The Daily Zeitgeist - The 7 Second Gravity Eclipse, The Crumbles Are Here 08.20.26

Episode Date: August 20, 2026

In episode 2112, Jack and guest co-host Andrew Ti are joined by comedian and co-host of Lady To Lady, Brandie Posey to discuss… The Crumbles Are Here--And It’s Not As Delicious As That Sounds, Google VIP Spam Filter, Vaccine Exemptions For Kindergartners Hits “Record High”, The GOP – Not Abdul El-Sayed – Are Hurting Puppies, NASA Addresses Conspiracy Theory and more! Cyclosporiasis cases now total 15,716: CDC Navy destroyer went days without power in the South China Sea, leaving sailors without toilets Google Just Made It Easier for Campaigns to Send You Fund-Raising Emails Vaccine exemption rate for kindergarteners reaches record high: CDC Kindergarten Vaccine Exemptions Hit Record High as US Suffers Worst Measles Outbreak in Decades Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs. Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed didn't run 'dog slaughterhouse' in Detroit, despite claims Debunking MAGA’s Puppy-Killer Smear Against Abdul El-Sayed ‘Over 4,000 dogs and cats killed’: Abdul El-Sayed’s ‘pet massacre’ record goes viral El-Sayed in the hot seat after 'sickening' animal control record goes viral on social media Abdul El-Sayed oversaw animal 'slaughterhouse' as over 4,000 puppies and kittens killed under his watch NRSC Unveils New “Dogs Against Abdul” Merchandise American voters support animal welfare — and MAGA is seizing on it Farm Bill Moves Forward with Mixed Results for Animals Animal abusers are getting let off the hook. Trump and his Supreme Court are partly to blame. Aspiring Fraudsters Had a Great Day at the Supreme Court The Supreme Court just lit a match and tossed it into dozens of federal agencies ASPCA: Repeat-offender puppy mills face no consequences for violations Mass. animal shelters overwhelmed as immigration enforcement leaves pets behind The Pets Left Behind When Their Owners Are Deported NASA forced to debunk viral claim Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds today LISTEN: Mala feat. ren & Tiara by TokyoSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I think the death of, like, that they presented in Toy Story 3, like, that some toys go to the dump and are just there for eternity, just consciously staring at, like, a rotting banana peel for all of eternity is, like, too dark. Yeah. And, like, so they have to. I genuinely just don't remember what happens. It's got a brief little toaster vibes, which I think is. a movie that is a reason I have a hard time throwing things away because I will amper for more things very quickly. Right.

I blame that movie. It's like made by orders, four orders to create new hoarders. Exactly. Kind of. Right. And the Pixar proposition is buy the fucked up version of the new one that we had in the movie. The fork thing or whatever. Yes.

It is wild. I mean, I assume the fork thing, the whole message was, anything can be a toy. You have to spend money on this. There's a $20 version. There's an interesting theory because Steve Jobs was involved in the development of the first toy story movie. And there's a way that you, because his whole philosophy on the world is like, objects are beautiful. They have an inner life that, like, you have to, like, design them to more. And so there's a way to, like, view toy story.

And, like, the whole Pixar universe where, like, inanimate objects have inner lives as, like, part of, a Steve Jobs philosophical universe. Yeah. Yeah. Just capitalism as religion. Yeah. Your stuff is a person.

Your stuff is a person. You should feel bad for not loving your stuff. All the ways, get preventable cancer again. Oh yeah. One more thing. What if your stuff is person?

Stuff is person. Who are you without your stuff? Nobody. Nobody. Nobody. Keep that in mind. Nobody. This is an I-Heart podcast.

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We are at D23, so we'll see who stops by. The cast of Frozen stopped by. Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, and Adina Mansell. I auditioned for Frozen. What? For Christoph. They said, okay, what are you going to be singing today? I said, I don't know.

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Yeah, yeah. It's a production of iHeart Radio. It's a podcast where you take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness through the day's news. We also have a new non-news history version of TDZ dropping each Monday morning called the iconograph, where we do a deep dive into the zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon. Today we have a guest co-host and a guest who are, All-Stars of the iconograph. They've been on for Sherlock.

Yes. For the Easter Bunny. Two of our most popular episodes, actually. Sherlock and the Easter Bunny. The Easter Bunny was really fun. It was fascinating. Yeah, that was interesting. Our soft pitch on the Easter Bunny episode is bring the Easter Bunny's femininity back.

The Easter Bunny is our May Queen. And like, we keep casting the Easter Bunny as Russell Brand. Right. Like a bow tie. Yeah, yeah. It's got to be like a little. little rich kid. It might heal us all.

Yeah. Honestly. Yeah. But like they've robbed her of her femininity. It's kind of like Da Vinci code coded. Yeah. Da Vinci. You know the Da Vinci code is like return the femininity to Christianity.

Have you read the Da Vinci? No, I've missed out. Oh, man. You had a divorcee in the early eyes. I just remember right. Paul Bettany's all bald and shit in the movie. Yeah, yeah. That's it.

That's all I know. self-whooping. Yeah. Yeah. I think I might have stopped the movie at that point. I was like, you know what, I'm good. Whatever's about to happen. Some really interesting thoughts in there.

Oh, damn, okay. Damn. Yeah. It's actually, uh, got some interesting things to say about the Catholic Church. And it's horribly written. Fair enough. One of the most poorly written books I've ever read. I haven't seen the movie.

I could not get past Tom Hanks' hair. That was too much for me. You know, the Americana has DaVinci Code level clues built into it. Really? Really? Yeah, yeah. Masonic or what are we talking about? Masonic, yeah.

On the, on the dome, there's like a weird like acorn or something up there that like represents like whatever. And it's all, what's his name? Currosso. Yeah, Caruso like is a big fan of all that stuff. So he has stuff built into the American. I love that, but also knowing. I don't find him unnerving enough yet. What's his first name?

Richard. Rick, Rick, Rick. He's the type of capitalist. I was just to say David, but that's the other guy. Yeah. Rick Russo seems like the kind of dude that would like all the code, all the clues line up to just like a QR code for like 40% off of parking at any Caruso property. Totally. The trolleys are named after his daughter.

What are they named? I don't. I don't pay that. You're actually not allowed to know that. Yeah. But they are. I have one point you have three trolley operators. That's why I have.

What? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know a lot of people have driven up. Right. Because his whole design aesthetic while we really. this is live podcast right now.

