're playing Bejeweled or candy that's called being in a flow state i guess yeah it's a very liminal place yeah what is something you think is underrated redubbed movies and tv shows and whatever else you like watching that has people speaking in it so So this is something, of course, for my podcast, it comes up a lot because most of my listeners are in the US, but most of the stuff we talk about is in Japan. So people often wonder, oh, should we watch the original version?

But there are some times where it's actually better to watch something dubbed in another language, maybe because the voice acting is better or like the the dialogue is improved like to even put it in the terms of like an american thing there are certain things that like are more cringe watching in the original english than when i see it for example dubbed in japanese so like a big one for me is um my husband loves the movie cats and dogs that's like one of his big childhood movies right it's like it's it's very silly and it's all he's talking all he's talking cats and dogs that's like one of his big childhood movies right it's like it's it's very silly and it's all he's talking all he's talking cats and dogs and the cats are evil or whatever oh yeah yeah take over the world yeah so the movie is like low-key really racist because

they have all these racist stereotypes for like the animals right there's like there's like a sign there like an asian ninja cat or something yeah i remember that right right and then there's also the russian blue cat who's like speaks like a russian spy it's like really really ridiculous right so that part is super cringe to watch but then like i see that oh my husband of course because he watched as a kid he prefers it in japanese so i watched in japanese and it's suddenly a much more enjoyable program. Like it's just like for one thing, they put more effort into just putting in a lot of dog and cat puns that are really great. Not that there aren't puns in English, but like it makes more sense, I guess. And like, yeah, just generally, it's just more enjoyable because it's suddenly less racist. Yeah, that's funny.

Because like, wow wow in our language we don't have that in culture we don't have these weird uh stereotypes we have other ones but not yes we have other ones uh and then suddenly you're like oh yeah look at them being just very objective about these characters and not ascribing you know cultural stereotypes to them yeah that's it yeah that's one of your credits that i left off of your bio but you are a translator oh yes i i've never really thought of that i don't i don't have a ton of experience with like listening to the dubs or like watching things with the dubs turned on is there like what one type of content that's like generally has like really good dubs because i don't know all the dubs that i've experienced have been like kind of half-assed and like the the most recent experience i had was that

a german show dark where like i was like why do people like this for a season and then i turned the dub off and started reading the subtitles i was like oh because it has like good good actors and you just couldn't tell when the dub was on yeah yeah no that's definitely something that uh makes a huge difference right so there are such things as good dubs and bad dubs so for example the show i mentioned earlier sister the young empress as a really bad english dub also the like that one the the dialogue is really strange like in episode three there's actually a line was it yeah there's a line you have to trust the poop was something that this literal princess said out loud but the other thing is that they like cut up the line so they don't sound like i don't know like the way anyone normally speaks

english but yeah so there's such a thing it really depends on who is handling the dub so another good example in terms of magical girls Girls, the biggest Magical Girls series for kids right now is called Pretty Cure. And there's only been one dub done in English under that name, which is done by a Canadian company. They handled the very first season. But two of the seasons were handled by Netflix and Sub-On and they're called Glitter Force. They changed the name, I think for legal reasons. And a lot of people really don't like glitter force as a dub because they change the character's names to be honest the other one did too and they changed a lot of like the context and dialogue they edited episodes and didn't hear some episodes too much and it's like yeah yeah it's the same

yes it's that kind of thing so like but that but that being said, it's a kid's show. And a lot of kids watch that and were introduced to the series for the first time. So like, I don't really hate it too much for that reason. It got us more fans, right? And like, a lot of kids are now like, oh, that's my childhood. So that's cool. But yeah, so like that kind of thing makes a huge difference. And like, there are some people where if they see who is handling the dub, they just be like, I'm not going to watch this because I don't think it's going to be any good.

I don't trust what they've done in the past. Maybe they do those kind of localizations. But yeah, that's definitely something that it really, really depends on who is doing that work. Yeah. Yeah. Just like any other kind of production. Right. You know who's dubbing your content.

