The Daily Zeitgeist - Senatorial Saviors, Dance Movies All The Same? 8.17.20

Episode Date: August 17, 2020

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It's not my favorite dish anyway. It's Monday, August 17th, 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Somebody once told me that COVID's gonna kill me because I'm gonna play at Sturgess. So where you're coming from, I guess you're also dumb with that MAGA hat on your forehead. In a week, we start coughing and we don't stop coughing.

Fuck rules and we'll all fall into coffins. It makes sense I'd die for some bummer fun. Your lungs give out, but Dr. Fauci's dumb. No mask for you, no mask for me, so let's get on the bike. I'll take the bitch seat. If you don't die, if you don't

you won't die if you don't go. Go die if you don't go go you won't help me do all this blow hey now we get covid fuck us we're lame hey now we'll get covid get the show on get paid it's okay we where bummers are And I mean I don't know I lost it there That was courtesy of Travis Stockstill I lost it like five seconds in The American Butcher

Pushed through And I'm thrilled to be joined as always By my co-host Mr. Miles Gray Somebody once told me And my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Somebody once told me the left wants to control me. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed. But they were looking pretty dumb.

Social distance, that mass on Antifa won't control me unless I'm dead. Well, the bikes started coming and they never stopped stopped coming Started breaking rules and the virus was stunting Wouldn't be sturdy if we didn't have fun Fuck being safe cause we're all real dumb So much to Fred to all my peeps Yeah some folks might end up six feet deep But you'll never know if you don't go We might die but liberals get owned

Hey now, you say fuck war Get your chaps on and pray Hey now, you said fuck war. Get your chaps on and pray. Hey now, this is not smart. Hope we all have sick pay. Once the virus took hold, we realized it mainly kills the old. All right. See?

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But I follow you now. So all is well in the hopper uh submitted last week and i was getting through all the other ak's but i you know i follow you now so all is fair all is all as well as that gang world thank you again for this masterful aka submission and we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat uh i think we can say this the newest addition to mount zeitmore she is but like without being problematic like acknowledging that mount rushmore itself is problematic. I've seen some suggestions like maybe we need a different monument to make our thing, but the not shitty Rushmore. Right. Okay.

Yeah. The latest addition to the Mount Zyt of fame. The Zyt of fame. Oh, that's good. Mount Zytlipis. Mount Zytlipis. Boom yeah there we go uh we got there she is the hilarious the talented the brilliant bridget todd yay i'm so happy to be here and i'm i'm sad i didn't have a uh a smash mouth song what if i busted out a Smash Mouth D-cut? Yeah, right?

Great to have you, Bridget. How are you quarantining? How's it going? Same old, same old. Does DC feel a lot better? Do you feel like, do you have faith in your city? Because I have no faith in mine, sadly. I'm like, oh, God.

I think it's a good question. I think D.C. If you would ask me a few weeks ago, I would have had complete confidence in our ability to curb COVID. Now I go out for like a walk. People, people, it's like over. People are out at bars. People are doing their thing. Bars are open?

Bars are open. I think they're supposed to have social distancing measures in place, but none of the places I've seen have that. We'll see how it goes. Koreatown has a bunch of tented outdoor restaurant things going on in restaurant fronts by my house. It's

apparently inspired by Seoul soul it's something that happens in soul so uh that's an idea oh like from how they were responding to the pandemic i think or you mean like just generally outside eating yeah just generally outside eating okay yeah it's supposed to be this past uh the next few days are supposed to be incredibly hot as we're recording this in the Southwest where we live. Yeah. Well, I was going to ask, how has it been having the transition to more outdoor dining and outdoor bar options when it's so hot? I don't know. I don't go out.

I just feel bad. I feel bad. It looks uncomfortable. I don't also want to be the kind of consumer that it's like such a weird double-edged sword because I understand the need for people to work because our government is not just saying, here, we're going to give you money to stay safe so we can just end this pandemic like other countries have done or at least limit the financial impact of just staying safe. Here, it's like, well, if you can't stay safe, then you're going to have to put yourself at risk. And part of me feels bad of like even being a consumer who would help a business rationalize

that they need to put their own employees at risk. But then it's like, but they need money. So I'll just take out. Thank you so much. I will leave a tip, but I will not stay here. I don't even if it's outside and it's safe for everybody. And I don't need to be doing all that because I can, you know i feel the same way it's such a weird dilemma of so so far i mean i've done takeout but i've not really gone to any restaurants or bars and yeah it is it's i want to

be a good consumer i understand that people who work in the service industry need to make a living but i don't want to perpetuate this idea that's like, you need to die serving me. Right. I don't want to perpetuate that. So I don't I don't really know what to do. I don't have an answer. That's why it's like, I'll just, you know, just leave tips. And at least I can say, like, I've contributed to the financial well-being of the business.

Hopefully they're doing right by their employees. But I'm not at least presenting the physical, you know, threat or risk, you know, because of just, you know, the nature of transmission and things like that. Not that I'm, you know, been around that many people, but that's just things I want to think about. You just got to consider everybody. Right. Absolutely. Especially like if I'm eating, like, I don't need to be like, well, this would have tasted better like 20 minutes ago there on the spot.

You know, like we adjust. That's why I don't, you know. Yeah. Oh, I got a takeout That's why I don't, you know. Yeah. Oh, I got a takeout chicken and waffles. Did not travel well. So I'm learning which foods

don't travel well. Or shout out to the- Fried chicken travels, waffles do not. Yeah, waffles. Well, then some places know, like, if you have fried food,

like, you can't just have the lid on or else it steams in and now you have no crunch. So shout out to places that cut the corners on the boxes or create some kind of ventilation so my crispy stays crispy um but yeah it really is just about like yeah how do i help like support the places i normally go to and i see dated like i would normally be patronizing but without being risky with it so yeah, yeah. 2020 problems.

Mm-hmm. All right, Bridget, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things that we're talking about today. We're going to talk about the USPS, going around just pulling up some of the mailboxes around cities in Oregon, New York. Montana.

Who knows where else. Yeah. We're going to talk about the senators being rescued by the Chamber of Commerce. We're going to talk about more evidence of lead, crime link. We're going to talk about the Fresh Prince being rebooted as a different genre. All of that. And then we're going to get to our rewatches. But first, Bridget, we'd like to ask our guest,

what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Something from my search history that is revealing about who I am is who did Ramona Singer vote for? If you watch Real Housewives of New York, Ramona Singer is an iconic cast member. I believe she vote for her. If you watch Real Housewives of New York, Ramona Singer is a iconic cast member. I believe she voted for Trump.

