The Daily Zeitgeist - Pier Pressure, Amazon AI = BS 04.04.25

Episode Date: April 4, 2024

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Guess what, Internet? Welcome to Season 332, Episode 4 of the Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And guess what day it is it's april 4th 4424 which means it's national vitamin c day as they would say in the uk national burrito day let's see national chicken cordon bleu day national school librarian day shout out miss barkley my elementary school librarian she was so vibey and like actually made me fuck with books because she was just sort of like yeah like they're don't just pick a book up wherever you want to and i'll never forget you miss barkley shout out miss barkley uh national national hug

a news person whatever i mean look if you need a hug let us know but yeah are you actually are you faithfully reporting the news are you just regurgitating police talking points that's what i want to know and Put that in the email. Thank you. Exactly. Tell me what kind of journalist are you? Are you just a mouthpiece for the police state or are you doing some real muck raking? In which case, hey, are you raking mucks?

Hey, what do you got on that rake? Is that a bunch of muck on your rake? What the heck is going on? Covered in muck. Let me give you a muck covered hug. You little muck raker anyway my name is miles gray aka 737 falling out of the sky need to stop oh it's so blow let's make sure we're gonna die so much proof oh it is a troubling brand yeah well i'm flying hope i land sign of crosses with my hand oh it is a troubling brand all right shout out christy i'm a guc I land on the crosses with my hand. Boeing is a troubling brand.

All right. Shout out, Christy Yamaguchi-Main at the Waffle House for that fantastic Credence Clearwater rendition of Traveling Band. But troubling brand. Yes, Boeing is a troubling brand at the moment. And, yes, like I said, fun fact, when I used to do laser tag birthday parties in the Valley, John Fogerty, his kid had his birthday there two years in a row and i got to do his birthday and i didn't know who john fogarty was because i was 16 years old and i wasn't really up on that kind of shit and then the next time i came around i was like oh hey bro i thought you were black or something first when i first heard you on a record but good for you john fogarty the highest compliment you could get as a musician

especially when when they're like hey man i, I just heard this Delta Blues album. I think we can cover this whole shit and maybe get our own wave going. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. That's fine. But please pay respects. Please pay homage.

Unlike people who are right now with Beyonce. They're like, I saw that op-ed. They're like, keep country music clean because Beyonce was on. We know what the fuck you're saying. But look, you know what?

Ken Burns did a great documentary. If you need to be up on where country music came from or people who had a big contribution to country music, black people. You could check that out. No spoilers. No spoilers. Ken put 80 years

of his life into that documentary. Six years of us watching it. It's interesting though too because it started off like the banjo came from West Africa and then there was this thing called hillbilly music which is the precursor to modern country. But then as it became more of a commercial thing, that's when it became

segregated and they're like, okay, there's hillbilly music and then what they called race music, which is when they started putting black people to the side and said let's have this now yeah but anyway it was a very multicultural of genre before all that to say you've already heard the chaos at the start of the episode and the tangents i've gone off on that's probably because i've got a freaky co-host today real sick fuck who is a liverpool fan and as i am you know as we're in the throes of a premier league uh run in wondering who's gonna win the title he's already giving me shit

about arsenal being in second place and that's fine because i love him and you love him too it's our very own your very own uh i guess we'll just call him Blake Chaos Wexler. This is Blake Wexler, a.k.a. I try to say goodbye, but I croak. Try to jump my way to a puddle. I try to hide on this log. The whole world knows I'm a frog. It is raining on the East Coast. I guess that's the theme.

Wow. Thank you so much yeah that aka uh i i insist on writing these myself and clearly that needs to stop so if anyone wants to send me some that i can bank for this one no no no respect you respect the family name respect the family name yeah my cousin you know what i mean isn't that macy gray yeah macy i woke up to that song on my phone like as an alarm for like three years at one point where i yeah and it was honestly a really really nice way to wake up i think i might bring it back why did you why macy gray has an alarm ring though what was it was it just that you didn't want the and you wanted something a little bit more melodic? Sicko wants to wake up to a submarine

sinking. That's a terrible noise. I'm in the midst of an argument with Her Majesty because she has one of the most violent of the iPhone alarm tones. I like harp. I like the harp. No. I need Discord. Oh, you need Discord? Have we talked about this on the show? Sorry, I like the harp. No. Because that brings me...

I need Discord. Oh, you need Discord? Have we talked about this on the show? Sorry, I'm also here. No, no, it doesn't matter. Look, we already know. We already know. That's Andrew T.

But anyway, we'll introduce him in a second. Actually, hold on. Let me introduce you right now. Can we introduce him right now? Let's also introduce our guest. Okay. Let's introduce our guest. No.

I didn't want to interrupt like that. It's Jazz, baby. He loves Discord. He's on Okay. Let's introduce our guest. No. I didn't want to interrupt like that. It's Jazz, baby. He loves Discord. He's on Discord. He's all about Discord. He's a fantastic writer, comedian, producer. Also, I got to see him do a wonderful panel at Podcast Movement Evolutions last week. I was doing a panel.

Then he did a panel. We're back to back. Yeah, we were on back to back panels. And this is my favorite guy, Andrew T. Anyway, hi, Andrew. What were you saying i don't i don't have an aka because i got texted uh like at yep this morning yep being like he got on the show i'm mildly insulted that you thought eight was too early to text me i don't i just think of it as like business hours i don't picture you as a guy who's like sleep i

know you to be like a pretty active dude so i figured yeah you're up pretty like at like a reasonable time i just like i was up two yeah yeah no i understand thank you well thank you that's the asian side of me is like i had to leave with an apology just that's right up top and then be like yeah i'm sorry for and then anyway i'm sorry to bother you however yeah sorry to bother you however help me yeah wait but what about the alarms in the in the clock radio days and this is maybe just because i was like in high school bother you however yeah sorry about you however help me yeah wait but what about the ring alarms in the in the clock radio days and this is maybe just because i was like in high school and it was like not i was not doing so well and needed something jarring to wake me up but what i would do is i would purposefully tune my uh clock radio my analog clock radio to between two stations

so that it was the most god-awful thing you could do so like you cannot sleep through it oh my it is like like discordant and like terrible and like you have to get up or else it will drive you mad yeah i guess once i'm disturbed disrupted from my sleep like i'm just up and i'm angry like i remember as a kid i used to do the snooze until like my parents were like, you have failed out of high school because you just haven't gone because you're asleep still. But now, like once I'm up,

I'm up. So I'd rather just have something delicate to bring me. I see. Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm I guess I'm a heavy sleeper. So I just I just need. Yeah.

