The Daily Zeitgeist - Propaganda Minister Dr Phil, Pacino As Han Solo? 06.10.25

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

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Didn't an NFL player just get caught like buying a bag of pink crystals like on a boat or something? Oh really? Yeah, it was like very, very visible on camera. Yeah. Yeah. I think my friend posted it was like Stefan Diggs is his name. Oh yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now with the New England Patriots. Yeah, it's very obvious. Drugs have like turned into what I thought drugs would be when I was a child. Like pink crystals. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. So cool. What a hell.

Like, man, I would have done drugs when I was eight if drugs looked like this. Because if they didn't have names like cocaine, they're like, what are you doing? Pink crystals. There's a little video game noises when you take it like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're like the power up noise. Yeah, hold on. You're right. Yeah.

Whoa. Just get right real quick. Praise God real quick. Hey, you know what I mean? When I don't get that mushroom. Exactly. Yeah. Mario was all about micro dosing, man.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. That was a pretty big mushroom. That dude took the size of his body. And it just made him feel big for a little while, you know, just a little bit until he then sometimes he needed that star, aka cocaine to make him feel invincible.

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and it's Tuesday, June 10th, 2025. Oh yeah. It's National Frosted Cookie Day. And in the picture they have like, it's like the mother's circus animals, those pink and white ones, which I did love growing up. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll abide. Smoothly, uniformly frosted. Yes. Like you can't even tell that they're frosted. The frosting is so thin. No, they're like pink crystals. They're like little fun pink and white crystals. They're whimsical. That's right.

It's also a National Forklift Safety Day, National Egg Roll Day, National Call Your Doctor Day, National Herbs and Spices Day, National Ice Tea Day, National Ballpoint Pen Day, and National Black Cow Day, which is a root beer float. I didn't know that. Black Cow is a root beer float? Yeah, I didn't know that.

Is it like chocolate ice cream or something? No, the delicious ice cream beverage known as a root beer float. Just root beer and vanilla ice cream. Incorrect. Okay. Nice try, asshole. Fuck you, dipshits. You know who doesn't want you observing your

National call your doctor day your doctor. Yes They're busy enough. Hey Just calling for no reason whatsoever To interrupt your emergency care that you're delivering to other people in need. We need well look that's why we need Better access to health care. I wonder if that's what it is. It's like, call them just like bug them. You know, say, what's up? Yeah. Yeah.

Why not? Why not? If you're on, if you have a relationship like that, I do not have a relationship like that with my doctor. My doctor, it's like, knows me like a car that rolls into like a Jiffy loop. So you just roll in with a busted wheel and they're like, but so I go, yeah, all right, I see the problem here. Your wheels all broken. I'm like, I think I go, yeah, all right. I see the problem here. Your wheels all broken.

I'm like, I think I came in because I was talking about my blood pressure. Yeah. Yeah. Tire pressure. Exactly. Exactly. You want that thing above 36 PSI or around a 22. Yeah.

Love. Love. You think the doctors judge us? They're like, this guy's always got something wrong with him. Every time I see him, I don't know, dude, I need a new doctor. Cause this dude barely fucking looks at me. The place I've gone to, it feels very, it's like one of those, like, we're just churning through seeing people. It's not quite care. It's like, I mean, it's like, look, I don't care

what happens to you, but this is a place where we do offer medical care for you. Yeah. Anyway, I won't name the place. You did name the place Jiffy Loop, right? Yeah. Yeah. offer medical care for you. Yeah. Anyway, I won't name the place. You did name the place Jiffy loop, right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Yeah.

Jiffy loop. All right. My name is Jack O'Brien. AK this way Mo's on fire. That one courtesy of Nick Kemper tyrannous. I think it was Nick Semper tyrannous, but oh yeah. Switched up might have been switched up on my fingies. Yeah, I don't think the display name was changed on this car.

Nick Semper Taranis in reference to these dang protesters doing the worst crime possible. Destruction of property. Yeah. We're not going to allow that. No, no, no, no. Not in these United States. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray.

Hey, it's Miles Gray. Look, it's the Lord of Lankersham, the Shogun with no gun, just here in Los Angeles as we become the focal point of the Trump administration's brutal anti-immigration policy. Are you guys okay? Are you staying safe? Yes. Until the Marines get there, Miles? It's been great.

It's been really safe, to be honest. Are you okay? Yes, I'm okay. I'm okay. Everyone's okay. Are you getting that from people? Oh, from who don't live here? Yeah.

I'm like, no, yeah, we're fine. It's just that these federal goons are making things not okay right now. That's where we're not okay. We're fine here. We're completely equipped to take care of ourselves and each other in our communities. But it's this federal invasion. That's the invasion that's actually happening right now that we need to be liberated from. But he got to it first. He's calling it Invasion LA and not for the correct reason.

Yeah. We'll see how long this... Yeah. he'll probably keep pressing that button. But I mean, right now, the facts just aren't on your side, no matter how hard you try to manufacture this like event. And again, who knows, because they're every move that the federal government keeps making is to increase tensions and incite further sort of clashes with the police. But again, it's not because the people are violent, it's because they're here to protest what is happening. All right. Well, Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the best podcast hosts doing it anywhere. My old friend from the crack day is a Jeopardy champion.

Oh, man. The host of the wonderful podcast, secretly incredibly fascinating, it's Alex Schmidt. Alex. Hey. Commit and die, copper. AKA, don't like my driving? Dial 1-800-EAT-Schmidt.

There you go. So stupid. Are you going to read the rest of my bumper stickers? Yeah. Those were my favorites. The dozens that you sent me. It's so great to be here. Yeah, I know it's been nice having lived in Los Angeles previously and knowing how

large it is. Knowing that like like most people in my life are probably fine. But also it is as if the United States is invading a country like Los Angeles is very big. Yeah. So I hope everybody's okay in the long run. Yeah. Do we need like insurgent tactics?

