The Daily Zeitgeist - President The Rock, G(rift)OP 4.9.21

Episode Date: April 9, 2021

In episode 854, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Pallavi Gunalan to discuss ending qualified immunity, a round up of GOP denials, Trump's fundraising scams, what celebrities Americans want as their president, the fifth force, the number of billionaires spiking along with extreme income inequality, toxic positivity, and more!FOOTNOTES: Ending Qualified Immunity Once and For All is the Next Step in Holding Police Accountable Frequently Asked Questions About Ending Qualified Immunity New Mexico ends qualified immunity Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill admits affair, won’t run for U.S. Senate: ‘There’s no excuse’ Alabama Secretary of State denies sordid affair allegations Former Fox host Eric Bolling walks off BBC interview The Trump Fundraising Scams Continue with the NRCC Hollywood celebs as politicians Muons: 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature The number of billionaires spiked by 30% during the pandemic COVID-19 to Add as Many as 150 Million Extreme Poor by 2021 What is toxic positivity, and why is it dangerous for kids (and parents)? LISTEN: Ginuwine - Pony (Tera Kòrá Remix) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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No scat barns there? No, no scat barns. I know. I was wondering who's going to bring the scat barns. I knew I could count on you. Scat bomber? Come on now. All the scats. Scat bomber?

Oh, come on. Wow. Well done, everybody who contributed. Yeah, yeah. Well done. You should all be very proud. Well done, everybody who contributed. Yeah, yeah. Well done. You should all be very proud. Well done, Gold Star. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray!

Bro, let's rip a bong on Miles Gray. Second rate pot on the internet. Then I'll be back to talk trans tonight because i host the daily site uh i don't know really i just know that last part so apologies to the frame and fuck the fray i don't know them shit anyway thank you to the brew on discord for that aka the fray shout out to the fray officially i don't know the fray shit, just if they want to know. I was doing a fray song yesterday, I think. What was that one?

Where do I belong? I'm singing this How to Save a Life. How to Save a Life? That's what I just did. Hey, I don't think people knew that's what I was doing yesterday, but that is what I was doing. I don't think people knew that's what I was doing yesterday, but that is what I was doing. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the brilliant, the talented,

the hilarious Pallavi Gunali! Hey! Hi! Welcome, welcome. Thank you. Welcome, welcome. Thank you for having me. So excited to be back. Thank you for having us on your Zoom screen.

So excited to have you back. Thank you for being in my tiny room with my tiny dog. Yeah. What's your dog called? Not Krumpus. It's not some weird. Krumpus. Krumpus.

It's not some strange, probably racist Santa Claus type character from Europe. Okay. It is Krump compass, like the instrument to find your direction. Because I like objectifying my pets. You know what I mean? And just like a compass, it's all about vibes.

Oh my gosh, she's like all about vibes. We're the magnetic vibes taking us today, you know? Yeah. She's a beaut. Congratulations on your lovely dog. taking us today, you know? Yeah. She's a beaut. Congratulations on your lovely dog. What are you, a judge at the Westminster Abbey Dog Show? She's a beaut.

Yeah, could I just see her teeth real quick? And then if you could turn her around, I just want to. Can you just get me a tail measurement really quick? Immediately, immediately getting a dog restraining order. Is that possible? I'm doing it. It needs to happen oh man you what do you how do y'all feel about people who invite themselves to pet your animals like if you're just walking and somebody just pulls up and it's like oh hi you're like you

don't know what this i can i be i used to be that person and i learned how to ask permission but i still like i still i i do ask permission because i think that's smarter and and more polite but also like i want to pet the dog i don't want to talk to you right right right exactly but that's why i feel like dog restraining orders there was i used there's you know there people who just like invite themselves to pet your animal who it's one thing like if a dog runs up to you at a dog park and you're like, oh, OK, cool. But when you pull up and I'm like, hi, I'm a human being right here. Yeah.

It's like holding your baby. Yeah. Yeah. So when you said dog restraining order, that's what it reminded me of. I have a like crazy story about someone who was like upset. I was at when I was at Carnegie Mellon. I was walking on this like pretty crowded street and I asked this lady if I could pet her dog because it was like upset. I was at when I was at Carnegie Mellon, I was walking on this like pretty crowded street. And I asked this lady if I could pet her dog because it was like the cutest little

I think it was like a French bulldog. It was so cute. And she was like, yeah, yeah, sure. And then it was a white lady. She leans over and she was like, none of these Asians want to pet my dog. And I was like, OK, what? First of all, Asian. Second of all asian second of all what like there were like east asian people walking by like a bunch of groups of them i guess or something and like she was like offended that she didn't want to that they didn't want to pet her none of them were asking to pet her dog and i was like is this a trap because why do you want asian people to pet your dog so bad like why did you get the dog and second of all i am asian and third of all why would i ever relate to you saying that saying this to me that's truly wild

it was insane i was like what is the purpose of this dog yeah dog-based racism my wife is korean and i have definitely had people like say things under their breath when we were walking by. We had a King Charles Cavalier, and they were like, oh, I'm seeing all these Asian girls with King Charles Cavaliers. It really was a cool moment. We immediately became friends with them. First of all, what a very specific stereotype. Yeah, I know. Exactly. friends with them first of all what a very specific stereotype yeah i know exactly what a very strange and specific stereotype to propagate through the dog community also like i love when people are so ignorant about their own racism that they're like i was just making an observation

right it wasn't like that i don't like it's like you don't even understand what you're saying you're so she said like she said asians with a hard a it was like yeah like when you sound like you constipated you're like these asians oh too much sounded like a ben stiller and cable guy yeah yeah i think they were speaking some kind of language i think it was asian oh my god all right paula v we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about uh we're gonna talk about new new mexico ending qualified immunity we're gonna talk about some just top rate denials coming out of the grand old party uh we'll talk about some of their fundraising uh because it's not

just it's not just uh the trump uh company that is doing the email grifting that that has now spread beyond uh to to just the uh republican party in general uh we'll talk about uh the latest reason uh we are so fucked trademark uh we'll talk about a latest reason we are so fucked, trademark. We'll talk about a fifth force in physics, possibly. The increase in billionaires and poverty. We'll talk about toxic positivity, even, if we have a chance to get to it. All of that, plenty mer. The first part of you like to ask our guests,

what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are oh okay it's not my thing but i did check my wiki feet rating again today because there's this lady who put out i think her name is laura bassett i think from the cut and she put out a story about how she talked to the guy who was like updating her wiki feed page she like did an interview with him and i was like yeah and she was like her feet were rated like okay which is what my feet are rated and then i i don't know why i'm mad and uh I just want to be the best at every fetish. No. And then she so she like interviewed this guy and he was like almost 60.

