The Daily Zeitgeist - Red Backpack = Cocaine User?! Strike TWO!! 07.14.23

Episode Date: July 14, 2023

In episode 1515, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Teresa Lee, to discuss… Secret Service Fails To Sniff Out Cocaine Source, SAG Is About To Go On Strike and more! Secret Service Fails To Sniff Out Cocaine Source No fingerprints, DNA sample or leads from cocaine found at the White House, the Secret Service says Trump Is Desperate to Turn the White House Cocaine Into a Huge Biden Scandal SAG Is About To Go On Strike SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher Criticized for Italy Outing Amid Strike Negotiations: ‘Out of Touch’ Hollywood studios could face two strikes for the first time in 63 years. How did we get here? Disney chief Bob Iger says strike by writers and actors ‘very disturbing’ Disney CEO Bob Iger’s Rich Compensation Package Revealed, Company Says Bob Chapek Fired ‘Without Cause’ LISTEN: Noises and Conversations by The HeliocentricsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to season 295 episode 4 of the daily zeitgeist production of iheart radio this is the podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it is friday july 14th 2023 yeah you know what that is fucking bastille day you know what i mean shout out to the french you know getting yours okay and inspiring others maybe in this country too it's also national grand marnier day i never drank that but okay national. National Mac and Cheese Day. I know about that. World Kebab Day.

Yes, please. Collector Car Appreciation Day. Okay, fine. National Tape Measure Day. National French Fry Day. And it's Fry Day. So put all that together. Yes.

I like the collector car, the car collectors are being, is it Collector Car Appreciation? Collector Car Appreciation Day. So if you like, if you is it collector car appreciation collector car appreciation day so if you like if you have a collector car got it i thought i thought it was like car collector appreciation like they need their day not just for to appreciate the car but to appreciate them and they're for the car it felt very for the car what is a collector car or no maybe it says observe a car collect this is so so weird. I think it's for everyone. It could be if you restore cars, if you like cars, go to a car show.

It's an AI-generated holiday. Collector car. We got the words out of order, but you get it. Collect those cars as you would. But anyway. It's great to have you back, Miles. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Boppenheimer style.

What? What? What? What? Boppenheimer style. That is courtesy of Ensign Jensen and our tweak on Barbenheimer. Yeah. Let's go Boppenheimer.

It's just a little fun. Yeah. This is not for Barbie erasure. It's just we feel like it gives more of a Barbie vibe with the bop up front. Or Barpenheimer. Barpenheimer is a little wild. Barpenheimer. Barp.

No, no, no. No, I'm not a fan of that one. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Miles Gray, straight back from the Pacific Northwest for an eight-hour day in Seattle. And somehow I wasn't able to have Dick's Drive-In. It's me. I just wanted to say that out loud. Every time I go to Seattle, all I can think about are the fries at Dick's Drive-In.

I was there for a short work thing, and I didn't have time to go to Dick's. And then I got really upset, and I said, SeaTac Airport needs to have a Dick's drive-in in it just so people can respect and appreciate the local flavor. But yeah, great to be back. LAX has an In-N-Out close by, so it catches everybody who's actually staying, but it's not in the theater or in the airport. Remember when they also tried to recreate

the Fairfax Farmer's Market in the airport too? I like when airports are like, look, we get it. You probably missed out on some of these hits. You can get the kind of lesser version right here in the airport. And I'd be down for that. Well, Miles,

we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian who's written for Good Mythical Morning, Cracked Reductress, Brockmire. You can hear her on many podcasts across this great land. And you can see her at her stand-up show, Birdhouse, on July 21st in our great city of Los Angeles.

One of our favorite guests on TDZ, one of your favorite guests. Please welcome the brilliant, the talented, Teresa Lee! Teresa! I didn't come up with an AKA because there was a lot of news this morning about the strike and I'm freaking out about my livelihood. So anyways, hello. Good to be here. Wow, I like that. That was good.

That sounded like it was in the style of Catholic Mass. Oh, yeah. Have you ever been to a Catholic Mass? I'm out! I'm out! I'm worried of the impending strike and my life leaves. I've never been to a Catholic Mass, but I did take a lap.

Oh, you simply must, Teresa. It's so fun. I simply must go. At this time of year, it's beautiful. It's truly beautiful to be in a fucking gigantic stone building with no AC. It's the best. Oh, man. I mean, churches are beautiful it is kind of funny that whenever i drive by like in la there's like so many churches that are

repurposed for apartment buildings now i also drive uber um did i mention there's a strike yeah but yeah so it's interesting to me because it makes me wonder like what's the next iteration of that like centuries from now what's like our comedy club's gonna be apartments you know what i mean like what people gather i don't know just comedy clubs will be our new spooky halloween stores what's funny because banks i know in la so many banks became spooky halloween stores oh my god that's not a sign of the times right yeah this spooky town and then church to apartment. Yeah. What are the other evolutions businesses?

Like I'm trying to think of the other ones that we got the urban outfitters. Oh, you know, Taco Bells or whatever. Megan Gailey had a joke about that, that I always for so long ago, it might've even been on Mike. Sometimes I'll remember like my friend's jokes that they like, didn't end up doing on stage but i'll be like remember that time you said that and they're

like i think that's like one mic and i never did it again i'm like well i liked it well i was a fan i bombed that set because of that joke well i love it yeah i feel like pizza huts are having a comeback like in the pizza hut. Really? Well, not the food necessarily. Although I guess it is, right? Like, didn't we do a story at some point in the past year that like pizza hut is now beating Domino's? Yeah. In the US, which is strange to me. Well, like in the very narrow lane of fast food pizza, you mean.

It's not like, are they cool? Like, is it like? No, no. I don't think so but like those buildings the the huts themselves that they like they they redesigned the interior and exterior to make it i feel like those would be the easy answer of like what people will be living in in the future with like cachet the drive-through window they don't change that and that's like gonna you know and you said interior exterior i watch selling sunset and they love to say indoor outdoor living so i could just imagine you know you open

that little drive-through and be like it's indoor outdoor kitchen yeah alfresco dining through this former drive-through window in the sense that you can pass the food just directly outside you can have sit across the dining table like someone sits on the other side of the window you're like hello join me for dinner hello i feel like with our new atomized living where people are just expected to like order everything drive-thru windows like start to make sense a little bit unfortunately yeah in-home drive-in window like a pneumatic food tube that like you can just drop the food off from the curb and it just like launches into your house yeah why not takes the wrapper off and just fires it directly into your mouth did you see

though how you know that that brand chain that bj novak started where he does like weird food pop-ups okay so bj novakak has this thing called Chain. And they do all these interesting food collaborations. And they did this thing called Pizza Hut. Like Hut Couture. H-A-U-T-E. And rebuilt an old school pizza hut. It made a whole thing where you can go with the salad bar and everything.