My my majesty. My Duchess is such a fragile sleeper she got a product where it it simulates the sun rising in our room oh so we have yeah right and then it starts the the light comes up the goal is to be woken up by the light and then if that's if that doesn't wake you up the violent noise that it makes is a gorgeous flute right after. So it is so peaceful that you are now tired again. As soon as you wake up, you're ready to go back to bed.

But she loves it, and yeah, that's okay. What I would need is the product version of that, but it's revealed that the slow, the growing glow is like a nuclear blast. That's like maybe like 20 miles away yeah like i'm gonna die burn by the end of it yeah you have eight minutes yeah yeah your shadow is burnt

into your bed yeah by the end of it that's a grim reference but anyway um andrew thank you for joining us we're gonna talk to you a little bit more i'm gonna let people know up top what we're gonna be talking about this episode who knows if we get to any of these stories because, look, it's just a garden of chaos. But we're going to talk about Biden's Gaza peer plan, already just vague and seemingly potentially a disaster, even more than it should be. We'll talk about those Amazon Fresh, just grab and go stores. Like, you don't even need a credit card, dude. We know, dude. All this AI. Well, a secret has been revealed about credit card, dude. We know, dude. All this AI.

Well, a secret has been revealed about the technology, and I'm not going to spoil it, but it's not AI. Is it uplifting? Is it nice? Yeah, it is uplifting. It is uplifting to know that Silicon Valley is just absolutely full of bullshit. Then we'll talk about RFK2 and his... He is either suffering from debilitating memory loss, he's just totally full of shit news at 11. And we'll get to the bottom of that.

And then, um, we might have time to check in with JLo because the tour wasn't doing so good, but some, maybe a little rebrand might help take it. Either way, we're going to get to all of that. But first Andrew T. Andrule. Andrule. Mommy T.I.T.I. Yes. Thank you. Oh, what's something from your search

history or something you recently screencapped here's an actual question though before that has the zeitgang ever because now now the aka's in my years of being on the show have grown i would say exponentially in length how far are we from a full Daily Zeitgeist musical episode? I just think every headline could have multiple songs, and I just think it's doable. I'm pitching this now. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, look, I would bring you on. I mean, we would need a writer's room for that, to be honest. There's only so much Jack and I and JM can do. I mildly disagree. I just think you could outsource enough of this. AKA is put for news headlines. I'm just throwing it out there.

Just throw it out there. We'll see. I just think a full musical is in the works. Andrew Lloyd Yamaguchi, man. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I think you're right there. A bit of drama, I realized. That's right, That's right.

That's right. There was a little AKA drama. I thought I redoubled on a Christy Yamaguchi main AKA yesterday about having gum problems. And then La Caroni also did it. And I'm seeing it play out in the Discord. You know what? That's on me. That's on me.

I knew there was something. No. Edit this out. No, don no edit this out no don't have to write the shit so i seize you i seize you my bad anyway shall we get to it what's something from your search history or something you screencast recently screenshot search history all right so this is this is some shit that i'm gonna do i think when i was on whatever a couple weeks ago i talked about i i apparently I'm on a make stuff that is disgusting culinary kick because I

saw this recipe around, I guess, the holidays. But now I think because I have a Chicago-based friend who has a gift-giving situation, I'm going to make the fucking Malort cookies.

Oh! Ooh. Who here Who here has had I've had Malort When we did our live show When we did our live show in Chicago It was Daniel Van Kirk Obviously the chosen child of Illinois

He was like you gotta drink Malort up there on stage And we had it and I was like Golly this is racist It is amazing is it is amazing because it's it's the malort is uh like like every every city has its gross you got to try this liquor not every city but like regions it's like kind of everywhere malort is unique because i think it's correct me if i'm wrong folks it's one of the few like gross you got to try this liquors that is not anise based on earth right almost every other cultures you gotta fucking try this gross thing is anise somehow right right right so malort is a liqueur that my best guess is that it's grapefruit pith.

I'm looking this up. Now it does say grapefruit pith here. A dehydrated Grapefruit pith. I'm reading that. It's a Basque. It's got an umlaut over the A. It's a Swedish drink. Wait, it's flavored with anise or wormwood.

I don't see that. Anise. I get it. But unlike a Sambuca or a fucking Absinthe or Uzo or any number of like, oh, this is the grossest

thing our country got, which all taste the same somehow, this one genuinely does not taste like it. It tastes like if you just like took a if you took a grapefruit and an unripe grapefruit and bit it like an apple holy shit it's so weirdly like specifically gross i kind of like it i didn't mind i mean for me it was more like damn that me, it was more like, damn, that was fucking strong. It was more like the experience was intense. I wasn't more like, I need to like drink a soda now. It's acrid.

Oh, you said soda like Chicago. It's acrid. And like, yeah, it's overwhelmingly bitter. Unlike other, you know, unlike, you know, even a fucking Jägermeister. It's not super sweet or whatever. Anyway, so I saw this recipe for Malort cookies that are basically grapefruit chocolate, like grapefruit and cocoa powder sugar cookies with a Malort glaze on it.

And it sounds disgusting. But yeah, I have a friend from Chicago whose birthday it is, and they're getting Malort cookies and some Malort. That's very kind of you, first of all, to to go through the trouble you're a very good friend i the i can't get it even the color of the liquor which is unpleasant it's it's upset yeah it's or it is it is dehydrated like it looks like a piss bottle you'd find in a like a stairwell of like a garage structure correct um in la or your closet yeah or my closet thank you yeah you saw that two liter huh that i got going i did you work so hard you don't have time to go to the bathroom and you

don't hydrate well so yeah no you should so where else you could put it i call it a malort yeah like they say and once you start like once you have a liter liter and a half you gotta top it off i'm a completionist baby you know that's why i'm watching the rest of the gentlemen i'm like i started off i'm like fine but i'm like i'm ready to invest too much time i might as well top off this two liter bottle uh burden andrew what's something you think is underrated i think something that is underrated is something i did yesterday that i forgot that i haven't done in a while which is just putting the vegan thing in a not vegan place. To wit, I have...

That sounds naughty, but go on. Burger Lords? Oh, yeah. Is that? Burger Lords has a vegan burger. Right. It's a burger place in Los Angeles, the one in Highland Park. It's in Highland Park, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a burger place in Los Angeles. I went to the one in Highland Park. It's in Highland Park, right? Yeah, yeah. And they have a vegan burger that's quite good. Yeah. In that it's like a little on the like falafel-y side.