Like we need to start taping up the street signs so they don't know what streets they're on anymore and they're relying on, you know what I mean, real simple stuff, just easy things where they're like, because these people are out of towners. You know what I mean? They don't know where things are. I mean, some might be, but little things. I don't know. As the tactics change from the federal government,

perhaps the tactics are going to start changing from this side too. Just renumbering all the interstates like it's one off would be great. Yeah, exactly. Just do that. I'm on the 11 and nobody knows it's the 10. Yeah. You know, it's going to be like- I'm on the 011 right now. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Take that to Crankerbein Avenue and you'll be right there.

Alex, we're thrilled to have you here. How's it going where you are? You're on the other side of the country, if I remember correctly. Yes, I'm in Beacon, New York, which is in the Hudson River Valley. It's above New York City. But I had a very strange Sunday because I was

Googling the invasion of Los Angeles by the United States military while I was at our town's Strawberry Festival. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't know if it's sweet, but really good. We contain multitudes, this nation. It's the greatest country on earth.

On one side, you can have a military invasion. More New Yorkers thinking they're better than us. Yeah. Well, we had a whimsical strawberry festival. And the other thing I heard is that almost all of the rest of LA was also usual weekend farmers market and stuff. It's just so massive. People need to know that it's approaching the size of New York City metropolitan area

or bigger and then flattened out and spread out. Downtown is not really the middle. It's just so big. Yeah. Los Angeles County is the biggest city in the world, I think, like just size wise. Yeah. It's massive. It's yeah.

And for anyone, are you safe? We are. It's not that there's like what you see on the streets where people are like in the streets. That doesn't mean protesters are just trying to hurt anyone or anything like that. They're not even trying to hurt the police. The police are hurting protesters. We're okay. You know, we're trying to just live our lives here.

It just looks fucking wild because now we have like cops trampling people with their horses and shit. It's just funny to see that a lot of the habits from the summer of 2020 are like creeping back in with people not knowing how to like articulate what's happening or where the like what, what side is actually instigating violent clashes. But yeah, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're fine. We're fine. We're fine.

We just need to, the horse is purely for the photographic like impact, right? Yeah. That's in no way is that necessary or important, but they just, I think they were like, this would be, this will look cool if we're firing these tear gas canisters at private citizens from horseback. Yeah. And shooting journalists. Like a cowboy. It's, it's all, it's all wacky anyway. Yeah. And those horses should be like in Griffith park taking people on charming rides, you know, not police violence. Yeah, the horses didn't want that. It's not what horses in LA are for.

That's animal abuse. They didn't want to be conscripted into this bullshit. Yeah. Just being pulled around by LAPD helicopters, just like dropped, air dropped from one place to the other. It's real horses. It's really LAPD's like main mode of transport. Yeah, I feel like the way that most of LA experienced the unrest was lighter than usual helicopter traffic from the LAPD because they were otherwise occupied.

But all right, Alex, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're telling the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. And we of course want to start off with our favorite source of news on Trump's invasion of Los Angeles. And that is of course, Dr. Phil, who has some things to say about ice raids. Oh, yeah. Thank God. Our thought leader.

Yeah, I didn't realize he has a PhD in everything. Everything that's ever been a topic. No, no. Yeah, yeah,'t realize he has a PhD in everything. Everything that's ever been a top pick. No, no, yeah, yeah, exactly. He's doing, the doctor does a lot of work for him. He's one of the few people who realize you can just claim to have a PhD in anything and nobody will ever push back whatsoever. Well, talk about the Democratic Party,

deciding that Elon isn't so bad after all, some parts of the Democratic Party, and being like, I don't know, let's just see where he's going with this maybe he's our guy what we'll look at their new YouTube channel YouTube daily show that is like an attempt to recapture the youth and it is real real bad so good oh I mean so good waking Work waking over here all of that plenty more but first Alex we do like to ask our guests What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I?

I mentioned a strawberry festival I was there wondering where the name strawberry came from in English and apparently it's not clear but either way, I really don't feel like that's a good name for the fruit. I think you should change it. So I was trying to Google it. And nothing. Nothing? There's like guesses about it being from like strewn a berry, like strewn across the ground or like old words for the earth and stuff. But the name sounds like it's a pile of hay and it's such a delicious fruit. I'm very frustrated with this now that I think about it. Yeah. I'm like, what's the straw?

Because I think in my mind as a kid, I was like the thing we drink with rather than just straw, hay or something like that. Yeah, it probably predates the straw. Good to know. Although for me, it's totally overtaken. I think I had that thought originally, but you know, I think Darryl Strawberry is now like that. That was such an iconic name. And yeah, I think I've just had enough strawberry like candy, fruit secondary to candy in my life that I feel like I can't go back now.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just like wish we could upgrade it, but I agree. It's definitely cemented in my head. Like sort of like all feet, inches, miles, all those measurements, like they're just cemented in my head and I know they could be better. And that's kind of where I'm at.

Yeah. So what do you think? all those measurements. Like they're just cemented in my head and I know they could be better. And that's kind of where I'm at. So what do you think in like triangle berries? Like what's the most unique thing about strawberries that they're triangles ish? Yeah. I, the best name I could think of is red delicious, but that's an apple. So you can't do that, but like they're so good. Yeah. They're so red. And then we just need a, and then the name sounds like it's a haystack. It doesn't work. Yeah

Like cuz in other what does it call it in Italian? Like I think all the other like language words for the strawberry are much better and sound like as whimsical as a strawberry Looks and tastes. Yeah, apparently an Italian. It's a. Fragola. Yeah, great. Really good. Already better. Yeah. Frasers in Spanish. In Spanish. Yeah. Frasers. Yeah. So good. Perfect. Yeah. That also looks much whenever I see that like an agua fresca thing that says frasers, I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And like strawberry. Fine. Right. I mean, it gets the point across. I'm all for changing it. Whatever.

You know, that dried out shit that we feed to farm animals? Yeah. So that is a bear. That plus Barry. Like it? No. It's bad. No.

Yeah. Pretty bad. Pretty bad. What is this called? Seeds on the outside. Barry. Tees on the outside. Barry's pretty good.

All right. Yeah. We'll workshop this. So many better ways to go. Can't go wrong. Alex, what's something you think is underrated? I really thought about it because he wrote a really great New York Times opinion piece, but Ken Jennings is just great.

