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Episode Date: July 15, 2021

In episode 951, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Sara June to discuss the Democrats Voting Rights bill, the Kraken lawsuits, Ron Desantis' anti-Fauci merch, an unopened N64 copy of Super Mario 64 selling for over $1.5 million, Sha'Carri Richardson getting a big vape endorsement offer, and more! FOOTNOTES: The Democrats’ Voting Rights Bill Is Dead The Memo: On voting, public has a more nuanced view than partisans All You Need To Know About Monday's Kraken Lawyer Hearing Is That One Of Them Started Crying Judge suggests ‘Kraken’ lawsuits were meant to ‘make the public believe’ Trump’s false election claims DeSantis campaign merch targets Fauci, facemasks Featured Products It’s-a Me, a $1.56 Million Copy of Super Mario 64! SHA'CARRI RICHARDSON OFFERED $250K GIG WITH VAPE CO. … Test Our Product!!! LISTEN NOW: Moving Up - Mr. Miltch Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 193, Episode 4 of The Daily Zeitgeist! A production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into American Shared Consciousness. It's Thursday, July 15th, 2021. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Count Jackula and Dewberry. Honey Bunches of O'Brien. A Jacqueline Oat Bran.

Cherry O'Briens. That was a collabo between at Abstrusal and at Math Demigod. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Yes, coming off pitching a perfect first inning at the All-Star Game. It, once again, is Sho Gray smoked ton of weed. Oh, man, I just love hearing about Sho. Hey, and Jack and I were just reading a little description of the All-Star Game where they said he pitched a perfect first inning.

Perfect first inning and i'm like let's we can look as a amen as someone as a japanese person who's constantly being overly modest to my own detriment i feel like we can do a little bit better like as a parent if i was shohei if i was shohei's dad i'd be like you just pitched one perfect inning you need nine of them son i don't don't know. Anything. In an All-Star game, that's pretty exciting. I remember the year that the All-Star game was in. The only All-Star game I've ever gone to was the year that Maguire was still hitting those dingers. And Pedro was at the top of his game. And Pedro Martinez struck out the first inning.

Struck out three batters in a row. And that was exciting. So, I don't know. We'll give him pitching a perfect first inning like struck out three batters in a row and that was that was exciting so i don't know we'll give them pitching a perfect first inning that's my internalized japanese family inside of me being like just one yes i'm sorry i'm on your side miles i mean one out of nine that's yeah like what are we that's american that's american levels of achievement that's an f yeah we don't my mom wouldn't take that I'm like, well, I got the first 10 questions right And?

And then what? But no less, he is clearly An attraction Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined In our third SIPA One of our favorite guests A hilarious comedian, a very talented writer and director.

Welcome to the show, Sarah June. Hey, everybody. My AKA is very important. My AKA is Sarah, quotation mark, primal is the best animated program and should win the Emmy for it. End quote, June. Okay. That's how people speak to me. That's what they say.

They say, hey, Primal is the best animated program and should win the Emmy. And I'm like, hey, what's up, guys? That's my nickname. That's your nickname? It's my AKA, yeah. There's a hidden message in my nickname, but it's coded. So you guys might not pick up on it, but it is that Primal is the best animated program

and should win the Emmy. Tell me about Primal. Primal's great. Primal is the best animated program and should win the Emmy. Tell me about Primal. Primal's great. Primal is a silent, well, it's not silent, but it's an almost wordless cartoon about a Neanderthal or a Cro-Magnon person and their dinosaur friend. It's directed by Genndy Tartakovsky,

who made all the good shit on Cartoon Network in the 90s, and he's still the king. He's just Network in the 90s. And he's still the king. He's just the best. It's beautiful. It's gorgeous. It's so beautiful. Everybody should watch it. If you got the Hobo Max, that's what you do it on. The Hobo Max? Hobo Max. Hobos to the Max.

Damn, okay. And you're saying it's because of the characters wanting the animal? I'm not saying it, Miles. It's just what people call me. Like, I don't know anything about it. Just your nickname. That's just what I've heard. Right.

I've never even seen it, actually. Never seen it. Don't know anything about it. Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. What's that? Who's Emmy? Right. They'll be on later.

So it was nominated. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a nominee. It's a nominee. Yeah, it's the best. It's be on later. So it was nominated. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a nominee. It's a nominee. Yeah, it's the best nominee. The other nominees are like The Simpsons. It's The Simpsons. Do you guys know about The Simpsons?

Do you think The Simpsons has ever been honored? I don't know. It's a pretty obscure program. You might not have The Simpsons. I don't think they need anything more. Yeah, I think they're fine. I don't know, man. People are saying that season 47 is one of the classics.

You joke, but straight up, next season of SNL is 47. Speaking of people that deserve more recognition. Yeah, totally. Although Bo and Yang, nominated, nominee, fellow podcaster on this network. Fellow podcaster? Okay. You're right. You are on the same network. I was like, you're really reaching, Jack.

The connection between you and Bo and Yang is like, yeah. Yeah, you know. Yeah, you and Joe Rogan, also fellow podcasters. He's a wildly popular podcaster. I mean, kind of the same thing, too. My buddy. Yeah. Sorry, June, what's new with you you know i'm i've got i've got ants in my pants literal ants there's some ants in my pants there

are ants everywhere i'm covered in ants dealing with an ant fight yeah it uh you know this was this used to be a literal nightmare of mine and now i just find it a little annoying so growth is possible there you go you mean just being inundated with ants yeah it's like having having ants crawling on me and just like finding ants crawling on me you know did you like leave a melted ice cream like on your pants or something oh my my house is just full of holes oh and the heat too yeah it's mostly more ants yeah ants and you know we got cats and so we put the food out and they come for the cat food yeah yeah it's annoying i keep trying to tell

the cats to eat the ants and they won't listen to me come on that's like food basically for you yeah lick it up lick it up bitch that's what i say they don't like it is that just a california thing i feel like i never i've haven't been lived anywhere besides california for like 10 years but it it really feels like some houses out here are just built on top of ant hills and yeah like i've lived in multiple of them and it's just like if if there's a like tiny sliver left open, uh, of a window, you're going to like look up and there will be a black stripe down the wall

coming from that corner. Oh yeah. And it can carry your TV out too. Exactly. I think the reason is that in California, there are many, much, much fewer insects that can like actually harm you.