And the red fucking Coca-Cola cups. All that shit. If you wanted to order off the menu, would you be ordering off the chain? That's right. That's right. Folks. This is what,

this is what y'all tune in for. Catch your birdhouse. July 21st. They're all nice. I'd actually like to order off the chain. And they're like, what? Because it's called chain, right? It's like, but that's a menu.

Well, you get where I'm at. Okay. All right. Teresa, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, a couple of stories we're talking about. Secret Service really biffed this one, man. They failed to sniff out the cocaine source do you see what our writer jm did there yeah he won't be with us on monday's episode but uh yeah secret

service they drew attention to a dime bag of cocaine found in the little stash away thing and then they never were unable to give a satisfying explanation so now everyone thinks it is hunter biden i bet it's one of the secret services now is what i'm thinking yeah it's one of their coke bags but anyway also jesse waters has a theory too and we'll we'll get into that the prize is the first time that's come up because it makes me think like it has that's just never you know that well like i would just expect that there's been cocaine yeah white house i drop my cocaine all the time i'm dropping cocaine i shed at least three dime bags of cocaine on a weekly basis i was a page at nbc and we have to give tours and one of our co-workers or one of the pages who had a very famous producer dad would give tours like like just totally coked out one time literally yeah dropped a bag and

wait was this in new york yeah wow yeah yeah she's like she's probably like an executive somewhere now i bet she has a great salary and yeah it's maybe retired actually yeah right i love the 28 i just love it like yeah man this is fucking 8h man where they fucking do snl and like fucking jim belushi man fucking uh who else chris farley you know they did coke or whatever i don't know if that's where they died all right let's go to the next one i like that you made her a bro which it's hard i can bro. I can only recreate coked out bro really well. I'm not going to describe what she looks like

because not that they will know who she is, but very funny imagining just different vibes. Flat brim surfer, cap, wraparound shades. What did the tour sound like with this woman who was flying off the boat? It was a little more like, oh my god.

It was like that. like, oh my God. It was like that. And then... But was it like a lot of talking or just a bunch of changes? No, we had a tour. Oh, yeah. I thought you were doing an impression of the coke head, which I would have done a Kesha impression. But yeah, it was a lot of tours.

It's actually where I started doing... Right before I got into stand-up, it's kind of how I got my little sea legs. Your chops. Yeah. I know was nervous about talking and then we get to do get to do real bad corny jokes and then you know kind of rewrite our own dial them in yeah yeah they're real bad jokes they're they're stupid the little sea legs you created with your hands by the way were so little they're crabs. They're little crab legs. You were doing otter hands. Those are horrifying.

You got an abalone on your chest. The otters are attacking surfers. The sea has come back for it. No. The otters are attacking surfers in Santa Cruz. Oh, shit. Okay, I'll keep the otter slander to a minimum no these are nice here only nice crabs yeah yeah yeah oh yeah okay have you seen like have you been to the universal studio tour recently like have you done the back lot tour recently not recently

but definitely in my life yeah that's another place where i feel like a lot of people are getting their sea legs so to speak like with like doing material because like it's it's weird like i guess you get a lot of latitude like with certain jokes because some people have like a style other people like stick to a script but that has big i'm workshopping some material energy when you do that you know what there's something really nice about getting a because it's like part of the job and so there's something really nice about getting a, cause it's like part of the job. And so there's like pre-written stuff, but you can practice getting the sense of like delivery, but also getting the last half.

Yeah. Half of like getting confident is just being like, and then I'll say this and they'll laugh. And you know, obviously if you're doing standup, you shouldn't be doing other people's jokes, but like if you're a jungle cruise guide or, you know,

whatever, like that is like, Oh my God, you're going to crush it with the children. And you do get confident. I think to start, you know universal guide whatever like that is like oh my god you're gonna crush it with the children and you do get confident i think yeah yeah you know doing it also too because that audience is so varied like yeah you have people your age you have octogenarians from ohio you have people from all over and like when they get when they start crushing it you're like this you might have i get why like you're gonna get discovered like this have you ever been at an open mic where someone got up and tried to do some clearly

scripted like backlot tour material where they're like what is that i've never but that would be great how about the minions huh you guys seen these I mean, imagine if there's a big minion climbing over that building. Okay, now that'll set things up pretty nicely. Now, guys, everybody get to one side. Do you smell bananas? Because I think that is King Kong. And you're like, what the fuck is this person saying?

I have read there is a, I don't know if they still do this, but there's at the improv down, or the comedy store, I don't know, whichever, one of those chains that's down in um anaheim there's a jungle cruise comedian night where like the stand-ups who work at disneyland perform and it's a lot of the jungle cruise people like that's a real thing wait is the jungle cruise i that was a ride that we missed when we took our kids to disney world Is that a particularly like improvised improv? No,

it's very scripted, but as a kid, I was like, they're so funny. You have to, it's like performer heavy. It's not animatronic. No,

no. Yeah. There's a guide and they do man pirates of the Caribbean. If I could give my kids review, that thing was stinky, man. They, that,

that just animatronics like moving back and forth oh yeah yeah so bad yeah you can like hear their like mandible piece like clicking yeah they're fake talking like what the fuck is this damn they're spoiled man because i used to see that shit i'm like yo i think that dog is real yeah i thought that too i was like with the keys and shit i'm like that dog is very well trained. I remember... Just prove how dumb we are as children. They liked the Swiss Family Robinson

house better. We did that right. I mean, it's not a riot. That's like a discovery zone. We did that like three times. We'll talk about SAG. SAG's about to go on strike. Strike? Double strikes. Before we get to any of it though, Teresa, We'll talk about SAG. SAG's about to go on strike. Strike. Yeah.

Double strikes. Yeah. Double strike. Before we get to any of it, though, Teresa, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? Oh, okay. My search history. I just searched it because I moved and we have a little, not a full on garden, but some outdoor space.

