The Daily Zeitgeist - STRIKETOBER, Anti-Paternity Screed! 10.20.21

Episode Date: October 20, 2021

In episode 1012, Jack and Miles are joined by actor, producer and advocate Behzad Dabu to discuss John Deere’s Scabs Are Screwing Up Big Time, Double Standards On Spending On Bombs Vs. People, Late Capitalism News of The Day, Trump Shits On Colin Powel In Very Tasteful Obituary, Republicans truly have to be contrarian FOREVER and more!FOOTNOTES: John Deere’s Scabs Are, Unsurprisingly, Screwing Up Big Time Double Standards On Spending On Bombs Vs. People Late Capitalism News of The Day Trump Shits On Colin Powel In Very Tasteful Obituary Republicans truly have to be contrarian FOREVER LISTEN: Sam Gellaitry - Duo Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 207, episode 3 of Dirt Daily Psychics! It's the production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where you dig a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it's wednesday october 20th 2021 which of course means medical assistance recognition day national chicken and waffles day hell yeah also talking about when we don't fuck with support your local chamber of commerce, Dave. Nah, get the fuck out of here. Go fart on your chamber.

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Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum. You can call me Jack. I co-host a second-rate-ass podcast where you'll hear about dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, my white thighs and chugging some Baja Blast. And sometimes we talk about the news and unvaccinated.

And we'll teach you about MGK and how he is weed. That is courtesy of Joseph Henderson, the little seven-ish army. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Excuse me, this one one's gonna need an instrumental okay here we go oh Jan Sixes telling all they business rag on Facebook and be they own

star witness did you see the podium yeah it's right here fuck around get half the party sent it for years okay Gingerfish on discord just came with that MF Doom fucking heat rap snitch knishes if you remember that one thanks for that one like that yeah that was dope i don't know that mf doom song so i'm gonna have to check that shit out yeah maybe or i'll just get the recording of your

verse right there and just play just play that on a loop and then you should be good featuring you don't even need to go to school. You just get the Wu-Tang Double album. That's all the education you need. Exactly. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very talented actor, producer, and activist, and just a good dude to talk to about the NBA, which is appropriate because it is the NBA. The season started last night.

For most teams, it starts tonight. But he is a real actor. He originated the role of Abe in the Pulitzer Prize winning and Tony-nominated play Disgraced. That's where I know him from because I'm cultured. You might know him as Simon Drake on seasons three and four of How to Get Away with Murder, Amir on The Shy, from his appearances on TV shows like The Good Place, Chicago PD, just

little things like that. He's also a founding member of the Chicago Inclusion Project, which seeks to provide resources for underrepresented people in the arts. Please welcome the talented, the brilliant, Beza Dabu! Beza! That was a great introduction. That was a great introduction. Hey, man.

And now. Yo, you guys have a fun team. Starting at center, five foot seven. Yo, how are you feeling about the Bulls this season? I think everybody's excited about them. I'm excited about them. I'm like a fan of 30 teams, right? I follow all 30 teams. I think the Bulls are legit going to make the playoffs this year.

I do. I think so, too. I think they might be in a play-in situation, but they're going to make the playoffs this year. They look fun. They're set up well. I think Lonzo's great with them. DeRozan's finally going to be re-inspired again. I don't think he was inspired

in San Antonio. Yeah, I think... You're missing someone. Yes, Zach Levine. Who's your child? Zach Levine? Alex Caruso? Caruso? Yeah. I hate that we don't have Caruso anymore. I really do. Who, the Lakers? Yeah. I hate that we don't have Caruso anymore. I really do.

Who, the Lakers? Yeah. I hate that. So you're a Lakers fan too? I'm a Lakers fan. Well, he's a fan of all 30 teams, so that's why he was getting confused. He's like, which person? I was like, I'm like Alex Caruso.

Look, I'm a Lakers fan. Real talk, because I'm a Kobe fan. So for 20 years, I'm a Lakers fan. And I'm also a LeBron fan. So I'm a Lakers fan. You know what I'm saying? fan. So for 20 years, I'm a Laker fan. And I'm also a LeBron fan. So I'm a Laker fan. You know what I'm saying? Welcome. We love you.

But I don't really rock with like... Like I'm a Laker fan who also thinks Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown are dope. You know what I mean? I don't rock with the like... Never heard of them. I like this team, so you can't like that team. But I am a Laker fan if I had to root.

Well, now the Celtics, they don't exist. You know, that's... But I am a Laker fan if I had to root. Well, not in the Celtics. They don't exist. I did hate the Paul Pierce Celtics, though. Let me tell you. Oh, absolutely. I hated those Paul Pierce Celtics coming in wheelchairs. That's like the first time when people were like, Paul Pierce is not from L.A.

He is not from L.A. No. L.A. pass revoked. He came in in a wheelchair because he had to poop. Yeah. Yeah. He faked an injury, then went off to the locker room in a wheelchair because he had to poop yeah yeah he he faked an injury then like went off to the locker room in a wheelchair took a shit came back like he was uh willis reed uh

you know like he had just like miraculously healed himself and then kobe put him in the basket anyway yeah anyways you know i'm i'm excited because because I'm a 76ers fan and there's just nothing but positive news coming out of Philadelphia on the basketball front. We're all happy. Our best player referred to our second best player as that man this morning and said he's not here to babysit him. So we're in good shape. Yeah. Good chemistry. I feel good about the Sixers season. But all right, Beza, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about today. There's a bit of a labor movement going on, such as, you know, the strike at John Deere. I noticed that. Yeah. I don't know what's going on. Well, so we're going to talk about all that. We're going to talk about how John Deere, the white-collar part of John Deere, tried to deal by going and doing the factory jobs, just scabbing, and doing the factory jobs and just proved immediately why they shouldn't do that. We are going to talk about a nice little late capitalism news bullet

about a T-shirt, a Grateful Dead T-shirt that sold for $17,000. We're going to talk about the latest, the greatest, you know, contrarian Republicans just bending themselves into pretzels trying to contrarian the Democratic Party. We'll talk about Trump's very tasteful obit for Colin Powell and all of that, plenty more. But first, Beza, we do like to ask our guests, what's something from your search history? Well, I'm very excited about this Donald Trump tasteful obit to Colin Powell. I have not seen that and I can't imagine it's tasteful. That's beautiful. It's weird when you sometimes agree with trump i mean he got a couple parts right and then i have not i've not seen it well if it's tasteful he didn't write it it's not don't worry the latest thing from my searcher let's just see what it is let's do it this is dangerous i know this is what i love this the most when people are actually