Like these ants, they don't even bite, you know, they're These ants, they don't even bite. They're sugar ants. They don't even bite. They just build houses shitty because if ants come in, it doesn't really matter. Whereas if you go to Texas or Florida or something, if you have any tiny hole in your house, a tarantula

will come in and strangle your baby. You can't take those kind of chances. We're just vibing out here. Here's the thing i'm barely even killing these ants i'm like kind of like oh you guys get out of here i like sweep them up i'm like no stop it like bullying them more than anything hey you guys watch primal yeah will you tell me what it's about? Although Frankie Munez did have a house. Frankie who?

Munez or Munez? Are you talking about Frankie Munez? Munez. Munez. What was that? Is that a mashup between Devin Munez? Malcolm in the Middle had a house. Devin Munez.

Devin Munez is what I was thinking. He had like a house where he was constantly inundated with scorpions out here. Shut up. No, he didn't. And it was like, you could watch it live, him battling the scorpions live on Twitter. It was like a decade ago. I'd love to see any videos, if anybody has recordings of any of this yeah my aunt problem might also be i i'm usually just like walking around with a bag of loose sugar

that i'm just like dipping into just like and then you keep trying to get everybody in your house to call you sugar daddy and they're all yeah that's gross that's gross dad stop that's gross dad stop jack please jack jack i have a job dude you know what's wild frankie muniz like That's gross. That's gross, Dad. Stop. That's gross, Dad. Stop. Jack, please. Jack, I have a job. You know what's wild? Frankie Muna is like, he first went on one of his OG like rants about scorpions in 2018. And then on January 6th of 2021, this fool tweeted, we're at the emergency pet vet with my cat because he got stung by a scorpion.

Fuck scorpions. Stupid little bitch ass motherfucker he lives in la right no he lives in arizona now with his and he has an olive oil company with his wife who's a nurse jack god damn and his cat's at the emergency pet vet because he's bitch ass little motherfucking scorpies he's in arizona that's why they have so many fucking scorpions right that's what i'm saying yeah that's why they have so many fucking scorpions right what i'm saying yeah that's what i'm saying you can't take chances like that in arizona i'm getting ants in my pants and i'm fine and frankie muniz is going to the vet because of these little scorpions

yeah damn i didn't know that that ended that way as a scorpio i'd like to formally apologize to frankie muniz for my association with the with the dark arts. But also, was your dog being a little bitch? Hey, I mean, entirely possible. All right. We are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. So our first we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to talk about Biden just taking a stand for voting rights by saying some stuff in a speech and not doing shit. We're going to talk about the day in court for the lawyers who kind of perpetrated the big lie after the election. It's just kind of funny to see a judge just be kind of confused by them. As COVID cases across the country, and specifically in Florida, are on the rise,

Governor DeSantis has dropped some new merch into his store that is anti-Fauci merch, which is pretty cool. It's called getting owned, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, we'll talk about, uh, the market for unopened super Mario 64 cartridges, a little hotter than I thought a little bit,

you know, I would have, I would have pegged it more in the $700,000 range. But yeah, this was multiplier on that. And then we'll talk about Shikari Richardson's new endorsement offer and whether she should take it from a vape company. All of that, plenty more. But first, Sara, we like to ask our guest,

what is something from your search history? Something from my search history is Bolsonaro emu. And you guys, do you guys know why? No. Emu? Just images, search Google. Images, search Google. Emu Bolsonaro.

Oh, my God. Was he bit by an emu? Many times. Multiple times. And now, and he got COVID so many times. And now he is in the hospital with the hiccups. This man is, why would God make a fascist so funny? I mean. fascist so funny i mean he's hospitalized after 10 days of hiccups he has had the hiccups for 10 days he had covet like eight times every time he came out of the hospital after having covet he got bit by an emu and had to go back to the hospital for emu bites he's having the worst

hospital for emu bites he's having the worst year and it's very funny because you can see pictures of the emu like chasing him wow yeah it's really good shit those birds are straight up dinosaurs like they're just yeah yeah they're raptors aren't they jack if you got bit by an emu one time would you go back to a fucking emu facility? Don't they just have them like wandering on the palace grounds like where he lives? Maybe that's what it is. I assume he was going to an emu farm because that's what we have out here in California. But he's also the fucking president. So you could he could just be like, yeah, maybe maybe no.

Maybe let's put those on a leash or something. I don't know. He's like, look, we have to remove all the gays before I take my revenge on emus. Maybe he just likes them. You know, he just can't help himself. Who would like emus more than gay humans? Jack? Only a monster.

Yeah. A failed human being. A failed experiment of a human being. At least he's wearing a mask around the emus. I know, that's the funniest thing. It's like so weird. Like, does he respect them? And he's like, I don't, look, I had it.

You don't want to get COVID emus, you know? So I'm going to wear this mask. Ah, they keep biting me. I just want to be their friend. Like, dude, what? And then he's like. It sounds like some weird shitty curse from a disney film that like the bad guy gets or it's like make them sip this thing and they will hiccup for days and because isn't it aren't hiccups just lung spasms uh diaphragm spasms i don't know i think they're a curse right now it's

like hmm because i remember like back when inside edition would just do nonsense stories like that like meet the man who's had a had hiccups for like two years yeah and the person's like it's just terrible it's like torture to like never to always be anticipating a hiccup coming that is one of the that is one of the guinness book of world records that that I would look up when I was a kid. Longest case of hiccups. And I think somebody had it for decades. Charles Osborne had hiccups for 68 years.

1922 to February 1990. Although that sounds like some shit you could lie about up until the 90s. And nobody can verify that shit. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, man, I had hiccups since 1922 and you're like we don't have the internet i don't know okay sir everyone else is dead right right yeah and all the people that can verify man they passed away so you know you just have to take my word for it i've been had this shit for 68 years but it sounds like a terrible terrible thing for someone to have unless you're bolsonar in which case let him rip buddy yeah let him rip more proof that the world isn't fair last time i was on here

i i talked about how i had to stop watching gray's anatomy and that was another reason i had to stop watching gray's anatomy because a woman on gray's anatomy came on the show had to go to the hospital with hiccups and everyone was was like, oh, quirky. You know, one of the light storylines. Oh, yeah. Wasn't it AIDS? It wasn't AIDS. But soon after, she died.