So I searched, what can you grow under a pepper tree? Because we have a pepper, California pepper what can you grow under a pepper tree because we have a pepper california pepper tree not like a chili pepper tree and everything it's just weeds and everything apparently dies under there and i didn't some of you may know this but if you search that you'll find that it's a commonly like a common source of what do you call it umbridge that's not the right word it's controversial people don't well people don't it doesn't nothing grows well history i'm just gonna make up words it doesn't i'm not even like the writers are on strike i'm yeah your brain you normally stick to to the script teresa when you come, when you have all your remarks. Yeah.

But pepper trees apparently don't play well with others like California pepper trees because they not only suck up a lot of water, but they just like everything dies around them. But I found this made me laugh because there's all these forums about people who are like, what can you grow under? I've tried this. I've tried everything. Everything dies. And there's one forum where it's like people are discussing you know their plants and someone said oh i'm in southern california i have to i'm going to summarize this but i have two large pepper trees and there was nothing when i moved in but now i have like and you list a bunch of stuff lieutenant creeping rosemary columbine coast rosemary blah blah after two years at all

thriving and the comment right below it just said i am also in southern california i would like to see pictures of your plantings under the pepper tree thank you oh yeah i don't believe you yeah yeah okay we call that cap on this forum and i don't believe it make with the pictures what happened after that evidence or not? No, they didn't post it. I don't know, man. I hope that person can come back with it. I'm so, because I love, like, it seems pretty clear that it's probably very, a unique situation based on how it frustrated people. And this is from May, May 2020. And that, yeah, nothing else. And it is one right before that was from 2002

so someone came in here to be like i did plant some things no you didn't so then what are you gonna just have to move something behold not underneath the tree or like a planter box so there's like so many weeds there so we weeded it but i think i want to put i mean this is my like longer term project for well maybe i'll have a lot more free time now but i'm gonna i think i'll put sand and maybe like make it a nice seating area but it's kind of an awkward spot because it's we have one of those like what do you call it it's like a house but it's at the end of a lot it's actually like technically three houses in a row yeah got you got you, got you. Yeah, so we have this little plot. But yeah, I think I would,

or I would want to build a deck, which I definitely want to do, but will probably not do for a while because I need to get my little sea legs. Sea legs, your tiny little skinny sea legs. My building legs, yeah. Yeah. What is something you think is overrated?

Leaving a legacy, okay okay i don't know that sounds so strange but i was thinking about you know just uh like existential things what i want to do and i don't know i just thought like the idea that we put so much focus on like i really want to leave a legacy like i think obviously it's nice to not be forgotten but if you're living your life and doing everything you can to live it fully, like that is a legacy, right? Because when you find things about people,

I like, I love those TikToks where they just find people that you don't know, but like, did you know the first person to, right, right, right. You know,

roll their sleeves up and, you know, make it cool. And now this is like, put cigarettes in their rolled up sleeve pocket it's like a whole story you know and they'll be like well actually they were doing it in defiance of but like and they're actually in la la la la and i love those it's like they didn't do that to leave a legacy but then the fact that we're talking about it now usually implies like oh they were just living

their life and someone found this which to me is like i'd rather that like i think not trying to you know name buildings after myself yeah you know not that i think that option but the urge to like leave a legacy you know like that capital l it's i think you're just born out of the fear of our own mortality right is because yeah but it also got all these like billionaires like elon musk and yeah mark zuckerberg and all like like, you know, I mean, they do have a lot of power and have done things. I'm not trying to, like, get into that conversation, but just, like, so much of that feels driven by, like,

oh, if you can just get big enough and do something, you can, like, change the world and leave a legacy. Whereas if you just, like, live your life and are a good dad, like, that also is quite effective. Yeah, and name your kid XJC3994xq or whatever yeah leave a legacy like that by traumatizing a young person yeah i feel like you can also like try and

over determine like you're so preoccupied with leaving a legacy that you name your kid xj3 or or you know buy a social media network and just fucking run it into the ground. And then, you know, you are not in control of the legacy that you actually leave. You'll be leaving some legacy. Yeah. Yeah. People just make fun of you. I mean, at this point, if I was Elon Musk and I thought I was leaving a legacy, I would be in panic mode. Because all people are going to remember is how I'm being like, measure our dicks.

And you're like, okay. And that was that guy who seems like you're doing good seems like things are going well yeah because i think a legacy too is just like if you're good and you you can have your kindness or positivity resonate reverberate that has like that has more lasting effects than somebody you know you in statue form. Also, I know people don't like to think about death, but you won't be around to enjoy it. I know that's so much of what we think.

That makes us feel better about dying, but just leave a legacy for tomorrow. Literally, just put $2 in a tip jar, and then you'll be like, ha ha, I'll let your legacy. Leave it for tomorrow, and then tomorrow will keep coming.'ll let your legacy like leave it for tomorrow and then tomorrow will keep coming you know all this to say is the present is the most real thing that you have to

experience the only real thing yeah don't don't get caught up in the future because that doesn't exist and neither does the past so you know to your point the past does exist okay because why else am i crying every night well look we can that's a different podcast that we'll be starting and we'll talk about that. It's called Time Travelers with Mines. You ever see one of those park bench or something with someone's name on it? Yeah.

You're like, damn. It's kind of bleak. There's one in the neighborhood where Her Majesty grew up and there's this one bench and it's like, there's like this one bench. And it's like, to roller skating Bob. Yeah. And it was like one of those things.

I was like, yo, what the fuck is up with roller skating Bob? Like, now I'm really interested that like, you were known as this thing. But, you know, legacy left. Yeah. Why didn't they leave roller skates? It's like, he didn't like to sit. He liked to roller skate. Right.

That's where he put his roller skates on so that's his ass was there what's something you think is underrated Teresa okay I think I'm gonna say this okay because there's this really cool taco spot right around where I live it's like my neighborhood um but it's just a guy who sells tacos in front of his house and he's really cool. And it's underrated, obviously, because you guys don't know about it. But I want to shout him out because I love this so much. Literally, I feel like it's like, I don't want to say I manifested it because obviously this man is an individual person who has his own life and needs. But I was thinking right before I moved, like, individual person who has his own life and needs but i was thinking right before i moved like oh it'd be really cool to just i think i was just having existential dreams about you can't tell

like what's my future and livelihood so i was like what if i just like open a little restaurant in my garage but that was mostly like i don't actually want to do it but i was just thinking the idea of like let's just go back to it reminds me of like taiwan where people just have these little eateries and you know your neighborhood and you enjoy your community and it's nice and and it doesn't have to be you know a chipotle or bought by facebook but then like the first week i lived here um i saw a sign that was just like handwritten it's just like in spanish that said like tacos vienes y sabado like fridays and saturdays and my first thought was like oh that must be good because if it's a handwritten sign it's not advertised he's only doing it two days a week just out of sheer love of the game yeah but friday

comes around i'm like oh i can't wait it's first time i go and he said it was the first time he was doing it too so oh timelines coincided yeah and so and did you like i made you do this like i'd never heard of tacos before yesterday he's like i just spontaneously appeared but um no he like started this little business in front of um his house and he it's so good he just like starts cooking in the afternoon on fridays and then around five he starts selling it like i was trying to buy it like at like two and he was like, it's not ready yet. And then. No, right now.

