The Daily Zeitgeist - No Car Sundays, Girl Scout Cookie SNAFU 03.13.23

Episode Date: March 13, 2023

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Holy shit, you guys. It's a banger. This fine Monday. In our second seat. Co-, you guys. It's a banger this fine Monday. In our second seat, co-hosting today. So he's promised he's going to be very serious and on topic and just on the rails.

We're thrilled to be joined by Mr. Coltrane, who got me like himself. The advice king. The poetry window is open because it's Chris motherfucking Crofton! Hello. I am the co-host. Hello.

Hello, Chris. I am Chris Crofton, the co-host of the Daily Zeitgeist. And I am very serious and handsome. Yeah. You're wearing a collared shirt and shit. You look great, man. You guys are both hot. You and Miles, I know how this works.

Amazing. I gotta be hot. I gotta be hot and serious. You also have one of those microphones that lights up various colors. I have a gaming microphone. I have a gaming microphone that I've never gamed in my fucking life. It's very young. I haven't gamed since Atari.

I haven't gamed since Combatari i haven't gamed since combat since two cubes shot cubes at each other yeah those were the days but yeah i'm here i'm here i'm like so excited to be hosting the the daily zeitgeist this is incredible i'm climbing a ladder i'm hoping to be the the ceo of iheart radio probably shortly that's the first step is uh yeah co-hosting the daily zeitge guys. In our third seat, another TDZ Hall of Famer, brilliant stand-up comedian you've seen on all the TVs and stages. It's Blair Sagan! Oh, what's up, the Daily Dyke guys? Oh, it's great to be back. I miss you guys so much.

Oh my goodness, it's so great great to be back. I miss you guys so much. Oh my goodness. It's so great to have you back. What a combo we have. Hey, Blair. The booking gods. I know. What a surprise, Mr. Chris Crofton.

This is exciting. This is... I mean, this is... We'll see. We'll see how this goes. This is a volatile concoction. Yeah. Hell of a Friday, a.k.a. Monday for the listeners.

Yes. A lot of Friday energy coming to you on this Monday. Brilliant case of the Mondays today, if I could say so. That's right. Yeah. The Monday scaries, people say that, don't they? I guess. Yeah.

Or Sunday scaries. Sunday scaries. What's Monday then? The Monday madness or something? Just a case of the mondays oh yeah got a case of they they just don't even come up with a word oh man mordant mondays manic mondays that that seemed off to me my mondays are never manic they're another mausoleum monday yeah mausoleum monday is pretty good so yeah blair is like i i saw blair

i met well i i don't know blair well i just know her from daily zeitgeist but i met her through johnny pemberton and pretty much and um and well at least he told me about her comedy and stuff and anyway i just am a big fan and i'm a big fan of any comedy that fucking Blair does about food is all. I mean, I just wish she did whole specials about just food. And that's all about French fries, shoestring fries. Blair's outrage about shoestring fries is one of my favorite fucking things. I don't think you want to humiliate me. I mean, that's the job of the co-host is that you

talk about the favorite jokes that the the guest has done and then do an impression of them is that right is that what you're supposed to do that's usually how it kicks off so look i am so flattered i that you even remember that joke from a long time ago because i can barely remember what i had for breakfast this morning so look i was only in feeling gratitude yeah i don't really like shoestring fries um my thing about them honestly is that you have to get a whole it's humiliating again because you have to get a whole handful just to get the equivalent of one regular fry. It's like a horse eating hay. It's like you... It's hell.

It's horrible hell. I like it also just because it's like, how often are you hanging around roller rinks or something? You know what I mean? Like, when is this coming up? You'd be surprised. There's so many dining restaurants. Oh, okay.

Maybe that's, I got it wrong. Blair only eats at the finest steakhouses. Okay, you're talking about Palm Creek and all that junk. Look, I do love a steakhouse. Let's be real. You're talking about amused bouches. Yes. I'm so sick of amused bouches.

All right. Blair, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about today, or maybe not. I don't know how deep we're going to get into the doc, because it's a chaotic episode. Chaotic good. We're going to talk about, there's a good twitter thread that i'm just gonna like read to you but it's uh from a climate journalist about how the netherlands was like this traffic

quagmire like they had just like filled their city with all these like scrodes and highways and shit like that and i think i I had always associated the Dutch with like bicycles and windmills and shit, but they like had a brief dalliance with our style of city, the American style of city, and were able to, you know, fight back from, from that. So I just wanted to, it felt like a little bit of good news. So I wanted to talk about that. felt like a little bit of good news. So I wanted to talk about that. The BBC published an article about this Canadian study that said, actually, there was no mental health crisis from the COVID pandemic. Everything's okay. So it was news to people who are still suffering from a mental health crisis from the COVID pandemic. So we might talk about that. Probably not, actually.

What was the study from? It was from Canada. It was public. The BBC published a headline that was somewhat misleading because it was like the headline said, mental health crisis from COVID pandemic was minimal dash study.

And then the study itself is like, we only asked rich people in high income European and Asian countries. So this is a very limited sample size. It's harder to get cigars, which is contributing to my angst. That's right. I haven't been to my favorite steakhouse. I haven't had an amuse-bouche. My bouche is so so unamoosed right now i would love to talk about that because i the fact that rich the fact that people rich rich rich people thought the biggest part of the pandemic that was a problem for them is the restaurants needed to be open and they did that whole we need to open the restaurants for like the sake of the workers and all these lies

they came up with just because they missed their favorite chef or whatever. They got to say hi to the chef. They live for that shit. We might talk about Joe Rogan's new comedy club, Mecca, Comedy Mothership, because that opened in the past week or so. People were buying tickets for $500. So Roseanne Barr was one of the early headliners. And I just like to talk about stand-up with other stand-up comedians and kind of get you guys' opinion. How many jokes are you stealing from Roseanne's Fox News set? You know, like it was pretty good.

Get a job! That's the punchline of every... My pronouns are get a job! I only saw that 20-second clip, but I can only know in my heart that that's the punchline to every joke in the special. Woof. Yeah, my pronouns are kiss my ass is their favorite thing to say. I mean, Ted Cruz said it and then she said it in a stand up special. I know Ted Cruz, the famously the most unfunny person alive living on the planet today.

