The Daily Zeitgeist - Top 10 of 2024: #2 ACAB Includes Candy Buybacks 11.01.24

Episode Date: January 2, 2025

We are counting down the top 10 episodes of 2024, as voted by our listeners! Up next, #2: ACAB Includes Candy Buybacks, MAGA Campaign Abductees? 11.01.24 In episode 1769, Jack and Miles are joined by writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, bestselling author, and co-host of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel, Daniel O'Brien, to discuss… MAGA Boys Wondering Where Their Bros Are At With The Voting, Well If You’re Worried About Turnout THANK GOD FOR ELON, How Trump Will Try to Steal the Election If He Loses, Dentists’ Halloween Candy Buyback Programs Are Somehow Way Worse Than You Could Possibly Imagine and more! MAGA Boys Wondering Where Their Bros Are At With The Voting Well If You’re Worried About Turnout THANK GOD FOR ELON How Trump Will Try to Steal the Election If He Loses Good dental health and candy: The right choices for Halloween treats Dentists hold 17th annual candy buyback Cash For Halloween Candy? Dentists' Buyback Program Is Booming Halloween Candy Buyback 2024 FAQs The Halloween Candy Buy Back: A public relations grand slam! Halloween Buy Back Program We're Rebranding to Troopathon! Pro-Troop Charity Misleads Donors While Lining Political Consultants' Pockets Sal Russo: From establishment politics to the Tea Party Express Questions Linger about the Legitimacy and Purpose of “Move America Forward” Daniel's Recommendation: Follow Tina Friml! LISTEN: Nadja by Unknown Mortal OrchestraSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oh, hey there, it's me, Jack. You've caught me unwinding, enjoying a large goblet of delicious eggnog, untangling my brain, gaining five to fifteen pounds of eggnog. While we unwind here at Daily Zeitgeist, in addition to publishing our normal year-end episodes and Santa's University, etc., We've decided to take the opportunity to count down the top 10 episodes of the year published over the next 10 days. The 10 days that will be off Monday through Friday, two weeks in a row. How, Jack, how did you guys determine the top 10 episodes? They were all equally incredible. Well, we used a little something called democracy.

Ever heard of it? Depending on when you listen to this episode that might not be such a rhetorical question. But anyways we let you vote on the most listened to episodes of the year to see what you liked best and you're about to hear your answers. Just 10 bangers right in a row. We've got a trending episode in the mix. We got a lot of good ones. And at number one, well, let's just say you'll find out, especially if this is the number one episode. We're putting the same bumper at the start of all 10. So we hope you enjoy it.

We hope you enjoyed listening to this year of TDZ as much as we enjoyed making it. And we will see you all in 2025. We hope you have a restful holiday. How you doing, man? Congratulations. Oh, thank you. Yeah. You said it would never happen for me. I said, you said never. And I still don't really believe it, you know, I'm still I Sent miles to make sure it wasn't bullshit man. Cuz I honestly I was mum. I was That's awesome my man Congrats, thank you. It's it's lots of fun. Yeah marriage marriage, this marriage stuff, eh? I know this marriage stuff. It's great.

I like genuinely have been bonking my ring on everything that I could bonk it on. And it's such a blast. Like intentionally, like you're just coming up to like, what about this? And just like running in the walls. I want to hear what everything sounds like. That's solid. Yeah. What everything sounds like. That's solid.

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He did garbage man. And that's, I find that endearing. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it is Friday, November 1st, 2024. Yeah. The day we've all been waiting for. Waiting for all saints. The All Hallows Eve behind us.

It's All Hallows. It's Hallows Day. And it also is National Fountain Pen Day, Autistic Speaking Day, National Biologic Coordinators Day, National Cinnamon Day, National To cinnamon day national toothbrush day national Jersey Friday as in Sporting Jersey, but also shout out the Garden State of New Jersey National Palzone day national deep-fried clams day national cook for your pets day national family literacy day Right national down Thursday with the national vinegar day shout out oil also, but a It's a lot of girls apply to our guest today.

Author jersey. Yep. He's always wearing a basketball jersey. Fair shirt on. Yeah, New Jersey Nets jersey. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, my name's Jack O'Brien, AKA watching old Bruce Willis, Sammy Jack by his side. They both die hard with a vengeance, Jeremy Irons.

That is courtesy of Halcyon salad on the discord in reference to one of the two movies that we talk about on this podcast for some reason. I guess the reason is those are the only two movies we've seen. Rocky IV, Die Hard III. Classics. Yeah. Yeah. I guess the reason is those are the only two movies we've seen. Rocky IV, Die Hard III. Classics. Yep. Anyway, shout out Halcyon Salad. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host. It's Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray. I love Miles Gray. We love him. All right, shout out to the Los Angeles Dodgers who were victorious over the New York Yankees.

And I must say as a native Angelino, I love being just, this is the best time that we've, anytime LA wins something, it's fantastic. Now, obviously the police came out in full force pretty much immediately in anticipation of the revelry and things went a little bit back. Well, they have to celebrate too by beating people up and arresting people. It's like, hey, you like to shoot boom booms?