I'm an official. But they're so good. And it's so cute. And he's been doing it now for the last couple of weeks, every Friday, Saturday. And there's like a crowd. And he started, he goes by Papa's Taco, Taco's Papa Jose. And like every week I go there, there's like a new sign now. Like he's like adding more marketing.

Like now there's a sign down the street along like the, you know, the main street that has an arrow that says tacos. And then the other day there was one that you could scan the QR code and follow him. Oh, tacos Papa Jose. So it's actually a brilliant marketing strategy. Could you actually give him my number? I actually want to reach out to him about getting his brand online. could you actually give him my number i actually want to reach out to him about getting his brand online that's a that's really like a cool thing because i feel like the lemonade stand model

like you you never hear that applied to anything else it's just like kids trying their first taking their first whack at capitalism and it's like very and they don't know it's because they're cute that's why they're selling it yeah right. But like if you're good at making stuff, why not do a little taco stand? Yeah, it's so good. And it's like, like it's homemade. And there's like, you know, people sitting around. There's usually like a TV and families hanging out.

So it's like really nice. But also like the first weekend, I think there was a graduation. So a lot of people were coming. But also he just said he, I asked him how he advertised and he just said he was posting on facebook so i mean whatever fuck it zuckerberg but like that's kind of nice i don't know there was something really like sweet about

just like it's good and he's just urgently trying to do it that way but in my mind i'm like oh my god what if this is the next sting type phone because that's how you hear about these like huge eateries they always start from just like... Okay, so then maybe you need to get in as an investor. You're like, I want to buy in. Early ground floor investor. This is how you get the buildings named after you. Yeah, you do stand up and tacos.

Next time you show up, it's going to be called Tacos Mama Teresa. I did a leveraged buyout. I got chased this ass out of town. It's all mine now. This idiot made the mistake of showing me his process for making these proprietary recipe. True capitalist.

But also only $2. And they're very good. That's the other thing. I'm like, Oh, it's so much better than Sony or Salazar. And I'm like, but I'm like this place.

That's great. Yeah. I love like, i love local food local eateries it's it's so funny when you meet people like i don't know maybe it's just being an angelina like i've never grown up with like the fear of street food and also maybe just like in japan too in asia like they're just like in japan they're called yatais where they're just like fucking people just throw up a tent and shit in a grill like they're serving outside of a train station yeah yeah yeah yeah so like it's it's always funny when people are like i don't know about that i'm like you have clearly not felt the love of street food that also you

can't get sick of you know like when i went back to taiwan and i hadn't been for a while and i just like late i got something that probably had been out for hours i was like no it's your weak american gut like yeah you gotta be a little savvy about what time and where, which stands you're going to. But I like to just say, yeah, it's because you've been out of country too long. It wasn't their fault.

It was you. No, it wasn't their fault. They were like, why would you buy this meat thing? They're like, it was clearly a shoe on a stick. I don't know.

I thought it was like a gag, like a fun shape. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about cocaine. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast,

Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others

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Dude, I can't swallow. I can't swallow. I can't swallow. I can't feel my throat. We should all move to a conversation. Okay. What? Whatever.

I can't feel my eyes for some reason. shit i wiped my eyes i wipe my eyes my eyeballs are numb are they open i can't tell if my eyes are open or not none of us have ever done my eyes well despite the fact that white house press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre boldly proclaimed that the Secret Service would get to the bottom of how exactly a dime bag of Coke ended up in the White House, apparently they came up empty. And I personally will not stand for it. This is the dumbest shit, but obviously it's going to become a huge thing because we got an election coming up and we've got uh donald trump involved in the election yeah yeah yeah i mean like the it's it's just been like manna from heaven for conservatives they're the only people who are like going off the total rails you know cocaine reference to find a way to make this all about joe biden being a fucking yak head uh but

i don't know off the just total hairy caterpillar rails you know what i'm saying i think they should get darren there do like a whole you know but they made us do an elementary school but for the white house and everyone has to go to assembly oh and they all have to do those reenactments you know where they're like would you like to smoke this cigarette no i would not you know like that was great that was great now let's see how that goes with a different yeah it's uh the leading theory is that one of the visitors during the White House, touring

the White House, left it there in the cubbies where the coke was found are in a blind spot for surveillance cameras. I mean, if this was a story that actually mattered, it would definitely seem fishy. It seems weird that they have a...

There's blind spots in the surveillance camera in the White House? That seems an issue. Yeah, blind spots of the places where the people who are being checked for security, like, put their stuff. Right. Just seems like kind of a big... Yeah, we don't know. Yeah, it's a black box in there.

It's a black box. I feel bad for it if it's actually a tourist who lost their cocaine, because now they can't go back and get it. Is this a scandal or is this a tragedy? I say, well, it depends on whose it is, right? Because I think now, they spent way too much money and time and resources to figure this out. FBI crime lab analysis didn't turn up any fingerprints or DNA evidence

on the actual baggie. Are you for real? That's why I'm like, it's gotta be the Secret Services. Somebody was handling their coke baggie with fucking gloves on, like a fucking CSI, and they're like, there's nothing on here. Because they're probably like, yo, that shit was Rick's, man.

So let's just say we don't know what the fuck happened, yo, that shit was Rick's man. So let's just, let's just say we don't know what the fuck happened, but you know, it's Rick, man. He's geeked up all the time. Well, this one's on the right side.

It's the suspicion is it's hunters or Joe's. They didn't do it. So I think it's like the Coke. We have the Coke, you know, no Coke, no unpitched app ideas. No runny noses.

