The Daily Zeitgeist - NYPD Bad At Planting Evidence, Carbon Capture Can’t Contain Climate Change 05.02.24

Episode Date: May 2, 2024

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It's a production of iHeartRadio and obviously this is the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 and I'm doing my best to sound as sexy on mic as possible. My name is Miles Gray, aka, oh shit, where's my aka?

Here it is. Oh shit, now that Discord is reloading and I lost my fucking place. God, just keep this in. This is part of the magic. This is reloading i lost my fucking place just keep this in this is part of the magic this is a long aka this is a yeah this is all aka oh fuck where's my fucking shit the shit's all fucked up i'm fucked aka we got a rat czar i got a plan to get him out of here mayor ad Adams is the problem. He's keeping rats in his own house. Smoking them out with carbon monoxide. That'll work for a little while till they find a new place to hide.

AKA, thank you so much. That's FirstBlood522 on the Discord. Look, it's been a while since we were doing the fast car sort of, you know, rewritings. And yeah, the story about New York's rat czar, who's apparently fucking up because people are getting sick with, I forget, leptospirosis, I believe, is like a bacterial infection

you can only get from interacting with rat pee. So that's how bad things are there. It's really more, again, like what you're saying, more of a bummer story about New York in general. But anyway, that's enough for me. I am thrilled to be joined. Oh, shit. I forgot.

God, see, this is what happens when I'm running the show. I forgot to tell people what May 2nd was. It's National Life Insurance Day. Yeah. Just so you guys can get your fucking affairs in order. It's also national. Yeah, get your shit together. You better get that life insurance policy.

Tell your friends. So then maybe you might, you know, whatever. I've seen enough Dateline to know what happens when You better get that life insurance policy. Tell your friends so that maybe you might, you know, whatever. I've seen enough Dateline to know what happens when you got a good life insurance policy. And also National Truffle Day, but not like the fancy shits that you shave on the pasta. We're talking about like the chocolates that have the shits inside that are the good ones. I think that's what I always call the truffles, the good ones. Anyway, I'm thrilled to be joined by today's guest co-host. Anyway, I'm thrilled to be joined by today's guest co-host, one of the most mysterious men in podcasting and someone who deals with the dark arts of Corvid training and knows how to commune with crows.

He's also the host, one of the hosts of the hit show, Stuff They Don't Want You To Know. He's also an author. He's also got a pretty, I guess, marginally sexy microphone right now, but that's okay. But please welcome to the microphone, Mr. Ben Bowling! Hey! Hey! Welcome, Ben. It's good to have you.

AKAs. Oh. AKAs. Oh, yeah. You got an AKA? Yeah, well, I could do an AKA. Let's see. In service to your great tradition of naming the days, Miles, it is also International Scurvy Awareness Day.

So, Dr. Scurvy? Yeah. dr scurvy yeah yeah you weren't aware you weren't aware that may 2nd is scurvy awareness day this is why we do it yeah exactly holy shit i'm sorry is scurvy i'm sorry am i ignorant in thinking that like that shit's for pirates and like people on ships or like is that are we fucking like, I guess it's part of malnutrition. I don't know. It's a common, uh, it's a common stereotype and misconception that I and my colleagues labor against. So we're raising awareness of it. Yes.

Yes. Please consume some citrus of your choice. I don't know how long we want to keep it. Isn't that where like the, where they started, they call people limeys? Mm-hmm. Yeah. As a scurvy reference? Yeah, I think so.

Because when you were on, like we associate this with heresy, but we should associate it also with just that age of a bunch of people consensually or non-consensually. Thank you. Being on boats in the Navy. Thank you for referencing the Middle Passage. I appreciate that. Yes. Yeah. Oh appreciate that. Yes. Yeah. Oh, God.

And what they eventually discovered without getting the whole story, you know, pirates, especially, even if they chose to be on the ship, they're kind of living a rough life. They're kind of always on. So it took a while to realize the source of why they were getting cartoonishly loose teeth yeah and all these other scurvy things like a loose xylophone like yeah exactly uh now i'm realizing too the nickname came from american sailors who like didn't believe that taking like eating citrus would ward off scurvy were anti-vaxxers for citrus? Fucking clowns, American sailors. Come on, man.

Anyway, Ben, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a repeat guest. A very funny, very funny person. Very funny comedian. Hails from the Pittsburgh area. I was just celebrating a video that they did about,

I think, I don't know if, sorry if I completely misnamed the title, but it felt like two guys from Pittsburgh talking about seeing Oppenheimer basically. Yeah. And you can catch this man May 10th at the Alameda comedy club. Shout out Bay areas. I gang,

I'm looking at you. You better pull up. And also if you're in Saratoga Springs, New York, May 31st, you will be able to catch our guests. Joe. Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe Cozzola! What up?

Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe. Oh, hey. It's me, a.k.a. Vitamin C Proficient. Ooh, there you go. I love, man, I used to drink so much orange juice, like, as a kid. I don't know why. I'm like, I don't know why I had that memory, but I just think of, like, that minute made vitamin d enriched fucking orange juice that i would just fuck it down yeah and it is because well i think especially i think there's something about like that era where we thought like orange

juice the commercials tell me it's the best possible thing i can put in my body yeah and now we're like it's the sugariest thing with. Nah. Almost. No. Like the nutritional value is completely canceled out by that. Yeah. You will get scurvy from drinking.

Yeah. All the way back around. Yeah. We should have known it was a grift when Sunny D came out as like the hip competitor. Right. Miles would make you the chef kiss. Have you had the fucking boozy Sunny D that out as like the hip competitor, right? Miles is making the chef kiss. Have you had the fucking boozy Sunny D that they sell now? Excuse me?

I thought that was a joke. Dude, no. They have like a canned hard seltzer Sunny D. It's pretty. I had a sip. I was like, it actually pays off on the promise. Like it's boozy, bubbly Sunny D. Sunny D vodka seltzer.

Yeah. Yeah. $20.24. Yeah, exactly. off on the promise like it's boozy bubbly sunny d sunny d vodka seltzer yeah that yeah what a 24 yeah exactly the uh the the working parents screwdriver i think is what we call that and it's sunny d it's not sunny delight for the for the vodka seltzer they go full sunny d which is smart they respect it yeah that it's so funny i was in the same like that misconception about like well it's juice there's like a hundred percent juice and like the commercial was like the guy put a straw in an orange so it's basically like the inside of an orange right in here yeah yeah oh added sugar what's that strong ad campaign i recall they really were going for it in terms of brainwashing the youth oh yeah orange juice i mean our parents too like my mom was like yeah yeah that's fine it's not soda right i'm like no mom it's minute

made it says right there it's just orange orange juice what the fuck same thing just a little spicy exactly then i down a half gallon while watching fucking south park or some shit still not as creepy as the got milk commercials just to be be honest. You thought they were creepy? I learned a lot. I learned who Aaron Burr was because of those commercials. Sure. The implication was creepy because it was a trade association, right? It wasn't a company.