We do too. And they're not lethal ish. But anyway, what a game coming back from five zero down that fifth. That was at the fifth inning. That was just absolutely just turned the game upside down. It was fantastic to watch. I'm so happy. Shout out.

Showcase. You brought it along for a landing. At first you sounded like somebody who was like, when LA wins the game, it is the most fantastic. Yes, it is. It is fantastic. When winning baseball game, much celebrate. Culinary hand kiss.

Anyways, Miles. Yes. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the funniest and smartest writers and people I've had the pleasure of working with. Yes. He's a best-selling author and Emmy-winning writer for last week tonight. Six times.

With John Oliver. Six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six, six. I co-host the podcast, Quick Question, with Soran and Daniel. Please welcome, it's Daniel O'Brien! Daniel! Hello, what an introduction. What was that? I was really prepared to come in here with a planned bit of being consistently over the length of your AKAs,

a problem I have had with this podcast since the beginning. But then you said so many sweet things about me that I've completely abandoned that planned bit. And now I'm armed with no bits. Oh, no. Hey, well, welcome. Great to have you. Bitless, and that's just, we can get in there. This is going to be like the Mark Maron podcast where, you know, drop, drop that, that stance, Dan, the comedic, you know, who let's get in there. Let's get into the, the juicy insides. What makes you tick man. And

also my AK was like really quick today and perfectly concise. So, yeah, you could have done a four hours banger, but now well, yeah, I cut so much. It was actually supposed to be an Oasis medley about all the diehard films. Yeah. Oh boy. Yeah. Well, we had a wonderwall about diehard four.

Oh, diehard. Yeah. Live free, diehard. Of course. How are you doing? What's new with you, Daniel? I'm doing very well. I mean, I don't know why I'm saying I'm doing very well. I work at a political comedy show, as you mentioned, and we're just a few days away from an election.

So fun. Even though that's not a surprise, like we had this whole year, I mean, an argument could be made that we've had several years to plan for this election. We are still running around headless chickens over here. We're still trying to, not that there's anything we can do to impact how anyone's going to vote or how this election is going to go, or not that there's any way we can like add further context to it. We just all share the same level of anxiety that everyone else has where we record on Saturday for an episode that's going to air on Sunday. And then we are prepping a show that is going to record the week of the election.

So a few days after it. And trying to prepare for what we can talk about when we truly have no information right now. Real sliding doors moment. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's a historical text, the Gwyneth Paltrow film, Sliding Doors. But Daniel, we are going to be recording an episode on election day that will come out the day after election day.

So we had a hour-long meeting yesterday being like, what the fuck are we going to do? How do you do that? I think we're just going to- We just record two kinds of episodes and we'll just choose your own adventure, one at a time, so it's time to publish. Now, we're just going to do some bullshit, I think, just an election-free episode.

You guys should try that. Just like do something about funny video clips. Funny YouTube clips. Can you bring Cheetan back? I would, maybe. I would love that so much. Just be like, something, look, we don't know what's going on,

but let's enjoy this time where we don't know. We have one TV in the office that we all huddle around. That TV broke, so we don't know what happened in the news this week, so we're just going to sort of, has anyone seen Saturday night? We want to talk about that. That's the thing we're going to talk about. There you go. All right.

Well, we are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. We are going to talk about the election. This has just been sprung on me, but apparently there's election news. There's some questions around turnout, whether, whether the boy is going to turn out for Donald Trump, the boys not turning out so far in the early vote. And people are scared.

Some people are asking whether it has anything to do with Trump's ground game, which is bad. Like I'm hoping it's as bad as it seems like it would be. So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about, again, we'll, we'll do a little look at the stakes because Trump has claimed that he wants to let RFK jr. Go wild on medicines. What if he's elected? Yeah, go to direct literal.

We'll talk about that. on medicines if he's elected. Yeah, go literal. Go wild on medicines. Okay. We'll talk about that. We might talk about what Trump will do if he loses. We will definitely talk about it. It's November 1st, it's the day after Halloween. This is the season of the dentist Halloween candy buyback program. That surprisingly is going to be the darkest story of the day. Because holy shit, our writer, J.M. McNabb dug into this and it's fucked.

It's like so, I guess we shouldn't be surprised at this point that like you dig it, dig into any American institution and there's a coin flip of a chance that it's going to be super fucked up. This one is, so we'll talk about that plenty more, but first Daniel O'Brien, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Jack O'Brien net worth. And what are we, what are we coming back with? See, here's here's what's an unfortunate bummer about this

is that I thought it would be lots of fun to be to have that be my recent Google search because that used to be a really fun thing to do like celebrity net worth is exactly what it sounds like. It collects net worth of celebrities using who knows what methods in the past. They, I, no one's been able to really define exactly how they come across their numbers, but it was like I, as a public personality from Cracked and Writing Books and I last week tonight,