We're good. You know, we're good. Yeah. It's just it's it's really funny, though, to see how much conservatives are trying to make this a fucking story, though, because most people like, OK, fine. Like, it's like they found like a fucking kilo in a fucking presidential like with a presidential seal on it. Yeah. They come up to like the liberal news media. They're like, OK, well, what about this? kilo yeah in a fucking presidential like with a presidential seal on it yeah it was a tourist area like the liberal news media they're like okay well what about this a baggie of cocaine was found in the liberal news like it's probably hunter biden's probably i don't know that that

seems like it makes sense they're like yeah but that's weird right yeah? Yeah, I don't know. And he seems to have a cocaine habit. So, yeah, that's what I would suspect. I'm so surprised it's news that they found it at all. Well, it was news initially because, like, a hazmat team was called in. That's the only reason because they thought it could have been that Thrax. You know what I mean? So they were like, uh-oh. And then a bunch of attention was like oh what the fuck happened like that was just some blow and then it became it was hunters a zipped up dime baggie of anthrax is like who found this was it like somebody who had just stepped off a bus from

but yeah i don't know suggesting it could have been have been Joe Biden's drugs like is probably the most far fetched conspiracy theory. I've heard a lot of far fetched conspiracy theories about presidents. But like, there's just no way that guy's doing cocaine. There's nothing about him. If he was doing cocaine, there's the Secret Service would definitely know. And they would just have like there would like they wouldn't be like oops you like he wouldn't be hiding it in a locker right or you know what i mean like you're not like oh shit okay i feel like when i think of cocaine i think of republicans more than democrats i know it's

like a non-partisan drug but like does it might like does this make sense i think that like trump billionaires yeah yeah like it's weird that to me that the republicans are the ones jumping on the story yeah well it also makes sense because trump trump's entire mo is to blame other people for the thing that he and his side is guilty of no that backstage video during january 6th where they're all like blasting the song gloria and like kimberly guilfoyle is like dancing like michelle pfeiffer and scarface and like that is the most cocaine thing i've ever seen in my life like it's just with cocaine energy yeah i mean like you have to be on coke to be like watch like a insurrection unfold and be like oh yeah this is the vibes you feel maybe it was uh maybe it was donald trump

juniors and he just yeah left it there he goes back he's like no fair that's mine i do want to play this one though because jesse waters you know who's about to take tucker carlson's slot and a lot of people like what the fuck is this going to be about he he had a theory and i don't even know i'm not sure what the theory is he goes into a few different things but let's just hear jesse waters and his his theory about what's really going on first he's going to talk shit about the fact that hunter biden wears a backpack and this this is this is just going to demonstrate how unintelligent this man is. Hunter carries that backpack everywhere.

What's in the backpack? And why does a 53-year-old man have a bright red backpack like that? He has a cocaine problem. Is that where he keeps his laptop so he doesn't lose it again? I think it's his cocaine. The problem is he isn't saying this was Ashley's cocaine or this was Hunter's cocaine. We have no idea. These are just our suspects.

He has just, you know, the graphic behind him is like a made up cork board with like all the suspects. It looks like an Amazon Prime show ad. Right. OK, so he's going to go on. He's got he's got another theory about whose it is. Warning, it is going to involve some misogynoir. We hope it's not their cocaine because that'd be tragic. We want them to stay clean.

Remember, NBC suggested the coke was found near the entrance that Kamala slides in. Is it Kamala's? Is it Doug's? Oh! Is this Joe's plan of getting Kamala off the ticket? Have the feds plant some coke with her fingerprints on it? I doubt it, but we're not ruling anything out. Okay, then why say it?

Is it this wild outlandish thing? I doubt it, but I'll say it anyway. Nothing's off the table. Yeah, so I don't know. It's interesting to see how people are like, what is this next iteration of the Tucker Carlson time slot going to look like? But like, Jesse Waters is not smart at all. So he's not even getting like, I mean, as much as I hate Tucker Carlson, he makes me so angry.

And in a way that makes me realize he's good at pushing that button. You know what I mean? Like, he's good at getting his fan base riled up, but also good at like getting his opposition, like, I hate you. But what just now watching that, I was like,

what? You're just bad. You're done. Why does he have a backpack? You're like, oh shit. Oh no, he's got a backpack.

I mean, I don't know. Have you ever been to an open mic? Everyone has a backpack. A telltale red backpack. Yeah. I mean, that could be like a new conspiracy theory been to an open mic? Everyone has a backpack. A telltale red backpack. Yeah. I mean, that could be like a new conspiracy theory on the right now. It's like red backpack.

They're a coke head. Yeah. We know about that because, you know, you know how these people are. They have their little codes with their backpacks. Yeah. Comet ping pong, red backpacks. Yeah. Trump accused it of like accused Biden of having cocaine and in an email that was written by cocaine, like in one of his truths.

He tweeted, was Crooked Joe Biden on cocaine when he instructed FBI DOJ to illegally invade my home Mar-a-Lago in complete and total violation of my Fourth Amendment rights? violation of my fourth amendment rights was he on cocaine or various other substances when he for the first time in u.s history had his political opponent who's leading him in the polls by a lot indicted and arrested twice if you include the doj run manhattan da's office dude what okay so so you're innocent is that is that where this is going that's his point yeah joe biden's on cocaine that's why you're also saying he has no energy. So what kind of cocaine is he doing? Right. Or is he just crushing benzos?

They found evidence in my home because the person who told them to search it was on cocaine. He's probably on cocaine. That guy must have been on cocaine. You asked me. Oh, my God. We'll put a pin in that. We'll see if this stupid caper is ever solved. When really, it's, I think, the strongest version that they couldn't find anyone is that they're protecting maybe the Secret Service. But, okay, if it was a person, like a rando civilian, don't you think they'd want to protect them, too?

Or do you think they'd throw them to the woods? I don't know. Because they thought it was dangerous and like wouldn't it be so irresponsible to be like like if it was like michael kane they're like it was actually just just theresa lee's i'd be like wait why are you telling everyone did you just say michael kane like maybe they're just like we don't know because there's no threat but they can't say that maybe i don't know i think yeah I think at the end of the day, I'm not even sure about the FBI crime lab.

On one hand, I would believe that we would completely just misdirect resources like that for something so stupid. And then on the other hand, I can see it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we did a whole analysis and came up with nothing. Can you move the fuck on, please? We're trying to ignore white supremacy all day.

