The Daily Zeitgeist - Pump Fakin’ WITH OUR LIVES, Behind The Chocolate BAR(stards) 04.10.25

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

In episode 1844, Miles and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by musician and host of Hood Politics, Propaganda, to discuss… Here Come The Regrets…, The Hershey Movie Is Even Worse Than You Think and more! Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) on tariff strategy: "Whose throat do I get to choke if this proves to be wrong?" Hershey Chocolate Movie Set With ‘Mean Girls’ Director, Finn Wittrock and Alexandra Daddario to Star (EXCLUSIVE) ‘The Studio’ Gets Closer to Real Life: Hershey Chocolate Movie in the Works with Finn Wittrock and Alexandra Daddario Hershey’s Once Violently Suppressed a Strike by Chocolate Workers The Milton Hershey School: Making Dreams Come True Hershey profits benefit a boarding school that spends lavishly on its low-income students. But that investment comes with strings attached — leaving some students behind and others mired in debt. 'Chocolate Trust' book raises questions about Milton Hershey School and education of students Milton’s Bittersweet Legacy: Unsavory Scandals Former Milton Hershey School House Parent accused of sexually abusing minor LISTEN: Passion Project by Propaganda ft. Blu (OUT THIS FRIDAY!) WATCH: The Daily Zeitgeist on Youtube! L.A. Wildfire Relief: Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You just said you were a fan of the police so you know. I did. I suppose I did say that yesterday. I know what was it? Aspiring snitch? Yeah, I've been awaiting. I'm on the waiting list. Yeah, you're on the snitch waitlist.

That's how bad I want to do it. That's like the most, most saying that shit out loud. It just kills me because like it feels like some shit someone would say when they're like, I'm actually a volunteer deputy. Like, yeah, people say shit like that. I'm like, shut up, you snitch. You wait this niche. It's the worst type.

Like, what's the worst type of person that we can imagine? And then volunteer cop. Yeah. Volunteer. But, oh, you're just not, this is not even a job. No, no, but I, it gives, I have enough proximity to police that it allows me to act out my macho guy fantasies. Also the most likely to be a serial killer.

Yeah. A hundred percent. I feel like so many videos I've seen where like people impersonate cops, they are deputy cops and they feel that they can get away with it when they're like, actually, I actually volunteer with the sheriff station over to me like, Oh, Oh, you little fucking loser. This is what you want to do. You didn't have to pass any test.

You want to be on the snitches waitlist, bro. You can't even get into the club when you pull up your own waitlist because the ratios are too fucked up. God, I want to be. God, I want to be, but yeah, I'm waiting patiently. Please let me in, sir. I'll fuck you. I'll fucking do anything, man.

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public. It is Thursday, April 10th, Pacific Standard Time. I didn't even give an actual time, but that's just what we say because it's West Coast every day. You know this. It's April 10th, 2025. My name is Miles Gray, AKA. Banana pudding in a bowl, top vanilla wafers, yo!

Okay, shout out to Halcyon Salad, because I said I love a banana pudding chock full of vanilla wafers, because that's the only way to eat a banana pudding. And we know this. And if you see someone selling it on the street in Los Angeles, you must buy it. I will always buy a banana pudding

I am seeing sold on the street. I don't care. I don't care if it's hot. I trust somebody who's out there with banana pudding with Nilla Wafers. I don't care if it's hot. No, there was this lady in Altadena who would have, I'm not joking, banana pudding so fucking indulgent and like sweet that I would start seeing streaks of light. It was like it was doing shit to my body. I don't know good or bad, but again,

if you're out there selling banana pudding, let me know. I will come through and I will support. Anyway, I'm thrilled to be joined today by my guest co-host. He's a fantastic comedian. He's got fantastic thighs. He's got fantastic eyes. And he also cooks some fantastic fries at his new job at McDonald's, you you know because things are rough right now. Please welcome your

favorite guest host and comedian Mr. Blake Wexler! Hey this is Blake Wexler this aka is a fucking nightmare I wasn't aware that we were gonna have an amazing artist musical artist on the show who is dropping a new song on Friday we'll plug that more specifically in a minute so I'm gonna put these lyrics over his video feed so I don't have to look at him react to this as I do it. This is, just go for it. Hey, this is Blake Wexler. It's art. A.K.A. I'm just a regular mole with regular margins I'm just as shaped, not doing any harm I like butt cheeks and rodents and books about snitchin'

Maybe I'm a rodent who lives in your colon A gerbil in your ass Or maybe a snitch like Blake Wexler on that snitch waiting list But sometimes that just ain't enough to keep a mole like me interested Oh no, no way, uh, no I gotta go out and become a Wu-Tang rap lyric Oh yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah Can't decide if I'm a gerbil living in asses or a blemish that's shaped just like your asses I'm an ass mole, I'm an ass mole, I'm an ass mole. Oh, yo I'm a big fucking ass mole. That was The Lord you know what Blake you can shorten these um you don't know the whole thing

No, I love laughing uncomfortably for whoo. I am soaked and I don't know what and You can't do that on TV or on sorry, you can't do that on TV or on, sorry, on television. You can't do that. I believe I might've met in person at one of my shows. So thank you. Thank you for putting me through that. And that was in the tune of what?

You know, the great musical lyricist, Dennis Leary. Yeah. So he had a song called asshole. And on the show yesterday, we talked about, yeah, dude, you laughed without even knowing that you're a good friend. You are such a good audience member. Look, I support the arts. I support you.

You really do. And there's nothing more artistic than what I just did. So thank you for doing that. Yeah, no, it was amazing. Yeah. I don't even know what to say. I think we should start over. Yeah. Yeah. Like our, our, yeah,. I think we should start over. Yeah, yeah.

Like our relationship. Yeah, Justin, why don't, yeah, Justin, let's just take this recording from the top and then, cause I mean, we could just delete, we could just delete what you did, but you know what, fuck it. Let's let it cook, man. Let Zyte Gang decide.

I thought it was beautiful. I'm saying it was too good is what I'm saying. I don't wanna, you know, I didn't wanna blow you out of the water. We have a great guest. Can I say that? It's just pivoting. I know. I know I, I've blown all credibility whatsoever.

No, no, no. We should get to our guests. Our guest is a fantastic person. Faithful son of Los Angeles, faithful fan of Los Angeles sports teams, like the Lakers and Dodgers, faithful servant to the art of hip hop, humble activist, fantastic podcaster, lover of coffee. You might know him from hood politics. You might even know as Blake teased.