Right. And I don't know if being a surgeon is in any way like watching Grey's Anatomy. But I do know, based on my experience watching Grey's Anatomy, I can't take that emotional rollercoaster. Truly, I cannot. So glad I never thought that I could be a surgeon because I can't even watch the show without being like,

God is fake. We all die. Life is meaningless. We can move on before I totally spiral. No, no. I mean, I'm still thinking about it because hiccups like they when they last for more than like a minute you you can convince yourself this is going to be the rest of your life or i'm at least i have that mentality i'm like fuck man these just

won't go away and i'm like i don't know what i have to do and if this is how i have to live i guess i'll adjust to it but Humans adapt really quickly. Yeah. So I was thinking of an ER storyline, because I'm old as fuck, in which a man enters the emergency room with his fiancée and a bad case of hiccups. After running tests, the doctor asks to speak to the patient privately. But after declaring that he has no secrets from his fiancée, the couple learns that the hiccups are caused by aids related abscesses on the patient's liver but i might er just gave

people hiv and aids like as a story device like constantly what is that even that sounds so fucked up like i don't even i don't even want to know how they presented that entire narrative in the show right like was it supposed to be that he was like on the low like he had like he had other partners or something and the white didn't know the implication yeah yeah probably i remember the one like ar has a bunch of weird shit like that where i'm sure that created a generation of people who were like man i have hiccups like i remember remember ER. That made me have some kind of autoimmune disease. I have hiccups. Am I gay? Right.

Hey, fellas, are hiccups gay? Or like even I remember one where like this. Is it gay to suck air? To breathe with your mouth, though. I feel like I'm sucking the air's dick. Like, what's the alternative? Fucking die, bro. Like a man.

Well, like I remember there was one episode where a kid it was like a karate demo and like the teacher like hit the kid in like his chest piece like for a demo and it stopped his heart and then on the thing they're like there's a moment where the heart resets and if there's an impact in this very specific time it can stop your heart and i'm like bro i'm off like and i remember taking that shit as gospel truth and this is but i realize now we live in a world of people who take things from tv shows as gospel truth without thinking at all and i'm like that's the scary part i'm remembering so many things now that but like my entire basis of like understanding of my body is based on an ER storyline. Which one?

I think there was another storyline where somebody got hit in the chest with a ball and it stopped their heart. I think maybe that's the one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'd hope they wouldn't reuse the same trope over and over. Uh-oh, this time it was a karate demo. use the same trope over and over. Uh-oh, this time it was a karate demo. Maybe there was like someone on staff whose

brother had died from being hit in the chest with the ball and they were like, I don't care if this ends my career. I have to let the world know I'm going to hammer it home in every episode I can. Oh no. Anyways, go watch ER. Great show. What is, Sara, something you think

is overrated? I think that being diagnosed with ADHD on the app TikTok is underrated. And I think being diagnosed with lesbianism on the app TikTok is overrated. Okay, walk me through these. Okay, so lately, if you've been on TikTok, and even if you haven't, there's like a widespread phenomenon of women starting to use TikTok, and then their For You page, the algorithmically decided feed,

starts showing them more and more lesbian content and content about compulsory heterosexuality or heteronormativity or whatever and as a result a lot of women are like haha tiktok thinks i'm gay but i'm not and then like six months later they're like hmm turns out i am gay and and it took tiktok 20 minutes to figure out that i was gay based on my activity when I didn't know. And I'm like, you know, 30 years old or whatever the fuck. Right. And I think that's good.

I'm interested in hearing from the people in their lives if they knew. Like if everybody around them knew and they were the last to find out. I think, okay, based on personal experience, yes. Okay, based on personal experience, yes. I remember when I was younger, having like a lot of, I would make friends with gay or queer people. And they would be like, Are you sure you're not gay? And I'd be like, Yeah. And they were like, Okay, but are you sure though? And I was like, Yeah, I'm just like really comfortable with other gay people. I mean, gay people. And they were like, okay, but are you gay? And I was like, no. And then I like cut all my hair off and they were like, you're gay.

And I was like, no, I just don't want men to talk to me. And they were like, I think you're gay. And I was like, no, it's just that I'm kind of like terrified of men sometimes, but I'm also definitely attracted to them, but not women. But then all, you know, when you, if you have short hair and you're a girl, a lot of women just assume you're gay and then will hit on you. And then you're like, well, this isn't so bad, actually. This is kind of nice. And so are there, are there people who have been on TikTok now who are like, I realized

through this algorithm that I like like i had a moment of self discovery realization because of tiktok yeah wow okay and then what's and what about the adhd one so the adhd one i i actually i switched these being diagnosed with adhd is overrated being diagnosed with lesbianism is underrated okay got it like diagnosed by tiktok just as a concept well the algorithm fucking pitches shit to you like they'll start showing you something and if you interact with it and by interact i mean even just watch the video in full or watch it multiple times or pause it and then restart it they'll show you a ton more shit like that the algorithm is constantly throwing shit at you that is popular or that it thinks you will like and then responding

like instantaneously based on your this is why tiktok is so addicting because it is so responsive and the algorithm is so responsive but anyway so a big thing on tiktok is like there's a lot of people with adhd on tiktok who are there being like hey what's up here's my life with adhd here's like you know research stuff you might want to know if you have ADD or whatnot. And, you know, a lot of people have made the observation that TikTok definitely fucking destroys your attention span. And so if you have ADD already and you're on TikTok, it's like impossible to get out of it. And it's actually a really bad, very overstimulating thing for you to do. And if you don't have ADD, you will begin to experience a lot of the symptoms that people with ADHD experience all the time because you're on the app that is like constantly

fragmenting your focus and throwing distractions at you at like the speed of light. And so, you know, when you go on tiktok and they're like hey do you um do you feel like you can't focus and like you have a hard time getting offline and you're like yeah i'm on this app i'm on the thing that's doing yeah huh yeah i'm on the the like the screen version of cocaine of course i have a hard time focusing right right right and then people are just being like man man, do I? It's like, well, hold on, zoom out for a second. Realize what the activity you're engaged in.

