The Daily Zeitgeist - Threads Is Here! QAnon’s Underground Railroad 07.07.23

Episode Date: July 7, 2023

In episode 1511, Miles and guest co-host Jacquis Neal are joined by host of, I Said No Gifts!, Bridger Winegar, to discuss… 30 Million People Are On Threads Already, Trump Whose Eldest Son DEFINTELY HAS NEVER DONE COCAINE.... Has Thoughts…, The QAnon Guy Who Said JFK Jr Was Returning…Is Dead, The Smash Hit QAnon Action Movie Sucks For So Many Reasons, Justin Trudeau Awkwardly Begs Taylor Swift To Come To Canada and more! 30 Million People Are On Threads Already Why Instagram is taking on Twitter with Threads Meta takes aim at Twitter with Threads app, millions join Facebook documents show how toxic Instagram is for teens, Wall Street Journal reports Threads vs. Twitter: 5 Ways Instagram’s New App Comes Up Short (for Now) The QAnon Guy Who Said JFK Jr Was Returning…Is Dead The Smash Hit QAnon Action Movie Sucks For So Many Reasons 'Sound of Freedom' becomes top grossing July 4th movie, beating out Indiana Jones Angel Studios’ PAY IT FORWARD Technology Propels SOUND OF FREEDOM to #1 Movie in America July 4th ‘Sound of Freedom’ Is an Anti-Child Trafficking Fantasy Fit for QAnon Utah-based VidAngel settles $62 million copyright lawsuit with Hollywood studios Inside a Massive Anti-Trafficking Charity's Blundering Overseas Missions THE GREAT (FAKE) CHILD-SEX-TRAFFICKING EPIDEMIC Justin Trudeau Awkwardly Begs Taylor Swift To Come To Canada MP files 'official grievance' after Taylor Swift announces new tour dates with no Canadian cities Cost, stadium size, fewer options: Possible reasons Taylor Swift has skipped Canada LISTEN: Magic City Thrill by James TillmanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to season 294 episode 2 of the daily zeitgeist this is still a production of iheart radio this is still the podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness and guess what the substitute is in the building. That's why you're hearing my voice. And it's Friday, July 7th, 2023. You're saying, what the fuck is July 7th? Well, let me tell you.

It's World Chocolate Day. You already knew that. It's Global Forgiveness Day. It's National Dive Bar Day. National Day of Rock and Roll. National Macaroni Day. National Strawberry Sunday Day. National Father Daughter Take a Walk Day.

Wow. What a monumental day. My name is Miles Gray, a.k.a. The Beach Curmudgeon, a.k.a. Sandpaw, a.k.a. Old Man at the Ocean, a.k.a. The Cold Fart, a.k.a. Grumpy Cold Men, a.k.a. Back in My Gray at the Beach. Shout out to CWGVO on Discord because, yeah, I was talking about how, man, when it's not sunny at the beach, like, I fucking hate the beach uh shout out to cwgbo on discord because yeah i was talking about how man when it's not sunny at the beach like i fucking hate the beach let's just be real like i'm fucking it's just cold for what around wet sand no thank you and i'm thrilled to be joined by my co-host look it's friday it's time to bring it okay you already know yeah i don't even

i don't really have to say much we know about about the bidets. We know about the blessed voice. We know about the comedy acting, the writing, the improvising, the podcasting. What more can I say? Except, please welcome to the microphone, Mr. Jackie Steele. Oh, you keep telling me this. Oh, that's it. That's it. That's it.

That's all y'all gonna get. Thought I was gonna give y'all some Barry White today's it. That's it. That's all y'all gonna get. Thought I was gonna gig out some Barry White today. Yeah. But not today. Rest in the voice. Jack, he's gotta save his voice. Jack, he's gotta save his voice. You know, man, Barry White Barry White don't get the flowers he deserves.

They don't get the flowers he deserves. I don't think we don't talk about Barry White that much no more, man. I think older... Have you? I mean, I have a lot. I listened to a lot of Barry White, especially when I realized how much Barry White was, like, sampled. And I was like, oh, shit. Like, this shit goes.

But, yeah, I guess I don't evoke Barry White's name as much as I could. Yeah. I mean, the man had a golden voice. He had the James Earl Jones voice of music. Yeah. Just, like, iconic. It's so fucking deep. He had the James Earl Jones voice of music. Just, like, iconic. Like, he is Mufasa of music. He's Darth Vader of music. Yeah.

Yeah, we'll give him that one. We'll give him that one. You keep telling me this. Good voice. Wow. You can go even deeper. Go lower. Go lower.

You keep telling me this. Okay. Telling me that. Oh, shit. Practice what you preach. You probably have a good Teddy Pendergrass impersonation in you, too, huh? Oh, don't get me started. Just love TKO.

Let's bring in. We got to bring in the guests. We got to bring in the guests. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Sounds like another love TKO. Okay. bring in the guests. Sounds like another love TKO. Okay. So before we completely turn this into an old man music show, let's take the time to welcome our guests.

A very talented performer, very talented writer working on shows like corporate unbreakable,my schmidt are also one of the most notable production assistants that come to my mind as a lover of late night television uh you might remember from the late late show please welcome to the microphone bridger weininger bridger bridger welcome welcome all i wanted to do is sing in my intro, and I can't. I simply can't carry a tune. Also, of course, the host of I Said No Gifts. I just completely dropped the ball there.

Also, fantastic podcast. Bridger, welcome, man. How are you doing? I'm doing okay. Well, let's be up front. We talked a little bit about this before the show. I spent a lot of time very early this morning waiting outside of Glendale Hyundai for my boyfriend. I then had to just drive home because he got a loaner car there.

So my time was wasted. I'm in a fight with Glendale Hyundai and my boyfriend. Oh, was your boyfriend doing the thing? It was like, I got to drop my car off and then I need you to pick me up after I drop my car off. And after a long wait, it's never mind. They gave me a loaner. Exactly. Exactly. And he woke me up so early. car off and after a long wait it's never mind they gave me a loaner exactly and he woke me up so

early the drive to Glendale Hyundai is 12 minutes he woke me up 45 minutes earlier than that so it was a situation yeah don't do that I'm just gonna throw this out there Bridger gotta break up with him

well that's the plan. After we hit stop, I'm going to break the news to him. It's a bridge too far. Yeah, absolutely. Are you not a morning person at all, I'm guessing, based on that? Not at all.