This whole design aesthetic was he went to Caesar's palace and was like every building could be this, right? Yeah, yeah. What if everywhere was Vegas? Right here, it's Thursday, August 20th, 2026. We're still at that part of the show. My name's Jack O'Brien, aka, and this is courtesy of Blinky Heck.

In reference to Pollyvie wanting to fake punch me, they call me David Flincher, how the flinch stole Christmas, give a flinch take a mile. I don't know. Is that give a pinch? Give an inch, take a mile. That makes much more sense than a pinch.

And also my favorite thing to say about anyone's dream, it's very flinchian. Yes. Those all curses to a blankie heck. Yeah, I was. Did you flinch? Yeah, I was recording here last Tuesday. Emerged and Molly Lambert and Palliviganolan were hanging out

in our waiting room. because, you know, our studios are just a place that cool people hang out. And I saw the Hollywood Handbook guys and Carl outside before. Yeah. That's great. And L.A.'s like this all the time. Exactly. Yeah.

The L.A. studios. The L.A. stooge. I had a great conversation with Pahlavi. And then at one point, she was like, all right, I'm going to go into the studio. And she walked by me and she was like, God, I just had the urge to, like, do that and try and make you know what. She's like, you just give an energy that I want to. fake punch you and make you flinch. I was like, God damn.

You, I, if I may respectfully disagree, I don't give a flinching. No, yeah, you're not, I think she's a bully. Yeah, yeah. I think that, I think that's a polyvisa bully. It's so cool, though. It just made me laugh so hard. My thought also bullying you is that you strike me as a kind of guy that's like ready for Eddie, like, you're the kind of guy that like gets into a room and is like,

okay, no, where all my exits are. I've got a threat assessment. I do keep my head on a swivel. In a restaurant, are you in the corner? Oh, yeah. Actually, you studied my keto whenever Miles and I have a meal. We race for the seat that has the back to the door because you got to keep your head on a swivel. You got to see what's coming in here.

We'll not get Tony Soprano. Will not. Although I feel like he looked up. He was ready for it. Yeah. They also say that that experience of the end of that show is what death like that way. You would die before you actually realized it. Like, that's how death would happen.

Oh, like, you mean getting shot? Getting shot, yeah. Right. You wouldn't, you wouldn't even feel it. It would just be lights out. Right. My last thought would be like, oh, fuck, I missed it. Right.

Like, ah. Mama me. Mama me. That's the spicy meatable. Oh, you're doing your Tony Supranos. Yeah, yeah. The spiciest meatball, death. It's thrilled to be joined in our second seat.

Many say it is the spiciest meatball. In our second seat, one of our very favorite. favorite guests, the hilarious and brilliant producer, TV writer. You know I'm from the Yosus Racist podcast, the new starter track podcast. It's Andrew T. I didn't think of an A.k.A. Even though I had plenty of time to do it, I spent all that mental energy, remembering how to park at the studio. Remembering to come in to the studio, which I did not remember.

I was 20 minutes late. I don't need that. I was like, ah, that's okay. I drove here screaming the whole time, just going. That's a good warm up. Yeah. That's my vocals. No, I was going to check the Discord, but then I realized I was on camera, so I couldn't, like, discreetly check my phone.

I know. Yeah. It's just tough. Fucking sucks, man. I hate being in a lot. I hate being on, like, we have these Instagram clips where I'm, uh, where we're doing the podcast in person and I'm just like looking at my computer. I'm like, what the fuck is this? I brought my security blanket.

Yeah, yeah. I'm not even reading anything. I'm just preferring not to make eye contact. I'm just watching TikTok on here. In the background. Andrew, wonderful to have you here. We're thrilled, blessed to be joined in our third seat by a stand-up comedian

who's got a hilarious special called Milk Job that you should go check out. You know her from lady to lady. The Warped Tour, the founder of the comedy record label, Burn This Records is Brandy Posey! Hey, hey! Good to be here. Yeah. Yeah.

Wait, has Warped Tour recent? Warped Tour is recent. Yeah. It's back. Fun, but difficult. I do stand up on Warped Tour last year and this year, and it's like really fun, but it's an exercise and ego death because he'll be doing a joke and 50 people will be having a great time and then Sublime will start. Yeah. And then 50 people will go, sorry.

And they will just leave and you're like, that's fine. That's fair. Also, I'd go with you too. Yeah. You should just go, see what happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, if it's wireless mic, I would go heckle sublime for the back. But it's been really fun. Everyone's so nice, and it's really cool seeing like, millennials are stoked to come out, but also their kid, they have alternative kids now too. And, like, that's giving me a lot of hope.

Seeing a subculture of thriving feels really good. Although, unfortunately, I do have to report Papa Roach is huge again. Oh. The kids love Papa Roach. in the year 2026. It's fine. It's probably fine. It was surprising. Yeah.

I'll say this. I'm the age where I'm just glad I recognize a name of a band, period. Okay, fair. I did see the War Tour when it was long, because one of my friends was like, we're going to War Tour, do you want to come? And I looked at the lineup, and I literally was like, I know less than 1% of any of the words here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you would have known, Randy Posey?

You know what I mean? Good. Top five paas. Can we get to five paupas? We got John, Smurf, Roach. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Beard Papa, the Japanese cream puff store.

Let's do it. Let's go with that. I was thinking Papa Pia. Papa Pia. Papa don't preach. Papa don't preach. Danny Aello, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think that's plenty. That's five. I think we got to five. Just like a little Italian boy saying, Papa. Papa. Oh, paba. Don't steal at the bicycle.

All right. We're going to get to know you, Brandy, a little bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about. We're talking about the crumbles. The not delicious crumbled cookies. The part of living in modern America, where it seems like everything's kind of falling apart. Calling it the crumbles is very cute. It's cute, right?

From the crumbles. That is from Cool Zone Media, which, by the way, just celebrated their fifth anniversary. It seemed like just yesterday. I was pretending to know what Cool Zone meant when they were like, we're going to call it cool. I was like, yeah, definitely Google, Google. What does Cool Zone mean? Wait, I said to think that. Oh, man.

But anyways, they call it the crumbles. And I think it's good because it reminds me of cookies and not poop, whereas in shitification. Yeah. Kind of just makes me think about poop. Yeah, definitely. And it's also more broad and allows you to picture the entire nation. Also, in shitification is like, Oh, it's like uniformly bad.

Yeah. It's actually Crumbles is more accurate too because it's like, it's mostly bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the problem is some of it's not bad. Sure, actually. If it was all bad, we'd just like, okay, I'm aware of what's going on. Yeah.