What a wonderful successor to Alex Trebek. What a wonderful figure in culture. Then he just wrote both very neutral and normal and also explicitly political op-ed about the value of facts. That was just great. So very happy with Ken Jennings lately. He's great. Yeah. Yeah. I see more and more of his posts on blue sky and I'm like, yeah, this guy's got a little bit of wit to him. I like some of these posts.

I've always pitted the two of you as the two most foremost Jeopardy people in my life. I've always pitted the two of you against each other. So this is, this is troubling to me. I've always been like, fuck Ken Jennings. That's your, my boy, Alex Smith. He should be the host of Jeopardy. Yeah. Facts.

Facts. Sounds like you maybe want me to lay off that a little bit. Well, at least start. I was doing you a favor, bro. Yeah. You just stopped sending like maggots in a box to his house for sure. Yeah. So many threats to him, but everyone has a little appendix. And Alex Schmidt asked me to do this. I'm like, no, no, no. Whoa.

On behalf of Alex Schmidt. Here you go. Each man die sends his regards. Yeah, I was also thinking of him when, sorry, I was also thinking of him when Wheel of Fortune got a new host, because Wheel of Fortune is cool. But then when Pat Sajak was ready to retire, they just picked Ryan Seacrest, like just a famous TV host.

Yeah. Because it's like, I don't know what to do. Then totally different situation with Jeopardy. They had a guy who vaguely won the seat. It's very cool. It's a good thing. Yeah. I guess who could have even really taken the wheel? Who makes sense? Vanna White? Weren't people saying,

shouldn't Vanna White just end up hosting? Because she's like, I don't know. That would be better. She's been there since the beginning. Give it to Vanna. Yeah. She seems great. That's the one better idea But otherwise they were just like who's the most famous person who stands in front of cameras? Yeah, it's not way too busy

And they I feel like Ryan Seacrest has no time in his life at all because all he does is host 3 trillion things they clone that motherfucker. Oh That makes sense that makes sense and we would know come for the hard-h sense. That makes sense. And we would know. And this is where you come for the hard hitting facts. And we would know. And we would know. They've offered to clone on both buffs. And we would know.

Check the network. Check the network. We would know. Allegedly. Allegedly. I feel like Wheel of Fortune could use some more because the only times that I see Wheel of Fortune is when people fuck up. Yeah, yeah. I feel like they need some when people fuck up. Yeah.

I feel like they need some Steve Harvey in that. Yeah. They need somebody who, I don't know, Charles Barkley would also be fun. Somebody who's just going direct to camera being like, what? I like Charles Barkley because he himself would also be open that he has no idea what the word is supposed to be either. Because he would be like, honestly, I thought that's what it was too. Like, yeah. Barclay for fortune.

Sure. Yeah. Oh God. Steven A Smith. No, that's too much. Who's Victor has suggested either the best or worst. Yeah. He would even a Smith.

What was that one recently that that was like really perverted that last wheel of fortune one I remember we covered the Victor suggestion. That was really perverted was it Anyway, whatever whatever that was. Yeah, Stephen a Smith would probably wasn't one of the right in the butt Like there was one that was like right in the bug recently. Stephen a Smith would probably say that guy's on crack Probably and then you'd be like, alright, that's not the energy wheel There was one that was like right in the butt recently. Steven A Smith would probably say that guy's on crack. Uh, probably. And then you'd be like, all right, that's not the energy we have. He's going to yell at people. I feel like he needs a good day to like work up his steam.

Like he's not, he's not in the moment. Good at being outraged. Like he's good. The next. So I just think that he needs to start covering wheel of fortune on his ESPN show. Oh, wow, wow, wow, yeah. Alex, what is something you think is overrated?

This is a recent learning. Coca-Cola, it's like about the same as Pepsi. And our household decided to switch because we've heard like BDS, Coca-Cola is pro-Israel reasons to not drink it. And so we were like, okay, let's try Pepsi. And I, I've been like a lifelong Coke's the best one person and no, they're like the same, it's, it's the same thing. And, and Pepsi is good. Well, you drink a Pepsi heavies?

Pepsi zero. And then like, like if folks are like the deep, deep lore of me, I do like a cherry Coke zero partly because it was the soda and the young Pope that Jude Law, the young Pope drank. So then I got wild cherry Pepsi Zero. It's as good, maybe better. So that might be my new young Pope. So I like that you're like, yeah, whatever he was fucking with a young Pope. That's me. That's me. In the first episode, he like shouts at his papal assistants to bring him cherry Coke Zero as like a breakfast drink.

And it's really deranged. But then I was watching it and I was like, he is right. That's really good. Like a cherry soda. You try it for breakfast now? No, never. Better Coke, better coffee. But like, but, but yeah, wild cherry Pepsi Zero, pretty good.

They're like satanic implications to the young pope, right? Like he's like, yeah, it's pretty nice level. And that and that is part of that drinking wild cherry Pepsi at breakfast. Oh, it's satanic. It should be satanic. Yeah. Yeah. Like this guy's not quite right. Well, you're going to see these concerned Christian parents like my teenage daughter is drinking cherry Pepsi in the morning. Should I exorcism or no, please tell me.

Yeah, so apologies to Atlanta people, especially but Coca Cola is just fine. That the like, halo around it as being the top soda is not justified. I think now means also so many sodas are on the way out now, like, because half of these soda companies are scrambling to be like, people don't like soda as much. So now do you like juice? Do you like these other fucking weird carbs?

Like no, no flavor sodas. I don't know. Yeah, it's I haven't had like, I mean, the last time I was, oh, we went to the movies. Jack and I had a little date last week. We went to the movies. Do you remember what I got miles from the universal machine? No, I don't honey. I'm sorry But it's very that cherry coke zero cherry coke zero you did really? Yeah, man, I was my anytime I go to the universal machine I Add that little dash of because it's like bright red again

Yeah, it's like coke zero and then just like a stream of bright red syrup going into it. That is unholy, unnatural. Yeah. And I'm actually going to call the priest now because I'm worried about your salvation. I feel like the reaction to soda companies, like they're like, people don't buy our thing anymore because it's poison. They're like, we have to change the messaging. It feeds directly into the Democrats being like, people aren't liking us anymore. We have to change the method.