Yeah. No, I mean, what are your... I'm not. It's like kind of the morning now. I mean, it's almost afternoon. It's a. And I'm barely functioning. Oh, wow.

Yeah. Okay, well, thank you so much for pulling it together. Can I ask both of you a question before we get to know Bridget more and before we get into the daily zeitgeist? Please. The zeitgeist. Now, my car is also in the shop. I have a Volkswagen. It's still under warranty.

It's in the shop. They can't figure out what's wrong with it. Right. Like they I took it in for what was going on and they was like all right we fixed it and the next day same shit i take it back in and now they've had it for over a week and a half and they like we keep trying shit and we don't know what it is i have a loaner car too but like i'm pretty sure that if we keep going down this route my car is going to be considered a lemon and they have to give me a brand new car right so at this point should i be rooting for my car to not be fixed i mean that's a

how do you like your loaner right now i love my loaner it's nice it's an upgrade it's like three years old my car is a 2018 i still have a five-year warranty and they got you in a 2021 right now yeah yeah or it's a 2019 i have a five-year warranty they got got you in a 2021 right now oh yeah yeah or it's a 2019 i have a five-year warranty they got me in the 2023 right oh oh well i mean that might be the universe sort of previewing what is to come for you you know listen listen i you know i'm like let me sneak into volkswagen and break some shit yeah if you know my youtube channel i'm all about manifesting you know obviously it's all about the energy you know my YouTube channel, I'm all about manifesting. You know, obviously, it's all about the energy.

You know what I mean? So you're about to manifest this new car. You know, just the Jack Heese, what I would start doing now is close your eyes and when you're in that loaner, when you're holding the steering wheel,

you say, I'm about to be in one of these but as a replacement for my car. And watch what happens. Yeah. All right. That's what I'm going to do. We all rooting for the lemons.

We all rooting for the lemons. Yeah, root for the lemons. Although that kind of sucks of sucks i can't imagine but here's the other thing is it very easy to get your car replaced when it's deemed a lemon or there are probably like infinite loops you have to fucking hop through or hoops you have to apparently apparently because california is oh yeah friendly yeah the california lemon laws go to the consumer all right or lean toward the consumer yeah like every other law with the cars except gas like or like leans towards like us so yeah yeah yeah yeah if i was in indiana i'd be like bruh fix my car oh yeah for sure they'd be like hey man you gotta we could squeeze the fuck out of it and give you whatever comes out at the end, and you could take that.

But we won't give you a new car. All right, but let's preview a little bit of what we're going to talk about today with Bridger. Talking about threads, it's out. And apparently, as of this recording, 30 million people have already signed up to be on the meta version of Twitter. So we'll just kind of do a light check-in with what's on there and some also problems that people have already found began to encounter. Then we're going to talk about Donald Trump, whose eldest son definitely has never done cocaine, has some thoughts on the cocaine at the White House. So we'll kind of look at his rant about that. We'll check in with QAnon really quick. Remember that guy who said JFK was returning and then he had all those people go to Dallas?

Well, there's a development with him. And we may even talk about the biggest movie that came out on the 4th of July in addition to some other fun things. But first, Bridger, we'd like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are, what you're into right now? Well, first of all, I started looking into my search history and I'm like, what's happening with search histories? I think because it's automatically typed in so many of the things i'll just hit the first result and it doesn't even get logged as a search history so mine is sparse mine is so bare but i do have this recent one okay that says why is tingle not in breath of the which is, may make no sense to anyone. Talking Zelda now. We're talking about

Zelda. There's an old character in old Zelda games that's kind of a gay idiot who is not present in these new games, and I'm furious. And did we get to the bottom of the lack of Tingle's presence? There was no real logic. There was no real

explanation. He could easily be there. There are a million characters. You think Nintendo... Yeah, did Nintendo hear about going woke and going broke? And then maybe that's what they did? They suppressed his character? They may be suppressing Tingle. That's a great, great idea.

Yeah, that's my only explanation I can come up with. So, no one has an answer, and it's very disappointing for me. What a great name, too. Tingle. Have you been playing Tears of the Kingdom? I have, and I don't know why I searched Breath of the Wild rather than Tears of the Kingdom, but I guess it's because I had already played that game, and it wasn't appearing in this game.

And I'm desperate, desperate for answers. Are you a big Nintendo person? Or are you an all-over- over the place type of gaming person um I love video games but I play like one a year but when I play them I play them like I've been playing Zelda non-stop yeah got it yeah I'm kind of like that too like I'll do like maybe one or two a year like when I'm in it I'm in it like I replayed the last of us games when the show was out right and like i was in it and now i haven't turned on a video game since i finished that but when the new spider-man comes out i know i'm gonna be in that oh like that one

i already i already told my child i said i don't know when you'll see me again when this shit comes you better get this parenting now little boy boy. This kid has fucking problems. The Grand Theft Auto 6 is probably coming out in a year and a half. So I probably missed the development of my child's language skills. Absentee parent. Then there's that Star Wars Outlaws game that's like a GTA, but

in the Star Wars world, you could be taking spaceships and shit. I'm like, sorry. Sorry. My people need me. P poof i'm out of here but no listen your son got a mom your video games ain't got a player without you know the funny thing is too like part of me is like i can't put him onto these games already his brain is still developing i can't rock him on these graphics quite yet, but I'm very eagerly awaiting the moment where I'm like, see, pick up this controller and now join me in this world of digital escapism. Bridger, what's something you think is overrated?

Overrated? This might require a little explanation, but this has occurred to me recently. One shot takes in movies, those long shots where there are no cuts from the movie oh overrated i don't care you don't like i no longer care wow i love a long runner okay but go on like what is about it go on tell me yeah yeah break it down break it here we know it's possible first of all we've seen it over and over and over. We know. And there are so many tricks that are being played at this point. They're not even one long take. This is my theory.

This is my new theory is it's straight men who are afraid to choreograph dances. So they need to do something else that requires all of this choreography. It drives me out of my mind. Who cares? So Paul Thomas Anderson, closeted man who is not willing to just do an all-out dance sequence because boogie nights is full of those things like you could have just done a dance number yes just give us all a fun dance number put everybody in a cool costume yeah save everybody the grief of having to like go and have the camera floating around. I'm not impressed. What was the movie that was like one long run?

Was it 1917? Was that what that was shot like? Yeah, that whole movie, right? Yeah. So for you, that was like, that could have been a whole, that could have been a dance sequence. That could have been tens and thousands of dance sequences.