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And the same thing goes with, you know, American stuff in Japan. Let's see. There are some good ones like if you watch action movies there's a lot of good dubs in action movies that are really fun to watch rush hour is very funny in japanese but um supernatural the tv show is very strange in japanese they like dubbed it kind of the same way that they would voice act for an animation so like all the voices are kind of strange and it's just like it's just very uh it's just very strangely goofy in a way

that like makes it really hard to watch right yeah yeah well that's it i think it's yeah there's also just like japanese voice acting can be really intense too like there's yes i've growing up like seeing a lot of dubbed things like there's not a lot of subdued performances a lot of the times like you're getting all of it's like it you're like almost like if i wasn't looking i could i might also think this is an anime or something like that but yeah i think it's just i think it's always as tough when you're having to you know create create something out of nothing when you have no shared language yeah yeah all right let's take a quick break and we will be right back.

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she gonna do it she was one of the two republicans to vote for the commission along with adam kensinger and kevin mccarthy his first thing was just saying like anybody accepts this you will have all of your committee assignments taken away which will render you fucking useless damn and that's a pretty big threat but pelosi still you know not for liz shaney because she's like i'm already dead motherfucker you think you can kill me more what is already dead motherfucker half of my bills i'm like she's she's expressed her and kinsinger how much more they've had to spend on their personal security as a result of acknowledging reality. And, you know, once Pelosi named her to the committee, said, quote, What happened on January 6th can never happen again.

Those who are responsible for the attack need to be held accountable. And this select committee will fulfill that responsibility in a professional, expeditious and nonpartisan manner. Now, that got a lot of republicans upset because they were saying like well it lights out for you but she's already it seems like she feels like she's probably not going to make it past 2023 anyway um in wyoming so for her she's like okay watch me do watch me do this on the way out and adam kinzinger we still don't know if he's going to join or not but he's again another person who made the mistake of acknowledging what happened and saying that is fucking not good and maybe we do need to actually you know figure out who was involved so they can

be you know drug out into the sunlight and when he was asked whether or not he was worried about McCarthy's threats, he said, who gives a shit? And then he said, he goes on to say, when you've got people who say crazy stuff and you're not going to make and you're not going to make that threat, but you make that threat to truth tellers, you've lost any credibility. I did not understand that sentence at all. Like you had that and I was just like, when you got, I was like, you could have stopped it. Who gives a shit? Because, yeah, yeah that's enough it really is enough but you make that threat to true uh yeah it's like he's a republican he's in some world like some far off i'm sure it makes sense to someone right yeah who gives a shit is powerful we'll see yeah we'll see if we get actual results from this, but it's

fun drama. And also just shout out to Liz Cheney. I know her family's probably going through it right now with the passing of Uncle Don. Wait, are they related? No. Just through their hellbound connection.

There's like something that's remarkably bonding about doing war crimes together. Of course. Especially when you're doing war crimes that define an entire century. So shout out to them. Let's talk about police real quick. There's a new trend in being proudly belligerent in the world of police. So in April, a young black man was having a mental health episode in a walmart and within a minute of showing up the police tased shot and then tased him again until he was dead uh this is a textbook case where a mental health

specialist a social worker like literally anything else would have been better than an armed police officer like a fucking hockey team like anything just send anyone besides the police but so people are protesting and yesterday morning while people were protesting you know the police force that basically murdered him an officer walked up and told them they had to move their sign. And when they tried to have a conversation with the cop, he took out his phone and started playing Taylor Swift, like put his phone in his breast pocket and started playing Taylor Swift really loud so you couldn't really hear him or the people trying to talk to him.

And the activists were like kind of confused. They were like, yo, are we having a dance party? What's happening? He did it so casually too. Right. Yeah. The sergeant replied that all he knew was they wouldn't be able to post their video to YouTube because there would be copyright claim. And like just the like fucking grin on his face as he was doing this and just like how clever he thought it was.

And probably wasn't his idea that would be giving no yeah it's probably like his teen daughter or something's like yeah take it down what yeah all right that's not even completely true though i was well at least because when i was seeing that video on twitter i think some people were saying that although youtube channel would have to do is demonetize that particular video yeah and it would be okay because it's not like they're uploading like the clean track to their video that's edited in so the sweepers work a little bit differently those copyright sweepers that go on the internet to figure out if you're running afoul but it's the great irony of watching like intellectual property

