The Daily Zeitgeist - Taylor Swift CIA Theory Climbing The Charts, NYPD PropaDancers 02.21.24

Episode Date: February 21, 2024

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get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to season 326 episode 3 of their daily zeitgeist i heart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into american shared consciousness. And it is Wednesday, February 21st, 2024. 22124. Good, buddy. 221. Oh, yeah? Mm-hmm.

You know what that is? Nope. Only two days today. National Grain-Free Day. Hmm. That has to come from... No, that came from a company that does grain-free food. Comes from big quinoa.

Or no, quinoa is a grain, I guess. Big legume. Legume. Probably. Big legume. Big bean. Got their legume-y hands all over this one. And also, National Sticky Bun Day.

That feels a little bit more broad, you know, if you like a sticky bun. I guess that's just a cinnamon roll that has nuts on it. Honey? A honey-based cinnamon roll? That's always kind of weird. No, the picture has pecans. I don't know what it looks like on top. Yeah, I think those go in there, too. Or I guess maybe a sticky bun is just a cinnamon roll, and they all just work together.

Any bun that is sticky, we will take you. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Let's Talk About Che'brien aka let's talk about checks baby let's talk about airport greed let's talk about all the pretzels and bagel chips that we eat let's talk about checks that's courtesy of fighter of the night man on the discord talking about the airport checks mix price index mix the economist has the big the big mac price index well the people have the airport checks mix price index mix there we go documenting how greedy corporations can get when they've got us right where they want us folks not able to shop around for our checks mix like I do on the outside. When I'm not at an airport, I'll go to like three, four locations comparing Chex Mix prices before I finally pull the trigger.

But the airports, they got me. You're like, let me go check. And then you try and haggle. You're like, you know, over at Hudson Bay, they got them for a buck less. I don't know. Can you do a price match or no? All right. No. You're like, you know, over at Hudson Bay, they got them for a buck less. I don't know. Can you do a price match or no? All right.

No. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, it's Mr. 305 Thick Thighs. You know what I mean? I'm down here in Miami, Florida, and it's great it looks like the movies i gotta say they really they really nailed it uh miami you really make it look like the movie so it's not like those other cities you go to you're like this isn't like the movies this is exactly the segment we should remember yeah that's the segment we should remember to do in the future like biggest difference

movie to reality versus like ones that live up to the hype i i agree miami looks exactly like you're expecting it to i feel like i am coming to you from the location that might be the opposite end of the spectrum hollywood oh yeah yeah hollywood is not uh the looks on the tourist's face. Those German families walking down Hollywood Boulevard. Spirits broken. No, we've sold you vaporware. I'm sorry. Whereas like you look out like in Miami, the Bay, like there's people just flying on jet skis, like laughing. And like, I feel like, you know, you open the door to a business and like the Miami sound machine is like playing and you're like, okay.

All right. All right. Stefan is like just welcoming you to the door to a business and like the Miami sound machine is like playing and you're like, okay, all right. Right. Stefan is like just welcoming you to the restaurant. Yeah. There's people doing Timbale solos on every corner. It's, it's really, it's energizing.

It's electric down here. If you want to get a t-shirt that says Hollywood Boulevard on it though, Hollywood is your place. Yeah. Yeah. That, and the, that one hoodie that says Cal if fornia,

like broken on three lines with the bear in the middle, they got those two for everybody. Oh man. Like 14 different shops per block. So you know what else is wild? So many, so many places down here lean into the Miami vice color scape. You know what I mean? Like you will see the turquoise with the pink just popping off

like in like a lit fountain a lit palm tree it's wild how much like and i'm guessing because like you know miami it's all about cocaine and shit like how that like that's part of the ethos or like the aesthetic of the city it's like hey man we don't we get it cocaine did a hell of a lot for this town and we will honor it yeah i mean how much of the miami vice color palette was influenced by reality versus you know yeah how much is miami vice but i i do they are making wise decisions like the the time the miami heat had a uniform that was designed in that color palette it was kind of one of the dopest nba uniforms of all time anyways enough bullshit miles yeah we are thrilled to be joined again by one of our very favorite first-time guests a very funny

comedian you've seen places like their stand-up special gentleman elf on netflix internet flickers is what i call it but other people shorten it to Netflix. Their comedy has hundreds of millions of views on YouTube. Their stand-up has been described as slick, silly brilliance with effortless charm that lets them get away with murder. And as of the last time they were on, they hadn't yet cashed in the murder chip, being able to get away with murder. Hopefully we'll have a development there, though. That's going to be our first question, just to prepare you. Please welcome back to the show,

the brilliant and hilarious Deanne Smith! Hi! Hi, guys. I wish I could do the same thing you do, the yelling into the mic, the leaning away. I'm like, I have some coffee. I'm trying to work on my energy here. You're fine. You're fine. We're the ones. We're the ones working through stuff on Mike.

No, I love it. And have I have I yet cashed in on the murder? No, but I'm thinking about it. These NYPD. I mean, the main thing, the main thing keeping me from killing a cop right now is the pressure to write a manifesto, quite frankly. It's like you got to write a manifesto, quite frankly. I don't want to have to. It's like you've got to have a manifesto. Writing's hard. Writing's hard. I'll do anything to procrastinate. Yeah, there's nothing more horrifying for a writer than to look at that blinking cursor on a blank new document.

You know, where do we go from here? Where do we go from here? I do wonder in the cosmic scheme of things how many murders are prevented by procrastination. I'd imagine it could amount to that. There's got to be a fair few, yeah. Yeah, there's like a Chris Rock bit about how they just need to make bullets more expensive, and that'll help. It's like, I would kill you, but I need a little bit more time to afford these bullets. And then, yeah, probably do some time, think about it, and then you go on with your day. And here's where, in years past, I would have gone off on a 45-minute tangent about the British coal gas study.