Think of the money. We could have had all kinds of dance sequences. And what, have we had a World War II movie that has dance sequences? Or is that World War I, 1917? Yes. Yeah, yeah, World War I. Yeah. And what, have we had a World War II movie that has dance sequences? Or is that World War I, 1917? Yes. Yeah, yeah, World War I.

Yeah. And you know they was dancing. They was dancing back then. Oh, yeah. They danced. Let's get a whole dance movie around it. Oh, yeah.

Okay, so can I ask you then, Bridger, what was, because the last one that I, the last one shot that I saw that stuck out in my mind that I was like,

yes, this was great great was from pearl the movie pearl uh which is did you guys so x the movie x which was like that porn horror slasher movie which was very good and pearl was the prequel to that movie and mia golf like i said this to anybody who would listen i was like mia golf should have got nominated for her role in Pearl. She fucking went for it and it was great. But she rips off like a 10 minute monologue where she hits every fucking emotion. And I'm just sitting there riveting it.

And then at the end of the movie, she also hits like a four minute, like at the end of the movie, a four minute one shot, just like look where she's like going through every facial emotion that she could possibly go to because she's losing her fucking mind and i'm like this was beautiful that's the last one i said i would i would if you are into it's not scary uh it's not a scary movie if you're not into horror but i would be interested to see what you thought about pearl and mia golf's performance but scary movie if you're not into horror, but I would be interested to see what you thought about Pearl

and Mia Goth's performance. And also, what you're describing, I'm basically in support of what you're talking about where we're not like, people aren't moving around and the camera is going. Okay. A nice long take. You're talking about the Succession shit.

The Succession shit that they did where it was like, we filmed this whole scene with just one act played. Wait, was there a thing like that in succession yeah oh wow which one it was lost on me because i'm like man this shit so so yeah so all right spoiler if anybody has not seen succession i'm letting you know this right now i'm about to spoil something. So pause it and skip forward like 30 seconds to a minute. All right. So have you two seen it? I think I know what you're talking about, but go ahead.

I'm now remembering it. It's when they find out Logan Roy dies. Yeah. From the call that they made to basically it was a 27-minute scene that was just like like no breaks one shot yeah but they but they you they were using tricks so they were still using cameras and like they had three cameras and they would switch the cameras off and stuff like that but they filmed that oh in one oh god they filmed it in one time and then they did it again and then and then the

funeral was also filmed in one take as well. And I feel like there's... And this is the one I was thinking of. It's that party they have. The scene ends with Shiv and Tom having that argument on the balcony where she tells him she doesn't like him. That's what I was thinking. But see, look, we can't even really think of it.

These things are so wasteful. But nothing. Yeah, Jackis, I think what you saying with in that slasher movie that those long takes are more like give let an actor do a solo real quick they're like here's a solo just let it cook like i think of yeah it's like in buffy the vampire slayer when buffy comes home realizes her mom is dead that's also one long take too and she kills that shit shout out sarah michelle geller but yeah yeah i see now that there are versus like the opening of Snake Eyes, which is like this long shot going through a casino. And to Bridger's point, it's like you're just doing some homophobic, like masculine choreography. It's like, yeah, and then I need you to walk across this way with a bag.

You're like, yeah, I got that. I got that. Five, six, seven, eight. Walking across with my suitcase. I agree with this. cross this way with a bag you're like yeah i got that i got that five six i agree you know what walking across with my i agree with this i agree with bridger on this bridger you thank you so much if we are if we are different if we are saying there is a difference between just like a one shot that is performance based and a one shot that's just like technical based all these movements and blah blah blah blah i i agree like birdman to me was cool but it was like okay i could have made the same movie without all that bridger you you've been around physical

production is not one part of you impressed though to be able to pull that off or no you're just completely not anymore who cares and you also think about how stressful it is for everybody just make it easy on ourselves make it make it a dance number. It is. Yeah. Yeah. Have you been in like an eight minute scene? Being in an eight minute scene without cuts is terrible. No.

I guess it's after. It's terrible. No, no, no. My performance is based to like comedy. So I was never doing anything that was beyond me wearing a wig or fake vomiting or something like that. Yeah. It's terrible. Like this ain't theater, bro.

This ain't theater. I don't want to memorize all this shit. Oh, I'm looking at my size before you call action. Like this is terrible. Richard, what's something you think is underrated? Let's say,

you know what? Listening to albums on repeat. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Oh, I would pay Spotify $500 extra a month for them to

leave the little repeat button on. Just let me put an album... You mean default to it being on repeat? Yeah, because the repeat thing goes off. I listen to the album and then suddenly we're getting into whatever bullshit Spotify wants me to listen to. Just let me listen to the album again.

Wait, so what have you got on repeat? Everything. What have I been listening to recently? This is embarrassing. No, no. This band, well, it's just a woman. She goes under the name of Bully. She has an album called Lucky For You.

That's so good. Okay. Every song is perfect. What's Bully's vibe? She's kind of like, it's like kind of mid-90s alt kind of like in you know like fuzzy guitars and yeah yeah yeah like catchy enough but uh she's so good and i just want to listen to the album over and over let me and you can but you have to push the stupid button yeah yeah i agree with you i've said this many times i i think like we as a consumer

are trash in the way we listen to music now uh we move on very quickly like we we we used to actually live with albums and we used to i think i probably said it on this podcast but we used to live with albums we used to like take our time before we would give a rating of an album and like, let the album marinate and like wash over us and, and listen to it over and over. And now it's just like, like when Kendrick's album came out last year and somebody listened to it the first time, it was like,

I guess I was just wanting to be wild more. I'm like, you heard it once, bro, one time. And now you're ready to move on. Like, it's just,

we are trying, it's us, it's us it's us we are the ones that don't we're the problem with music because it's everything is just so accelerate and spotify and itunes is what really did it because it like now we just listen to singles and shit but like hey shout out itunes for that visualizer though in the player we love the visualizer man the way my 15 year old ass would get so high and listen to the hot boys remix featuring naz little kim and missy elliott oh my god escobar cb y'all bikes i mean yeah that whole thing was a moment yeah i felt the same way like

the last time i i remember when this radiohead album in rainbows came out like fucking 16 years ago, it was like a pay what you want album. And I was like, this shit can't be good. They're giving it away for free. I don't know why. That was my mentality at the time because I was like 22. I didn't know shit. And then like I sat down with it. My first thing was like, I don't this.