What can we do to change the messaging? It's the inside of it. It's the chemical makeup at a cellular level. What you are is what we find repulsive, not the message that company, I bet that company that sold Pepsi that like $20 million logo redesign really make a killing with the DNC right now. Oh hell yeah. Yeah. That's one of the great, well, we'll, we'll have to link off to that report of the Pepsi logo redesign. I just, I feel like it's worth linking off to once a year, just to make sure nobody loses

track of the fact that when Pepsi like suddenly changed its logo to like something that was like weird, weird looking, kind of looked like a cartoon plumber bending over, that that was the result of the most jam packed full of shit slide deck that you've ever seen in your life. Was it like likening it to like the jet streams on earth or some shit? Yeah. Like here's earth and here's how Pepsi's logo figures into that. You're like, okay, y'all.

The magnetic polarity is switching and that and so is Pepsi. Sure, honey. Really like wild shit. It's that one screen cap was strung out Don Draper, but just in real life with the Pepsi logo. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about the news. Katherine Townsend Over the past six years of making my true crime podcast, Hell and

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And we're back. We're back. And all right. Dr. Phil, this is like the second time that Dr. Phil's like tried to do, tried to be your man on the street for ice raids. Yeah. He did in Chicago, uh, the last we checked with him.

And this time everyone's like, people notice like, what the fuck is Dr. Phil doing with ICE in LA? And now we have found out because he was embedded with the ICE agents over the weekend as they hunted down innocent people, just trying to live. And a lot of this has to do with the fact that first of all, why is he doing it? A, if Dr. Phil is very open, he's a man, he's part of the Maga cult. B, he started his own network recently and it is dying for cash.

So being part of the regime's propaganda apparatus is profitable and again, aligns with his worldview. So it's really win-win. Um, is it like Dr. Phil's OTV. Yeah. Yeah. It's called, I forget what it's called. Yeah. He's got this whole thing where he just like, basically vlogging to camera. But in a recent upload to his channel,

he was Phil explaining what the Heimstatt Poliziai was, or the Gestapo For other people who weren't World War two nerds like me and how that's not even close to what's happening with ICE Which is very odd. So this came after governor Tim Walls basically said yeah, I still acted like Gestapo out here and Dr. Phil's main point of differentiating was that like, well, ICE is not like summarily like executing people in the streets yet. That we know of. Yeah, exactly. Again, this is so jarring to get to have to hear Dr.

Phil McGraw try and tell you about the fucking Gestapo in this like really heavy handed way. That's just such like on its face, like the most inelegant propaganda you've ever seen but here I'm gonna play some clips where he's just trying to get his audience to be like come on now Gestapo come on y'all that ain't what's happening So the here he is first this is coming after that He plays a clip of Tim Wall saying these guys are acting like the Gestapo now. That's not just false It's historically obscene.

Now, why do I say that? Well, let's talk about who were Gestapo. They were central to the Nazi's regime of mass murder, torture, and genocide. Does that equal ICE? And if you're sitting there saying, yes, sure does. Well, really. Fucking got my ass. Yeah, so you go, well, really? Like, and if you're over there being like, duh, yes, I see the similarities, duh. That's you. That's how you sound.

That's how you sound. It's nothing like that. Let me go on with my very well researched presentation here. Although it's clear he just read off a thing like it does seem like this comparison of the first he had heard of the Gestapo. And he was like finding out about it for the first time. Really? Because they were on Wikipedia. Police are like exactly.

He's clearly reading these words the first time. So then he goes on to say what's, you know, does this sound anything like the, or is like, this is what the Gestapo did. Is this anything like what's happening today? And it's pretty jarring because it almost, yeah, it sounds exactly like it. Gestapo or state sanctioned terrorists with-

Okay. Okay. Yep. Absolute power, ruthlessly eliminating opposition to Nazis. Oh, they went after leftists, intellectuals, Jews, trade unions, political clergy, and homosexuals. Oh, okay. So let's see. The local SEIU union leader was arrested and detained over the week. So they did go after trade unionists. They are going after people who oppose the current regime. We're seeing a violently homophobic campaign unfold in terms of rights for people.

It actually sounds, huh? But this is interesting. This, okay. Is it that, so yeah, the whole thing goes on like really being like, and unless you're a Holocaust denier, they did really bad stuff in the Holocaust. Basically, you're like, this has no nuance to it. And you're not even contending with what people are saying about how violent and dehumanizing these raids are.

You're just going purely after Tim Wall said Gestapo bad. Yeah. And I don't know if this is helping the cause, but they clearly they must think it is. He also emphasized that they put them on trains. Right. Yeah. Different than planes. Those automobiles. Right.

Yeah. FYI guys. But yeah, I do just like, you know, continue wanting to, I want to continue underlining what these raids look like, because I do feel like that is not highlighted enough. The mainstream media is showing the burning cars and people throwing things at the police and just not really giving the context. From the Washington Post report on one of the sweeps that the protests were reacting to, the immigration sweeps spooked many day laborers who said they could not recall another

enforcement action in which people had been detained so seemingly arbitrarily. Do not love the word of spooked, the use of the word spooked there like their horses. But yeah, a Guatemalan mother of two was inside a McDonald's that shares the parking lot with the Home Depot. When she said she saw numerous agents running after men she sees every day, but knows only by their nicknames. She said she momentarily froze, but then began walking in the opposite direction

of the agents who were detaining food vendors on the sidewalk. They were just grabbing people, she said. They don't ask questions. They don't know if any of us were in any kind of immigration process, which ties into this investigation by Cal matters of an earlier raid by the border patrol that found that of the 78 people they arrested, 77 of them had no criminal or immigration history.

Yeah. Exactly. 77 of 78. They're just going and they're just got lucky lucky with the one person they're going and arresting Brown people. Like that's, that's it. That's all that's happening. Like indiscriminately.