You believe she did, right? After a Google deep dive, I'm like 99% sure. Shoot, she's like the proto-Karen. Right! You know what I mean? Like, turtle time? Fuck outta here. I was like, yo, it's Trump time. It's been MAGA time with her. And Mario, I'm like, get outta out of here you're disgusting the way she treated um what's homegirl jill zarin

oh i don't even get me started you know that's when i was i don't like this i don't like this at all and people you know they're like you like jill zarin i'm like yes i think she was sensitive and she shouldn't have been on a reality show uh you know yeah i completely agree um i was reading this article that was going into all the different housewives franchises to see who voted who people think they voted for and i i went away from that thinking i think remotest singer i think she like you said she's the prototypical karen white lady she had this post on instagram a couple days ago where she was complaining to the mayor of New York that she had seen two different men with their pants around their ankles. And she was like, the city is out of control.

And I was just thinking, we've got COVID. We've got people who are unemployed. We've got so much going on. And this is what you use your platform to complain about? Yeah. Oh, OK. Well, so we'll also have to throw Jill Zarin on that scrap heap because she took a dope ass selfie at the Trump inauguration. Oh, okay. Well, so we'll also have to throw Jill Zarin on that scrap heap because she took a dope-ass selfie at the Trump inauguration.

Oh, did she? Oh, my God. Bye-bye to everybody. No. Bye-bye. I mean, we shouldn't be surprised by anybody who's making, you know, a million, like, who has a million, $3 million home in New York. Like, at a certain point, wealth begins to be like,

I don't know what my politics are aside from, like, not paying do you think bethany voted for bethany franklin oh i don't think she i don't think she's liberal yeah yeah i mean okay yeah look at what she's doing with her charity be strong you know chartering planes to help puerto rico i feel like a trump supporter wouldn't do that and if she did yo she's next level yeah you know what i mean yeah um what is something you think is overrated something i think is overrated is a little bit personal which is grad school uh i am a phd school dropout and while cleaning my apartment i found an old journal from when i was in grad school and reading it i was y'all I was so broke and I hated my life so much. So I'm going to say grad school, overrated.

How long ago did you drop out? I dropped out of grad school, God, like 10 years ago. So kind of a while ago, kind of a while ago now. So that's enough distance. Yeah, that is enough distance. I went to University of Maryland College Park, and I was trying to get a doctorate in African-American women's literature um yeah it was looking back like I really reading reading this old journal entry I had a flood of all these memories of just being very broke and also working as an adjunct and in the journal I

describe going to a meeting with like actual professors and adjuncts where the professor at the end of the meeting was like Bridget would youjuncts where the professor at the end of the meeting was like bridget would you like to take these bagels home because i know you're have no money and he was right yeah wow that would be the same way if i look back on like when i was a pa uh and like you know just doing like my like hollywood odd jobs where like yeah very much like someone who had me on a shoot be like hey you want to take the crafty home man because i know you got roommates and i'm like i would sir and thank you so much even though these pop eyes biscuits are harder than hockey pucks i will drop some water in them

and bring them back to life in the microwave thank you sir yes you want to be insulted but you also you know low-key you're like fuck yeah i'm gonna take this shit i'm broke as fuck are you kidding me? I'll take the loose potatoes, too, because I could I could fuck with those later. I'll make hash browns. I don't know. But just yes, I'll take everything. Loose potatoes.

I remember very specifically. What were you PAing on? This was another. Well, first of all, when I used to work on Hell's Kitchen, the Gordon Ramsay show, they would let the they would let the production staff, they would let us have the ingredients that they would use for the night's challenge every day day so like i remember one night i brought home i'm not joking a motherfucking hefty like construction shopping bag full of shishito peppers wow that's too many like it's not even yeah you can't how can one man have so many peppers uh yeah uh but like that was like the vibe there.

There is an excitement when you get the... The potatoes was from another shoot and that was to do with California Chicken Cafe and they were roasted potatoes and I was like, I can just make little potato patties out of potato pancakes with these when I get home, put them in the food processor. That's what I did.

I don't want to derail the episode, but I'm obsessed with Gordon Ramsay and I have so many questions. This episode has no rails, by the way. You heard the intro, right? Can I just ask one thing? You heard my AK. I mean, you know this show. But thank you so much.

Yes. Normally, we are so focused. But for this one moment, I will indulge your question brisa yes okay is it so i i've watched all the gordon ramsay properties yeah same on the kids show he's so sweet to the kids it's it's adorable to watch him interact with the kids but as you know on the on the adult show he's his whole thing is like being kind of mean is it an act or is he actually kind of a gruff person he's well okay so I didn't work on Master Chef Kids. I know someone that did

and says he's overall a kind guy. He turns it on when you're cooking then you enter his world where now he has a take on the shit you're doing. If you're just walking around, he's going to be like, Oi! What's with your hat? It's not like, you know.

So for example on one of the seasons I worked on two seasons of Hell's Kitchen on one of the seasons he changed the craft services company two

I think three times in the season because he felt the craft meal wasn't up to his standard for what the crew should be eating

so like he would come by and just taste like sort of make a small plate of whatever the crew was eating. And then the next day there'd be a new crew there. And we're like,

what happened to like, he didn't like the food. Let me ask you this. Have you ever seen that video of him, of him having another chef taste his pad Thai? And he's so, he's so excited to get. And the guy's like,

yeah, it's the best. Yeah. Well, cause it's like a Thai chef. Who's like, bro, this is something like,

this is whack. I don't know what this is for, like don't this is i'm gonna take and he's sad he's so sad the guy the guy he's like he's like what do you think about it do you like it do you like it and he goes and then he's like uh well you know what do you think and that guy is like what do you want to know about it he's like what do you want to know about it he like what do you want to know about it you should definitely look it up it's great yeah because like tables it's so it's such an inversion of power of what you're used to seeing in any kind of gordon ramsay clip that's so funny um the the most delicious food has ever been to me is working as like a busboy or a dishwasher in the kitchen seeing like all this delicious food and

just being broke and hungry and then like getting a plate of french fries with hollandaise sauce or some shit like that so another thing too hell's kitchen so you know i don't well it's it's it's a reality show but you know quote unquote reality so like sometimes the the the servers like walk away from the past like as if they're going to put food on a table but they aren't and it's just for the shot and they walk straight through the set and go to this other back corner where they'll just put the plates down and the the knife fights that we had over those plates oh yeah they're like i mean you got the you got to taste the duck last night i never had duck i'm gonna try it and then you're like this shit is so good

and then you just but it is like that moment where you're like, where do I have to be to eat like this all the time? But that still affects my taste in food. I love French fries with hollandaise sauce. I love Italian food because I worked, when I was in high school, I was a busboy in a dishwasher at an Italian restaurant where they had solid food. But that food just looked so good to me. It just like, yeah, just the, the dream of that food. That's the reason why I love Domino's is because when I worked at the laser tag place doing kids' birthday parties, that was the pizza place we had to deal with.