I was searchable on that site and there was some either AI or freelance writer who had just sort of decided what my net worth was. And it was a fun game to play to see what some random writer somewhere comes up with. Cause it was always like, Daniel O'Brien has been writing comedy since 2007. It is estimated that his net worth is $93 million. And it was always way off based on nothing. And I thought this would be a fun way to kick off

the episode to see what AI or some child writer thinks Jack O'Brien's net worth is. But celebrity net worth has changed drastically over the years. It's not the free for all that it used to be. You used to be able to find almost anyone of dubious notoriety there. And now they've really cleaned it up

and I did some digging and it is, this is like, you're seeing an episode of last week tonight, get workshopped in real time in a nutshell, start with a fun thing and then uncover a sad dark thing. And the sad dark thing is that like, Google as Google has decided to crush every website on the internet that is not Google, this is like a big tech anti-trust thing, people used to search

Celebrity Net Worths and get directed to celebritynetworth.com and spend time on that site. Google had started taking the information from that website and putting it right on the Google search results. Yeah, got to. So you wouldn't go to Celebrity Net Worth anymore. At one point in 2014, Google asked the founder of Celebrity Net Worth, hey, can I do this? Can we start like scrubbing your website and putting it in search results so people get the information they want

and never have to leave Google? Isn't that great news for the user? And the owner of Celebrity Net Worth was like, yeah, that's great news for the user, And the owner of Celebrity Net Worth was like, yeah, that's great news for the user, but it's like, fuck news for me. I need people to go to my website so I can get money from ads from you, Google. I need to sell my ads already.

You're already taking such a massive cut. They're like, yeah, but what if it was all our money? You know? What if that's your money? Yeah, exactly. We're having this meeting here in Google. And we're like, what if what if it was all our? Who can we get rid of? And somebody I said, No, you can't scrub my website. And then Google did it anyway. And between like 2014. And now it looks like traffic to celebrity network net worth has gone down 80%. And I think as a long time fan of celebrity net worth.com, you can really see that the

quality has, has suffered because of this huge loss. Thanks to Google. I mean, just so did you get any kind of answer for the question? No, I did ask Chad GPT just now. Oh, let's see how what I said. Jack O'Brien, co-host of the daily zeitgeist and former creative director at Hostile For the no question. No, I did ask Chad GPT just now Jack O'Brien coast of the daily zeitgeist inform creative director at House of Forks has an estimated net worth of approximately two million dollars His wealth is going to be an extensive work in digital media Daniel O'Brien known for his work as a writer and comedian with cracked and as a writer for last week tonight with John Oliver has an estimated net worth of around

315,000. Wow. That's so specific. I got $2.4 on Daniel and I got $75 million for myself. $75 million. It also says that I'm a famous, well, okay, it's the theater director. It's the other one?

Yeah. Yeah, it's the other one, but I don't know. Hopefully people don't do research too good or it confuses the AI and they think I'm worth $75 million. That would be pretty cool. Yeah. Wow.

315K is just so oddly specific. Yeah. You know? So I got from Wall Mine, I've got that's made a net worth of, oh, that's Daniel F. O'Brien. And then it says Mr. Brian owns. Yeah. Brian. And then it says Mr. Brian. Oh yeah, this is the, uh, it says on the Jack O'Brien net worth page, it says Jack O'Brien is a member of director. So I don't know how good it feels like, uh, maybe the internet is broken. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Accurate.

Anyway, it's it. Yeah. I searched mine. It said who that's actually what chat GPT said and I'm kind of fucking pit. That's why I don't fuck with That's why I think it's bullshit. Like what is it? No Jack O'Brien is not doing too. Well, you should reach out to him Thank you What is something you think is underrated thing? This is gonna sound very basic, but seasons. And I'm sure let's come up on the podcast before. It's coming up for me.

I live in New Jersey on the Jersey shore. It is, as we record Halloween, it's very spooky, October 31st. It is 80 fucking degrees outside right now. Wow. And there's a lot of like global warming hand-wringing to be done about that because this is just like like fundamentally not the way that temperatures are supposed to go this time of year. Right. And sure I agree with

all those reasons it's bad that we're killing the world but also very specifically to me seasons are important we have already taken the fall decorations and clothing out of storage and are ready to move the summer decorations into storage, but we can't right now because the weather is being so ridiculous. And it's just turned my entire closet topsy turvy. And I don't know what to do with myself. Think of the closets, yeah.

Think of the closets, the fossil fuel industry. Yeah, please, please. I love seasons just because growing up in L.A. We only have like two seasons like hot and not as hot. Right. So I like I like wearing sleeves. I like hoods, jackets, pants and the like. But yeah, I yeah. Seasons I do too.

And on a day like today, it's hard not to think back to my childhood trick-or-treating in New Jersey and how Grateful you were for the temperature to drop a bit. So you're not walking around in like full WCW sting makeup in 80 degrees A pillowcase of melting chocolate on your shoulder. It was just a nightmare. I will say it's a little chilly It was a little chilly here this morning, so it's not global warming. I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, okay. Yeah, so we're good there.