doing the search history they haven't prepped it they're just like giving us the the raw uncut i wish you could do screen shares so you could see if they skip something like you know what what well it's funny like google now like knows your life so well that it's not even showing me my search history and showing me like like the last documents i opened on my computer and i'm like whoa my the latest search history is does google have an indian ceo someone told me that google had an indian ceo and i didn't believe it but i was they're right google has an indian ceo wait how come you didn't believe it? Because you're like, no, it's white people that have all the powerful earth destroying websites. For sure. 100%. I was like, I was like, there's no way an Indian dude is that powerful. And I don't know about it. And I was like, I was,

I was, I was for sure. I was for sure. I was like, oh, he's the head of West Coast programming. He's the he's the he's in charge of YouTube marketing or something. No, right. Right. I'm seeing our bro. He's he's the man behind the alphabet. Yeah. So then my next Google search was like, who is Sundar Pichai? And I was like, I learned all about the man. What's his email? I bet it's Sundar Pichai at gmail.com i don't know how many i mean you guys are sundars you guys have um celebrities on the show quite often and yeah constantly i'm i'm always shocked at like celebrities email addresses or just their name at gmail or a period between them almost always right which makes sense because they made the email before they got famous

and they probably just kept it right or you know and or it would be really presumptuous like no man i'm gonna pre presage my fame and do something real obscure it's like what's yours like oh my name's rick alabasti uh three and you're like okay john ham that's interesting for gmail that's funny that you mentioned john ham because he is somebody. He's famously just has that. Well, we will beep out what his email is. Justin. We don't want to dox Jon Hamm on the show. We'll just say it's very obvious.

When he gives that email out, it seems like he thinks it's like a bit too. Right. It's actually just. After he did that after he did that once he had to change the email right i it's funny because her majesty my partner she's had that email we looked at she i think it worked recently yeah and try to get him into an mlm thing I was getting into. I wanted to get in on the bottom floor. Yeah. Ham loves Amway. Yeah.

Hamway is what we're going to do. A really sick collab. He loves Arbonne products. Yeah. Yes. I did the Amway Behind the Bastards with Robert Evans a couple of weeks back and mostly, you know, really positive feedback from people shockingly how like transparent the,

you can't call it, you can't legally call it a pyramid scheme, but it is a pyramid shaped money level marketing, multi-level marketing operation. But I did get some feedback from people being like, actually the products are really good, man. Like you, my, my family was into it and like, I haven't been feedback from people being like, actually the products are really good, man. Like you,

my, my family was into it. And like, I haven't been able to find like cleaning like this one product that, uh, I'm not even going to put out which one it is, but they were like, there's this one product that they nailed and the,

the rest of the world hasn't caught up to it yet, but I won't tell you which you're going to have to join Amway. People say that about Arbonne too. They're like, but actually, the protein powders are the most healthy, safest, cleanest, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, okay. It's like, okay, you're still,

you're still caping for the MLM at that point. We're like, that's fine. But this one thing, it works. Grow my hair back with it. I had somebody reach out about one of the time travelers on YouTube being like, actually guys like this person has some really good advice i'm not saying they're definitely from the future

but they have good advice but they're definitely fucking with the future right did you guys families ever fuck with any mlms growing up my aunt in japan i remember tried almost did amway and my mom like had to be like don't fucking do it and then my grandparents almost over here on my black side they got into tahitian noni juice okay do you remember that one i don't know but you know because like there's always like a supplement one that comes around everywhere there's tahitian noni juice like no this is how i keep my joints like you know he was just pitching oh yeah there's always like a supplement one that comes around everywhere there's tahitian no need juice like no this is how i keep my joints like you know he was just pitching oh yeah there's always a supplement goji berries you know was the other one too herbal life but they were definitely on the they try with the tahitian noni but i think what happened was they bought a bunch from a friend

thought they would get in and then they just ended up giving it away to everybody in the family we're like look at you yeah look down the line you're you're officially part of their down the line right my poor like immigrant family mentality they just didn't buy anything right scammer right right like we just didn't buy anything my mom took it as a sense of pride she would be like i've had these shoes for 12 years and i wear them every day and i I'd be like, mom, get some new shoes. Like, get some new shoes. She's like, no, no, no. Why?

Why? They still work. Or she'll be like, this coat is older than you. And I've been wearing this coat for longer than you. And I'm like, that's not a sense of pride. Like, go get a new coat. But no, she was a sense of pride for my family. So they couldn't even get caught in MLM scans because they don't buy anything.

Right. And if they do, it's on sale. You know what I mean? That's the immigrant mom Olympics. They'd be like, I got this coat on sale. Originally. From the thrift store. Yeah.

Originally. Okay. They were sleeping on this. Just got that big old razor fucking blade cut down the back of it i could fix that it's originally a thousand dollar coat got it for 13 you're like all right mom who you love a sale my family fucked with a melaleuca for a single time what is it melaleuca it was like suddenly all our fun it's i think it's like eucalyptus is their like key ingredient but i just like it's prime carmelo anthony and prime luka donchich yes exactly they teamed up to create this product

line that's all like cleaning shit and just for you know a year all our uh shampoo smelled like shit and then it was over but interesting i'm reading this that the guy who i think was around that frank vander salute also uh one of uh mitt romney's presidential finance chairs met mel luca yeah yeah that makes sense it's all it's all you know it's it makes sense there the the overlapping ideology of just like scams and the Republican Party. And also, hey, also serves in the director's and executive board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Give it up one time for the business owners. Yeah.