So if you had the birthday, we'd be like, okay, so we can order from Domino's and whenever you'd clean up half the time, the parents don't want to take back like a half a pizza pizza so we take it in the back and the starving high school kids devour the shit out of it i remember like you would have 10 minutes between your like three o'clock party and your 3 15 party and i would have to fucking like like condense five slices in like a like a baseball and just like eat it like that you don't like an apple but it was like so good too to the point where like i always have those memories of eating dominoes and be like this is sustaining me until a massive celebrity can then watch you clean up and be like yeah yeah there's been a few dr dre yeah maybe wild uncomfortable

oh have you talked about that i didn't know her name and name harrison ford caught me with uh my pants down because i had ice cream or i had ice cream cake all over my pants that I had to like a kid threw a slice of ice cream cake at my crotch uh and I like I needed to clean like because you in one day at my job you would do like three or four birthday parties like in your shift and so in between them I was like I can't go out there like I need new pants so I was like furiously cleaning them and Harrison Ford came the back door and like just like opened the back door and i'm there with my pants around my knees like a washcloth like scrubbing the crotch of my pants like in my underwear and it's him and calista flockhart and he has like his like sunglasses and he dropped them like sort of like to look at me

and he goes is this that laser zone place i'm like i'm like i was like the entrance is in the front mr ford and he's like and he just didn't even say thank you he was just so like if i think i fucked his day up but like you can that's a whole podcast masturbating or whatever you were yeah like whatever this is you freaky freak boy masturbating with ice cream cake yeah yeah looking at calista he's, I told you these kids are fucked. What is something you think is, are we on underrated? I don't even know where we're at here. Yeah.

I think we're at underrated, right? Okay. What's something you think is underrated, Bridget? Something I think is underrated is, particularly in these trying COVID times, watching just a feel good movie. You know? Yeah. I watched An American Pickle. If you've seen that on HBO Max. Oh, yeah.

Everybody was hearing good things about this. Yeah. I typically like a... Give me a dark documentary about some fucked up shit, and I'm very happy. But the last few weeks, I've been watching a lot of feel-good, fluffy movies. And, you know, the world is fucked up enough.

When it's time to watch a movie, maybe watch something that's a little bit escapist. Yeah, hey, straight up facts. I mean, Desperados, as we'll get into. That's a fun one. Good letting off steam. But yeah, I hear American Pickles very good I hear it really makes you feel like Seth Rogen is one of our great

thespians I think Anna Hosni I was saying that I think her exact words were fuck Daniel Day-Lewis Seth Rogen's our finest actor yes and I'm going to say something else that might be a bit of a hot take I mean Daniel Day-Lewis isn't ours and either is Seth Rogen to be honest he's Canadian and and right lewis is irish or english irish irish yeah i think

uh seth rogan kind of handsome can get it yeah i think he can no he's english sorry no disrespect or no he's born i don't know british and irish that's what it is. He's both. Daniel Day-Lewis. Yes. Wanted to make sure I got that right. When I say our, I just mean the human race, Miles. Oh, I'm very regional. So when I say our, I'm talking about our LA or California. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, you're not from the Valley. Bridget, finally, what is a myth?

What's something people think is true you know to be false okay so this again is a little bit personal but when biden picked kamala harris as his running mate i got a flurry of text messages being like oh aren't you related to her and your first your first thought might be racism but not true my mom is an aka she is she went to. She is a member of the same sorority as Harris. And anybody who is also an AKA, people like Gladys Knight, people like, I think, Tony Braxton. My mom will say, oh, so-and-so, that's my sister, meaning her sorority sister, but she doesn't she doesn't correct them so there has been a little bit of a todd family lore that a whole host of black women that we've never met are my mom's sister and my aunt because my mom has been feeding into this myth that she is related to kamala harris she is not we've never

met i like that though oh you really must meet kamala. She's good people. Miles and I have hung with her. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. She came by. The Ron Burgundy podcast. I was thinking like weed, and I was like. Uh-oh.

The photo, I look like it, too. I'm like, I'm behind California's former top cops. Thinking like that dead body. Damn it. AKA is like skull and crossbones or the i i didn't know about aka's but it's like all these famous people oh yeah do aka twitter went the i was like oh shit it is a movement fuck around with the intersection of howard twitter and aka twitter that is a move.

That is a lot of impressions. That's like someone at a marketing company is like, how do we get that kind of energy on this new campaign for sparks energy liquor? I want to see numbers. I want to see HBCU Twitter intersect with AKA Twitter and liberal politics Twitter. That's what I'm talking about.

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Apple Podcasts podcast or wherever you get your podcasts and don't worry we promise to avoid any black holes most of the time and we're back uh and really quickly we want to check in with the state of the United States Postal Service. How are we doing, Miles? So there were like images going around where there were Postal Service trucks like loading up those iconic blue mail drop boxes like off the streets and taking them away. Yeah. And there's a few images of that in new york city eugene oregon john tester the senator montana he sent a letter to the postmaster uh lewis de joy basically saying like what is going on is like apparently over a dozen post office drop boxes were removed across

the state and this is with the backdrop of the president is trying to fuck mail-in voting so he can do everything he can to try and hold on to power and this is like it's just so cynical to be like okay we're it wasn't just enough that they were fucking with sorting machines and sorting machines are being removed which a lot of people like this has to be felonious now at this point oh yeah this is this is like in every imaginable way just tampering with the mail but there are ways ways they were like Louis DeJoy said, like there have been some unintended consequences of like the restructuring that's going on

and using really shitty euphemistic language. But then there are other spokespeople from the postal service saying like, well, you know, like we're just trying to be efficient. And like when there aren't that many drops at that location, then like we just realize that it's easier to do that. So then the routes are shorter and da, da, da, da, da. But what that it's easier to do that, so then the routes are shorter, and da-da-da-da-da-da. But what it looks like and what it is, is you're just being like, we're going to limit

even the places you can even leave your mail-in ballot. Right. Yeah. Did some other service have to open up a Dropbox there that they needed to get rid of those? I don't understand the logic's i don't know i don't know it's i mean there's also like there's something going on where uh that the postmaster lewis de joy is like has some kind of entanglements or something to do and i don't mean entanglement like in the red table talk version uh shout out austin nothing but um the like but actually like he has amazon stock like

oh yeah he's a saboteur straight up yeah and it's just sort of like this is but this is where we're at where you're being like yeah bring in the corporate raiders to like sort of take our infrastructure to the point where now it's like okay now let's privatize it and sell it off and there we go someone's got to check now so are we just gonna say that everybody asked to vote in person like let's just do that as a... Well, like, LeBron is, like, trying to get... They're making the Dodger Stadium just an enormous polling place. That's right.