And he was like, yeah, when I was like nine, I realized like it's OK. Like it's harmless. Like I was somebody like his sister's friends or something like tied him up and tickled his feet or something. And he was like super into it when he was like, it's fine. It's fine if I'm into this i'm cool with it and so then he he sees it as like a public service to like take instagram posts of like that women post with their feet and like upload it to wiki feet to like help without checking with them first he yeah he said he thinks about that he was like i do think about that but like i don't i forget what he said how he justified it that he was like i do think about that but like i don't i forget what

he said how he justified it but he was like he's like i have a conscience you know right he's basically like i'm a good guy but it was like it was an interesting article to read so then i was like i haven't checked my wiki feet rating in a while and i went back i think they added a picture uh another picture where more of my i don't really i it's it's fucking weird that i think about post like before i post a picture i'm like hope my feet aren't really it's it's fucking weird that i think about post like before i post a picture i'm like hope my feet aren't showing like you know what i mean like it's weird that i think that but for the most part like i don't have like clear foot shots and then there was one picture that i think had been added since last time and it was me and my mom and we were in

saris and are like we were wearing chuppals where like feet was showing more. And I was just like, I don't know how I feel about my mom being on my wiki feet page. What if she got a higher rating than you? That would be real. They're like, I'm giving this a five, but only for the mom. They're like, link for mom? Or like a one. Link for mom. I forget.

I think one is actually the beautiful. And then five is like not not nice or whatever it's like the idea of the guy who's doing is like i'm not like a monster you know like i'm thinking about the wiki feet community and that they need to see these pictures no he literally was like i'm doing this for the community like i'm doing this for other people and he was like he's like you can't like, you can't like comment and like interact. It's like, you know, it's not like a really community-based website. So I'm just like doing this to like help out.

Right, right. Yeah. Way to make yourself the hero in this situation. Really cool. I'm not a monster. I'm like selfless when you kind of think about it. Sort of a hero? Yeah. I i don't know a foot vigilante i don't see myself as kong or godzilla more like fdr what what what what is this why are these three people grouped together uh what is something you think is overrated i don't know i don't know if I've talked to you guys about this last time,

if this overrated opinion has persisted. But if anybody does a Baja Blast tweet, it goes super viral. Have you noticed this? There are so many. And it's very... I've talked to several friends about it, and it seems to be a white person thing. They like love, and I used to like Baja Blast.

I love Taco Bell. Used to like Baja Blast. And then it soured on me with all these, literally you could say anything that rhymes with Baja Blast. Yeah. 10, 20,000, 50,000. Yeah. Yeah. Likes, you know?

Yeah. I just saw one today. There were two or three today. Yeah. That I was going to bring up, but I really, cause also I think honestly, we created Baja Blast culture on this podcast three years ago. You did? Four years ago.

I mean, like we've been, I've been, nah, fuck that Jack. Okay. Okay. Fuck that. My toxic ego has arrived, bro. Yes. And we created Baja Blast, the drink, everything about it. No, but I think it really is like the laziest thing because it feels

just the mention of like, I think the one I saw today was like, make sure you enjoy your Baja Blast because it could be your Baja last. And I was like, yeah. And by the way uh because i i am one of those simple people who uh is part of baja blast culture every time one of these goes viral like that's all i my mentions are just full of people being like hey did you see this one did you see this because you're a mountain dew guy and i'm subway tuna guy so i you guys cultivated these person these food personalities for yourself and i'm still yet to get a free subway so i don't see how it's fucking are you serious yeah they're fuck them but also eat their fake ass tuna i like all i like all mountain dew i like uh taco bell so i'm like very much in the in the venn diagram. I will say it like I am not a extra Baja blast.

Like it's not my favorite. I can feel you distancing yourself from it. Well, I mean, he's a traditional, you know, do head do be brother do Wong Fu. Thanks for everything. Julie do more. do Wong Fu thanks for everything Julie Dumar instead of the

Baja Blast tweets can we have a rallying cry to bring back the Mexican pizza because it was very anti-Indian of them to take it away

that is a very it's a staple food in the Indian community really Taco Bell's Mexican pizza I didn't know we love that shit dude why

where did it go what is it I want it back why does it resonate I don't know man. We love that shit, dude. Why? Where did it go? What is it? I want it back. Why does it resonate? I don't know, man. It's just so good. You got the crispy shell.

You got all the tasty fixings, right? I don't know, man. It's a thing. We love it. Yeah. I don't know. I think we peaked when we started doing like Cthulian Spanish with Baja blast. I think that's where we peaked with our, with our Baja blast jokes on this show.

But yeah, I don't know. I'm sure there'll be one that'll make me laugh more. Yeah. But right now it feels like they're particularly like, I specifically had that thought within the last week that it just seemed like it was like a paint by numbers thing. Whereas like, yeah, you just put a Baja Blast reference into any popular saying. We had we had a group of POC and we were like, we're like, we're sick of this Baja Blast shit.

Why do white people love all this Baja Blast stuff? And then some of them were like, let's just do them and see how they go. And they went more viral than anything that they had tweeted before. And we were like, we hate this. What's up? And then there were more Baja Blast tweets on the timeline. See? Don't get over leveraged in the Baja Blast economy.

You know? I think it's a bubble. I think it's a bubble and we're seeing it burst right now. It's about to Baja burst. Yeah. Boy, I hate myself. I hate everything. What is something you think is underrated besides the Mexican pizza?

Um, I am like now appreciating collage more because my new roommate, her entire room is covered in collage. And yesterday, look at this guys. She gave me one for my room. She gave me a little collage and it's, uh, I don't know. I feel like it brightens up the,

the, her room. And it's just like, interesting to look at. What is, uh, what are the components of this collage? This one,

honestly, I'm not sure what everything is. There's statues. Then it's perfect. There's a lighthouse. I got it last night. I haven't done all the research. There's a tent.