Except for that time that he tried to dunk a basketball and came like three feet short. That was I was like, wait, is he a physical comedy genius? What the fuck is happening? But I think that was inadvertent. He just gave me a good laugh, Jack. Wow. Such a laugh. We might even talk about Girl Scout cookies and the Mandalorian.

All of that. Plenty more. But first, Blair, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? And you're our guest. So I'm asking, what's something from your search history? Okay. Can you take rhodiola with well butrin that was um and the answer is no from what i was able to ascertain so if anyone

wants some scientific advice you heard it here first yeah we do tend to like to give out medication yeah from a medical professional so yeah what was the first one um rhodiola it's from what i understand an adaptogenic herb and you know uh my favorite social media i really kind of don't go on twitter and instagram as much i love tiktok because i think it's really like not that toxic and so then i find out about all this weird shit on there and then i have to try and weed through what's not going to kill me you know rhodiola is a great name for anything it is it's got the word rodeo in it yeah it appears to be a supplement like you know you get it from places when i google rhodiola and spell it just completely wrong,

they're like, do you mean like rhodiola athletic greens supplements? So that's what we're working with. Athletic greens, not to shock anyone here. My jaw. Justin just had to edit out 30 seconds of stunned silence. It's something like Kratom, right? Kratom? You know about Kratom?

K-R-A-T-O-M? Oh, no, no. I don't know what that is. It's all over my neighborhood. That's like a, yeah. They sell it at like vape shops, but it's supposed to like, it's supposed to be an herb, but it's, anyway, I've just found out about it because it's like advertised all over my neighborhood in tennessee i live in like a neighborhood that's like mostly where you can get keys made and get cray tom yeah yeah i've known people who've been into that it's some kind of fake weed or something like that it's some kind of like thing where you can get a store

you can get like a throwing star and a and cray tom but it's like it's like a psychoactive thing sort of like it would leak some people smoke it some people i was wondering if people knew what it was because it's all over my street yeah which just gives you an idea of like i'm in a really really wealthy neighborhood uh blair what is something that you think is overrated well jack i'm so glad you asked one day oh good i think it's overrated all right i got what i would call a massive bone to pick with these eight ounce plastic water bottles if you are drinking eight ounces of water you don't deserve a single use plastic you little fucking. I'm so mad at you. I need at least four of those little loser water bottles to even gently wet my palate.

And then I instantly become like the number one worldwide demon contributor to landfills against my will. Like those mile-long floating trash piles in the ocean are all because of me at one freaking cannabis event. I blame you every time I see one of those. Buying those one-sip bottles. Everyone needs to become more ashamed of yourselves. If you can't drink a regular-sized water bottle, you shouldn't get any water. None for you.

A camel is drinking more than you delinquents. Get a life. You disgust me. If I ever run for office, this will be my main campaign in this country, but I will never run for office because I plan to disappear into the forest in five to seven years. Holy shit.

Disappear into the underbrush. I agree with all that. Those things make me so mad. I agree with you, and I think that all those water bottles, man, those little water bottles, I mean, I think they're bad. And they're not for sale individually, right? They only give them out at events, it feels like. Yeah, or at my mother's house or other places where there's children. my mother's house or other places where there's children and i'm like the children shouldn't get water if they can only drink one sip of water i don't want i don't want them to have water

yeah it's too little water what's the idea with them really what why do they make them so small in my estimation it's because they think that they're not wasting because people can't handle a regular 12 ounce 16 ounce standard size water bottle and honestly i'm just sickened yeah that's yeah i i am a a thirsty boy and i i like i i would need yeah at at least four or five of those things just to have the equivalent of one regular water bottle. Not to mention everybody misplaces their freaking water bottle all the time

and then just opens a new one. So then you end up with like 50,000 of those things and then everybody just goes off into the sunset and wanders into the forest. Production assistant, go clean them up and ruin the world. Is that your 10-year plan, Blair? When people ask, are you like, well, 10 years from now,

I will have wandered off and disappeared into the forest. I speak about this all the time openly, and I probably shouldn't, but I am at odds with the career that I love and chose and also this deep hermit introverted part of me where you know I want to live in nature I don't want to have social media and I don't know how to do that and also do what I do but um yeah it would be cool to get like successful enough where i could live in like colorado or something and then you know fly in for whatever i have to do yeah yes become a pilot become one of those rich people who has their own plane and they all have the same pair

of aviator sunglasses honestly i would just take a shack in central california that would work for me also so we'll see yeah i kind of got to live that during the pandemic and it was pretty great for a while and then and then and then and then it takes a turn the next thing you know you're fucking don't know what day it is and you're trying to trim your beard when you got no beard and uh you just go i went kind of crazy like you know like the shining i mean the shining is kind of like i mean i didn't go crazy there was nobody there for me to go crazy about i mean i was by myself so i couldn't like you know threaten anybody but or go crazy you know if i went crazy it was all aimed at me i just went to bed you know if i went too crazy i went to bed but but uh you know it's just anyway

it gets it gets too much so yeah you do need to be able to fly in and out of uh civilization yeah that would be good if you could i wish yeah if i had a helicopter during the pandemic at that cabin i would have been fine hell yeah that's what's so cool about la is it makes you have the thought at least three to four times a day man man, I wish I had a helicopter. That's how you know it's a good city to live in. That's true. That's totally true. Since I've been in Tennessee,

I have not thought about having a helicopter at all. I've thought about having some basic beauty on the streets, like something besides a fucking payday loan store. We got snow-capped mountains everywhere now snow-capped hills i like that a lot i'm enjoying that of beautiful unexpected vista my drive to pasadena is like incredibly beautiful for the past couple weeks it's amazing no but i feel this and maybe you know it's just at some current moment in my life, but a lot of times I feel that I'm too wholesome for this city. Oh, yeah.

You know? You definitely are. Yes. I think that... You're right. I think most good people are. I've met you in person, and you're friendly. That's already way...