But I'm a better man now. Seven years in. So I will just say, go Google the British coal gas study and find out why that Chris Rock bit would actually work. Would actually lower homicides and suicides. But, Deanne, we're thrilled to have you back. How have you been? Aside from not doing murders. Yeah, you know, not doing murders

has started to take a toll. How have I been? I've been, I think, like the collective consciousness losing my mind a bit, witnessing a genocide in real time. You know, personally, I was going to be like, personally, life is good, but how can anything be you know so yeah i'm i'm there yes and i can't stop thinking about it or talking about it and you're not heartened by those like very like lightly optimistic stories

you're like well behind closed doors joe biden does not like what netanyahu oh he called bb a motherfucker yeah i know you're like and was ceasefire or we just get this like he doesn't like him though oh you know i i am heartened though by the idea that this is we are witnessing the collapse we don't need to wait right for things to be different this is what it looks like when capitalism collapses and colonialism hopefully is on its way out. It's just a question of building the new future. That sort of thing brings me hope. But it's a lot to ask from a person so anxious that I literally have to take anxiety meds

before I give my five-pound chihuahua her anxiety meds when we travel because I'm afraid of overdosing her. So to ask this mind, this anxious mind anxious mind yeah hope for a new future it's hard i do like that you are using the airport oxygen mask rule when giving yourself and your chihuahua absolutely you gotta take care of gotta go first before you can take care of it yeah What if you take yours and you're like, uh-oh. My shit just got right and I went too hard on the anxiety meds. That's so funny.

I pull down the oxygen mask just mid-flight. Just for a little bit. Just pop it open. Fresh air. They should offer that. I feel like an airline, you know, they're getting competitive in very weird ways i feel like they might as well on demand auction like hey man if you just want to vibe out just fucking here rather than the thing we all have to do i can just i already pictured diane you got like a fucking screwdriver on you and you just pop in the fucking mask out from the top

the cabin pressure changes give me this fucking o2. Listen, I can see it too. And my girlfriend lives in LA, so I do a lot of cross-country flights. And I recently just had the most beautiful stereotypical experience. The guy sitting next to me was reading a book that looked like it. It didn't look like a bestseller. It looked like a little self-published kind of book. And it was about how to be a good actor. We were flying from New York to LA, and he and he was highlighting passages and it melted my heart. It felt so stereotypical and amazing, which is to say, I feel like if anyone's just trying out oxygen on a flight, it's the people going between New York and L.A.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Need it. Wow. That feels like exactly. Sounds like such a grifty Amazon book. You know, how to be a good actor. It's like, yeah,ifty Amazon book, you know?

How to be a good actor. It's like, yeah, I read An Actor Prepares and all these other seminal texts for acting, but I need that one. How do I get good at it, though? How do I book the gig? Just bottom line it for me here, okay? I don't need all that nuance from the fancy acting teachers. Just bottom line it.

If you can't put it in bullet points for me, fine. But could we like do a four dummies? I think that the real life version is, did you grow up in New York or Los Angeles? No. I mean, I don't know. You got a rich parent that can maybe bankroll a film for you. I don't know. One of those.

Yeah. Good luck to you. He was highlighting more. I don't know. One of those. Yeah. Good luck to you. He was highlighting more than he wasn't highlighting. And it was incredible. Oh, I've been on that. I've done that so often. Isn't it sort of fucked up though too? Like as you do it, you're like, man, what's the fucking, I'm basically saying this whole

goddamn chapter is good. That's me in screenshots at the moment. I'm just like screenshotting everything i'm like this resonates this makes sense and i'm like i'm never going back to this stuff they're going to be puzzling over this one diane what's your last what's what's what's one of your recent screenshots you can you can share with oh my gosh that's a good that's a good question oh goodness this was just something i wanted to go back to literally my last screenshot is uh the billionaire resnick family has been lobbying for years to start a war with Iran because Iran is in competition to their pistachio business. The U.S. is such a dystopian shithole that it's being pushed toward world war over a snack food with a headline that says California pistachio billionaires funding is israel's occupation regime and this comes from dr

understore cabral on twitter i think via instagram this is not someone i follow but i was like this is what is going on this is interesting i haven't heard about this before whoa american stewart alan resnick i think goes all the way to the top i know know. The top being pistachios. Yeah. Wait, what? Resnick is the wealthiest farmer in the United States. Resnick and his wife, Linda Resnick, bought the Franklin Mint in 1986 and sold it in 2006. Wow.

Wow. Hey, but we got, oh, so this is the same family behind wonderful pistachios, the pomegranate juice, Fiji water. Wow, wow, wow. They're the only people who are allowed to officially declare something wonderful. Right, exactly.

Oh, man. And a UCLA Bruin. All right. Go Bruins. Go Bruins. All right. Deanne, we are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment uh first we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're checking in with

in the zeitgeist we're going to check in with the ci tag conspiracy theory how popular it is like what what people are thinking it's it just passed a big one in the in the polling so we're going to check in with that we're going to talk about navalny putin's main foe alexei navalny's mysteriously mysterious death in prison so i guess not mysterious suspicious but not the mystery is pretty it's what manner what manner of murder occurred how did he get murdered right he died of sudden, you know, the Russian authorities announced the cause of death as sudden death syndrome, which sounds like the title of a movie in which Steven Seagal plays a doctor who gets loose like when terrorists take over his hospital. Like sudden death syndrome is wild. Wasn't that a Van Damme?

That's a Van damme movie right sudden death sudden death yeah but sudden death syndrome sorry yes he needs to be a doctor yeah well that's also peter hyams is the person who did time cop i'm familiar with his work can it be a syndrome i feel like syndromes are ongoing. Right. Yeah. I don't know the definition. I was surprised that this was a thing that they weren't saying through peals of laughter. You know, they reported it and people were like, which is a term that is used occasionally to describe, you know, cardiac arrest. Or it's like the thing the cops say, like what we've talked about in previous episodes, excited delirium, where they're like, yeah, that's how that person died in custody. Just because they were just too, you know, innocent in our custody.