copyright law again come to the defense of police brutality in this like weird way you're like it's all so dark and he had it ready too he was just like right there like he just it was he was ready to go like it was like they could imagine just before they were all i guess arriving to go beat people up or kill people they had the they're like okay let's see are you gonna do taylor swift okay what do you have uh you have a little lot nil nas x or whatever like they're all all have their music ready yeah yeah taylor swift though not little nas x because you know how the the white supremacists love some Taylor Swift. That's a good point. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Not saying she's white supremacist, just saying white supremacists do love some Taylor. But maybe she was like, I'm not with that. And they're like, hmm. Oh, yeah, they were upset. you being not really unequivocal just gave us the gray area to believe you were one of our great artists it is like the the idea is such a like email forward that gets sent to your dad at work type fucking like half-assed not true idea that is just like that is the culture of these police forces and like that is what they're gonna put energy into like people the idea that people are putting tampons in their fucking iced tea or whatever or like the fact that you can just like play a youtube song and it'll get the evidence of you abusing and killing people taken down it's just like

it's just so stupid and half-assed and that's all like that's the standard they're held to and they would rather just be belligerent and just spite the people who are criticizing them rather than even acknowledge that there's a problem in the first place no then that would because if they acknowledge anything it would be the you know that the timer could end up ticking down to when they be more people like okay right so this is an obsolete way of dealing with things we're gonna have to switch it up because we just have a group of goons who you know learn all their new clever ways of brutalizing people with tiktok videos like hey use this song and it can't get uploaded and they're like oh cool pretty soon i bet you they're gonna be wearing

like uniforms that are made out of like material that like cameras like are like have trouble capturing and shit um because it's just like this same like this is i can only see where this goes further right if it if this is one way to obscure or to hide their misdeeds then i'm sure there'll be a further escalation aside from what we already have like we see how cops will lift the hoods of their cars to block dash cams and things like that well it's on but i just had the hood up to not capture anything yeah but that's the interesting thing is like he was so confident that the video that the song would be able to protect him like this taylor swift shield that like he started to show off his badge and name and stuff like he's like yeah you guys can take that down because i'm going

to be protected by this song i guess well there's some shit called daily motion right there's so many yeah yeah there's so many other websites that let twitter and facebook and literally anywhere people want to nico nico i don't know yeah right yeah but anyways speaking of obsolete let's talk about how our world is soon going to be obsolete for the the new temperatures the temperature of the world that we're approaching we're just not built for it we didn't we didn't build the world to to deal with this so pacific northwest in the united states is dealing with you know deaths 63 people passed away over the weekend um last weekend in oregon because oregon is not accustomed to usually having to even use

fucking air conditioning yeah everywhere yeah it's everywhere it's well what tacoma or tic i was we talked about tacoma washington prices just went quadrupled if they had air conditioning in the room and not and not just the u.s like in canada too there was an entire town that like this one town that had the record for like the hottest place in Canada, it went up in flames and the entire town had to be evacuated because within like 15 minutes, the mayor said it went from smoke to everything being on fire and then just ordering like people to flee. And then even in British Columbia, the coroner's service, they recorded at least 233 deaths over the weekend. They've received 65 reports of sudden deaths since that

Friday. And all of this is hyper, a lot of this is hyperthermia from overheating. And yeah, they just even see the number of calls that are made. For example, 131 people in Oregon visited the hospital for or an urgent care facility just to get out of the heat, just for some kind of heat related illness in a normal weekend. They said hospitals would see maybe one and we're seeing 131. I mean, this is I think this is the point where the rhetoric I feel like really needs to change, especially with like mainstream media of like rather than like we got to fight off this two degree, you know, temperature rise or else things could be bad. It's here. It's now.

We are there. We are seeing what is happening when people are when buildings are crumbling, when you have massive death like this. It's hard to say that we're like we're almost like what's going to happen. I think we're like we've been here. And regardless of whether we're trying to fight like it getting worse down the road, I think we really humanity owes it to itself to take this as seriously as possible but again when you look at especially how our political system is structured it's clear that you know republicans and corporate democrats alike are willing to sacrifice us for you know campaign cash yeah yeah this stuff is not even new at all like it's like the world has been screaming for help for so long yeah and like one of the shows i'm currently

watching from my podcast is from 1970 and they had an episode about pollution and like trying to save the water and save the earth because everything is going up in flames. And it's like that was 16 years ago. Oh, not not. Oh, 50. Yes. 50 years ago. Sorry, I can't math. And it's like not nothing's really changed.