I don't fuck with this album. And then like I took a second and listened to it like all the way through a few times i'm like this is this is great this is actually great it's a beautiful album yeah it's true you do need it you got to let it marinate people have forgotten what acquired taste is yeah some things take a minute yeah absolutely because we do like is it is it tired or wired immediately you know what i mean i can't tell you how many times i've listened to an album and then like had a song on that album that i was like i don't like this this much and then like a year or two later like started to be like actually i love this song now like it's like it's like fucking like hit my soul finally that's how i got into carly ray jefferson because at

first i was like yeah whatever carly ray i know about that Then my partner, my wife, she's telling me about it. All the listeners are like, you got to fuck with it. Just listen to it. Just take a listen. And I listen to it. I'm like, oh, this shit is actually good pop music. I had my first perception of what the music was, and then I just had to sit with it. I'm like, yeah, run away with me.

I'm like, yeah, we fuck with it now. She's got something to offer everybody. Yeah, exactly. Shout out CRJ. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be back to talk about meta stepping on the scene of again with an additional potentially toxic social media platform. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church.

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I keep the handles consistent over all the app based applications. But threads has officially launched. The supposedly sanely operated or sanely ran version of Twitter, as Mark Zuckerberg called it, has launched, but obviously not in the EU because as we discussed in an earlier episode, this app is basically scraping your entire digital soul and giving it to advertisers in a nice package. So they still have some privacy data things to get over in the EU. But according to Mark Zuckerberg, 30 million people have signed up already for threats.

Are y'all on threats yet? Oh, I am at, I am at Jackie's new y'all since I can't, since I'm banned from Twitter. Yeah. Good. I mean,

look, fuck Twitter. Yeah. We're out of here. Yeah. Bridger, what about you? Oh,

I, I signed up for it last night, but this entire situation, Twitter falling apart, felt like the prison was on fire and we were all getting out. And it's like we're all now like, well, we found another prison to go to. People are scrambling to trap themselves in another thing. It's crazy. I hate it. I thought we were free. No, we're not. We've merely not. Again, we're just always going to out with the old, in with the new. I guess. We'll see.

Mark Zuckerberg promoted the app by posting on Twitter, which he has not done in a few years now. He posted the Spider-Man pointing to each other meme. What a dork. Part of me is just like, I love it.

It's basically the same fucking thing right and in a way he's like yeah because i will give it to meta what they do is they rip off apps really well like they know how to rip off a fucking app so i guess they're they're saying hey we're gonna we're gonna just straight up rip off twitter uh and it seems to be working aoc has said you know maybe this could be a less toxic version of Twitter. I don't know about that. Good luck. Because let's be real. Because Meta is still a garbage company that regularly ignores documented toxicity,

violent movements, transgressive movements, whatever you want, like problematic shit that and again promoting trends that are harmful to minors we saw that in the fucking papers about instagram and like mental health for teenagers and shit and all they do is they say no no no we're all about lying going up so pardon me forgive me if i'm like let's not act like this is some kind of completely different game we're just it's like the Ron DeSantis versus Disney thing. It's like, yeah, this guy is also terrible. And this company is also fucking terrible.

But I guess I give the edge to the company because they aren't aggressively discriminating against LGBTQ people. Where in this one, it's like, pick your poison here. They're both massive social media companies that don't give a fuck about what's going on. And Mark Zuckerberg is also trash yeah and has been trash he can fight since the beginning you don't want to say what i said he could fight though i don't know maybe can he fight maybe he could throw them hands maybe he's got that he's doing an m like a jujitsu fight with uh elon musk coming up is he gotten like is he like rips now he's kind of doing like this aggro trying to capture

his masculinity thing. He wore like a 20 pound flak vest and did like the Navy Seal tribute workout and was posting about it. And then now he's into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Oh, that man was born to be doughy. Just be doughy. Yeah, exactly. I can't picture him

as a tough guy. Well, you better watch out, Bridger. Well, he's a skinny nerd. No. That's what Zuckerberg is. Look at his forearms now. Well, now he's buffing up. I love it.

Let me tell you why I love it. Why I love it. Like, of course, it's going to be just as toxic. Like, yesterday, I saw Matt Gaetz on threads. Already? Hunter Biden should go to jail already i'm like all right first block but like it's it's you know it's gonna be toxic and shit too but like if one billionaire is gonna take down another you might as well take down the one that i'm mad at now

so it's just like all right man like obviously we don't have the power right now to like take these bitches down so like let's like let zuck maybe take elon down and then and then when zuck gets like you know a little wobbly yeah a little wobbly then somebody let maybe jay-z will come in and take them down like somebody will take we just keep going like that until we get them all out. Until we get one giant gazillionaire who owns everything. Which, you know what? One gazillionaire, I can handle that. I can handle one gazillionaire.

At least the planet can focus all of its energy just on one person at that point and be like, we got to get Rick. You know what I mean? Versus right now it's like, I don't know. I don't even, I'll get my head started spinning when I'm trying to identify the people that are the architects of our societal collapse. Um,

but anyway, it's also, again, the, another thing, if you've used it, it kind of, you don't really know if you could like whose thread posts or what do you

call them? Threads that you can see, like if it's only from accounts you follow, like in your instance, unless you follow Matt Gates, they're giving you Matt Gates shit. And also, a lot of people notice if you sign up. I don't follow Matt Gates, though. Okay, that's fine. His shit just popped up.

I follow him because I think he has interesting things to say that I think a lot of people, if they were just a little more open-minded, they might see some truth in what he's saying. He makes a lot of salient points. Absolutely. That's what I've been saying about Marjorie Taylor Greene, but nobody wants to listen. Thank you. Finally. Thank you. You guys are slowly watching our right word

pivot on the show. The other thing is, too, a lot of people notice that you can't delete your account unless you delete your Instagram account. Oh. Yeah. So it's like surprise, motherfucker. I saw that after I signed up.