It's like there's like a lot of grain in it. And there's a lot of like kind of visible texture. And yeah, it's just like a nice kind of like a patty of something. Yeah. And I just got that. I got a double burger with one beef one beef one vegan oh fun great nice whoa yeah you're down for the swirl like that yeah okay because i i was like they're they're they're genuinely really different it is a burger that that doesn't really try to like emulate it's not like a just worse meat burger right yeah it's kind of like its own thing

and i was like oh yeah i love i love like like vegan hamburger it it really like with impossible stuff it's really like the experience isn't that much different to me especially if you use like normal cheese then i'm like yeah i won't eat the beef yeah yeah i'll eat the chi and look at me it's better yeah yeah that was the the vegan whopper is i think i this one i'm positive i have said on this show before, but I'll say it again. The Whopper. Yeah. The Whopper really highlights that the taste of a Whopper is just fake smoke and mayonnaise and raw onion.

Right, right, right. Perfect. Like, anything else could be in there. So it is like, yeah, you can't be eating a beef Whopper. Wexler, much experience with the vegan burgers or what? You're still pure beef. What do you do? I have a life. I have three years left. And so my life expectancy is quite, I've hit my ceiling already. I'm on borrowed time. Yeah, I get it.

Andrew, I have a question for you. So you said, so you ordered a vegan patty and so it was a double. So they were both. It was a double, yeah. Between the same buns. Yes. How did you order it? Did you, did they? Oh, yeah. Did they hesitate at all? Or were you like, or did you order two separates and then you.

No. Yeah. Because they have an option for a double anyway. Oh, cool. And I just said, can I just get a double? But can I just get one of them vegan? And it is true. The guy taking my order looked at me, sighed, looked down at the computer.

I was like, okay. It was admittedly a pain in the ass. He's like, Mark, how did I ring this up, dude? This guy wants one beef, one fucking beef. I don't know, dude. It's a perfectly reasonable request. It just would sound odd to the ear for the first time where my friend

Todd, he would do a thing where he would order a small coffee at a large cup and it would be because he wanted to add like a bunch of milk which is not cool but like that's what he would do and he also was like oh but you also get more you get charged for a small but they will give you a meeting oh yeah because he's a shit this is what this kind of shit todd glass is teaching you man yes yes that's why he was my mentor yeah and that's why i order it yeah see i have a massive like a 64 gallon drum i'm drinking out of what the fuck player looks like six ounces a barrel of methylamine from breaking bad yeah with the bubble is that the fabled stanley cup is that

what that is is that this is yeah i haven't i'm gonna put a child in it and blake has blake has a construction orange stanley cup that does genuinely look more like a cone look at that look at this look at this tormented promo cup i've got yellow stone insulated mug that's how i let kidney stone that's how i let white people know i'm safe i bring yeah i got i got nothing yeah oh you gotta have a cup that shows you're safe babe i did see a uh this is this is the part of fucking i guess like tiktok instagram reels that i'm on uh the suggested hack which is which was the to a similar similar idea as that you get more in the small cup or

small drink big cup idea is when you're at chipotle right when they're about to give you the second scoop of beans go oh actually could i get half and half beans because what they do is typically drop the the the scoop they already have they're like fuck it it's already in the spoon it's going in and then they give you another scoop of the other bean. Wow. Beans. Classically the single cheapest food you can have. I know.

It's not like you found a hack for free guac or some shit. You're like, yeah. Even they're like, dude, if you just... Look, you could have just asked me to hook it up. I don't give a fuck. These are beans, man. I bring my own can. Andrew, what's something you think is overrated?

Anyone cooking on TikTok or Instagram. these are all food i'm realizing now i like that it's good i should have had what specific i'm on you know i like to cook too so a lot of the shit those algorithms feed me pun intended is a lot of cooking stuff but like yeah sometimes i like a one thing i like to do is if there's a like a dish from abroad that I'm trying to make, then I would like to see how someone. We don't use that phrase anymore. That's crazy. Sorry. A thing that a female.

Thank you. Somewhere from some far, far flung foreign country. Then I like to look at their version because usually it's different than the like food network like whatever you find on the internet search but what do you like what dimension of the cooking videos you talk about that i think is is probably true but that i think there's a difference between those are like typically a little more like journalistic but i guess what i mean is like any anyone doing like the demo type thing not anyone but most of them and and even the ones that are good cooks are incentivized to add too much shit i i do think and this is this is a hundred percent going to get me canceled but it's okay you're already canceled every every almost everyone on tiktok is over seasoning

and over complicating their food food. I like that take. It's because they're trying to avoid the comments that are like, no seasoning. I get it. I get what they're dodging, but I have cooked before and I've cooked many of the things they're making. I'm like, that's too much. Also, the amount of salt I see going sometimes. First of all,

salt at the fucking end. Don't fucking dive in with your salt because you can't you can't take that back but i think i think it's because it's televised they don't have to or you know whatever they don't they don't have to eat it they just have to make it and they're highly incentivized so fucking and the other thing is i think there's a you know the sort of stunt chefery of like oh i made fucking oxtail then i put it inside of a ham and this is the shit it's it's not good i just wish people could cook and had a little i this is broadly for everything i just wish they had a little capacity for evaluating bullshit

but this is just something i know about and i'm like get the fuck out of here with this food right it's not gonna turn out fuck out of here with this food right it's not gonna turn out fuck out of here with this food i love that um yeah i think the one thing no i gotta put people on if you really like cooking there's this one dude on youtube i found this japanese chef named george but it's spelled in katakana georgie and it's like it's all techers it's all technique like shit i didn't know about about about how to really bring all of the flavor out of an onion if you're putting it in a pan.

It's just more details that I appreciate because the technique is half the battle. Anyway, we can do this all day. Follow me on live where I'll be cooking a meat patty over salted In-N-Out style later today. What time?

Just kind of like every half hour for the rest of the day. Yeah, exactly. What's something you think is overrated? Did we do that already? Yes, cooking on TikTok. That's right. This is why... This is why you have... No, I do have one more though. Something that's overrated is not

seeing Godzilla vs. Kog. Holy shit. It's so good. Dude, I've been trying so godzilla versus kong holy shit it's so good dude i've been trying so fucking hard to see it but it's not streaming anywhere i fucked myself over by not catching it in theaters oh no no the the one the new one that's out now good sorry godzilla x kong oh i in my mind godzilla the japanese one oh is that no oh no no godzilla minus one is genuinely good that's fucking whatever yeah yeah oh yeah with kong is yeah they basically figured out it's just pro wrestling right like amazing nothing nothing more i mean so deeply great for sure i was like oh these motherfuckers jumped the shark when i saw king kong put a fucking power glove on yeah and i was like yeah

i'm sorry d is he like an engineer he built that to his own specifications because he's a guy he's like i need a tool to use could i without spoiling it i will just say the explanation for why he has the power glove is tedious and unnecessary and that's it's one of the perfect bathroom break times but airtight yeah it's completely it's just like you walk down there's the other part is when they're about to do a little ceremony every single person so i saw twice this weekend um so the first time i was like i can tell this is bathroom time and i i went rather and then the second time i saw i was like well i should just see what i missed and everyone else I was with went to the bathroom