What's something you think is overrated? Something that I think is overrated is the, I'm so sorry for being so Halloween focused, the sophistication and growth of the consumer grade Halloween decoration market. I'm over it. I think there was a time when the house in the neighborhood that went all out for Halloween decorations was special there was something meaningful to that you could tell it was someone who spent a lot of time this is this isn't like I'm not saying that only wealthy people should be allowed to decorate for Halloween. But please don't edit we all think. to decorate for Halloween. But please don't edit this. We all think but.

To make it seem like I'm saying that. But they can afford the better shit. Yes, thank you. But it was like, we would do like handmade, homemade decorations. It was a big like Halloween tradition for us to make tombstones out of like styrofoam and paint them and then come up with funny things

to write on the tombstones. And that would be like a family activity and a cool like point of pride, this decorations that we did. And now I feel like the market for Halloween decorations has exploded. It's so much cheaper and so much easier to get really terrifying and cool looking decorations

that everyone has them everywhere. And I don't care for it. Oh, like nothing special anymore because it's so widely available. I get that. Just 12 foot skeletons as far as the eyes can see. Oh yeah, there's a spot in my neighborhood, someone had three 12 foot like different figures

just cramped in their yard and it felt like, oh, careful. I've been noticing a lot of Halloween decoration cramping as well. Like, especially with the inflatables, like the inflatables, just inflatables everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I guess those things are a little bigger once you get them out of the box. The inflatables, because they are, yeah, shoulder to shoulder in some of these front yards.

My 12 foot witch is in my front yard right now. We are recording this on Halloween in my front yard, just reading people for filth. I turned the, turned the volume back up on her because I had turned her down because, uh, one of my friends, like three year old children got really scared of her. Like he sent me a video of his son crying from,. I turned the volume down on her, turned it back up for Halloween. The writing is just so fucking bad on the things she says. She has a little censor.

When you walk by, she'll say something, but it's like this long meandering. It's like, how am I flying, you ask? Well, that's a good question. What? And then you're like wanting to walk away from her. Wait, wait, where are you going? A person at a fucking party.

You're like, oh, okay. Pull up a chair. I used to date Orson Welles. Like, the fuck? Okay. Okay. Should we take a break and come back and talk about the election? Because I mean, it's coming up and it's a fun one.

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I apologize if it sounded like I was inside your ear. I have trouble with mic discipline. But to be fair, we've only been doing the show for seven years. Let's talk about the news. Yeah. Yeah. There's a few stats from the early vote that has clearly caught the attention of the MAGA crowd.

A political analysis of early vote data in battleground states said there's a 10-point gender gap in early voting with women comprising 55 percent of those who had cast ballots. Nationwide early voting data showed that on Thursday, just today as we record, of roughly 58 million mail-in and early in-person votes cast across the country, 54% came from women. So this is for the MAGA crowd. They're like, oh no, like, have they been hearing what Donald Trump says? Could this be a bad thing? Now, this is probably

good news for the Harris campaign, although it's entirely possible that a significant portion of that early vote is also for Trump, considering the campaign's recent emphasis on early voting. So like the last presidential election, less than a quarter of mail-in ballots came from Republicans in this cycle. It's up to a third. But again, it's all about turnout.

It's all about whatever you have to say to get people out. But the way they're communicating it is sort of like the Mike Cernovich's and Charlie Kirk's of the world are like, where my bros at, man? We need you guys. If we're going to get Trump over the line, if these ladies get out, we're crushed. Cernovich said, quote, male turnout in Pennsylvania for Trump

has been a disaster. Unless this changes, Kamala Harris takes Pennsylvania and it's over. Charlie Kirk, early vote has been disproportionately female. If men stay at home, Kamala is president. It's that simple, pull, pull, pull. I think the other thing that they're really reacting to, have you guys seen that Kamala Harris ad that's narrated by Julia Roberts,

where a woman goes to the polls with like the clearly like a MAGA coated couple. And when the woman goes to the voting booth, she's like, I'm gonna actually vote for Kamala and Tim Walz. And then when she goes back to her husband, he's like, did you vote honey, the make the right choice? And she's like, yes, I did. And she like winks at another woman at the polling place. And she turns back to the camera and she has thriller eyes. So, yeah, this has been like this is this is caused. I'll just play a clip of Charlie Kirk. Just he was on Megyn Kelly's show just talking about how this ad is

like undermining the modern mayor, I don't know, look, just listen to this. It is the embodiment of the downfall of the American family. I think it's so gross. I think it's so just nauseating where this wife is wearing the, you'll show it, wearing the American hat. She's coming in with her sweet husband

who probably works his tail off, make sure that she can go, you know, and have a nice life and provide to the family. And then she lies to him saying, Oh yeah, I'm going to vote for Trump. And then she votes for Kamala Harris as her little secret in the voting booth. Kamala Harris and her team believe that there'll be millions of women that undermine their husbands and do so in a way that it's not detectable in the polling. And she needs people to basically, okay, that was the end of the clip.

Yeah. Undermine their husbands again. By voting for who you want to vote for and not sharing that information if your husband is really awful and demands that you vote for the same person as him? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A healthy marriage. I was trying to find the exact link for this, but did you guys see Jesse Waters talking about this also?