Everything is still terrible. Yeah. Just the strategies or PR campaigns, I think, have changed. Yeah. Without the real substantive work. One thing that I think needs to change is the emphasis, especially in the mass media, going from here's how you can make individual sacrifices as a private person. Like you have to recycle this. You have to turn off your heat.

You have to save water. And just ignoring the corporate, you know, complicity in all of this, the fact that corporations cause the vast majority, like the top 20 companies like are responsible for most of global warming that like you know what when there's a water shortage in california it's a lot of the farming companies that are just you know they have better inroads to the people who are making the decisions than you and i like than any single individual and then like i sort of a cartoonish example of this was that alert that went out in new york a few days ago yeah telling people that they had to turn off their air conditioning yeah you're

gonna screw up the earth because the grid grid was being pushed to the breaking point. And people were pointing out, there's this tweet from Jason O. Gilbert. He's like, New Yorkers, please do not use air conditioning or flush any toilets so that the Ferris wheel inside the M&M store can run 24-7. It's like, yo, you guys have Times Square. You didn't turn Times Square off. And you're asking people to put their lives in danger. That's what went New York during the summer without air conditioning. You are putting people's lives in danger.

And you're doing that. Coca-Cola, though. So that Coca-Cola can keep their Coca-Cola sign lit up. It's like, shut the fuck up. What is wrong with y'all? The web camera footage where everyone was like, just so you know, this is like an hour after the alert. They're like, look at the Times Square web cameras because every single billboard is lit up. Everything is on full blast down there.

Yeah. Yep. And I think it's just, yeah, it's a very good reminder of just how everything is going to work, like, especially in this country. It's like, well, we could we could ask the corporations to do different, but we're not. So we'll just let you die. The voter, the worker, the normal person. Gotta keep that big shiny McDonald's going. Yeah.

And I mean, you know, this is why, you know, wars are fought, especially in this country where it's like, yeah, well, you got to make sure we have as many customers around the world. But Joe Biden, I is not actually addressing climate change like this is a fucking giveaway to polluters this isn't this isn't really this isn't substantive or radical which is what we need as we watch people perish from uh being overheated and this idea again where you know the more like the more you sort of look at it, it's become very easy for, I think, the Biden administration to just point to Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin. You'd be like, I don't know what you I don't know what I, you know, what am I supposed to do? And it's like, you're the fucking president. You know, figure that out. Don't just that's not leadership to throw your hands up because you have two people who are more publicly,

you know, covering for the filibuster and to sort of maintain the status quo when at the same time, ignoring that your support is sliding with the people that voted for you because you're you're acting. Well, I don't know what I can do. And this is just kind of I don't know. I think it's just sort of another omni crisis that human beings are having to face, especially in this country, too, given that American conservatism is a huge one of the biggest contributors to climate change and climate change. Hey, stay cool out there, guys. Pacific Northwest, you know. Right. That's what they'd say. Yes. And please don't use fireworks this july 4th weekend unless you're unless you are to sacrifice something that personally is very important to me so yeah just to explode

do little bang bangs in the sky or am i i think they're officially banned in portland from when i'm reading correctly um makes sense i mean that's not gonna stop anyone I'm sure anyone who wants to is going to do it anyway like anything you just cross state lines to get the shit that you want and then put your own state in danger and again if you're going to have fireworks leave it to the law enforcement

professionals like the LAPD bomb squad who blew up their fucking car like idiots trying to destroy some confiscated fireworks who blew up their fucking car like idiots trying to destroy some confiscated fireworks. They've never looked more dumb. These fucking people.

I still can't believe that story. Yeah, I just want to read three consecutive tweets Cody Johnston retweeted. More than 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks seized from a home in South LA. The bomb squad is now hauling them away by the truckload. Some of these fireworks are about to be safely detonated on scene.

A couple minutes later. Explosion! LAPD was disposing of illegal fireworks in South LA when the explosion occurred. At least five are injured. By the way, I felt this in my house when it happened. I looked out the window and was like, what the fuck just happened yeah holy shit and then next uh from the lapd our bomb squad officers were in the process of seizing over 5 000 pounds of illegal fireworks in the area some of the fireworks were being stored in our bomb squad trailer as a precautionary measure unknown at this time what

caused an explosion oh for real the 5 000 pounds of explosives that y'all mishandled, maybe? Yeah, yeah. That's definitely the officer-related incident kind of not telling us what happened. Yeah, exactly. You're going to get a blue alert on your cell phone called LAPD blew themselves up. Oh, my God. Trying to fucking get rid of these fireworks like because you look at the thing they had it's like in one of those like iron spear things that i guess typically you