You're like weak, too weak for LA. Say hello and stuff. You're supposed to be like, I'm busy, right to someone's face. Like, what do you mean you're busy? You're looking right at me. Yeah. I mean, I've had that happen in Los Angeles. Like when I moved to Los Angeles at age 45 to like,

I already had done stand up here and well, I'd done whatever. I'd done stand up for a long time, but it was like starting over in Los Angeles, you know, and everybody was, it was like high school, except I was 45. Right. And you say hello to people right to their face and they just are like stare at you i mean it's like and then they're the ones that are doing a good job right they're like hello how are you and they're like this guy's never gonna make it look at you look at him communicate disgusting horrible vulnerability yeah so it's true we need to start a stand-up scene somewhere nice yes like in like yeah like colorado or something but we got a guy i don't know where

because those people those places are all full of rich people though who've like run away to have free you know quote unquote freedom so all your jokes have to be about like thank god there's no regulations around here you know they'll be like yeah yeah this is my kind of stand-up what uh what is something you think is underrated blair aquaphor aquaphor i mean like i know people like it but to me it is oxygen I put it like all over my entire face and my entire body. And I just pretty much live my entire life looking like I'm perpetually covered in amniotic fluid. Just glistening.

Yeah. I love it so much. I don't know if I'm addicted to it or if it actually is just some incredible thing that I revere and value. It's like Vaseline-ish, right? It's like Vaseline except much more viscous and less scented and yeah. Yeah.

Is it something you wear all day, every day or is it something you put on like at night really good for your skin like so you know having little kids the like they get rashes all the time there's all sorts of skin problems and we had a dermatologist be like just put aquaphor on everything like that's truly the answer it's so when did you start using it flair like when did it like come up on the radar kind of thing like has it always been around i can't remember when i started it feels like it's been such a big part of my life i would say i'm like probably viciously addicted to it but i always am like putting it all over my hands and my lips and my face and you know, everything. It's just,

yeah, it makes me feel safe and nice. How much are we talking? Like, are you leaving like wet aquaphor footprints behind as you walk around in your apartment? I just like, if you look at me at any given time,

like I always, my face, like I just kind of always look a little I always look a little wet there's a shimmer I always look like I just got like slightly like misted you know

and a lot of people wouldn't prefer to look that way but for me it's sort of a stand alone preference and that's how I just move about the world, looking wet all the time. I like to look a little flinty, a little ashy, a little dusty. Like I just came from a place that recently experienced some volcanic activity. Or like a little 1800s dust bully.

Yeah. Yes. Exactly. East of Eden, John Steinbeck jack yeah that's what yeah i'm doing that right now look at my fucking head you guys if you guys on the listening to this show could see what i look like and they're talking about talk about a guy who looks like he needs aquaphor i mean you're doing great chris come on you see i have a scar you see that scar that's from shingles that I got during the pandemic.

I got shingles. I thought that was for some other people. Wow. I was like, shingles? Shingles is for everyone. But it sounds like you really turned it all around. I turned it all around. I did.

You wouldn't believe how great things are going. I'll tell you about it before i would i do recommend aquaphor like to everyone because it's it's just good like i definitely am one of those people who didn't realize how dry every part of me was before i well yeah that's been like having to switch to moisturizer like i've had to give pep talks to men to get them to wear moisturizer like they think it turns them gay or something like they actually certain men are like i'm not wearing moisturizer like i was raised in kansas or something and you're like my skin you are dry you look like shit yeah men are very odd species very peculiar well they've been yeah they've been i fucking agree uh but yeah like because i've taught i'm not making that up i've had to give

people talks about moisturizer and some people have just been like no i'm not gonna do it like being a being a heterosexual is all about having dry fucking skin. But also they're all mad. Like girls are so fucking judgmental. They won't go out with me just because my face is falling off. Yeah. White guys, I think in particular. Yeah. Like incels, like don't moisturize. Never heard of it.

No. And they're like, no way. You kidding me? I'm not compromising. That's right. I want to wear Aquaphor now. That's all I know. Yeah. Go compromising. That's right. I want to wear Aquaphor now. That's all I know. Yeah.

You look great. You look way better than me. I mean, that's an understatement. I mean, you should. You're much, you know, that's obvious. You always do. But I look dry as fuck compared to everyone in this, these three Zoom windows. Chris, your flattery has buoyed me to heights you will never

understand. Oh, I love it. I love it. I love it. Weren't we talking about last time you were on, Chris, about wet boys versus dry boys? I don't remember what that was about. I forget most stuff. There wasn't an AKA that was wet boys related, but yeah. I think you were saying

you were a dry boy. Yeah, but I don't remember why. I don't remember anything, though. No, me neither. I forgot my mom's birthday the other day. My mom was like, she turned 81, and it was her birthday the next day. And all I've been thinking about is how to make money lately, which is like the worst. So I'm like thinking all the things running through my head. It's like a roulette wheel of like clean houses, write ad copy, blah, blah, blah. Just all this crap, you know?

And so I got so confused that I was over at my mom's house and I was there for some birthday related event. And she said, you know what I would like? I would like. She said, Rio, I would like that band Rio. And I was like, that band Rio. I was like, you mean Rio by Duran Duran, that song? And she's like no Rio REO

and she said I want that I want REO I want Rio REO Speedwagon is what she meant yeah yeah you wanted REO Speedwagon or Phil Collins records oh and she said that to me and I said why I said what do you mean like I said I'm broke right now what you want me to just go get you some records for like no reason and she was like chris and she was like it's my birthday i just forgot and i forgot a couple other times too yeah but in my defense you know she raised, she raised me. She raised me. Yeah.

Chris, come on. You need to go pick up your mama. I'm Phil Collins. I got myself together. No, I got myself together. But I didn't get her anything for her birthday. Because I was just busy. But it was a conscious decision.

But I was busy. But I shifted into like, oh, of course, I understand why you're. Okay, that'd be nice. That'd be nice if I got you that. Being a mother is a thankless job. She's my mother. You know, well, she's got plenty. All right.

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iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. And am I like when you think of a Dutch city or like the Netherlands or Amsterdam or,sterdam or you know like do you pick what what what do you picture how do you what do you see in your mind's eye i went there once so i know but i just see like rivers and bikes and people walking in those um waffles with powdered sugar on them but i do think it's a majestic place of beauty where it's like sort of feels like it's from a children's story.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I picture like fucking people in exercise clothing, like hot people in exercise clothes, clothing, like walking by canals and talking about like, you know, how much health care they have. Yeah. Just going to the doctor. you know, how much health care they have. Yeah.

Just going to the doctor. Yeah, like, I think I'm going to go to the dentist today because my tooth is not really aching, but it's starting to, like, I can feel something coming on. Yeah. Do you think I should go, Hans? And Hans is like, yes, I think you should go. It's free. Just drop in at the dentist.