Oh, yeah. You want to hear that? Oh, I'd love to, great. You know what, hey baby, if there's one thing I'm good for, it's having the outrage links loaded up. This is Jesse Waters being like, this is an executable offense. And if I found out Emma was going into the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris,

that's the same thing as having an affair. That's the same thing as having an affair. He's like laughing. He's doing this. Let him finish. Go Jesse. It's our day. That violates the sanctity of our marriage. What else is she keeping from me? Exactly. Why would she have to lie to you? Why would she lie to you? Have you threatened her? Why would she lie to you? I like how Janine Pirro is somehow kind of like on the side of reason.

She's like, well, why would this happen? What's happening in your relationship? Are you a monster? Even attempting to engage with the bit in good faith, just trying to yes and it, leading to a complete dead end. Completely, completely. So, I mean, yeah, I think this is just sort of all a part of everyone's maybe motivational, the toolkit that they're using for turnout.

Like that's kind of how I'm reading it is just the decisions that people make when voting the first is whether to vote at all. And that's a huge factor as to who's going to win. So this feels like a good story for them to be publicizing as it's now possible for everybody to vote, basically. I voted yesterday. And I will.

Andrew T., friend of the show, Andrew T was on the show and talking about how once one reason to vote early is once you vote, they stopped texting you. I've received a text since I voted and it was like, Hey, did you just vote? And that's it. So I highly recommend. I voted every single day this week. I'm going to do it again tomorrow. It's fun.

See, and now we're returning the favor to them to give them something they can excerpt and put on their show. Yeah, there's always like, I mean, cause it's the same thing. If you have texts from the Democratic Party, like about the, it's always like, we're getting fucked over in Pennsylvania.

I need $700,000 or Trump is going to rip our heads off. So everyone has their version of, you know, shitting the bed, uh, rhetorically to get people, you know, out to vote. But I think that brings us to the other part of, uh, uh, uh, campaign, which is getting out the vote. It's we are on the precipice of GO TV weekend, uh, where, you know, there's a lot of effort to get everybody to the polls and a couple weeks ago We talked about a story where these people that were hired by Elon's

America pack to do door-to-door canvassing for Trump were basically like faking all of their work They just found a way to like spoof the results and make it look like they were actually going door-to-door and just be like yeah And then I got my check now was it because they were all secret libs? I mean, I see secret libs all around me at all times. I exactly, you know, I was at a secret lib coffee shop and I overheard this. You won't believe it. Um, my wife does is off. I'm just looking at her with narrowed eyes being like, is she a secret?

Secret. For Harris. Without telling me? So it turns out that they, these people who are, you know, phoning it in, might just be reacting to the fucked up working conditions. Cause there's a new article in Wired magazine. No. Yeah. Yes, Jack. I'm sorry to say. Elon Musk. I know, I know. Who's subcontracting. They find other people to bring in. This is just from like the second paragraph in this article quote, in

Michigan, canvassers and paid door knockers for the former president contracted by a firm associated with America PAC have been subjected to poor working conditions. A number of them have been driven around in the back of a seatless U haul van, according to video obtained by wired and and threatened that their lodging at a local motel wouldn't be paid for if they didn't meet canvassing quotas. One door knocker alleges that they didn't even know they were signing up for anything having to do with Musk or Trump. And that was until

they signed an NDA. So yeah, it's the picture of these. It looks it looks like these people are being kidnapped. Like when you see a bunch of people in the back of a seatless van. Seatless van, that's like an illegal thing that the police do to people as like abuse. Yes, sure. Sure. Absolutely. But this is also, this is how, you know, the America pack is doing their canvassing.

Again, any normal campaign with like a functioning field operation, you have like a network of field offices, staff, and you know, battleground states to make sure you get your proper voter turnout. But I think a lot of this can be traced directly back to Trump installing his daughter in law as like a vassal dictator at the RNC, where she basically got rid of anyone who may have had any experience here in the name of saving money and because the whole thing was, yeah, had any experience here in the name of saving money. And because the whole thing was, yeah, they had to use all the funds of the RNC to be like a Trump legal slush fund.

So, you know, who knows? So that means now all the work of the field, the field work and ground game stuff is being done by inexperienced Trump allies like Musk. Yeah, I wasn't like too excited about the early voting numbers because it's just like, we've just seen early trends or straw polls or exit polls tell us very misleading things in elections. But the idea that there could be a world where all of the stuff that he's been doing that plainly looks like just corrupt, bad practices could like actually come back and have consequences on him does warm my heart. Oh, it does thaw my frozen heart a tiny bit. Sure, sure. Would love to see it, even though I'm still undecided. We'd love to see consequences for his campaign specifically, because I as much like secondhand joy as I experienced from seeing every report

that is like this Elon Musk is running like historically the worst ground game in the history of politics, as much as I enjoy that. I don't know election wise if that's going to swing anything. Like even him doing a bad job is not the kind of thing that I think is going to like sway undecided voters should they still be out there? Like no one is waiting to see like what's that? He drove them around in a U-Haul. Well, if that's the kind of man Trump hires for his ground game, then I can't trust him with.