Yeah. Now they say you can deactivate it or whatever. So that's, you know, whatever. The search function is still somewhat glitchy. But again, it's the first day and we will see where that goes but again i think a lot of people are just you know when you look at it you're like is this gonna be much better but i think for now i'm not seeing weird crypto ads quite yet so at least that's a benefit or when i just type the word crypto i'm not getting hit by a bunch of bots yet i'm seeing a bunch of posts and shit from people

that like i've only seen pictures from you know or i haven't had to hear their thoughts and yeah in the past few years and now like uh so it's kind of like you know it's kind of like facebook in that regard where i'm like somebody i went to high school with is now just on my shit and i have to hear their thoughts about life like because right there was there's my twitter self and there's my instagram self and reconciling the two i think maybe a bit of culture shock for some of my instagram people like that don't know who like know me from way back or whatever like you know miss like so many people misinterpret sometimes when i'm posting political things and like backwards like conservative takes are like yeah exactly i'm like no okay but go ahead you'll you'll find some

people to fight with uh in my mentions anyway uh so there's threads we'll keep an eye out on that and see where that all goes what was your first post bridge did you have you posted yet no i just i was like what is this And then immediately closed it. Haven't followed anybody. I can't, I can't get dragged into this. It follows them for you. Oh, it follows them for you? It follows a lot of people for you automatically.

It follows like, it follows like your Instagram, like following list and shit. Right, right, right. Oh, I've been off of Twitter for like two and a half years and I really thought that it was over. So I'm just doing everything I can to avoid this. Yeah.

I mean, look, just do whatever you have to because we have to protect our psyches at the end of the day. So, you know, if you want to venture into Digital Swamp Town,

be our guest. And if not, that's all good too. Let's go to another swamp, the White House, because they found cocaine there. And we talked about this story on Wednesday and we ultimately landed on that. This is a dumb story that will only have, you know, that only be fun for the conservatives to scream about because it has cocaine, Biden, White House in the headline.

I mean, if you missed it, there was a little baggie of cocaine that was found in the White House in a very, as they say, a heavily trafficked area, not like in Joe Brandon's bathroom cabinets or some shit. At first, it was only a headline because they weren't sure if the white powder that was found was of the party variety or the chemical warfare variety. So a hazmat team had to come in and that was news because a hazmat team was going to the white house soon. The right wing media was just saying that this is proof that it was Hunter Biden.

And you're like, what with connect the dots. You're like, because he's done cocaine. They're like, but he, he doesn't live at the white house. They're like,

it's his. And it's Joe Biden's too. And that's exactly how Trump's response to this story sounded. He posted on Kirkland's signature Twitter, aka Truth Social, quote, does anybody really believe that the cocaine found in the West Wing

of the White House, very close to the Oval Office, is for the use of anyone other than Hunter and Joe Biden? But watch, the fake news media will soon start saying that the amount found was, quote,

very small and it wasn't really cocaine, but rather common ground up aspirin. And the story will vanish. Has deranged Jack Smith, the crazy Trump hating special prosecutor, been seen in the area of the cocaine? He looks like a crackhead to me. Oh, OK. So he got it all in there. He got it all. He even referenced Leprechaun in the hood video it looked like a crackhead uh got it all he's got it all in there again i like that he goes

is it just that it's is that does anybody believe that it's for anyone's use other than a hunter and joe biden like this is their little coke den that they have in the white house that's in a rain like a heavily trafficked area i would hope they would have more coke if it was yeah that's the other thing like a little baggy come on now like can't you have the dea be like hey man we got some bricks we tested it this shit is base man is brutal if you want that shit we can like you can smell it through the back uh but also are we the are we to believe that like these republicans ain't also doing coke like of course not out here coked out if madison

what's the guy madison cawthorne the one dude who's in north carolina who got ousted he was he like his whole shit got like his whole career started getting rocky when he was talking about how he knew about like the republicans who do cocaine at the parties and stuff yeah and i was like of course the fucking drugs cut it's an omnidirectional weapon it everybody getting hit there's no yeah there's no thing where it's like oh my god i'm a republican i don't do cocaine yeah you you got demons you're doing cocaine like let's just be fucking real but yeah again, this was nowhere near the Oval Office, but we get it. Trump is facing fucking new charges every day, it seems like. So this was like a brief moment for him to act like he isn't the one that seems to be in deep shit and could be like, they're doing they're doing cocaine.

And it's their personal cocaine that they have. They share their little baggie. They're one. They're half a gram and they get fucking wasted off of it. But the thing is, I would say Donald Trump would probably know something about, you know, having a son who may or may not be in a perpetual state of being snowblind. Because we've seen Don Jr. over the years. And how many appearances has he done with eyes bigger than fucking Pikachu rubbing his nose and be like, the thing is the deep state, man, you got to, they're going after my dad. And you're like, whoa, talking at light speed. And I think that's the thing that is intriguing to me is that's the idea that Trump was saying

that they're going to say it was ground up aspirin and it wasn't that large of amount. That sounds like the kind of story you get your powerful lawyers to tell when your son gets caught with cocaine as like a kid or something and you want to get him out of trouble i'd be like it's just ground up aspirin it was a very little amount and that i don't know just so specific that i'm like you weird and stupid you've revealed your you've revealed your personal history that this is something you probably have said in defense of your son who's because you're like in your mind you have a cocaine powerful son oh yeah it's ground up aspirin very little amount boom trump improv yeah when you said that i was like people ground

up aspirin i didn't know that was a thing i didn't know that was i didn't know that was even a possibility uh of a lie right that would be like that'd be like you know if if like i said some shit and it was like well man the sun was right on my block when it like i'm saying impossible shit like it's impossible shit yeah and it's one of those lies with like one too many you there are lies that have one too many details and that's when you know it's a lie it's like yeah you just stopped with ground-up aspirin you probably could have yeah like that's a decent lie and then a small amount why did why do you need that detail yeah because that now you're talking now you're making like legal arguments right to be like what does this have to be like possession with intent intent to distribute because it was a small amount i mean it was only like an ounce of cocaine i mean ground up aspirin do we know do we know

because like spoiler alert the obamas was smoking weed all the time. Weed is not a drug, but go on. What's your point? Weed is not a drug. Weed is not a drug. Right. But like, do we know, are drugs allowed in the White House? Like, is there a drug dog like being like, what's up, homie?

Yeah. I'd imagine they're only trying to catch drugs, like bombs, like explosive material. Yeah, like bombs. Like weed. Yeah, so like somebody even on the tour or something. That's what I'm saying. Like, as long as you don't have weapons on you. Yeah, you're good.