during that moment and I was in Alamo where they have those little order cards and I wrote a note for everyone that said you didn't miss anything this is the perfect bathroom break amazing perfect you saw it twice though yeah I saw

it once and then the next day it was my friend's birthday and he was like you know all I want to do is see a matinee of Godzilla X-COM. He was like, fuck it, I'm in. Wow. That's a fucking homie right there. All right, let's take a quick break. And we'll be right back to talk about the news after this. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on 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 just to kick off with some global news, I want to talk quickly about Biden's peer plan that he's building in Gaza. So during the State of the Union last month, Joe Biden basically said, he's like,

yeah, there's a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, for sure. Now, I could maybe like lean on the government to maybe do something different. Joe Biden basically said he's like, yeah, there's a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza for sure. Now, I could maybe like lean on the government to maybe do something different. But instead, how about this? A temporary floating pier built by the military that will now allow the delivery of humanitarian aid on a large scale. And a lot of people are like, really? Most people in the beginning are like, that sounds like a real, like a terrible Trojan horse. Or like, it's a pier for aid or more boots into, I don't, it can be used in many different ways. What is aid really?

Right. Yeah. And he promised people there would be no boots on the ground from the United States. And following that announcement, Republicans and Democrats seemed just like logistically puzzled. They're like, how, what's so, okay, but they're building it, but there's no boots. Oh, cause there'll be on the water technically. Well, what's going on?

So nevertheless, it's already underway. Ships departed for Gaza just days after the State of the Union. And there have been no concrete details that have actually been made public because they're like, it's, you know, security concerns. But just in general, there's a lot like, without like needing a lot of detail, they're like, it's security concerns. But just in general, there's a lot like without like needing a lot of detail, they're like, can you at least answer this?

Like if this is an emerge quote emergency mission, you said it's going to take two months. Like what are we doing here? If it's that urgent, then two months seems like a very long time, especially because even by the White House's estimate, 100% of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity, which is the first time an entire population has been so classified, in the entire population. So his plan has like aid groups are like,

I don't know why we're going to spend two months when like we've seen literal hundreds of trucks full of aid and supplies ready to be delivered. But the Israeli government is blocking their entry. And in the South, their aid is being blocked by a lot of like this inspection process where like there are even things like water or metal forks are being rejected. So there are some just very basic questions about this plan that have just not been answered. And they say like the official word is up to 2 million meals per day could be delivered through this pier. And again, they said, but no U.S. troops

will set foot in Gaza. But who will be making these deliveries is what journalists were asking at the Pentagon. They're like, OK, they're building the pier, but like who's like who's actually going to be doing the distribution here and this pentagon spokesperson uh sabrina singh did not have a great answer it was sort of like oh boy yeah i'll just play i'll just play her response to just a very straightforward question of like who who who who distributes the aid once pier is built because it sounds like it may have to be american troops uh this is her answer from the Pentagon. So that's still something that's being worked out right now.

And in terms of the distribution, that's not something that the U.S. military will be involved in. We are, you know, the logistics setting up, coordinating the movement of the humanitarian aid from either the floating pier or to the that floating causeway. But that's something that in terms of how the distribution of aid is going to happen once it gets into Gaza, that's not something that we're handling in terms of contracts or, you know, how that's going to be done, whether it's through partners and allies, NGOs. I just don't have I just don't have that for you right now. We don't have that for you right now. I just don't have that for you right now. This is a very serious mission where we've told people there will be no American military presence on the ground there.

But we just haven't worked that part out. A line. People can line up, I think. They can take a dirigible dinghy or something it's just very very vague and that's very problematic given like what the situation

is the urgence it really is wild how like yeah clearly like tim robinson took over as head writer of the white house in the last six months it's just like what the fuck are you guys talking about i don't fucking know like that's what you said instead yeah it's fucking like what am i supposed to fucking do yeah uh it's we're very not sure and yeah and now i guess then the plan would be they said if there's concern over safety then israel will establish a quote security bubble to protect the u.s soldiers but now it's like israel's deploying soldiers to protect the u.S. soldiers, but now it's like Israel's deploying soldiers to protect the U.S. soldiers who are building a massive structure that only is built to circumvent a blockade maintained by Israeli soldiers. It just doesn't, it just feels like

there's a very straightforward solution if you're trying to deliver aid, and it would be to use the trucks and the entry points there. So, yeah, this is a reason why, too, because of all the vagueness here, a lot of Palestinians and observers are very skeptical about the project being like this looks like an occupation port potentially. Like this will allow U.S. military entry into Gaza. And then the more cynical end, it could be a place for deportation. into Gaza. And then the more cynical end, it could be a place for deportation. So we're still not quite clear what Joe Biden or the Pentagon or what whatever is going on. But again, I think it's part and parcel of a lot of like, tonal shifting from the White House rather than policy shifting, where people are saying like, hey, maybe fucking to put it lightly, knock it off. It's just jazz, jazz baby this is this is jazz aside you know

we're just trying to do whatever the fuck works yeah it doesn't work or just trying it or just yeah man look we got some we got some things floating out there come on why am i the bad guy come on you know let's just get over it for a second yeah uh we shall see what is happening there because it's it the situation does not get better. And by every day, we're only hearing things get worse and worse. On to something else, I guess a bit disheartening news for people who just love AI so much. Do you remember in 2016 when Amazon were like, we got a new concept, y'all, for a store that's so advanced and futuristic that it will barely need human labor to operate and then wall street was like barely need human labor yes go on go off jeff well tell

us more these like amazon fresh stores there or amazon go stores kind of colloquially known just had a simple concept just walk, grab whatever the fuck you want, walk the fuck out, and then you get your bill. Just like that. You're not shoplifting, baby. It's because we got magic behind the scenes. This is what they said in their initial press release when they unveiled the search. Quote, when people ask, especially,

how do you tabulate what people owe? Like, this seems like it could be, this could not go well. Quote, our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by the same types of technologies used in self-driving cars, computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning. Oh, boy. Our Just Walk Out technology automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. Before I get into the reveal here have any of you ever have you seen i know that like there are these stores around new york

sorry i'm kidding i almost lost my breath i know that there are i know it's i just whenever there's bad news about amazon i get very emotional because that's sad it's anyway i don't understand us have any of you been have you ever been to the grab and Go store, whether that be in Seattle or another place? I know that's where it originated, but then there's about like 40 stores nationwide that have the technology. I've been in the Barclays Center. They have one for drinks. So you can just walk in, grab a beer, and then walk out.