Yeah. So we'll talk about that. We will talk about New York just took a big hit. Yeah. New York just took a big hit. Yeah. Both the dumbest guy from Shark Tank and the guy who made Dilbert have said that they are going to take their business elsewhere. Thank you very much, New York, because of the Trump fines. So we'll just check in with New York, see how they're doing.

And we'll get our immediate answer on how they're doing because the NYPD has a dance team that appeared on local news shows that I had a hard time believing was real, but is in fact real. It's a real thing that they spent money on. There are uniforms. And anyway, there are uniforms. Neither side of the aisle seems psyched about this one. No. So we'll get to that plenty more. But first, DM, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? Oh, the literally most recent thing, because I knew this question was coming.

And I was pleased to know I can actually say the most recent thing was last night around 3 a.m. I was Googling Sopranos last episode, the season finale of Sopranos. Series finale. I've been revisiting. Series finale. That's right. Season six finale. Series finale.

I needed to read about the theories. This is the second time I've seen it. But I was recently revisiting Sopranos on a flight from New York to L.A. They have the first three episodes of season one. And I was like, let me bookend this. Let me watch the final episode again. Is that JetBlue? That was on Delta. Oh, I was on

one, or maybe it was. I was on JetBlue and there was like, it was just so funny when you said like, we only had the first three episodes of like a season. You're like, I get it. It's just to get you through the flight. And I was starting to watch The Curse, the Nathan Fielder show. And I don't know if either of you have seen the show, but there's some interesting frontal nudity in the first episode

that was not censored in the thing. And the person sitting next to me on the flight kind of broke their neck, saying, what are you watching over here? It's Nathan Fielder's prosthetic penis. It's not real. Oh, wow. That's an incredible thing to be watching on a flight. Yeah, exactly.

Victor said, bad show to watch in public. Yeah, thank you. Duly noted, producer Victor. I feel like they should mark it thusly. That's wild that they have it as exclusive to Delta. Nathan Fielder's latest show with full frontal. Joke noted. Check it out yeah what uh yeah what's something

you think is overrated overrated at the moment i mean this isn't even a joke answer i would just say overrated at the moment is kind of like a feeling of hopelessness and a dedication to quote peace as it as it refers to being apathetic i'm thinking of you know what i'm thinking of former white spiritual ish girlies on instagram calling for peace for everyone yeah you know just like that i don't know i think i think when we're witnessing a genocide we have to uh get out there and agitate and uh vote with our energy and attention and actions. You know, just kind of sitting back and having peace in your heart for all beings is not good enough. Yeah. Well, that's because I think, yeah, inevitably when you're like, well, what do I do about oppression?

And you're like, oh, I don't I got to do all that. Let me just let me just send a vibes postcard out to the internet. I meant more like emoji-based. What do I do about oppression? Yeah. Is there an emoji I can post? That's kind of my media of choice. Direct action.

Really, when I just read up on that, I was like, Yeah, peace fingers in every shade that emoji offers you should be good enough. Exactly. A rainbow of peace, you know? Truly. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated?

Listen, I also knew this question was coming. I'm being in the moment. But you mentioned this off the top of the show. I was going to say corn checks, which is what I had for breakfast. Oh, shit. I think they're simple, they're basic, they're gluten-free, which is important to me.

And they feel like little blankies on your tongue. The weave, the waffle weave of a corn check. That's a blankie, huh? But you brought up Chex Mix off the top. I was just thinking, no, but I was like, the sensation for me in my mouth, it's not to let that thing chill in my tongue. It's like, crush those little,

I think the crunch of it is one of the most satisfying ones of the cereals. I take each and every one like a Eucharist wafer, personally. Yes, yes. But even if they get a little too soggy, they're just sweet little blankets. Yeah. There is a kind of a light sweetness to cornchex also. But, you know, it's not like a sweetened cereal. That's not by mistake, folks.

That's not by mistake. They made it taste good on purpose. That's how there's engineers and scientists that know the perfect ratio of crunch and sweetness. That is what our greatest scientists are doing. For a while there, they were working on the Manhattan Project. They moved to the moon landing. And then since then, they've just been making food taste as good as possible. Yeah.

It's a mushroom cloud of flavor, dude, in your mind. The mouthfeel, though. The mouthfeel. Exactly. Kaboom. Yeah. Maybe capitalism isn't all bad. Right? It's bringing us these snack foods.

Hey, your words, your words, your words, not ours. I'm glad we got you there, though. Glad we got you there. He's very good at inventing baja blast and you know giving dorito nacho cheese flavor doritos the great experience that they give you where you just can't stop eating them it's bad for you in the long run but you know it will kill you but you'll have that like one moment of like vaguely dissatisfied bliss where like i think i have to keep eating these forever and science is like we fucking did it you guys exactly what it is

vaguely dissatisfied bliss i'm gonna try to remember this as i'm just housing snacks those guys those scientists are on top of it oh they know instead of death yeah yeah no but the trader joe snack some of them like they hit just enough that you're like oh these are okay but not quite as good as other things sometimes i'm like you found the exact middle trader joe's i don't know how yeah their peanut butter filled pretzels are so much better than the ones that you get anywhere else i gotta say trader joe really. They figured it out. Yep. But they haven't figured out our phone number for those free peanut butter pretzels.

So, you know, work on that. Work on that, TJ. I do have it out. I'm just waiting. And Trader Joe's is an unspoofable number. So I will believe you if you call me and say you're Trader Joe's. Hello, I'm calling from Trader Joe's. I need your social security number

in order to send you some free stuff. If not, I will transfer you to the CIA who will arrest you. The number just comes up, Joe Trader. It's me. What? Damn. Miles, big news. Yeah, you're back, baby.

You just pick up the phone like this, Jack. Well, well, well. Been waiting for your call a long time, dipshit. You son of a bitch. You know what? I'm sorry. I'm changing my underrated. Underrated is answering any phone call.