could just be like oh yeah put it in there boom whatever you can dispose of it it i don't know they overloaded the thing because it was actually one of those uh old-timey acme bombs that they mistook for a black bowling ball with a fuse they're like this looks right oh my god yeah but the way it leveled that truck and everything and i'm like and also fuck you for doing that in a residential area yeah yeah they don't give a fuck about but that's also again you look at you know south., you know, not a majority white part of the city. And they really have a lot of energy to find these people. And I get it. Like, fireworks can cause injuries and fires and things like that.

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Yelp reported that the supernatural readings business went up by 140 percent and according to pew research data from 2018 an estimated six out of ten american adults accept at least one new age belief which includes psychics wait what are new age beliefs what do we is there i think it's just like crystals tarot cards tarot cards reiki they call they put Reiki in there? Okay. Reiki is... All right. They're like meditation, you know, this wild shit. Things that cannot be proven with hard science.

Acupuncture. With Cartesian Western thought. Right, exactly. Yeah, yeah. So our writer, yeah. could commune with the dead was like very very popular the fox sisters these kind of spooky looking young women who basically communicated with each other it was kind of an easy scam to see through they were just like knocking on the wood and that was the thing that they were saying like was the spirits communing with them and but it was like you can just tell that something is ripe that like it was

filling a need in the zeitgeist because they became like the biggest celebrities of that decade for being able to commune with the dead and like abraham lincoln's wife mary todd was like really into this whole movement and it makes sense because like everybody they're everyone's kids were dying you know people's significant others were dying in the civil war and you just wanted to be able to talk to those people you were also just like constantly thinking about death right so this gives you, the scientific and political reality is like, we don't know. And we're waiting and seeing. And we just have to be like cautious and try various techniques.

And that's, I mean, the human brain hates that. It's like too, it's not concrete enough. Well, yeah, but I think more than even like having your like just feeling your limbic system be like what the fuck is going on you can still use your brain to be like okay i'm in unprecedented times but i also get that yeah if you're more susceptible to that what couldn't be more of like an attractive proposition? Someone be like, oh, I know what the fuck is happening here. Yeah. And then you're like, tell me more.

Tell me more. Tell me more. Q? What? Yeah. Yeah. I actually do. It's not like a major hobby or anything, but I like tarot.

I don't believe that it actually has anything like spiritual going on with it. believe that it actually has anything like spiritual going on with it it's just like the system is made so that it's very easy for people to get their thoughts externalized basically and once it's like there like i've literally never had like again not believing in it i have never had a tarot reading done where someone the other person didn't say oh my god this is so true right right and it's because like for one thing all the cars can have a bunch of different meetings but also like yeah once all these things are out there they're like oh yeah there is someone like that in my life or whatever and like that seeing that having someone else say that the things that they were

already thinking always helps them to like understand something that was honestly probably already in their mind anyway. Right. But it's very, it's very, very funny. It's, I mean, there,

it's a very interesting thing. And of course, if you're listening and you believe in tarot, I'm not trying to like, there's no offense to you guys. It's just for me, I don't. No offense to you,

but to me, there's just some fucking cards with some cool drawings on them to help connect people subconscious i collect i have like two tarot decks like right next to me on my desk here like i just oh yeah no i know yeah i know yeah i know people who are heavy with the tarot but mostly like they just collect it's like i think it's like pokemon for them in a way it's like playing magic the gathering but like a little more emotional with emotional stakes i think that's what we do for some people so the first ouija board started being mass produced at in the late 1800s and you would see sales shoot up like during world war one after the spanish flu epidemic uh and we're seeing that again during this pandemic uh popularity of which so i think all of this goes back to the fact that we the human mind is this like

powerful in unknown ways like incredibly vast infinite you know machine like realm that we only have very limited access to like our our conscious mind is shining a tiny spotlight on like five to ten percent of what is actually going on in our mind and the ouija and all these various things and spiritual practices just allow you to kind of get a different way into those things so like with ouija it's like you're, you know, people always talk about how it feels like the thing is moving without them or like you get a group consciousness that takes over and like starts moving it. Like, I think that's all very valid and interesting, maybe not for the reasons explicitly that people think, but it's actually like creating

that people think but it's actually like creating interesting ideas and it's a it's definitely like a valid way to process like your discomfort with the world yeah it's like psychological it's almost like therapy so that's what a lot of people need especially in times like this so it makes a lot of sense damn i wish a ouija board could replace my therapy. It's a lot cheaper. I'm like, shit. Yeah, it was Monday morning. Let me get my Ouija board out. Okay, good, good, good, good. Okay, there it is. There it is.