Yeah, yeah. It was propaganda. It was the Dairy Farmers Association of America. It was just the idea of milk. Do you have it or are you a loser? Got. Do you have this shit? No.

Then you might be in a full body cast having convulsions. Like what was that one? Oh, the guy was in the full body cast and then they brought like cookies, right? And he needed like milk and he was like, Dude, that one's actually pretty horrific. A lot of the milk ads I'm realizing are about people and their failure to communicate. It's the only thing getting in the way of people and their milk. It should just be, got a therapist? Are you able to voice your needs properly?

Got a clear passageway between your mouth and people's ears. We had beef. It's what's for dinner. Occasionally, you get those. It's just's for dinner. Occasionally you get those, right? You get the, it's just from a product. It's just from a, yeah. Like in the, wasn't, yeah. Pork was like the other white meat. That was another one, yeah. Cotton, I think, had their time.

The touch of oil. Yeah. The fabric of our lives. Yeah. There it is. There it is. The fabric of our undoing, potentially, because we haven't quite, we quite haven't reconciled our differences with King Cotton, have we?

But anyway, that is enough of that. We got to tell the people what we're going to be talking about today. Looks like the Dems are pulling a bit of an Avengers shit. They're coming out the portals to help poor Speaker Mike Johnson from being ousted. So we will talk about why the Democrats are like, yeah, I guess we'll fucking save Mr. Jesus Jerkoff app from completely screwing up Congress. We'll get into those details. We're going to talk about the, so basically there was another full-on clearing of protesters

at Columbia University for the second time. And the NYPD is doing what cops like to do, which is be like, and our violence was justified because of this object we found or planted. Which you could buy at any store. Hey, hey, hey, hey. What are you talking about? Buy at any store?

Hey, what are you? Some kind of friggin' commie? Get the fuck out of here, bro. You get this from anarchy headquarters. This guy works for a big bike lock you know what i mean look at this shit if it wasn't dangerous why wouldn't they call it kryptonite exactly because it's gonna it's you could defeat superman or maybe it's a brand name i don't know but we'll talk about their latest push to try and completely obscure and obfuscate around the student protests.

And then we've got to talk. There's talk now about how we might be saved from climate change because we're going to do carbon capture. This is something that keeps happening that most people know isn't really that effective. So the economist loves it. Wall Street loves it. Yeah, of course. Anything that's like, well, don't turn off that revenue stream. Can we invent a fake solution?

What's that called? Carbon sequestration? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're doing that. We're doing that. So we'll get into that and many other fun things. But first, Joe Quazala. Pittsburgh's very own. First of all, what's the best thing to eat in Pittsburgh that isn't pierogi or permani, brothers?

Ketchup? The reason I say that is because there's a lot of pride for Heinz. Yeah. I was famously bottled in Pittsburgh for a long time. Heinz Field once was the name of the... I don't live there anymore, but I am positive. Whatever the Heinz Field is called now, which was a recent change. If it's Acresure or whatever, they're calling it Heinz Field

until the end of time, until it is rightfully re-renamed Heinz Field. Acresure Stadium is not fun to say at all. No, it's bad. But there's a lot of pride for Heinz. even think they you can sell Heinz for like a little bit more because they know Pittsburghers are gonna buy it wait really like wait they're they're gouging their own this might be a uh a conspiracy theory hey we love that I am taking it face value from my parents who switched to Hunt, which I was like, we got Hunt? When I was back visiting, I was like, what are you guys doing?

They were like, here's the deal. Remember the crisis here? Yeah. They don't bottle it in Pittsburgh anymore. So you're not supporting the local economy. And then two, they can sell Heinz more expensive in the stores because the brand loyalty is so huge. So we were like, why are we, why we have any loyalty? It's not even a local thing anymore.

So the hunts train and I said, well, it does taste exactly the same. So yeah, yeah. That's fucking wild. I mean, I'm,

I'm sure there's varying levels of that wherever you go where they're like, what are the locals? They fucking think this is like religious shit. So yeah, fucking charge a 15. We don't give a fuck. It is weird though. I am pretty Heinz loyal too. Like, I think just growing up in diners and shit and like

seeing that bottle and like learning like hit the 57 and like really loosen the ketchup out. This is it. There's only one ketchup. And they seem, it does seem like a classy brand. Like, it never tried to change the design of the regular

Heinz bottle. I'm pretty sure they did get in on the, like, purple ketchup. They did at that moment. And the crunch? They didn't mess with the design of just regular old ketchup ever. Yeah, they've definitely done some, like, mayo-stirred, mustard-and-maze ketchup ever. Yeah, they've definitely done some like mayo stirred,

mustard and mayonnaise type stuff. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But the bottle that you see at the restaurant has pretty much looked the same for a century. Yeah. And the balls of that ad campaign too, where you know they had that meeting where they said, people are complaining about how it's tough

to get the ketchup out of the bottle sometimes. And some guy went fuck it let's make that a feature you know what i mean just tell them they have to wait yeah that was like exactly i remember thinking like i hacked the matrix when i would see adults show them like you actually have to tap the 57 they're like shut up 10 year old let me tell you how it's done on the playground, okay? This guy was an old-school diner veteran. A grizzled emperor of condiments at 10.

I don't know. Hey, look, man. They were inviting. DuPars, that was the spot in LA, and they fucking turned it into anything. We can get into how our old Hans ain't used to what they used to be you know what I mean all day here but we got to get into this question Joe Quasalo

what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are or something you recently screenshotted on your phone oh interesting well I looked at my google history and one of the most recent things I did search was can you bring a plant back from

the brink of death oh yeah because my girlfriend was out of town for the last month and i was i was tasked with uh taking care of many things which i did but there was one plant in the corner that just was not part of my routine yeah you know and i listen i kept her i kept her sourdough starter alive i did that that was it how do you do that it involves scooping flour into the discard there's all sorts of steps i took a video of her explaining it to me and then just like would play it and then just be like oh that's smart. Scoop out a starter, put it into a new jar, put a flower into that jar, mix it up, have it on the scale so you know exactly how much you're putting in there.