Well, well, well, well, well. Look who came crawling back. I didn't have this on my bingo card, or maybe I did. Oh, God. The bingo card. Fuck off with the bingo cards, please. By the way, I do feel like I did a bad job and rushed past the 3AM Sopranos last episode Googling. A little quickly, did you find a theory?

googling a little quickly did you did you find a theory i do i feel like this is another like you know the internet has wrought so many bad things but one of the highlights was early days soprano's final episode and then everybody immediately analyzes it like every every shot like it's a renaissance painting which it kind of was what did you find anything new not new you know maybe new to me because i hadn't really gone down that rabbit hole before i i have purposely not not read anything by david chase i'm kind of saving that i get weird like that i'm like i'm savoring let me see what he has to say later one theory i liked was that the members only jacket guy, I don't remember, Tony's at the diner with his family. There's a guy that comes and sits down. And people

were saying, listen, if he's really the assassin, he's not sitting there trying to expose his face and let everybody remember him. Like, why is he sitting at the diner counter for five minutes before all this happens so that people can recognize him. One theory that I thought was interesting was that he just happened to show up at that diner and was maybe a family member of somebody that Tony or Tony's people had whacked. So it was kind of a spontaneous thing. He just saw an opportunity. So he took a minute at the bar to gather his courage, went to the bathroom, came back, made it happen. I thought that was a great idea. I also

had not considered, some people were saying that Carmella, Carmella gave Tony up because she picked the restaurant. I hate to believe that, and I refuse to. Hey, I mean, it's not like he was the best partner. It's true, I know.

You like to romanticize that sort of like mob marriage thing where it's like, yeah, till the fucking wheels come off. I probably. But you like to romanticize that sort of like mob marriage thing where it's like, yeah, till the fucking wheels come off. I probably do. And I conflate, unfortunately,

I conflate Tony Soprano with James Gandolfini who you cannot help but love that actor. Yeah. Like his choices are unbelievable. He just has to be

the most emotionally in tune person to be able to act like that. I just love him. So I know I'm supposed to hate Tony Sop soprano but i i kind of can't because of that is the sweet face yeah yeah the the members the members only jacket i think is the most interest like sort of one where you really think about it because that's a reference to eugene ponta corvo who is the guy who like hung himself after he was trying to cash out and move

to florida and like then the feds are like dude there's no way like you have to stay in it and remember he was showing his wife like there's that whole thing where he's like this is the house for us babe and then he like his life life tragically ends and like a lot of people that theory is like because eugene was a members only wearing mobster that it's like this is the thing coming back that's like that's the more interesting one versus like yeah I didn't re-watch the whole series but now that you're saying that I'm like remembering that that that happened yeah yeah yeah yeah miles is up on his on his literature yeah all right never heard of you know these other weirdos like uh I don't know was it was that one book you kept trying to get me to read, Jack,

about the Ravens or something? I'm always trying to get you to read Edgar Allan Poe. One poem, which is a book now about the Ravens? That and Catcher in the Rye, man. Or Chaucer, whatever. You'll miss me with that, dude. All right. Let's take a quick break.

We'll come back back we'll talk about some of the shit that is happening in the zeitgeist we'll be right back i'm jess casaveto executive producer of the hit netflix documentary series dancing for the devil the 7m tiktok cult and i'ma Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted,

just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jimei Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.

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Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. We are. Andia tag the conspiracy theory that taylor is a psyop for the cia to get joe biden elected is gaining popularity seemingly it sounds like this poll actually raised its profile just by asking people about it yeah well it's interesting because of this monmouth poll asked quote this is the question do you think a covert government effort for taylor swift to help joe biden win the presidential election actually exists or not? With only three response options, exists, does not exist, or don't know. 18% said exists.

Does not exist, 73%. Don't know, 9%. 2% of respondents said, I have never heard of Taylor Swift. So good for you. Wow. Yeah. That's the most surprising detail here. Yeah.

People are like, huh? What? No, no, no, no. I don't know what you're talking about. But apparently, so as it breaks down by party, it's 32% of conservatives are like, yep, yep. There's definitely some kind of thing going on. There's some kind of plan here with the government and Taylor Swift. It's just that to compare, I think they were asking about other conspiracy theories.

So if 18% of total respondents said this, this thing absolutely exists. Only 10% were flat earthers. So this is picking up. This is bigger than flat earthing right now. That wasn't 10% of the people

who thought Taylor Swift. That is 10% total of the population flat earthers the population, flat earthers. Yeah, flat earthers. Or like a larger poll about conspiracy theories, 10% was about where the flat earth theory went. And in this one, we got 18%. But I think, you know, the thing with polls like this is we have no idea like how actually like bout it, bout it people are when it comes to how intensely they hold this belief because

it is worth noting that 42 of the people that said they did believe this was a thing had never heard of this theory prior to being asked in the poll but that almost makes it way scarier because it's such a convincing conspiracy theory to a certain mind shape that all you need to do is be like, huh? And they're like, yes, sir. Till the day I die, yes, sir. I need to interject.

Do we think it's completely insane to believe this? Because I wouldn't, personally, I wouldn't put anything past the CIA. And we know that the U.S. government uses Hollywood at times to put the messages out there that they want the American people to believe. I think right now it's hard to see what pro-Biden messages Taylor Swift is putting out. Absolutely.