I don't think the story is going to have impact on who people vote for. I guess I'm trusting in some like magical boots on the ground electioneering thing that I've always heard actually matters in politics. And I have to assume it does because they put so much fucking money and effort into it. But I don't know. It is, of course, being reported by the same people who are like, and that's why the Democratic Party should continue moving to the right and triangulating forever and ever.

They figured it out. Yeah. I think, I mean, the negative is going to be that potentially it does, like they don't reach the people who are only like half-assed about MAGA stuff that might, they might get to the polls. So there is that, but again, I don't know if it matters because I think, I think plan a for Trump just seems to be to steal the fucking election. Yeah. It's not based on the performances he's given as a candidate based on like

everything you're reading about how it's operating and everything that's happening behind the scenes, they seem more invested in a different kind of, I guess we'll call it a non-traditional type of win. Yeah. I have another question for you guys, if that's all right. Yes. I want to describe everything I say stays between us, right? Yeah, totally. Yeah.

Close to the phone call. You guys will have to let me know if I'm guilty of an election crime because all these stories had me flashing back to my sophomore year of college where we were looking for money anywhere we could and then we found out that John Corzine who was running for governor of New Jersey as a Democrat at the time I believe would pay people $75 a person if they would go around and knock on doors. And we were picked up in a bus and dropped off in neighborhood and went around knocking on doors, just telling people to vote. We were explicitly told, don't tell people to vote for Corzine, just like knock on these doors for a certain amount of hours

and tell people, hey, have you voted? Here's your polling. Here's your voting place. If you haven't voted, if you have, great, have a good day. And then a bus will pick you up at the end of the night and you will go home and then you will take those $75 and use them to buy weed and sandwiches. I think was not like an official directive, but you're giving $75 to a college sophomore. Is that is that nor is that legal? Is that our? Yeah, yeah. Is that is that nor is that legal? Is that our? Yeah, yeah.

So what probably what probably happened was like a dark money group is the one doing the paying of you guys. And the reason you can't advocate because they were probably trying to do it on the level way where you can't direct something, depending on the nonprofit, like the way it's structured, you can't directly advocate for a candidate, but they probably put you in an area where it was mostly people that were going to vote for Corzine.

So you didn't really have to be persuasive more so just to like motivate people and then like no, we're we're nonpartisan. We're nonpartisan. We're just reminding people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So no, you're fine. You're fine. I did that for years. I did that for years. I did that for years. Novelty check that you were that you dangled in front of people and said, hey No, they were very, this could be yours. They very smartly.

Yes. All right. So the whole Trump stealing the election of it all, we've covered some specific. There's been his claims of fraud on social media. There's been physical destruction of ballots by at least one Republican Trump supporter. In the case of a narrow Harris victory, I've seen some takes that like,

oh, we have nothing to worry about because they've made it. So the electors can't be thrown out this time. Like the thing that they wanted Mike Pence to do. They can't do that. But I don't know. Like that was just one thing they tried last time when they didn't really know what the fuck they were doing. And Trump didn't have the support of the entire Republican party to steal the election. This time he's had four years to plan. He's consolidated power in Congress and like allegiance and loyalty in Congress and with the Supreme Court, it seems. So like the one scenario I can't foresee is Trump

losing a close one and it seems like it's going to be close and admitting defeat. Like that's the only that's the only thing that I think we can just be like, that's definitely not going to happen. Can I put money on that? He is never in the history of time, conceded defeat on an election he has lost even like the one primary he lost to Ted Cruz, he didn't say that was fair and square. Like that is completely out the window. The idea of him, first of all, gracefully doing anything. And, and square like that is completely out the window. The idea of him, first of all, gracefully doing anything. And second of all, gracefully conceding is just, you know, you want to say, if there's a landslide, he'll concede, but even then I don't think it would do it.

I think that the, the options are he loses narrowly and says it's rigged. He loses big and says it's rigged. He loses. He, he wins and says it's rigged. He loses big and says it's rigged. He loses, he wins and says it's rigged, but we still won. We still won. Yeah. Which is what he did in the Clinton, in 2016. Yeah. They could never once not said that in an election he was involved in wasn't rigged. I'm pretty sure like he's never conceded defeat in an argument, like in a conversation. Like, you know, unless he has some kind of like neurological event where it's like, Whoa, did he, is he okay?

He just, he fucking said, I, I'm tired guys. I'm tired. Yeah. It's over. But yeah, I don't know. There's a Vox article talking about like some of the official channels they could go through in order to steal a close election. If Republicans hold the house, Speaker Mike Johnson could try to interfere with certifying

the results. And obviously Trump recently made the public statement that he and Mike Johnson have a little secret secret thing. There's so many secret things. There are so many like, you almost long for the simplicity of his attempts to overturn the last election because there was like an A to B straight line of like, you are my vice president and you worked for me and I'm telling you throw out the votes or calling up a secretary of state in Georgia and saying find votes for me. That kind of stuff was like so clear. And now some of the

stuff that has happened and it it makes opposing Trump very difficult and frustrating. It makes supporting him very funny and fascinating to me because one of the major changes that we covered on our show that's that's happened in the last four years is that the like one county of electors like the elections board in one county in Georgia has been like majority stocked with Trump sycophants who truly believe the last election was stolen. And they are like big cheerleaders for him and the steal.