Right. Because it's like if you got off TikTok and you still felt all those things. Yeah, for sure. Like you might have ADHD, but like if you're on TikTok, all bets are off, dude. Like this is this is like it's like they threw crack cocaine into our into our minds again. They were like, hey, man, are minds again they were like hey man are you like fucked up like are you mentally ill and you're like no i'm actually on a drug i'm fine dude i'm fine i'm on drugs right now yeah i feel crazy i'm on drugs yeah yeah this i feel like i

remember because you know when i get caught because it knows your boy used to dabble in the the dark street arts because i get all kinds of trafficking content and like basketball jokes. It's mine is dancing, basketball jokes, drug trafficking, and construction workers showing their packed lunches. Oh, interesting drug trafficking, because I get sex trafficking because it knows I'm a girl. And so I get all of these videos that are like girls, you know, telling a story where they're like, you know, me being whatever, you know, sometimes like meeting a guy who has a van, you know, and they're like, I was trafficked. And it's just like raising awareness or something. I don't fucking know. But now I'm terrified. Right? Yeah. And then it's

funny, you get you get stuck on there, just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. And then like, every, you know, like 700 videos that one comes up like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, want to take a break? Hey, how about a break? You want to take a break real quick? You should take a break. Here's some tips on how to take a break, you know, because you've been on this motherfucker for a minute that we're even trying to introduce a slight bit of responsibility as a platform to you. Yes, Jack, when you are on TikTok for like over an hour and a half half a video comes up of a of a guy whose face i now know intimately he's like myspace tom now yes he's like myspace tom now and he says to me hey you've been scrolling for a long time maybe it's time to uh go to bed there will still be videos in the morning oh my god you're like shut the fuck up more narco videos.

Jack, you don't even know how advanced TikTok is. They are regulating you so you don't get burned out. So you keep doing that. That's mean to be like, hey. They should just make the app start to malfunction or something. Instead of being like, hey, we're worried about you here at TikTok. It's like, fuck you, man. It's like, no you're not, dude.

You keep shoveling all this other shit in my face. Like, yeah, okay, we're worried that you won't come back if you do this, if you go too hard on TikTok. Please, if you let us harvest all of your data today, there will be no data left to harvest tomorrow. Exactly. We don't want to burn you out. One must seed the data fields. You have to leave one of your data fields fallow every year. Right, right. Grow new data and mine it later.

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To a neoliberal utopia where all it can do is identify threats, but is unable to handle them at all because it helps uphold the status quo and it's getting so fucking tired right now you know we just talked about how 50 democrats fucking fled texas to be like hey they're rat fucking elections y'all need to pass some shit over here what are you doing with the filibuster why are you letting why are you pretending it's just these people that are holding it up when it's probably you, Joe Biden and the rest of the, you know, democratic establishment that is truly uninterested in actually making it easier for everyone to vote. It was a nice talking point, but the action is just not there. So this man gave a speech in

Philadelphia and it was just essentially him. You know, this is, this was like on the heels of the news story at the beginning of the day, Texas Democrats flee to D.C. that, you know, could face arrest, quote unquote. But he goes to D.C. and he goes to Philadelphia and just gives a speech where it's just it's like the equivalent of him describing like a slow moving train coming for everyone. And we're we're on the tracks, but we're not tied. And all he has to do is say like and then everyone should get up off the tracks and get out not tied and all he has to do is say like and then everyone should get up off the tracks and get out of the way and then we can dodge this train but instead he's just like there's a train

coming and I don't know what we're gonna do folks like all he said he did say one thing hey Jack get off the rails buddy come on man we gotta get off the tracks this Listen, come on, man. Listen, pal. We got to get off the tracks.

This is what he said. Hey, pal, this is a quote. Quote, democracy or autocracy? That's what it's coming down to. Okay, what else? No, for sure. Don't just say that. Then are you now putting the weight of your office behind filibuster reform?

Anything? No. He was just sort of like, man, man, we got to do something about this. Miles, he is wrapping the chain of filibuster reform around his arm and he is going for the corn pop of the house in this moment. He's left the razor blades out overnight to get rusty.

He knows how it goes. He knows how you do it sir yeah yeah i mean it's just nothing he just gave up he's essentially he's given up the i think the take from the white house is we've given up on passing any kind of robust package for voter protections and he's just saying stuff like come on jack we gotta pass the for the people act it's like okay we know that you fuck wit now what, what can you do as president? Do you want to put Manchin and Sinema and these people to the sword and say, hey, get in line? Because just saying, hey, man, we got to pass this stuff. That is not leadership at all. But again,

that's not what most of us were expecting from him. It's just doubly frustrating, like the theater of it, because it's just so empty and you know miles hypothetically to have a president with dementia would be pretty difficult don't you think hypothetically if our president had dementia it would make things kind of harder to to like do policies and stuff i don't know i mean this is again something that's never happened especially not uh in the past four years or now but yeah can't can't imagine even in recent even before this i couldn't i couldn't know what it was like to have someone with a dwindling mental capacity be able to just be like hey that bad huh i don't know what do we do about it it's just pump an old guy full of drugs and

force him to make speeches constantly it would be kind of bad yeah that would be weird i mean this whole thing is he just again he wants i i don't know this is why like i'm sort of off the the tired sort of defense that it's like like cinnamon mansion are you holding everything up no like there is i believe like it's very clear chuck schumer none of these people want to get it done they just like to be like i mean mean, it's tough to do, but I'm sure because if voting was easier for everyone, that would also mean voting out establishment stooges would be easier too. So I'm sure on some level, they're fine with how things are. While on the other side, they can just say, oh, well, we raised $25 million to combat voter suppression. That

sounds like another industry to keep up is the fundraising around fighting voter suppression rather than ending it, because that's the other solutions that we're hearing is like, well, we have money to help educate people. It's like you're you hold. OK, whatever. You literally make the laws. You're educating us about the laws that you have the power to change. Oh, right. That's like the one thing to say, like, well, that's then we can feel secure. But overall, there's an ABC News Washington Post poll that said they were asking respondents whether it was more important to pass new laws, making it easier for people to vote lawfully or to make new laws, making it harder for them to vote fraudulently. Sixty two percent opted for the former. They 62 percent of people say we want more laws that makes it easier for people to vote lawfully. And then meanwhile, we have, this is,

this is, this isn't just of Democrats. This is the country. So this idea, I mean, again, it's just voter suppression coming to a state near you. I mean,

even more so, but yeah, it's just, it's just really awful to just like watch the president just be like, Oh, that's bad. Anyway, y'all I'm out. I mean, even more so. But yeah, it's just really awful to just watch the president just be like, oh, that's bad. Anyway, y'all, I'm out. I mean, is he like, has there been any,