They're like, you know, some people are trying to do things, but, yeah, I don't know. I mean, granted, what does that look like with COVID? And how does that align with any kind of a wave a second wave or are there's a second wave like in this country i feel like we've just been riding the same big ass wave so i think we're at the tip of the second wave with wave of deaths right so we'd be looking at third wave jesus christ yeah i don't know so yeah like all together. Yeah, you're it's it's really a dilemma for people to just say, like, OK, wait hours in line, possibly in the cold, depending on where you are during this pandemic. Just so you can avoid this. I don't know the further acceleration of the authoritarian takeover of america right yeah and i also think of course

this presents such a a horrible challenge for voting you know people who are chronically ill or you don't compromise they like they rely on mail-in voting and then even beyond that fucking with like fucking with the postal service is going is going to derail so many lives right like my dad my dad is chronically ill He gets his medication through the postal service. If we're going to accept that massive delays on this essential service is okay for Trump to get another term in office, it's going to be derailing the lives

of people who really depend on it. People who live in rural communities where sending something would cost an astronomical amount through something like FedEx but the USPS it's or the United States Postal Service you can just send it for the cost of a stamp like we are even beyond the implications for the election the implications that this has for just our way of life it's just it's just so deeply deeply demoralizing and it shouldn't be acceptable but what is being done you know like

where do we like what can we do right uh that's yeah that's where we're slowly arriving at that point where it's like damn like we got to start striking taking over the streets like what what is the recourse because on the other hand like the politicians are sort of left with like just writing letters to the postmaster being like what the fuck is going on right like it can't just be that like yeah the fuck i mean they're this is this is straight up fuckery and it's it's messing with people's lives like to your point medication social security checks all kinds of things people need the postal service for uh yeah i don't know if trump if they do get trump out of office if we do get trump out of office if anti like people who aren't fascists yeah but just like uh the america's non-fascist community gets him out of

office like we need to spend the next four years just extinguishing laws that like because all of this shit is just like it's really been like a stress test that just shows all the ways that you know when somebody's in power they can just you know you use that power to kind of move us towards fascism and he he's not going to be the last one. Like we're no, you're going to get someone like Tom Cotton or someone who's a little bit more articulate and who understands like DC politics better and how you can actually go about these things rather than just being so mercurial and like

impulsive. And it's been like, I don't know. I hate that. Fucking underlay underlay mommy. EO, EO, executive orders. Like it's just fucking like

that's when we're going to be in trouble with someone who actually knows how to work the levers because trump just knows how to work the media and that's and the people but like that's the only thing that has kept us from like fully being like whoa where he's bombing u.s cities yeah yeah it's so depressing honestly listening, listening to you talk, I was just thinking about all of the different, I don't even want to call them scandals, all of the different things that Trump has done that if any other president did them,

he would be out of office. It would be some, it would be, we would be having like a national reckoning. And there have been so many, it's like, how do you even, so yeah, now it's the post, now it's the postal service. He went on TV and pretty much admitted,

yeah, I'm fucking with the postal service so I can win the election because I want to win the election. He pretty much said that pretty plainly. Like, what's next? Where does it go from here? Well, the natural extension is, right, like for so long,

the people of good faith and morals will rely on that to say, no, if we just stick by our guns, that's, that's how we win. But when you are dealing with people who constant are not playing by the same rule book, eventually that's going to drag the other side into the same,

like, you're like, okay, fuck it. So it's just, it's just dirt fest now. Like it complete, like just corruption on both sides to counteract the,

it's just, that's like the, I feel like the completely runaway train version where it's like yeah the only logical thing is like okay then we got to cheat too yeah and i think that's just that's when it fully you know uh things fall apart who would normally be stopping this it would be like the postmaster general like the the head of the postmaster general wouldn't probably wouldn't even go do the things that are happening right now right i'm just trying to figure out like in the version where like norms save america from this sort of just like chasm of you know

just dark corruption and like you know where nothing matters what like who is supposed to be coming in and being like in a normal presidency like bridget was saying who who would be stopping this just the the opposition party like mitch mcconnell if it was a democrat would be freaking out i i guess i just don't know how the country works. Maybe I need to do that. It's a good question. I don't know. I don't know. In a normal situation, who would be the person to put a stop to this? But honestly, your question just speaks to the way that the things that you would think of as the normal checks and balances have just stopped.

We don't have that anymore. They just don't work anymore. Yeah. I guess he can be impeached. Right. Could we try and impeach him again? stopped we don't have that anymore it just don't work anymore yeah i'm being like i i'm i guess you can be impeached right like could we try and impeach him again for this oh i'm talking oh but i think you can impeach the uh postmaster general oh right right right that's possible but i but i don't know probably not before the election and that's what they're counting on there's too many calculations happening you know to the point where it's like, well, what do we expend our political capital on?

Is it to try and get relief? But now the Senate, they've gone on recess. So we're like, I don't know. Honestly, on the Zoom, you just threw your hands up like oh i don't know that's how i feel i feel like yeah the the we live in a country where the top down message we're getting is like good luck you know we can't help you hope you don't get evicted but like maybe you'll figure something out but anyway i'm going on recess bye like then like okay so what we have to pull up to your house now?

Is that the deal? Right. Because you didn't take it seriously enough. The recess, though, is shocking. Is there some reason they have to go on recess? Why aren't they just working 24 hours a day? Because they couldn't come to a deal over the last couple weeks. And I think they're looking at it like, fuck it, whatever.

Let's see. Maybe they'll come back to the table. Maybe we'll get bad enough in the polls that then the Republicans will want to make a deal. But either way, it's fucking around with people's lives. And you really should be no matter what. Like, I mean, you can't expect a single fucking thing from Republicans ever at all. No. So that's why you're like, like okay so how shitty are the like

is the leadership on for the democrats too like can you please show people too that everything you're trying to do everything and sort of like well we tried and we offered this or whatever like i don't know there's like we haven't gotten to quite the screaming point of like the fuck is wrong with y'all uh which like slowly i feel like some we've seen some senators and congress people like break to sort of like admonish their peers but you know i don't know it's it it almost feels like you're starting to see how disconnected some of the even the leaders on in the democratic party are from like what their lived experiences of 95 of american people absolutely definitely i mean

that's what you're like this is all i think stinks i wish that you know as someone on the left i wish that our leaders in the democratic party and on the left were not so fucking toothless you know it's like like what are we gonna do what are we doing how how are and i i'll give that we are in such unprecedented times with a with a president like Trump. But it just feels like nothing's being done. It feels like and I guess I think I'm speaking from a place of like extreme sort of disaffection. And, you know, just I don't even know the word for it. I'm so exhausted even just thinking about this. But when I see on Twitter Democratic politicians

putting out a spicy tweet about something Trump said or did, and I'm like, this is great, but this isn't helping me. This tweet is cool, awesome. You dunked on him. Good job. But how am I going to pay rent?