That's a good-ass glowing tent right there. Yeah. Oh, that's a glowing tent. There's a giant fucking moon right over here with a bunch of little people that you can see in silhouette. There's a sign from a protest where the earth is saying help. You know, I feel that. That's how I feel every morning. I picture your roommate with their ear to your door right now and just,

okay, good. It's cute that you think I have a door and not a curtain for a door. Okay, then lightly looking through the curtain fold. Look at this hippo. Look at this cute-ass hippo. There's a goddamn hippo on this but it's just fun and i think she goes by like color and like overall feel yeah but like her room is like it's kind of like the club of our apartment like she has glowing lights and collages and lava lamps and we just like go in there and we vibe oh fuck yeah but yeah i'm like this is dope

i love collage what kind of lights is she working with she got like the christmas lights going or rodeo like yeah she has like those like i don't i don't know if they're christmas but they're christmas lightsy uh and they're like they they hang down she's got them in like drapes oh yeah yeah and then she just got those fucking those glasses that make all the lights look like hearts so it's like extra like kaleidoscopy wait is your does your roommate just do shrooms in there all day no comment okay because i'm like this sounds like the the pro room to trip in you're like yo i got the collage i got the flickering lights i got the glasses it's every it's a huge it literally, it feels like an entirely different space. But when everything's opened up and we're all vaccinated and good,

you guys are welcome to come over and hang out in my roommate's room. Off my face on shrooms with heart sunglasses on, being like, wow, look at the trails. Also, there's just an incredible overlap between things that three-year-olds appreciate and things that people on shrooms appreciate. I think for the reason that we do shrooms to open the doors of perception, they just haven't had all that shit calloused over their brain yet. So they love Christmas lights, man. calloused over their brain yet so they love christmas lights man we i can just like make make a day by putting up christmas lights in their room and then we just got a stuffed animal that shoots uh planet shaped lights at their ceiling and what yeah planet shaped lights what do you

mean but it's just like yeah it's just it just projects. I thought it was their projectiles flying out. Yeah, I was like, what the fuck? What kind of toys is this? But who doesn't love that shit? That shit's so fun. Why don't we do more of that shit all the time? Because I think we have this idea, like, again, maybe we're at fall, that lights are for people on drugs.

Yeah. Or like toys or like all of that stuff. It's like, we're adults we're allowed to play with children's stuff okay yeah no one can tell us we're not allowed to i'm loyally playing playstation till i die like you know i'll never stop playing my beloved toy from when i was fucking 12 years old hell yeah uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll come right back I've been thinking about you I want you back in my life it's too late for that

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Yeah. You'd love to see it. Like literally, this is these are the steps we need to take to have this is basically the doctrine that shields police officers government officials from ever being personally held responsible for all kinds of malfeasance and it makes it it's it's so hard for someone to bring a lawsuit against a police officer we'll just talk specifically in the instances of police brutality because not only do you have to like there requires so many levels for this suit to go through to overcome the qualified immunity thing, essentially that you would have to require proof that this officer clearly violated established law. And there's a lot of nuance in there that allows for many suits to just fucking end right there. So, like, let's say a police officer illegally searches your shit like you're jay-z and 99 problems and um you'll say that you know that's a violation of your fourth amendment civil liberties

you know like that's you can't do that but the police will then argue in court that it's actually more nuanced and that this isn't as straightforward um as a as like a comparable case um as a way to allow the judge to fucking toss the whole fucking thing. Because the first it's just the whole process is fucked up. First, you have to prove that an officer violated a specific right. And then you have to prove that they knew they were violating a specific right. So shouldn't they know that they were like, isn't this in the training? Well, so this is where it comes out.

Default. So it could be that like a specific use of force was settled in a court case and you say oh that's how you know you can't do that because they lost this case which says specifically that's what it is if you can't find a case that mirrors what happened to you exactly they will not they'll say like oh well that that hasn't been established as a transgression of your rights. And that's always like the rules are made because somebody broke the system and then they had to put the rule in. But it's only after the damage is done. Because you could be like, oh, my God, well, you saw in this thing, the person was brutalized with excessive use of a taser or something. And because you were getting fucked up with a pepper ball gun or some shit, they're like, oh, well, that's not the same thing.

So they actually you can't prove that it's established law at this point. So this allows for police to regularly violate our civil rights. Also allows for a lot of wrongful convictions because a lot of these things happen in the course of police violating your rights. course of police violating your rights um so removing this immunity allows for civil suits to go forward where the fucking police officer is personally liable for their actions personally so that means you could we like this helps for people to fuck around and then find out what that means because normally this qualified immunity just allowed people to keep banging with their fucking uh terrible behavior okay now end police officers yeah step one scare them away you know because i don't have money to keep violating these people and then they're gonna sue me but it's only two states right now colorado and new mexico so shout out to governor michelle luhan grisham grisham for signing that it feels like one of like a dozen social institutions

that protect them like including the fact that they are just like that where they're positioned like culturally uh all all the fucking copaganda that we're faced with on a daily basis and um and then you have the thing that we kind of made reference to earlier in the week with police. When something like this happens, I'm going to set a reminder to continue to Google New Mexico police to see if the same thing happens there that we've seen in L.A. where the police then become petulant and stop doing their job and are like well you guys were mad at us so now we're not going to do the thing that we're paid to do like that but that's that's the thing is that they don't even have they don't have an obligation to act right to stop crime right so it's like they've had a history of being allowed to do whatever the fuck they want with this qualified immunity uh while never having to have the responsibility to stop or help right yeah and if you want to sue me good fucking luck

because i've got you're actually actually you're gonna pay for it with your tax dollars so you know rock on with your lawsuits but yeah this is uh it's only two states now that have this or some form of reducing the qualified immunity and this this now it's not just police officers. It can be you could be a school administrator. You can be a city official. You can be a corrections officer. Was it was qualified immunity covering those people? Yeah, it covers usually all government people like all government officials like some form.

Yeah. If they were violating you that you couldn't come at them with a civil lawsuit based on them, you know, uh, violating your rights. Yeah. There was just talking about like how, what the standing for this sort of thing is in the rest of the country.