And what a horrific choice we have but yeah but i think you know uh more than that it's i don't know because it all started with this like stupid right-wing thing where they completely misinterpreted a presentation by someone who is loosely affiliated with the department of defense that they're like and that means the cia is doing this because it's like a hypothetical about how celebrities can use social influence like there could be social media influence campaigns but the other hypothetical characters in this presentation were like taylor swift and like john snow from game of thrones and like they completely leave that part out in their like analysis i guess yeah the more i'm reflecting

i'm like well when we look at what's actually happening like what biden put on social media during the super bowl that absolutely horrific red laser eye just like we planned it she's saying like completely tone deaf disgusting horrifying that that that's it that same campaign does not seem capable of yeah you know the kind of more of writing machinations yeah exactly right yeah i mean like it depends on what we're talking about right like if we're saying that taylor swift was created in a lab like i i feel like that is the implication a lot of the time is that taylor swift has created a lab and like that they are shoving her down people's throats to try to get joe biden elected like and that feels like they're underestimating how popular taylor swift is and how like yeah that that there's but

if if they're just saying like taylor the biden campaign would love to use Taylor Swift's influence to help them get elected. That's true of every politician who has ever existed. And it feels like they are just discovering the concept of advertising for the first time. Like in a lot of cases, like they're just like, what? Psyop! And automatically ruling themselves out. What? Psy-up!

And automatically ruling themselves out. I mean, who's to say that these hard right-wingers couldn't have captured the heart and mind of Taylor Swift if they tried? You know what I mean? Right. Yeah, exactly. Their draconian policies aren't bringing the girls to the yard. Oh, that's weird. Pretty shocking. Yeah, but it's funny, too because like conservatives earnestly will be

like that's fine because we have ice vanilla ice and ted nugent and you're and kid rock and you're like oh so maybe you really do i mean from that perspective they do think of like well we have our people who also are really cool that you know have have the people's ears but this one does feel like to your point jack like i don't it's i don't know what exactly it is is it the paranoia is it that taylor is now just like the physical embodiment of the right wings suspicions that maybe they're the baddies you know yeah when it's like no it can't be it's taylor it's taylor that would be the reason that anything that, you know, that would make Trump lose. We also can't underestimate just good old fashioned misogyny.

It's baked in to every criticism of Taylor Swift. Right. Some of which are legitimate, but it's it's always there. I wonder, like, is there an act that you like when I think about it? Right. Because a real op would seemingly be like this thing like, I don't know, they're not that fucking popular. But why the fuck are they everywhere? Like, I don't even know anybody who fucking likes this shit. I feel like the Pussycat Dolls maybe could have been a CIA op. We're like, for a while, like, all right, we get it. But like, y'all are still here?

Well, there's certainly industry plans, for sure. Sorry, can you remind me of a Pussycat Dolls song? I know I've heard them, but I can't. Pushing all your buttons, babe. You know, buttons. Remember that one? Yeah. Yeah, look.

No. Nicole Scherzinger, you know, was like the head one. And then there was Carmeet. There's a lot. Y'all weren't there. I was there. Yeah, I think I was maybe old for it or something. It just missed me.

And Don't Ya? That was their big hit. Don't ya wish your girlfriend wasn't hot like me? Okay, that was them. That got my ass. I gotta say. That was a bop. Can confirm.

Can confirm. Was alive for that. But yeah, I don't know. Or like Chance the Rapper, maybe. Chance the Rapper was awesome. I was caught know. Or like Chance the Rapper maybe? Chance the Rapper was awesome. I was caught up in the early Chance the Rapper stuff. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, he's part of that Chicago political machine too, so

don't take your eye off the ball. Yeah, it's a weird, like it's kind of weird how predictable it was that Trump's supporters would turn on Taylor Swift because it does feel like they we we live in like a to like a bipolar like power world like what like in the 80s the Trump Swift era and they just, they're the only ones who can exist. Like they're going to battle, like wage the stupidest battle on one another.

Right. And I don't like the mega folks as chances. On the other hand, they, they do seem willing to do very stupid things. Yeah. Maybe a remake of red Dawn but red taylor's version dawn wow i don't know just saying the material's there folks just speed it into fucking chat gpt

and it'll shit out a script that hogwood can make they'll shit out an entire film with oh yeah dead eyes cats roaming a wilderness yeah yeah anyways uh we're giving them too much good material. Yeah. Sorry. That's free. Moving on to a tragedy. Alexei Navalny, a brave person, foe of Vladimir Putin, stood up to Vladimir Putin, was jailed for standing up to Vladimir Putin. No, it was 19 years for extremism.

Oh, right, right. That's the charge. He was too extreme for 19 years. Yeah, he has died while in prison after being moved to a super heavy, what's it called? Like lock-up prison. Yeah, like security secure high security prison like up in the above the polar circle like they're just arctic circle anyways uh nailed that

that description of what's going on here but uh yeah his mother was told that the cause of death was sudden death syndrome, which is a vague term for different cardiac syndromes that cause sudden cardiac arrest and death. But I think there's near universal suspicion that he was poisoned, since that seems to be how Russia does their business for the most part. And adding to that suspicion, his mother must wait 14 days to receive her son's body as authorities conduct a chemical examination, which 14 days also helps to be about the amount of time that it would take for traces of one of their favorite nerve agents to poison people with to disappear from his body so yeah it's it's that sudden sudden death syndrome that you know he's been you know he's been claiming he's like dude they're they're gonna fucking they're gonna do something here and it's wild like a ton of people there's like seemed to be like an outpouring of of grief uh for people in like from people in russia who i think were probably taking a risk laying flowers

at like a memorial site. But then like the fallout, too, is really wild, too, because then, you know, his wife, who's like his widow, who has now sort of said, like, I'm going to help continue his message, his work, because a lot of people like this is like this is a pretty powerful moment for the opposition to Putin's government. Like then she was like temporarily blocked on Twitter after she said that. And then I was like, what the fuck's going on? But again, obviously, Elon Musk seems to seems to have an eye on Russian interests at times, like when he was, you know, changing like the Starlink satellites that were at one point helping the Ukrainian military. And he's

like, let me just kind of pause these for a second, let the this opposition army catch up really quick but i think the one thing the internet can agree on at least on the wacky side of it is that maybe it wasn't putin and maybe it was the fucking covid vaccine uh because there are a ton of people who are now just being like this this is one from this like quote unquote nurse who has like a blue check on twitter the west is blaming putin for alex Navalny's death. But according to autopsy results of Navalny, cause of death is a blood clot in the heart. Doctors suspect it was caused by the Pfizer vaccine. Apparently, Navalny was vaccinated four times. ever said that at all. But that's just where we're at now. People are just like,

oh, that guy died suddenly? Yep, COVID, COVID vaccine, COVID vaccine. There are other ones who are saying it was the Sputnik one that was made by the Russian government that wasn't an mRNA vaccine. It's fucking all over the place. She somehow had access to this information as well.