How am I going to have health care? Because the world is happening off that screen. Exactly. You i mean and like you're you're you're not gonna people aren't gonna big you up because you had the fire clap back tweet they're gonna you know you people want to see you like in the district talking to people trying to work it out so even if you have to you're like saying well whatever i can't do at the federal level let me get in my district and see what I can do for the people of my district too, because that is all, that is the point. You're there to represent the people of your district. But I think that's just the thing is like, we're needing to see a shift in the, what motivates someone to get into politics because this, all the older people that are

in there now are like, have ties to business and it makes sense for them strategically to get into politics because this all the older people that are in there now are like have ties to business and it makes sense for them strategically to get into politics for like the benefit of themselves and then you have some people who truly are public servants but we need more like i'm ready to i'm ready to rock the fucking boat over absolutely people and like that's what we have you know and like that's why i think the the the dnc wasn't looking favorably at people like like the squad and things like that because they're not here to play nice and they're like uh you know there's like real problems like you know i mean like poor people are going through it i think we're gonna see a real shift like a real shift and like who becomes politicians just

general generationally like the values because this is you know i mean anybody who's paying attention and is not completely disaffected and completely just given up and is just trying to you know make a power and money uh right now is disgusted with with what they're seeing um i mean you're you're pointing out like the chamber of commerce shit like yeah just how like that's working with exactly like so you look at it all right you know jody ernst from senator from iowa tom tillis from north carolina susan collins from maine cory gardner in colorado they are all uh the beneficiaries of massive ad spends from the chamber of commerce now the chamber of commerce is basically the the gang that business owners join up right and they say okay with the chamber

bro and like every every city has their own local chamber and that's all the business owners who like you know we're a network of business you know it's like some very nice language but really they're there to be like don't fuck our money up and if you if the politicians start doing things that fuck our money up then you're gonna hear from the chamber of commerce right um and especially with and now you look at the the senators right and how the republican party has been operating especially through the pandemic they've been like rah rah like reopen everything who gives a fuck about masks like i think the problem is we need to get back to work that's very many regulations- Too many regulations. Too many regulations. That's exactly what the Chamber of Commerce wants. They want the message to be, we got to reopen

because the Chamber of Commerce, they represent many of the business owners who are by any means necessary. Not to say that there are small business owners that absolutely need help and are also saying, I need to open for the survival of my own business. But these, this is, this is a very disingenuous bunch. Like they're commending these people. So they said for Jody Ernst, when asked about like, well, what's going on with like, you know, it looks like you spend about $350,000 in the Cedar Rapids in Des Moines area. Uh, that's a lot. Uh, and saying the U S chamber of commerce is supportive of this common sense solution that will lower prescription drug prices for Iowa seniors and families, particularly crucial in light of the of the COVID-19.

The COVID-19. Yeah, they wrote the issue advocacy campaign highlights the business community support for Senator Ernst and her willingness to fight for Iowans on these important issues. It's not that she was out here being like, let's try and recklessly reopen things and put workers at risk. They're like, because we can't bigger up on that. Let's use the thing and make this about prescription drugs, even though that's why we need her there because we need somebody to cape for the business class.

And again, I do want to reiterate though with the reopening stuff, because I have people in my life who are like trying to reopen their business and going about it one way or the other, But the pressure really needs to be on the government to support the businesses. And I feel bad for business owners thinking that they need to open and make money the way they were. That's not the way it's that's that really is should not be a responsibility given this pandemic. The onus is on the federal government to say, do not put any of our citizens

at risk. We'll figure it out. Don't do that. But that's not America talking. Absolutely. I know it's very tempting when you see these pictures of young people out at bars, out at restaurants to be like, tsk, tsk, you should be at home. But the point is, these places shouldn't be open, right? If we lived in a country that had a strong federal government, we would have some sort of system worked out where people, it would be incentivized for people to do the safe, smart thing. I feel for these business owners who don't really feel like they have a lot of choices and they aren't really getting any kind of guidance from the federal government. And a lot of cases, they're not getting good guidance from their state government, right? I absolutely feel for them being put in this impossible, impossibly complex situation that

they did not set up themselves and having to navigate that. That's, I feel for them. But I think we need to do, it's important to keep in mind that it is not the fault of the business owners, and it's not the fault of the people who like are like fuck it i'm gonna go to the bar the the blame should be on the government and their failure to be leaders in the moment when we need it the most and i think we have all of these little tricks and things to get us to forget that and to be like oh well i blame this 19 year old girl who went to a bar without a mask or what have you it It's like, no, it's very tempting, but I think we need to continue to remember that the people who are supposed to be

keeping us safe in this moment have just thrown up their hands and thrown us to the wolves. Yeah. It's like having a babysitter who's letting the babies play with matches and they get home like, what the fuck happened? Like, I don't know, man.

The baby's playing with matches. I don't know why the fuck I got in them. She's like, you are the babysitter, sir. They're there to make sure. It's like you were saying earlier, man. No one man should have all those peppers. Yeah, exactly. No one man should have all those peppers.