And I don't care whatever technological thing you're about to drop on us. I think these stores are important because it gives you the rush of stealing, which is something that I've never had. So it's like, okay, that's not true. You never stole? You gotta try it, bro. You gotta try it.

I've never publicly had. I've never officially in print had. I'm with you. No, no, no. I've come up, bro. I used to come up all the fucking time in high school. That's me. I steal jokes.

But I won't steal a physical item. I'll steal entire sets of comedians. Entire personalities. I took a whole Stephen Wright one-hour Comedy Central special. I just did it with a little more charisma. Just said it. And people loved it. Because two wrongs do make a right. A Stephen right.

Nice, nice, yes. He's got his material. There he is. But yes, there is a feeling of does this really work? Does this work? And I appreciate that rush. Yes, I have used it before. Andrew, have you?

Can I ask Andrew for a second? Can I ask Andrew for a second? Andrew, have you? Can I ask Andrew for a second? You are the co-host. Andrew, have you? I have not, but actually the only one I've ever seen is similarly at the, now it's the BMO Stadium where my beloved Angel City

get their asses kicked week in and week out. And they have now instituted at the vegan fried chicken joint, they have a line that is supposed to be Amazon grab and go. And I have noticed every single time I'm at the stadium, not a soul is in that line because I

assume it doesn't work. Or it's so fast. When it first came out, people were like, it's weird, I didn't get a bill until hours later. And people were like, what the fuck was going on? Well, Amazon recently announced that they're like going to be like throttling these back because they're just really cost intensive. And when you really like pull the curtain back, we come to find out the magic wasn't fucking AI. fucking ai i guess it was but by ai we mean a team of over 1 000 workers in india that were meticulously watching and labeling video footage to ensure accuracy that's what the fucking magical

store was just sending a video feed to another office abroad to then just say all right man can you add up all the shits and just make sure that all this other technology is actually working? So cashiers. Weird. Yeah. Yeah. It was apparently, dude, it was apparently the shit was, it was so good that 70% of sales had to be reviewed by a human. sensor fusion deep learning shit the only learning that was happening were these people manually training the fucking machine learning shit to be able to be to be able to identify products more

accurately i am actually genuinely surprised that this was ai at all i i will say in my head i just assumed there was like an rfid thing in each product and when you walked out it would beep each thing yeah no yeah and apparently there's like all these other sensors that were so expensive to develop and they just never... They're just like, fuck it, man. Just get some people to watch the fucking video and add it up so we can make this shit work better.

And I think it just goes to show you just how much bullshit is surrounding us, especially in the tech sector, especially when coming from Silicon Valley. Like, all these promises of, like, it's this new thing, dude. It's fucking magic. And it's just a fucking mechanical Turk, dude. That's all it is.

And for people who don't remember that, it was a chess-playing machine from the fucking 1800s where a dude hid inside. And they're like, this magical machine can beat people at chess. A dude was fucking hiding in the box. that's what this yeah fucking it's always it's always a guy it's always too it's always a guy in a trench coat yeah yeah i yeah it's so weird too how much of like the energy of ai is devoted towards saving labor costs at the literal lowest labor costs possible right who the fuck cares if there are cashiers seriously yeah what the fuck are you like replacing cashiers is the least important thing yeah like even even from a cold money wise thing right what are you talking about why no one's ever like i mean i get it again if you like to come up

then yeah you don't you don't fuck with a cashier that's right i'm sorry you got me saying cashier like you say a cush i like cashier cashier it feels a little more exotic but also i enjoy the interaction at the supermarket when i'm checking out especially because sometimes you get people who are like chatty and like well i was i was at fucking the supermarket the other day the checkout person was talking so long that the person next in line had to be like i'm sorry i think i think this transaction is done what and i was like i was like look they were telling me about how this used to be a fucking solid gig in the late 70s okay and they've been doing this so why don't you have fucking pay some respect look open your ears yeah i don't even like the uh the fucking self-checkout thing and my new thing i've started saying to people like the when the employees are like oh

the self-checkout line is open and my new response is i won't be able to help uh myself from stealing from you if i go there so that's good i'm sorry i'm a kleptomaniac i'm gonna steal from you if I go there. That's good. I'm sorry. I'm a kleptomaniac. I'm going to steal from you if I use that. I don't think so. Not today. Medically, I need to be in this line for my mental health. The other day,

at the same store, I saw a mislabeled pack of chicken. The price was way too low. Gotcha. I had, I had, I had to do it to him.

I had to do it. You have to, that's not on you. You have to. Yeah. They're so easy. Again, underrated people,

people who sleep on dark meat. I'm so sorry. Y'all are. This is, this is, this is tough. The rating system for dark meat is so polarized because this underrated means you just think your audience is too overindexed for white people. No, no, no.

I'm saying people like that. And I won't have that. People like that. Most of the time, right, you get a chicken breast. Most of the time, you're served chicken breast at a restaurant. So most people are used to eating it. Chicken tenders are the breast tenders. So most people are used to eating that kind of meat and again i know people who know obviously it's the most juicy delicious succulent

part baby that's all i'm saying that's all i'm saying and i know i know everybody eats dark meat but i'm just saying switch switch over because it's also hard to fuck up like you can't it's really hard to dry out a thigh that's also just from an ease of use perspective that's what i'm saying people can't cook again people don't know how to check out my instagram i'm gonna be frying on the concrete for one hour all right so let's take a quick break we'll come back and we'll just check in with j-lo and rfk2 why not after this i'm jess casavetto executive producer of the hit to this one. followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high-control groups and interview dancers,

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And we're back. RFK 2. I guess RFK Junior. I like saying RFK 2. I was enjoying the outro to the last segment where it did sort of sound like J-Lo and RFK were on tour together. Yes. I know. Yeah.

I mean, who knows? That might help for ticket sales. Can't hurt. Tickets are available. Tickets are available. They are available. Widely available. Please.

Please. By all means. We got RFK coming too. So if you're all anti-vaxxers, you can come through and hear a couple of conspiracy theories in between. Some floor seats. You know. Yep. I'm real real and ja rule will be there too so anyway rfk jr has been in and out of the spotlight obviously since he announced he's running for office whether it's tales of people farting loudly uh during his arguments over whether or not ashkenazi jews and chinese people were immune to covid or about how he lied about celebrities

coming to his fucking birthday party. He's always getting attention for the wrong reasons. And sadly, he continues to make things worse for himself because every time he's in these stories, he just denies they ever happened. But people are like, dude, you said it or like your people sent the email. What do you mean? Like you had nothing to do with it. And recently he was on Chris Cuomo's show.