He's got a new single coming out on Friday called passion project with the rapper blue. If you heard of blue in exile, then you know. And if you know blue in exile, then you're good with me and look you can Google that still I just want to say before I introduce this guess we all know what happens Well, guess what we're playing clean with propaganda because Can I collect offering propaganda to all star Chuck Taylor rhyme sale six to six cooks a vicious elixir. The not so head hot show to say I blasts banglish the B boy

Pinoy, AKA Ernest slimming way yelling. I say I say I came red prepared. Wow. Wow. You said the B boy. You're a Pinoy B boyboy the b-boy pinoy Well, I'm Filipino. Hey, all right. So that's why all the all the balik buy-on-box references is You know, I know how to get fed in a Filipino house. I go good. I'm not cool. Yeah

Boom, then they got you and they got you they say we See, see, see, see. Boom, boom. They got you. They got you. They say we they say, but hey, you have to be bullsulk. And you're like, I know. Hey, give it to Bob. I'm eating it all. The chocolate meat. Everything. I want it all. That's not a reference. That's not like that's like a thing.

That's a Filipino dish. I'm not. Wasn't trying to say something about. No, no, no. Yeah. Yeah, I want it all. I want the child. I want the dinner one. That's called dinner. Dinner one. Yeah. You want the dinner one. And my friend was like, Yeah, we call it the chocolate meat. I'm like, Yeah, I'm. Yeah, let's have it. Sure. I trust you. I trust you. Yeah.

Google on your own what it is. Is it true that playing dirty with propaganda blow up on you? It's true, man. And I am absolutely, absolutely sampling that. It just hasn't happened yet. We've been, and look, I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to, you know, put you on blast here, but I feel like you've been saying this since we were texting when 616 in LA dropped and we were all on that text thread.

And you were like, it's there. And I'm like, probably it's right there. He's saying it to me. It's sitting right there. I have not, in my defense. I am not a beat maker. So that's why I haven't done it. And then secondly, I'm like, how do I use it? What do I do? I use it.

And then I'm like, maybe this is the time. Yeah. Like let's let it's overwhelming. Yeah. I was like, there's so much happening. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, maybe it's not the time, you know, well, I'm focused on how to use songs

that are so similar to one of the most historic rap battles and just taking it for my own use and co-op. Yeah, it would be like, we'd have time for you, Prop. You know he's not talking about you propaganda. Oh, well, you know, I don't know that. We don't need to put that out there. We don't need to talk about that.

That's like when I was a kid, seeing the word miles written places and I was like, oh, look, look. I was fucking, I was doing the Leonardo Caprio once upon a time in Hollywood yeah right here I come yeah that's me your name just a noun yeah that's all just yeah that's all my last name great unit of baby where are we talking about fucking Filipino food probably yes you should check into our new podcast where we talk about Filipino cuisine coming soon we will be announcing that later in the

show that was just a light preview where I mispronounced Mazenprap eat with with Pinoys yeah I was trying to do a Mazenjak joke there no no that's fine it's fine I couldn't get it out you were supposed to catch up and say gay we eat with Pinoys you're supposed to do the bit Working on it. We're working on it. We don't get working with Luca Jackson Hayes quite yet But here's the thing we are going to get to know you even better prop in a second Just giving people a taste of things come so Obviously tariffs are front of mind. I'm talking I'm like writing this piece talking about everything that's happening with tariffs. Next thing you know, Trump does the most Trump ass shit ever, which is the pump.

He's pump faking with the tariffs and he announces a 90 day pause because I'm sure everybody was getting in his ass about you're fucking my money up, Donald. So we'll touch on that because I think what is happening is still relevant because either way we are seeing major major fissures cracks within the MAGA sort of consortium of freaks and Just their acolytes they are much. Here's the thing about America. We don't learn lessons until it affects us personally That's the thing some of us do 400 more years Yeah, then double. Yeah. And then that group that group that learned that lesson dies.

And all of the knowledge that they learned is gone. It's gone. And they are always by a worse group. Yeah, right. Right. Right. Unless you have enough history of oppression in your background, maybe that gives you enough suspicion about what's going on and you try and protect yourself. But the most part not really happening these days either way still relevant because uh things are still falling apart despite i think people are like the markets went back up it's not recovered from what happened in either way that does not excuse anything that has happened or is happening or will happen so stop let's let's take our eyes on let's put our eyes on the real

fucking thing which is that we are still in a state of terrible, terrible danger. We might talk about a terrible American Airlines flight but we're really gonna have to talk about the Hershey movie because we are gonna get a little bit you know we have somebody from Cool Zone here. I might have to get in my Robert Evans bag and do a light behind the bastards about the Hershey's because the Hershey chocolate bar movie is coming out and Yo, they are what the fuck I had no idea Character was insane Chocolate meatwad. Yeah. Yeah, it was a welcome mashup, but we'll get to that plenty more but first

propaganda props. Yes. What's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are what you're into the Aqua team mashup. But we'll get to that plenty more. But first propaganda, prop. What's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are, what you're into? Man, well, I've been like searching search engines because I was like, I mean, I don't know if you guys know, like Google's like falling off, man. It's kind of like Kanye level fall off. Like, what are y'all?

Yeah, no, replete with the white supremacy. Exactly. Like, oh, why is y'all? And I was, and I, so I had to Google search engines because I was actually looking for, like I'm well into my like, my like, unk phase. Like, like I'm turning into Theo prop. Like, you know, when dudes get our age, they start doing like jujitsu.

I was like, nah, wait, my knees are set up. I'm good. I don't want to golf golf costs too much, but I'll start building some shit. So like, I was like, what do we have a lot of in it? What do we buy every week? And I'm like onions. Don't they just come out the ground? So I was like, let me me learn I want to mess so I built a raised garden like you know I

took I took some pallets oh I took some pallets I'm like empty pallets from my daughter's school took it apart and I built a raised garden and I like you know that here's the thing I growing up I didn't own a drill till I was in my thirties. But like growing up, I didn't own a, there was no drills in our house. My dad didn't have a screwdriver. My dad is a city boy. Like I didn't know how to do anything.

So I was like, I don't know what a drill is. I was like, how you get it through? What's the difference between a sawzall and a regular saw and a U-saw? Like, I don't know none of this shit's circular. I was like, does you get it through? What's the difference between a sawzall and a regular saw? Right, right, right. And a youth saw? Like, I don't know, none of this shit's circular. That's a power that's been. Like, does it cut in a circle?

Like, what is any of this shit? So like, all of it was learning, but now I'm like, now I'm like somebody's uncle. Just come like pay me in coronas and I'll build your fence. How are the onions? How close are we to seeing some onion action? Oh, they're ready. They're almost ready.

They're like, they're about in one more month. They like and was so stupid. It was like me, me, me and the doc, my wife, we were both like, okay, this is the the first trick Earth learned to do was take stuff, turn it into a soil and then grow food out. It was the first trick. Yeah, yeah. And we're still like, oh shit. Yeah. Oh my God. It's working.

Do you see it? Babe, babe, remember the shit from earlier? Hey, come check it out. Come check it out. I was like, I was like, yo, this bell pepper had all them seeds on the inside. I just put it in the dirt. Right. Now it's got leaves.