I think he said... Sucks, dude. Peace. I think he said at one point that he was open to talking about the filibuster. Yeah, yeah. Talking filibuster, but this time he didn't even say the word. Right. Which shows you like, if there was a moment, the filibuster yeah yeah talking filibuster but this time he didn't even say the word right which shows you like if there was a moment yeah it would have been then to say dude this is a fucking

problem but all he just said was this is a fucking problem y'all all right see ya i'm gonna go to denny's that's my time well speaking of the truth that he mentioned there that it's autocracy. The most recent like kind of concrete example of Trump basically trying to stay in power by just like making up a reality with like a handful of lawyers. So the big lie was basically in the courtroom a couple of days ago. And the lawyers that were behind what was known as the Kraken lawsuit in Michigan, where they demanded the results of the election be overturned because like somebody saw a clear plastic bag of someone. You saw the Kraken up close yeah or the equivalent was the plaintiff a kraken the so sydney powell who was kind of the main person the main person who's still like out here saying it with her chest was brought to the courtroom and asked very straightforward questions like why do you think why did you say this it was like all of these lawyers right because everyone's like these people need to be sanctioned

fucking off the face of the earth like they should never practice log and to come in and try and just like bandy about nonsense evidentiary like evidentiary claims and be like, we got to overturn an election. So they were in court basically to argue that they don't deserve any kind of sanctions or to be disbarred or anything like that. So part of this, again, first of all, I just do want to point, one of the lawyers who's caught up in this openly weeping throughout the whole proceedings. one of these cracking assholes just a fucking uh it's just a sob scene as the as the as the judge was dressing them down so one of the first things was just sort of essentially was like did y'all do anything called like due diligence i just want to read this description quote the judge noted that one observer stated in an affidavit that she believed

she saw election workers switching votes from Trump to Biden. Parker, who's a judge, asked whether any of the lawyers had spoken to the witness and inquired what exactly she saw that led her to believe that votes had been switched. She was greeted with silence. Anyone? She asked again. When no one answered a second time, she said, let the record reflect that no one made that inquiry, which was central to the allegation. She then focused on another statement from a witness who swore he saw individuals placing clear plastic bags into a mail truck and said he believed the bags, quote, could be ballots, end quote, headed for Detroit's counting facility. The judge called that allegation, quote, really fantastical and speculative. Quote, I don't think I've really ever seen an affidavit

that has made so many leaps she said my question to counsel here is how could any of you as officers of the court present this type of an affidavit and they were just wow shrugging right shrugging what do you have to say for yourself was basically what this judge would say they didn't say shit then uh there's another description where one of the lawyers saying, Holler trying to explain the affidavit from the dog walker who thought some bags dropped off with postal workers, quote, could be ballots. I wish I could show Judge Parker's face right now is what this person in the court said. And this is Parker, what the judge said.

Well, what information did the affidavit have to make any of these conclusions in his affidavit? Pollard, the like crack and lawyer, quote, he was speaking in the present tense and he took photos. Parker, this is anybody driving down the street and seeing somebody with plastic bags. Oh, my God. And so this is this is what's so fucked up, right? oh my god and so this is this is what's so fucked up right it's this kind of nonsense that is just setting the table the just wacky rationale for republicans to then go full force and be like yeah man you see like it's just it's just stinking this whole thing's stinking we got to do something even though the people who are perpetrating like who presented this lawsuit are

getting shredded in the courtroom right now and one of them is crying i love that i love spending a ton of time and money trying to go to court just to have a judge spank you right and someone crying just they did so much work to get there and then they got there someone was like why the fuck are you wasting my time right yeah and what's wild is though like even despite this right how clear how just absolute just bullshit all this is the damage is already done you know and that's all it really took like at this point you know there's not a single i don't think fox is gonna spend a second talking about what these lawyers are doing,

how they're just getting destroyed in Michigan and the courts there. Because you've seen ever since January, and really after the election, it's just been the same programming over and over and over again. And that's where we're just at like pretty soon i i fully believe that we're going to be arguing the merits of mathematics at some point with these people because anything that is like remotely like resemble something that could be an arbiter of truth or some kind of objective way of measuring things because the truth typically can you know work against maybe these grifters on the

right they'll be like yeah you know math i mean really is is zero and are and one are they real values i'd like to bring in of this renowned mathematician terence terence howard yes to bring us his his take on numbers of teriology i'm telling you that's where like it feels like that's this that's where this road ends because it's it can't be history it can't be science anymore it can't be any of these things like fucking i'm i'm just calling it when's math when's math on the docket for cancellation i believe it's i believe it's already on the docket isn't it isn't there a thing i'm gonna i'm gonna do a quick goog hold on go on quick quick google search how many votes did donald trump lose by no no those aren't good numbers i don't like those numbers i don't know they lie

it has a noted leftward bias for sure all right let's talk uh about covid real quick uh cases are on the rise across the country. Florida, I think, has the fastest rising or the second fastest rising national average for daily cases. And so Governor Ron DeSantis

has taken this opportunity, chosen this moment to release some sick merch. He's got some shirts that say Don't Fauci My Florida. Is that a play on something? to release some sick merch yeah he's got some shirts that say don't fauci my florida which i is that a play on something don't is it like don't yuck my yum yeah is that but it's like completely it's like don't basketball my sandals there's no word play there's alliteration but the you know it's it's like when somebody tells a joke and then you realize that they sort

of said it in the intonation of a stand-up comedian that they like even though it was an original joke and you're like well why did that sound like bill burr was saying that joke you know and it's like you watch a lot of fucking bill burr right but you didn't pick up on the whole uh premise punchline structure i mean don't fouchy my florida okay i won't uh-huh i don't know how to i mean it's it's faster to say don't vaccinate me yeah right yeah yeah i'm not a sheep okay i that makes more sense but i guess because i think it's just everything just like buzzwords just get people so energized like yeah fauci yeah yeah that's good and it's alliterative slightly because it's two f words but like yeah no it's what it's good it's good copywriting uh there's also a drink koozie that says how the hell am i going to be able to drink

a beer with a mask on that's a great question that science has not yet provided an answer for jack and i don't appreciate you saying it in such a ridiculing tone no i was just uh reading it that was actually my best my best uh dramatic read of that question with a new with new beer patches from anheuser-busch just slap it on well you butt chug dude yeah right dude that'd be so funny that's like their response how do you do without a mask dude you butt chug it fool come on man the fuck's wrong with you what you don't want to drink beer dude come on

but that the fact that those are like official merch from his campaign is I mean yeah he's just like fellas is it gay to drink beer through a filter mask full of your own snot right fellas hell no man i butt chug like a man open it up dude and don't get me started about like butt play and how that could be like you know sodomy adjacent.