You'll find it was a blood clot. That's what the doctors are saying. Okay, nurse with a blue check. My sources. Yeah, what's your source? As somebody with a blue check. My sources. As someone who just created this story for the purposes of this tweet, it occurs that the Pfizer vaccine is the official

cause of death. It's being said, most notably by me right here, that it was a blood clot caused by the Pfizer vaccine. Trump also weighed in on Navalny's death on Truth Social in a truly incoherent even for him. also weighed in on Navalny's death on Truth Social in a truly incoherent, even for him. He was like, Navalny's death is really making me think

about how they're out to get me. It's like, wait, you're, don't they, you're like buddies with the guy who killed? No, no, no, forget that part. Forget that part. What I'm saying is it's real freaky out there. with the guy who killed? No, no, no. Forget that part. Forget that part. What I'm saying is it's real freaky out there. And you know,

who knows? So maybe people don't like my sneakers. If Louboutin sues me for copyright infringement about my sneakers, that's kind of like I'm getting Navalny'd. Which is the evolution

of the sneaker thing now. As people are pointing to the fact that Louboutin, because those sneakers that he unleashed on our eyes over the weekend are red-bottomed. And some of our feet. But they're just not very comfortable.

Let's just say they're not true to size, as the homies said on the message boards. And you guys will notice that I'm being lit from below by a golden glow like the Pulp Fiction briefcase that has nothing to do with any shoes that I happen to be wearing or not wearing. Yeah.

Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Deanne, are you a sneakerhead? I can't say that I am. Oh. Although. You missed out on a cool pair.

I did read like a year ago, I got some Onitsukas. Oh, yeah. Asics? Yes. Yes. Do got some Onitsukas. Oh yeah. Asics. Yes. Yeah. Do you say Asics? Yeah. No.

Um, Tiger, like Tiger Onitsuka. Onitsuka Tiger is, is it also Asics? Yeah. It's like a sub brand of Asics. Okay.

So I am talking to a sneaker head. I will just tell you that these like yellow high tops caught my eye, captured my heart and a shop in belborn i had to get them and i'm i always receive compliments on these shoes what i hold back from saying every time is these are my coolest shoes yeah but i could see how someone could become a sneakerhead if i'm gonna put on cool shoes and walk out and have people notice not just the shoes but me and project these qualities of fashion onto me i see how that could happen as someone with low self-esteem i can't recommend it highly enough getting like a couple nice pairs of sneakers a nice initial investment and then you no

longer have to have a personality you know just it's that they're great it does make the outfit pop um yeah my my issue is that i i can't i don't keep them as fresh as i feel like they should be kept yeah yeah you know i'm not taking care of them when i get home i'm not like not wearing them on the street and putting them on get inside places i feel like that's how people do it they i remember they really those the yellow ones they're called the mexicos, the yellow with the black. They really became popular because of Kill Bill when Uma Thurman's character was running in the Kill Bill stuff. Ah, interesting. I didn't know that.

I just feel the need to tell you, mine are yellow with yellow. There's no black. Oh, okay. No, okay. Pure yellow. Yellow and yellow, yellow and yellow. Actually, they're the Trump shoes. They're gold, actually. They're shoes. They're gold, actually.

They're gold. They're gold. Hold on, Deanne. Let me see them really quick. Yeah, those are the Trump sneakers. Oh, huh. Well, good to know. Also, just, you know, not to make it one-sided, because Trump commented on Navalny.

Navalny also, before he died, in, I think it was his last letter or one of his last letters to a friend, commented on Trump. And, you know, Navalny, not somebody who scares easily, like at the time in a Russian prison, being imprisoned and guarded by like the most famous, powerful murderer in the world. So not someone who scares easily. Describe the prospect of a new Trump administration as very scary. So, you know. So mutual admiration society, I guess you could say. Navalny liked me moving along. Not wrong. I feel like I need to interject. I want to confess something to you both.

I don't have much to say about this other than for sure he was poisoned. And what a world. Yeah. What a world. But this is all reminding me. I'm like, I'm in my head like, what do I have to say about Russia? And I will tell you briefly about the time I very accidentally insulted a member of Pussy Riot. So they were here in New York in December. I have a Russian journalist friend. He got us VIP tickets. We're hanging out. I met a lovely member of Pussy Riot called Olga. She introduced herself because we were waiting for a minute with our names on the list, and she thought she had inconvenienced us. So when I met her, she extended her hand. She said, hi, it's me, dumb cunt Olga, because something had messed up. And I was like, this is hilarious. This woman has a great sense of humor. They absolutely rocked the show.

It was incredible. It felt like, honestly, it felt like they were teaching us as Americans, like, how to dissent, how to rebel. This is what you do when your government gets really extreme. It was an incredible show. We're hanging out afterwards. And somehow, at some point during the evening, it came up, Olga said something like, you know, in Russia, I would be considered fat or something. I don't know how that came up.

We're on, we're like, you know what, we're in an Uber on the way to a strip club. And I was like, oh, that's wild. She's just like a very normal size person. Later in the night, I banked this comment. I banked what I thought was her sense of humor. And I made a joke that did not land. And I go, wow, I can't believe

here I am partying with the fattest woman in Russia. And it was, listen, if we shared the same sense of humor, she would absolutely, hilarious, you're taking what I said, you're yes-anding it, you're if we shared the same sense of humor, she would absolutely, hilarious. You're taking what I said.