You can bring cocaine to the White House. You can easily probably bring like a bag of cocaine in the White House. Yes, you could bring crack into the White House. If you need to go in the bathroom and beam up really quick before you see the Lincoln bedroom, then that's your fucking right as an American. I mean, you own that house anyway with your taxes. So, yes, I'm a smoke weed in there. I'm going to do whatever I want. My ancestors built that house. Oh, I can't do a little cocaine in the bathroom. I can't do a little cocaine with my great, great, great, great, great grandpappy built. You know, I'm wild if somebody comes back and claims it's their cocaine but they need it back

oh shit that was actually mine can i get that back this is so embarrassing oh this is so embarrassing because my drug dealer is threatening to beat my ass if i get that wrong you don't want my blood on your hands do you because that's gonna happen i need to get this baggie back i was saying on the other day when we were first talking about the story like on wednesday i bet you the person who left it they probably put it together at some point they're like oh shit that's my baggie i left the fucking white oh boy yeah that boy sweating right now like i hope they don't find my fingerprints on that shit i know right exactly we'll see we'll see what happens with that dragnet but yeah again

the the trump's and cocaine oh who knows who knows what's going on there although aubrey o'day who used to date donald trump jr has said herself she's like yeah man was on them drugs for real, honey. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Never not sweating. No. And also like when you do that, like kind of I'm trying to snort up all the drip without you bringing my like hands to my face. Look like it's you sound like a bulldog trying to get upstairs or some shit. It's not a good sound. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to check in with QAnon.

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About a year and a half ago and back in November 2021, we were talking about this group of QAnon followers that were camped out in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, where JFK was assassinated, as they awaited the return of JFK and JFK Jr. And upon their resurrection, they were going to announce Trump as God, King or some shit. And that was like a huge focal point for a lot of Q adherence, because that felt like this is the plan is going to come to fruition.

And we got like a whole Christ narrative going on. The man behind this movement, his name is Michael Protzman, who had a knack of like using like weird ass numerology plus coincidence to like like really like make these wild outlandish claims um he also had a ton of other wild conspiracy theories uh like how joe biden was never actually sworn in as president and everything we are seeing in the news is actually part of a movie that is being shot in culver city california you got very specific so i guess sony is making it yeah it's a sony production i mean that's very like oh culver seal that's sony okay cool so sony's behind this or that time he was in dallas uh this is the wildest part he was in dallas right the rolling stones are playing in

dallas and while all those people were camped out waiting for jfk and jfk jr to return he said hey y'all need to get me some tickets so i can go see the rolling stones concert tonight they've got they paid for his tickets to go see the Rolling Stones because he was saying, I feel like I'm going to see something when I'm there, not just maybe a band I like that y'all are paying for. He came back and he claimed at the Rolling Stones show that Charlie Watts, the drummer, was replaced by Michael Jackson, the king of pop. Prince, I believe, was on keyboards. JFK Jr. was, I don't know, like Mick Jagger or something.

And Aaliyah was doing backup vocals. He said this shit with a straight face, and they were like. Listen, man. Uh-huh. Let me tell you something. I know that part. Let me tell you something. I wish I lived in this man's world, because that's a bomb-ass concert.

That's a dope concert. Yeah, we'd all love that to happen. That's a great concert, man. Yeah. JFK Jr. That's a great concert. I don't know what he's doing. That's fine. But as long as Aaliyah's there. But we got Aaliyah, Mike, and Prince back. JFK Jr. could just at that point you could throw anybody else on stage.

It's still going to be the best concert ever. JFK Jr. just for a bad tattoo. I can picture that tattoo. Oh my god. You have all those people it's like michael jackson on drums prince not even on guitar but playing like what's happening and then alia in the background jfk is saying jfk is singing not michael jackson prince or no he's on drums he's on drums because he's black i'm sure that's probably the logic he's like racist logic he's like michael drum michael

jackson has to be on drums or bass. I don't know. Prince on triangle. Yeah, Prince, he wasn't sure maybe ethnically, so he's like, keyboards? I don't know. But here we are. But anyway, that man died, Michael Protzman, recently. And his followers believe it's part of a plan for him to return as JFK.

Some say he was actually JFK Jr. in disguise this whole damn time. The Southern Minnesota coroner's office says he died of blunt force trauma on a dirt bike from a dirt bike accident. But they said they said he may have been gotten. And it's it's a very very chaotic time right now and despite his very real death the conspiracies are only growing as his inner circle tries they're like they're hiding the details from like this massive telegram channel that he like or was running being like no he's like he's having brain trauma things like that and people just were like pulled up records like it sounds like he is deceased but this man was responsible for stealing a lot of money from

his devotees like many of whom we heard countless stories about how many of his followers were abandoning their families and even their children while like draining their bank accounts to fund this guy's nationwide tour of freaky ghost sightings and it's like caused a lot of issues for like you know bystanders uh but now, while his followers argue over what happened, it looks like other people are actively trying to take over the Telegram channel to try and continue the grift on the followers. Succession. Yeah, it truly is.

And people are like, I now run the negative 48 group. And they're like, no, you are a usurper. So just drama in QAnon land. You hate to see it. You really do. First of all, good for him. Take those morons money. Second of all, this man did not die of blunt force drama.

He died of dreaming too big. That's absolutely the truth. Wow. You could run his channel now. I might be the person in charge now. Yeah. You might be. Go on.

Go on. That's the social media I want to join. And watch, they're going to be like Bridger. Go on social media. I want to join and watch. They're going to be like Bridger. Now take that word. He's a bridge to our Republican. Oh my God. It's all like a domination be the second letter.

You're like, oh shit. Here we go. This is how this shit takes off. When your confirmation bias is set to fucking please melt. Yeah, you can you can make anything reality. So yeah, it was a dirt bike accident, though. Just so you know. He wasn't, the deep state didn't off him.

He didn't, he got off the dirt bike. I don't know. I don't know. I don't have that much evidence. But you got a feeling. They could have threw a stick in his spokes or some shit. Yeah. Or they're going to say something like, I don't know what the fuck they're going to say.

Like, he was actually Evel Knievel on the bike and he was covering for that guy's death. Therefore, JFK is him? Well, if he was wearing a helmet, we don't know who was under the helmet. Thank you. Come on. That's true. Use your brains. Think.

Yeah. Do some research. Do some research, folks. Okay? And then come back at me. And be creative. But we should also talk about, in pretty related news, Do some research, folks. Okay? And then come back at me. And be creative. But we should also talk about, in pretty related news, the biggest movie that was at the box office on the 4th of July. The biggest movie on the day of the 4th of July was Indiana Jones.