Maybe go for a twofer and get a health checkup. Yeah. And then also, like, windmills, I guess, you know guess you know with like some guy who's like wise inside it or some lady who's wise with like a hump and yeah it's like don't forget to use moisturizer rhodion or whatever that stuff you were saying was rhodesia or whatever it is rhodiola so yeah i i feel like that is in my brain. And like, I assume that was always the way it was. And apparently during the like 50s, 60s, 70s, they bought into the American style like city building and they like bought in hard. They like filled up the like some of their canals with cement and replaced the canals with highways. And there's just these pictures where it's just four lanes of

traffic in the middle of these cities that we now associate with bike riding and canals. Wait, so they changed that? They removed the cement from the canals? Yeah. Whoa! yeah, yeah. Whoa! And what happened? What made them come to some radical decision to change everything? So, like, among things like, you know, it just being a nightmare to live in a city that is just jam-packed.

Like, you walk out your front door and a car whizzes by yeah like here yeah yeah yeah like america yeah yeah so a lot of people like children were getting hit by cars all the time like and you know the air was like disgusting but it was like a i guess it was 1971 the daughter of in 1971 3 000 people were killed by cars. 500 of the people killed that year were children. And that probably happened today in America. Right. Yeah. I mean, they like, so today we have three times the number of automobile deaths that they do and like per capita. And the reason for that. so one of the children that was killed was the daughter of a journalist and he wrote a front page article that with the headline stop murdering

our children and that just like that it wasn't like everyone was like yes you're right we should stop murdering children like it was a long process, but like, and there, there are other factors. Like it was, there was like gas prices started shooting up because it was the seventies. So, so I can't imagine a reality like that where gas costs too much.

Yeah. You guys are paying like $7 right now, right? Yeah. It's fucking crazy. Yeah. You know what it is here in Tennessee? Like three 50.

Yeah. Which is still like too much. Yeah, it is. But like, yeah, that's how they keep it low. And they can they jack it up for liberals because liberals can be like, oh, well, you know, it's because of this and that. Maybe because of supply chains, you know, like, but, you know, Republicans are like, they have to keep it artificially low in like red states because otherwise the red states will go crazy because they just feel like god tells us the gas prices yeah who's the you know like it's just funny if the gas prices were seven dollars here because everyone here is a conservative they would they would they would storm the capital again yeah just every day just keep storming the way because they're like jesus names the gas prices. Who is interfering with Jesus?

Yeah. With gas Jesus. Yeah, it really is. It seems to be that simple. The companies were just like, we like money. And the pandemic slowed down how much money was coming in. So when it opened back up, we are going to charge more money for everything. Like that really seems to be the more distance we get from it.

Like all the gas companies are having just like record breaking profits. But like the reason I like this story is so interesting is because like it just I assume I think we like tend to get focused on like the way things are and assume they've always been that way. There's this one drawing of what Amsterdam was supposed to look like, and it looks exactly like a city in Texas. It's just being choked by all these lanes of highways and stuff. Or the BQ know like parts of new york that are just like all these highway interchanges and shit but they like were able to back away from that because like that that article led to a movement people started like protesting

and just like laying down in the streets. And like, you know, after gas prices shot up, it became fashionable for like the prime minister, like urged people to use less energy, change their lifestyles. He announced a series of car free Sundays, which is my favorite idea. Like, can we just try a car free Sunday like fucking once in America? try a car free sunday like fucking once in america and i feel like people would see that their lives are like livable and it's cool to for your kids to just be able to like run wherever they want and not be worried about getting like run over by a fucking car that would never happen. That would never happen because that would be like you're taking away our right to drive our earth!

Yeah. Like, what do you think we're closer to? The a car-free Sunday or the actual purge happening in the United States? I feel like we're 100% closer to the purge. The only way we could have a car-free Sunday is when the aliens finally come down.

And if they say, you have to have a car-free Sunday. But yeah, there's... I hope they come. They introduce really moderate, like, incremental changes. They're like, guys, just hear us out. We're not saying you have to...

We're just saying car-free Sundays. One day every couple months. Car-free Sundays, and you can only use your phone one hour a day, except for phone calls. Yeah, and taking pictures. Those would be some badass aliens. The cities also began passing policies

to discourage driving they like made parking in city centers super expensive they removed some parking spots entirely they reduced speed limits so like there are things that can be done that have worked in the past like they turn some areas into car-free zones like all all these things that like seem completely impossible like we think of the united states possible in this country uniquely because this country thinks that cars are like an extension of their fucking like blair just said like freedom you know it's like toxic men i mean i think about toxic masculinity constantly now because of what's happening in Tennessee with the drag show ban and and the fuck the abortion ban. I mean, this state.

I mean, I just moved back here because I could afford it better, you know, but it's like it's a nightmare. And it's all these fucking men, these alcoholic men who are running things. I mean, like we keep electing alcoholics. We're fucked. Everybody in Tennessee is an obvious drunk. Every person, every member of the legislature. I mean, like we keep electing alcoholics. We're fucked. Everybody in Tennessee is an obvious drunk. Every person, every member of the legislature. I mean, that's the culture here. They all fucking drink their heads off.

You know what drinking makes you do? It makes you fucking crazy. I used to be an alcoholic. I know you're a nut. You make laws about crazy shit because you think you're, I don't know, like a human meteor. Like alcohol makes you grandiose. That's the last thing you want in a leader. I mean, you know, but I was thinking about cars, you know, that that is what men feel more powerful in a car than they feel.

It's the only place now that they're like, at least I can't get canceled in my car. Like no one lets, you know, I can fucking ride around with my fucking dick out and fucking four wheel drive and all this bullshit. ride around with my fucking dick out and fucking four-wheel drive and all this bullshit and it's just it's just men are so have been told there are only two ways to be mad or or or madder i don't even know you know like there's two ways a man can be calm or mad the only time i'm calm is in my truck and if you try and take away my fucking truck, then I'm going to go fucking crazy because that's my only other setting. Well, I think I always say this on this show, but conservatives, their whole thing in their head is that they are against big government. But then now there's all this insane control coming over in all people's lives. But if they if you had the car thing, it wouldn't even be about what the issue is about. It would be about taking away that something they can't do.