You're yes anding it. You're cranking up the extreme. Of course, this isn't true. I introduced myself as a dumb cunt, actually. So this all makes sense. It fell completely flat. And I was like, I got it. I got to get out of here.

You just jumped through a window. Yeah. The nearest window. It was all going so well i felt so cool for for a minute partying with the members of pussy riot it sounds so much like mine it's crazy i can't believe we don't see each other like you know going to strip clubs with pussy riot together i mean i think that's about right i think some some part of me just had to tank it, you know? Let them see you. You're not cool enough to hang.

You can't actually read the room. Yeah. That was actually the interesting theory about that New York Magazine financial analyst who got scammed. And everybody, like, read the piece and were like, this still doesn't really make sense that she went through all this and eventually people were just like, no, I think she like, like part of her new and just like wanted to tank her life to like, make it more interesting or something to like, she was just like, I think I have too much money. Right.

Like some part of her. She's like, I actually have 50 grand cash next to me. I can just put in the shoe box and see if a car actually shows up. That'll be kind of good. I don't know this story oh yeah you got to read the cut financial analyst who put uh i think it was 50k in a uh yeah 50k in a shoebox and gave it to scammers it's it got a call from amazon amazon said someone's abusing your identity and then they got a call from the ftc the financial

trade commission who then gave a badge number and is like, you're in trouble. But now I got to I got to bump this up to the CIA. And then the CIA person's like 50K in a shoebox, a white escalator, pull up, just roll down the window, put it in and move on with your day. And everything is done. And they did. That's incredible. I do need to read this. That's incredible.

That is a feeling like you want your life to be a movie. You're definitely asking for drama. Yeah. Because there's no way that's real. There's no way that's real. Yeah. The personal finance columnist for the New York Magazine is the columnist. Tell you what she might have been, though.

Sneakerhead. There she was with $50,000 and a shoebox. Yeah, that's right. That's a lot of stuff to have ready. I hang on to my shoeboxes, I will tell you that much. Right. These, even though they're beat to shit, I might resell them on the market for $12. Yeah.

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It seems like a sketch. Yeah. It feels like a Nathan for you bit. To get people on the news, just to pretend you're the NYPD dance team and just see if a local news station would bite. Because, my gosh, it's so low energy. I mean, the performance like this eerie feeling

like oh yeah these are like people like state sanctioned murderers dancing for our enjoyment this is what dance looks like when it's done by soulless people yeah yeah and like i'm an abolitionist but i believe everyone on that dance team should absolutely be jailed for life after the oh yeah lack of rhythm in that performance. Yeah. The way that some of them aren't even attempting the move, it's not that they're out of sync with one another. Many of them do not appear to be aware

of what the others are doing. That they are performing in public. Can we give them 19 years for under-extremism? Crank up the energy, ladies. Crank up. The clip went viral and was condemned by both sides, the left for obvious reasons,

you know, criticizing the NYPD's inflated budget, while on the right, they were upset to see NYPD officers like doing anything that wasn't like attacking migrant invaders right for five whole minutes right yeah just like not violent enough for their police but it somehow managed to make the national review care about excessive police budgets for a brief fleeting moment uh they they had the headline defund the police dance team so like the first half of that sentence they had it yeah but that just kept going and that's it but what they have they have there's so many clubs though too they

have like within the nypd i guess you have to have these little groups in order to keep people's heads out of you know having like introspective thoughts about the work that they do in their place. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Just anything to. Yeah.

Honestly, if you are already in the NYPD, please join a club, stay out of the house. We don't need more domestic violence in your house. So everything you can do. Yeah. Stay out of your house and off the streets.

Keep everyone safe. Join a club. Get them in the clubs. They've got a paintball club. They've got a chess club. They're contemplating a knitting circle. So they can't be that bad. They do shit a normal non-murderer would do.

Yeah. You know, when this went viral, they went into crisis mode. And one of the members of the dance team and the deputy commissioner of communications went back on that same TV show days later and stressed that no taxpayer money is being used for the team. Oh, really? Yeah. So who paid for those uniforms, those custom made uniforms? That was actually. Self-funded?

Have you not bought NYPD cookies? They're like Girl Scout cookies, except they have pieces of broken glass in them. Yeah. They're old manhole covers punched into cookie-sized shapes. Yeah, there's two on these. But yeah, I mean,

the obvious problem with them being like, this is just a harmless way to blow off some steam is that, you know, that the chat the nypd chess club is not making tv appearances like this is obviously copaganda to make cops look friendly and arrhythmic but you know like kind of oh look at that look look at the they dance like my aunt yeah look at them out there trying did it not feel so much like iof tiktoks like we've seen like female soldiers kind of dancing horrifically off beat yeah it's it's it just i had not seen anything like that until recently and then to have these two examples so close to each other, it's like, what are we doing? Yeah.

It really reminded me a lot of the, like a lot of Israeli propaganda. Oh my God. Yeah. Hand in hand. And I'm proposing to the NYPD, go ahead and take it. You want to capture the hearts and minds of the people. Put out ACAB yourself. You go ahead and start saying ACAB, little asterisk, all cops are ballet dancers.

Show me the ballet dance team. Let's go. Yeah, exactly. All cops are belly dancers. Wow. Belly dancers? Break dancers? We can keep going. Yeah. Speaking of break dancers, another thing that people were pointing out is that the idea of a NYPD dance team is pretty wild because just a decade ago,

the NYPD was cracking down on rogue dance teams by treating them as if they were violent street gangs, which at least one expert called total madness. But they, yeah, like, you know, if you ever lived in New York,

like sometimes there would be dance crews that would come on the subway. Yeah. Showtime. Do often amazing routines that, and then like ask for money and you were obligated to give it to them because like some of the dancing was so fucking cool. And then YPD was like, that's actually terrorism.

You need to never do that again because, and, uh, the dancing was so fucking cool. And the NYPD was like, that's actually terrorism. You need to never do that again. Because, and it turns out it was just because they wanted to have a monopoly on dance teams. They were a rival dance crew. Right.