Yeah. What the like, we're both like, oh my god, like yeah earth This is the first thing earth learn to do We're gonna drive by props place. There's gonna be a full aqueduct Gonna be building all this farmers market out front Why not man the farmers market? It's funny. I don't know what I've going to, it's interesting to see they they were charging $20 for three packs of strawberries. And I was like, that's costly. And every subsequent week, it's been going down because I think they were

sort of like, I think we got a little too much dip on our chip right now. And yeah, things are sitting. So I like that people at the farmers market, I think we're probably like, hey, maybe not $20. Yeah, right. But I also get it too. You know, these are these are, these are made with very few like fucked up pesticides. And I guess that's just the premium. Anyway, shout out to everybody with the local garden. Shout out onions. Prop, what's the name thing is

underrated? Yeah, got a shout out on it. I mean, they under enhance most things. Yeah. Probably is gonna be a weird one, but the dentist. Okay. What was that under over? That's under I tune out when miles talks right under Yeah, it's like to an hour. I think it's underrated. Okay, motherfucker. I had this moment where I was like, I think you'd be scared if you had a bad dentist or because you're still regressing to your childhood. But then I thought to myself

with drills. Mm hmm. That's one way to look at it, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I clearly when I think of like, people be like, what era, what other era of time in history would you want to live in? I'm like, none of them because of dentistry and medicine. I'm like, ain't no way in the world I want to live in any other time.

You telling me with my my tooth was like rotten. You just grab some vice grips. Yeah, pull it out yeah because you think is your your tooth has turned black due to satan and now evil is getting into your skull and we'll have to remove it you're like what the fuck you just gonna pull it you mean to tell me if I get a little cut on my arm and cut the whole thing off you just cut the arm off Yeah, you know you drink this whiskey and bite this piece of wood and I'm gonna saw your arm off now So they're like, hey, weren't you just looking through a pile of horseshit behind the right now? Yeah, I thought I lost my wedding ring Anyway, I'm ready to do surgery. I don't have to wash my hands or yeah, totally I was like, why would I yeah, why would I this already has blood on it? Why would I dirty another one?

I already have open sores all over my body. Why are you asking me about this one sore? Yeah, like you don't see this one coming down my eye right here. It's not gonna mess you up if my sore touches your open wound while I'm doing surgery. If anything, I should worry about me getting my sore all on your blood. I have sored. I got sore cleaning juice coming out of my sores so it could actually help you. I don't live nowhere else. So I'm saying that as somebody who's like the dentistry, even the sound of that drill that it's not even as loud anymore. I'm like, this is great. Put a silencer on it. Yeah, it's a silencer on it. They're like, yeah, just over the years I remember remember first in the 80s, like the because there was always some form of entertainment.

The 80s is here. Hold this cassette player and put these headphones on. Yeah, I was like the first version of I'm at the dentist and I'm listening to like MC Hammer or some shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then TVs came in and then TVs above the seat. So when you're laying down, you could like it. You can see that shit now.

Like, it's funny, last time I went in there, like, do you want to watch it? I'm like, no, I kind of like hearing y'all talk about like whatever. Because then it's funny, they have conversations while they're doing stuff. And like, yeah, I'm like, this is cool. Yeah, I feel like I'm getting more in there for you. You're a lot because they got me hooked up to machines. Oh, yeah. Yeah. My teeth are off. You have a whole team. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Nah, it's me and this little homie that like so speaking of Filipino, it's this Filipino lady who like we always like always teaser back and forth through just talking Filipino stuff. And then this little homie that really like is almost like like a like a Schneidly kind of like, yes, whatever you need. Like he's so like quick and cute. Like he just wants to help. Yeah.

So whenever he, she's drilling, he stick the thing in their mouth to suck up the water. He likes Johnny on the spot. Yeah. I was just Johnny on the spot. Just like suck all the spit there. And I'm like, Oh, thank you. And then I'm like, you are your job is to suck up my spit. Yeah. This is a suck up my spit. Yeah.

This is a luxury. This is, y'all are thinking about this all wrong. And people talk and look, I know America and Canada are in a beef, you know, obviously the beef is one sided in that it's one person with the beef, not us with Canada, but you know, famously they say up there, it's like, we have, yeah, we got socialized medicine, but no dental, no mental. You know what I mean? And because it's a luxury, baby. It's a luxury.

It's a luxury. It's a luxury to have teeth that affect your whole body. You don't realize how much that shit's connected. You know, it's how you eat. Yeah. It keeps you alive. It is bizarre that like your, that dentists, your dental coverage is separate from your health coverage. It's still weird.

Like my mouth ain't a part of my body. Like what? Same thing with vision. Yeah. And your eyes. Yeah. They're like, I don't know. Having problems with my eyes can lead to other problems.

If I'm not aware of my, okay. Walking a whole breakaway. Yeah. You have healthcare. Yeah. You have healthcare, but we don't cover pinky fingers. Yeah. You got to get a whole other doctor for your pink.

Oh, yeah. We only do, we only do neck cover pinky fingers. Yeah, you got to get a whole other doctor for your pink. Oh, yeah, we only do we only do neck down doctor stuff. Yeah, neck up. I don't even know who does that kind of shit. To be honest, you might have to look on the internet for that. But the one thing I do like about the dentist is and I think the reason why I like weighted blankets was that lead vest they put on you when you got a dental x ray. Yeah, that's when I put the when I put the weighted blanket on I flash back and I'm like, this is my favorite part of the dentist for some reason, even though like, man, we have to get extra because I think you got cavities little kid and I'm like, just put the big ass mat on me and I'm like, yeah.

Perfectly safe. They put lead on you and then run out of the room. I'm like, put this lead mat on. Hey, I'm about to bounce to the office next door while I hit this button. Yeah, I'm looking yeah. Send like one of those bomb dismantling robots. Eight years old. This kid got a man. This will be fine. This will be fine. Yeah, you're gonna need a really good neck up doctor. After this. Yeah, so you know, probably something is overrated. Oh, man, hands down, owning your own business.

Interesting. God damn. Yeah. I like famously, I've been here plugging my coffee, my terrible cold brew. Man, fuck owning a business, because like, like you have to do it all. I read. Yes. I was like, I like coffee. And I like making coffee products. What I don't like is Q3 reports. What I don't like is supply chains. What y'all saying?

What I don't like is having to like say, Hey, I have a business that's making that's going to make money, but I ain't got no money. So can you give me money so that I could go make some money and then, but in exchange of giving me money, I got to give you my business. Why the hell am I here then? I don't want to do this. I thought I could just set this thing up. I thought given money, I thought it was like selling merch.

Yeah. I swear to God, I like, I honestly, I obviously I come from music. I was like, no, you perform and then you go to the merch booth and people buy t-shirts. You trade things for money. Yeah. And you just give me money because you like what I just did. Right. So I thought, here's a product.

I sell merch all the time. Right. So I thought, here's a product. I sell merch all the time. Yeah. So like, won't you buy them? I get it. I get cogs. It makes more sense. You sell it for more than you bought it. It's simple, you know what I'm saying?