But yeah, there is something to, I mean, I would always fuck with people when I was on the Ouija. I was the chaos agent. If you had me do Ouija with you, I'm pushing that shit around. And I was the dummy who was like like nobody knows how this is happening miles what's happening i don't know look it says j-a-c-k-i-s-a-l-o-s-e-r i don't know y'all we heard it here gotta go yeah

i just i keep saying i need to cluck like a chicken for the next two days or the sixers will lose forever the whole thing though with i i think for me i as a kid i just i was very i'm very logical type kid and if you know i didn't like magic tricks, like I would always be like, man, show me how that shit worked. Cause I'm off. Don't stop telling me it's magic. Okay. It's not magic.

How the trick works. And when I first saw kids doing Ouija, I was like, this is so fucking stupid. I'm like, how are y'all even believe in this? Even though like at the time I'm 11 so i don't know why i'm thinking i'm i'm some galaxy brain motherfucker out here probably because i was 11 but yeah that that contributed to me meddling in it but i do i do totally see your point about when you even begin to see the things that are in your unconscious the same things where i think like psychedelics like yeah can be really mind-blowing for people like early on like oh wow yeah you realize we operate we operate on like that

little bit of oil that hardens up on the top of a soup yeah you know what i mean and then everything is underneath that and we're barely dipping our toe into that part we're just kind of on this surface skim level for sure yeah drugs are definitely like were for a long time my favorite way to access this religion is a very popular way to access it but like it's it definitely should not be discounted it's and also like in reference to psychedelics like do some reading on people describing their uh guided psychedelic like therapy sessions it's unbelievable like the like detailed like poetic uh like cinematic imagery that people's minds are creating and like people remember it they're like yeah so i was like watching this

short film where like my dead father and i were like going through this like visual poem of a like representation of all the images that are of all the issues that like i had with him it's it's pretty amazing right and yeah so anyways there's also like so what i send you nine hundred dollars jack for you to just sort this out for me through with your psychic powers yeah exactly so that's that's the thing is that there's some people who are taking advantage of this in shitty ways um what one person who's not really taking advantage of it but who's getting some shine off of it is a deceased psychic named Sylvia Brown. Oh, yeah. Who released a book in 2008 that claimed in around 2020, a severe pneumonia like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes

and resisting all known treatments. And so that very specific sentence sent the book to it became a bestseller in 2020. It was number two on Amazon's nonfiction charts for a while. Unfortunately, it goes on to say almost more baffling than illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived. Attack again 10 years later and then disappear completely. So that that didn't happen. then disappear completely so that that didn't happen uh also uh first of all that's not a good description of covet either uh doctors would point out um she's also made some like really shitty bold predictions on montel there's like a youtube video montel yeah told a mother of a missing girl that her daughter was dead on montel on tv that daughter was one of the people who was being held in ariel castro's like dungeon jesus christ yeah so she fucked that one up she'd uh montel had to apologize she just kind of uh was like backed her way out of the room yeah i mean yeah people have like, you know, they've always, Sylvia Brown has been

pretty out there with her, you know, self-deification. So a lot of people have debunked her over the years. But that is wild that even despite that, they're like, but she was right about this thing back in 2008. I mean, that's the thing is, you only have to be like, kind of right about some things

and that's enough for some people to believe everything, you know. Right. Just like, hey, Jack, I remember that trending episode when Chris Paul got, you know, he's going to the Suns. And we said, hey, that might be good for Aiden and Cory Booker. I mean, for Devin Booker. And then look what happened. Yeah. No, I mean, ESPN is offering me a deal.