It isn't. It's scientifically proven to get you fucked up quicker. There's nothing in the Bible that says you can't put beer in your ass. Yeah. Right. So then God strike me down because, hey, I'm about to put another fucking tall boy back there. Let's go. Hey, God strike me down if this tall boy in my ass is

not to his will on earth as it is in heaven amen oh shit uh as it is in heaven may it be on earth according to washington post rolling seven day average the state reported 26 new infections per 100 000 residents last week the second highest rate in the country yeah so crushing it he's also currently the governor so he's like nailing it to such a degree i am going to make funny shirts yeah well he's also right i've been on this this the new like what they call a team to Santas merch on his site. He has like DeSantis flags that are just mimicking the Trump ones. Like it's so on the nose, like how they're just like, see, it's going to be one for one. Like, you know, the way he's trying to position himself as top runner for twenty twenty four.

Unless, you know, daddy comes out of the out of home care to run again i don't know we'll see what happens but he's clearly trying to position himself as just the trumpiest piece of shit out there despite you know like and i think he's probably going to be like look i'm just a governor who looked at the pandemic a different way in that i put all these people at risk and have a lot of blood on my hands for my mismanagement of everything but i'm looking at at a different way which called in the different way it's called without empathy or acknowledgement of humanity in my heart i i still don't understand how he thinks he's going to run for president with trump still alive like i i understand if he's like oh this is just a life insurance policy on trump like if trump dies before 2024 then i'll

be able to run for president but like trump is not gonna choose not to run for president like what do you who do you think he is like what there's who do you think you are i am i don't know who do you who do you think you are i am i am that guy is awesome sorry jim you think you are? I am. I am. That guy is awesome. Sorry, Joan, you think there's a chance he might not run? Yeah, because, you know, I think what he was always most interested in was making money. And I think he was a little disappointed with how much being president got in the way of his business ventures. So, you know, there's as the Koch brothers brothers show us there's quite a bit more power to be had outside of the government than in it you know yeah god willing i yeah i don't know maybe

maybe he'll be on uh something cool maybe he'll be scientologist by then you know yeah that would be great i mean shout out to xeno obviously, and all my operating Thetans out there because Thetan Nation, we're going to be doing it. Did you guys see him at CPAC saying, I forget who he was talking about, but he was like, basically saying other people aren't real because they change when they get in trouble. And he was like, not me. They impeached me twice. I got worse. I got worse I got worse I got worse is fucking amazing

I got worse great there it is folks and people have to and you're so fucking pretzeled up mentally in that room you're like yeah man he got worse i didn't become different i got him twice i became i became worse and then he repeated it i became worse i got worse yeah that's I mean, that basically sums it up. Doubling down on being wrong seems to be the playbook. But even if like, yeah, DeSantis runs, I mean, like people, this is the kind of shit like this is the thing that they have to do right now is to keep as much of the Mago world feeling good about him.

So if it is him running, they can just flip the switch and it feels like nice and easy for them. And I think no matter who runs, it's going to be a fucking shit show. I mean, people are going to be all in on whoever the candidate is. Plus all this voter suppression. Like it's, Oh my God.

Yeah. Save us. Jeebus. Now there's a beer koozie. Save us. Jeebus. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be back to talk about some bullshit.

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Okay? It was in 2010, and it was printed in 1938. So this piece was 72 years old, okay? The first baseball card for more than a million. T206, Honus Wagner in 2000. Card was printed in 1909. It was 91 years old when it was sold. This Mario cartridge, it's only 25 years old, and it's already getting over a million dollars.

And people are like, what the fuck is happening? They say it's like a mixture of things. Pandemic has caused a lot of people to get into more vintage games. Then like comic book collectors apparently are diversifying their investments and getting into vintage games. And also geriatric millennials and Gen Xers who have come into crypto apparently seem to be the biggest buyers because these auction houses notice an uptick when the crypto market's doing well. So, and I guess maybe shit's just super inflated right now,

but I don't know, man. A fucking million and a half for a fucking video game? Like, what do you do with that? Right. You play it, Miles. It's a fun game. Could you imagine? Oh, yes, just rip the wrapping off. Oh, cool. you play it Miles it's a fun game could you imagine just trying to jam it into their PS5

have you ever tried to blow on a first edition copy of a Superman comic it's not fun it burns up when you put it in an electrical device yeah I had this game i made the mistake of opening it and apparently turned didn't realize i was turning down 1.56 million dollars uh by doing so yeah the other thing is like they say like you know for like for collectors right like i i used to collect basketball cards and shit rookies right rookie cards are worth the most like the first appearance of something is typically what gives something a lot of value to collectors

that's why like the first appearance of batman uh you know the fucking all these other things like first editions or appearances typically is what gets people spending money and like a lot of people were like we thought an og legend of zelda would sell for more than a n64 copy of super mario 64 because like for for super mario heads like you know some people like i don't know i don't really like it but other people like it's the first 3d version of mario okay i get that but the the but uh just to give you comparison an og legend of Legend of Zelda NES cartridge got only $870,000. That's it? Mario's older.

Yeah, I guess. I don't know. I know, right? That's it. With the Mario's older. And also, you know, when Mario went from 2D to 3D and we could really see the curves of that dump truck. He's rocking. Yeah.

That changed a lot of people's lives. Yeah, that's true. You can see the shadow that got lit. Yep, that's when you see that. Who's the real Princess Peach? I think it's Mario. Yeah, exactly. Princess who?

Yes, sir. Princess Peach emoji. Look at that can. That cake, that Mario cake. We could finally see the shadows that it cast down his little plumber's pants yeah greatest plumber's ass of all time all right let's talk about shakari richardson not going to be able to participate in the olympics uh but she has been offered a six-figure endorsement deal with a vape company which she should totally fucking take right like why 250 000 to become an endorser what is what are her choices is aren't those the same i mean if if she my question is if she takes

the deal does it disqualify her from ever trying to go to the olympics or like why is this and is this an either or aren't they barring her from the olympics anyway shouldn't i don't know if it's an either or i mean i think if anything it feels more like opportunistic on the vape company because they're just trying to get behind someone who's like in the news around weed right but like even for for her like the reason she used it wasn't because she's like hey i'm shakari richardson and when i'm not breaking world records i like to fucking dab it the fuck up you know what i mean where's my goo gang at right she's like my mother died and i was coping yeah so i don't know it feels like a bit of a a weird thing that would be a weird although it would be tight for her to do a commercial that was like hey did you just suffer a major life trauma right try this vape yeah i

like dr dab i i think it could be a number of things i mean part of me feels like look i this 250 000 i'm sure helps because we know famously olympic athletes don't make any money right So like in that sense, I'm like, yeah, it gets you a check. But also like, I don't know if she needs to be like cheeky about it to say like, I'm going to suddenly be like, put myself at the forefront of this. Cause I think that might be a distraction for like what she's actually exceptional at, but I don't know. You know, I think either way you'd hope that this isn't going to be like the last we hear about her that she, you know.