A worse conspiracy that I... As you're saying that, I feel like could actually be true if it's not true that the FBI just sucks at doing it, which could also be true. Yeah. But that they're trying to test... You know how sometimes they want to test something

to see how the public reacts or what the protocol would be? Like a weather balloon? What was that? Like flying a weather balloon? Yeah. What was that? Like flying a trial balloon? Yeah. Just to see where it goes, where it blows.

To see how we would react to something like this. But also to then be able to get away with something different. Or not. But just to see where the weak spots are and how much the public can be cool with. Like, oh, it was just cocaine. The public's cool with like oh it was just cocaine the public school coke it turns out it was an informal poll to see what the outrage meter was for cocaine the voting base and people like yeah yeah yeah whatever they made people do lsd for

yeah but it's funny that we're over here being like it could have been a tragedy because someone lost their little coke baggie right you know right like we need to figure out who did it it's like that sucks bro that sucks i'm sorry all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and hit some more stories we'll be right back i'm jess casaveto executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. And all of Hollywood's on strike now, baby. Members of the Screen Actors Guild are set to hit picket lines after negotiations.

Unanimously, negotiators unanimously recommended a strike after talks with studios broke down fran drescher former star of the nanny and the president of sag after us said studios response to the actor's concerns had been quote insulting and disrespectful checks out that seems to be given literally every document, every like email that has leaked of their negotiation tactics. Yeah. They're just like, yeah. OK, how about this?

How about we agree to talk to each other once a year instead of agreeing to give you money? We'll talk. We'll have a good faith conversation on our end about whether we should. Is that good enough for you guys? No, no. about whether we should is that good enough for you guys no no it's wild too because i pressure was getting shit for like hobnobbing with kim kardashian famous scab and people were like this is not a good look for the sag president to be rubbing elbows uh with somebody who does not respect the this this union at all but hey even the announcement because i was looking at the

statement was like we've heard or the letter they wrote to them looking at the statement, was like, we've heard, or the letter they wrote to the members, it's like, what is it? It says something like, because we heard what you want us to say, we're going to do that. Instead of just being like, we are all one and we want that. It was very much like, we got it. You want us to say this. You want it.

I'll tell them. It's like, why are you removing yourself from this? Yeah. you want us to say this. You want it. I'll tell them. It's like, why are you removing yourself from this? Yeah. That is amazing. Aren't you one of us? Isn't that the point? We represent you. But if that's what y'all want, that's what I'm going to tell Bob Iger.

So let's just make sure that we do a quick vibe check really quick. It's kind of wild because I think this could be a bit i mean it sucks now but i think what people are realizing is like all the executives everybody who's like no like we can't pay you i think they really don't think they can because they don't want to they're realizing they're obsolete but what really will happen is like now we're not afraid to piss them off and you know creators if creators made their own studio i mean yeah they're out like literally what are you gonna do like we just make our own shit and like right like yeah we actually only do business with these new studios now like we used to be afraid of like nobody wants to take on the studios but now it's like this we can't even work for the studios well they're gonna make

their own movies hiring their children yeah let them work with AI and that like. And AI. Coke, Coke, or whatever. Look, we had an AI on Coke. Yes. He probably does pretty well. Starring Bob Iger's daughter as the lead. And that's our Welcome to New Hollywood.

What did you have the cocaine levels on on this script? I feel like we could take them from like a six up to an eight maybe. This feels like it wasn't written on enough cocaine. What if we gave the AI cocaine? Yeah. I feel like the AI should have a meter of like how much... Someone with access to ChatGPT, can

you say write this script like in the voice of a coke-addicted man who was born in 1954? You know what I mean? I would love to see the code of what it would look like. You know, like, something is changing in our brains when you smoke weed

or, you know, when you're sad or whatever. But, like, I want to see the code changes or they're just imitating. Because that, I mean, that would give me insight if they're sentient. Sorry, I'm totally changing the topic. Let's come back to this. Okay, we'll come back to this. Put a pin in it.

Put a pin in it. This will be the first dual strike in Hollywood since 1960 when the WGA went on strike over residuals from films sold to TV networks, which is not unlike the battle of streaming residuals today. So back then they were joined by SAG, then headed by famous socialist Ronald Reagan. Yeah. Yeah.

He absolutely. It's funny. A lot of people are like a lot of reporting just like and Ronald Reagan helped like sort it all out. Yeah, exactly. If you go a few degrees deeper, though, you'll realize Ronald Reagan was Reagan in even back then. He fucked him. He fucked SAG with his negotiations back then and even prior to that right because at the time there was this whole thing about well are we going to get residuals

for films that were like made at like from 1960 onward and he was like okay yeah let's do a deal for that and people are like well what about things that were between august 1948 and 1960 and they said well we can't pay residuals for that, but we will do, what we will do is create a, like, a fund, a pension and welfare fund, which was way short of what the actors even wanted for the pension fund. And then, so then you're like,

well, what about those movies before 1948? Well, back in 1951, when there was another, you know, disagreement between SAG and the studios, Ronald Reagan, again, was the president of sag back then basically said all right uh we we're gonna we're willing to forfeit any royalties about films that go into production before in 1948 in exchange for just the promise of negotiations of royalties like made after that date in the future and these negotiations led to the fucking strike in 1960 so you know ronald he was he he did his thing and then he joined mca and there's there's like a whole other story like oh you know i promise we'll talk about that later

but like i'll i promise i'll i'll try to work on it. Yeah. Nothing is going to change, but I will later try to work on it. When you get mad again, I'll push it down the road again. It's like, I guess, the promise ring of union negotiations. They're like, we will promise to not fuck you over. But that was what the studios were trying to pull with their negotiations. They're like, we'll promise to talk about this with you on a regular basis. It's good faith. I love it. Whenever they say good faith'll promise to like talk about this with you on a regular basis does that it's good faith i love when whenever they say good faith and you check in you have to have a check-in once a week yes you promised you go about the degree and you're like yes yes

yeah cut to not doing that for four weeks straight and then cataclysmic fighting i don't know what's going on cram before this couple's therapy session check in, check in, check in. You good? You good? You good? Okay, ask me a couple more times. And in a sign that this might be working, that this dual strike might terrify the people who, to this point, have been glib and complete assholes on the production studio side,

Bob Iger went on CNBC and called the potential strike quote, very disturbing to me. Ow. Warning that it will be, quote, disruptive to the industry. Oh my God.