There's no self-awareness. But I guess our government with the two were always it's just about winning at this point. It's never actually about what's best for anyone. It's about beating the other party. And aside from that, I also think that there should be when the aliens come down that they should

ban the politicians from having Twitter. I'm still fucking annoyed at these politicians on Twitter acting like every tweet is a goddamn wrestling promo like i miss the old days when they were just fake smiling in public like freaking richard nixon and doing bad shit in private like i don't want to see them openly just being nuts every day it's like terrifying to the really scary yeah it's like the joker they're all like

the the joke you know like everyone tries to out joker the other one well how about if we outlaw you know i don't know i don't know what they you know everything you know they just want to outlaw everything just to out out outlaw their other joker you know it's like you think you're the joker watch this yeah richard nixon by the way, last time there was inflation, he just came on and was like, if companies try to raise prices for the next month, they'll be under arrest. Like something that today would be seen

as the most socialist thing that's ever been done. Yeah. Everything, everything is socialist. If it isn't mean as hell. By the way, unrelated a little bit, but that star series on Watergate with Julia Roberts was absolutely

incredible. Was it really? Yeah. I enjoyed the hell out of it. It was so good. It was really about Martha. La la la la la. What?

I forgot her two other names. Lady Bird Johnson? Is that? No, Martha. I forget the name. Did Julia Roberts play Richard Nixon? No, she didn't. She played Martha.

I want that kind of casting so bad. I want that kind of casting. I would be so interested in biopics or biopics. Which is it? I mean, I didn't. She played Martha. I want that kind of casting so bad. I want that kind of casting. I would be so interested in biopics or biopics. Which is it? I mean, I can never. No, Julia Roberts played Martha. Martha the Whistleblower. Martha the Whistleblower.

I want to see Samuel Jackson. Yes. I want to see Samuel Jackson as Amelia Earhart. That's the kind of shit I'm talking about. Yeah. I want to see that. I'm tired of them casting people who look like like the person it's so fucking stupid and juvenile like oh we have to get an actor that looks like that's so dumb i mean that's the dumbest thing you could ever think of

in the world yeah like casting in a in a meeting being like well he doesn't look enough like jesus i thought we were here for art but guys everybody laughs and jumps out the window but one thing quickly about aliens to blair's point is like i wish they would come down and boss us around too and i'm starting to lose faith in the aliens i just want to mention that because they've been buzzing around here for what 50 years or whatever just i don't believe they're aliens anymore because if they were aliens they wouldn't give a fuck they would show up and get in our faces they're not like oh they're just investigating that's horseshit why would they ever waste they don't give up what are they afraid of us for why wouldn't they just come down and start patting us on the head i just i don't i'm i'm i'm a big believer in everything i can believe in

anything i believe in bigfoot i believe in Bigfoot. I believe in ghosts. I believe in every goddamn thing. But aliens fucking do it already. Like, come down here and shoot us with a ray gun or fucking tell us to have no cars on Sunday or just get it over with. Stop buzzing around the sky and drive diving underwater and stuff. Come on. Stop diving underwater. I'm not kidding. People are like, get them underwater basins off Twitter. What the fuck are they doing underwater? Tell them to come up here and kick mitch mcconnell's fucking ass

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the Mandalorian? Why wouldn't we talk about girl scout cookies should we talk about the mandalorian why wouldn't we talk about girl scout cookies i don't know that much about nerd shit so but i know nothing about i just know the mandalorian's like a freaking star wars thing yeah boba fett he's a boba fett don't know nothing i'm a jock obviously you know that jack Jack. I'm an alcoholic. I also. You missed the whole. I'm an alcoholic. You were drunk between the release of Return of the Jedi and the third prequel. Blair, I don't know if you know this about me, but I was an alcoholic from like 1984 to 19, I mean, to 2010. So all the movies that happened in between those times, I didn't see because I was like, movies are for normies.

I was like, oh, it's oh, it's hang out at the docks and write poems on, you know, old, old, you know, carved poems into. They don't do anything. Just get drunk. You know, I get drunk. Ride the rails. Yeah, I was riding the rails. So I haven't seen like Forrest Gump or anything. You were living, brother.

That's what I thought. But it just turns out I missed a bunch of movies. I didn't live. I was not living at all. I was like just turns out i missed a bunch of movies i didn't live i was not living at all i was like look i miss a bunch of shit completely sober so like i'm even there and i miss it so you missed a lot of shit because you were too cool you were too cool for it well no no like i'm saying i consume things i attend things i watch things and i like won't remember half of it. It's, like, very odd. Like, I'm missing half of my brain or lobotomize or something.

What was your main sport? Volleyball, surfing. Well, volleyball is, like, what I played in college. But, yeah, that was the main one. Do you still surf? Very, very rarely. I'm kind of weak and cozy now. I don't really like to be cold or put out or have any sort of, you know, physical struggle.

Sure, sure, sure. I like to sit down. Okay. That sounds good to me. You got a picture of those of you watching at home. Blair has a picture, a painting of a surfer right behind her on her wall very nice painting too yeah you're right thank you all right then we'll talk about girl scout cookies fine if you guys don't want to talk about the star wars i actually don't watch the star wars series either but i am getting into

star wars i thought phantom thread was a star wars movie if that helps you i did enjoy the rides at disneyland which i was only able to go on because matt rogers like knew how to navigate the disney app which again i should have spoken about that instead of little water bottles i can't believe disney has been appified i mean how are grandmas and grandpas gonna take their little grandkids there when everything is done by a fucking app do you know that's like hard to figure out on the same they make they make the fucking people applying for asylum use apps and if you can't fucking use an app this is true you can't apply for asylum in the united states and that's actually making it

so people can't apply for asylums they don't have a goddamn phone that's on purpose yeah yeah apps come down to your aliens and tell us to stop using apps. I love the, they just, like, have some notes for us. The aliens arrive and they don't, like, vaporize anyone or, like, even ask to speak to our leader. They're just like, we

have some suggestions. That's my gentle opinion, Jack. That's my gentle opinion. I love it. I want them to be that way. I have to believe in benevolent forces in order to take one more step each day. They do. They do a thing. My benevolent force is cold brew coffee that keeps me taking steps.