No. Yeah. She's going to have a long career. Destroy everyone. Yeah. Yeah. She's going to be like dominating track and field for a long time for probably the next couple Olympics. I just I don't know. It feels like a local commercial level commitment. It's like doing a commercial for a local car dealership or something like that shouldn't preclude you from like taking some national sponsorships but yeah i mean if anything you'd hope like like you know like typically these athletes get stuff from like you know

apparel makers and shit that they can just be like here look fucking here's money like that sucks that this happened to you please keep focusing on your physical endeavors shakari richardson as like an athlete and as a a story as a person is so popular and so uh exceptional that it is pretty wild that nike has not stepped in to co-opt her momentum yeah yeah typically they're i don't i guess what like weed is like a third rail for them i have no i mean i have no idea but it it just seems like you know what you were saying jack but like it it feels like a like a local commercial when you know i feel like for for somebody who has totally dominated the news cycle in the way that she has, it seems to me that she should be getting offers that are on a national stage. Right, right, right.

If you're her manager, Jack, you're saying, hey, don't take that. This is small ball, Sha'Carri. Yeah, I'll text her. I'll let her know. Yeah, this is small ball, Sha'Carri. Just wait for Phil Knight to hit you up i feel like nike will you know reach out to her and like there there will be the shakari richardson commercial like three years from now like the way that they came around to colin kaepernick you know years after he first

made his stand uh i bet you they've already reached out and i probably you know because she was rocky she was wearing nike all through the qualifiers and things like that and the trials. So I'm sure on some level, you know, knowing how quickly they move, they're probably being like, okay, let's really figure this out. Like, how are we going to maximize profits off of this thing? But, yeah. Oh, yeah. They'll probably run like a dope ad with her during the track and field event. That would be kind of cool.

I definitely support nobody going to the Olympics. I think great athletes should not go to the Olympics because the Olympics are bad. Yeah. Really bad for the cities that they're in. They're really bad for the athletes. They don't make any money and they are a real estate scam. So, yeah, there was a story about a Japanese guy who was displaced twice from the Tokyo Olympics.

Like, first in... Get the fuck out of the way. Yeah. First he was displaced in 64 and then also in 2020. Wow. So he's like, yeah, it really sucks. It's a very, very sad story.

And it's happened in a lot of cities. And that's why so many cities around the world have huge protests when their governments are like, hey, what if we had the Olympics here? And then people are like, fuck, no. They're like, well, wait, we're going to spend money. Oh, really? On making sure the event is completely free of what we've determined to be societal detritus that we don't want tourists to see and also to just help make things easier for advertisers. We'd love to militarize

your police really quickly, install a bunch of surveillance equipment that we will not take down. We'd like to evict a bunch of residents of the city so we can build temporary housing for athletes and media who will then leave. We're going to build a bunch of stadiums that the city is then not going to use. So what do think but hotels will make money but usain bolt will be there all right all

right we like it we like it we're back again i mean honestly like hard bargain what's the easiest one like the easiest way to do it is just to have it in one fucking place every fucking time that's just a dedicated facility for the Olympics. And that's it. Rather than treating it like a World's Fair. Yeah, to constantly build infrastructure every two to four years in a different city. And that's the scam. That's where they make the money

is the building and the permits and the fucking leases and shit. And that's why they won't just build it in, I don't know, where would you put it, Miles, if you could have the Olympics in a permanentlympics i think we talked about this before like you know just to keep it with the the theme of the games like in athens or something and just always have the facility like or wherever you know like all we need to do though is just dedicate one place because at the end of the day like i don't watch it to be like oh they're here this year or they're there this year it's like you watch it because you want to see like the peak of human competition i don't have any

problem with that if i love that kind of shit but just do it like in a way that's responsible for everybody involved and not you know just exploitative and you know completely disregarding like people who need help when making it like this sort of either or i'd miss the nation themed light shows that open up every games that would uh bum me out i mean when i think i do you remember in london tim berners-lee the father of the internet was in the opening ceremonies it's like i don't give a fuck they don't have anything else smiles let them have that yeah right they're eating beans on toast let them let the english have their internet let them have that yeah right they're eating beans on toast let them let the english have their internet let them have their slogan that the sun never sets on the english the british

empire let them have that don't have it they're fucking done and they know it give them tim berners-lee and the spice girls in an over-the-top opening ceremony you know what they feel good about it all they have perfected the art of panel shows. All I watch now is British panel shows on YouTube. What's better about British panel shows? Because I've heard that now from a number of people. Number one, I think they just have a lot of them. They have a lot of comedians and TV people who are just I think it's that they have a lot of them and there's really a culture around them. And so everybody that appears on a British panel show is like pretty, pretty up to snuff, you know, because it's like a thing they do a lot. So I think it's just that it's a more popular format.

And so they've like kind of done it, done it better. Yeah, I feel like when I watch them like Graham Norton or like other ones where there's like a lot of interesting people together. It's like what a good podcast is because people come to like really just be a little more open and talk candidly. is because people come to like really just be a little more open and talk candidly whereas in america our talk shows are just a facet of the like public marketing pr machine yeah like we only have talk shows for people to come on to to like sort of push products and it's the same of you know not to say that people don't do those on panel shows there but like the energy is more like i'm going to sell this thing and then i go away versus like yeah i'll go promote it but also like we'll have a really fun chat with interesting people and it's a time to you know you see i feel like we see more

hot takes or like clippable moments from these english panel shows than we do from like kimmel or something like that yeah maybe maybe it has something to do with like the i mean the material reality of production there is that it's not america it's not la they don't have like you know you can go shoot anywhere in california and make it look like a different place in the world but in the uk it's always going to fucking look like london so they shoot a lot of stuff in studio and they just do a lot of stuff in studio because it's fucking cheap you know it's really cheap but like they get they get really good writers and you know good games and i i think that stuff's more fun than like wheel of fortune or whatever because wheel of fortune always felt like there was basically no skill involved you know you're at the mercy of the wheel just like in life

and vanna white yeah that bitch controls me. Yeah. You know she controls the weather, right? But yeah, there's like those games like Wheel of Fortune, like it's funny that just feels like a

like a doctor's office waiting room of a game show. Like it's just sort of like, yeah, I guess it's there. It's better than nothing. But I'm not like, oh, fuck,

it's time for Wheel of Fortune. It used to be, I think those games, I watched them more there. It's better than nothing. But I'm not like, oh, fuck, it's time for Wheel of Fortune. I think those games, I watched them more when I was a kid because my intellect was at a level where it was very stimulating. I was like, oh, maybe I can figure this out. But now I'm like, I don't give a shit about how many jet skis you want. USA Today's crossword

puzzle, the TV show, is basically what it is. Yeah. Shout out to panel shows. A lot of British game shows Crossword puzzle, the TV show is basically what it is. Yeah. Yeah. But hey, you know, shout out to panel shows. Shout out to being open. A lot of British game shows and panel shows are like as good as Jeopardy! And I think Jeopardy! is great. And Jeopardy! is like my favorite game show, my favorite like American panel type show.