Yeah, man, that's the fucking idea. Yeah. Like that's, that's. The way he said his quote too, it's so like,

as if like, it's very like where it feels like someone who came back from a long vacation and. Yes. No idea what's going on. Cause it's like, yeah, like he says the idea, but he has no idea what's going on. Cause it's like, yeah, like he says, he's also not even saying that like Barbara,

he's like, Oh what? There's a strike. Oh, well like, yeah, I don't think that's nice at all. No,

we shouldn't be doing that. I mean, I get it why they're doing it. And I, he said to me like, it's totally fair. I think for them to ask for it, but it's just not realistic.

Yeah. Like, yeah, I know this is what the negotiations were. This is what we, all the- That's why we're striking because your position- This conversation happened already. Your position, right.

Apparently, lawyers who represent you have said these things already and you have no idea. Sounds like your idea of what's realistic and our idea of what's realistic are pretty far apart in this negotiation. Almost like we need some course of action to bring us closer together. No, no, no.

I win. I'm Bob Iger and I say I don't like it. I win. Okay, moving on. What the heck are you doing? You guys are striking? No.

Where are you going? Where are you going? It doesn't vary that teacher or parent who's saying if you are good, you'll get 10 stars and then it's like's like well now i change the rules and you're just grounded because it's like yeah yeah good faith supposed to be like there is some parody there but the reality is like he's kind of like well i'm just gonna say i don't want this and

you guys will just have to deal with me blacklisting you it's like they literally we're like over it. You're over it. Wherever you, they literally threatened to cancel Christmas. Like that was one of the things they said is they were like, Oh yeah, they're going to strike.

We're going to wait them out. And it's going to be a real cold Christmas for them. So they did it in the way that a movie villain would, but that was essentially the thing. Did you cover that when, when they're talking about the wga strike and the studios are like we'll wait till people start losing their homes yeah and then they'll come to the table so we can wait we can wait till october like we can

just dead to october well that's the thing it's all so interconnected that even they are starting to realize like well they don't realize how much is connected because not only like sag also has a thing where it says like i mean i think if you were to do anything independently you should double check with them but they did say on their rules that if you're independent truly independently you know like making your own little studio film whatever and there's no studio connected like you have to check with them but those are allowed which to me seems like this idea of creators making their own shit studios like not only are cities going to want to be buying stuff later i hope we get to a point where we're so mad that they hold us out that we're like we're not going to sell our shit to you we're going to sell to the consumers and you're not going to cut like something's going

to get made that's better interesting i mean because that is like a potential direction of the evolution of the industry right it's like you can somehow break the fucking power grip of the studios, but they're doing a good job motivating people to never want to fucking deal with the studios. But the thing that's also interesting, the funny thing about that Bob Iger quote is the, the way he's positioning the whole fucking thing is he said, quote, we've talked about disruptive forces on the business and all the challenges we're facing. The recovery from COVID, which is ongoing. It's not completely back. This is the worst time in the world to add to that disruption.

Right. It's just a bad time. We'll get to it. And then I'm like, it's the worst time. What is your motherfucking salary then? If this is the blururs of times right now tell me he's only taking a 1 million dollar salary plus 26 million dollars in long-term bonuses say that last part again what what hold on no no no 1 million dollars that's like pretty reasonable after that what'd you say

the part you're mumbling plus 26 million dollars and you're oh plus 26 million dollars oh so you mean so you're making you have you can earn up to 27 million dollars this year and bonuses and bonuses is the worst time it's like yeah it that's the point it's so bad right now leverage to strike like he's kind of being like just wait till things are better and then maybe we'll give you something else it's like no we don't we're done working on your terms because they're bad and if you think it's the worst time that you can wait then clearly you're not in survival mode yet yeah and a lot of us are yeah and also what's wild too is like i've heard this from other like writers and stuff they're

like we've been on fucking like running off of fumes forever so if they think they can wait us out good fucking healthcare and shit you know, I have set up enough where I feel very comfortable to be able to keep going. But it's like, I got a job at a cafe. I'm driving Uber. I'm very much facing the reality that's going to be a long, hard battle. But to be honest, it's not like I was thriving right before the strike. You know what I mean? So it's like we got here because of this, right?

Yeah. It's so wild to watch these fucking super powerful people not know how to read the fucking room. know what i mean right and the conditions got here because of this right yeah it's it's it's so wild to watch these fucking super powerful people not know how to read the fucking room and understand like what across everywhere like you have people at fucking waffle house going on strike now and like all like it's this is where we're at right now because these people who have sucked up all the fucking wealth fail to realize that the reason they are so rich is at the expense of everyone else they think like this money's just coming out of nowhere it's like no there's a direct line to your fucking greed and the shitty like living situations that many workers are

experiencing and they just can't they can't cross that bridge because they'd rather just be like well i'm a titan of industry and i'm creating jobs and i don't feel bad that i'm getting 27 million dollars i'm creating jobs they love they love to take credit for creating jobs that would exist i don't do the writers are creating you're just lucky to be the person in that fucking position someone was gonna do it and you are like so easily replaceable it's very frustrating also half the time people create jobs they're creating jobs that are like they're taking one job and then paying two people less yeah that's happening a lot or like i know at nbc they would have like they would say the page program um you know they boasted like having a 90 like hiring rate or something to the company but a lot of

those were those contracts that were like one year contracts so i mean if you did well i guess you would say but there's just a natural turnover because physically there's not going to be that many job openings. So at every year, they're going to want to like bring in the new class. So that's how they create jobs. Oh, we're hiring so many people because half of these jobs only last a year. And then you're on your own. It's a job though. Yeah.