But there's also nice people. There are nice people around, you know. And we got three of them right here. I really feel like that. And I feel like the whole Daily Zeitgeist community is really a pretty kind bunch of people but here's the thing is if the aliens came down man and they they could say something like everybody needs to eat more salads or whatever but they to to solidify their point the thing they can do without giving a shit is they can vaporize jim jordan right they can just

use their they're like just as an example we're not going to vaporize Jim Jordan. Right. They can just use their, they're like, just as an example, we're not going to vaporize everybody, but this guy's a real piece of shit, so we'll vaporize him. We can all agree. All you guys have to do is not drive cars on Sunday and we won't vaporize anybody else. There you go. See you guys later. Now we're going back underwater to do whatever the fuck we do

down there. Alright. Are you guys Girl Scout Cookie fans? Do you partake then mince i am yeah i have actually been a lifelong supporter of the girl scouts that's really why i do it is because i like to help young women advance in this country but yeah i i know all of them intimately and i usually purchase them from my acting teacher's daughter and that's sort of where i'm at yeah what's your favorite type wait what's the new name for you know the caramel delights yeah caramel delights obviously that's my favorite one and it's only a light 7 000 calories for a

cook for a cookie and what i like to do is eat seven to nine in one sitting and feel sick for three hours after there's a little nice little ritual that i like to do also love a frozen and mint like the masses my brother peculiar guy he likes the peanut butter ones growing up, which was a very odd outlier choice. Peanut butter sandwich cookies? Or the peanut butter chocolate coated ones? Because there's... Blair just called me one of the masses by the way, in case no one caught that. We're all the masses. Everyone knows the stars of the Girl Scout cookie collection. Everyone knows the stars. You called me a basic bee.

I included myself in the number two, the one and two. That's the ones I prefer. They're the best ones, objectively. That's why pop music is pop music because it's so enjoyable to all. Oh, fuck. I lost that. I know you did, yeah. All right.

Caramel Delights. I never heard of caramel delights. What did they used to be called? Samoa. Yeah. Samoa. See, I'm out of my league already. I don't know what I'm talking about. All I know.

You're out of your league here. I said thin mints and that was all I. Let the professionals talk. All right. Yeah. I want to know one thing. Do Girl Scouts really make them? No.

In a tree, a hollowed out tree in the forest. They make them in the forest. They make them in sweatshops. No, a company named Little Brownie Bakers. Little Brownie Bakers makes them. They are, of course, owned by a giant Italian confection company named Ferrero. They have just been fucking up the availability. They just haven't been producing as many as are needed, required, requested by the market. This is just a thing that we're seeing repeatedly where companies, I don't know, they're just like, yeah, sorry, we fucked up.

What do you want to do about it? And because there's not because the world is full of monopolies now and there is no like free market, even like the thing that the we choose to give you and you'll like it or you won't get it. And also like we're going to raise prices, essentially. Yeah. So, yeah, Girl Scouts are the Girl Scouts as a community have expressed disappointment with their partner, Little Brown Bakers, for their like supply chain issues. But the supply chain issues are bullshit. They're just like, yeah, companies have supply chain issues all the time and then they fix them if they're good at their job

or like, you know, people who get paid tons of money get fired for not fixing the thing. Because that's like what your company does is make Girl Scout cookies and you're like, hey, our bad bad we're not making girl scout cookies this year as good well the monopoly thing is like that's why people have to beg for their tv shows back and beg for their favorite kind of corn chips back because there's no other i mean it's supposed to be like competition if it was a free market for real then someone else would make you know a corn chip like that but now people have to like be, please, Doritos.

Please, at Doritos. Yeah. Look, I don't want to do too many hot takes as I like to do on this podcast. But while it's brought up, Doritos, not a good chip. Come for me. Come for me. You think I'm afraid of you? I hear you all out there.

I know what you're going to do. I know a lot about chips. Doritos, not a good chip. Doritos are from, I'm just because I'm old. I'm like all out there. I know what you're going to do. I know a lot about chips. Doritos? Not a good chip. Doritos are from... I'm just because I'm old. I'm like, Doritos? I don't even know about any newer chips. People love Doritos, but...

What's your favorite chip? What's your favorite chip? You know, I like a lot of chips. I partake in a lot of chips. But if I had to go with one type of chip, obviously I'm going to go with kettle chips because I like two chips that cause oral injury and harm i hate that when i get cut by by snacks that's like very humiliating i love them and they have such good flavors too like just really really well executed flavors on the kettle chip yeah so the girl scouts

introduced a new flavor raspberry rally and immediately sold out and they what who's who's naming these somebody's grandma is naming these fucking things they really seem very like raspberry rally jack are you gonna get those a raspberry rally if they come back up to stock i would yeah i would absolutely try them they are thin mints with instead of mint flavored chocolate cookies like raspberry flavored oh that is not what i was imagining my head i would fuck with that actually raspberry chocolate of a famous, incredible combination. I was thinking that it was going to be just over the jelly, the raspberry jelly thing. Yeah. Yeah.

Or some shortcake bullshit, you know? Yeah. Shortcake with like a little jelly center or some shit. Yeah. Hashtag shortcake bullshit. Some short. I love that. This is my dream i this is my fucking dream like like what

to be with blair sake hearing new fucking new food takes takes this is i'm not kidding if anyone listening is not checked out go on fucking youtube and i saw this live lyric hyperion that one time i ever performed it only once. It was an all food show. And it was like one of my favorite things I saw the whole eight years I was in Los Angeles. That's so kind. Thank you, Chris. And there was no second place, actually.

That's really, really nice. It was the only thing I enjoyed in the whole eight years I was in Los Angeles. And if you are in Los Angeles in the comedy scene, you'll understand what I'm fucking talking about. So, yeah, that was just anyway. If you can find it's kind of like on isn't it on like YouTube and pieces or in like on TikTok or something? I only have like a few very few. That thing should be on. That should be on Blu-ray.

In my opinion. Fuck the Mandalorian. I don't even know what the Mandalorian is. Boba Fett. he wasn't even a main character why does he get a show get out of here it's wild i watched the movie that he appears in with my kids and like didn't i i don't really give a fuck about star wars that much so like i wasn't like telling them about that and i i always thought it was weird that everyone was like so into boba fett when he like appears on screen 15 seconds. Yeah, there's no Boba Fett franchise. The second he was on screen, they were like,

who's the guy in the green? Whoa, he's funny. They were so blown away. Did you like it as a whole, though? Did your kids like it? They're obsessed. Oh, I love that. I actually think my nephew is really into it as well.