There was a article on the front page of the wall street journal, uh, yesterday about how like there's a backlash to, uh, this sort of thing in philly and they just like made it sound completely hopeless they they not in not according to them according to them this is like these sorts of things are unreasonable but it really fucking felt like a kick kick in the gut what was the what was the backlash? Was it legislative? Or was it individual?

They're not backing a DA, I think, who has been critical of the institutional racism within the law enforcement community. And they're, yeah, it's just, you know, the standards for this shit. What a way to prove them wrong. Right, exactly. Yeah, because, I I mean he was in Krasner was

you know he was coming in on some different shit from the beginning right into Philly so like he's always been shown himself to be willing to be like I'm not here to fucking cape for police the fuck you talking about right and because he's not that causes you problems cause most of the time

the DA is like your the best friend who's like yeah don't worry do whatever the fuck you're talking about right and because he's not that causes you problems because most of the time the da is like you're the best friend who's like yeah don't worry do whatever the fuck you want right exactly i've seen i've seen law and order i know what you're talking about exactly we all seen it we get it all right let's talk about some uh denials from the gop uh just a couple rough media appearances that um highlight the fact that they are now just a, you know, institution perpetuating white supremacy that like everything else is just like smoke and mirrors and corruption. This is nonsense. There's just people who are, you know, use like images of George Washington to give them cover this whole time. And now it's like wearing off and you're like i think you're just a lecherous fucking fuck back right who happens to have congress person as a title um so first up is one of my favorite about faces that you have to

do uh tune in for season 180 for uh when we do that but the alabama secretary of state john merrill he was considering running for richard shelby's senate seat who's retiring and but then these scandalous rumors came out about him having an affair so he says so someone came out and said look i was having an affair with this person over like from 2017 to 2020 basically uh and he wrote in his denial beginning in 2019 this woman began texting and communicating with me through social media while we exchanged texts and she even visited the office it was clear she had other intentions that were bordering on obsession i alerted my wife cindy to this and we both agreed to cut off any and all communication with her when i cut off communication

she began harassing my staff at all hours of the day. She even began stalking me at multiple locations, which eventually led her to locating my Montgomery residence and sending threatening messages to me that foretold the lies she would make up about my marital life if I did not keep talking to her. Yeah, just to talk to her. Yeah. Oh, man. Well, here's the thing secretary of state merrill this woman clearly went to the v stiviano school of receipt procurement uh and if you remember v stiviano's

woman who recorded donald sterling saying wild racist shit about his basketball players uh because she has his ass on tape talking about all the wild fucking they did so when uh al.com was like sir are you still you still deny these allegations he's like absolutely they said okay can you listen to this tape really quick so the last time that we had sex that's the last time ever well it was it was a pretty good day that's the last time ever it's supposed to be the last time ever he goes on to say how he needs god and stuff like that so when they played that clip for him he says this they put in the tape and then he goes it's clear that i this is this is literally his response upon hearing the tape quote it's clear that i had an inappropriate relationship with her and it's not something that

i am proud of or something that is something that i'm you know i'm very disappointed in myself i'm also disappointed that i allowed my family to be embarrassed by this action and it's something that i certainly will always regret because of the pain that it has caused my family wow yo he had that notes app ready to go yeah he's just like oh fuck sorry one second i love he's like wait which apology is this right yeah i love that all of these ones like it always starts with that uh why you're so obsessed with me like that yeah always the first thing that's where i carry defense i think high school grade gaslighting yeah yeah where you're just like no she's actually obsessed with me and that's and also what pisses me off on a broader scale is like yeah affairs

are shitty and bad to your partner and like lying and what that's all bad but it's like his policies are much worse and no one cares about yeah do you know what i mean like it's in terms of harm done to larger populations of people it's because it's so weird because i think politics like political discourse is also stuck in this era too where a fair equals bad equals the worst thing that can happen and we can just focus on that rather than anything substantive like in a fair will always be fucking juicy no matter what but it's also they hold themselves they their standard like their politics are this like very ultra religious view of humanity that

is unforgiving to the point of like killing people who commit crimes and then so it is like I get that there is a connection between why their politics and why it's so fun to see them then be completely full of shit and amoral in a way that ultimately doesn't matter to me at all. But no, but you just love we want to watch someone eat shit like that. Be like, oh, really? Here's this tape. shit like that be like oh really here's this tape i would normally like feel bad for the like i feel bad for the his wife in that she was cheated on but she married him so fuck her right of course like i guess like and also if like the number of times i've seen men stay on there with their wives like apologizing like because that is when you marry a man like that or a man in a public like space or like you're both famous or something that is a possibility where

you're gonna have to like stand next to him as he says that he cheated on you and that you're working on it to get i'm like kill me i would never i would never be in that position if i was if i was if i was still in the marriage and not just gone i'd be like get him like no i'm gonna sit with the press we're asking questions together yeah you're actually like you know what no let go of my hand right i'm going on the other side of this podium how has nobody ever done that yeah call on me bitch let me have a how has nobody ever done that gone up there pretended like they were gonna stand by their end and then like the mic goes over them and they're like uh fucking kill me this asshole can go fuck himself uh as you can see i'm off this mic drop this is like a like flash mob proposals right like the girl is like not aware i live for the ones where she rejects him because it's just so i'm like if you're at

a point where you like don't know the person like well enough to know if they'll say yes why are you doing this and if the flash mob is part is like you're like well we did a flash mob so she's probably going to be impressed by that. And maybe she'll say yes. You know what? She wasn't all in before I did my step ball change, and now she's in it. She loved my pirouette. She wants to marry me.