I mean, they're not trying to pretend. America's not trying to pretend like it's not just one big scam. Like, they get it. The fucking Betsy DeVosos is amway is a product of amway what is something you think is overrated okay controversial i feel like going out in your 20s like that whole all the going out in your 20s is overrated like you think you're gonna have an awesome night and then and then like as i get older and now i don't go out like go out anymore you know like go to clubs and bars anymore really and i like i realize like how

overrated i wait in line i get dressed especially if you're single you go with a bunch of guys you get embarrassed by the bounce before you get in you spend the ratio dollars on the beer yeah and then like you spend 18 on a beer you try to talk to one girl she says no then you're embarrassed to talk to the rest of the rest of the night and then you sit listen a lot of music you can't talk the booth sucks you don't have a table it just sucks like you go home and then you're like that was dope right that was a wild night you know it wasn't why We stood around in a corner. Nobody danced.

It was just boring. Yeah, and if you guys, I'm getting tired. Can you go home so I can put on some Joker makeup and record some TikToks? This is the Captain Night Off. It's what I like to do when I get shut down at the bar. I get all my Joker shit at home. I just feel like I look back now and I was reminded of this when I saw the movie

Sorry to Bother You. And like, if you remember, like he goes to like this back, like VIP entrance and he has no fun and like,

he's sitting in a shitty booth and the drink sucks and the people are, it's no fun at all. And then he comes out and they're like, how was it? And he was like,

it was dope. Right, right. And it's like, that's what we're, I feel like that's what we're supposed to say because we spent so much money and so much time and so much effort doing this thing but i feel like all that going on your 20s when you're in your 30s is like overrated wow we gotta acknowledge you gotta you got a cat in the background i'm so sorry the cat is going crazy because no it's good no i have cats too and i'm

like it's because and i know why it's because i came, I have cats too. And I'm like, are my cats? It's because, and I know why. It's because I came out the room and came right upstairs to do this podcast. So I have completely ignored her. And so she is downstairs knocking everything down off the table. Like, you know, I found off the table. She's like batting pens around and shit. She's batting pens around. She's knocking computer chargers off.

She's just knocking everything she can. Do you think there's in the in that time though right like i'm trying to think of what the value is because i certainly didn't learn much when i was going out i learned what the limits were of like my physical ability to consume like alcohol and drugs but i wasn't like man i learned a lesson tonight at the club, y'all. I feel like just the loud music in particular makes it impossible to communicate. And then it's just a weird, it's like a weird psychological experiment because you just like are purely like you can't even really think you can't talk to other people right i think the the loud music is designed to make you just drink more but i don't know man i always after a while i just started finding places that didn't play loud music i have more fun far between yeah yeah more fun

house parties with places they'll play loud music i like that stuff now even you know what's also interesting is like i'm not a tall guy right and so most men are taller than me and then most women when they go out wear heels that make them taller than me so when i go into a place and i'm like damn i'm the shortest person in here like that's also a weird it's not it's not it's not a great feeling it's just like i'm like man like but you have more to offer than your height bazaar i know but like i don't look at you and go It's not a great feeling. It's just like, I'm like, man, like. But you have more to offer than your hype, Azad. I know, but like. I don't look at you and go, look at that man who's all short.

The world of people in their 20s don't often care about you. Oh, no, absolutely. It's toxic. That's why, like, the thing about the club is, like, when I go, when I look back and think about what my whole vibe was in there, it was so performative. It was like, yeah, I'm up in here. Yeah, I'm in this section okay yeah exactly spending the last three dollars on my debit card exactly to like ball out and maybe

overdraft but i'm not gonna tell nobody in here my roommate in my 20s in chicago worked at a club and he was like he was like do you know how many rental car keys there are in the back? Like the valet. He was like, people are renting cars for the weekend. Oh, just to pull up? Just to like pull up and like pick their. He's like, you know, they rent a car. They go pick up, pick up their lady.

They pull them. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And it's like, it's all fake. Right. They're like, why do you have that big old chunky Hertz navigation system bolted to your dashboard? You're like, I don't know, man. I think somebody pranked me see my cat has been quiet now that i'm holding her and giving her attention yeah very cute cat what's your cat's name uh this is gianna gg bryant named

after kobe's daughter who passed i got her the same week uh he that she passed damn yeah i feel like it's yeah just you know you have the thought stopping it with the music you have like everybody's just trying to behave like other people so they're blending in it's like it's like military training in there everyone's just trying to it's but actually i don't mean to say i didn't learn anything because i learned very quickly that performative swag vibes and shit was not for me and was actually like so empty because it kind of takes that thing where like when you're younger and you you sort of you covet the club you're like i want to be there i want to be up exactly and i can't wait to be up in it i'm gonna do this shit

my way then you go and you're like this is fucking not for me yeah kind of very quickly begin to learn so yeah i learned who i was thanks to privilege on sunset it's amazing to like it's amazing to like think about what i enjoy now what i look forward to now like i look forward to coming home cooking a meal watching a netflix show that i'm looking for you know i mean like i look forward to it that i would have yeah in my 20s it's like oh i can't wait to go to this club that i'm gonna wait in line for 45 minutes in the cold before the dude lets me in. Right. So I can stand in a corner and not talk to anybody.

Right. What is something that is underrated? Any grocery store, like the large grocery store chain that you have in your community. Any grocery store, like the large grocery store chain that you have in your community, the cookies they make that are grocery store brand in the loud, clear plastic container is the best cookie in town. Okay. It could be Wegmans. It could be Publix. It could be Ralph's.

It could be Jewel Osco. You know what I'm talking about? They're like the sugar cookies, the chocolate chip cookies with the M&M's. Every grocery store, and I want to know why every grocery store has the same damn cookie in that loud plastic thing, and it's so perfect. It's the best cookie.

Yeah. You know when I actually go is during Halloween or Christmas. Like the holiday sugar cookies. I'm like, I love that. I love that kind of grocery store cookie. And there's no brand on the cookie. It's just the sticker from the grocery store is on it.

You'd imagine if it's like Kroger, right? Like whatever their Kroger dough that they sell is what they're using. Right. Because there's no point in like changing it up. Just the frozen sugar cookie dough. Yeah. And I've lived in upstate New York, Chicago, and LA. And so that's three different grocery stores.

Wegmans to Juul to Rouse now or whatever. Sure. And they all have dope-ass regular grocery store brand cookies. And so does Gelson's, and so does Whole Foods, and so does all of them. Yeah. Do you like the icing ones? You like them all, it sounds like.