And any time kids, I kind of trust the opinion of kids. Any time they really like something i'm like maybe i should check it out it's definitely making me more what if i was at home watching frozen by myself no i love those movies i i actually say that so unironically i think that there's so much heart and vision in all those movies and they work on them for like seven years they yeah they get they can only get like four seconds done in a day like i actually think they're all masterpieces where do they go after they're done doing that four seconds they go back to their apartment at burbank and like

play russian roulette i think it's actually meaningful work that is shaping these children's lives i think you're right blair and you know what the thing is with me is another problem here is like like as far as my relating to anything is that as an ex-alcoholic and also like a person who was raised by wolves we have we are i'm one of four children we're all majorly old or like you know adult you know older than you or jack and and no kids no kids four children no kids and that's because our parents scared the shit out of us and it's really true there's no other reason and and so i have no kids in my life so if i started watching frozen it's just i was just imagining myself upstairs in this house that i just moved into in madison tennessee which is like home of the like food truck slash you know i don't even you know it's just food truck slash slash vape store kind of thing i just imagine myself up in the attic watching like that's that's important

in your child work though and so if you feel called you should not be ashamed of that absolutely frozen and i yeah frozen or any of them. Moana. I'm going to watch Frozen. Moana's really nice. And Coco, a favorite. I saw her in theater. Moana, Coco are great. Yeah. But I was just having this conversation with my therapist yesterday. And I think she accidentally recommended Avatar, the TV series on Netflix because I was saying how the reality TV that I have been consuming lately makes me feel spiritually bankrupt because I quit it for a few years. When I started developing a solid meditation practice, I was like, this is toxic.

But then, you know, I'm sure it has been brought up on this show in the last week. But the Vanderpump Rules bomb dropped and suddenly I'm all sucked back in. And I don't know how to get out of this hole like i've had to explain to me why like what happened and yeah you know by people who generally fuck with reality tv but this really like from an outsider's perspective like it feels like oh something's really going on over there i'm happy sure. I'm happy to give you a short synopsis. This is the reality TV 9-11. Like, I know we've had the synopsis,

but, like, what is different about this compared to... Because it feels like they're... So, like, one of them cheated on the other one with another one, and, like, that seems to be happening a lot on Vanderpump. What, in particular, about this time kind of sucked you back in? Okay, so this is what i'll say about vanderpump of all the uh bravo franchises it's maybe one of the weakest like i stopped off i fell off after maybe season two season three so i think we're in season nine season 10 now yeah

hadn't thought about it since and um there this is a relationship basically and they've all one of the oddest things about this show in this cast is they all have had sex with each other. Like they don't seem to sleep with people outside of the cast. I don't know if they, some, I was saying it was like the Habsburg empire where they're just like, yeah. And this woman that's been cheating,

she was engaged to another cast member. And then, you know, she was very good friends of the girlfriend very close friends of the girlfriend of the man she's been having the affair with and you know she also is presents as like this very benign like uncalculated has no idea what's going on girl and then it's come out like all these intense calculated war moves and strategy that straightens out she pulls out a cigarette truly she's had all these decoys and symbols and like

wild moves that just no one could have anticipated that this bitch is actually just completely different than anyone thought. Oh, man. Yeah. I mean, that sounds pretty good. Also, their new bar that's like the whole storyline is like three blocks from my house. Like, it's really close and it's very odd.

Yeah, I don't know. Will you go there? I think I will, yes. I will be going at like 5 p.m because that's still the time i like but yeah yeah i i'm curious i'm curious are there still people from the cast working there for real like can you go see them in action they don't work there it's the two got one of the cheaters plus his partner they own it and like that's their thing is yeah so yeah i've never seen it so i just i've heard about it i'm trying to join in i've heard about it yeah but no i did because i dated someone younger than

me so they told me about vanderpump rules and they loved vanderpump rules and she came to visit me out in california and she wanted to go to the restaurant that was did you go i didn't go because uh i don't know why. But I would have gone. I just wouldn't. You know, I probably wouldn't have been as excited. Get your V-neck on. It's been shocking to see how uniting it has been around the country and what that means.

And yeah, I was just sick. All of it. And it's had me in a chokehold. Wow. Just to finish off the girl scout cookies since we started it uh they they also use palm oil in their cookies which is an industry that is backed by child slavery or like uses child slavery and in fact the palm oil in girl scout cookies can be traced back to child slavery so So that's just wanted to make sure.

One of the most disturbing things I could have heard today. And were the child slaves at least Girl Scouts? One of the wildest things about humanity and being a human is like everything good also has some sort of deeply sickening underbelly yeah i want i like i feel like it doesn't need or it shouldn't be like that way by design but it does it does feel like that especially in the modern world well if everything is a reflection of our internal worlds and we are all the sum of the entire spectrum of good and bad it does make sense but oh it's so painful yeah yeah that's a huge man i can't believe you just said that like that makes me

want to talk for a half an hour about that with you like you know because that's like very big that's a very big i think about that stuff all the time yeah i mean like what is inside people and uh in terms of like you know we contain multitudes like a bunch of the multitudes are you know weasels yeah i do think about that like almost 24 hours a day because now suddenly we have descended and devolved in a world completely devoid of any nuance and i'm like it's just not the truth truth. It's so untruthful. Yeah. Social media, man. It's like I gave every goddamn freak in the world, you know, free reign for all their multitudes to go crazy on and let everybody know what they think. And a lot of people are.

But it shows you everyone's a freak. Even someone you thought you loved for years and years and years, some actor, rock musician. And you're like, they are the coolest person I've ever seen seen and then you see them tweet and you're like what there i am on january 6th y'all ariel ariel let's go brandon my old hero ariel yeah let's go brandon the most unfunny thing i know yeah that's like don't meet your heroes type stuff. I mean, it took me a long time to understand because I was so in awe of musicians when I was younger. And now I am one. And that's why I wanted to be one so badly, just because I thought they were so cool that I couldn't even handle life. But I would have been such a fanboy.

It would have been disgusting. But musicians, you get confused about like someone like ryan adams for example like his songs are pretty you know and so you figure someone who makes something pretty must be nice and that's not true it's like somebody can be good at making music the same way they somebody can be good at you know some other thing that has the people don't connect with good you're not gonna go like you're not gonna think like the world's greatest stockbrokers can be a nice guy but it turns out the world's greatest stockbroker is going to be a nice guy. But it turns out the world's greatest musician is not either.