There was a, there was a mom who was visiting from Chile in New York and she got swept up. She's like, I'm on, I don't live here. Like, and like they ripped her apart from her 12 year old daughter, who, like a stranger, had to be like, OK, well, I guess I'll stay with you until they figure this out. They are again, they're popping out of fucking vehicles and just dragging people away in cuffs just based off what they fucking

look like. And this is why people are responding to it in the way they are. But again, the media is going to do a lot, or at least the ones that are really scared of Donald Trump to be like, and there's a lot of unrest happening in Los Angeles right now, rather than really connecting the dots to these people's communities are at risk for this kind of violent separation from their neighbors, their families, et cetera. Yeah. So Dr. Phil doing the fucking AntichChrist's work, uh, here by just, by just really giving people as much intellectual cover as possible to just deny people's rights or humanity here and like then now you have more, you're seeing more and more quotes

from people who are like Latinos for Trump voters who are like, this is really bad, like, you know, one representative from Florida was like some of the Cuban immigrants who like are in my, in my community and who I descend from, we're more American than Stephen Miller. And this is, this is absolutely not what we voted for. But I, I, as much as I understand your, your outrage at seeing this stuff happen, this is what they were always talking about from the beginning was never going to differentiate the good people from the beginning was never going to differentiate

the good people from the bad people because I know from maybe their narrow perspective as people who were immigrants themselves We're like, well there will word we did it the right way So surely it won't be us But from the perspective of the people who run the actual Republican Party and those conservatives they look at it completely differently They're saying we need to get all the brown people out of here. There is no differentiating. I think that's, I guess, a lesson they're learning in real time.

Yeah. It seems like on top of the racism, they're just trying to do numbers. They're just trying to say, we rounded up X number of people, which doesn't really need to rank it. It's just also creepy and terrible. Like it doesn't help anybody. It doesn't do anything for anybody. They, they can't point to anything good.

This is doing. That's why when they get accused of being in the Gestapo, they try to like, find little historical differences from Gestapo instead of saying like, no, it's good. Well, I think like, let me find little ways the flashcards don't match. I think this is why they, you know, all that pushback too is because Trump's sort of like approval on immigration is better than his first administration. So he, I think, is also viewing this as like a total green light. But when people like, but sure, maybe that's one level when you ask people on the street what they think of this broad concept of what his immigration policies are.

But this specifically what's happening, there are very few people are fully on board for that. I mean, the true cult people are. But other people who like voter like, oh, well, not like this, which is unfortunate that people didn't read the not even fine print, the bold print that was on everything that the campaign was messaging to people on the way to November. The headline thesis statement. Yeah.

We're going to round up Brown people. I'm like, do you remember what happened last time? They were caging people. Yeah. You know, like this, this isn't right. What did, what did you, what did you think? Okay. We learned our lesson now.

We're going to be really efficient now and how we target people to completely, you know, tape rip from their communities. But not like the Gestapo. Gestapo inefficient. Inefficient. Lot of red tape. Yeah. Right.

I mean, like, I'm just looking at the, it's not even spelled the same. It's just, they were in Germany, you know, it just, it just doesn't make sense. You know? And like, Herman Guring is dead. So it's not like Herman Guring is the one behind this, you know, it's Tom Homan and Christine Ohm very different. We don't, we don't even have anybody named Herman. That name is way out of fashion.

Oh my gosh. Are Herman, you know how many baby hermans there are? Very few. Um, not enough. If you ask me, if if you change that's good arms out there. Yeah All right in the continued fallout From Donald Trump and Elon Musk breaking up the the the Democratic Party has Chosen the wrong message at least some in the Democratic Party and are like, wait a second, that guy. I just, I'm constantly reminded of this anecdote.

I heard Democratic operative Dan Pfeiffer talking about, like, I think he was talking about like the problem with Democratic politics as it currently operates. But he was like, this is how it operates. Someone says they want to run for office. You take their phone from them. You look through the contacts and you total up how much the net worth is of all the people you see on their contacts. And that's how you determine, yeah, okay. They have a shot or not.

Like, so that's, he, I think he was like, that's not good. And it really isn't, but it does provide some helpful context for why people, the second deal on Musk, like insults Donald Trump. They're like, just seeing like literally their eyes are turning into dollar signs. Oh yeah. Yeah. Like the cartoons just salivating suddenly, like they have a fork and knife in their hands and like a little napkin around their collar.

It's so fucking pathetic that they're just like, wait, money bags needs a new place to rest his little Nazi head? Well, come over here, please. We would love that because I guess in their minds, they're like, well, the reason we lost is Elon Musk backed Trump. That's the reason too. So, ipso facto, transitive property, if we have Elon Musk our side, we win. I think that's pretty clear.

That's pretty clear math right there. Ro Khanna said that the Democrats quote should be in dialogue with Musk and try to convince him that quote, the democratic party has more of the values that he agrees with, does it? I mean, that's such a cell phone. Yeah. Or just, or just telling on themselves for sure. already has more of the values that he agrees with, does it? I mean, it's a cell phone. Yeah. Or just or just telling on themselves for sure.

You're like, oh, so, OK, well, who else is like Richie Torres said, I'm a believer in redemption. And that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, that's uh huh. I like a good Hollywood story. And Elon Musk in many ways is an underdog Right the richest man in the world, right? He was born Like inheriting a fucking diamond mind like that. That's diamond mine not diamond to mind That's what I've got after taking

nutraceuticals, but Elon Musk inherited a fucking emerald mine and he just needs to be redeemed. Yeah, he just needs to join the Avengers, you know, like Vision did and we can all move on. That's OED. We just need him to turn to the right side. Yeah, I think it's really concerning that they talk so like as if this is normal that you want the wealthiest man on the planet who's just an avowed Nazi out loud with everything they do being like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's okay. Just just go. Yeah. Money. Yeah. Money. Okay. And I think to expose is how the Democrats have no actual values that they stand on. Like if being a Nazi is a non-starter to be in the democratic establishment, then there's really nothing

to talk about here, regardless of how much money you have. But the fact that that isn't a non-starter. Interesting because white, you know, uh, white supremacy is tolerated among the Democrats. If you have money, clearly is how I'm reading this and they can look past the Nazi shit because he has cash.

Um, that's a slippery slope folks. That's a slippery slope. You don't want to really be on. Cause what happens when he just turns on you inevitably, he already, he already pretended like he was like a liberal person who gave a fuck about pride month or fucking electric vehicles. No, he's just a sociopath chasing money. And they'll say whatever he needs to.