Remember that guy? Oh, yeah. Where Cuomo brought up the fact he's like, you know what, dude? Just for the record, you got a pretty wild fucking track record of saying freaky shit. Like all kinds. I remember you said Bill Gates is going to put 5G in people's brains and stuff and take your money or something like that. And then, yeah, your COVID conspiracies, you're an anti-vaxxer,

you're kind of one of the biggest faces of the anti-vax movement. And also, your 9-11 stuff. And I'm just going to play this clip because he just does not want to talk about it at all. In this very, very,

very suspicious way, again, so I'm very, very, very like suspicious way again. So I'll, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he has some kind of debilitating memory loss or maybe he's just full of shit, but here you decide. To that suggestion that whether it's 9-11 or the deep state or vaccines uh that you believe wacky things i i don't know what you're talking about 9-11 i you know i don't recall uh saying anything about 9-11 but you know i'm called a conspiracy i well you know what i'm talking. It came out of the Bergen interview. I do not know what you're talking about. Well, in the Bergen interview where you were saying you're not sure what happened.

You know what I'm talking about, Bobby. I'm not trying to be sneaky about it. Yeah, I'm not trying to be coy, Chris. I think if you go back and look at that interview or any interview, I never voiced a conspiracy theory. Okay, sir, this is something no one can do in the year of our Lord 2024. You can't be like, yeah, go check the tape. Motherfuckers, everything is there. Everything is there.

So, again, in this clip, people just said, okay, here it is. Let's just cut to that interview Chris Cuomo is referencing and just hear what version of the 9-11 thing he was in on. I know there are strange things that happen that don't seem. What are the strange things? Well, one of the buildings came down that wasn't hit by a plane. So, you know, it wasn't building seven or building 10. That collapsed because two of the world's biggest buildings collapsed on top of it. No, they didn't collapse on top of it. My offices were down there. My offices were closed.

So one of the buildings next to the Trade Center. There's pictures of it collapsing. There's nothing collapsing on top. He goes on and on. And I think this is interesting about building seven. After the investigation, they're saying that all of this debris from the collapse started all these fires within the building and like burnt the floor out and then uh like a major structural column failed and that's why it collapsed and he's just like i don't know man i was down my offices were down there i'm just saying weird stuff but i wonder if like again do you think in his mind he's like that's not a conspiracy theory because it's true or if he's just like look bro look what why you gotta press me right now man i'm trying to fucking i'm trying to be an unserious candidate

for president right now for once i'm like glad that i'm not a part of one of these legendary political families because i don't have access to whatever tanning bed the Kennedys and the Cuomos use because whatever it is, it is a faulty bed. They look like shit. For real.

Their goose is cooked. They look like a roasted turkey, for sure. Their thighs are dried out. Those thighs? Definitely dry. The leathery thighs. Oh yeah, brittle. Delicious. like a roasted turkey for sure their thighs are dried out oh oh those thighs definitely dry oh yeah yeah brittle brittle delicious but yeah it's just so good yeah but i mean like it's interesting too because even with all this right he's still polling in a way that has both republicans and democrats being like what the fuck this guy could really fuck shit up but um you know because we talk

about how slim the margins are especially in some of these yeah swing states and if enough people go the rfk way that could be great news for either biden or trump depends on who's polling you're looking at but the thing is there's still one unknown about all this he's currently only on one ballot for november because when you when you run as an independent, you need to gather a certain amount of signatures to get that ballot access. So right now, the state of Utah is the only one where I believe, as of this reporting, he is officially on the ballot. He keeps saying things like, I'm in the process. We're getting out there in Nevada, North Carolina, New Hampshire, a couple other places. And then those secretaries of state for those places are like we don't have

any we don't have any shit from him yet like the deadline's coming up we don't have nothing from him i think i'd imagine he's probably close because why spend all this fucking money just to be like well y'all can vote for me in Utah. That's not a proper candidacy. And I think that's why a lot of people have looked at his new VP pick, the very wealthy Silicon Valley lawyer, Nicole Shanahan, with some raised eyebrows and be like, oh, okay, maybe you need her cash to help your ballot access mission here. So we're not quite sure where this ends up.

But I mean, we could know very soon. I mean, within the next few months, like it'll be clear how far along he is, because some of those deadlines are approaching, like in April and May. I will just say, listen, I think it's been pretty clear the Democrats are not exactly candy political operators or good at this, at their basic basic jobs but they should be able to run a campaign where he is not a problem a problem yeah that should be on them i think it's probably right they're like they're they're keeping their powder dry so to speak to be like right now we got to go all in on just basically being like trump is bad and don't talk about like the promise of what a biden administration part two would look like just focus on him bad him bad him bad but yeah it truly

is like it's like yeah i mean if if it's like this disconnect if you need people this disconnected for reality to win against donald trump right you shouldn't have a political party that needs these people for real for real did you see that there's a new david tell special on netflix i was like i haven't seen i haven't heard from that guy in years and he had this one joke he's like he's talking about trump he's like but don't worry i'm a biden man hunter biden yeah perfect david tell joke i'm a biden man hunter biden oh man um but blake are do any of are you you feeling the itch for rfk too or no you're you're probably you're out on him you're about you're a hunter biden man right i'm a biden i was a i was an rfk one guy for a while you know i'm rfk my yeah it's hard

you know the sequel is never better than the than the original but like no yeah no it's he does every time he's one of those guys where you think he's great the idea of him in your head has to be crazier than the real thing you know because we try to characterize like people and then you watch clips of him it's like no that's pretty spot on yeah he does look that way he does talk that way he does say those things he does believe those things okay oh he does do those push-ups with that form he's always the same wait what's his push-up form uh perfect wait yeah he's just like he seems like a guy that does perfect push-ups. Is he? Oh, yeah. He loves them. Oh, I remember that.

When he was wearing denim jeans, looking like he was an 80s prison gang type dude. It was a breathable denim. It was one of those breathable workout denims. Yeah. Now we have to watch this clip. From a company that has advertised on Daily Zeitgeist. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go. Yeah, like...

Yep. Let's go. Oh, he keeps it low. He's really trying to engage those triceps. Yeah, good for him. Got to. Where is he working out? It looks like a...

I'm sorry, is he already... I think it's outside of SoFi Stadium. Yo, he was gassed after like six. I mean, he's pretty old. It's pretty good for his... Do you see how fucking big his arms were? But he looks like he'd been doing push-ups already. Yo, that's right, right.