I like them all. I do like the icing ones. But really, you know, the chocolate chip with the M&M's? Mm-hmm. That's my jam. And the sugar cookies? Man.

Yeah. They're so good. They're better than any branded cookie. Because they, yeah. I feel like they get the sugar cookie. Like, even the chocolate chip like m&m ones are just sugar cookies with chocolate chips on them i think right yeah and i feel like they just have the formula so that it is on the verge of just being a single sugar crystal like

that's how sweet it is it's just so you ever try to open one of those boxes at like two in the morning to sneak a cookie? I know. I was just about to say, you keep talking about how loud it is. I was like, do you live with somebody who loves you and cares about your health? Because I have that same shit that resonated with me.

I'm like... My kids are waking up. You can try to just go like... It's almost like the quieter you try to be, the louder the whole thing cracks. You got to kind of rip the bandaid off. Yeah. I got one of those things that cat burglars have

that just cut a hole, a circular hole in the side of it. Like a compass? Yeah, and then just reach in without touching the sides. Yeah, you do a Mission Impossible dive down on that shit. Yeah. There was a meme that was saying like like, it was like a Squid Game fucking meme where they're like, for the next event, like, open this without making a sound. And it was one of those cake containers you get from the grocery store with, like, the black base and the clear top.

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And we're back. And so John Deere are having their most profitable year ever, I think. I believe so. They were expected to make between $5.7 and $5.9 billion this year, which smashed projections. you know, smashed projections. And this same year, they decided to end the pension for new hires and offer workers a 5% or 6% raise, despite the fact that they're coming off of,

like, just absurdly profitable year. And their CEO, John May, said, I may give myself a 160% pay increase in 2020, which put him at $16 million, which is about 220 times what John Deere's median employee makes. And so these workers got together and decided to strike. Yeah. And, you know, this is something that we're seeing.

I don't know where these workers are getting this idea that they can just, like, you know, dictate the terms or something. The New York Times had a front-page story where you know they fucked up because the headline immediately, like, changed from economic rebound is still waiting for workers to why workers may be less likely to go back to work. They had to soften it to make it less like, what the heck's going on with these workers, you guys? Hey, we're waiting on you guys to make our money.

Yeah. So the way that John Deere responded to the labor stoppage was to bring in some scabs. In particular, some of their white collar employees. Doesn't that sound like a terrible 80s comedy? Such. Yeah. Like, absolutely. The scabs.

Like, CEO scabs. The guys from corporate come into scab at a factory. But in the 80s version,'s about these ceos actually learning the jobs and then by the end of it they have an appreciation for the job but there's no like acknowledging of like the workers rights it's like hey and we got through that folks we did it sounds like like an adam mckay movie where they're gonna look at you and the camera and be like so here's what happened the workers right right right but yeah so they went out asked these white collar employees to in many cases buy their first pair of steel toe boots like that's real that's what one of them was like we had to

go out and get steel toe boots they couldn't even provide them for the scabs nah wow what do you think this is russia i don't know bro i that's fucking that's like so whack like if you're gonna have that is really corporate office people scab you're like oh yeah also you need to go buy your proper boots you know what the fucking guidelines are to be on that floor yeah also what if someone doesn't buy the proper boots and then it's like in there in loafers and like burns their toes off right they're like fine i guess we can let you work because we don't hold that thought because i mean also it should be said that like a lot of these white collar workers are also not thrilled because like they had their pension suspended two years ago so they're they're getting treated like shit as well but um scab strike dude first strike and then Scabstrike next. So they went to the factories on Monday.

Scabstrike is a comedy. Yeah. I mean, Scabs is just a good name for a comedy. I'm just like picturing. It's like Scrubs. Right. It's a bunch of people scatting. Like Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase.

If like doctors were unionized and then a bunch of scab doctors came in. Oh. Right. I mean, so listen, the first bunch of scab doctors came in oh right i mean that's so listen the first day on monday they came in the white collar uh unexperienced scabs and there was some kind of undisclosed medical emergency that required an ambulance being called like right away that was the first tweet i think we saw was an ambulance with its lights on flying to the factory that we saw from like that picket line or like, oh, not even a couple hours open. And there's an ambo on its way.

Later on that day, someone crashed a tractor into an electrical box inside the factory. They just like one of the strikers was like, it seems like they didn't know where the front weights were, which I don't know what the fuck that means, but I'm not trying to operate a factory, a tractor inside a factory building. But they crashed into an electrical box, which kind of destroyed the electrical box. I love how the incident report like doesn't mention that it's like scabs. And that's really the problem. Because, you know, like the incident report first has like the description which was what it says trailer operator what does it say trailer operator was

pulling an 88 and whatever just talking about the actual like what happened then they said the direct cause trailer operator did not account for the additional length on the front weights it's like yeah because they what about the part where this person was not fucking trained to operate the equipment rather than like, yeah, the person just didn't know. Here's the corrective action. Won't be having that person operating that equipment anymore. Yeah. Jack, I have to interrupt you. Yeah.

So today's obviously the first day of the NBA. But, you know, yesterday was the first day of the NBA. I'm getting all of my betting apps sending me alerts like, don't forget to put your team in because I do a lot of fantasy for like four different apps. So I have like prop bets on one app, FanDuel, I got another one, got a fantasy team, and they're like, don't forget to put

your team in. This alert just came to me from an app called Underdog where you can make prop bets. And it said, last call for small ball three hours left sixers fans move simmons to the bottom of your rankings that's the alert he's crying bays on he's to bite a hole in his lip right now.

It's like, why you got to call out a whole team's fan base in your app? That's hilarious. Someone from NBA Twitter is running those updates, I think. I mean, Sixers fans, this is going to be the first time that a home fan base has just vigorously booed a player every time he touched the ball on their own team. Like that's this is going to be because Sixers fans are like Philadelphia sports fans are. I think the technical term is the worst. They're really mean to.

He won't play a game. Santa Claus, let alone their own players. I don't think he's going to play a game. He already got suspended for the first one. He got suspended for game one. Yeah. Yeah, you bring him in there, the fans will have a fit. Fit.

Anyway. Yeah. All right. Sorry to interrupt you. No, no. I just wanted to say that. I was hoping one of those NBA apps you're going to be was like saying something about scabs. Like on strike.