I understand that. So I'm like, well, I bought it for this, so I'm gonna sell it for that. Okay, you guys wanna buy it? Hello? It's the same thing. I do a set, I bought it for this. So I'm gonna sell it for that. Okay, you guys wanna buy it? Hello? It's the same thing. I do a set, I go to the merch table, people walk by, say I like the open or more,

and then they walk out and don't buy anything. It's the same exact situation. I would imagine, is it like similar to owning, because I don't own a house or really anything, but like owning, people say when they buy property or buy their home, it's all this bullshit comes with it it of like now you're responsible for fixing, you know, the fucking leak in the roof Now you're responsible. Yeah, you're probably yeah, I think the complexity of this owning a business is so different like well Sorry, I don't know either bro. I got a rubble pile

No, I mean I could speak to, I can speak to the house thing. We scored like, I get, I like quick story, uh, in the pandemic, the people that owned the house that we rented that we live in now pandemic hit, he was like a costume designer in like, you know, Hollywood pandemic is like, we're cutting our ties, we're going back to Wisconsin. Do you want to buy the house? We were like, uh know, Hollywood pandemic is like, we're cutting our ties, we're going back to Wisconsin. Do you wanna buy the house? We were like, yes. Yeah, for a fair price.

And then week later, land a book deal, got a publishing deal, got this big advance, was able to buy the house. Just amazing. Oh, beautiful. Perfect storm, right? So that's our house, right? But yeah, it hit us when we looked in our daughter's room after some rain and was like, hey, where's that puddle from? But yeah, it hit us when we looked in our daughter's room

after some rain and was like, hey, where's that puddle from? Yeah, right, right, right. Oh, God. And you're like, hey, feel this part of the wall, it's mushy. Yes, yes. I was like, oh, which is actually full circle how I became Theo Prop,

because I had to learn how to fix shit before, like I said, I've never owned a drill. So I was like, oh, I have to do this. I was doing just before I owned a drill. That feels like a UK lurk. Anyway, let's take a quick break and we're going to come back and get into the news where Trump is pump faking yet again. Here we go.

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And we're back. So as I mentioned in the opening the intro, if you will, the tariffs have been, as CNBC says, roiling the markets, aka causing untold financial destruction to global trade and things that as somebody who likes to eat food that comes from other places a lot, like, you know, cheese or like Japanese rice, just like kind of those ethnic foods. I was sweating because I'm like, what the what is this about to do to everything? And especially restaurants. Either way, this threat still remains of the tariffs. However, Trump announced that he is putting a 90 day pause on tariffs for 75 countries, but he's trying to like spin it like he wasn't getting screamed at by every single person. It was like, you know, everybody's trying to make a deal.

And after that, we realized whatever it's all that to say up the money. He's fucked up the money. 90 day pause on tariffs for now. It could obviously fucking change within three seconds. But the line went up again and everyone's like, yeah, the markets went up. And I'm like, please don't fucking think this is over just because he pumped fake the tariffs. We're still stuck with this administration that is disappearing people and illegally human trafficking

people to El Salvador. We are still revoking people's visas for just merely exercising free speech rights. We still have a lot on our plate. We still have Elon Musk trying to destroy, destroy social security. We still have Republicans poing with the fact of making increased tax cuts for the wealthy. This is far from over. But I think for people who are like in the Aidan Ross camp,

like, well, what happened on my fucking crypto, man? Yeah, sure. Maybe you got something back, but you're still not doing okay. Yeah, all that to say, yeah, this on Wednesday morning, because the stock market was continuing to go down and people were just like ditching US bonds, he put on Truth Social, be cool. Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Be cool. I want a big country. That's what I care about is how large my country is. Are we bigger or not?

Right, right, right. Make land. Yeah. My big thing, I voted for Trump because I wanted America to be bigger. I needed, I needed bigger. Yeah. Yeah. UK tariff. I don't care what tariff you put on a banana nigga. They don't grow here. Like, I just don't know what you, I don't care what tear if you put on a banana, nigga, they don't grow here. Like, I just don't know what you, what you go do. But yeah, if it wasn't so like deathly earth, earth shattering, destroying, this would be the funniest to be movie that we're all in right now. Like this is free.

Yeah, this would be a free movie to watch. It's free. Well, actually it's not free. It costs everyone money. It costs everyone something. Oh, no. I mean, the to be version. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Any studio executive would return this script back and be like, what the what?

What did you just send me? First of all, like I'm. First of all, I have to go back to the fact that like the Democrat senator. Our congressman that got kicked out of Trump's speech was named Al Green. Yeah, Al Green. You name that man Al Green. I'm sending this script back. Like did anybody else go? That's the funniest shit ever. Yeah, no, Al Green. I just thought hot grits and soul music like you can't call this man Al Green. Now you fast forward to this guy, your economic advisor who thought of all this bullshit

ass, all bullshit ass tariffs, which was the opening scene in Ferris Bueller's day off. Right, right. What his teacher is explaining. Ben Stein, yeah. What Ben Stein's explaining how this destroyed the, like it's in the scene, right? But that man, his name's Peter Navarro.

Yeah, I was like, wait a minute. Is that the dude from Jane's Addiction? Like, why do you keep naming? Or is it Danny Navarro? Who's the dude? And I was like, either way, Dave Navarro. Dave Navarro. I thought it was Peter Navarro. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Briefly in Red Hot Chili Peppers too. Yes, but then this clown, did y'all see the Ron Vara joint? Is he like Dave Navarro? Y'all see the Ron Vara stuff? Yeah, yeah, how he was citing a made up expert. And they're like, that's your last name as an anagram. Is this a Scooby-Doo skit?

Yeah, Ron Navarro. Doo skit? You really thought like an anagram of your name? And you why iPhones are $3500 now? Well, I mean, yeah, this is the thing, though. It seems so stupid and it feels like it's so stupid that it just must be stupid. But I don't count out the fact that there might be some other market manipulation that happened that a lot of people were going to get wealthy from if they got ahead of it. Yeah, so it's hard to know the extent of it. But what we do know is Trump is senile. Trump is dumb and he worships tariffs.

So it feels like even if your aim wasn't necessarily like this, they knew it's like, well, we can achieve some kind of market disruption by telling them to go hard on tariffs. Either way, we're here and it's bad. This last week, we've seen all kinds of people start being like, I don't know why the fuck I voted for this guy. I lost 25% of my retirement. I lost 30% of my wealth. People are saying all numbers that are so wild. Like I have no sympathy, which is, I feel bad, but I don't feel bad, because like,

what the fuck do I know about losing $10 million? But like, when I hear shit like that, it feels like it's easier to kind of put it into perspective when you hear about what the tariffs would cost people. And now those rates have gone up. They said the average would be, an average family would be around $3,900 a month, or sorry, a year in lost like sort of buying power.