21st century Shishito man. But I think really that for business owners too that's a very specific mindset in this country too which is very much a bootstrappy entrepreneur who's like i can get it on my own i'm gonna do it on my own and on that on the other side of that it's you're less likely to actually be like hold on a second it's not actually in this moment it's not actually on me to make sure my business is surviving but that is a very like culturally inbuilt way of thinking of like well i gotta get my i gotta make sure my business going like you have to consider this piece that the federal government

is being so negligent and i think the actions that you take is to organize your community to like really demand a response from your local leaders or whatever and go up there. Because that's... I know no other way. If anything, you'd hope that this radicalizes the small business owner owning class to realize like, oh my God, this is such a fucked up way of doing business in this country, especially without the federal government offering any kind of support to us as business owners. The PPP loans fucking vaporized and so many of the people who needed them didn't get them. So yeah, it's hard. And it's just really disheartening

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away. I felt like I was living in North Korea, but worse, if that's possible listen to spiraled on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and uh so miles you watched uh something that was in the netflix top 10 uh at the end of last week work it uh i re-watched one of the top movies of the summer on netflix desperados uh which i don't have a like a ton to say uh it has one of my favorite moments of physical comedy in a long time which moment is that i'm not gonna i can't do it i can't do it

to him because it's like it would fuck it up if i even said anything about it yep yep yep uh but it just very unexpected i i watched it a few weeks ago and it's like that the premise is so like intense you know yeah of like being like we gotta get to mexico now uh what because what's the deal like she sends a wrong so she sends an email no she sends she gets drunk so this dude this dude is ghosting her they have sex and then five five days go by and he is not like calling her not responding to anything uh and so her and her friends get drunk and send a mean email which is a very funny like scene it cuts deep yeah like they're going for the throat yeah talk about his thin dick uh says your dick is bad uh i really like nassim pedra as uh like a romantic comedy elite she's

she's funny as fuck and like the you know she is she plays like a a really lead. She's, she's funny as fuck. And like the, you know, she is, she plays like a, a really like kind of not a shitty person, but like a person who's just like in a very, yeah, very flawed. And you stick with her and root for her, even though like she's kind of openly shitty during the movie.

Not to, not because of that. The dude who she's's really into is just, he's like a bad James Marsden character, light. Right. You know, just kind of a real bland douchebag. Like a stock photo of a stock photo. Yeah, exactly.

I know the type. Yeah. Yeah. The stock photo of a stock photo with bad thin dick uh the but btd it's uh yeah they're like dirt bags it kind of made like her and her friends are kind of dirt bags and it like makes you it sort of made me wish that they had just gone full like i don't know dirt bag yeah like it because they're they like go back to the rom-com side of it, and it's just like, man, if this wasn't,

if the lead characters weren't women, I feel like they would have gone, it would have just been a funny, raunchy comedy. I wonder if that was a note that they got when this movie was being developed, where they're like, you know, it's a little too raunchy. Right, right. Can we make it a little more rom-com? But it's like, no're like, you know, like it's a little too like raunchy. Right. Can we make it a little more rom-com?

But it's like, no, like that. Yeah. Go for it. Cause it's, there was some funny moments in it. Yeah.

There are really funny moments. The one thing, so I would say that, that it keeps going back to like the romantic thing where like she needs to find a guy and like, even at the like climax, she realized she doesn't need this guy, but then it goes back to her going with another guy,

and it's just like, why did we need to? All right. That's one thing that I feel holds it back a little bit. The other thing is that she falls down a lot and faints a lot. I don't know. On one hand, that's a comedy trope, and like i don't know like that that on one hand that's like a comedy trope but on the other hand it's like so kind of forced in a lot of situations that it feels like like do you remember we watched uh the cinematic masterpiece 365 days uh the second most popular netflix yes movie uh which

of the of the summer which is just porn basically it's like soft porn uh from poland but that like we were talking about how the lead character and that the the woman uh has a heart condition and keeps fainting like for no reason and we were just like why does that happen like that's just very strange it's never really followed up on and like in this she keeps like passing out she meets uh her like supposed dream guy stock photo thin dick uh when she's like passed out and it reminded me of like one of the weirdest things when you go back and watch snow white is like every time she like a good thing happens for her she's literally unconscious like the the Prince comes and saves her when she's like, uh,

in a coma, the dwarves like fall in love with her when she's asleep in their bed. Like the animals like really like her because she's passed out from like fear. It's like, it's this weird, like trope that I feel like comes from like the male gaze in movies where women have to be either passed out or like clumsy

and like hurting themselves in order for men to like be into them which uh made me slightly uncomfortable because it just kept uh kept happening yeah it's very predatory it's like you know that the ladies gotta keep around who are like stumbling and in need of help. Right, exactly. That should not be happening. Or just passed out cold, not awake. Yeah, we want our women unconscious, fellas. Am I right? Whoa. What?

What happened on your Mexico trip, Dave? You know what? We're going to pass on this one, man. This is a little too real for us. Yeah, yeah. But anyways, I really liked it. you know what we're gonna pass on this one man this is a little too real for us yeah yeah um but anyways uh i really liked it the moment of like the the thing i really like about the moment of uh physical comedy that apparently didn't get you the way it got me but uh is that it's like a thing that could only like you you need a movie budget to pull this joke off um and that's that's all i'll say that

the the house has a similar thing in it that has like one of the hardest like moments of physical comedy but it like uses movie effects to do it right um anyways i have the hotel uh i recognize because i have this weird thing where i like to look at hotel deals across the world. And then I get obsessed and I look at all the photos. I believe that is the Aubert's Resort in Cabo San Lucas where President Barack Obama once stayed. Aubert? That's just a fun, yeah. Did he do that, you think, just because OB?

Esperanza. As a fellow OB last name? Oh, no. No, this is AUB. AUB Au name? Oh, no. This is AUB. AUB-O-B-I-H. Oh, A-O-B-I-H. Okay. I've just noticed a lot of similarities between the two of us.

Yes, yes. OBs. Miles, you watched? I watched Work It. How was it? You know, I got to stop watching movies that are like not meant for adults um i've like done it like six weeks in a row i feel like and it's i think it's fucking me up i think it's only two but yeah yeah like i don't even know i have an eternity track well you know also

like on my free time because like i realized i watched that other dance movie that we were thinking about watching like like very passively so I consume a lot of media very passively. Anyway, this film, it's definitely like a movie, like, if I was like 15, like, that's who it's for and younger, because it's about this like girl who's in high school. She wants to get into Duke. You know, Duke is her school. And when she, you know, she goes to her like interview, like the woman who's giving the interview sort of like, I mean, you got all these good grades and stuff, but you don't really seem like you're going out your box or whatever. And then she mentions how she like is like works with the dance team that's like well known in the state because like they're the most lit high school dance team. And she's like, Oh, Oh, so you're part of the, the dance team. And she's like,

um, I, I contribute, I contribute to it. And really the opening scene is like, you realize she's like the AV person for the dance team. And like, she fucks up majorly in a performance and spills coffee on the light,

like the board to do all the lights levels and things that starts sparking. But the logic continues where the stage starts sparking as well. Yeah. And there's like, that's my favorite thing. Like, look, if you get,

we all know this, you put anything liquid on electricity, spark shooting out the motherfucker immediately. And if it's connected to that, even 50 feet away, sparks get ready because it's sparks, baby. If a car is anywhere nearby,

it's going to explode. Oh, every time, every time. So, you know so you know as she does and then so there's the the dance people like okay you're off like you can no longer you know work with us as the av person so she's shattered and then in her interview as she sort of like sort of roundaboutly implies that she's on it they're like oh well that's great so if you know if if that's really your thing then i'm i think this really improves your chances at duke like you know i just want to you know like can't wait to see that happen and like so like every formulaic film there's a big obviously competition that she's going to have to be in to get into duke um but then things usually it's to save a

orphanage this is so a girl can get into du Yeah, and this is where it gets kind of weird because she's relying on her friend who's a woman of color to be like, okay, look, I need you to teach me how to dance so I can get into Duke even though I lied, but it's now your responsibility, woman of color, to give me that rhythm so I can get on that dance floor. I'm like, okay.