It's like, yo, don't scab either. Right. No scabbing, y'all. That's the one union I would scab into. If the NBA players strike and they were like, we're open to people. Oh, yeah. I'd be like, you know what? I'm going to go be an NBA player for a couple of days.

Isn't that like a failed script or something? Like from the baseball players? That was a movie wasn't it or oh were they scabbing in the replacements yeah it wasn't like keanu reeves escape and then i think uh unstoppable or invincible again like you weren't wrong on the failed scripts but uh i think they did actually get made into movies. Right. And we're coming up with a lot of like great network TV comedies right now. Yeah, I know. Just passively. So, I mean, overall, things like labor, we might be in the midst of a growing labor movement in this country and one that needs a political counterpart.

And that's fortunate because the president right now is Joe Biden, who bragged before he got into office he was going to be the most pro-union president you've ever seen. And on Friday, when asked about the John Deere strike, he stated, Where are you at? Where are you at? They have a right to strike. They have a right to demand higher wages. I'm not getting into the negotiation. negotiation. So and then, you know, he just took a neutral stance. His press secretary cited unspecified legal reasons why he couldn't come down on one side or the other. Is that so? No, I don't think so. I mean, I think they would have specified a legal reason if it was true. Also, is there anything he's not neutral on? No. Well, it's just funny, too. Like, I don't know why I'm like, oh, can you not do that?

Considering when Trump was like full on doing advertisements or like just daughter's handbags. You're like, yeah, I think you can be like, I'm siding with the United Auto Workers. Remember when Trump tweeted about Toyota and they lost like $8 billion in value in 30 seconds? Yeah. So and then the New York Times is still, you know, they're playing the middle. The economic rebound is still waiting for workers. Despite school reopenings and the end of some federal aid, many people are in no rush to land a job. Savings and health concerns are playing a role. No. So this is from from that article. Conservatives have blamed

generous unemployment benefits for keeping people at home. But evidence from states that ended the payment early suggests that any impact was small. Progressives say companies could find workers if they paid more. But shortages aren't limited to low-wage industries. So in a story where people are saying they're not being paid to return to work, they're not being paid enough to return to work and employers are refusing to pay more. Their explanation is, well, it can't be that they're not being paid enough because some of the jobs that are empty pay more than some of the jobs that pay some of the other jobs that are empty. Yeah. So they're trying not to answer the question with the obvious answer and just resorting to logic. Or, you know, if you're a journalist, right, and you're trying to help a reader understand the situation and the dynamics at play, you'd say these companies are making this much more

than ever. The head of the company is making this much. The workers have had their wages be stagnant for many, many years or just very incremental raises. And also, when you look at the geography of where they live, those wages don't translate to being able to own a home or maybe rent a place that's big enough for a family and to support their kids. These are all factors that lead someone to believe that their work, their labor is being exploited purely for someone else's profit and

they are no longer accepting this agreement. But that's not those aren't the people they talk to. Instead, they talk to, you know, they're writing from the perspective of the Biden administration and forecasters. The like subhead of the entire article says the slow return of workers is causing headaches for the Biden administration and forecasters were largely blindsided by the problem. So it's just, you know, the technocratic class. I think we also earn a social, I mean, as an actor, right, this is what I study, like, our social conditions. And I think we're in a place now where the newer generation is rubbing

off a bit on the older generations of being like the sort of vibe of do what makes you happy happiness is more important peace contentment living a happy and healthy life is more important than the previous generation's work ethic which was like struggle work hard you know put in your work uh above all costs like like grind your body to die yeah and that used to be like hey i want a man who works hard or i want to be with someone i want my son to to work every day and now it's like i want my son to be happy i want people to be i want people to feel good i want people to be healthy there's a new sort of ethos in our country and that means that like yeah i'm going to be a little more broke, but I'm not going to do this job. Right. Yeah. And also we live in a world where you can

become a millionaire selling JPEGs. So people are finding other ways to make money. Yeah. Right. Or laundering money with JPEGs, however you want to look at that. Yeah. But I mean, the strike, it's not just limited to there, you know, like is IATSE, right? but I mean the strike it's not just limited to there you know like is IATSE right they have an agreement but even the people in IATSE the members there they're not happy with it no it still is yet to be ratified and the way they're looking at it is like we have the fucking leverage don't just take this deal we need to go further because if we're ready to strike right now then we need to actually really advocate for the outcomes that we want and not just get this sort of piecemeal version of what we've negotiated and there's still i mean it still has to get ratified so there's still potential for them

to go on strike and because on saturday it seemed like oh they found an agreement but you had to kind of wade through it and be like it's not everything they wanted and even kaiser up in california and oregon 24 000 hospital workers like voted to authorize a strike it's it's like everywhere it's whiskey people who make whiskey or fucking coal miners or you know all this it's everywhere because like you're saying there is this whether it's an ethos or just a a moment of clarity for a lot of people i think they're realizing wait i'm doing this much to get this much back and life costs how much? No, no, this agreement is awful.

And people are talking about, people are talking about wealth inequality more and more too, right? It's hard if you're an Amazon factory worker to be like, wait, he makes how much? And now there's like graphics on Instagram that show you how much a billion dollars is. And then it's like, he's got 300 of them.

And you're like, golly. Like, I think you start to feel like people are starting to realize the difference between a billion and a million. Right. Right. Yeah. It's just, you know, this is a moment for that a labor like party would come in handy where like a labor party would be ascendant. And it is unique to America that that's just not possible. There's no party that is going to come to the forefront. We have the party in power that is most likely to do that.