That would mean now I'd like to put it in these perspectives. And I think for people who want to talk to their friends about like, well, what are the terms mean? That would mean you need to come up with another $325 a month. Basically, you need a check to check. You need to come up with $25 extra dollars per month because the rise in costs. So now we're at this point where we're seeing like interviews or people like do you regret your decision? Vox did this thing where they were talking to some of the

worst pieces of shit that are like MAGA supporters, not just regular voters like in MAGA, fucking quote unquote influencers, and they're all like, I know, not just regular voters, like MAGA, fucking quote unquote influencers, and they're all the best person I know. But it's wild because they went out to them and they said, Whoa, I just noticed like they basically saw them talking spicy on social media, then they reached out for an interview. And they're like, hey, you want to talk about how you feel about your vote. So for example, like

we're like, we're talking about eugenicists, like white nationalists, COVID deniers. Okay. They hit these people up. One guy, Alex Berenson, who's also known as the Pandemic's wrongest man, because he was always like, no, it's fine. It's like the cold. He was really out there being super casual.

Trump elevated him because he was saying all kinds of stuff to be like, it's fine. It's nothing. He basically was screaming that Trump needs to be impeached immediately. Like he's changed it up so quick. He was like, we need to fucking impeach him. I don't know what the fuck is going on. I don't know what the fuck they're thinking.

Then we have a white nationalist and author of the seminal Magga book, The Origins of Wokeness, which is like really underpins a lot of the anti-DEI stuff we're seeing. His name is Richard Hananiah. He said, quote, I was expecting something of a repeat of the first administration with Trump restrained by traditional conservative ideas, personnel and institutions.

As it turned out, the old Reagan coalition was becoming increasingly hollow, replaced by Trump worship, online edgelordism and late arriving scammers like crypto bros and maha make America healthy again. Then he said he's like he was talking to some of the people in the cabinet and like thought that maybe they were going to be adults. He said quote, talking to these guys privately, there's no distinction. It really is

people radicalized by social media. And all of us are like, are you fucking for real? Yeah. A lot of these people were, they did say they were so focused on the culture war shit and felt Trump was the vehicle for that. That's why a lot of people are making references. They're like, oh, are you glad that a few trans athletes can't compete anymore? And we don't use pronouns and there's no DEI for your retirement to be vaporized. Worth it. Then Razib Khan, who is a geneticist, okay, and like race scientist, he called himself the R word and wrong for

discounting the risk that Trump would actually do with the tariffs. He's like beating himself. He's like, I don't know what the fuck I was thinking. I just thought this is the perfect vehicle for our movement for fighting wokeness. And God, I was so wrong. And so again, all these people thought people like Peter Teal and Elon Musk would be the quote. This is what they say again.

We thought they would be the adults in the room. Them too. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, it's clear you have these backwards right wingers have no real life experience because I am not fucking with a room Where the adult in the room is smacked off ketamine and like Twitter shit posts. Thank you and be like, oh, that's the adult in the room Yeah, great. Great. Great. So I'm fucking leaving Presidents of baby the president is an actual baby

Yeah, drug addicted. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hold on So that's a baby and this guy has his sunglasses on upside down just spinning in circles off ketamine. And that's three babies in a trench coat who are just shaking from a sugar overdose. I like, yeah. I hate the fact that the possibility that, and this is what really burns me up about not just Trump, but men like Trump

to where it's like, but it also might work. Right. Oh, and then you're just like you like you just it's it's really it's really the Marvel movie like at the end of a Marvel movie, the city's destroyed, but the alien dead. None of us have homes. None of us have homes. You've burnt down all infrastructure. But hey, I killed your alien.

Aren't you happy? Yeah. Like this is this is that thing that wealth does to people, especially wealthy white guys getting together. They are so bought in on like the mysticism of their own wealth and the fact that they just exploit other people's labor. And they're like, I made millions. like, dude, we're like fucking wizards that they, like that it gives way to thinking, like you're saying prop of like,

well, let's give them some runway. He's been really into terrorists since the eighties. Yeah. It might work. What the fuck are you talking about? Have you ever been in a room with other people who have shit on the line? They would beat the shit out of you before they let you do something like, yes. This is a phrase.

I'm surprised doesn't exist with billionaires, which is don't fuck up my money. Yeah, you're and I know it does money. Yes, I know it does. You're capitalist. And that's where I'm like, is this what happened? Did the did they wake up and they're like, hold on. He's fucking with my money. I honestly think that's what I honestly think.

But at the end of the day, that's the way it's like, what's gonna take this? What if anything takes this man out is, it's fucking up the money. I still like, we did a week on Wednesday, we dropped the episode about the tariffs on the politics and just like my transparency about like, even when I became like a high school teacher

in social science, fresh out of college, I failed the economics test three times, because I was like, this shit don't make sense to me. Spend money, don't spend money you don't have. It's simple to me. So when you start talking about stocks and bonds and net worth and stuff like that, I'm like, how much money is in your bank account? And if you tell me $10,000, then I'm like, then you have $10,000. I don't know what you're talking about with this imaginary. I lost a billion dollars. That's not your money. Like how is that your money? Yeah, like where? Where is the billion dollars? So part of me like, feels like I'll give the stock to your imagine.

You lost imaginary money for you. What what hit me was retirement. Well, people are like, oh, I've been paying into this for the past 30 years. And now you're telling me it's all tied to the stock market. Like that was a huge betrayal. And they're like, you know, we know pensions should actually be part of the stock market. What do you think about that? Yeah. And the money we're talking. Yeah. Let's actually tie that to the stock market. What do you all think about that? Yeah. And the money we're talking about. Yeah. Let's actually tie that to the stock market.

Uh, this is a new quote we do have from president Donald Trump about, uh, the, the tariffs he basically said, he said he reversed tariffs because people were quote a little bit yippy and afraid. Motherfucker. This set the house on fire. You mean like that? I see you guys feeling real weird about it. So you're tripping. You're okay. They treat.

I'll stop. I'll see a lot of hollering when I was standing over the burning embers of your. This is just like, yeah, I'm surprised this feels just so again. I'm like, where are the Democrats? Because they're just they're still now they're saying like Elizabeth Warren's like, now is about the time to call your representatives about the tariffs. I'm sorry. You are in Congress. You need to be doing stuff.

You need to tell you, Cory Buck, Cory Booker's filibuster. That's a start. That's a start. That's at least somebody putting something out there. It didn't quite get us what we need. But at least I'm like, well, the man didn't take a piss for 24 hours. He gives a fuck. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, I'll give you that.

I would like to see more if only Trump was like, okay, we get it. You don't really take a pee. I'll relax. Cory, please go to the bathroom. It's just very hard when they need to be telling people what this is actually doing, what he is, he is stealing from all of us. I just don't stealing from us. I don't know why it's so hard to just say that. When you say, okay, when people were talking about like, all the way back to like the project 2025 stuff when there was like, he's gonna he's gonna it's like, no, all you got to do is read it. Just read it to people. This is

what it says with the USA ID stuff. Okay, here's what we do with USA ID. Okay, the Department of Education is need to leave. Okay, here's what it actually does. What this means is your remedial ass son that can't read, that needs somebody to come help them read, it's in their class, that's a Title I student. That's what the department covers. Right, yeah, exactly.