Oh, shit. Tighten the lid, wait until it starts bubbling. Is this like an heirloom starter? Or is this just like a pandemic? It was before the pandemic, but it was not from Grandpapa. Right, right, right. It's just probably like a fivepapa right right right it's just you know probably like a fight this was smuggled across oceans yeah no but it has stayed alive for a good five years at this point so nice i don't want to be the one if i'm going to kill anything

it's going to be the plant i like that yeah you're like putting yourself in like that sitcom situation where it's like you lost the dog and now you gotta find like a dog like looks the same to hopefully get one over and that's like drink it i mean what like is it are we is it fully fucking gone or what no i don't think we're fully gone okay so i i did learn a thing or two like if stuff if leaves are particular are like fully dead you chop those off yep so the plant isn't confused to be like let's give them some water. Send resources. Yeah. And then, yeah. And so I did, I got some water in there and did see a little bit of a rejuvenating

structure. So I was like, I think we're good. Some leaves are definitely not looking so hot, but I think it was the brink. We did not pass through the brink. So I think we're going to be okay. Now,

your girlfriend may hear this show. Have you gotten in front of this? No one has. Have you told her? This is AI. This is all AI. Easy, yeah. I love that one now.

Joe, what is something you think is underrated? I think we underrate the toll and task of the food delivery driver and i know there was some discourse about this recently in food delivery in general online and i've always felt this way because i used to drive for postmates years ago and i always felt like the understanding that food delivery is an extreme luxury had never really been fully understood by the consumer. Yeah. I just have memories of picking up truly, no disrespect, but Panda Express, things of this nature. No disrespect. No disrespect to the people over at Panda.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then going to a terribly difficult area of town to park, like if people know LA, a place like Koreatown. Having no choice but to park in front of a fire hydrant in front of a massive tower going inside the tower having to check in with security having to wait for them to activate one of the elevators which is always uh they a thing yeah it's always a thing and it takes a really long time and then you finally get in there you go up to whatever floor they're on you get off and then you have to navigate the labyrinth that is the gigantic apartment complex. Right.

Go to their front door to deliver Panda Express to their front door. And there is, listen, I don't need a cheerful thank you necessarily. you necessarily. But then when you go back in your car, see that you have a ticket, this has taken 20 minutes off of the clock and they did not tip you and you made $3. I think it needs to be hammered home that if you're participating in this charade, if you're participating in this so extremely taxing and stressful activity for the driver to understand what that's doing and to tip them like essentially 100%. Like there is no, I know a lot of people online were like, well, what if you're neurodivergent and you have to do this? And it's like, listen, that's not what we're talking about. Because I know the majority, like if there's some sort of disability or or whatever that's a different

conversation but i know that there's just a lot of people who just feel entitled to get food delivered to their door yeah uh and not have to pay for the fact that that is the most luxurious thing yeah oh for sure it is wild because people like well the said the delivery fee was like 49 cents plus like those fees like i'm that's like isn't that like your pay it's like no man that's they're getting a fraction of that and then you think about do it exactly and like these apps are able to

skirt minimum wage and labor laws yeah these aren't employees these are independent contractors that don't fucking matter also I just can't imagine the lack of awareness or the evil balls it would take. I would be horrified to not tip someone doing that, knowing the way that kind of system has been constructed to shit on the people working there.

For sure. But I think that's like the genius of so many of like these apps and things it's like they obscure the toll that it takes on the human being for you to get your fucking you know fucking cell phone case that you wanted on prime the next day or you know getting door dash it just feels like i don't know i press the button and then like because i put like don't even talk to me just leave it at the door and it just appears and i know not of the person on the other side who is like having to deal with the same fucking gas prices

that everyone else does and is getting, yeah, a pit. Underrated. Agreed. Yeah. And,

and if I can, uh, you know, proselytize a little bit, I would advocate for meeting your driver maybe out on the road. And if you don't want to do that

and you live in an apartment building, at least in the lobby. Yeah, yeah. Walked out. Just walked out. Yeah, make it easier for them. So they can turn over, turn over, turn over. And it's good for you as well

because you don't have to like wonder if they're going to be able to find your door. Like just make it easy so that you get your food faster and then come back up. The other thing I will say is if you're doing delivery food, really reconsider getting a drink or a milkshake because those are very difficult to transport. I don't think people immediately consider that, but when you have just a bag of food, you put it in the passenger seat or you put it on the floor. It's easy, but if you have

something you're juggling that could spill, it's very difficult not only to place in your car as you're transporting it but then as you're trying to pick it up and then open your door and then close the car door and then lock it and then get to then open the door of the building all this stuff yeah if you're juggling like a big frothy milkshake uh that's just going to be... 17 Frappuccinos that you ordered. Yes, exactly. Have you seen, there's a subreddit called DoorDashGremlin. And it's people who like, when they get the food dropped off,

if they're verifying that it's dropped off for the photo, it's people that have been caught getting the bag from the door while the photo's being taken. So rather than the photo of a bag by the door, it photo's being taken so like rather than like the photo of like a bag by the door it's like someone like in just a t-shirt like winnie the pooh style like their taco bell like and so people like when they end up being a gremlin they usually upload it and it's always funny to see and like that's when you can tell you're like man like was it really did you really have to get that delivery but right i get it sometimes but

look if you're gonna do it at least fucking tip and know what the fucking cost is like acknowledge the way to do it luxury yeah in a in a fair equitable way uh what's something you think is overrated uh and i'm gonna sound like such a little boy here okay making your bed i do think making your bed is overrated, though. I just don't kind of understand the weight that some people put on it. Is it too, like, Sisyphean for you? Like, it's just going to be unmade again. Yeah, like, no, it's not like people who happen to come to my home are going to see it.

Only I and my girlfriend are going to see what our room looks like let alone the bed and then to just like put it idea i just don't fully get the point of like i'll maybe just kind of like very loosely like put things back in the direction that they need to go sure yeah but in terms of like talking and making sure every i'm not sure why that's so crucial yeah so to a lifestyle i'm i'm i'm guessing your girlfriend is pro bed making interesting that's what i what an interesting concept she she is or she aligned with you yeah because i'm i'm in a similar situation she is and and i will uh you know entertain this fancy charade yes again yeah but i'm just kind of like i don't really yeah it's like sloppy boy life you know like because i'm the same way where it's like

i don't know i do like nobody like especially in college i'm like nobody's going in my fucked up room like and i'm already like fucking so disillusioned by life like that's the it's like so low on my list and yeah like being married though i'm also i'm with somebody who is pro bed for them i realize for them it's like it's about a sense of order right and i'm like system of a down like disorder disorder like i'm like i don't give a fuck i'm like this is not chaos to me but that's where i begin to reconcile i'm like i get that certain things that i do you don't like or you that you do i don't like but that's where we meet and i'm like fine i'll make the bed but the throw pillows we can't have 17 000000 fucking beds. There's no point.