So we're going to talk about that in its many splendored forms, one of them being a new Google spam filter that you can like get a VIP pass from. So, really no longer a spam filter. We'll talk about that. We will talk about the GOP going after DSA candidates and whether the Democrats are going to fight back. I don't know. Well, they're going to fight back against someone. That remains to be seen.

Which direction that gun is pointed is. Not even that unclear. And NASA was recently forced to address a viral rumor that the Earth was going to lose gravity for seven seconds on August 12th. So, hell yeah. 12 seconds, right? Seven seconds on August 12th. Oh, okay, seven seconds. That would be fun as hell.

Just like a way. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like, just give us a little taste. Yeah, just let us know. I'm not against that. There's not a little taste in zero gravity. Yeah.

All of that, plenty more. But first, Brandy, we do like to ask our guests. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I was reading Earth of Kids Wikipedia the other day. Okay. Because I'd heard on a podcast. I didn't realize that she had had her career kind of derailed because she confronted Lady Bird Johnson in a luncheon about Vietnam. She was like a massive anti-war advocate.

And the CIA basically blacklisted her and made her, like they made her an infomaniac in like the eye of the public. And it kind of destroyed her career. And I didn't know that. And I was like going and reading all about it. And I was like, damn, EarthKit rules. I always liked her and I was like, wonder what happened. And it also makes her casting in Ernest scared, stupid, even cooler. Ernest.

Comrade Ernest. Comrade Ernest. Yeah. So that was a very interesting rabbit hole to go down that I had no idea about. You basically weren't cool in the 20th century unless the FBI was like actively trying to like fuck up your career, drive you great. Now they're just, yeah. Micro-fucking up everyone's life. That's right.

Yeah. Boring. scale. I don't even know who's cool anymore. FBI hates everyone. What is something you think is underrated? Okay, so I like doing my underrated overrated together. And I think parallel parking is underrated. Parallel parking is underrated. Okay. So you like a little difficulty? I think the high of getting into a spot that you didn't know that you could get in far surpasses the high of a pull through spot. There's no high. Like coming up to a spot, having the person in the shotgun, riding shotgun, be like, nope. I can't do that. Yeah. Yeah. Mm.

Mm. Or, yeah. Yeah. You. Mm. Mm. Yeah. Or in my case, it's, mm.

Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Make an Austin Powers reference around here and then keep going. Mm.

Mm. Mm. But you got in that spot. Yeah. But you got in that spot. We got in that spot. We're 30 minutes late for whatever we're going. But I told you.

I think my general ability to parallel park well has been torched. It's the same way like AI crushed crutches or whatever. Like the backup camera, like I tried parking my friend's car without a backup camera recently, and I was like, I think I don't know how to do this. It turns out I don't know. I think I don't know. Do you have a system? Do you have like the mirror system?

Yeah. Yeah, I use the mirrors for the most part. Yeah, I mean, I use a lot of rental cars in the road. So I'm also, I still am used to just doing it in all sorts. I also learned to drive in Philly, so that was a real doggy dog. Throwing a deep battery at your car. That's all I know about Philly. I mean, honestly, yes.

It's got all you need sometimes. But do you have the thing where you like, once the front of your car gets to the mirror of the car you're backing up next to, then you cut the wheel? Is that the? I don't know if that's universal. It's not even that, it's interesting, it's not even that conscious to me. It feels like an extension. You couldn't tell you. Yeah.

You must be, built in here and here. I'm like a really good driver. You must take a lot of pride in it. If I can get a big car into a tiny spot. Yeah. And there's like no room between me in the car front behind me. Yeah. I'm just, I'll get out and I'll double beep it because I want everyone to look.

Damn. All right. Hardy B. Yeah. Yeah. Big Mac truck in that little garage. It feels good. It's a timely reference, right?

Guys, everybody, timely reference, wet-ass pussy. We still listen to that song. Yeah, it's still in the rotation. I remember the first time I saw one of those commercials for a car that parallel parked itself, I was so mad. Yeah. I was like, just- Anti-Human.

Yeah, disgusting. Right. How dare you take my wins from me. Right. Can I ask a question that maybe should disqualify me from driving a car? Yeah. Is a pull-through spot just a spot you pull in, or is it one that you pull? Or is that like on the side of the side of the,

road, but there's no cars on either side. Yeah, let's get into that because I also don't really know what a cool-through parking was. Okay. I'm the only dad on the show right now, apparently. It's when you pull into a parking lot and then you pull into a spot and then the spot in front you was open. Right, right. Okay. Got it. Oh, so that you're facing out. You're facing out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's like you got to back in, but you didn't do the back-in. So once again, it's cheating. It's a stolen valor situation. Also, it's like your trunk now, you maybe have a car too close behind you. If you got this stuff in your truck. trunk. Yeah. I don't like, people love a pull-through, and I'm always like, why? Right. It's dumb. Stolen

valid. Stolen valid. We like an easy cheap heat, you know? Yeah, absolutely. What about finding a pull-through spot, but still going around and then backing in? It's just just a shit. That does sound like that would be your move. When I start wearing my phone on my hip, is when that's when I'm starting. Taking photos exclusively with iPad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. It's the evolution. I don't need a phone. carrying like a 12 by 12. All right. Amazing.

So now I know what pull through parking is. I know not to do it when you're around. Yeah. I mean, you can do what you want. Just don't be proud. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. Avert your eyes and shame. Right, everyone. Yeah. Booth. Walk out like Charlie Brown. I'm better than that.

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Again, a shout out to Cool Zone five years. Poo! Went by in a flash. But I feel like I'm just seeing this in a lot of the news stories. we had for today's show. I'm seeing it in my personal life. Like I had a friend who's apartment hunting right now and was like, I am going to this apartment

that I'm like 50-50 is a scam. Yeah. And that seems like it's a real or threat these days. Like then in like my 20s when I was apartment hunting, that wasn't that like the rent was a scam. Yeah. But I was not worried that it was like a financial thing where the person was going to disappear.

Like, sure. Yeah, and you're not playing apartment, like application fees to a scam that you know you're probably not going to hear back from. Yeah, yeah. There's a helplessness and like a resignation now that wasn't there is the same way. Yeah, what's that all about? It's not good. Seems bad.

Yeah. Is it? Okay, here's my question. Because I feel like I've always been distrustful of shit. So I'm largely like, I don't know, but I guess I'm like, when am I, I assume, because everyone does, like, I'm going to tip over into not being able to see what the scam is. Sure. Eventually. Yeah.