And they will continue to refuse to do that because it's broken. It's, you know, and then we have places like the New York Times that insulate us from the obvious answer that like people aren't being paid enough, they need to be paid more. And then like things begin working again. And instead it's, you know, they focus on, well, it's a real headache for the Biden administration and their forecasters. It's just like, no, man, it's this could be great for the people of this country. Right. But instead, it's just a squandered opportunity and an opportunity for people to continue to be frustrated. Well, because, yeah, because it all lies in where the power is concentrated. And if you are, if you're at the level where you have the media and you're able to seed

stories in the media, the narrative for people of wealth and means or business owners, they're, they're looking at this moment right now being like, we're going to have to make less money. Like for the shit that they're asking, like I have to make less money like for the shit that they're asking like i have to make less money than i normally do i have to make less millions of dollars than i normally do and that is absolutely an unfathomable request because yeah things have been going this way for for as long as i can remember now what's this this is completely wrong so all the thrust of many of these stories is always going to have this like the same reluctance or hesitance behind it because it's of a class of

people who look at this situation not like we would and say dude this would allow people to feel so much more free to feel more involved have time to be with their families to actually have time to like live and not just toil and yeah the so the the perspectives are completely different and it's hard to think like you know with yang coming in saying like oh we should start a third party that's not that's not what is really you know a third party like that isn't what's going to do it like you're saying it's to really give people this idea is like we have to completely upend what we believe is fair and what a path to being you know having abundance is and what even abundance is because

abundance is not everyone has billions of dollars abundance should be people are free to live their lives happily safely have access to health care have access to education, and not be stressed out about the mere, the basic elements of survival. I think also the whole country just realized like, oh, I can get as much work done from my home computer in three hours that I do in the office in 12. Yeah. People are starting to realize what productivity is because of the pandemic. And they're like, I got to spend more time with my kids. I got to do this. I got to do that. I got to work out. I got to sleep in and I still got the same amount of work done. So what am I slaving away for? You know what I mean?

a thing like the Adam Schefter email where he's like, hey, boss, to like the fucking president of the Washington football team asking them like what what he should print about them. I think in a lot of cases, it's just they go to college and are taught that like this is what realistic people do. They check with the forecasters. They look at the people in power. realistic people do. They check with the forecasters. They look at the people in power. They, you know, check with the corporations because that's who moves things in the country.

And then it's like that is just so ground into like the very fabric of their like just DNA that they can't like step back and just be like, no, this is a different thing. This is a moment where things are changing and you are just kind of incapable of seeing it. Right. That Adam Schefter email reminded me of that clip of that referee talking to Michael Jordan where he's like, did he follow you, Michael? I won't call it if you say he followed you. If you say he followed you, Michael, I promise I didn't see it. I'll call it next time. Okay, Michael? And just you mentioned like the JPEGs and the NFTs and something that like I feel like

is a piece with that is the San Francisco Chronicle just reported on a t-shirt breaking a record for selling for $17,000. It's like an original Grateful Dead T-shirt. I think that there's this, I'm going to come up with a phrase here and just say there's two Americas. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. Write that down. Right.

But there are like for one portion of the population, the problem is they're not being paid enough to live. They're in a position where if they get sick, they will go bankrupt. They won't be able to pay for health care. But then there's this other strata where their problem is they don't know what to buy. And so they are putting just absurd amounts of money into these new products that only exist as something to gamble on. It's just it's essentially gambling. It's the stock market is gambling. NFTs is gambling and they don't provide a service. They don't provide a service. They don't have anything to do with anything other than giving you a new product to put your money in because you have too much of it, essentially. And like, just that's $17,000 t-shirt. Yeah.

Yellow. I feel like people need to have a basic idea of like, when you get to a certain point, right? Like, yeah, it's true. You can have too much money. That's possible. You know, you can only have so many things. You can only have so many cars or shirts or places to live. Yeah. And I think so many people just never stop to question themselves.

I'm at a point where I'm buying a $17,000 old t-shirt. Yeah. You know, what, what, what is, where am I at? Do I need this? What, like no one, I think it's, it's hard for people of like hyper wealth to really ask that question because I'm sure on a certain level too, there's like an insatiable need to keep attaining things up too. Yeah.

It's like, I'll buy the $ this 17 000 t-shirt because i know that one day someone will give me 34 000 for it and so that's why i'm gonna buy it because it's the investment and it's like you said it's like they're that's their sport how do i turn 17k into 34k how do i turn that 34k into 60k and like it's just to constantly attain is i do think that's addictive i do think that's addictive. I do think that's sport when you can't run and jump. And it's, again, blindsided forecasters. Forecasters are like, whoa, I thought this was going to sell for $3,000.

It's like, well, you guys aren't paying attention to the country we live in now. the very rich need shit to put money in and everybody else is pissed off that they can't fucking live. And like those two realities, like people just don't say those two things. Another thing kind of along these lines that the New York Times or a lot of mainstream media outlets are not pointing out, but I just thought it was, I retweeted this writer, Sahil Kapoor, about, he's just, I'm just going to read his tweet. He says, some context on price tags. The $725.8 billion defense spending bill that just passed through the Senate without any, you know, question is for one year. The $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan is over 10 years apples to apples biden's economic and social policy is less than half of what congress just like easily approved to spend on

the pentagon so like that again just like the sort of messaging it's messaging yeah but it's just like doesn't get fucking that how is that not the Biden administration's number one thing that they're bringing to the table? Because then it brings attention to the absurdity of our defense spending. Exactly. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. And that money's not going to soldiers.

The soldiers are still paid like shit. That money's going to corporations that build the build the weapons and the planes yeah and as the pentagon pisses their pants because china just you know tested like this hypersonic nuclear missile where they're like what yeah okay we're gonna spend even more i mean and and all of the spending that all of the countries spend in all over the world is just because someone else spent it and has a weapon we have to have a better weapon and it's just like we're spending trillions and these weapons aren't even ever going to get used hopefully i think yeah i do think that that used to be my understanding is that it was like this one giant arms race but i really think that a lot of it is actually a like shell game being

operated by american corporations and they're driving the spending of like a lot of the global so they can like build the thing like boeing yeah so they want to build the thing like he'd martin so they could build the thing yeah yeah exactly the like period since 9-11 uh the northern virginia suburbs have like turned into this like place that has all the all the like best restaurants in america somehow it's because that's just where all the money went because they were able to just spend and spend and spend on weapons for all the listeners at home uh jack and miles currently have the view of me holding my cat like an infant um she is pretty she's a cat somehow

yeah but the way you kind of still keep it together while you're like nurturing this tiny cat is also pretty impressive yeah i i mean i there's nothing in the world i love more than this cat and i only had her the simple things you could have the cat or the club i got her february 2020 not ago. In fact, we did a podcast. I think the week I got her. Yeah. Yeah. And I was still like learning about her.