There are just two things people do. One is just one that stirs these positive emotions. Music. So you figure, oh, this person must be nice. But that does not correlate. I've met people who are really good at making music who are just not nice at all. And that screws me up. It would be like if you met Leonard Cohen and he was like, fuck like fuck you which i think is totally possible you know what i mean and i bet leonard cohen also

probably you know you know probably had sex with everybody at his restaurant if he had one like vanderpump rules yeah chris do you look down on musicians who you meet who have a 7.3 and below from pitchfork oh yeah oh yeah i have a 7.4 album from pitchfork no big deal i have a 7.4 tattoo and monster energy font on my back nice uh-huh as they see it they see it at crossfit well blair it's been such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? The pleasure is all mine, Jack and Chris. You know, coming back on here has really been like a balm, a salve to my tired soul.

Where you can find me, as always, at Blair Saki, B-L-A-I-R-S-O-C-C-I. And I also just, I haven't been on for a while, but I just want to thank all the ZyGang who come up and say hi to me on the road. It makes me so happy every time. Two things I would like to promote, if you have any interest. Chicago, I'll be at the chicago comedy bar march 31st and april 1st really excited about that two shows each night haven't been to chicago in a long time and then i will also be doing an hour in los angeles on thursday april 27th at the lyric hyperion and i only do that like once a year. So, and it's a pretty small venue.

So come out if you'd like, I would love to see you. And that's all always on my social media and all my link tree and my bio. I wish I could be there. Yeah. Everybody listening. If there's in Los Angeles, that, that lyric show I'm talking about was,

was, I mean, as was at the lyric Hyperion. Anyway, it's a great place to see you can be real like it's really close to the performer it's really a nice it's like a very nice little venue

thank you is there a work of media that you've been enjoying well wait a work of media oh we say that instead of tweet now because so few people are on Twitter because Elon Musk is oh okay because yeah i thought tweet but then i was like oh i'll tell you about a book i'm reading you can do both or

either oh i'm reading daisy jones and the six which just made me think of um what we were just talking about about musicians and rock star and i'm like rock stars no they they're just like partying and do it and making insane music but oh i did just see a funny tweet in relation to what we were saying about the that article about the pandemic not being harmful to her health and it was marsha belskis and it was she quote tweeted and said She quote tweeted and said, actually, I watched all six seasons of Glee, even the New York episodes. So it made me laugh. I think that was a bad paraphrase. Sorry, everyone.

That's good. I got it and I enjoyed it. Thank you, Blair. Thank you, Jack. I liked it. I liked it, too. Chris, where can people find you? And what is a tweet or work of media you've been enjoying? You can find me at The Crofton Show on Twitter and on Instagram.

And you can listen to my podcast, Cold Brew Got Me Like, on all the places. And you can go buy my book, The Advice King Anthology. And I don't care if you get it from Amazon. Go right ahead and get it. It doesn't matter to me. Don't go through Vanderbilt's website because you have to do 58,000 things to get a book. Just buy the fucking book. You have to actually apply to Vanderbilt.

Yeah, I mean, it's like I just heard from people. They have to register all kinds of stuff. Nothing against Vanderbilt, but they have an old website. And yeah, go get my book and also go listen to my record. Hello, It's Me from 2018. And I got a new one coming out this year. That's exciting. Thanks.

Any tweets? You know, I can't. As usual, I messed up. I'm looking at the damn. What's that? Let's just go with your book. Well, I got one thing I wanted to. I do poetry window on Twitter and I want to do one.

I'm just going to read one that I think is funny, but I also got to look, I'm looking for this guy. It's the same thing that happened last time. There's this, first of all, go check out Blair Saki's tweets. That's what I say every time.

Anyway, I am not, I'm a fucking fan. Like I am, I am like a big fan. Wow. That's so kind. But not frightening.

Just regular. That is what she said. Oh, that's so frightening. No, are you kidding? No, but that, that, that, you know. That is what she said. Oh, that's so frightening. No, are you kidding? No, but that, you know, I do this every time. I scramble. I can't remember.

I can't find the tweets. And then I say, go just look at Blair Sox's tweets. Oh, that's so nice. So I can't find a tweet again, so I'm going to do it again. But I'm going to read this poem, which I really like. It's just so stupid. But I do these poems on Twitter like almost every day. Like I say, poetry windows open and people give me topics.

So there are a lot of times there's jokes like this one. Someone sent me the topic back in the saddle. And I said, what Steven Tyler screams into his sleep apnea mouthpiece, which I which I just I like that one. And that's for the older crowd. I would have done something younger, but I don't know what the fucking Mandalorian is. Yeah, that's what you're going to have to Google

right after we finish recording. I'm going to fucking Google the shit out of it. And I'm going to watch Frozen. I'm going to cry all by myself. You should. It's very healthy. I bet you're right. I'm not kidding.

And I'm going to put that shit on my face. What's it called again? Aquaphor. I'm going to be covered in Aquaphor watching Frozen if anyone needs me. Hold my calls. Tweet I've been enjoying Alex Turntine for what tweeted, I hate small talk. Oh, okay.

What are your thoughts on the Louisiana purchase? I saw that. That was such a funny one. Yeah, you're right. That was a good one. I love that one. People who say they hate small talk, I feel like everybody does. And we still do it.

I don't know. Anyways, great one. Well, I learned from my therapist, though, you can't. I used to try and trauma bond and people would be like, hey, how's the weather? And I'd be like, I had a bad childhood. How about you? You're not supposed to do that either. So you're supposed to be somewhere in the middle.

Yeah. Ask them about the Louisiana Purchase. Yeah, something in the middle. Something neutral. Something that neither one of you knows what it is. There you go. 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 in today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy super producer justin is there a song that you think people might enjoy well it's been a rainy day and it looks like a rainy rest of the weekend for la so to fit the mood, I'm suggesting this dark synthy industrial track with a huge sound to it. I first found this song a few years ago while I was watching a trailer for a defunct

video game that got marred in scandal and never actually released. I don't think I'm not going to get into it, but this track is amazing. It's called Acid Rain by Lorne and you can find that song in the footnotes. Footnotes? Also, the article that I was talking about, about the change in the Netherlands, is from a thread by Michael Thomas. We'll link off to that tweet in the footnotes. All right. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio.

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