We caught him mid. Dude, I just burned down my tries, dude. I just did that, bro. You're late. Also, it's rich coming from a guy who would do like two push-ups and be like, I need to smoke weed for the rest of the day after this shit that's no way not for me i'm trying to find a way yeah i find it much easier to work out if i'm a little stoned because i hate i hate working out yeah here is i'm trying to find a way to make this joke without advocating political

assassination because i think it's mostly wrong. Good disclaimer. Except for that dude in Japan who just changed everything. We just hit him with that PVC shotgun? Yeah. It was wild too because after that, people were like the way the media in Japan handled it

wasn't like, yo, this dude is wild. What the fuck is going on? How dare he? They're like, well, what made him want to go after Shin and then they're like whoa hold on a second and then that really fucking disrupted a lot of the the party politics in japan not in a revolutionary way but enough that the whole thing became about oh yeah this oh yeah maybe he has something maybe he was onto something um but anyway with this rfk joke that you're trying to land just i'm just trying to find it somehow but since you keep calling him rfk2 i i was looking for some version of we just need sir han sir han sir han sir han sir han sir han to the fourth power

uh yeah listen probably don't assassinate anyone, almost certainly. No, no, no, no. Not at all. Yeah. It usually never works. Usually never works, but sometimes can shift the conversation. Okay. Let's move on to another character from our lives. Jennifer Lopez.

J-Lo. J-Lo 1. This is just a quick one. Because last month, right, I don't know if, did any of you catch that I started watching that Amazon thing she did because I knew it was just going to be fucking all over the place. I couldn't quite.

I didn't watch it. Yeah. It's like a fever dream musical, basically. I think she probably saw how Beyonce was doing visual albums. She's like, oh, I can do that shit. I'm a little surprised that. Well, no,

go ahead. No, no, no. Go ahead with the headline. No, what do you mean? Surprised at what?

Did she attempted it? No, no, no. Go ahead. I'll be surprised at the thing you say next. I'm only surprised because I'm reading ahead in the document. No,

no, that's fine. That's fine. It's called ruining the segment. Uh, Andrew. So basically she had this tour launching alongside this visual musical album, whatever thing she did on Amazon. But she just quietly canceled the last seven stops on the new tour because of alleged, quote, logistical issues with the promoter.

And then most people were like, I think it's because all of these tickets aren't sold. But who knows? Who knows? Who knows? And because of that, I think it lends a little bit more credence to that idea, that theory. Because now J-Lo has also rebranded the name of her tour from the

This Is Me ellipsis now, which is the name of the Amazon thing, to now This Is Me live Ellipsis, Now, which is the name of the Amazon thing, to now This Is Me, Live, the greatest hits. Yes. And to me, that sounds like you're just trying to be like, Hey, man, I know that musical shit was way too confusing, but trust me, J-Lo is back, baby.

And we're going to have Waiting For Tonight. Whoa. With all that shit. I'm real. All those hits. So please, please buy a ticket. I don't know. I mean, are we all in agreement here that that may be what the case is here?

If you suddenly retitle your tour to be like, okay, not the new album. Just all the good stuff I made. Yeah. Yeah. No new shit. Right. Right. Right. Proven. I made. Yeah. No new shit. Right. Right. Right.

Proven. You will like this. There's data. Jennifer Lopez. Enjoyable. Jennifer Lopez. If you had my love for three hours straight on a limb, are you ready? Are you ready?

Take my money. But yeah, I don't know. I hope it works out for her. But I still always, I don't know if any of you there's this vanity fair piece that was written in the lead-up to her releasing this amazon thing and i bring this up a lot because it's just so funny it's a very like honest like reporting on the process of her making this amazon thing where everyone in her life that is important to her told her to not do it oh and that like please like you don't need to do this like it's gonna be difficult

even ben affleck's like i'm telling you like i've made shit on my own it's not easy and it's gonna cause so much fucking money when nobody wants to do it like it's just like nobody wants to have my back none of it so i just didn't realize this was like considered such an overreach like i i guess i didn't realize that like j-Lo is that much less popular than. I think, well, it was more the specific. It was more the specific. It was the direction of this thing, which is like this, like, deep, abstract dive, deep dive into her subconscious love life. And having all these very confusing visuals, like all these people, like there was like a council of astrological signs played by different people like sad guru the youtube guy and like neil degrasse tyson and like jane fonda's and

there's like a bunch of just weird stuff in it and people are like i don't know i think what they want to say is like girl i don't know if this is like good you know i'm just saying yeah a staged a stage concert a stadium tour production where she just does a live staging of The Cell. Okay. Or Out of Sight. Or just any. Is it just Cell? Just do some.

The Cell, yeah. Tarsam. That's a Tarsam Singh joint, isn't it? Yeah. Just do that. Wow. She should just have Tarsam do the fucking visuals. You know what I mean?

Yeah. And freak out her audience of like people who are like, you know, white wine moms. Yeah. Or whatever the JLo demo. What is the JLo demographic nowadays? I'm actually kind of curious.

Like, you know, why, why moms and, and older club kids? Like, are there people? Yeah.

I'm just trying to think of people who like, you know, who the Taylor Swift fans are, you know, who a Tina turner fan is you know who a beyonce fan is you know who madonna fan is j-lo i'm like i get it but i just can't i can't like i can't sort of visualize them in like a whole stadium maybe that's maybe because maybe it's a vegas crowd you know what i mean yeah wherever tourists it's, yeah, wherever tourists are. Yeah. Tourists of Vegas.

No one who lives in the place that the concert is in will go. And then a lot of people go to another place. Then people are disappointed that she's not actually Selena. And they're like,

oh, fuck. Just do a whole, the hollering. Yeah, a whole Selena. Just do greatest hits in character

in your various movie characters wow i love that yeah you got it if it is like a eras tour you know type of thing it's like okay so now i'm on my cell tarsum thing i'm in my selena thing i'm in my get out phase fly girl to yeah fucking selena to riveting riveting stuff that was i'm wait i'm just trying to look i need to see because that jump that's it that's called an iconic jump because i mean what was rosie perez wasn't she also a fly girl i think i believe so let me just do that rosie these ideas take you from amazon Prime to an HBO. You know what I mean?

Like this gives you some prestige. Or a series of TikToks. Yes. Which is the pinnacle. Yes. I'm just trying to look through. Let's see. Man, why am I not seeing?

What is this? Oh, producer. God. You're on Google, right? She's a multi-hyphen. I was looking up all her producing credits. Okay. Let me scroll down, scroll down, scroll down scroll down scroll down okay so okay did did some tv did some that tv show south central i remember that one in 1994 she was in jack i forgot the robin williams movie that's what you said then selena then Holy shit. Then Selena, then obviously Anaconda, then U-Turn. A big snake on the stage

comes out. Wow. Exactly. Oh, and she goes, it just starts off, snakes don't bite. And then Jon Voight comes out and he goes, they don't. And he references his scar. Oh my god, dude, I love that monologue he gives in Anaconda. Anacondas

are the perfect killing machine Anyway, look it up But yes, good luck to you Jennifer Lopez I feel like that will probably work If just people be like, look, I'm doing the hits, bro It's like a Super Bowl halftime show And that's fine, get your money Look, we've all

Made mistakes trying to self-produce An Amazon distributed You know, just art piece. So very relatable. And we got your back. Andrew T., thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks for having me. Thank you. It's always great.