Those are purely decorative. They're decorative. They don't have functions. They go on the fucking ground all the time. And you're saying we can't even throw them? You know what I mean? The fuck is the point? The fuck is the point?

So I'm with you guys. I'm also very impressed. They regularly sleep in beds. I'm a bit feral in that respect. What are you like, the fucking hit man? Like in a fucking Barca lounger with sunglasses on at night? Miles, more like I'm so

this may be a childish thing. I'm so opposed to sleep that sometimes I'm just like, I don't want to go to bed. I end up where I end up. Maybe it's the couch. Who knows? And then I'll come to, and my girlfriend is like,

wonderful woman, terrible taste in dudes, obviously. But she's like, I'll come to, and she's grabbing me by my armpits. She's like, maybe I can carry him to the bedroom. Oh my God. You have full Bernie Lomax on him like that?

I was like, you don't have the upper arm strength for this. And don't bother. I'm like, God, you want full Bernie Lomax on him like that? I was like, you don't have the upper arm strength for this. You don't have the... And don't bother. I'm a lost cause. Like, you can't... And this is such a valiant effort on your part, but I am a waste. Yeah, very kind. Very kind to be like, I will delicately just kind of like slap you in the chest and be like, get the fuck out of here.

Yeah. Yeah, and I'm not intoxicated or on any kind of drugs it's just the sleep got me uh and and i gotta tell you now that joe now you're saying this i realize that i've just always assumed whenever i'm at anybody's house and i see the bed is made i've always assumed they faked it or they did it special for that day wow real drug addict thinking here it's like you ain't fucking you don't have your shit together this much you piece of shit you're just like me huh just like me another surety on the stairs yeah i mean look that's what i'm saying like i get it's a personal thing like i sure yeah people

who want it made i get it like i get i get if you're a person who needs things to be a certain way of course that makes sense i am personally just someone who was i was born in the darkness you know what i mean you merely play around in it yeah also it does look also pittsburgh reference there too yeah when bane came out and oh that's right wow yeah Although that wasn't Pittsburgh, was it? It wasn't explicitly Pittsburgh. I mean, it was, if you know, you know, I mean, the entirety of the Pittsburgh Steelers were, were present when the, when the stadium collapsed, but nothing but timely references on this show. Remember Bane? Batman movie. Anyway,

I don't make my bed and I stink. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we're going to talk about this news. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. So let's just check in with the house of representatives i mean we we used to do that more but because it's just a fucking inert clown show there's not much to talk about unless you just want to be frustrated even more with the state of our government but uh for the last month or so marjorie taylor green you know majorly tainted gangrene is out here. He's been freaking out about Speaker of the House Mike Johnson ever since he went against her dear Putin and helped secure funding for Ukraine. That was like the thing, like they were trying so hard to prevent like this Ukraine funding. And then it happened.

She's like, it's over. This guy, this guy's done. We got to get him out of here. And this has been a theme like with the last like five gop speakers they've had to constantly manage like the wacky bullshit demands or not really managing them just caving to the wacky bullshit demands that come from the far extreme right and i mean i have no sympathy for them but this is the fucking bed that they've made so oh nice yeah look it's all coming we got pittsburgh we got bed making

we got charades look it's all out there for everybody those are the themes that are ongoing you get bonus points and my girlfriend is marjorie taylor green so oh i you guys that was you that was yeah you might see me on the news well yeah being like i gotta tell you i'm here in new york and there's not like homeless people did you see see that clip where her boyfriend, that guy, I call him ass eyes. His name's like Brian. I don't know what the fuck his name is, but he's like on one of those hyper conservative news channels. He was like in New York covering the Trump trial.

And he's like, we came from Philadelphia. I got to tell you, to be honest, I'm looking around here in New York city. This, I thought there'd be more like homeless people, like be a violent people, but it's just, it's really not, it's not like that. He was having like a fucking crisis that things weren't like aligning with his that's i kid you not that's the same thing those type of dudes will say when they come to atlanta oh you know what i mean you're like i got i got out of the you know i got out of the airport yeah no one tried to rob me once and i'm like are you disappointed? Yeah.

Yes, they are. What's going on? Yeah. Yeah. You wanted the adrenaline rush of being in a flight or fight response to. I think they wanted the story for Facebook. They're probably all Facebook people. I mean, we still have the fucking like the politicians are still insistent that we need more police dollars, even though the FBI is like, yeah, crime's going down. It's going down.

I mean, it's going down in the cities. There we go. So anyway, your girlfriend has been really upset, Joe. Not just with the lack of bed making, but just the fact that this, the fucking government is functioning because that's the thing.

The sad thing is when we have these shit bags like sorry you're sorry to bring up your girlfriend at this point if you mention her again don't feel like you need to preface it okay all right i'm sure though i'm sure that you have a beautiful relationship based on unrelated things yeah and that is incorrect but uh okay MAGA freaks, man. At this point, you're staying together for the starter, for the sourdough starter? For Marjorie's patented starter. Yeah, green sourdough. But it's like, yeah, people like her and Matt Gaetz, when they're in the mix, it means things like government shutdowns and legislative gridlock are the norm.

And basically, everyday people suffer when the government can't even perform its basic functions. So Marjorie Taylor Greene thought she would have all these supporters to be like, I think it's time to fucking oust this guy, Mike Johnson. But she was sorely mistaken. There was like, like Thomas Massey was like the only other idiot to be like, yeah, I think this could be a movement. But the thing is, there are such slim margins for Republicans in the House that like the Dems have basically been like, huh, I think we can maybe wrangle win-win but basically for the dems they're like well we can neutralize the far right and also get a guy in that still does the bidding of the military industrial complex oh they did that shrug too yeah because i mean like you look at him like mike johnson is not someone that you're like yeah the guy has a fucking spine.

He's like a biggest, the biggest cheerleader of like the fucking big lie in January 6th. Rah, rah, bullshit. But from the calculus of the Democrats, based on what they tell reporters, it's like, yeah, the thing is like, we just think Marjorie Taylor Greene's like fucking worse. So that's kind of where we're at. And at least this guy came around to, again, throw dollars at arms manufacturers. And that's what the government is about. That's what this is really about. That's why we do it. That's why we do it, guys. That's why we're out here

making our bets. I get up every morning, I open my Bible that is actually branded by Northup Grumman and Raytheon, and I read from it and I realize, I got work to do. I got to make sure the money flows in that direction.