That's what we all do. That's the human lot in life. Yeah. So is there more of it? I guess I'm just like, there has to be more. I think there's more of it. But I'm like, so this is my, yeah, that is a good question. That is sort of a question underlying all this.

Am I just like getting old and I'm like, God damn, the scams are getting good? Yeah. Yeah. But it does feel like, so other examples that I have, and then we can talk. So food recalls seem to be going off the charts. Now, is that the media hating on my boy, RFK? Oh, my God, yes. Or is it that he's done a shitty job and gutted all of the regulatory departments that.

Yeah. We like diarrhea. Right. There's a cost to everything. There's been a spike in the amount of times we've gotten to say explosive diarrhea on this show. and the number of times that mainstream media outlets, they still put it in quotes, which guys just own it.

You're saying explosive diarrhea. You're getting a little pop-off as saying explosive diarrhea. But the, yeah, so there's that, there's also the fact that they, like, once, I guess we had food recalls. We didn't have this situation where, like, the food is recalled

and everybody knows about it, and it just, like, kind of keeps getting worse. Yeah. Which, like, there's, like, a new report that it's, like, cyclosporiasis cases are more than 15,000, according to the CDC. They're kind of keeping it quiet. They won't talk about it too much.

Yeah, it felt like it used to be like once every once in a while. They'd be like, oh, shit, this is happening. And then it'd be a couple of years before you really heard something else. It probably has to be right. CDC is different. Yes. That it used to be. It is.

And they can't deny a lot of that shit. They're like declospori anymore. They, like, proudly gutted it. Like a year ago. Yeah. Yeah, or whatever they took power, they were like, it's, yeah, fuck this. There's all these regulations are, yeah. There was a 12-person team who was worried about screw worms.

Yeah. Look at us now. We fired it. Yeah, exactly. Screw that. There's a list of things that have been recalled. Frozen blueberries, iceberg, lettuce, shell eggs, mixed berries, pistachio, nut butter, some green powder supplements, halapeno,

soup kits, salad dressing. Like, it's like all the things. Like, I can no longer keep track. I mean, it's got to be right, like a direct result of deregulation. Yes, I think that's right. Last time I went to the doctor, I remember specifically asking, I can't remember what it was about. It was like, I think it was like, do I need this vaccine or whatever? I had to ask my doctor, like, is that the CDC recommendation or is that the California like public health recommendation?

Because I suspect they differ. And she was like, we're going by California. Okay. So it's like, I think that's reasonable to just be like, yeah, the federal government is bad now. Worse than it was. Yeah. It's just like, that's kind of the definition of the crumbles is like things that we used to take for granted as like invisibly working. Yeah, yeah.

Are just like not. Yeah. You have to pay attention. They're no longer invisible. You have to pay attention and like kind of navigate things. Yeah, like things that you thought, okay, that is the thing I don't need to worry about. Oh, I have to worry about that. I had to worry about all this before.

Yeah. Yeah. I didn't have to worry about that. Oh, I have to worry about this now, too. Okay, yeah. I mean, Republicans have basically switched, like, civics into a lab course rather than a lecture course. Right. You used to just learn about it.

Now we feel it. Yeah, exactly. You got to be on that shit. Can I get in the control group, please? Yeah. I feel like phones no longer really working. Like phone calls being mostly spam and texts being like. Yeah.

25% spam text maybe at this point. I remember being so smug that I can get spam calls forever. Because my parents, like their phone would get spam. They had up constantly or landline still. And I was like, no one's got this number. You must be doing something wrong. They probably were. They were probably clicking on links they shouldn't have been knowing parents.

Or their numbers got stolen. Right. So it's just a matter of time. Yeah. I think it is sort of like, but I will say phones and text from number, you don't know, have gone so far. Yes. To the other side that it is like now functionally a zero percent chance they will be useful.

Yes. So kind of it's a little less, at least what I was interpreting this Crumbles thing, of it's just fully shit. And fully and unambiguously shit. Like you don't have to worry about never answering a phone call. Right. Whereas like to me, Crumbles is a little bit like, well, you stuff to answer everyone because one in five matters. Yeah, yeah.

whatever, your pharmacy or your boss or whatever the fuck. Yeah, it's not a full collapse yet. It's a crumble. Yeah. This one is like a full collapse and it's clear. Even if your boss calls, you can just be like, I assumed it was spam. And they have no choice to be like, that's reasonable. Sure.

Well, the crumbles is hard too because it's like still, when you're in the crumbles, you still have to pay your bills and your rent and stuff. When you get to collapse, then you're like, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so we're good here. Now, I think that's gone. The machete budget's the only one that matters at that point. Exactly. So it's hard being in an in-between space and being like,

I've got to pay for gas. I can't just like threaten. Yeah, which is not for pretend society might rebound. Yeah, yeah. So a couple other examples. So Google has just announced a VIP spam filter. They didn't really announce it. They put it on their like terms of service or like, you know, a page that you could find if you went digging for it.

But basically heading into the 2006 elections, Gmail users are going to be flooded with unwanted political spam. because Google decided to create a VIP lane for campaigns where the, like, official campaigns basically can pay a certain amount of money to not be on the spam list. I'm sure it'll be the ones that I agree with. Yes. Which I had assumed was already happening on text message because of the amount of text messages that were getting through, like, leading up to election day and then just, like, cut off after.

But, I mean, vaccine exemptions, obviously. Like, we just got, we just hit 4.2% vaccine exemptions for U.S. kindergartners, which is up from 3.6 the previous year. That's bad. What is the, what is the tipping point is like much low? Is it the tipping point's like 10% unvaccinated or something like that? Or it's just like you might as well not vaccinate. Yeah.

Yeah. And that's what I'm always saying. You might as well not. That's right. That's right, man. So, yeah, I don't know. There's part of me that's like, also, and this isn't like something that I encounter on day-to-day basis,

but the story's coming out of the, like, Navy right now. Oh, sure. Oh, man, yeah. Like the USS Lincoln, where they're like food. We talked about that earlier. And like, just as the Pentagon is like being like, this is overblown and a media panic, a story comes out of like a U.S.

able destroyer, that they went four days without power, leaving sailors, without toilets, air conditioning, galley service, and potable water for four days, which seems like too many days to go. Famously, the emperor does well when they antagonize the military. I feel like that's going to be fine. Well, I mean, I think that is also the other side of this is like the crumbles and shittification, etc. of it. Like, the propaganda or whatever doesn't allow them to just acknowledge that it's happening.

Right. Because, like, this is happening to your shit, too. Like, it's actually impeding the shit you want to get done. Like, you actually can't invade Iran. Right. Dog. Yeah. We don't have it.