You ain't, so when you yelling at your teacher, like, why can't my son read? I'm like, well, we had an instructional aide, but you voted for that person and lose their job. Yeah. And this is like, just just say that I also see like Yeah, there's so much content too right now that I see blowing up of like liberals dunking on Republicans They're like look around and find out and I'm like that is so not helpful

I know people want to engage in the shot in Freud because of everything that has been rocked upon us because of Trump and you're Like look at what you wanted to have that moment where you teaching the dog Pete on the look at what you did. We put your nose in it type shit. But at the end of the day, this affects every single one of us and like acting as if all the damage is limited to people that voted for Trump is not, is not, is not constructive and is not going to help because longterm, like more people need to fucking figure out that like we're all getting fucked simultaneously. Yes. Rather than being like just because you're not feeling it now doesn't mean that your company might feel the squeeze have to correct, start bringing budgets down and do layoffs.

And there's so many ways that you can get touched by this. And I think a lot of people I mean, I get it. It's shit is just so fucking chaotic right now. You don't know what to feel or who to fucking laugh at or scream at or cry out yeah it's this is this is all very not good for everyone but anyway and in response to this Trump also said while 75 countries are will still only be paying 10% tariffs China will now have 125% tariffs. Stupid asshole. You're a tariff, you're a tariff, but you're a tariff. Just, again, like I get it, the 75% of the country's great,

but China is still so deeply an integral part of American supply chains for American companies and American consumers who are addicted to cheap shit is not coming out of fucking Kenosha, Wisconsin or some shit. It is coming from China. So I need to buy it can only afford to buy it because of these principles, economic principles that they put forth. 100%. And now you're taking away necessities from people who need it.

One thing that I thought was real spooky or very interesting was Senator Tom Tillis from North Carolina. On Tuesday, he was speaking with one of Trump's trade representatives, this guy, Jameson Greer. And he was basically, I'm just going to let him, this is a Republican senator speaking. And granted, this might have something to do with the fact that he's up for reelection next year, but either way, this is how a Republican Senator is talking to one of Trump's representatives about these tariffs. So my first question to you in this scenario, the decision maker who decided the all-up prima approach, who has obviously had to have spent time anticipating what we saw in the markets and some of the pushback, I'm assuming this all got

gamed out. No. Because it's a novel approach, it needed to be thought out. Whose throat do I get to choke if this proves to be wrong? Well, Senator, you can certainly always talk to me. But are you at the tip of the spear? Well, I'm at the tip of the spear for certain. Did you propose the Alaprima approach?

So, first of all, I would push back, Senator, just a little bit on that. Okay, well, look, they start doing a bunch of wonky talk, but he said, who's, but who's the road do I get to choke? Okay. Freak. What are you talking about? He's like, it would be me. Okay. I'm going to choke your throat. I felt that was a little redundant. I feel like I could give him notes on his menacing talk a little bit. I would say, who do I choke? Yeah, whose ass do I be? You know? Yeah, exactly.

Who do I throw? No, no, just wait. Whose ass is getting this belt? Whose ass is getting throated? Another one. Yeah. Or get a little more colloquially from you're from North Carolina. Talk about, you know, getting a switch or something. I don't know. But yeah, yeah.

It's just it up a little bit, Senator. Don't tell us. I think, again. But yeah, just shut up a little bit. Senator, don't talk to us. I think again, this feels like when you have senators, they're losing it presumably because the wealthy donors they are beholden to, to keep their campaign coffers full are calling them up and are saying, what the fuck are y'all doing to my money? So I don't know. I don't, it's so hard to fucking know.

That's what makes it so difficult to talk about this administration because Trump is clearly in a state of mental decline. And Laura Loomer just shows up and whispers shit in his ear and then like national security people get fired. Like it feels like a cartoon. He's like an addict. So he's addicted to what he thinks deal making is.

So we don't know what that means. It's not our understanding of what a deal is. addicted to what he thinks deal making is. So we don't know what that means. It's not our understanding of what a deal is. It's what he thinks the deal is, which is already terrifying. And they're like, okay, with Ults in the Room, we're going to take away his deals so he can get sober. And then he somehow concocted deal making out of tariffs and DEI. So he found a way to make this drug for some reason for himself. And now he's completely fucked, which is essentially, I think for him, it's, it's, I think deal making is making someone do something they don't want to do that.

He gets that they don't want to do. Yeah. Yeah. It's really not really tied to the finances of it because we know he has no real business acumen. He just doesn't know how to coerce and manipulate people. Yeah, it's really gang shit in the sense that like all relationships are transactional. Like there are no, we don't have friends. Everything is like, yeah, if you like, so if everything is transactional, if I feel like you getting more from me than I'm getting from you, then you win it. So even if I'm happy, even if, even if everybody I got over here is happy, like if I feel like, if I just feel like you taking advantage of me rather than us just being like, well, it's, it's fine. Like, like that.

I get this shit from you and I pay you. It's great. That same Senator lit the fool up about the Australian, like, uh, uh, trade. He was like, we have a free trade with Australia and a trade surplus with them. Like we're making money with Australia. What the hell are you doing? Oh, sorry. So, uh, my grandpa, he, he has undiagnosed, uh, dementia.

Yeah. Yeah. So what happens is he just kind of at night, it gets spooky y'all. Uh, and sometimes we have to give him a piece of wood that we pretend is an iPhone and we tell him his truth social posts are going out. And he told me, he told me, yeah, he told me he was going to, uh, he was going to tear up a Hogwarts next. So he was like, I'm gonna figure it out. I'll figure out how to tear up our books.

They've had it too good for too long. Yeah. Bad deal. Specifically Gryffindor. Yeah. Have our number. We will not be pushed around. I'm just saying. So we'll see. I've like, I think one thing that we do know is that Trump is a coward. Uh, and, you know, there was a version of me is like, Oh, we're just, here we go.

And it still could happen because I can only imagine what happens when someone feels like they seem less powerful for backing down from something that they doubled down. We'll just have to see. We will just have to see. Uh, but for now the line went back up a little bit. So let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty. And if you've ever felt the weight of letting go, of people, past

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And a lot of people are like making comparisons to like the fuck the studio that knew Seth Rogen movie that's on Apple or the series that's on Apple because in the show, it's not a spoiler. He has to make a movie about Kool-Aid like they got the Kool-Aid IP and he now has to make figure out the Kool-Aid movie. Hearing the Hershey bar movie, everyone was like, this is so stupid. What is going on? This movie, it's called Hershey. It is quite literally a co-production with- Good. I'm glad it's called that. Yeah. Hershey for now, working title.