I mean, did you see me hit the dab? And then I hit them folks, too. Those were early Vine moves I did. I did that for you. So dumb. I did. I did that for you. So dumb. Next up of the bumbling idiots is Eric Bowling, who is a former Fox News host that has teeth so white you thought his mouth was a Klan rally. And he I want to say he's former Fox News host because he was fired for sending lewd messages to coworkers. That's why he he's this is the kind of character he is you know essentially a fox news talent right so this doesn't have to do with the lewd text messages it has to do with his transparent racism because he

went on the bbc to discuss the voting laws in georgia and how the you know how the all-star game being relocated was actually very bad for all of the black people in georgia who he cares deeply about right that's his main concern objectively yes it's not good to boycott these things because more than likely it's going to fall on the people of color and wage workers who would actually depend on all these activities happening and also let's be real this georgia is not the only state with this kind of i'm pretty sure there's 43 other ones you can look at too and give them this kind of same attention. But in this very narrow instance,

I think he did. I think he thought because he was on the BBC and they're from the UK that he could just say some shit like that about how he cares so much. And like, it's really heartbreaking to see because he actually cares. And these laws aren't so offensive and backwards and regressive that we're going back to fucking jim crow that he felt like saying something like that would just preserve his poorly stealthed racism but on the other side of that panel was aisha mills who's a regular on cnn msnbc and she had to shut the shit down so quick that he had to run away um so I'm gonna

like she it's a pretty long interaction but just know that once he says like and I really care about them she sort of starts off being like I think it's rich that this white republican is trying to say he gives a fuck about people of color are you serious is the gist of it and we'll get to the point where it starts getting a little fraught. About racial discrimination. And how dare you try to act like you are somehow a proponent of black people in businesses just to make a point and to try to create a wedge. It's ignorant and it's just disrespectful. That's disgusting. I'm done. Put me off. That's disgusting. I am nowhere anything you're painting me to be. And the problem with American politics is exactly that. Because I'm white, you think I'm racist.

That's BS. I'm done. Will you just stay for this question? He's walked off camera. So the question we've got, Aisha, stay for one question, Eric. Let me put this to you. I don't know why I'm staying here. I don't know why.

I need an apology. Let me put to you the question that mitch mcconnell was saying you need an apology and he she says i'm not gonna apologize for being offended and he walks off uh-huh wait first of all uh okay i need to i need to pull this so he was basically with with he was just saying that black people were going to be affected by it. And he brought black people up out of nowhere. No, because as they were talking about what's happening in Georgia, like one of his last takes before I used to respond is just about he's like, you know, in regards to how you feel about the voting bill, he's like moving the all star game out of Georgia is going to affect the black black businesses and people of color in the state of Georgia, who I care about. Like he was concerned trolling about the MLBs move away from George for the all-star game. But okay. But he brought it up with the game with like that, having had no connection

before, right? Like, well, no, I mean, as they talked about it, but he's, but he's going down the line of like, never, it's always going to be going to be deracialized it's about restoring trust in the things critics say this too every time a white person goes because i'm white i'm racist i want to be like yeah yes you are first of all yes implicitly yes because implicit because of the system and second of all every person who says that yes right if you're not willing to give that much thought to it to just say oh because i'm white i'm racist like wow look at these thought killing cliches you're just throwing out rather than entertaining further because i'll say this everybody who lives in any country that's dominated by white supremacy you will internalize that shit in fact most of the

earth because of the media that's shot out of cannons from this country is only reinforcing these sort of ideas as well so yeah we all have a part to confront our own innate racism for sure sir and then when he said that's disgusting i literally thought it was because a woman of color was talking i was like that's what he's reacting to right obviously you're gonna let this lady dunk on me when women of color talk they get so pissed that they're allowed to speak well there's nothing more upsetting to a you know cis head white conservative man than to be just absolutely vince cartered on dunked on by a woman of color right or any person of color who's not like you or conforms to whatever your you know conservative set of norms is i wish we could just like i wish we could just when they're

like when white people get defensive like that in public and they're like i'm not like you're calling me racist the person is never like outright calling them racist and i wish we could just say that i wish we could just be like yes you are racist's a list. And then just like unfurl a scroll. Right. I think we can never they never say that because they're like they're pressured to have a civil conversation, according to like through the through the white lens. Right. So like white people get so upset when you call them racist. But I just want to like let's just throw it out there. Let's just start calling them what they are. Well, yeah, I think that's that's the duty all people have is to clearly communicate things like that you do it's a disservice to allow someone to

be racist and then obscure it with like whatever fucking you know yeah language you want to use to make it euphemistic yeah the the demanding an apology is uh just peak peak snowflake snowflake snowflake ism just peak fragility yeah no you gotta apologize for saying the truth oh i'm sorry i'm gonna take my ball and go home if you don't apologize okay take your ball because you got fired from every damn outlet you ever been on right wait so he got fired and he's still going on shit talk like why are we giving him a platform i think because they were just like you know hey we found a racist idiot to get absolutely pwned on this show to talk out loud so here he is so that's my question is because so this is how they're like presenting themselves as a party uh in in the media like in a more

yeah in a more like kind of a setting where people might be more inclined to believe one way or the other not just like fully in the funnel of uh the republican party and those policies so i like people obviously see that and they're like that's fucking like just laughable but i i also feel like the people who are already who are on these mailing lists have to at this point also be seeing this right like there there's a article in uh the bulwark where they like one of their reporters is on a uh nrcc mailing list and was saying the thing that like the new york times called the trump campaign out for last week that led the trump campaign to have to like refund millions and millions of dollars to elderly people who can agree to contribute to the Trump campaign and then were automatically signed up for like recurring contributions until basically they were out of money. So he was like, oh, they're still

doing that like as a Republican Party to their to their donors. So the NRCC sent a text on Tuesday to this reporter saying, you have 10 minutes to join Trump's social media network. Last chance to sign up. Will you be the first to join? So very interesting that it's last chance I'm first to join. And then you go to the landing page says president trump is planning to launch his own social media site very soon will you be the first to join 5x matching activated so you can show your support for president trump and house conservatives uh this has no affiliation with trump it's a complete lie and also he doesn't have a social media site yet they're just like lying about that was he trying to renter what's happening yeah yeah so uh then they present you

with two boxes that are pre-checked the first makes the donation a monthly recurring uh so they're just and i want to read to you the wording on this it says we need your help to draft trump for president check this box if you want trump to run again uncheck this box if you do not stand with trump and then in small print underneath it says make this a monthly recurring donation so that's the translation above but below they have to tell you the truth. Then the next box says Trump patriot status missing exclamation point as a top grassroots supporter. We were surprised to see you abandoned him. This is your last chance to update your status to active.

Donate an additional $50 automatically on four seven. Anytime an email tries to inspire any emotion in me with like capital letters or whatever. I'm like, bitch, do you know how many men my age I've dated? I'm dead inside. You're not going to get me with caps locks. Okay.

I see this in my text messages all the time. Especially abandoned me. Yeah. I'm sending that shit. Are you kidding me? Wait, y'all stole my text. Don't try to play the player.