Yeah. Yeah. We can't afford it. Well, then instead of their own propaganda in our head of like, no, we can do anything. Yeah. We support the troops and we can do anything. And you're like, it's not. It's a child brain, guys.

That seems like a system we're dealing with now where they, like, are confused by their own lies. Yeah. So they're just constantly, like, believing in their own bullshit. Yeah. No one's like they've winked so much that they actually forgot what the truth is. And now it's like, well, now reality. Like missiles. Yeah.

Like, we can just count the missiles, guys. They're not there. Like, do we, that is a question I have. Like, sometimes I'm. just like, oh, this could be, like, I could see a future where this is like the, like, like, under Gorbachev, when everything just like collapsed. And like for a long time, it was just like them believing their own lies. And I'm just being like, yeah, but like we've gotten by on this for so long.

And then all at once, it's just like everything falls apart. Once the first domino falls. Right. But we're also in that state. It's raining dominoes, you know? Yeah, but that's a thing. one of them still has to fall. Right.

And, like, none of them really have fallen, but they would. I mean, we're also at the stage of Mad King where, like, so many, so much of the power structure is built on lies, because you can only get promoted if you're buying the lie. Right. So now it's like, oh, yes, it will just snap. Yes. They snapped on that one. Great.

That's right. Which makes it hard as an American, too, because on, like, a micro level, we all have some version of that going on our head. right? Because if we truly believe that, and I feel this way, I'm just, every day I'm like, should I be buying seeds? Should I be? Like, how much should I, if it is like, that's it. Yeah. Seeds and machetes. Yeah, I mean, I got a machete. I do. I got a machete already. I have a small knife. Yeah, yeah.

Need to get my keys and machetes, I think. But it is like, there is some part of my American brain that's like, nah, it'll be all right. I'm like, I got a. Yeah. It's hard to know how much to a small. interrogate of that, you know? I, for what it's worth, feel like, regardless, the thing that's more valuable than seeds is being really good friends with the hundred people that live around you. Well, yeah, of course.

Because they got to protect your seats. Well, yeah, definitely. I mean, I'm hoping, yeah, but if I'm not growing up which one of them is, you know? Yeah, yeah. I just, yeah, I feel like, yeah, I don't know. All the survivalist stuff, I'm just like, I know I ain't got it. in me. Yeah.

Yeah. I hope people like jokes. I'm constantly having to apologize to my neighbors for keeping them up while burying gasoline in my backyard. Yeah. I feel like they're, I got to stop doing that. You're poisoning the earth. A full gas can, O'Brien. I bury gasoline loose.

Not even in containers. It's where it came from. It's where it's going back. It's natural. Gasoline is natural. That's how you know it's not. I'm trying to make a dinosaur. Or reverse.

You put it off pressure on that shake, give enough time. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about some other bullshit. We'll be right back. Get Bell, Pure Fiber Internet with Crave, Netflix, and Disney Plus from $94 a month. Price guaranteed for two years on internet with a two-year term and auto pay credit.

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who who whooped the ass of Chuck Schumer's chosen candidate in the Democratic primary. Now there's a lot of stories about, well, maybe the Democrats could win without Michigan. Maybe they could win back control of the Senate without Michigan. A lot of vote blue, no matter who, and let Yes, it's a left-wing candidate energy going around. In the mainstream media, I do feel like they're trying to make it seem like the parties even more divided than it already is. But one story that the right is pushing are these Islamophobic attacks on El-Sayed about how he oversaw an animal slaughterhouse and was responsible for the deaths of 4,000 puppies and kittens, which the National Republic. Senateorial Committee even started selling dogs against Abdul merch, seemingly just for AI-generated dogs. Based on the ad, the dogs are just completely AI.

It's reminiscent of that Spencer Pratt billboard we had out here that was like dogs love Spencer. They have one move. Yeah. What do people like, dogs? Let's use that to lie. Which is funny because of how many our candidates had dogs on the roofs of their cars, Mitt Romney? Oh, sure. Christy Gnome murdered a puppy yet. That's the thing. They've chosen a thing that they're so bad on. Yeah, exactly.

I mean, obviously there was a lot of racism around dogs in the 2024 election. Yeah. This is just more mask off racism. And also, so these headlines, they'll link to a story that has this incendiary headline about how you oversaw the death of 4,000 puppies. And then, like, you read the text. of the article, and he actually took over, like immediately after that crisis was happening,

he took over animal control. Like before it was overseen by, and you're not going to believe this, the police. You're not going to believe they weren't great. With dogs. Historically. Shocking. Yeah.

Yeah. A couple German shepherds did really well. That's right. That's right. everything else though, they love shooting them. And when they were in charge of Detroit's animal control, there were apparently thousands of dogs being put down. El Saeed's government took over and things improved.

And it says that in the text of the article with the headline that's like, this guy was a dog killer. Yeah, watch out for Abdul the dog killer. I mean, I would say for what it's worth, and this might be cold comfort, I actually don't think this shit sways that many people. Sure. However, I do think a lot of,

especially white Michigan Democrats, were secretly never going to vote for a brown guy anyway. Yeah. So I am saying it's, you know, those things are institutionally tough, but they're just wrong. Yeah. You know, he's still, you know,

it's still just about the enthusiasm of actual voters who are not awful. I don't know. If that helps. I'm just like, yeah, this racist shit is just like, finds its ceiling really quickly. Yes. Yeah, definitely.

It does also highlight, though, the fact that the Democrats are so bad at just doing, like, the very, because the reason they've made this story up is because it's like a populist thing that you can do. People love dogs. And, like, the Republicans are, like, really bad. Yeah.

Really bad on, like, you could just use the truth of the situation and be like, point out the Christy Knoem thing. Yeah. Point out that with Trump's, like, mass deportations that they were leaving a bunch of animals homeless that then had to be put down. Like, there's so many examples. And also, like, you know, the thing that really ails the country in a lot of cases is the Supreme Court ruling on things to, you know, make it so the corporations can do whatever the fuck they want. the 2024 Supreme Court ruling that shielded hedge fund manager and right-wing talk show host George Jarkese from SEC fines he received for allegedly defrauding investors.

The Supreme Court was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that guy's very rich. You guys need to slow your role. And that ruling makes it impossible to prosecute puppy mills, essentially. And so, like, these are just, like, it's just like if the Republican had something like that to exploit. They would exploit it. But the Democratic Party

sucks so bad. I will say, I mean, for what it's worth, it's like, who knows what's going to happen, but it does seem like Al-Sai'ad at least has the political chops.