So this will be my last podcast. Hey, we heard you say that on a podcast now you're now you're giving all kinds of idiot people uh like see uh you could say some podcast espn monetizes people just saying takes loud as possible yeah oftentimes wrong uh anyways there's like also more straightforward graft. There's a person who was told by a psychic to bring her $9,000 in a pillowcase with nine white

roses, nine red roses, and she would perform rituals and soon return the $9,000 and also it would clear his bad energy. He has been surprisingly unable to recoup a scent of that has since lost his money because of the pandemic or lost his job because of the pandemic and is like

really hurting and the police won't take those sorts of claims seriously because they're assholes wow so yeah and protect unless they're taking unless they're assholes wow so yeah serve and protect unless they're taking unless they're blowing themselves up with your fireworks yeah there was also a massive psychic mail fraud scheme in 2019 that made more than 200 million dollars from 1.4 million victims i am in the wrong business i need to really invest in my i need to spend tarot cards all the way you know what i said before i believe everything about the cards i was definitely joking before and i remember i mean i remember in 2009 you said i would be hosting a podcast with a man whose name

started with jay yeah and yeah and we will go on to do great things and do all you were only right about the first part i still believe your powers you know what i mean i 100 do but yeah also i'm like like i get it you know because you don't come out you don't go to the police because you're probably ashamed because you're like oh yeah look i got duped because this person don't put nine grand in a pillowcase because you know it feels like when you say it out loud you're like yeah i should have known but at the time i'm so desperate for some kind of closure or relief emotionally that this is the only place offering it to me. But I'm curious what that person said, why they need a nine thousand dollars that would eventually return to them. Like, you know what I mean? Like, oh, I lay the bills out and then I rub the roses on top and then I get a vibe, do a vibe check on the on the currency and then it vanishes but

then i give it back like mechanically i'd really be again concerned with how that all works well energetically miles it's important that you are giving them something that is worth a lot to you spiritually and so nine thousand dollars specifically like that's a good way to just kind of dial in specifically your psychic energy and like how much something matters to you. Because, you know. Say less. I'm sorry. I don't mean to have you explain this to me. $10,000 would be asking too much.

Right. Right. $8,000 is not enough. This spell requires specifically $9,000. Okay. I will. Okay. That's all I need to know.

I'm about to go um to my bank right now and thank you but yeah it's a it's a good grift because a lot of the people are either too embarrassed to come forward the cops won't take them seriously uh prosecutors won't try the case because they're afraid the victim is gonna look stupid to a jury and yeah so i mean this is a good place to end the episode since we opened up with the religious grift healthcare that is advertising on our show and uh you know this is just another kind of spiritual grift uh trying to fill fill the hole that americans are lacking because community has dissolved and and we oh because that's the thing jack you know

i want everybody to uh come on down and to my faith-based health care company that i have you know because our motto here is it's not a lack of medication it's a lack of salvation uh when you get that salvation you won't need that medication thank Thank you so much. And we can put away your fear and trepidation. It rhymes because it's true. Preach. Yeah. Right. Exactly. It rhymes because it's true. It rhymes because it's true. Yeah. Thank you so much. Y'all are cured. Y'all are cured. Amy, it's been such a pleasure having you back as always. Where can people find you and follow you? Well, thank you again for having me back. So I'm on Instagram and Twitter, though mostly on Twitter, to be perfectly honest.

I think Instagram is more for stories. But my personal Instagram is at Ayushinos, A-Y-U-S-H-E-K-N-O-W-S. The one for my podcast, Sparkle Side Chats with Magical Girl Ayu, is at Magical Girl Ayu. So that's spelled A-Y-U-S-H-E-K-N-O-W-S. The one for my podcast, Sparkle Side Chats with Magical Girl Ayu, is at Magical Girl Ayu. So that's spelled A-Y-U. And like y'all said, I do art. That's one of my things. I do translate.

I can do private translations also. But art mostly, if you want a birthday present or something, my paintings are good for that. Or if you like one of the things I already painted, thank you. Also, I called them drawings earlier because I'm an idiot. No, no, no. It's okay. It's okay.

I do drawings too, so that's fine. Okay. Yeah. I do. Not at all, but at least those two things. Yeah. But yeah, usually people want to give presents to their loved ones. And so Portrait Julie is good for that.

Or you can buy old prints of mine in my print shop, which is at inprint, I-N-P-R-N-T. Yeah, under the same name. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Yes, yes. So this is at Mopinx, M-O-P-I-N-K-S. They tweeted about this sign. And it just says, so their comment is just, no, that absolutely does not work. The sign looks like it's from a hotel or something. And it's supposed to say welcome. But for some reason, the C in welcome is starfish. But for some reason, the C in welcome is starfish. So it just looks like, well, after looking at it for some time, I believe what the point of this is, is they are trying to make the starfish look like a K. It looks like Baphomet's head.