Yeah, I thought, yeah, I thought like especially after these two guys broke up, everybody should be aware that Trump and Musk are like the two leading betrayal guys. Yeah. In American society, like they're the two leading guys who will betray you. One way or another. The trail since 2012. Yeah. You really don't see them split up and say one of the betrayal guys, it'll work for us.

You need to bring in one of those betrayal guys. What's Trump doing? To not betray us. Yeah, Trump's pretty into the thing he's got going over there. So I don't think we can pinch him off from that one, but maybe Musk. Maybe Musk. Like, again, what is really the difference here at a cellular level if either party is willing to court Musk and all the bullshit that comes with it now I'm not saying every person in the Democratic Party is like we need to bring because

Plenty are like absolutely fucking not but like the people that are thinking like this are the app like these are the people that serve as the biggest obstructions to a lot of things happening within the Democratic Party because their thinking is completely skewed by this other version of how things unfold. I mean, we saw when Harris took over the presidential ticket, started with seemingly some policies that might be like populist and progressive, and then immediately it became like a thing of like, how do we get Dick Cheney to approve to, you know, tie like, how do we hitch our wagon to Dick Cheney? It's just like, they, and that didn't even have like logic or like money tied to it.

That was just their logic of like, we brought her tent, bigger tent type shit. So like, yeah, there's never going to be a situation where someone's like too fucked up to, for the Democrats to put you inside with them. I don't know. What is it? They'd be like, does he answer our calls? Right. And I don't know what they thought would happen with the supporters who are like the

oppressed wing of your voting base. When you welcome the oppressors into the tent too. And don't think that's going to be like, have some kind of repulsive effect. They're going to love it. Yeah. No, like it's so chill. We're so chill that people that are the architects of your torment are also into what we're doing. Isn't that cool?

You fuck with that? No. Oh, no. Okay. So the messaging was wrong. It was the messaging. We should have messaged that better. That's on us. That's on us. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm glad you said that it's like not every single Democrat, because it's true

that like there are a few that are speaking out against this kind of thing. And there's one exciting congressional candidate in Illinois named Kat Abugazole who her website has an anti endorsement section. And the top anti-endorsement is Elon Musk, who's been harassing her online since she was an employee of Media Matters. And it's very possible to be a Democrat and try to have some consistent principles, and some of them do that, and the rest are just trying to make consulting money or something. Well, I think with Kat, she's completely outside of the establishment.

You know what I mean? Like she, her worldview is almost antithetical to what the Democratic Party stands for. And I think that's why people are so excited too about her candidacy. Well, we'll have her back. Not me, man. Kat came on our podcast.

I said, Kat, let me look at that phone. Let me look at those contacts. They have never heard it. Not one of these is a billionaire cat. You're failing big time. Loser. Yeah. That's such a funny quote from that guy, is Pfeiffer or something?

Because also just like the concept of someone taking my phone and looking at my contact list is very invasive to me, like just in a fundamental way. That's not how humans operate. I don't like it I'm sure and sometimes it's probably been literal and other times probably figuratively or they're like hey Can you just send us a list of like your richest friends just so we can kind of vibe check you really quick So we can oligarch check you really quick And if you have any fun nicknames for them just like but like in the nickname section of the contacts That's just like for our entertainment because otherwise our job is soul destroying.

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Do we want to talk about this? This is too much. The Democrats being bad at this shit. I mean, it's like, yeah, I mean, it's, they're always going to be bad at this. It's, we can talk about how Al Pacino has turned down the role for, for Han Solo. He did? Yeah. What? Okay.

This is fun. Um, so yeah, wait, like recently, he recently, he just, I, in entertainment weekly, he was promoting his new movie, the ritual. And people were like, he, in this comes up, he said, quote, I said, I think I'm in the mood to make Harrison forward a career like like laughing about it. And he talks about how he was like, you know, you know, hanging with the movie brats like Coppola, Spielberg, George Lucas. And he said, quote, they were real idealists coming in the 70s with great films all over the globe. And it goes this article says, but when Pacino received the Star Wars script and read it over, he said it felt like he was reading quote, a different language. This is from Pacino. I love

their work, but I was doing a show on Broadway at the time and they handed me this script and I thought, I don't understand. I must be in outer space myself. Then he reached out to a friend and mentor, Charlie Lott and asked him, what do you make of this? Quote, he was pretty wise. And he said, I don't get it, Al. I don't know. I don't get it. I said, well, I don't either. I don't get it.

I don't know. I don't get it. I said, well, I don't either. What are we going to do? They offered me a fortune, but I don't know. No, I can't play it so far. Charlie's ass. He said, no, I can't play something if I don't speak the language and passed on it.

And apparently that's when Harrison Ford got the call. And even Harrison Ford said, quote, he's like, it does seem odd. Like there's a seven foot tall man in a dog suit. Like that's the first thing you hear. Harrison Ford was so mean about the movie when he was making it. I remember like quotes from this, from from the cracked days where he was like, George, you can type this shit, but you can't say it on film.

It's terrible. They had to improvise around a bunch of the dialogue. Back then, George Lucas was not a person who just was a billionaire corporation in and of himself and wouldn't listen to anything anybody said to him. He took studio notes and actor notes, and then we got to see in the prequels what it looks like, what that initial dialogue looked like.

Right. I also like that Harrison Ford was saying that when Harrison Ford was an unknown carpenter two seconds ago, he's not a famous person going into Star Wars, and he could just do that still. But he did not give a fuck. He got the part over Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, and Burt Reynolds. Damn. I know.

That's what he was up. It's just funny now to think of all the other universes where one of these guys, just the slight tweak to our Multiverses where it's like Esther Stallone as hung. Oh, it's real bad There's probably no Empire Strikes Back if Sylvester Stallone is in a new hope people be like what the fuck was this? There was a guy in a dog suit. He's like Sister what? People be like what the fuck was this there was a guy in a dog suit and he's like The sister what Yeah, he would have demanded that he get to put some of his jokes in yeah, yeah, yes, we're salons always

Has it has notes? Oh, no, I think I'm a pretty humorous guy. You know what I'm saying? Wait, when did the first Rocky come out? Is that what that would have been before? Oh, 76. So this is off. This is basically either while Rocky is coming out or something. Wow. That'd have been wild. Go from Rocky, then a new hope.