Oh, wait, no. Sound of Freedom. Have you heard of that? Sound of Freedom. The top grossing movie was a christian drama about child trafficking but just so you know that makes sense this record is only extends for the actual literal day of the fourth of july so it was going up on a tuesday and people were watching this really weird film now you're saying what the fuck is going on here well at least some of the money that went to this box office sort of count

was due to the studio's use of a quote, patent pending technology called Pay It Forward, which quote, empowers moviegoers to purchase tickets for other people whom they want to see a particular film. So it's like getting to the top

of the New York bestsellers list. You know, the New York Times bestsellers list. Just buy 7,000 of your own book. This is for everyone's most annoying family member. Oh, yeah. I bought you some tickets. Your wild aunt is like, they bought me 40 tickets to see this movie.

Pay it forward. Or not pay it forward. Isn't that movie with Kevin Spacey? Was Kevin Spacey in Pay It Forward? Is he? I don't know. That is a movie, Kevin Spacey? Was Kevin Spacey in pay? What was his name? Pay it forward? I think. I don't know. Maybe.

That is a movie, but I don't know who was in it. Who was in it? Yep, it was. All right. But anyway. Kevin Spacey. Kevin Spacey's got his own. He's got his own legal problems right now. Also, it's just so funny that they buy a whole bunch of us like, listen, the tickets was

bought. I can't help what I was the only person in the theater. Yeah, exactly. tickets was bought i can't help what i was the only person in the theater yeah exactly but uh the movie started stars jim kovitzel who you who you may remember from the passion of the chryseis speaking aramaic dropping aramaic on you but he's playing a real guy tim ballard who according to the film synopsis quote quits his job as a special agent with the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations Department in order to become a vigilante who hunts down human traffickers. Now, Kvitzel appeared on Fox News and he was like, oh, yeah, this is this movie is, you know, straight from Christ. And I just want to hear you listen to him. He was like on, I guess, Laura Ingraham show, but Ingraham wasn't interviewing him.

him he was like on i guess laura ingram show but ingram wasn't interviewing him but we'll just hear a little bit about him just taking a victory lap over this fantastic triumph of having the number one movie like in the realm what's going on here why is disney fighting they're saying the pre-sale shouldn't count but they do count you're the number one movie yeah well if this isn't about them it's not about angel studios putting it out it's about the children and um and americans waking up right now and the only way these laws are going to be changed is that if the people move right now to save them this is a good versus evil story this is a battled hero story and i was very blessed that i got the opportunity just as I was blessed to do the passion of the crisis. This is the best film I've done since that film. It is a controversial

issue. It shouldn't be. We should just be naturally wanting to save our children. But again, there's those out there that want to exploit them. Yeah. So he goes on and he's like, this is not Disney's film. We are the people's film and god's children are no longer for sale boom hold that l child traffickers but the movie was funny to me not not to cut not to cut you off but it's so funny to me that like some of these issues that they present they act like people would disagree with exactly i i agree we shouldn't be trafficking children yeah like that's not that's not a controversial issue bro like well yeah that's a pretty common fucking issue like that's a pretty common like take for the majority of people who don't traffic children

well this is where this is where this is where we go into q town though because we know that q anon's whole thing is about quote protecting the children although these people don't know the first fucking thing about human trafficking exactly so the movie uh was just just just a little bit of a q and i if you think about it it was released on america's birthday starring a conspiracy theorist who played Jesus Christ, and talks about QAnon all the time, okay? Ballard, the guy who the film is based on, hasn't explicitly

supported QAnon, although his organization, now hold on to your black butt, Jacquees, Operation Underground Railroad, is what his fucking organization is called. It even features a blurb on their website distancing themselves from quote conspiracy theory groups but ballard has also claimed that theories like

q anon quote have allowed people to open their eyes so it all seems pretty intentional where like where this is all going and ballot ballard also he's expressed all kinds of transphobic bullshit and interviews and even blamed human trafficking on Biden's border policy. But his organization, I just want to drill down on this for a little bit. Operation Underground Railroad. Despite their seemingly noble goals, it's

a pretty controversial group. For starters, they have ignored requests from black activists to change the organization's name. And this group has centered black and Latin Latino kids in all the fundraising's name and like this group has centered black and like latin shit like latino kids in all the fundraising imagery to be like help these poor like children of color with our underground railroad of creepy white saviors and a lot of people have raised a lot of questions about how this group operates like there was this time ballard and his operatives

went to a remote village and like on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic in search of a missing child that they thought was being trafficked only for the crew to find out that when they were there, the tip that led them there was from a, quote, psychic medium from Utah. Bridger, any thoughts? I believe you're from Utah. It always comes back to Utah. Everything comes back to Utah. I'm only from there. I don't, I can't have, there's so much baggage. You're not, so, but you don't know this, you don't know the psychic.

I wish I did. Okay. I'm thrilled for her. The other thing is they also exaggerate their successes. So one child they claim to have rescued actually just escaped by herself. So one child they claim to have rescued actually just escaped by herself. And their partnerships with like local law enforcement often amount like what they do is they give local law enforcement just a donation in exchange for credit in press releases. To be like, yeah, and then we did that with our partners, Operation Underground Railroad, which they deny up and down, although there's recorded evidence that this is how they operate.

And even when their missions are successful, they may still be doing significant harm. Ballard, he mounts sting operations posing as a wealthy pedophile looking to buy children for, quote, large amounts of cash, which critics and experts are just like, you're just provoking the very behavior that the group is ostensibly attempting to curb. Like many trafficking experts, they say, OK, this is dramatic. But, quote, such operations fail to address the complex social and economic problems that create the conditions for trafficking. Because they're doing the worst cosplaying I can possibly imagine. Yeah. Oh, hello. I'm a wealthy pedophile looking for children

one writer recounted like a sting operation that she was asked to participate in which featured a camera crew because ballard was making a pilot for a fucking reality show and like a leather like a child like trafficking expert was just like this is quote just likely another childhood trauma for the victims he was trying to help so very messy and the studio that put the movie out angel studios they they made their like initial business uh of like editing mainstream movies to be like christian friendly uh and then they got sued because they're like you can't just edit these movies in the cell wait is this another utah thing they may be do you know angel studios there was a utah thing like this where they would

edit videos and then they ended up getting sued into oblivion and they would like sell burned DVDs of movies with stuff cut out of them. They look... Like with stuff they didn't want in them? Exactly. That's so funny.