Oh, yeah. To say, like, okay, let's talk about puppy mills and then, like, go into Supreme Court. Whereas, like, your generic, you know, capital D Democrat centrist

would be like, oh, actually, and then just like Yeah, fuck it up in some way. Fuck it up. Yeah. I don't think he's actually to anything. Yeah.

To the extent that we have a chance, we, these people have a chance. Yes. We as America. Me and Chuck Schumer. Yeah. It's just, it hopefully lies in that,

which is like, you know, it does seem like Abdulah said is a better campaigner than yeah, the generic Democrat has been for decades now. Yeah. And he like understands,

like, oh, that's the attack. A lot of this stuff always gets breaks down too if you can just speak like a person to it directly and go, no, that's what this is actually. Like if you do that. Yeah, you can just like hear it immediately. Yeah.

Or you're just like, oh, you're a person who's like saying things that have, you're not like doing a weird like mass in your brain about the things that are coming out of your mouth. Yeah, there's not like a bunch of focus groups that you're like running through in your brain. Like he knows what he wants to say. and he's, you know, good, I mean, very good at it. So I believe in his ability to combat it,

maybe turn it on them in some way. Yeah, we'll see. I do feel like we're starting to see who the math in the brain candidate is going to be for the mainstream Democratic Party for president. I feel like Awesome is like their guy. He's like rising in polls while Newsom and Harris are like kind of going down. I guess ultimately, thank God. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm just like of the, if it's Asoft versus AOC for the, right. For the nomination, that's probably better than all their alternatives. Any alternative we had in a long time. I just personally can't let Gavin.

I just need him to be humbled and disappointed at every turn in a personal way. I know. I really suspect that his support is going to completely evaporate the second that, like, the primary start and people have to vote for him. Yeah, I mean, clavicular is not going to stump for him. Yeah, I know. He's giving clavicular. Yeah, yeah.

Maybe don't have so many Nazis on your podcast if you want to be a Democrat. I'm just trying to change your voice to make it completely differently. I have scrolled that guest feed at people so many times in public that have tried to make a case for him. I'm just like, Steve Bann. Charlie Kirk just going through the list. Just like the worst. I love Rogan, man. What can I say?

He love Rogan. He love Rogan. He love Rogan. Yeah. So are we that different after all? Turns out we are. I have gotten shit on our show for talking shit about Joe Rogan. People are like, dude, he does good research.

I mean, this is a long time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really wild how pervasive he is because I'll have people come up to me at for a comedy show that are lady, lady fans. And then they'll be like, yeah, I was like, oh, what else do you listen? and do they're like, oh, you know, Rogan, and I'm like, how? Lady, lady, room? Yeah. How?

I feel like, for those two things. I feel like if you don't think about it or understand, yeah. Rogan represents the generic idea of stand-up comedy to you. Sure. I think it's like clearly what's happening. It's a horrible comic. Yeah.

I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to differ with you on that one. I mean, I used to really, really enjoy MMA and like, Yeah. I was just like, if it was just an MMA podcast, like he clearly knows what he's talking about on that front. Just in terms of who's better at fighting. Yeah.

But it's just like, and as long as he doesn't have to talk about whether it's based on the shape of their skulls or like whatever, he's fine enough, I genuinely think. There's always that bleed, though. I know.

There's always that like, oh, God. Yeah. Happens quickly. I just tried a picture a universe where Johnny Knoxville was the host of Fear Factor the whole time. Yeah. It's a better world.

Yeah. See, or Johnny Knoxville turns into a right-wing goon. I think that's the thing that you never know. Yeah. I'm just saying fear. Maybe it's the fear factor that did it. Yeah. You think fear factor was the cause?

But we're going to see. We're going to see what happens. That's the thing. It's one way or the other. All right. Let's talk about what we've all been thinking since the start of this, which is, is gravity going to turn off for seven seconds? The rumor spread online.

that intersecting gravitational waves from colliding black holes would cause gravity to shut off at exactly 433 UTC or 1033 a.m. Eastern Time, which, so mark your calendar, except it already passed and it didn't happen. But they claimed that people

could be thrown into the air, which, yeah, I guess it's a fun thought experiment. Like, just, that is, I think, what a lot of conspiracy theories are is like our version of fiction. What would happen if. Like that would be fucking fun. Like that's a good movie premise.

Like we just found out gravity is going to turn off for seven seconds on this date in August. Right. What do we do as a civil? Like how do we prepare for that? That's like fun. Like and then like go through the science. Like really take it seriously.

Like that's. And it's great. It's an amount of time it's like a doomsday cults not going to kill themselves over it. Yeah. You can maybe get a couple of like foiled heists of social. kind for, I got a seven second window to launch myself and grab a diamond or something. Like, that's fun. That is fun.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm just going to say this and not just because I started doing a Star Trek podcast where I'm learning about Star Trek. This feels like the kind of shit that would be in Star Trek. Oh, yeah. A planet where, I mean, yes. Yeah.

Like a planet where gravity turns off for seven seconds a day. I think it was kind of like an Andor plot, right? Wasn't there something about that planet they were on in season one of Andor? Some shit happened. I don't remember. There's a window for something to go down. Oh, the latest alien movie has a gravity generating thing where, like, it suddenly will turn off. Yeah.

And they, like, by far the best part of that movie was like when gravity would turn off and, like, it would just be like, whoop, we threw a little, like. I think it was the soup in the first scene. The soup. I remember the soup of the first. I remember the soup. Oh. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't really remember. I think eating a ball of liquid is what I would do. for the seven seconds. Yeah, yeah. Because I always look at the coolest part on every astronaut in space movie. I'd be like, I want to chomp one of those. I will just say

not to be a physics pedant, but they mean, like, we'll be in free fall, not gravity will shut off. Because if gravity shuts off, obviously all your cells, just, you know, all your molecules just float randomly. Wait, what? Gravity is holding us together?

Okay, I see. You know, gravity kicks shut off. Is the thing that's holding us? us together. Because like, there's fundamental forces. Like, gravity shutting off means lots of other shit. But they do, they just mean, you know, local gravity is lessened. Just the version in my brain that had, you know.