Look at you. Yeah. Sly. I am. That's pretty cool. That didn't happen. The one thing with Pacino, if Pacino was Han, I do like the scene better where Luke is rescuing Leia out of that prison cell and Leia says,

you're a little short for a stormtrooper, and then a really short Han Solo comes in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little tiny half Pacino. That's funny. Just the juxtaposition with him and fucking Chewie. This is the best odd couple I've ever seen. I think, yeah, that probably,

I guess so with Pacino, wow, what is it? What happens? Does it make the, like, too prestige to have Pacino in there? Yeah, it might win the Academy Award for best picture and then everybody gets up there and asks real quick and it probably, Empire is not quite as good. I don't know. Yeah. Hey, never tell me the odds.

I'm like, what do you think he's going to say? It's a ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. Yeah. Hey, never tell me the odds. I'm like, what do you think he's going to say? It's a ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. It's so funny. Like they were doing 90s Pacino. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it has to be. It's sentable. I got a woman, but you know, I'm feeling about this.

She's fast enough for you, old man. She's fast enough for you old man. Also, also Pacino frozen in carbamite. I just need that. Somebody draw that really good. Yeah. Like you would have like brought a mustache to it or something because it was like Serpico or you know, like maybe a beard or something. Oh yeah.

You know what else Sylvester Stallone said no to that like gave us one of our, that would have had, he said yes, would have ruined one of our greatest films of, of the eighties is Beverly Hills cop. That was like a Stallone. Good God. Yeah. That again, thank God we're not in that universe. He wanted it to be more gritty and violent.

So Cobra is what ended up being his vision for Beverly Hills Cop. The people who were making Beverly Hills Cop were like, okay. With two weeks to go, we're like, let's try Eddie Murphy in this movie that we've already basically made. And then Eddie Murphy came through and gave it a reason for existing. Geez. All I remember from that movie was that wacky-ass machine gun he had on the cover, like the poster for that. I'm like, what the fuck is this shit? Is that the one where Stallone eats pizza with like a knife and fork by

himself or something? A scissor maybe? Or a scissor, a scissor. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, I got like, like, what's this guy's like kind of a unique individual? You know, he's like, he's like, this is how they eat it in Italy.

That's how they do it. This is what they do in the old country. They don't fold their slices like New York. That's turning into Netanyahu. That's right. That's very similar. Both from Philly. Who was Netanyahu almost played Rocky. Wow.

And that would have been insane. You know, Adrian. Um, also the world of film just wanted to talk about the news from over the weekend that Sinners, which we were still waiting to see if this was going to be a success or not. You know, we're baited by it. I don't know. Why? We talked about the first weekend that it came out and like people were like, you see

like a modest $25 million bow for Sinners. Yeah, and then it like, you know, destroyed that, like did incredibly well, like blew everybody's expectations out of the water. And the Hollywood Reporter or like one of those trade publications that Monday was like, Sinners does well, but it's got a long way to go before it reaches profitability It just became so over the weekend it crossed the 350 million dollar mark each and has become okay the decades most profitable film based on original material You know they they spent a little bit of money on this one.

This guy is a bit of a hothead. I don't know if he wants to go hot-dogging around after one weekend, saying that he made a lot of money because it might not even be profitable. Most profitable film based on original material Wow Jesus that's a good movie what did what did you guys see recently I'm behind what you guys see we saw yeah we for for a possible sponsorship we saw f1 yeah we'd start Al Pacino as a race car driver as a race car Tommy Tommy Pirelli. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah alone insisted. I'm playing an Italian makeup car and had to be Lamborghini. That's something you always insisted on as we saw with Scarface.

Sometimes he didn't insist on only speaking his native language. Yeah. You get caught with a little too much dip on your chip there, Al. I saw sinners. I saw friendship, enjoyed friendship. Oh, there's a lot of good. I heard Connor O'Malley has one of my friends that Connor O'Malley is the best throwaway line of dialogue ever. Like he said, I, he's like, I laughed so much. He's like, but there's one thing I'm not even telling you is like Connor O'Malley

fucking split me in half with laughter, which is a fucking, yeah, yeah. I've got a lot of alias. It's my favorite part of the movie, but it's like such a stupid background How about you Alex what you see anything good lately I We saw an old movie as just like a screening. There's a Hitchcock movie called notorious. It's great. Oh amazing Alfred Hitchcock's notorious B. I. G. It's a it's like a very romantic spy thriller with Carrie Grant and Ingrid Birdman totally out of my head. There you go. Thank you and it was great. Yeah, it was really good. Yeah

Okay, so the not the Sinners is the best new movie I've seen lately I kind of want to see Superman one of the ways I'm like secretly 200 years old is I like Superman a lot and so The Superman movies really exciting. Yeah, I I love like that that is in there like deep in my film going DNA is like having watched Superman. I think like my grandparents might've had it on VHS or something. And so I watched it like a hundred times, like around the time of that. I watched jaws a hundred times and I, but I'm like, that's the one movie where

I'm like a little like bitch movie. Like I'm just like, I don't know. This guy doesn't have the Christopher stuff. Like, I don't, I don't like when he's like I'm just like, I don't know. This guy doesn't have the Christopher Reeve stuff. Like, I don't like when he's like back to work. That's not my Superman. He seems too harried, but there's something about the performance in the trailer that I'm not liking, but everybody around me is like, we got to see this.

This looks fun. And so I will be going to see it. I'll probably like it. Yeah, there's a dog that's super dog Why not? I even really liked Superman Returns the Brandon Ralph Ralph one Yeah, it's pretty good. I thought I thought they like but that one specifically was designed to capture the energy of the original Like Christopher Reeves one. It's like they made it a sequel to the second Christopher Reeves one, they were like, uh, nothing else. Not none of the rest of this shit happened.

Please. This funny, like those tapes that your grandparents have that like you get babysat, so you just mainline the same like, okay, so over and over. One of them for me is my grandparents always had, I didn't want to keep watching roots because they had roots. The whole box. And I was like, please, y'all. Like I've seen. I know.