This is your last chance to be fuckable. Guys, I'm just fucking chance before I probably, I'm just surprised as all to see that you abandoned me you've gone missing uh yeah the the quick turn the quick turn well that's i mean it's great to see this sort of the whole again we talk about all the time how white supremacy uh this idea of of superiority is a just a slow bleed poison that over time you keep ingesting it it's not going to lead to positive outcomes for you right and in this case it's like hey agree to be financially

bled dry by this other white supremacist grifter it's like great there it is this is also like between between the fuck boy thing and then also just like do you know how much i check wikipedia and i don't donate to them so like what like what are these pop-up boxes gonna do for yeah there is something about yellow though because these pop-up boxes are all yellow which is uh also i believe the wikipedia boxes so something about yellow yeah well it's like do you want it's like do you want to spread information or misinformation? Right. These are your options. Yeah.

I think because doesn't yellow stimulate brain activity? I don't know. Because I had a math teacher who would print all of our tests on like yellow paper. Right. As like his way to be like, I'm looking out for y'all like subtly or whatever. That's sweet. I mean, not that it's like fully provable, but it's like it's like a good color associated with that. But I think it's that.

Plus, this is again, these texts. We know who they would fucking shake to their core. Old people. The old people would fucking. I'm sure five people died reading these. They were so fucked up. Yeah. Unrelated.

But it's like chain mail. They were like, I have to check the boxes and send it to 10 friends yeah yeah exactly no legit uh i just have to read this other um this is just on the nrcc website it says check box we need to know we haven't lost you to the radical left if you uncheck this box we will have to tell trump you're a defector and sided with the dems check this box and we can win back the house and get trump to run in 2024 and that's a checkbox that underneath in small print make this a monthly recurring donation so that's how they're getting you to agree to uh have them take like have access to your bank account basically um i kind of feel like respected that they capitalize the first letters

of radical left it's like thank you we are we do deserve that yeah yes we're radical honestly cowabunga y'all also they're they're using like fucking nom terms like defector right right yeah hey look it's all by design baby like really the like oh we're gonna tell trump you little bitch is like what the next one is gonna be we will have to tell trump you're a defector is so wild and so like you can't write that sentence and have respect for whoever you're targeting no like it is yeah you are writing that laughing and pointing with the person who's next to you like being like look at this shit for these idiots like that are are evangelicals and the gop like are they working together or are they now competitors in this pyramid scheme?

Like, what is... That's a great question. How is Mary Kay involved? I need to know who's getting which segments of the population. Look, as long as the GOP can deliver the fucking, you know, the end days, the end times, I think they're fine with whoever, really. But I do, I feel like this all has to backfire right like it's too transparent like i i don't know i like i have a theory that i always talk about that like people aren't quite as stupid as uh the people who are like people are dumb like you have to

appeal to and like speak of people as like a abstract group of dummies that you're trying to herd like i think they overdo it and i think people are smarter than that i feel like this has to backfire like eventually it's just too dumb i think i think people aren't as dumb as people say but it is but we operate under the presumption that people are telling us the truth and that's like that like you can get gas lit you can get misinformation you can get all of that while still being smart it's just like the people who are in power lie to you so it's like you can still be manipulated yeah and we're back to the fucks boys no it's truly like it's the same uh you know rhetorical strategy to convince a five a five year old to like sort of fall in line because, oh, if you don't do this, I will tell Santa you're a fucking defector, bitch.

Like this is on the shelf. Bullshit. Thousand percent. Yeah. So, you know, but I don't know, Jack, I think we may be pretty dumb as a fucking people. This is because if you look at some of the polling that's coming out around celebrities running for office. Yeah, I think we are dumb as a fuck all. So this new poll comes out just top line stuff.

63% of the people they pulled, I think, is about of like a group of maybe 10 or 20,000 people, voters. 63% of Americans believe Hollywood stars can make good politicians with the right attitude and support staff. Huh? Okay. Really? Just like that.

Then they start asking, who would you like to see run for office? Now I will say this. 58% support Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Matthew McConaughey running for president and governor of Texas, respectively. Wait, that's 58 total? So if you look at how they shape up, they're enjoying, for them, in a sample based on asking the question, do you think Dwayne The Rock Johnson should run? He's doing about 58%. Jesus Christ. Between the answer of like, yeah, he should.

And both Matthew McConaughey. Anyway, that's not saying I'd vote for him, but I want the option. They're not considering that if Dwayne's president, Kevin Hart's going to be vice president. And I don't know if we can handle that. It would be a hottie old wrestler ticket. I mean, what about the action movies? That would be the real place it would hurt us. We would be without Dwayne the Rock.

I mean, when you go when they just said so for people who are said like they were supported Hollywood celebrities running for office, they said among the following. Who would you like to see run for office? The most 22 percent. Tom Hanks, 21 percent. Will Smith, 17 percent. George Clooney, 13 percent. Airpod vape fucker Leonardo DiCaprio, 10 percent. Harrison Ford, 9 percent.

Robert Downey Jr. 8 percent. Robert De Niro Leonardo DiCaprio is truly wild oh you don't know the story? oh you don't know? it's just a

it's based on a eyewitness account that I don't know the person who said this but it seems to be uh have internet lore it's internet lore but it like people who know are like yeah that's a true story is that uh someone slept with leonardo dicaprio and while they were having sex he lay on his back with noise-canceling headphones and vaped. And that's how disconnected he was from...

Yeah. Yeah. He was just like, okay. President vape fucker. Thank you. Go ahead. Damn. Proceed, ma'am.