And it's scary that there's a bunch of people who think the system is rigged, who are now in charge of whether or not certain votes not necessarily get counted, but like how it triggers different other... Yeah, how they get counted. And it's a fascinating thing to watch as someone like you guys and like myself, we have to watch a lot of Trump videos all the time. The difference between like nine years ago Trump, where he comes out and he's got very simple ringleader message It's it's wrong-headed but it's compelling. It's like they're a bad guys. They're coming into this country

I'm gonna build a wall and it's gonna be free and his fans go nuts because they love that message and now you see him At rallies when he's campaigning in Georgia and he's like we need to win this election We've got some great new members of this five person board of elections in Fulton County, Georgia. And they created a beautiful new rule that requires a hand count by three different people. And if they find any discrepancies, why that triggers a different rule. And like all of his fans at the rallies are like, wait, wait, this is I liked it so much more when it was the wall.

And now there are all these other things that I need to be. I need to be such a policy wonk to be a Trump supporter. Now, that was one of the things that underperformed in the 2022 election. It remains to be seen if it will underperform, like with him actually running the message. But like all the candidates who were on the stop the steel shit, like people seemed to just be like I Don't know man. Like we like yeah

it's like a lot of technicalities and like bullshit that you have to like it's a lot of homework to ask people to do and because It's a dumb Bullshit conspiracy theory. It's like a bunch of, like when you talk to a conspiracy theorist, it gets really exhausting quickly because they're like ask you to learn 30 different people's names. You know, like the JFK conspiracy theorists are, you know, and that's when you get this CIA agent who was sheep dipped to be, and you're just like, all right, like I can't, I can't do this anymore.

So I'm hoping that that is, again, he's kind of over-leveraged in his messaging in that direction. Well, yeah. I mean, I think the one thing that's consistent is, at the very least, setting the expect. Because if it is a blowout, the MAGA side is prepared to think it's not supposed to be a blowout. So no matter the outcome, they have been, they have been like

inoculating them against like accepting reality. It's purely the expectations are high. That's the one thing I'm, I found really curious is like, you know, that, like that weird like betting market, the polymarket shit that like people can like bet on the outcome of the election and how right now a lot of the money is on Trump. Part of that also feels like this is like another dimension of a potential scam where a lot of people are going to pull a bunch.

Like they're putting a ton of money on Trump to have a lot of people bet on Trump, but then bet the opposite and get, cause you see tweets or people like, I'm going to win $400 when Trump wins the election. Like people are looking at those odds and like, this is great. Like I'm going to make all this money that there's also like a fleecing of people that could also be happening based on like the skewed betting markets. There's just a lot of weird expectation, I think, from every angle. But yeah, the I don't Yeah, I do not expect anything to be, you know, peaceful or not chaotic? No. Yeah. I just, I don't know.

It really is just his belligerence is going to be there. I think there's going to be, I don't know. It seems like he's going to be pushing for like violence if he, if he loses, you know, if he wins, he'll also be pushing for violence and I'll have the U S military at his disposal. But if he loses, like I just, I don't see a scenario where like he and Elon Musk go, like Elon Musk is going to continue to own Twitter. And yeah, you know, it's going to be, it just feels like I, like, I'm not going to say we're sleepwalking into a disaster because I think a lot of people like recognize this is what's happening, but there's just

like nothing to be done about it. There's just like no option that isn't a complete fucking nightmare after this election based on who he is and institutionally, how he's situated. The one hopeful note I've seen people is like, well, when you talk to and pull individual mega supporters, they seem like they're going to be more resigned than willing to take up arms this time around. Maybe a lot of the people who were the most extreme are just in jail right now for January the 6th. But that's, I don't know. I don't, I don't like any plan where it's like, and then

we rely on the goodwill of the Trump supporters. Right. You know, cooler heads to prevail. Right. Fun fact, January 6th, this guy's birthday. Happy birthday. That's right. It's a lot of fun. It's every year on my birthday now, I get phone calls from family members who say happy birthday. And then give any phone call enough time, and you got a family member who will say, gosh, I still remember I was watching the news. They're like, yep, all right.

We've reached that part of my birthday. Yep. Yep. And that's what you do stand by your statement, that that's why you were down in DC that day was celebrating your birthday with your friends and you just kind of got swept along with them off. Some people go to bars for their birthday. I thought, no, what do I want for my birthday? I want to take in some culture. I want to visit our nation's capital and be wild. Yeah. Have fun. Let loose. Dress up. Yeah. And it's just since then, you're like, you realize, like, oh,

like January 6th just is the day on our governmental calendar for. Yeah. It's counting certification of electoral votes. Yeah. Hey, man. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, buddy. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about Halloween candy buyback programs. We'll be right back, boy. I'm Jason Alexander and I'm Peter Tilden.