It's following in the footsteps of save the last dance yeah exactly it's and it's very much like every dance movie it's the you know out of place uptight like book worm or like not hip-hop white person who's like now with some other people but the thing is the main dance team she wants to get on they don't want her anymore so they're and she auditions it goes it goes south and then she realizes she has to start her own they don't want her anymore. And she auditions. It goes south. And then she realizes she has to start her own dance team with some misfits at the school. I was going to suggest that.

Exactly. And it's all the things where it's like, yo, the pasty kid who does karate, he can get down to like, he did a backflip at a pool party in eighth grade. I think he'll be all right. And they're like, all right, let's get him. Then there's a kid who's selling cassette mixtapes, which I was like, who wrote this?

Because kids in high school aren't like, yo, you got that tape? Like the dude had a boombox. You better be selling the fucking tapes deck with it. Because where the fuck is any kid going to listen to a tape? And I know like more like indie artists who are like millennials are fucking with like tape releases but like that's not that's not how kids are spreading their music anymore like we had cds they have spotify playlists and whatever the fuck else like they don't nobody's handing out physical copies i just want to say that there's one moment where the film fully it's just like like it's for

kids there's like a moment where for them to get into the big competition, that's where she, like the real deal, the climax scene, they have to get through like the regionals. And in the regionals, like they do okay, and then the last team goes up and like they're like just smoking them. Like this team is so good. And then they're like, oh, damn, like we're out based on the other teams. Like we thought we would get in if we were the best,

but this team's better than us. And there's a deus ex machina moment where one of the dancers on this team like rival teams that's like about to eliminate them gets a fucking boner so everyone's like whoa look look and they're like what and i'm like when that happened i'm like what the fuck is going on this one of the dudes has the wild boner and they're like yes yes they're like yes and i'm like what the fuck is going on and they're like oh that's boner or whatever and they're like in the guideline the bylaws of the competition says they have to wear a dance belt if you don't wear a dance belt then you're disqualified so we're in and i'm like a dance belt yeah I don't know I guess it's like a erection reducer uh so that's what and I was just like that is such a weird way to get into it but fine and I just like kind of

rolled my eyes to the rest of it but the dancing was good I'll say that they had like and it was like different they had like differently abled people break in they had like an older like I guess b granny now not b girl but like there's a scene where she's like this old one's like what are you guys doing and they're like oh no this like and she's like a like appears like a white woman older white woman and she's like turn that shit up and she starts like walking and shit and you're like whoa so there it has like those moments like where dance movies they'll always have like oh this is when like the main characters like their romantic dance that's choreographed that like maybe feels like gen z's It has those moments where dance movies always have, oh, this is when the main characters,

their romantic dance is choreographed that maybe feels like Gen Z's, I don't know, dirty dancing or whatever the fuck it's supposed to be. But it's got its ups and downs. This is very much up my alley. I was on dance team through all of school, won many a trophy. That's where I know the deal.

I took it very seriously. And honestly, I love it. I love a cheesy formulaic dance movie. I love the montage of assembling the motley crew of ragtag dancers. And inevitably, the white girl gets her rhythm scene. Love it. Love it. Go back and watch save the last dance the the audition that

julia styles does to get into um i think juilliard it's the most she's it's like the most basic white girl dance of all time she sucks at dancing in that movie but listen why when i was first watching that movie as a young person i was like oh my god she's good. She's doing it. Didn't you see like, someone went viral just tweeting the video of that scene and being like, y'all, have y'all really looked how she was dancing in this scene? And you're like, this is bullshit. And also, it's to a certain extent, violence against me. Because it was so swaggerless. They're like, oh, don't get the chair on him. And it's like like, ugh.

The chair part. The chair part where she's like. And she's like, just looking on either side. I'm like, this is not dancing, but fine. And Homegirl's supposed to be auditioning for Juilliard, like one of the top performing arts schools in the fucking world. Isn't the idea that she's supposed to be

one type of like classical dance but then like she like makes it like more exactly exactly so she if I remember correctly she's like a like an uptight white girl she moves she changes schools and she goes I might be misremembering this since it's been a while

she goes to like a predominantly black she moves to go to a predominantly black school she becomes friends with a very early Kerry Washington. Yes, she was in that movie. And then she meets a black student, like a black guy, falls in love with him. And he teaches her to open up and teaches her how to express that through her dance. It's so bad. But listen, let this movie come on when I have a hangover on TBS.

I will watch it from beginning to end. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That guy who played Sean Patrick Thomas was the main character, or he was opposite her. What's he been doing? Oh, not much. Oh, he was really good in Finding Forrester.

It's the same guy, right? Or no, that might not be the same guy. What else was he in? No, that's something he's, like, he doesn't have that many credits. He's from DC, though. Oh! Shout out to DC. Yeah. He's in a Justice League thing? Is he?

That's what it says. I'm just looking at Sean Patrick telling, what else you got here? Oh, yeah, okay. He's like Cruel Intentions. Oh, that's right. He's the cello, that's who it is. He's the. What else you got here? Oh yeah. Okay. Uh, he's like cool intentions. Oh, he's like, Oh, that's right. He's, he's the cello.

He, that's the way it is. He's the cello instructor and cruel intentions. That's right. Um, he's got a little thing with Selma Blair. Oh no, he's been working.

Oh, he's been getting it. Yeah. Yeah. He's just doing a lot of TV. He's doing, yeah. Madam secretary.

Yeah. Got to get that NCIS in. You know what I mean? Are you really working out here? If you haven't been on NCIS? You have not. You are not. Yep, and that's why I'm not really working,

because I have not been on it. Bridget, you did not get the memo about these rewatches, but you did watch American Pickle. Anything else you want to recommend that you've been watching? Oh, I would definitely recommend American Pickle. I would, if you want a kind of easy watching, kind of heartwarming, PG-13, I went into it thinking it was going to be raunchier.