But maybe better with the environment than some of these other people. Yeah, exactly. Right. I'm sorry. If you raised Chet Hanks, you cannot qualify for press. No, absolutely. I'm sorry. Absolutely. I'm sorry, Tom raised Chet Hanks You cannot qualify for press I'm sorry Tom I love you

But that's how he's going to get the black vote Right People of color of the United States Your boy Chet I'm like what the fuck Boo this asshole And then the black queen merch That he was trying to sell

oh boy yeah pretty rough i mean it's a white boy summer you know i'm which i'm pretty sure the last few million summers have been jack thank you i've been waiting for this turn finally when's it gonna be white boy summer when's it gonna be brown girl winter and then they're asking you know as they said among the following female celebrities who would you like to see the highest getter was angelina jolie 30 followed by oprah close with 27 then dolly parton at 12 ellen's at nine meryl streep at nine helenren at 7% and Jane Fonda at 6% I'm sorry Helen Mirren cannot be the president

I was wondering when Jane Fonda would pop up because she seems the most in the know out of everyone on that list she should be higher she's the one person on this list who should be higher and you know Angelina Jolie like she wouldn't do it because she knows yeah yeah and steals little kids and stuff so she could be president oh man should go nowhere near

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Yes. Molecular is different is different molecular is bigger uh i was gonna say it's usually turntabling emceeing uh graffiti and break dancing yes but those are the pillars of hip-hop um but okay i guess this is some other shit what's physics physics okay uh with an x yes uh and so now there there's apparently possibly a i love how i tried to sound smart by saying molecular level and it was like jack o'brien writer of the marvel movies it almost sounds like science don't question it guys we're at a molecular level here time travel is possible when you get down to the molecular level what iron man legit made an element in front of us and we were all just like yeah yeah okay what's captain america got to say about it all right so physicists say they may have found possible signs of a fifth fundamental force of nature which is so it's like very we it's basically like it's a tiny tiny percentage

of a fraction of a percentage uh stronger the magnetism of one thing they measured in one of the particle colliders is like a little bit stronger than it should have been and they're like this probably means there's another force that we were not taking into account that force was love

according to Christopher Nolan yes that force was love god that movie's ending oof what was that movie called Christopher Nolan. Yes, that was love. God, that movie's ending. Oof. What was that movie called? Interstellar. Interstellar.

Fun fact, one of the best movies to deal with science because they took Kip Thorne's advice. Kip Thorne, now Nobel Prize winner. I don't think he was at the time. And he was like Stephen Hawking's best friend. Kip Thorne advised the movie and then they fucking actually took the advice. everything was very accurate up to portrayed until they started talking about love and i was like this shit's not believable yeah fast forward love doesn't solve that's what was so frustrating about it is that they like made a whole movie

with the point being like we've stuck to everything like everything has become scientific and then at the end they were like but what if what if love yeah it's like and that little girl that little girl was love completely missed the part where we actually may have made the most realistic rendering of a black hole possible on film. Yeah, yeah. It was dope at various parts. I just was very disappointed by that ending. Anyways, this fifth force has a cooler name.

It's Muon, is that right? Muon's the particle. Muon's the particle. Right. Obviously. But it's like how the particle's been acting. Okay, I barely, I skimmed the article i think it's like uh the way the particle was acting in uh in the like in that fermilab experiment and some and i think it was confirmed by another lab but it's uh

the yeah the muon is the or yeah i say muon um is the particle. But I think it indicated this fundamental force that you're telling me about. Yes, telling you about very eloquently and precisely, using the most precise and scientific language possible. Listen, I love the fifth fundamental force. That was a great Bruce Willis movie. Yeah. It was excellent.

Muon, muon, let's call the... I can do that whole opera song from that movie. Oh, really? Yeah. Incredible. That should be your next intro song for TDZ. Anyways, it probably won't affect our day-to-day lives in the near future. Like it...

Jetpacks today! future like it they jetpacks today there there's a like a stand what is it the standard model or something that they're saying this would kind of render obsolete like the basic yeah just our basic understanding of physics and forces and how they work right no no big deal light shake up light shake up yeah yeah yeah anyways uh we got more billionaires baby yeah the 2020 pandemic drove a 30 increase of billionaires uh while 150 million uh human beings uh were likely pushed into extreme poverty it feels like it yeah uh but there's yeah kim kardashian now uh qualifies as a billionaire so that's big news and yeah it's just the the biggest increase in people in number of billionaires in the history of the world and also like for the first time in 20 years uh the number of people in

poverty is going up instead of going down but the biggest news is that kylie jenner is no longer a billionaire so that's gotta hurt right being related to camp should back down to like 700 million that's painful you know she has to feel so so humiliating your achiever in that family. Oh my god. She's the first self-unmade billionaire. Oh my god. Anyways, we should arrest

them all. This should be a list of people who all get arrested. Just normalize Pat. Give it to everybody who's not already a millionaire. Just Pat anyone's pockets who's not already a millionaire just pat anyone's pockets who who like walks out of a bentley that's just be no you're like you know what you get to pat their pockets like what do you got man what do you got i love and that's i love i love how like on twitter people because remember kylie had that gofundme thing where she was like raising

money for my makeup artist who got in a horrible car accident instead of just giving him money that i have um and everybody got mad at her and then people in the comments were like you know what i don't care how much money she has let her spend her money the way she wants and it's like that's not her money that's the slave wages she's paying the workers who are making her stuff that's the whole American ideal right there. Yeah. Well, but when I become a billionaire, then like people are going to take my money. I mean, come on. Yeah.

When you're a millionaire. Yeah, exactly. Because, uh, yeah, just keep, keep sipping on that. See where that gets you. Let's talk real quick. Toxic positivity. This study, uh, kind kind of i don't know it hit extra hard with me because this is kind of what i was raised on like the happiness is a choice

type shit and i feel that there's a new kind of article out from a uh psychiatrist or psychologist who's saying that you know this is a huge problem uh right now that like social media makes it extra hard to resist because you get these like hypercharged people who are going through like manic periods or just like you know are able to show you what things look like in their life for like 20 minutes at a time and edit out the time when they're resting and they're just like i'm up every morning hustling i wake up at two in the morning to work out uh and you know it just requires unsustainable levels of energy and hyper focus that eventually causes a crash but those crashes get edited out of the reality on social media and it's bad for you i love that this study happened i love that they're taking down toxic positivity because i'm

very toxically negative and that's a win for my team you know what i mean like i hate a lot of things and i talk about you positivity fuck you happiness my state of rest is unrest and i just want more people to feel that you know because there's a lot of shit that's happening in this world and if you're happy you're not talking about it and you're not fixing it you know what i mean like you're just you're fucking crossfitting your way past it i love this i love that this has proved me right in the most petty way possible yeah i mean so this uh one case they talk about they say she her style of thinking like where it was just like wake up and hustle girl boss your way into being like happy uh she was like it made me feel guilty when she felt any emotion other than happiness or when

she chose to rest. And like, I just fully, fully identify with that. That was like the first. Oh my God. It's just so weird. People,

they adopt these like thought operating systems off of social media of like grind mode. Yeah. That is based. It's all fake. Yeah. It's all an illusion but then you go all in on it and allow yourself to be hollowed out by this useless ideology when really it's you

the the whole key to this whole shit is taking care of yourself it's taking care of yourself too it's yeah you're supposed to take care of yourself and they they're not doing that but they're also not taking care of other people like a lot of these like this toxic positivity relies on other people like uh keeping up with them doing the work for them doing emotional labor doing stuff in the community so that they can those people can like keep grinding and being being ambitious and like you know moving through it uh and so it's like yeah that's the toxic part is them not focusing on the leaks as the ship is sinking like they're just like barreling forward the tim ferris five hour work week where it's like yeah you get to work five hours while like other people are exploited for their labor and work full- and get paid shit. Yeah.