It is a co-production with Hershey Entities, which is their official company. It will be a quote, love story about Milton Hershey and his wife, Catherine, who founded the company town Hershey, Pennsylvania. But his greatest legacy is the Milton Hershey School. In comes the Behind the Bastards theme song. Yes. Because as our writer, J.M. McNabb was pointing, like looking into it, he's like, yeah, oh my God. And forgive me if this was already a Behind the Bastards episode,

because I feel like Robert has covered so nearly every single person. I typically, when I need to learn something, I just check if there's a Behind the Bastards episode first. I said he didn't do it so confidently, I don't know. Yeah, anyway, go ahead. Let's see, Hershey behind the bastards. And no.

All right. All right. You got it. What topic? Just got in there and he will do a much, much deeper dive than this, but just topically, right? This is just wild because I I'm like probably like most people. I know nothing about the Hershey family.

I didn't even know that there was like a company town. I just know the fucking very boring chocolate bar that you use for s'mores. Okay. I like the cookies and cream one better if you're going to, if I have to be honest. If they're here. Yeah. His company town though, did include social services and health insurance for workers. These were not the usual things, But those same workers quote became increasingly

uncomfortable with the company's oversight of their private lives and grew to dislike Hershey who of course, he lived in a mansion on the hill overlooking his subordinates. Wow. From one of the books from historian Robert Weir, he described quote, he felt his workers owed him everything. After all, he had given them everything. Oh, I love that backwards ass depiction of your relation to your workers.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I gave you everything off the backs of your labor that I give you a fraction of a pit to reimburse. I gave you my life. You gave me a job. Yes. Uh-huh. You gave me life.

Job equals life. You gave me the opportunity to exploit my work. Yeah, fine. You gave me everything, whatever, asshole. So there was another moment in the story of the Hershey company where workers staged a sit-in strike. And we know where this is headed. It was ended violently in a riot that some say was orchestrated by Hershey himself.

This is from the New York Times. After five days of the sit-in, chaos broke out on April 7th. Thousands of farmers joined by loyal employees stormed the factory and assaulted the strikers with fist, shoes, clubs, improvised weapons, and even ice picks. According to oral history interviews

housed in the Hershey Corporation archives. Some strike participants believe that Hershey itself, the company, had orchestrated the riot, bringing in strikebreakers from Pennsylvania and forcing locals, including dairy farmers, who relied on their business with Hershey to participate. Allegedly. Dang. Allegedly.

So this brings us to the school. Sorry, Blake, I thought you- No, no, no, I've been to Hershey, allegedly. So that brings us to the school. Sorry, Blake, I thought you, no, no, no. I've been to Hershey, Pennsylvania and, uh, it's, I mean, it's not close to Philly, but it's like close enough. You can get there, right? Yeah. That I know about it and that I've been there and then no place smells like that. Like they're pumping in chocolate smell through for like a hundred square miles to cover up

lies. It does smell like that. It really does smell like that. Yeah. And I assume it's to cover up lies like this. Is there a fact, is the factory right there still? Yeah. Yeah. It's there's a park. So it's like a theme park. And after like prompt, like a prom or a homecoming, the, the cool kids like myself who weren't drinking at the time were brought. I have a terrible drinking problem now. Yeah, now I don't know where I am right now.

Yeah, are you Jack? Who's Jack? Which one of you is Jack? I am. Where's Jack? Jack, your hair's longer. Those are dreads. Those are called locks.

It's a whole theme park. And it's also one of those propaganda parks, right? Right, right. We're no relation and yeah, but they have like you can tour them and be like look how great, you know It's almost like a severance. Like this is the the guy like the cure guy, right? Yeah, it's very very weird. Yeah, man Right, but chocolate. Okay. Well, yeah chocolate. Yeah middling chocolate. So you're middling chocolate. I'm not. Thank you. It's middling. So for the as for the Hershey School for orphans, which Hershey founded and donated his entire fortune to him. Like, oh my god, look at the orphans.

This is fantastic. He donated all his orphans to for one thing. Yeah, Hershey's heart was not in the right place for this school of orphans. This is quote, only poor, healthy white male orphans of ages between four and eight years will be admitted. How do you manage? I feel like these people like, what the hell, like what the hell he owned, like, how do you manage to find a way to be a villain in giving your life savings to orphanage? Like, like I was wondering how this was going to be bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Where people were like, this is great.

They're like, well, it started off with actually little white children. It was a segregated orphanage. 100% non-white orphans were admitted starting in the late 1960s. I wonder what happened around then. That's because you had to, sir. Yeah, I was just saying. You can't say that. What happened around the late 60s?

What happened in the 60s, man? Became the law, you fucking racist. You changed our mind. You changed our mind. You changed our mind. We had a change of heart. Right after the Civil Rights Act. Yeah. Something felt like it was the right time.

Right. Right. Terribly. Yeah. Then, but then they held on to their backwards ways because girls and at risk children who were not orphans, they were allowed in the next decade, in the 70s. According to the author of The Chocolate Trust, which is a book about them, admission to the school came with strings attached.

Like you said, prop, all relationships are transactional, which meant these kids were now in the program of indentured servitude. Children were forced to work for Hershey before and after class, milking cows, shoveling manure and polishing silverware. Ooh. Made Oompa Loompas, dude. Like, yeah, he literally created Oompa Loompas out of white orphanage. Organs.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So this is from this, this book about it said quote, uh, from the Chocolate Trust. Some farms were two or three miles from school. Boys couldn't be late for milking a homeboy. This is just like, wait like wait wait that would call it a homeboy because they were part of the home so they said okay fair enough this is in the book

it's capitalized it's a proper noun fair enough and the br capitalist a homeboy who was late for milking had to run his arms and legs pumping along the country road to get there on time. Uh oh. So yeah, the modern, I think Hershey Company definitely, they have a vested interest in making the movie because there's still a ton of controversies. There's still the wild thing is I didn't know this. The school is richer than Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh combined. Whoa. And they charge no tuition and they take no government aid. Thank God, you know, they don't need it.

All the schools doing woke stuff with the probably because they're like, yeah, because then we don't have to be held to the fucking standards of whatever. I would imagine. I would imagine now they'll be like, damn, we can get everybody money now. We already doing what y'all want. So like, um, he's looking at this, they like I know, they over there researching all them woke medicines. We'll get for none of these kids. So no, we'll take your money. Yeah, if they're late, if they're late for if a

homeboy is late to milking, we break their fingers. By the way, put this green wig on, put these overalls on and you are now orange skin and now only walk on your kneecaps. Students live in group homes monitored by quote house parents who must be married couples. Okay. The students who live within a, they also have like a caste system within this like school where they're ranked on things like finishing their dinner and following rules. What?

Among the behaviors that graduates told us affected their ranking, gossiping, being late, not eating all their dinner, having a bad attitude, and failing to vacuum and dust properly, a higher ranking would lead to more privileges like being able to watch TV or having a later bedtime. Worse, misbehaving students, that resulted in demerits, which could lead to college scholarships being drained. Oh my God.

So as one former student put it, quote, they don't give you a chance to live a regular life and make mistakes without taking away your future. Sounds like America. Oh, weird. How do we? So there's so much fucked up shit. It's like, why did I not know this? You know, there's so many things on this show

where it's like, why didn't I know that? That's horrible. Oh, here's the, this is the worst thing I've ever heard. Yeah, the chocolate company got a jail, got a juvenile hall, basically, you know what I'm saying? Right. And we punish you for being children. Yeah.