Thank you. The other one had the gods must be crazy too. Oh yeah. Okay. I watched that shit so many times. I'm like, this is the most backwards fucking movie. Like, what the fuck is this? But anyway, yeah, the gods must be crazy.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Carmen. A Coke bottle falls out of a plane, and a tribe starts worshiping it. Is that the idea? Yeah, yeah, and they're fighting over the bottle, too, because it's like this. That's the first one.

God's must be crazy. Number one is where the Coke bottle comes down. And then they all start fighting over the new magical technology of the Coke bottle. And then part two, it like, there's like geopolitical implications. Yeah. It's just like the worst vehicle for like any kind of actual message dealing with the world or anything with Africa or our

racism, right? Like that's what it feels like. Well, and it's funny too, because like it's kind of there's a sort of like, you know, like my black grandparents loved it. They're like this shit. Like they thought it was hilarious because I think in this weird way to like as African-Americans, you kind of other African people too. Right. It's kind of like, oh, wow, look at what they're doing over there.

Ha ha ha ha. And then now you're like, no, no, no, this is what, what, what, what were we laughing at? Who made this movie and why were they laughing? That's a good question to ask. The gods must be crazy. Oh, just a South African man who's behind the film. Jesus Christ.

Lalex Schmidt, as always, such a pleasure having you on the podcast. Where can people find you, follow you, hear you, all that good stuff? Thank you. Anytime you have me, it's a joy. And like you said, I make secretly incredibly fascinating with my buddy, Katie Golden, host of Breacher Feature, another wonderful show. So check that out. And I'm told Saturday, there's a lot of protests in the United States.

Might be good to do. There you go. No Kings. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? I really like the new season of Poker Face, the TV show. It's a show on Peacock with Natasha Lyonne and like detective stuff. And so if you like knives out and things like that,

it's just like a good chill and humorous mystery show. Better than the first season? Actually, maybe not. I think the first season is a little better. So if you start there, that's great. But second season is good too. The pilot to that. So good. The pilot to the poker face. Go check that out, everybody. It's great. Great. On Peacock. If you get Peacock. Great time. Pe. Great. Miles, where can people find you as their work media you've been enjoying? Yeah. Find me everywhere at miles of gray. Check out the basketball podcast. Miles, I've had boosties.

If you want to hear about the NBA finals. Oh, boy. The pendulum swung back pretty hard, didn't it? It did. But I don't know. I'm still like, and this that's a wrap. I know I expect I was like, they're going to they're going to wake the fuck up for game two. I did not expect the Pacers to win game two after that. They got Halliburton. That game was wild.

Yeah. Also, 90 Day Fiance, they check me out on 420 Day Fiance. A couple of posts I like on Blue Sky. Someone posted like a thing of like, this is how your email finds me and posted like a really sad looking turtle. And then someone tweeted that again, at ericalexrodgers.com posted, this is how your email finds me. Just like, just like a, like, it looks like a turtle has been hibernating in the muck for like a year. Just like covered in merges. Yeah. Yeah. That is how the emails are finding us currently. At RinseWind.run on Blue Sky Posted,

we've got a bunch of parents voluntarily guarding the elementary school gates if you want to know how LA feels this morning. Because that's pretty much where we're seeing, again, ICE is going after the lowest hanging fruit, meaning wherever they can just pull up a list and think that's where someone's going to be, they're going there. And shout out to everybody who is protecting their communities right now, because it is definitely a scary time. Friend of the show, Alex Steed, also posted on Blue Sky.

A dictatorship? Absolutely. But I have a lot of hope due to the strength of those showing up and pushing back and also in the fact that these are the stupidest motherfuckers alive. Yeah. those showing up and pushing back and also in the fact that these are the stupidest motherfuckers alive. Yeah. Hopefully, hopefully that helps at some point. Uh, let's see a dumb tweet that I've been enjoying. Elena Saavedra Buckley tweeted satisfying to eat a nerd's gummy cluster. I think it's the best candy to come out in a while, then do a little research and find out that the guy who invented them just received a huge candy industry

Impact award for them reality is out there and it can be shared. Okay good good. I Love them. Oh, they're so good. They're fucking I'm unreal. Okay. Have you had them? Oh, I haven't I haven't heard of this even I don buy. I don't buy like candy like that at the store, but her majesty and I, well, we fucking fight over the backs. There's so like, there'll be a few left. Like, why did you leave me the last come? I'm like, I'll get more. Okay, I'll get more.

They're really sad. And it's the kind of gummy kind of thing where it doesn't get stuck in your teeth. No, but it does It it is it encases your your teeth and sugar Yeah, and they will get some the inside out sadly, but yeah, so yeah, very good. Just an incredible Like sugar bomb. Yeah, just okay that if you if that's what you're looking for in your candy Vintage a wild cherry peps Cherry Pepsi should I have with it? Like 82 or 84? Nice 82, Chris 82.

Yeah, you're gonna love that too. That you've been refrigerating for 36 hours. Marinating. Yeah, marinating in the marinating for 36 hours. All right, you can find me on Twitter at jackunderscoreobrien on blue sky at jackobithenumberone. You can find us on Twitter and blueSky at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it. And there you will find the footnote, which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that you think the people might enjoy? Yes. After listening to it more and more, I think everyone really needs to listen to

this Lil Wayne cover of Weezer's Island Holiday. It sounds like a made up thing. And Jack, when you told me, because when you came on the Zoom call earlier, like when we were talking earlier, I was listening, I was like going through the album and you said, is there really that Weezer on there? Like cover on them? I haven't heard one yet. It was the next track in the queue for me and I played it. And it's unreal to hear Lil Wayne's autotune voice being like, hell yeah, I'm going to fucking kill this Weezer song.

Kill this karaoke track. It's fucking it's wild. I don't know. I told Jagger, it reminds reminds of when George Bush started painting after he left office like we Yeah, I'm gonna do some Weezer covers Alright, whatever whatever you're gonna do. So yeah, I went holiday by Lil Wayne. Please check it out for the wolves All right We will link off to that in the footnote The daily zeitgeist of production of I heart radio for more podcasts from iHeartRadio. Visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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