And that's what they're saying. You know, it's a job though. And I think what's other, what's interesting is that you hear, you hear i mean it's not this is just the tactic right is so many of these studio heads and people are like oh these are unrealistic like you know to to make this kind of money these people are spoiled and like really what the whole thing that the writers and actors have been talking about is like a middle class lifestyle that they were able to have in the heyday before streaming and shit that they just want to return to that but because our middle class is a fucking evaporating before our eyes to most people

a middle class lifestyle would be like what where the fuck do you get off thinking you're gonna get those things and now you can start like create all this like infighting over what people deserve and you know leverage other people's dissatisfaction it's just very very grim and again i i hope i hope they fucking figure it out because the publicists now are screaming at the studios because if the strike goes guess who you're not going to see at any doing any barbie boppenheimer mission impossible none of that and no social media either yeah right you cannot do anything with a company that is being like no we don't fuck with them so it's gonna i don't you know i think we're in a phase right now where like

after you know centuries the idea that like people like what you earn and like what you deserve is like finally becoming like decoupled in people's minds and like like the mainstream american consciousness is a little bit like no it's bullshit man like what the fuck are you talking about but it is firmly in place in bob eiger's mind it was firmly in place in the mind of like all the studio executives and like all these people who like go to leadership conferences to tell each other how fucking amazing their like insights are and you know like right go to google camp or some shit like that they're just in these like small clouds of like individuals who all just like believe that

they actually deserve to be at the heights that they are yeah it's actually bullshit and that it'll be interesting to see the process of that being punctured in the coming years because it feel it feels like this is whoa like in this industry and others that's what we're seeing oh yeah yeah i do hope the cancel christmas thing happens and that somehow the next act is the evangelical christians or coming for the studios yeah i mean because they are very quite powerful i hope um i mean i'm only saying this in a political sense i mean like this is not against christians but you know the ones that weaponize the coalition of uh yeah you know it gives christian it gives people of good faith a bad name to love them all yeah because they're

not really i mean like you know you know the people like you mean the hate the coke brothers who fund the the fake coalitions of christians i hope they they make their next thing like the look at hollywood canceling christmas no they will never do that they don't mean that kind of christmas they just mean any anything that they can weaponize against you know lgbtq plus community well theresa lee as always such a pleasure having you on the podcast anything that they can weaponize against LGBTQ plus community. Well, Teresa Lee, as always, such a pleasure having you on the podcast. Where can people find you, follow you,

see you? Are there any bird houses that they might be interested in? A little birdie told me you're in the house. Papa's Taco House. Yeah. Dude, do a taco stand-up show? Quite far from my house. Just far enough that it's not that close, but it close enough where it's nice.

Okay. That you can get there on your electric bicycle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You could find me.

Oh yeah. So I'm hosting birdhouse. I started a show in Glendale at Rockbird. It's the chicken sandwich shop. It is very much like outside a chicken sandwich shop sidewalk. You know, like it's really giving like, like pre COVID la comedy vibes or

the sad version which is like i guess when uh post-covid but free being indoors vibes um but the sandwiches are great it's a free show july 21st and yeah i'm also going to edinburgh but i'm doing free french and i'm not i'm last minute decided to go to to hop on some shows research because I want to go next year for real real but I guess if you live in Edinburgh

or you you know follow me to see where yeah Scottish Zeitgang pull up yeah Zeitgang

that's it cool thanks for having me guys is there a work of media you've been enjoying oh actually speaking about capitalism

there was a tiktok that i really liked but um this guy who imitates he was imitating um america like doing like a day in the life of an american i should say his name but uh here so i wonder if i can play it let's see if you can hear of america here i up so excited for another day of working. After singing the National Anthem, I make my amazing American coffee. So much better than espresso. I'm looking for breakfast, but there are no cold pizzas,

so I have to skip. But where's this? An apple? So cute. I'm so lucky because I have only one hour for five minutes to drive to work and for lunch i only have five minutes so i order fast food and i eat at my desk oh man they're short 14 hours it's dark so i take my work homenight my love see you tomorrow and he cut off a bunch of $100 dough but it's just seeing us through the eyes of it's exactly I think how I would say like I'm not even

like mad you know what I mean I'm like yeah which is like okay you know I'm not like oh wow you're a character because usually I feel you know pride to be American even though I hate on America I'm like but though I hate on America. I'm like, but I can see that. I'm like, you're right. Yeah.

No, it is wild. Like whenever, like on like Reddit or other internet forums and people like, are you all okay over there? No, but we've been conditioned into accepting this as normal and okay. But it's starting to crack, though. We're starting to see that for sure. Miles, where can people find you as their work media you've been enjoying? Yes, please support the new show that I'm hosting, Outlaws, The Good Thief, in partnership with Kaleidoscope NYC. A few past guests, Oz Willishan, Mangesh Hatikadur.

NYC, a few past guests, Oz Willishan, Mangesh Hatikadur. Yeah, I was fortunate enough to be asked to host this true crime story about the Greek Robin Hood, who was, you know, kidnapping millionaires and robbing banks, escaping jail and giving money to poor people. You know what I mean? Something that didn't and it all happened in the last 30 years. So, yeah, really interesting story. And I hope everybody checks it out. And you can hear me do, you know, a little more like not off the rails daily show type hosting.

And you can hear me with my presenter's voice. It's actually pretty fun show. So please check that out. Subscribe and rate to all that. And then also find Jack and I on Miles and Jack. I'm at Boosties, the NBA podcast and 420 Day Fiance with Sophie Alexandra. But please check out The Good Thief. We're dropping double episode Boosties this week?

Is that... We got a bonus? Yeah, we got a couple bonus episodes. NBA Con was popping. Alright. Is there work media you've been enjoying? No, I will just implore the listeners to please check out this other podcast. Please.

I would so appreciate it. And normally I'm not out here doing so much promo, but I would yeah, you know, you gotta please leave a comment and do all that. That's how we work those algorithms. You know what I mean? So please show the show some love. What's it called?

It's called Outlaws colon The Good Thief. But yeah, just search The Good Thief and it will show up. Oh yeah, but a different show will also show some love. Show the show. It's called the good outlaws calling the good thief, but yeah, just search the good thief and it will show up. Oh yeah. But a different show will also show up. So do outlaws the good thief. That is also my media.

I've been enjoying. Go check it out. Outlaws the good thief. Yeah. Starring Mr. Miles Gray. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien on threads at Jack underscore O underscore

O'Brien. We're doing it. You know, I will post there once every two to three weeks like I do on Twitter. There you go. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes.

Footnotes. Where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy? I think you might enjoy this track from the group called the Heliocentrics. And if you like DJ Shadow You'll probably like this group Because Malcolm Cato who is the drummer In this band Worked a lot with DJ Shadow

Back in the day In the early days of DJ Shadow's career So check this out This track is called Noises and Conversations It's just Again it kind of has Kind of like Krungbin It has that sort of

Eastern-y guitar vibe uh but with like really dope drums uh and again if you like dj shadow that kind of vibe mo wax label that stuff check this one out the heliocentrics noises and conversations all right we'll link off to that in the footnotes the daily zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio visit the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning. We are back on Monday to tell you what trended over the weekend. And we will talk to you all then.

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