That's interesting. The idea that it's like the PR machine that makes american like because i the persistent like it's kind of a lame observation but like just the persistence of terribleness that comes out of like late night tv shows and and yet like there's so much talent and so many funny writers who like work on them has always like kind of confounded me it's pretty depressing yeah yeah it's and it's it's and it's a golden handcuff situation for a lot of those writers too because like you're paid so well right and like it's and but it's all in service of this other singular talent who's the host but then it's like yeah i used to have dreams was like but i get paid like like like 52 weeks out of the year it's like a

sweet gig dude it's a velvet coffin like once you're in it it's for a lot of people they get used to the money and then it's hard to get out or i i think what's interesting about late night tv is like it's changed so much because you know it was kind of a peak tv format and now we're in peak streaming and so late night as a format doesn't make any fucking sense with streaming because it involves the things that happened that day, which is something that we now we consume that kind of content, the daily digestive content now more on the internet or in a podcast like this. So why does late night even exist is a question a lot of people have been asking for a long time. And it's interesting to see the way late night even exist is a question a lot of people have been asking for a long time. It's interesting to see

the way late night has coped by becoming worse. It made me so sad when Conan went back to that same format after the whole thing, after the Tonight Show. I mean, it was a little

different, but still the interview canned conversation format is but yeah now he's doing podcasts so we're we're getting there but i same same shit different different medium it's interesting that another country was able to like make it work because it's so it's been so bad for so long in amer. Well, Sarajoon, as always, such a pleasure having you. Where can people find you and follow you? I am on TikTok, you underscore tube underscore channel. I am on Instagram, corpseflower, that's F-L-O-U-R.

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Is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Yes, here's a good tweet that I like. It's not funny, but it's very good. It's from Vincent Bevins at VINNcent. And it is, The United States government has intentionally worsened the living standards of the Cuban people in pursuit of regime change for over 60 years. Wow. Great tweet. That's just like your opinion, man.

Well, that's just like, yeah, that's just always funny whenever like these countries that have just been absolutely destroyed by embargoes and sanctions, the media goes, oh, man, it's so bad over there, huh? It's like, well, hold on, asshole. You want to zoom out and actually explain it rather than be like, and that's the problem with socialism. And that's the problem with this place. Am I right, folks? All right. This message brought to you by General Electric.

It's just very funny to me that there is a Wikipedia article about U.S. intervention in Latin America, and that's free. That's free for you to access. That's free for everybody to read. And yet some people still think that President Joe Biden is going to back any policy that helps the people of Cuba. Just read the article and then tell me what you think. Just read the article and then think a little bit about our history. Just tell me what made you think that we might as a government

not you and me, you know, Miles, you're cool. Jack, you're cool. But the government might give a shit about this country for any reason other than taking control of it. I would love to hear anybody's reasons. You can cut that out. I'm very angry about this country for any reason other than taking control of it i would love to hear anybody's reasons you can cut that out i'm very angry about this we won't be cutting it out because you said i was cool and that's uh it's me that it catches me in a vacuum

here's the thing cut the whole thing but keep that part where i said jack you're cool and just play it with no context please welcome sorry june jack you're cool all right sir where can people find you or i could just make it my ringtone get it in there uh miles where can people you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray and also the other show, 420 Day Fiance, where you can come check us out. Just doing the 420s and talk about 90 Day Fiance like we always do. First tweet that I like from Travis Helwig at Travis Helwig. D.C.

Journalists. Washington is a bubble. We know what real America is all about. Also, D.C. journalists. Who is Olivia Rodrigo? Because that's so much of the energy around her visiting the White House. And then one more is a bit of a visual gag. It's from at violently epic. It's at Helen's alt account. And i just want to say this picture right here it's from everyone uh from breaking bad it says who's getting the best dick vote below and it's like all these scenes from breaking bad where like people have like guns to their heads but they have like these torture and their faces are usually like up against the wall they're just like getting the best i mean it's hank i gotta say it's hank middle oh yeah hank is oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i thought they were all hank

i mean we're all hank we're all metaphoraphorically speaking. Gus looks like he's having fun too. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A couple of tweets I've been enjoying. Doug Pound tweeted, sucks that Poupon only comes in gray. Kelsey Bowman Murphy just tweeted a picture of Richard Branson. So this was a picture that Richard Branson and Elon Musk tweeted out of themselves. And she like you kind of have to see it, but they just look like they're standing in a very basic house.

And she said to have billions of dollars and those cabinets. What's the point? Yeah, I caught that, too. That kitchen was interesting. A mess. What's going on? It might be that those guys are dumb. Yeah.

A mess. What's going on? It might be that those guys are dumb. Yeah. I mean, if you've seen the way they dress, then yeah, maybe not the best taste. But they have all the happiness that billions of dollars can buy. Who needs nice cabinets? Clearly.

Yeah. I mean, the happiest people are trying to concoct ways to leave Earth. Yeah, I was going to say, maybe if they had nicer cabinets, they wouldn't want to go to space so bad. Yeah. They'd just be hanging out in the kitchen. Tried a new cabinet do-over. I'm so uninterested in like what they do. Like what those two hanging out together would be like. I mean, it sounds so awful.

It would probably be so weird and boring. It sounds like the worst party ever. And then at Arf Measures tweeted, Doctor, do you exercise? Me. Oh, yeah. I do all of them. The push-offs, plonks.

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walking through a spooky shopping mall and like the music is slowed down but it sounds like music but real kind of vibey and this track moving up is just exactly that it's got a really good like sort of combination of older you know sort of like an old patina audio patina over it but with familiar rhythms and production so uh this is a good one mr mitch moving up all right that's gonna do it for this episode uh the daily zeitgeist of production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio visit the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen your favorite shows that's gonna do it for us this morning we're back this afternoon to tell you what's trending and we will talk to y'all then bye bye k hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal

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