I didn't know about them criminalizing dance, but it makes sense. I mean, it checks out. There's nothing more fun than running into Showtime when you're on the subway. Yeah.

Anybody, anybody, anybody trying to make that experience more pleasant or more full of art and skill? Yeah. You got my dollars. Absolutely. It is wild, though, too,

like, because this team, like, this dance team has been appearing, like, they've been around now. Like, they had two local news appearances prior to this then there was a new york times like puff piece on them and you're like oh okay yeah this is a full court pr press thing of like let's just let's try and get the mood up around the nybd look at them dance

look at them now just are there literally no better dancers like there's gotta be to believe it yeah there there there has to be i think these are the people that are willing to debase themselves like this to this level to be like look i dance like i'm i like to dance but i'm not letting people know i'm a cop like that like it's yeah you know what you're right the good dancers are keeping it low profile yeah because he's i mean it's funny because this has been like a sort of i think this was sort of like an organic copaganda trope that emerged over the years like in the beginning there were just like truly like i guess spontaneous things or like a cop is like at a local thing and

like oh this cop can do the robot and people like wow like i remember like 15 years ago you'd see a video like pop and lock your ass up but you know what i mean and then eventually i'm doing like oh shit like let's create a fucking whole squadron of them but they can't dance so they just didn't have it that night all right they just didn't have that night that's all right that's okay they'll be back another day day. Like, I feel like that must have been the conversation that happened after where they were just like, oh, man. Well, that wasn't our best look. But I mean, it's on a local news show that like 12 people watch. It's no big deal. We'll live to dance another day. And whoops. And whoops. You know what's horrible is some of those people are probably feel more publicly shamed for dancing badly than they do for being a cop. Obviously.

Yeah. If that's what it takes to get people out of the forest, let's let's go. There you go. Well, Deanne, what a pleasure having you as always. Oh, guys, so much fun. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Guys, it's Deanne underscore Smith on Instagram, Twitter. I can't call it X, you know.

No. Yeah. I have yet to start a TikTok, but I probably will. And yeah, Deanne Smith, the most successful, successful by Google standards, Deanne Smith. That's available. So just go ahead and Google that. And you can catch me on the internet. What did you call it? Netflix?

The internet flickers. Yeah, internet flickers. Internet flickers. Internet flickers. Web flickers. March 5th, there's a little special coming out. I've been calling it Hannah Gadsby Presents Gender Weirdos,

but I think they've named it Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda. So I have they named it Hannah Gadsby's gender agenda. So I have a little seven minute set and all the acts are incredible. It's really fun. And Hannah managed to get away with some pretty spicy jokes about Netflix on Netflix. So that's fun. Wow. There you go. Amazing. That sounds great. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Yes. Do you know what? I'm going to just generally recommend the Instagram presence of comedian Mohanad El-Sheikhi. And you know what? I'm going to send your producer his name

because you should have him on. He's incredible. Mohanad El-Sheikhi. We've had Mohanad on before. Oh, have you? Yeah. Oh, good. Good.

Good. You're on top of it. You know this guy. He's been keeping me sane. And also recently in the past few weeks, I've discovered on Instagram, Timmons Lisa, that's the username, and she overdubs videos like she'll do like Noah Tishby or Kamala Harris and speaks, gives them new, you know what I'm saying? 3,000 sort of vibes or 2,000 sort of vibes. And it's very, very funny. And she manages to make some of this horrific stuff really funny. So I'd recommend both of those people.

We will link off to them in the footnotes. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah, find me on the at-base platforms, at Miles of Grey. If you like basketball, check out Miles and Jack on Mad Boosties. If you like 90 Day Fiancé, check me out on 420 Day Fiancé. A couple of gray you like basketball check out miles and jack on mad boosties you like 90 day fiance check me out on 420 day fiance a couple tweets i like first one just this tweet from the hill just reads like fucking just i can't believe it's real it just says senator warren elizabeth

warren says the rock would be in her dream blunt rotation that's the headline is that that's not real though right no she was on pod save and the pod saves dudes were like all right who's your dream blunt rotation and it's like that's good glad we're asking the fucking tough questions of a sitting u.s senator well you know we're shipping off our tax dollars and transforming them into bang bangs and another one is from just, you know, Aaron Ruppar at AT Ruppar is just like a person who, you know, monitors stuff on Fox and posts it for all of us to laugh out on Twitter. But this one is from Newsmax. And the anchor on Newsmax is asking Trump's lawyer, Alina Haba, like, what what are you going to do now that he's like

properly fucked like with this civil fraud case and just the vibe of her response to this i'm just i'm just gonna play this because you're like yeah yeah this is this is a very serious attorney and just to set it up this person on the anchor on newsmax is asking like what what are you going to do to appeal this how are you going to get donald trump out of this so here here's the clip what are your grounds on appeal here? What aren't my grounds on appeal is a better question. Okay. Yeah.

What aren't my, this is a very serious response to it. Got him. What aren't my fucking your honor. Okay. Yeah. You're not debating your fucking stepdad to take the car out, but Hey, yeah,

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king gizzard and the lizard wizard you already know they're a fantastic band uh but they have this track kepler 22b that just gets your big toe shooting up in your boot like the only way they know how to make you respond to their music and i was like what's kepler 22b it's like a it's like a exoplanet that potentially could be a place that we could all live so i think it's just kind of the vibe is like oh man i would goldilocks live out there right yeah it's a super earth that could be covered in a super ocean uh but people still don't know what's going but it's about two and a half times larger than earth but hey hey get us there man because uh yeah we may have cashed this thing out a little early so uh hey take us take us to kepler

22b cashed cash this thing humanity just turns to each other. Just smoking up, yeah, smoking weed. It's cashed, actually. This shit's cashed, dude, yeah. Throwing a new planet to smoke. Well, The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning. Oh, yeah. Back this afternoon to tell you what is trending.

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