Because these drones aren't going to build themselves, folks. They're not. There's a new drone that just dropped. It's kind of based on a manta ray design. It's for maritime uses. Really? Like an attack sea drone? Yes.

Yeah. It's the question I think all three of us have been asking for a while. What do you get the Bond villain who has everything? You get him a manta drone, obviously. Next one, shark drone. Yeah, I want to see more sea creature

drones. Little shrimps. Little seahorses. They're so tiny. They're undetectable. It's like, yeah, because they're little seahorses,'re undetectable it's like yeah because they're little seahorses man little uh pistol shrimps man pistol shrimps that actually shoot like rather than like that sonic boom yeah fucking 45s man fucking outfit them now north of grumman now see now we're now we're crowdsourcing with the thing for them yeah we're the we're crowdsourcing some of the work for them. We're accidentally now in, what is that, RAND?

RAND, yeah, exactly. The Old Research and Development Corporation. Nothing weird. Or DARPA, whatever. Look, holler at us. We have ideas that are fun. We're out of the box. But don't worry, they're still lethal. They're still fucking lethal.

Also, I will say Johnson, Mike Johnson, does sound, and I've never met the guy, don't plan to, but does sound very AI, chat GPTE in his speeches. So I think he's just, like, he's a placeholder, right? He's just there to play the game. Yeah, he's, placeholder right he's just there To play the game yeah he's Oh absolutely I mean like Just he's just he's a full

On conservative creature Who's just like I just want to stay in office But it was it was interesting to see Because there was so much pressure from the like the far Right to be like don't give Ukraine money Or like you know trying to paint it in like this America first thing is really just to be like don't Like help Russia maybe or whatever

I don't know do whatever you want but like The fact that he did that i think is what dems are like oh shit interesting he he still knew that we still had to keep the dollars flowing to the arms manufacturers okay maybe we can work with this guy uh out of curiosity have you guys ever met a mike johnson i have yeah several because oh yeah it's like one of the most uh names right common names i would assume yeah especially i think for our general age bracket like yeah i actually did i the the reason i remember it is like i think i i did a meet and greet with the olympic 400 meter champion michael johnson right that's That had been the most famous Michael Johnson. Yeah, exactly.

Sprinter. Michael Jackson. Michael Johnson is so pissed now about this. Mike Johnson. I knew a Kevin McCarthy too. Oh shit. So let's keep the street going. Yeah.

And I just hung out with John Boehner, former speaker of the house, John Boehner. He's into weed now, dude. He's kind of chill. He's kind of chill. He's trying to figure out how to get, get more weed into Ohio. All right, let's move on to the new york police department so they

raided uh columbia university tuesday night which was even more brutal an even more brutal raid than the one before uh where even the nypd was like you want these kids are all like sitting down and like tense like what do you want us to do like beat the shit out of them for like what okay and now they will reportedly be staying on campus until at least may 17th because yeah why not pay 60 grand a year to live in a fully militarized police state slash campus but the thing that's happening right now is like this clear out that happened there are students that barricaded themselves in hamilton hall um if you recall the two episodes ago we spoke with our former producer tricia who is actually a student at columbia and was telling us like what's happening there and it's a lot different than the news would have you think where they're like it's just crazy shit all the time it's like

there's students that are peacefully protesting you guys are covering what's happening on the outside of the campus which are not the student protests those are just other fucking randos that are doing their thing but then now the big reason why eric adams is being like the new york pd is justified is because the protest was not actually composed of columbia students even though they were not letting people on campus that without a columbia id these are rather quote and we love this fucking explanation all the time with protests outside agitators and that conspiracy theory has been fucking flying around and all in the media sphere for a while now but like he's using this as a rationalization during a press conference he said quote these are professionals that were here and i just want to send a clear

message out that there are people who are harmful and who are trying to radicalize our children. And we cannot ignore this. So he brought the kids into it, which is nice. Outside agitators. Yeah. You love to see it. It's always easy to say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like whether it's the easiest thing to discredit anything. It's like that wasn't the real thing. discredit anything. It's that's that's that isn't like that. That wasn't the real thing. Or they're so bad because of that. Yeah. I say we lean into it. You guys, the next time you're just having a small disagreement with your friends or you're like in a restaurant, just go fight. Go hog wild and then say that outside. Yeah.

Yeah. Or like if someone has an opinion, like on a like a disagreement you're having with like another person like hold on we don't need outside agitators right now man. This guy's an agent provocateur for Heinz. What are you CIA? What are you a fucking spook dude? What the fuck?

If you test positive for COVID you can just be like no no no. It's just outside agitators in my system right now. So actually I wouldn't worry about it. You should let me come to the party. That's really, I'm kind of a hero. So I should get to board the plane. Aaron Rodgers will be saying this privately soon.

Someone is going to be like, I don't know. It's an outside agitation. That's probably what's showing up on that test. But yeah, so the NYPD's deputy commissioner, Tariq Shepard, made a promotional stop on MSNBC's Morning Joe to show off the fucking evidence that basically said this is proof that there's outside agitators. This is their yellow cake moment. to do with the school and were criminal and they were the ones fucking orchestrating everything? No. He held up a fucking kryptonite bike lock and was like, here it is,

folks. The smoking lock that proves that it's outside agitators. It's like, come on. Y'all are the NYPD. I thought y'all were good at planting shit on people. This is really sloppy. This is sloppy. Where are our tax dollars going?

I know. Yeah. Like, you guys are even slipping at your basic function, which is to, like, just completely terrorize people and obscure the actions of innocent people to make them seem like bad people. So he showed off, it's like this heavy chain with the bike lock. And if you've seen a fucking, like, full-on kryptonite bike lock,

underneath, like, that black, like like nylon wrapping is a fucking industrial chain. That's why they're like that. Nobody's fucking cutting through this without making a scene. And this is what the deputy commissioner said. Quote, this is not what students bring to school. OK, this is what professionals bring to campuses and universities. And you're like, hey, well, what do you mean? This picture of the lock? it's like he keeps like

bringing it up during the discussion like and i mean like look at this thing it's just like this this fucking lock and sure let's put aside the fact that fucking anyone in new york city with money can buy a fucking chain at a fucking hardware store this fucking specific chain itself this which is just a fucking bike lock it's the chain that goes on a bike lock it's a bike lock that was literally promoted by columbia university's public safety department to their students they'd be like go hey man you need these locks to keep your fucking bike safe on campus this literal kryptonite lock that the fucking cops like and here it is man outside agitators

and by outside i mean students at this universe as inside as you can get yeah they're embedded you know what i mean there's sleeper agents who have 100 it's it's also it's on the fucking website still like it's not even like wild this isn't even some like way back machine shit like if you just go to columbia university they're like hey discount like bike locker and laptop lock program get it at a deal so yeah those might be there since the fucking university's selling them but i'm sure i'm sure morning joe uh caught on to it immediately the journalists over at morning joe were, of course, gotcha. Instead, you had Mika being like,

oh my gosh, it was so harrowing what these, she said, Mika Brzezinski, the co-host, was like, I just want to thank the officers for containing the situation. And then she fucking, previously, she compared images from these campus protests to the January 6th riot.