Oh yeah, you know it. Provo, Utah, baby. baby of course so you already knew you already know it used to be called vid angel sounds like a very dirty name to me yeah i know i'm like i'm like is this porn i don't know about all this yeah you never know you never know and lightly let's or lastly let's just touch on some some like cringy shit justin trudeau okay so taylor swift's era tours eras tour doesn't have any canadian dates a lot of people like when you coming up to canada what the fuck like we fuck with you up north canadians are you know the swifties up there they're a little disappointed a little angry uh last month

a conservative member of parliament filed a quote official grievance over swips reticence to bring her show across the border and not because they were a fan but due to just quote the economic opportunities her shows generate and the quote-unquote grievance was supported by other politicians who claim to have like no idea how any of this works probably because there is no official government protocol for complaining about a pop star's touring schedule. But here they go. They're trying. A lot of people say there's probably a few reasons why Taylor wouldn't take her tour to Canada. One, the capacity of the stadiums, a little bit smaller. And we know Taylor's a capitalist, baby. That weak Canadian dollar would likely mean hiking ticket prices even higher to match like what the fucking take in is and some of these other venues that she goes to.

But just when you thought things couldn't get even weirder, I just got to say Justin Trudeau. So Taylor Swift posted like additional dates of the tour and without like any Canadian dates. And Justin Trudeau tweeted like referencing her songs, tweeted, It's me. Hi, I know places in Canada would love to have you. So don't make it another cruel summer. We hope to see you soon. Oh, boy.

I was on Canada's side for a minute. Yeah. To the intro. Horrifying. Yeah. But hey, you know, just get your dollar up.

You know, that's just put in the work. Get your dollar up. Get your dollar up. You dollar up you know what i mean maybe i'll be there speaking of carly ray jepson just have she's a canadian have her come do some tours yeah come do some shit exactly some shit exactly listen i you know look i i i appreciate like listen there is precedence here that would be like you know what yeah we got all these issues but so and so got to come back on tour baby like that's that's my issue that i mean like you know what this man is for the

people this person is for the people you know if he was like beyonce you got to get them ticket prices down i'll vote for that president in a minute in a hot minute that's a very good point yeah right it's like listen beyonce i love you i love you girl love on top but the ticket price is way too high but do it on the phone don't do it an at reply yeah do it yeah do it on the phone exactly exactly come back when you win that come back when you win that argument like guys look i fought for you and here it is look what i did did. Look what your boy did. And I didn't have to do a black face either to make it happen.

Justin Trudeau. Bridger, thank you so much for joining us on the Daily Zeitgeist. Really great to have you. Where can people find you, follow you, hear you, all that? I have a podcast called

I Said No Gifts. People seem to enjoy it. You don't have to listen if you don't want to. I don't care anymore. Well, there you go. And then I'm on Instagram. i've got my name on instagram but then i said no gifts on instagram come do whatever you want with your life though really yeah enjoy yourself and is there a work of social media or any media in general that you'd like to point people in a direction to

uh i mean well you guys asked me for a tweet so i got back on twitter and was like excavating basically and i went back and found an old tweet that i really liked from years and years ago oh i like that and uh it was this guy i don't know him it was at lee manish and the tweet is just guy in the petco express line clearly has more than 15 snakes that's like one of my all-time favorite things i was very happy to find that again uh great turn yeah see yeah now you can watch it all unfold on threads or my social media network unfold yeah or yes Blue Sky, wherever the fuck people are at. I don't even, who even knows anymore.

Who knows? Jack Yeast, what about you? Thank you so much for helping me host today. You know, always a pleasure, Miles. Always a pleasure, Miles. Jack, you got to come back to work, though. Yeah, yeah. Jack, you know, let me tell y'all.

Jack saying he on vacation. Let me tell y'all what Jack saying he on vacation let me tell y'all what jack really doing in these streets jack out no no i'm not gonna put this he's sleeping uh he up here sleeping he ain't he ain't on vacation he just sleeping that is a vacation though yeah uh he's selling cocaine uh you can find me in these streets baby and on instagram at jackie's neil oh i guess on threads too. Uh, you can find me everywhere,

anywhere that there's a social media platform and I'm on, it would be at Jackie's Neil. Now, if you don't find me on there, that means I ain't on that shit. Uh, so that's, you know,

that's what it is. Also comedian feud. Always come check it out. Uh, we're going to be announcing the lineup for this month pretty soon within the next few days so keep that in mind we got some really fun shows coming up

in the next few months we're going to have like the cast of the Righteous Gemstones on the show one of these couple of months maybe some other big names that you guys may love from the television tube and movie screen too so come check that out and then you know ain't nobody working right now so i ain't got no shows or no tv

shows to promote so you know any any uh any works in media any works in media social media anything tv show let me tell you man let me tell you i i love there's one meme that i will always love no matter what medium no matter how is presented and it is the john cena you can't see me like me i think it's the funniest fucking meme just like anything that has to do with that like oh like like here's john cena's prom day was like oh that poor girl had to go to prom by herself like it's just so funny to me it will always be funny so there is one that is I don't know who wrote it but it is like it says John Cena I love you her I love you too when can I see you and then John Cena and he just looks down and depressed like you can't see it will always crack me up

it is the funniest shit I love it so if you ever see a John Cena meme actually now don't send them to me because y'all be tripping but just know that I'd love it too uh you have some tweets I like uh let's see okay so uh Mike Drucker at Mike Drucker quote tweeted this. I don't know where this like right wing conservative mom lady Tiffany for just for Tiffany justice tweeted two moms traveling from Washington state sat in front of two Antifa members on the plane. The two men had just met and discussed being given debit cards. Their accommodations were also paid for while they were in Philadelphia to protest.

Manufactured division. Who's money? And then Mike Drucker goes on to complete it. Quote, and then they said their plan was to turn all the kids gay with books. And then they drank blood from a Christian skull. And then a soldier told them to leave America. And everyone applauded with tears in their eyes. That sounds about right. That's the

tone of these weird ass tweets. You can find me at Miles of Grey. Like I said, wherever they got at symbols, chances are I'm there. And also find Jack and I on our basketball podcast. Miles and Jack got mad boosties. You can find me and Sophia Alexandra on our 420 Day Fiance podcast where we talk 90 Day Fiance.

Get really high. And also check me out on a new podcast that is releasing soon called The Good Thief that I'm hosting. Really dope, kind of true crime story, but it's not really about a criminal. It's about the Greek Robin Hood, somebody who robbed billionaires and gave that shit away, which is kind of a story that we could all use right now. You can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram, The Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. can find us at daily zeitgeist on instagram the daily zeitgeist on twitter wait no daily zeitgeist on twitter the daily zeitgeist on instagram thank you uh we got a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and

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