Dude, I'm so glad people don't know, a little behind the scenes. Andrew and I, we had a nice lunch last week. We did. We hung out. It was a good time. And we always hang out through our mutual friends. We're like, well, this is the first time we just hung out together. Yes. It was a good time and we always hang out through our mutual friends we're like well this is the first time we just hung out together yes it's so long a solo hang i had a salad that was more fried catfish than vegetable than salad yeah i was i was looking at

i was a little bit i was like bro i'm just gonna get the fried catfish and like i'm gonna get the i'll have a salad yeah i get the uptown salad with the nuggets on it. Yeah, it was a downtown salad. That's for fucking sure. Oh, it was downtown? No, no, no. It turned out to be. Oh, yes, yes, yes. It was good.

Yeah, good. It was great. I'm saying my okra was real good. All right. Wonderful. And I want to say the chemistry between you two, it shows that you guys got lunch last week. It really is paying off professionally.

Blake, you're next. You're next. When we go to Vegas. Yeah, I'll see you there. We just need a blackout in the Usher show. Andrew, where can people find you, follow you, listen to you, all that? And what's the tweet you like? Just Andrew T.

Last name is T-I. Just everywhere. My podcast is Yo, Is This Racist? A tweet that I like is, I guess guess a promotion for a short film that Chris Estrada did he made This Fool but he has a little short on YouTube called Fifth of July

that a friend, my friend I believe friend of this show, Steve Hernandez I don't know if he's around oh yeah, we love him it's really fun sorry, just as an aside, is he in an Amazon ad? Or I mean a Verizon ad?

I swear to God, I was on an airplane and I could have swore I saw Big Hearn acting like he was like a technician for Verizon in this commercial. I feel like I've seen that too. I mean, he definitely acts. I don't know. I haven't seen an ad in years.

No, it was like very passive. I think it was like when I was flying back from Texas or something and I was like, he's got technician vibes. I would let him fiddle around with my router. Shout out to that.

Polygang, we already know what it is. Alright, and was that your tweet? No, that was a piece of media. Shout out to that. Who wouldn't? Polly gang. We already know what it is. All right. And I'm sorry. Was that your tweet? Yeah. No, that was a piece of media. Yes, yes, yes. But you know, tweet, piece of media.

But yeah, 5th of July on YouTube. I don't know why I'm promoting it like I made it, but it was really fun. Yeah. Oh, amazing. Amazing. Blake. Yeah. Thank you so much.

Thank you. It's been great having you. It's been a pleasure. It's funny, man. I feel like when you lived in LA, we're always like man we gotta hang out and now you're gone and now i'm like at least i can have them in podcast form stopping by saying what's up we need to treasure what we can get and this is maybe we need to go have an uptown salad together you know what i got uptown catfish a hundred percent yep i'm sorry cat fried catfishfish on a salad. Just it's them interacting with the lettuce.

I can just already feel the wilting of it. I didn't mean to ask you when we were eating. I didn't cause I didn't want to fuck up your eating experience, Andrew, but that wasn't my mind the whole time. It was, it was weirdly fine. Yeah.

The shit was good. Blake, where do people find you? Follow you, watch you. Cause you got specials galore. You've got, there's,

there's ways to experience you i really know how to uh put material out before it's ready except for by our special blake wexler daddy long legs which is streaming on youtube uh in april i have some some tour dates going to be in cincinnati at go bananas comedy club going to be in Philly at the end of April. Also back in Brooklyn at Strong Rope Brewery. And in May, I'm going to be in Bristol, Tennessee and Lancaster in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. So come see me at Blake Wexler. You can find all those dates on there.

Okay, okay, okay. Is there a piece of media that you're enjoying? A piece of media comes from a funny comic in New York, David Drake. His handle is on threads is where i found this at david drake comedy and the media is my daughter found a pine cone this morning and that was enough for her to have fun it almost made me question the pile of molly i had to consume in order to enjoy the company of a close friend oh that's fucking amazing um you can find me at miles of gray wherever they got ad symbols obviously jack and i have the basketball podcast miles and jack got mad boosties and 90 day fiance podcast with sophia alexandra for 20 day fiance um a tweet that i like is actually i saw it look i'm gonna be honest i was on threads recently

oh okay and i caught and i caught this thread well because you know joe flarity who's a founding member of sctv for like comedy nerds out there he passed away recently and maybe if you're not if you don't remember sctv or like old school canadian sketch and things like that i mean like we have our sketch comedy because of sctv i would i would argue but there uh you might know him from happy gilmore he was the dude who kept wanting to hang out with shooter at the red lobster he's like shooter that guy that's joe flaherty anyway he recently passed and uh dana gould put this on his thread and i was really interesting because i knew i knew that he was in sctv and i knew that he was in SCTV. And I knew that all these other people, just seeing the amount of outpouring from other comedians who were like, Joe Flaherty was the shit.

This is a really interesting one. It's called, he just said, Eugene Levy once said that the hardest he ever laughed in his life was when he was editing a Five Neat Guys sketch. This is a sketch on SCTV. And realized that Joe Flaherty was playing the whole thing as if his character was just slightly drunk. He never told anyone. He just did it a half step off and a little sloppy for whoever could catch it. And then he just said, Joe Flaherty was a soft-spoken, kind-hearted, and quietly brilliant in terms of sheer talent. Very few people could touch him. Rest in peace. And if that is interesting to you just look up

five neat guys the sc tv sketch because it's so subtle but it's funny because everybody else is like it's the five neat guys supposed to be like sort of like corner stop corner store or barber shop quartet type band doing like real traditional songs and flarity's just like kind of got this look in his eye and just slightly off and it's so it's just it warmed my heart. And like those are the little things that funny people like to fuck with each other over. So I thought that was a nice little moment. You can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

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We find all the episodes as well as a song we're going to write out on. What song are we going to write out on? Well, guess what? We're going to go out on this song called The Blackbirds, a song by The Blackbirds, which was founded by jazz legend Donald Byrd and and these like students that he like sort of found when he was teaching at Howard University. So it should be no be no surprise that this track is referencing something in Washington, D.C., specifically Rock Creek Park. And this is the Blackbirds with Rock Creek Park. This is like just some nice 70s like funk R&B kind of

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Roberta Flack, just to name a few. So check this out. This is Rock Creek Park by the Blackbirds. That'll do it for us for this morning. We'll be back later to tell you what's trending. Until then, peace out. Bye. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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