People are doing that. I've noticed that online. A lot of the right-wing people are like, oh, so you hate January 6th, and yet look at what they're doing at Columbia. This is okay? This is okay to you? The same thing they had with the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 also. It's always just like, oh, but you're okay with this kind? It's like these people are walking around, and then the cops just started busting fucking heads in and then the capitol

they're like taking they're flicking it up taking selfies with rioters very different vibes y'all very different vibes and yeah it's also funny too because nbc themselves they've even promoted this fucking bike lock if you go on nbc news they have a thing it's like our favorite bike locks that'll keep your bike safe and that fucking kryptonite lock is on there, too. So it's just a bunch of disingenuous bullshit all around. And yeah, there was a guy like so a journalist pressed the deputy commissioner to be like, hey, man, like here's saying, hey, here's like this. It's actually a bike lock that the students have. And he could not process it. So he just like kind of like ignored her while she was bringing this up this is an

interaction between katie honan who's a journalist and the deputy police commissioner uh who is basically keep has the fucking chain in hand still to be like no no this is a fucking chain like this this is a chain that you just completely ignoring the fact that she's like this is available to students lol look at this this is the same chain look at this look at this is this the same thing this is not why was this brought here why was this brought here because these are the locks that we cut off for the doors in hamilton were any outside agitators arrested at columbia's hamilton hall Hamilton Hall? I think Commissioner wanted to address that. No, no, they didn't. Yeah, no, they didn't. And

then he came back and said, he's like, well, there were, but we can't really give you information yet because we have to talk to Columbia. But just so you know, I can't even actually give you the criteria for what an outside agitator is. But from my perspective, I believe an outside agitator is, but from my perspective, I believe an outside agitator is someone

who goes from the outside to the inside. So they were outside the building, and then they went inside the building and barricaded themselves. So they might be outside. There's no fucking detail here, so it's all fucking whatever. I was actually going to joke about

that. Now I'm kind of uncomfortable. No, but that is a joke. I'm sorry. I just, I just delivered. Sorry, man. My drive, my deadpan deliveries are so fucking on point. And it's also,

we live in a hellscape where that kind of bullshit is believable. Unfortunately. Yeah. Speaking of deadpan, this, this reminded me of like spinal tap. Like this one goes to 11, but like the very same vibes of like,

this is a chain. So yeah, this is a chain you can buy this. Yeah. But see, this is industrial, this is a chain. This is a chain you can buy. Yeah, but see, this is industrial. This is industrial chain. Yeah, but isn't this the same one? No, this is a chain. Couldn't someone else just buy that

at the campus? I believe they covered that already. This one's a chain. But it goes up. Couldn't someone just add another notch and say theirs goes up to... Get them out of's goes up to get them out of here. Get them out of here. Yeah. Get them out of here.

Outside agitator, agitator, agitator, agitator, get them out. They're asking questions. They're, they're bringing up truths in front of us while we're trying to discredit a

mass student movement. That's a peaceful one. Anyway, got to go. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about another charade

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But we have all these advancements. But we're still burning coal for fucking power. Like, it's the goddamn turn of the century. And, you know, there was environmental news this week where the G7 announced a collective plan to, quote, phase out coal-fired power plants by the mid-2030s. And people were like, oh like oh okay can we do that sooner and while you know coal isn't that popular anymore but it's still widely used it's and it's not the only contributor to our fucking carbon emissions coal is the absolute like most fucked up it puts out the most carbon dioxide per unit of energy it's like the worst yeah it's it's

thank you dirty dirty dirty coal but then it comes this announcement is just like oh great what's the deal so like they're gonna be gone by the mid-2030s we're ending the use of what we call unabated coal which means what you can keep your plants burning coal as long as, quote, carbon pollution is captured before entering the atmosphere. Hell yeah. I love a grift. Let's get it. Let's get it on the grift. What does that even mean? Exactly. Right. Because there's similar regulations in the latest that came out of the EPA that Joe Biden is, you know, obviously Joe Biden's EPA, but these were announced last week and would force plants to capture 90% of their carbon emissions if they want to quote, stay open beyond

2039. What? Biden will be 97 years old and potentially a T-1000 at that point. And again, even John Kerry in 2021 was like, no, man, we're going to be off coal by 2030. And now we're like, if you want to keep your coal past 2039, put like a condom on the smokestack and everything will be okay. But again, this plan is basically suggesting that coal plants can keep going as long as they use carbon capture. And it's just like, there's no one thing that's carbon capture. It's like an umbrella term. You know what I mean?

It's like a collection of technologies that can take out CO2 from the atmosphere and store it. But again, like you're saying, there's a number of issues with capturing it and how it works. Like there's one currently, right? CO2 is being transported via pipelines, which are very dangerous. In 2020, a CO2 pipeline ruptured in Mississippi and at least 45 people ended up in a hospital in the hospital okay that doesn't sound like maybe we get that one off the table oh but pipelines are usually so good yeah yeah usually you're so popular yeah exactly like the other the other thing too is they're saying like oh maybe we should clear cut parts of our national forest that's another thing that's been fucking proposed is to be like well we could just do it through

the forest it's like but we would need to clear a lot of trees to be able to... No one's using it. Yeah, right. No one's using the forest. Nobody lives there. Birds can find another tree, dude. Leave trees at home. Exactly. We'll fix that

by going to private industry with bird condos, right? Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah, BlackRock gets into it. They're like yeah man kind of bird nests people are buying up fucking distressed bird nests and shit i don't understand okay so where maybe i'm missing something here i get that it's the the bad junk is going through the pipeline but what is the destination point where is it you know it's uh it leaves it leaves it goes away what's the fucking problem what are you

right outside agitator man who let you're right i'm being a dick i'm being a dick no further and also don't ask why there's literally no federal oversight body for carbon dioxide pipeline projects that's the other fucking red. Yeah. There's no federal oversight for this shit. So basically you're being like, yeah, man, we trust you to fuck the earth even further. And like, yeah, to your point, like, what do you do with it? Right. Some things are being stored. Right. Then there are other ones are like, well, we can actually use it for other stuff. Like for example, the carbon dioxide used to be like carbonate a beverage. Well, that goes back into the atmosphere the second you open that fucking can.