Or you just exchange this idea of achieving or hustling rather than improving yourself, addressing the deficiencies within yourself, trauma that you may have not addressed or worked through that may be fueling this grind. I don't know. There may be a lot there to look at internally. Right. this grind i don't know there may be a lot there to look at internally right but yeah just this it's so weird to especially like in the pandemic to still see like people post like that i was like what are y'all doing to yourself this is not oh the same world even for what yeah this makes me anyways you know what this this study about how toxic positivity is bad, making me feel a little bit more positive. You guys, it's worth it.

Yeah. Yeah. It's made me feel good. Be compassionate. Yeah. Just like this person who's saying like, it was an anxiety inducing cycle. Cause a lot of this can happen,

especially cause social media just lets people go have runaway comparative living where everything becomes comparative. Yeah. My head's like messed up from just being on social media all day, like for the, during the entire quarantine, all you see is these numbers on social media and like what other people are doing on social media. And I literally took, I went to the Echo Park protest. Uh, and that was the first thing that I'd gone to in a really long time while quarantining. And I was just like, Oh my God, I don't even think I like that guy anymore.

I was just like, it just got me out. It just got me out of my head and my computer and stuff. It was. Yeah, it's too much. Yeah, it's too much. Just let it go. And again, I think the biggest thing you say when you're getting down on yourself, just this is a very simple exercise to begin sort of breaking your habit of being so toxic and down on yourself is out loud say the things you're feeling bad about so in this instance of this person's gonna be like well i'm not reaching my lofty goals that are damn near impossible i feel guilty that i'm not happy i need to work harder

if your home friend your homie said that to you you would not be like yeah you're right the fuck is wrong with you you'd be like whoa whoa whoa the fuck nah be easy right you're doing a lot right i mean are you just different right now or are you not right are you a girl boss like pee into this bottle girl boss or girl popper which one is it gonna be but i think at the end of the day you have to be able to extend that sort of same empathy to yourself that you would another person because that's the thing not barely any of us are able to do is to treat ourselves with that same kindness and when you have some ideology like this going on it's doubly important that you get out of it and be like well hold the fuck up i feel like it's you're demanding too much and i think it's endemic in america i

don't i don't think it's yeah i think social media like makes it easier to observe and probably worse because it can be like a self-fulfilling cycle. But I mean, this is like the very foundation of of American thinking and American dysfunction is capitalism. Yeah. Yeah. Make yourself you have to feel useful and you have to feel productive and you have to feel uh productive and you have to feel like happiness is a means to feeling more productive as a means to happiness is a and it's just yeah that's why yeah that positive psychology shit of like you know trying to at the other end of rather than saying the if i achieve this then i will be happy is to reverse the conditions to

be happy which is you'll start from a place of being able to be happy and you'll quickly realize that you'll probably be able to succeed because you've re reordered things. Well, Pallavi, it has been such a pleasure as always having you on

the show. Where can people find you and follow you? I'm at Pallavi Ganalan, P-A-l-a-v-i-g-u-n-a-l-a-n everywhere yeah there it is there it is and is there a tweeter some of the work of social media you've been enjoying yes uh my friend christopher he's a comedian and writer he's super funny he's at it's Christopher K-R-I-S-T-O-F-E-R he had a tweet I was like send me your funniest tweet

because I think his tweets are so great he had a tweet that said I transitioned to male because I couldn't take wearing pants with those horrible tiny pockets any longer naturally cutting off my breasts was the only option. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Find me Twitter, Instagram,

at Miles of Grey, and also 420dayfiance. Check us out over there. Some tweets that I like. Damn, there's a... The tweets are just so fucking good right now. Let's see first one is from uh this is from andre at andreannies a-n-d-r-i-a-n-n-i-e-s saying the new york in me understood this completely differently lmfao and it's a tmz uh quote tweet that says

demi lovato says dmx od scared her it could have been me so the dmx od scared me like anyway right he's always going od anyway come on now uh and one more uh is from just this like fucking moment from the view where it says this person says just obsessed with this pivot and it's joy behar just talking and you just see how uh whoopi goldberg comes out of this they are dying from the disease okay i i don't see how the democrats are supposed to convince the republicans to get a brain going okay okay your hair looks amazing by the way we'll be right back yo whoopie does not give a fuck anymore dude every reaction from just would be being like okay okay your hair looks great joy after this boom i love whoopie

uh some tweets i've been enjoying thank you man god bless tweeted i'm seeing a big shift in friends moving away from alcohol caffeine nicotine and towards the bright light emanating from the woods the voice promising all the riches in the world has to offer also coming from the woods the delicious smell of something in the woods and i like uh this tweet from sophie Sophie Gad that is accompanied by an actual photograph of this item from the grocery store. She said, babe, are you okay? You've barely touched your Call of Duty Warzone pasta. And it's a Call of Duty Warzone packet of cheese and broccoli pasta and sauce with a soldier on the bag. You can find us on Twitter

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Footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we recommend you go listen to now miles what song are we recommending it's friday i'm old i'm horny so it's time for genuine remixes of pony no way yeah

this is like a fucking like like reggaeton uh fucking just like latin turn up version of genuine's pony uh it's by tara cora t-e-r-a-k-o-r-a it's on soundcloud but if you like uh if you're horny i'm old and it's got a whole bop to it yeah it's gonna make your big toe just the toenail is gonna shoot off your toenail this thing that goes so hard so check that link in the footnotes. All right. Have a good weekend. Go listen to that. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio.

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