But oh, my God. Best thing in the world is this little boo boo. Well, maybe when I send a picture for your picture. I'll include. I'll include her. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Let's take a quick break.

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the passing of Colin Powell with a very tasteful obituary where he was just like he called him a rhino he complained about how the media was treating him beautifully but it was just like very like transparently bitter and angry and jealous

in a way like he was like I wonder if I'll be treated that way or I hope maybe they'll one day they talk nice about me like that made a terrible mistake in iraq yes and a war that shouldn't have happened you're like well true true true on those two accounts but just it's just funny to watch him i mean first of all it's so so like Powell checks all the boxes. He didn't endorse him, is a person of color, is smarter than Donald Trump, and is getting positive press and that those things Trump can't abide. And he's always so jealous anytime a dead person gets positive press because he's like, I think part of him realizes he's going to get negative press when he dies. And also, it's something that he can't attain. Like, what if I fake my own death?

What about that? I have my own cynicism about this, but do either of you think that Trump will ever get comeuppance? Do you think he'll ever get a perp walk? Do you think he'll ever get a perp walk? Do you think he'll ever get found guilty of something? Do you think he'll ever, like, do you think there'll ever be a punishment for him, ever, before he dies? I don't know. I'm not too invested

in that as an outcome at all, to be honest, because if I look at it like that, it'll just become so frustrating. I think when I look at it, I just look at the data set in front of me. That would suggest he will not. I agree.

I don't think he will either. I don't need to. I don't need to fantasize outside of that and just look at it and go, well, this just means we have so many things we have to change in this country. More than like, why can't he go to jail? Yeah. And he should. Absolutely. But it would just, there's too many,

I think too many people protecting that power and don't want to like upend the balance of power like that to be like, hold on, we are going to hold powerful people to account. And there's a way to do that.

I just don't think there's a will for it because even just the way everything's set up, even with the January 6th commission, like it's the potential to just like fucking obstruct your way out of this shit too so i'd like to believe that there's some justice in our universe but as i've begun to realize i'm not sure that's the case all the time yeah deserves got nothing to do with it exactly

exactly but yeah i think the other thing with with Colin Powell and like Trump, too, is like Colin Powell was like on his way to actually being like the more like the next phase of the Republican Party before Trump. And I'm sure there's a lot of, and because of that, that's why Coleman Powell was like, what the fuck is this? This is the guy. All right. He's like, but I, I, I didn't question the Pentagon at all and went along with our momentum as a war machine and help destroy part of the earth. You're not going to. Oh, well, all right. I guess, I guess he's the president.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. I guess he's the president. for a Republican. And there's an email they were talking about on Chapo that apparently came out where he was like, yeah, she's not going to be transformative for the country. And then the next sentence was, and her husband's still out here dicking bimbos, which made me kind of respect him. That's what he said? Yeah. Wow.

Colin Powell said out here dicking bimbos? Dicking bimbos? Yeah. Wow. Colin Powell said out here, dicking bimbos? Dicking bimbos, yeah. Wow. We're still running around dicking bimbos. That, are you, what? Yeah. Shout out to that man. I'm shocked.

I'm shocked at that. I'm truly speechless at that. I thought you were joking. No, no. That's real yeah from a from a daily beast article in 2017 leaked email reveals he thinks the ex-president is still dicking bimbos his wife screws up everything and her opponent is a racist yeah okay wow you're like oh that's the omni take right there yeah this is what we would get if all politicians were as just reckless as trump like what if you just have like the spicy twitter fingers like and just put that out there. It was just like, meanwhile, we got Bill Clinton out here still running around dicking bimbos.

He's not wrong. I mean, Clinton just went to the hospital for a UTI. I can't wait till you guys get some huge press for something like that. Like Popular Podcast Daily Zeitgeist. First to break story that Bill Clinton has a STD. Well, he did. That's what they said.

He went to Irvine because he had a UTI. Yeah. That's what he said. I'm just reading the headlines. I don't know what happened. I'm just putting two headlines together. Dick and Bimbo. Colin Powell's opinion of his personal life and the fact that his latest health scare had to do with UTI.

I think he still had to give it that little toxic, you know, he's still an enlisted man with that language. Yeah. And finally, I just want to talk about. All right. I'm going to say it. Fox News has a double standard. Oh, boy. I know.

I'm going to get a lot of blowback for this. But, yeah, I didn't realize why this was a story that Pete Buttigieg was on paternity leave. But it became a big story, I guess, on the right, because I guess they were they were trying to tie the fact that he was on paternity leave to the I don't know, like bad, bad things in America because global supply chain issue. Oh, right. That's why. Yeah, that's why we're here, because Pete Buttigieg decided to have a child and take paternity. That's that's the global support. It's not covid or the other stressors on different points of a supply chain.

It's because Pete Buttigieg took fucking paternity leave. But it's just funny, man, because this point, they really show like more than anything, right, that Republicans can never have any any overlapping beliefs with what they perceive to be a liberal anything. Even if it's an objective good, they'll suddenly be like, that's fucking dumb. Fuck that. Even if I did like that earlier, now I'm different. This recent incident on Fox's

The Five, Jesse Waters did a great U-turn, almost like Lindsey Graham on Afghanistan, where it's like, hold on, you're saying the exact opposite of what you've been. Oh, OK. I guess that's where because you had to pick your side. And he, you know, goes on to say, like, look, man, I just don't understand, like, why this dude had to take fucking paternity leave. And like when I did, like, it was nothing like I did it for like a couple hours.