So you're not quite doing away with that carbon dioxide, even if you gave it another use. Or like dry ice. As the dry ice melts, it just returns into the air in the form of carbon dioxide. And then they're also like, well, we can use it to extract oil from older oil wells. But people are like, what the fuck are you talking about? Like, we're going to let them fuck the earth. And then the emissions that they use can be used to procure even more fucking fossil fuel. Like, none of it fucking makes sense.

And they're trying right now. Oil companies are trying to spin this whole thing is like it's sort of like what we call net zero oil. Oh, great. Like clean coal. Yeah, exactly. we call net zero oil oh great like clean coal yeah exactly it's net zero the only net zero i respect came in a free cd boot disc to get fucking internet you know what i mean not this bullshit anyway that's a washed millennial reference for people um so the other thing is like they say well it could be recycled into fuel it's too expensive and it's not efficient so then that basically leaves us with burying it

underground and that's where the forests come in they're like okay man we use the pipelines to fucking pill like take the fucking co2 and put it under the fucking forest which is just adding insult to injury so we're going to carbonate carbonate the forest i like a spicy forest let's try it out yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. A carbonata, if you will. And then there's like the question of how like effective carbon capture really is. Because that's the thing that is always the second that these like energy companies and coal mining companies and fossil fuel producing companies have said. They're like, well, there's carbon sequestration that's why we don't we can keep business as usual because we will capture it and then we will fucking do something with it

that eventually lets it go back into the atmosphere like a recent study that found that in industrial plants like one of these industrial plants that was like we have a great carbon capture system it was only able to reduce the plant's emissions by 10 to 11%. So not quite the 80 to 90%. And yeah, like the administration is currently funneling billions of dollars into the technology. And it's, which is fucking wild because even though it's like some of these like sequestration programs are being operated by the fossil fuel companies. So there's a government-funded project in Texas that is being run by a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum,

which is like you get stabbed by a mugger and then the mugger puts on like a fake mustache and doctor's coat and he's like, hey man, you want to pay 70 bucks for a Band-Aid? And you're like, wait, aren't you the fucking guy who just, what the fuck is this? Well, you see, it's oversimplified to say that knives and muggings are the problem.

Oh, okay. We need bigger band-aids. We need bigger band-aids. Then the knives aren't as dangerous. We're really into something we call blood capture. We're also definitely not vampires. Yeah, it's just a very, very wild

thing because a lot of, especially climate scientists are like, it's just a very, very wild thing because, you know, a lot of especially climate scientists are like, it doesn't doesn't make sense if you're still burning it just to capture it. And the technology isn't good enough. Like you're you're you're functionally doing like fuck all like it's not a get out of jail free card because it still has impacts on the climate so just keep an eye out when people are trying to tell you that this may be the answer when really like obviously the big thing especially in america is we just don't have a modernized electrical grid so there are a lot of opportunities for like massive solar projects like in the southwest that could fucking easily handle the energy needs of like a whole region but because we don't have an efficient way to transport the energy like through a grid a transmission grid it's just like that's the argument that people use like to fucking be like yeah well i don't know if we can do that it's like yeah but then take the amount of investment the sweet sweet investment dollars

that are going to be put into projects like this, which clearly, I would argue, hopefully not sounding too cynical, I would argue the end motivation here isn't so much taking care of the CO2 as it is continuing to pursue old profit models while at the same time being able to get behind a podium and say, we're very excited about capturing all this carbon. Of course. And people feel like,

well, they're doing, it sounds like they're doing something. No, they're capturing it. Yeah. Capture. Oh,

the carbon bad. They capture it. It's going to be interesting. Cause I know that this is going to come up during the debates. It sounds like the type of phrase that you can hear. Oh yeah. Saying where it used to be sequestration or clean, or the things that clean coal. Yeah. Cause that used to come up a lot. This feels like the sequestration. Clean coal.

That used to come up a lot. This feels like the new clean coal. Carbon capture. Things like we capture the carbon. No one will ask him a follow up. They'll just be like, we'll put the CO2 in jail. You guys know about that, right?

You guys saw Columbia, right? Imagine that with carbon. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Exactly. But yeah, it's, this is, this will keep going round and round. And who knows?

I mean, at that point, if Biden and Trump ever debate, they might both be like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Carbon capture. We both agree on that. And it shows you that the lobbyists did their job properly. Well, anyway, Joe Quazala, thank you so much for joining us today on The Daily Zeitgeist, man.

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And they're fun. I mean, yeah. It's the best way to do it. It doesn't involve ingesting poisons at all. Exactly. That's one of the main tenets of my philosophy of life. Don't ingest poisons at all. Exactly. That's one of the main tenets of my philosophy of life. Don't ingest poisons. Three cup of orange juice.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Orange juice is a health food, especially if it's made by Minute Maid and has a bunch of other shit added to it. Ben? Mr. Bolin? Oh, shit, I forgot to ask you, Joe. Is there a work of media, social or otherwise, that you've been enjoying? Yes Oh, shit, I forgot to ask you, Joe. Is there a work of media, social or otherwise, that you've been enjoying?

You want to share with us? Yes, I mean, I would imagine this maybe has come up on the show before, but I really cannot stop looking and talking about the Drew Carey tweets about the sphere where he went to see fish. No. Okay, I'm going to. I know what the sphere is. I'm aware of Drew Carey

Drew Carey Drew Carey went to see Fish at the sphere Right And I'm going to read To you guys His series Just two tweets

Yeah okay Hashtag fish At the hashtag sphere I swear I just Talked to God I would give you All my money Stick my dick

In a blender And swear off pussy For the rest of my life In exchange for this. Bro, I met God tonight for real. I feel like I just got saved by Jesus, no lie. And then someone replied to that, and they were like, yeah, fish, it's cool.

And then he went, this is where it takes it to the moon. This is what it must feel like to come with a pussy. Because if it's even close, I'm flying to wherever tomorrow and getting the best pussy money can buy i don't need to be a man no more if it means i can feel like this all the time fucking keep it bro if i can get this feeling instead that was god at work or something like it felt like i was being saved by jesus no lie oh my god is drew okay i think drew's as good as anyone has yeah but like in his own way where you're like yeah it's like so i'm like i don't know if that's a great endorsement or the most terrifying one i've ever heard holy shit certainly uh intense yeah and i and i love i just think also because you just think about who drew carrie is and

and how we first met drew carrie and how we still kind of know him as the host of price is right yeah like you know i'm one of the the big hosts for america and that he's going through the sphere and being like i need a pussy because i need to get fucked like this uh every day of my life it's because of fish at the sphere i know like know. He must have been fucked off his face, man. There's no way. This feels like an acid response. Oh, yeah. You're fucking way thicker than that. Maybe a whole cocktail of

hallucinogenics. Probably some hippie flipping. Probably mixing. It's probably MDMA with some kind of psychedelic, for sure. Could you imagine if he's like a stone cold sober, bro? I was thinking maybe he just really likes jam bands. I mean, I get people, I get that world because those people definitely do talk like that.