Is that the nuclear force? I don't know. Don't at me. I think for seven seconds, my body just went, yeah, honestly feels so good. So good. Yeah. It would just, what an amazing stretch. taller, like, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Bone density is just a little down. Yeah. That's worth it. I'm talking about the version of physics from sci-fi movies that I was raised on where like, you're floating. When you're on a spaceship, you're going up,

the sky's blue, the sky's blue. You hit a point. There's like a line, a clearly defined line where it turns into like night sky. And then, yeah, all of a sudden, everything,

just like the pen in front of you starts floating like in 2001. Yeah. Like that for seven seconds. I think I would, want to be near a bird for the seven seconds because, first of all, look at, fuck you, look at me now. Yeah. Yeah.

Look who can fly. But also, have you ever seen the footage they have? Like, this is just something that NASA did one time as they towed birds into zero gravity. And they looked so stupid. They're like, what is going on? I want to just lord it over. That's amazing. Isn't that great?

They just keep putting animals in zero gravity. and the same thing happens every single time, which is they're just like, look stupid as hell. They just like don't know what to do. That's the very specific kind of edge lord. I want my taxes going towards. Absolutely.

Fuck birds. Yeah. Fuck all birds. Even without, even with this version, right, life on earth ends with seven seconds of zero gravity, right? Like the ocean. Whatever happens to the ocean is catastrophic to life.

Is there like enough inertia keeping it there? I don't know. I don't know, yeah. That's the question. I think if the spit of the earth continues, the inertia. Oh, yeah. The ocean just throws the ocean into. Oh, we just make me in the face.

I believe. I'm just saying stuff like this is that type of thing you should be able to bet against on Cal Sheep because there's no downside. You either win your bet or life on Earth ends. That's true. So who cares? Yeah. You're working those markets.

Yeah. So the alleged leaked NASA document. see if you guys can poke any holes in this, called Project Anchor is a supposed plan costing $89 billion that involved secret bunkers for essential people and a diverse group

to repopulate the earth in case of disaster. That's where they lost me. NASA's not right that down. No, no. Also, NASA would not be in charge. NASA would present this to the wrong person, you know, and the billionaires have such class solidarity

that they just immediately, euthanize everyone in NASA, take over the planning, and it would be, like, I think people would be shocked by the number of extremely wealthy people who are eagerly planning a Dr. Strange Love, like, repopulation. Oh, already. Yeah, they're already, like, preparing for this, yeah. So, I love, because it's also just like, I don't know, man, I just feel like one hand over the oxygen vent in your little bunker.

I know. I just can't wait for like 10 ounces of mud. Yeah. Yeah. That's why they talk about killing the pilot who flies you there. Sure, for sure. That's like the number one fun party debate. Yeah, yeah.

Silicon Valley is like, okay, so we all have our suicide but or our survivalist bunkers. When the pilot flies you there, obviously you've told the pilot they can go back and fly and pick up their family. Yep. We're not going to do that. Do you keep them there and keep them alive as like a pet? Yeah. Or do you just... The thing that's so funny about these people is they've convinced themselves they're so much smarter

than everyone else that they think no one else can have the same fucking, like, D-minus-level mind game. Right. Yeah. Like, yeah, man, you are going to get killed by your head of security in the first 10 minutes. Yeah. That is what's going to happen. Yeah, you're going to get killed by a person with a skill is going to take you out. Yeah.

Yes. Yes. And if, right, if that doesn't happen, you will... will die of starvation in one month. Yeah. 100% those are the two choices. Yeah, you don't want to do anything. Yeah.

Right. Yeah. The like contraption will get jammed and you'll be like, oh, I shouldn't have killed that person. Oh, you don't have access to the servers that say the number that your net worth is. Right. It looks like you're pretty fucked. Right. There's a great book called Survival of the Richest Escape Fantasies of Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff.

Yeah, we had them on. Oh, yeah. That's where I got. He's the one who told me. Yeah. Because he is just, you know, a really smart tech writer who, you know, at a certain point, started getting invited to these tech billionaire conferences. Yeah.

And he said, invariably, the conversation would just turn to them being like, all right, so, but seriously, like, how do we game this out so that we like kill the right people? Like, yeah. Yeah, it was like dog collars in my security. and I'm like, try. Yeah, yeah. Looking, are you going to be the one that puts the dog collar

on your head of security? It is just like all the way down. It's like, oh, okay, I'll just hold this person hostage. Well, then the person that holds that person hostage, I need to hold them hostage. Like, what the fuck are you talking about?

Yeah. Like, think about it for one second. I will also say, though, because this is in Atlas Shrugged. Like the gravity shutting off? Yeah. No, no, sorry. The little billionaire society.

But isn't it like the opposite? No, they, well, the outside world, but they have their little like gults, gulch, whatever the fuck. Sure. Where all the like, like, you know, like the, I forget what they called makers or whatever the fuck live. And they gloss over like, oh, and everyone just cleans their toilets. And like, whatever so quickly that it's like, sure, dog, sure. All you fucking libertarian assholes are happy doing like communism. Like everyone takes a shot.

at every job, get the fuck out of here. The premise of Atlas Shrugged is that the billionaires are underappreciated by society. And so they leave. And so they leave. And society's like, oh no. But you realize like how much better? Yeah.

So much better. Could we just try that? Could we just like convince them to do, like, seed the billionaires with like one class trader who's just like, we should do an Atlas Shrugged guys. Everybody's being so mean to us. Like, look at this. Let's go, like, do an Atlas.

I mean, even the small version, it's like, they could all move to like wherever the fucking Texas, like Starbase Texas. Please. They don't. Right. I know. Well, that's what, yeah.

Yeah. They all left Manhattan to a billionaire ghost town. Now the Domi's there. It's just like, guess what? They were already not paying taxes there. Yeah. Fucking, yeah. I don't know.

Like, Atlas Shrugt is like, the cop strike threat. Right. Fan fiction. Right. Oh, your shit really fell apart. It's like, you know what? Call.

Let's see what. Yeah, yeah. Let's go. Let's see what happens. Yeah. Anyways, my main takeaway from this story is Michael Bay, get to work. Yeah. Gravity eclipse.

I do think it's just people being like, wow, an eclipse made the light go away. Yeah, yeah. What if eclipse made gravity go? What are the forces are there? I actually, I want to give it to Roland Emmerich. because moonfall is already kind of like dabbling in this territory. Yeah, what happens to gravity in moonfall? Is it like getting a little...

The moon is an egg, right? Is it some shit like that? The moon is a celestial structure. It's actually a spaceship that was built by humans to escape a thing a millennial ago. And we're actually all in aliens. We're aliens. Yeah, we came from a celestial. structure called the moon. We're the only one to have existed.