And I clocked right back in because I'm a fucking g like that listen to him are you dude listen to him on the five this is him you know just talking about what right now this was from you know in the last day what his beliefs are just like how he sees paternity leave when i took my paternity leave i was only gone for a couple days and someone took my place Here at the table What do I just had they call it the four The entire paternity that's not how it works It is this is a great test For government okay I don't want to hear Greg

Oh my That's what he says he goes I was just gone For like a couple days man I don't know Buddha took like a couple weeks off That's like a humane thing that people Do for new parents uh okay so i just want to play this man because jesse waters went on fucking paternity leave you know earlier this year and i just want to play what he was saying back in april when he

came back from paternity leave because it's a lot different than this shit he just said i i think uh i think it's safe to say i'm the only one on the show that's been peed on twice today. No, not true. Well, maybe not Gutfeld. The night's young for Greg. But my father said just today, Jesse, you better get back on the five pretty soon. Your replacements have been really good. I was like, thanks, but now i am i'm pro

paternity i used to mock people for for taking paternity i used to think it was a big ruse but now i you know i wish i could take six weeks but okay whoops okay okay cool cool guy flip flop he's so punchable yeah can we make a punchable face starting lineup because Tucker Carlson Tucker Carlson, Waters, Ted Cruz

is like my big three oh yeah they all have the same face shape too they like have that jowly like puffy like jesse waters didn't used to look like that and then like he started working at fox news and i think they must have like a type of like a species of tick that like lives in the building that just like bites them and they like just immediately puff up a little bit because yeah he's got he turned he did that tucker thing

where he just like puffed it's just sad right like he when when jesse waters went on paternity leave he said this was actually great i'm a kid i'm around my kid i i didn't think i would like that i used to mock these people now i'm fully for it but then the second it it intersects with some stupid culture war battle it's like oh i oh, I got to flip the switch, man. I actually hate my kid. I hate being a father. Yeah. And men don't need to be around babies ever.

Yes. Amen. It must be tough out there. But like, that's why, again, these this is a group of people who have really no they just want to be in power, but they have no aims to improve anything for anyone aside from, you know, a very small group of people. At least they got that jab in that about Gutfeld being into piss play to make sure that even that segment was super toxic and kink shaming. Hey, the night's young. The day's young. Am I right with this asshole? Anyway, so take me seriously now when I take a dump on this political discourse.

Sure. Well, Bezod, it's been such a pleasure having you, man. Where can people find you and follow you? Thank you, yeah. Please give me a follow at B-E-H Z-A-D-D-A-B-U on Twitter and on Instagram. That's Bezod Dabu on Twitter and

Instagram. I love being on here. Thanks for having me. And is there a tweet or some of the work of social media that you've been enjoying? I don't know if you guys have ever had him on the, on the pod, but as a LA based comedian writer and just like Twitter personality named Josiah Johnson. Oh yeah. We were just talking about him. Yeah.

So, I mean, just follow King Josiah 54. I think if you are at all even you don't even like have to be a basketball fan i think you'll get more joy out of it if you are but he is just so fucking clever funny and quick and now the nba season started he's gonna be my top follow yeah absolutely yeah i was i was just talking about the thing that he did for the lakers that he retweeted someone else's Family Matters intro for the Lakers.

He said Rob Lowe as Rob Palenka. Yeah. That's my favorite part. I've worked with Rob Lowe before in the most surprising role. I am the voice of Azad in an animated series called The Lion Guard on Disney for children. And Rob Lowe is Simba. Oh, I'm sorry. Rob rob low is simba oh i'm sorry low is simba and um it's the lion guard is about the lion kings now they're adults and they have children so like oh okay simba has a kid named kion and i play a cheetah who like guides him through the forest or whatever right

got you but so like the the simba and nala and the characters we know like aren't actually in it that much but when you're doing a voiceover on an anime series like that you have headphones in and if another actor has already recorded their parts they pipe it in so you can respond to it it's actually cool so like all of a sudden it's like gabrielle union and david o yellow and i'm like oh this is dope like they're all being piped in. And then they were like, and I was like, I know this voice. I was like, what is this? I was like, I know this voice.

And it was like, oh, that's Rob Lowe. Yeah, that's him, man. I was like, huh? Cool. Yeah. That's amazing. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying?

Find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. Also the other show, 420 Day Fiance, the 90 Day Fiance pod with Sophie Alexandra. Come through for that. Talking 90 Day. First tweet is from at Shams Charania. Sources. Doc Rivers asked Ben Simmons to join a defensive drill today.

Simmons refused. Rivers asked again. Simmons said no again. Rivers then told Simmons he should go home and simmons dropped the ball and left all right man what the fuck we already talked about this i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry okay the real tweet i like is from uh it's actually a retweet of something darnell price tweeted in september 25th of 2018 but it was retweeted by at K Sosa 300 tweeted.

My favorite part of fall is when the mosquitoes go back to hell. Because anybody live in L.A., we have the we have all these new species of mosquito that has just they're like year round unless it's actually cold. And I'm waiting for these motherfuckers to just go back from whence they came yeah all right let's see some tweets king crisp tweeted like my name ben simmons i ain't playing this year i think it's a good enough the ben simmons shit okay mrs bundridge tweeted something that i just will now think about every time i pick up my phone she said i don't know who needs to hear this when you're using your phone stop using your pinky as as an anchor it's destroying your wrist and aggravating your ulnar nerve which is exactly how i hold my phone and i have definitely had nerve shit going on in my hand

and wrist so like just doing it like that? Yeah, doing the pinky at the bottom. Oh, so like those pop sockets are probably like a good hand saver? I think so, yeah. Man, I ain't doing that. Buy one of my $20,000 pop sockets. Their original artwork and a great investment. Made with your blood, right?

Yeah. original artwork and a great investment. Made with your blood, right? Yeah. Two more I liked. Matt Knudsen, or K-N-U-D-S-E-N, tweeted, I read that Colin Powell died from complications of his legacy, which I thought was... And Ham Mike tweeted,

putting my infant son in the floorboard of my truck and letting him roll around like a water bottle while I'm driving. That's just good parenting. I got loose cans of shit in my fucking car. I identify

with that more as somebody with loose shit falling all over their car than as a parent. There are times too we have to decide, like, whose car to take somewhere. Like, you know, I got all the cans in my car, so we should probably take your car.

They're like, oh, that's right, that's right. You got the cans. Anyways, you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. 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. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website,

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Miles, what song are we sending people to go check out? Look, if you like a little bit of electro pop, some kind of future R&B, but from the perspective of the 80s if you like chromio uh you're gonna like this track it's called duo by sam gallatry spelled g-e-l-l-a-i-t-r-y

and again we just got that little synth vibe to it uh it's upbeat you know it's this wednesday just gotta keep gotta keep pushing so yeah put this in your ears because it's only a couple more days, and then you go to the weekend or whenever your weekend is. But this is Duo by Sam Galatry. Yeah. All right. Well, The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app,

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