Right. But I think if you do a drug test at a fish show, it's going to be hard to find anybody, I think, who is even a little bit sober. Yeah, yeah. Just even from a contact. Some of you are getting contact acid highs from other people. Acid fumes or something. But I really appreciate the... It feels like for a major media figure like Drew Carey, you don't see unfiltered, non-PR, combed over statements like this.

You know Drew wrote this like this is that dude just not worrying about the fact that he hosts prices right that he has all these you know jobs that he might be afraid he's just like no man this is what i'm feeling and i'm gonna say it and it's the tweets are still up it wasn't like right sure someone told him someone on his team told him to take him down. He was like, no, who cares? He doubled down, too, when asked about it. Honestly, this is

great for Price is Right because I can't remember the last time I thought about it as a show. So, now he'll... He starts saying that shit on Price is Right. He's like, folks, I really got to tell you, man. I finally know what it's like to come with a vagina. Okay.

And I said that because I know I'm on CBS. I'm not going to say the word I wanted to. Okay. I had a full on vaginal orgasm watching fish at the sphere. And I don't fucking need anything else anymore. Why do I fucking have this mic? I should be at the sphere. Yeah.

The sphere. Let's meet the contestants. Yeah. Let's meet our contestants. So we got a house coming in from, yeah, Youngstown, Ohio. Come on down, Claire. All right. I'm just doing this fucking sea ski do fucking costs.

She's like 20. Yeah. Yeah. More on that later, Claire. I'm still kind of fucked from seeing fish at the sphere, man. Oh man. Have you been to the sphere, Claire? Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know you said the fucking sphere claire it's just like getting all fucking aggro about it you have a pussy whoa whoa i'm sorry you have a vagina no true what no i'm sorry the network that's not the problem yeah it would be the number one most popular episode of Price is Right. I assure you. Drew, like, still fucking trying to shake off the acid trip from the Spearfish show while trying to seriously host Price is Right. Because who was the dude? Oh, that was Josh Androsky, right? Yes, he was on Mushrooms or Acid while he was a contestant on Price is Right.

Skateboarding rabbi. Skateboard rabbi, yeah. That bit's been done, I guess. Ben, what about you? Where do people find you, follow you, hear you, and what's the work of social media or other kind of media you've been fucking with? Right on, right on. Yeah, you can find me

calling myself in a burst of creativity at Ben Bolin on Instagram or XFK Twitter, etc. You can also check out our shows, Stuff They Don't Want You To Know and Ridiculous etc. You can also check out our shows, Stuff They Don't Want You To Know and Ridiculous History. You can find me hanging out with Miles and Jack

on different shows, including Daily Zeitgeist. A piece of media I've been enjoying, and this is not blowing smoke. It's weird because before we were going to hang out with Joe today, I looked at that Oppenheimer sketch and I have friends in Pittsburgh. So I sent it to them and I would, and Joe,

you and I haven't met, right? So, so I was saying, right? Like this is like a scam. Like that's how people like in a snake oil sales and we've never met. Correct.

No, I met you the first time today, doctor. Not once, Miles. Wait, that was purely coincidental? I enjoyed it. I actually sent it to some friends who live in Pittsburgh. Because I've got friends in the sketch comedy. And I was like, do you guys think these dudes are really from Pittsburgh?

Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh? No. Sorry. It's my Atlanta coming out. And they unanimously, you'll be glad to hear it, they said, yes, we think they are from Pittsburgh. Who are these arbiters of Pittsburgh-ness? You know what, man? I'm not an expert on things, but I'm good at finding experts.

I'm at the point of my life. You just dialed random numbers in Pittsburgh. You're like, hey, hey, hey, you want to look at a sketch for me? 412 and then just the random. Yeah, 412, 5388, 6728. Life hack, you know, just whenever you're in those conversations, always append the clause from earlier when you introduce yourself. Just like, hey, it's me, Ben, from earlier.

Nine out of 10 times, people aren't going to call you on it because they don't want to feel like they forgot someone. Right. Oof. Wow. I know. Sorry. Too much.

No, no. But thank you for being here, Ben. It's always a pleasure. A tweet I like. Just the odd. Look, I'm a rap fan. And right now, there's an ongoing beef between a man from Canada named Drake. Oh, did you hear that new Kendrick?

Yeah, the Kendrick Lamar track's pretty fucking pro. You got problems, Drake, because Kendrick Lamar is a better rapper than you. You have to know that. But this tweet is from another rapper that I like from Florida, Denzel Curry. At Denzel Curry tweeted, Cole definitely knew what was going to happen. That's a reference to J. Cole when he entered the beef and then pulled his diss track. He's like,

you know, this is actually, I like Kendrick and this, I don't even believe what I'm just, don't worry about it. I gotta go. I'm so chill. He called it goofy.

He called his own track goofy. Yeah. I mean, if people gave him a bunch of shit, cause they're like hip hop, but I'm like, whatever. Like if,

if you're an artist and you're not, if you can't stand by your art, I don't think, I don't see a problem with you being like, nah, that wasn't fucking sincere. Like, I just did that because people fucking wanted it. Like, personally, like, I don't care if Kendrick Lamar is saying that he's bigger than me or whatever. Like, whatever. My ego is not that fragile. But anyway.

Yeah. It is like releasing a mixtape called No Worries If Not. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. You can find me at Miles Gray on Twitter and Instagram. You can also find Jack and I on the basketball podcast, Miles and Jack on Mad Boosties.

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No, thank you, Ben. Where you can find all the articles we talked about today, as well as the song we're going to ride out on. We're going to go out on some Aussie, like, psychedelic jazz fusion music. There's this band called Mild Life that I really fucking like. They're from Australia because all the good bands are from Australia now. It's just like whatever. That's what the planet has decided. This track is called Yourself.

And it's just a fucking, their tracks are straight groovers. Like if you like old, like, you know, like some Steely Dan kind of shit, but like a little bit more forward thinking and trippier, this is for you. Okay, this is Mild Life with Yourself. That is going to do it for us today. We'll be back later to tell you what's trending in the afternoon. And the Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. So for more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever

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