That's the movie, by the way. I don't know what the fuck they're doing. Some love story between a chocolate guy and a woman. It's like no, right. That's the movie. No. Yeah, exactly. You have a terrible, uh, like dark. What was that one movie about the boarding school that had Kevin Bacon? It was called round Matilda. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, not rounders. That was about poker. Great dude. I'm fucking up this dumbest guy in the world. You're thinking of Matilda, I would imagine.

Annie? Sleepers. Yes, yes. It would be a legal drama is what the story about the Hershey School would be, allegedly. Allegedly. But yeah, we'll see. Maybe the movie will be cool.

A lot of people are just writing about it like, Oh, White Lotus alum, Alessandro Dadaria is in it. And you're like, what about the school? Here's the thing, guys. Yeah. Yeah. Same way how you see stuff for like, occasionally, like our President's Day.

They're like, you'll never guess what George Washington's favorite hobby was. And you're like, well, have a slave teeth. I was like, stealing teeth out of Slate. Is that it? Yeah. Is that it? Like. Is that it? Like another thing that most American people don't do like, no, they were made of wood.

Yeah. Yep. Yep. Cholera. I don't know, man. Was that it? Yeah. So yeah, keep your eyes on this one.

I think it's going to suck and we don't need again. Just make spend half the money. So you don't have to acquire dumb IP and just empower creators who are out there right now with stories so different people's heads will be blown off and they will come to the fucking theater. Or don't. What do I know? Yeah, what do you Yeah, that's just like my opinion, man. But my opinion was prop. This was a great episode. and it was fantastic having you here.

Where did the people find you hear you listen to you, man. And what's a work of media that you're enjoying? My opinion is I really love you guys. And I want to do this more and yeah, prop hip hop, uh, dot com and all of the at symbols for the hood politics stuff or the new music drop in like 2024 was like a pretty I just had I didn't do a lot of performing kind of felt like God put me on the bench So I was like, uh, I don't know what I'm doing. So I just wrote a song a day So now I'm like four albums later. One of those albums is dropping

Very soon, but the first single of that body of work is Friday profit pop calm Song a day. I wrote a song a day, bro is dropping very soon, but the first single of that body of work is Friday. Profitpop.com. Um, song a day. I wrote a song a day, bro. Unreal. I was just sitting here. I was like, well, let me get my reps in. It's like going back to the gym.

Yeah. Most I can do is make incoherent references and scream about the decay of America every day. Not even good at that. Yeah. Can't yeah, exactly. Thanks. That sounded meaner. Isn't it. Not even good at that, yeah. Yeah, exactly, thanks. That sounded meaner than I thought.

He's not even good at that. Damn. I don't even like that as a joke. Cold as ice. I do like that as a joke. I mean, it's funny. God dog. Too far, too far.

Where can they find, is it on your website, the song on Friday? Or where can they find it? It's gonna be everywhere, right? Yeah. Maybe buy it off Bandcamp. Where do you get music? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the streamers, all the everywhere, right? Yeah. If you buy it off Bandcamp. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

All the streamers, all the websites, all the things. It's kind of like when you own, like when you own the masters, it's like, you can kind of like, you can actually make a little bit of money on the streamers. Not as much as I should make, but you can definitely do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A piece of media I like is this lady, Dr. Fizzle.

She's a part of the 50 nerds of gray. And it says, does anyone have easy tricks to remember the affect versus effect difference? And she said, the person replied, affect is fuck around and effect is find out. Wow. That's great. I taught high school for six years and I never thought of this. Well, I was like, this is absolutely brilliant. And there's a second one.

I'm sorry. Can I give a second one? Yeah. I was running out of time. The meme was sent to me. I dated and give me a at symbol or nothing. They just clicked it and sent sent to me. They didn't give me a at symbol or nothing. They just clicked it and sent it to me. And it was this white man saying that ghosts really can't affect

human living human beings. Because if that were the case, there'd only be a handful of Caucasians left on earth. This dude made a super valid point. Wow. That's pretty true. Because if ghosts could actually hurt you, yeah, Blake would be the last white boy. That's a true. Cause if ghosts could actually hurt you. Yeah. Blake would be the last white boy. That's a lot of ghosts.

Oh, I appreciate that. Yeah. You'd be good. Got a bone to pick. I'd be walking, walking on a knife's edge every single day surrounded by ghosts. Guys, guys, guys. Who's the ghost you're most afraid of Blake? Anyone? Any, any ghosts you're afraid of? You were going to say any black ghosts. No, I don't know unless unless you do JFK JFK because I my great-grandfather killed him These are the Cuban Secret Service members. These are the Cuban Secret Service members. Blake, where do the people find you, follow you?

What's a tweet or post or media that you're liking? A media that I enjoyed today was from Chip Chantry on Blue Sky. These tariffs are the Jim and Pam of the apocalypse. And then also I will be my tours done So you can see me around New York doing stand-up at Blake Wexler on all social media My stand-up comedy special daddy long legs is still available for free on YouTube and then I'm doing this I plug this yesterday But I'm doing this charity bike ride that the Philadelphia Eagles do each year to raise money for autism awareness

So I have a link if you can spare anything, you know, now that these tariffs have been repealed for 90 days and will be repealed, probably added in again tomorrow. So it's a brief window where I can accept donations, but anyway, if you can spare something great, if not totally get it. So that link is in my bio. Boom, boom, boom. No, fantastic to have you here.

Um, what's the thing I like? There was something on there. Oh, just someone was posting, you know that meme where the dude is like, he's pretending to jump off a balcony. He's like, nah, I'm kidding. He takes a bottle of beach. He's like, oh, no, I'm just playing.

And then he's like doing all these things that like hurt himself. That meme was posted by a very important dot lawyer on blue sky. He said, this is how the American economy is going to work for at least two entire years. Yeah. 100% of that come on. I'm not gonna drink bleach. I'm gonna get a little my mouth though. Yeah, he's terrible.

You can find us at daily zeitgeist on blue sky Twitter everywhere at the daily zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a we do have a Facebook fan page and this is part of me talking in autopilot. Actually, the thing you do is you look at your app and you go to the description. There can be found the footnotes. And that's where you will find the links

to everything we talked about, as well as the song we were going to write out on. And you know what? I'm gonna suggest people check out. I know this is coming out Thursday, but I implore you Get yourself ready for tomorrow's drop of the breakout single from none other than propaganda featuring blue of blue next Okay, and this is called passion project get that in your ears We'll actually put the link to that track in the footnote for those that way you will be able to engage and support

The the guests that you love and way you will be able to engage and support the guests that you love and bring you joy on a daily basis. So let's show them some love. And in the process, you get to hear good music. Wow, wow. It's better than when I was posting some of my weird poetry that none of y'all were fucking with.

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