And Elon Musk has mentioned several times. Oh, really? Yeah. Good? As in like, he's smart. Yeah. He's a genius. Yeah. I mean, even in the money, in those like expanse books that are mostly right, there's like, oh, Elon Musk figured this thing out. The USS Elon Musk is out there. Yeah. Which, by the way, that probably will exist, but it will be playing to Epstein Island too. Yeah. Yeah, watch Moonfall. It rules.

It's so stupid. What do we think Grand Theft Auto? Do you think Grand Theft Auto is going to have any, like, I was talking about this thing yesterday's trending episode, like rich billionaire, like take out Elon Musk type things that you think they'll play to the populace a little bit or like have like a cabal of pedophile billionaires that like are, you know, like threaded throughout. I think the reason that stuff, I think, works is like,

no billionaire has a self-awareness to be like, that's me. Yeah. They'll be like, totally, get them. Get his ass. Those are clearly, and the other problem is that, you know, the attendees to like an Epstein Island are across the board. Yeah. So it's like, you can just do that and they'll be like,

that's Soros and Clinton or like, that's Musk and Trump. And it's like no one has any problem, like, putting what they want onto it. Yeah. Well, that's coming. It's coming. Brandy. Hey. Such a pleasure having you on the podcast.

Be here in person. Yeah. Yeah, this rules. Where can people find you, follow you, see, you, hear you all that good stuff. Yeah. I'm at Brandazel on Instagram. Brandazel is here on TikTok. My podcast is called Lady to Lady every Wednesday for the last 14 years.

We just had our 700 episode. We have French tour on every hundred episodes, and we do a very silly thing with him. This time we all painted each other and then showed up each other at the end. Some of us have better talents than others. Big, great watch.

I run a record label called Burn This Records. It's a comedy record label. It's working with leftist middle class comedians all over the country, just trying to put all of us that aren't pieces of shit under some kind of a banner together. I have a special called Milk Job that you can find on YouTube. You guys have been such a

huge help in monetizing the Burn This Records YouTube channel. We're almost there. Here's a, here's an ask for you. If you watched it already, I appreciate you. If you haven't, watch it now. But maybe also watch it on mute a couple of times. I'm like, I am like 600 hours. I'm so close. Send it to people, right? Yes, please. Please send it to people from their interface. Yeah, like that would mean a ton. Like, I'm very proud. of it and you are supporting like trying to create an independent space in comedy where it's been shrinking more and more and getting more and more corporatized so like it would be a huge help if you guys did that thank you go check it out or you know yeah recheck it out with maybe

in the background i'm really proud of it yeah pull it you know who whose fans do that taylor swift yes she really needs all the help she could yeah i i'm the taylor swift comedy is what i have been called by no one. Many people say that. Many are saying it. Thank you. Yeah. Do that for me. Also, if you are in Orlando for Orp Tour and

or if you're in Orlando you want to come, I probably have passes. Hit me up. Interesting. What do you think of Orlando? We were just talking about that like four quadrant livability, affordability. Did you see that over the weekend? There was like a big thing that was like the most livable and

affordable cities in the world and bottom right, like, no, not livable, not affordable. We're like New York, L.A., Chicago, like. Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. London. Diversity was not one of the good things.

But Orlando was higher than many of the great cities. And as it should be. As it should be. I would not want to live there full time, but they do have more building shape like oranges than we do. And that is pretty fun. That is that. That was actually one of the. the first things that they accounted for in the index.

Like a building shape like a thing. Amazing. Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah, actually, I'm reading a book right now called Chesapeake by James Mitchner. It's really old. It's been around since the 70s, but James Mitcher is this guy that kind of does these, like, historical, like, take an area and then follow it from, like, its inception up until, well, until he writes the book, basically.

And this one follows, like, the area of, like, Chesapeake, Maryland. Which is like on the bay, which is where I'm from. And it kind of starts from like the Chop Tank Indians all through 1978, basically, which is like when he published the book. And he follows like four or five different families and like the way they intersect. And like the, um, just like it, it shows like how that part of the country was colonized, basically. And like how families like interacted. And like it's, it's really interesting, I think, to look at like a specific area.

Because I think sometimes we can get so caught in like the not making it person. of like how all that stuff happens and watching the way like four or five families completely like changed the landscape of everything forever is like really interesting and he's a really good writer so you know big big recommend for that he's got a ton of a ton of books about all sorts of different parts of the country and world yeah

there you go yeah that sounds great it's a very smart media recommendation Andrew where can people find you there working media you've been enjoying oh man uh starter track starter track is the main podcast Now, it's on YouTube. It's on... It's where the old goes

as racist feed was. So just go there. Just go there. Keep looking at it. I just finished a book called The Trees by Percival Everett. It's pretty old.

It's really... I did not realize it was going to be so... I think I genuinely start to finish Reddit in like four or five hours. It reads like very

cinematically. It's sort of like a supernatural not murder mystery exactly, but it's very good. I'm trying to figure out, it's basically like, it seems like the

potentially ghosts or something like that of victims of lynching are coming back to kill people. And I guess I won't really spoil it. I'll be honest, I don't totally, I finished it. I don't totally know exactly what happened at the end. It's very, it's very, nor should you

pretty weird yeah you know it's genuinely a very very very great great book but yeah it was one of those it reads like TV so if you're one of those people like yeah whose brain has been fried I was like oh somebody's it read

I'm glad it's not the happening where it's like the trees are killing people no no it's nothing like that yeah amazing it's good it's a it's a genuinely good book that reads yeah I think that's what it is it's like literary fiction that reads like a page Turner in a way that's like really great. Amazing.

Sounds good. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien, Blue Sky, Jack O, B, the number one Instagram, Jack underscore O underscore Brian. Work of Media, I've been enjoying. You guys, we recommended books, so I'm going to recommend a tweet. Black Ocean tweeted, you're born, you watch pants go from baggy to skinny, back to baggie every 10 years, you die. I think that's a novel in of itself.

No, that's also a piece of literature. Absolutely. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zekeyes. We're at The Daily Zekeyes on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode, wherever you're listening to it, and there at the bottom, you will find the footnotes, which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy.

And when Miles is out, we like to ask super producer Justin, if there's a song that you think people might enjoy, are you going to come over and talk into the mic? Hell yeah. Yeah, so I've been listening to some Italian trap recently. What? I'm going to recommend a song called Mala by Tokyo and featuring Wren and Tiara.

It's really bass-heavy. I have no idea what they're saying, but these three women are just tearing up this track with incredible flows, and I love it. So again, that's Mala by Tokyo, Ren, and Tiara, and you can find that in the footnotes. Foot notes. That sounds amazing.

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