I see Seth Rogen and I'm like, oh, get ready for some pot jokes and dick jokes. But it was more like pickle brine jokes. But by the end of it, I was into it. A movie that I rewatched recently was Demolition Man. Totally holds up. Hell yeah. I mean, if you had told us that at the beginning of this episode,

that's what this episode would have been about. So we watched Demolition Man on Netflix, and now all of our Netflix suggestions are that very specific kind of 90s action movie. So we watched Total Recall last night, which holds up, I think. It's still a pretty good movie. Demolition Man is the one I'm going to recommend. It really presents this very kind of like feminized, like I guess when I watch a lot of movies

that are sort of like about the future, it's always sort of very grim and very dark. And what's actually kind of refreshing about Demolition Man is that their predictions of the future is like, oh, we've reached this sort of almost utopian like feminized society where you know everyone is so happy they don't even really swear and things like that like like that vision of society i was like oh wow it's interesting that that's what they were they were uh presenting yeah but it sucks because dennis leary can't do a stand-up routine in that

world and he's been rat burgers in the subterranean world. Yes, he's been driven underground. Yeah, and they gotta do large-scale heists of Taco Bell restaurants just to keep the fam fed. Won't you please think of the Dennis's Leary? The white, raunchy comedians whose careers were crushed when Dr. Cocteau took over San Angeles. You really remember that movie very well that movie oh

my dad took me to the theater to see that shit and i was like on a school night i was like yo you're tripping bro but like fuck yeah because i'm gonna go to school and be like yo i saw that shit fuck you um and yeah i love it and also i love the director because we started talking about like demolition man kind of came back around like heavy. Was that in the beginning of Quar? We were like really talking heavy about Demolition Man. But yeah, the director, Mark O'Brien. He's like a great artist. He's an artist, man.

Directed that and nothing else. He was like, I've said what I need to say. No, he just when he tried to make his next film and they're like, dude, no, that's too like out there and artsy. He's like, but I made Demolition Man. He's like, i'm an artist and they're like yeah but this is the movie industry where like a bunch of people with no creativity are gonna give notes and crush your dream crush your dream then he's like then i choose the door and his video installations if you ever have a chance to see any of marco brambilla's video installations they are like true masterpieces

of like popular film culture where he's like stitching all of these different frames of films together in these like massive moving murals uh that are typically presented in 3d um and it's a trip yeah that sounds that sounds awesome the one thing i will say about demolition man is that i don't think i've ever seen a movie with a hornier Sandra Bullock. The whole movie, she's just very horny. Yeah. Like a rabbit. It's so wide-eyed. Like, I'm horny.

She's very horny in that movie. But she's allowed to be horny because their version of sex is like mine. You might get a fucking blood clot in your brain fucking with one of those things. I'm like, yo, dude, let's do a, you know, chumbo wombo, chunky monkey, whatever the hell he says. Oh my god. The mambo?

Yeah, the dirty mambo? Wait, what's this? You gotta put on this freaking helmet here? The fact that he is the star of that movie is very strange to me. Like, he's working with a great artist. Sandra Bullock. Peak Sandra.

She went to my college. She went to East Carolina University. She did not graduate, but she went to... Go Pirates. Oh, Pirates? I like... Damn. What's with all the...

I like the Southeast and the names of the mascots of the schools. Okay. I like a pirate. Still, again, University of Richmond spiders. Oh, that's right. I love spiders. So I got to get me a jersey soon. Well, Bridget, it has been, as always, wonderful having you on the Daily Zeitgeist.

Where can people find you and follow you? You can check out my podcast on this very network. It's called There Are No Girls on the Internet. You can find me on Instagram at Bridget Marie and on Twitter at Bridget Marie in DC. Yeah, yeah. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? There is. It's by Sam Sanders, a fellow podcaster.

He says, A thing I've never been able to shake has been someone telling me that Trane's Hey Soul Sister is actually about the first time you ever dated a black woman. And now you must carry this burden as well. You're welcome. Is that true? I have no idea if it's true. But if you think about it, it really makes sense. Oh, my God.

I need to know if that's true now i i don't i gotta go that's too much to think about that is too much like the the our democracy just devolving into fascism is one thing but trans hey soul sister being uh too much much Miles where can people find you And what's a tweet you've been enjoying Was he bigging himself up Hey soul sister He's like you know what I mean Hey what's up soul brother

Did I ever tell you about This thing I'm like yo I'll knock you the fuck out Right here train You know I've been I've been with your kind like okay you know what that's like that's that like a song like that purely is rooted in that kind of vision of what a human being is like you know you could just say you has you smashed a pretty person you know then i have to bring all that other extra shit in but you know it's like that character on uh atlanta the guy who has the juneteenth party oh yes a black woman and thinks he's like but uh so we're too real though too real

yeah oh gosh he's telling um uh donald glover's, like, oh, your people have been through so much. You have a rich history. Thank you. Okay. Miles, where can people find you and what's the tweet you've been enjoying? I got my potato salad from Tony Braxton's Twitter account.

I hope you like it. This feels like the kind of thing someone would say, too, to make you feel comfortable. Okay, so this is Twitter, Instagram, at Miles of Grey. Also on my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance, talking about 90 Day Fiance. And let's see, a tweet I like is actually from one of last week's guests,

Mr. Thorpe, Posada's trap god. He says, Black Lives Matter signs in gentrified neighborhoods just be hidden different. It's true. Yeah, it's just very, very true. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A couple tweets I've been enjoying

from Alvin the Don tweeted, why is it so awkward walking back after you bowl in bowling? And then he also tweeted, you ever bring your pet up to a mirror and you're like, that's you. Oh shit. That really sounds like some shit I've done. You can find us on twitter

at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on miles what are we gonna ride out on today man this is a track from, look, I like when artists, like current artists just are so in love with like an aesthetic from the past, and they just like live that, and you can tell from like when the music they make, like it's just the one, it's like the language they speak. And this, so this is from an artist from Nashville, Tennessee.

It goes by the name Louis Prince, but it's like this, so this is from an artist from Nashville, Tennessee. It goes by the name Louis Prince, but it's like this, it's like electro-y, like 60s jazz, but kind of like new wave pop mix. It just feels like, I don't know, like it just feels like something you'd see in a really dope movie. Like if you were watching like a great film and like sometimes there's like those scenes like that song just like makes the scene and like like someone cools walking through a club or something. That's what I picture with this. So put these in your headphones and be the protagonist of your own film or

walk through your neighborhood masked up, obviously. Um, and this track is called the number 13 by Louis Prince or Louis Prince. I don't know. Forgive me if I mispronounce. All right. Well,

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