I know. I don't know. I like this. Maybe they're like on some, you know, some demonic shit. They're like, welcome to our beach house.

You know what? Yes, that does. It actually, I did not realize that starfish does look kind of goatish actually. It's inverted. It looks like inverted, you know,

pentagrams like shit. Yeah. Yeah. But it's just, it's so strange. If you had to, would you say X? What would a starfish be if you could substitute it for a letter like yeah like anything here i mean the comments are saying like it could make an o because it's kind of like a star you know oh yeah right yeah yeah welcome yeah if you will yeah it's just so it's just such an odd choice but it's just like

they obviously they were confident that it would translate to saying welcome and it's like nope people like to get artsy with it you know just some sometimes it's like the letters they do the job they're supposed to do yeah yeah yeah miles where can people find you what's tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Grey. Also the other show for 20 Day Fiance. Where are we talking? 90 Day Fiance. A couple tweets that I like. This is actually a quote tweet from a tweet from I believe someone from Zeitgang at It's Dave, not David said, I can hear Prof, Sophie and Miles celebrating in relation to the Clippers not making it to the NBA Finals. I abstain from really responding because I want to be.

And what the fuck am I saying, man? I don't know any Angelina. Real people who were born in L.A. that repped the Clippers. No. Paul Scheer, you're not from here, bro. And don't stop acting like the Clippers are the working class team. What? What, sir?

No. Take a look around the city. The buses went up when Kobe Bryant passed away. You know who. Anyway, Prof said group text going crazy. And I get it. Next up, I want to say. Wait, is Paul Scheer trying to claim that the Clippers are the working class?

Paul Scheer was quoted in the fucking paper saying like I really like the Clippers you know they're like the working man's team in LA like the Lakers are now well I get now that because the move to the Staples Center did usher in a new era of NBA fandom which were people who could afford the Staples Center well before used to be people who could have any like most people could afford going to the great western forum there is that but the idea that the people who support the lakers in this city like this has been the basketball team for decades uh before the clippers brought their stankin asses up here so next up i want to say this goes out to at bocx top first mate prance he uh tweeted we got streets crumbling under record-breaking heat and republic Republicans worried about kids learning that America used to be even more racist.

Yeah, that is seems like a bit of a misstep here. And the last one is from at chunk. Barty tweeted. I'm vibing smiley face. This is, of course, not true. Yeah, we all want to be vibing but we just aren't you're not vibing if you're pronouncing the ing i think yeah i am vibing i am vibing you guys oh my goodness so hard you are not you're not you are hiding from your subconscious tweet i enjoyed kylie jansen tweeted there are two ways to pronounce speedometer and we picked the wrong one which speed-o-meter

is correct let's let's make this a thing like a speed-o-meter and law boy esquire tweeted a lot of people are trying to understand why bill Cosby is being released from prison. As an experienced attorney, I can explain. He is extremely, extremely rich. That's all it is. Even though he's out here trying to act like, I maintain my innocence. You're guilty still, sir.

You're out on a weird-ass technicality. And this dude is still apparently there's already talk about like how he's going to be making money off appearances and shit a quick romney tweeted uh i can't believe that dave and busters is owned by dave chapelle and I did not know that. Imagine if it was, though. That would be smokiest shit in there. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song are we telling people to go out and do some vibing?

We're going to vibe, actually, to some music from, you know, one of my other mother countries, Japan. This is a group called Chai, C-H-A-I. And they're a girl group who, you know, they do very interesting stuff. But this track is sort of their take on, you know, what they call Japanese city pop from the 80s, which is a very popular it's kind of resurging now as like a genre where it's like very uh poppy japanese music that was like heavily influenced by american pop at the time but it's just got i just love i just love city pop i don't know if it's just me being japanese but it seems like it

has global appeal but it's very easy to listen to but this is like they're a little bit more like raw with it and so they're giving it a little bit. It's like less polished, but really dope. And it's called Donuts Mind If I Do. And it's just like a fun play on, you know, they're using their own version of English here and Japanese. But it's got that like really nice city pop vibe. So this is chai with donuts mind if I do. All right. Well, The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio.

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