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But we're coming to you from the distant past 24 hours ago. Dentists all over the country are offering to buy back Halloween candy in their continuing effort to be not fun, to make kids' lives shitty. So beginning on November 1st, children can forfeit the bags of candy they worked so hard for in exchange for cold hard cash, which they're probably just gonna to use to buy candy.

It will prepare them for the crypto markets of the future. Just a terrible fucking deal. They're offering one dollar a pound of candy. That sucks. Is that good? That feels low. That's like a low ball effort. Oh, yeah. Like that's so the, in terms of like how much, I feel like you need an hour to collect a pound of candy. I mean, unless you just steal shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Unless you're just knocking, knocking, nice dry asshole. Sorry. I don't care if you have a ring camera. I'm pathetic.

But yeah, so this began in the early 2000s by 2014, more than 2,500 dentists and orthodontists had signed up to participate. And so about 300 were participating in 2007, 2,500 by 2014. But, and love the expanse. I just, there's something just the, the just the title of a candy buyback program when we have such a, like we associate buyback programs with guns, you know what I mean? And they're like, no, no, no, the candy buyback program. And you're like, fuck, man, like what about actual issues that hurt?

Is that something that somebody could do? Like, has anybody tried to do like a private gun buyback? I guess that would just be like a gun store. Right, right, right. I guess anybody could. Yeah. I'll give you a dollar a pound per gun. Anyways, you're probably wondering what happens to the candy. I actually wasn't.

I assume they just threw it out. But no, it actually gets sent directly to the US military. And so the dentist behind this idea, Dr. Chris Kammer, with a K, bragged that he didn't want to improve kids' dental hygiene so much as he wanted to send Halloween treats to our troops to let them know we appreciate them. And as a thank you for serving to keep us safe. This was in 2005. Just a Hall of Fame stands for a dentist to take. I don't give a shit about teeth. This is about the troops. Yeah, fuck your kids' teeth. This is about tricking your kids into supporting the troops.

This was in 2005, so kind of height of war on terror, invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. So the modern version of the buyback similarly has Dennis working with existing Halloween candy buyback organizations offering kids as little as a dollar a year for their candy and selling it to US soldiers or sending it to US soldiers instead. And as an old ABC news segment about the trend noted the troops give most of the candy away to local children to build relationships. Now if you just turn your brain off right there, just turn it off.

It's fine. That's fine. They're giving the candy away to kids who probably don't have candy. It's a happy story. Don't go deeper. Stop thinking. Stop reading the story, Jack. You can find Jack on Twitter at Jack O'Brien. So the candy was really being rerouted to the middle East to help an invading army ingratiate themselves.

The local children is another way of saying the thing that we just said. And. The, like, it's just what the practice of American soldiers distributing candy to kids is, has like so many tragic implications, like tragic, like outcomes. Yeah. Just any, anytime these local kids are like drawn in to be around soldiers who are a being targeted by people.

And like, so there have been bombings at like places where a bunch of children were gathered around to get candy and there have been like in the cases of some of the worst atrocities carried out by us troops, they used candy to like draw kids in and like, if you want to read details that will ruin your fucking month, you can go more into a third platoon and striker vehicle with a Y, but it's fucking awful. Yeah, it's like, cause it's again,

we don't know how this candy is used, but when you know that these are like the practice of giving candy and this is one of the organizations would be like, and here's how they get their candy. Yeah, it's hard to kind of be like, Oh God. Yeah. The, the more. Yeah.

There's no evidence that the specific candy in the horrific atrocities came from kids Halloween trade-ins, but it's pretty clear we shouldn't normalize occupying forces, distributing candy to children. The organization that the Halloween candy buyback works with is also really shitty. It's called troop-a-thon and that's a good name. Wait, again, let's just stop there. Troop-a-thon sounds fun. Yeah.

They. Goofy a little bit cute. Yeah. A little bit fun. Is it a marathon? You know, like a marathon for the troops. Oh, okay. Great.

Miles supporting the troops is not a sprint. It's a troop-a-thon. Thank you, thank you, thank you, yeah. It's like a dance marathon where you have to stay up for 24 hours, trooping the entire time. You just gotta... Sometimes people die from exhaustion, but it doesn't matter.

Anyways, they used to be called Move America Forward, and the driving force behind Move America Forward was Sal Russo, the founder of the Tea Party Express. Oh, wow. Love that. So, and a 2014 pro-public investigation into Move America Forward suggested that they mislead donors and provide false information about donations. Like they claimed that they were sending care packages to a

Marine battalion that was not on the continent they claimed they were sending the care packages to. They also used images from veterans without their permission, falsely claimed to have a partnership with Walter Reed Medical Center that they did not. Jesus, in scammers. So the charity donations, the monetary charity donations that they were supposedly sending to the troops for the troop-a-thon of American support were actually being used to subsidize three conservative political action committees, according to ProPublica. allegations were like, we're not changing shit. We have, we don't have anything to be apologizing for or ashamed of. And then they promptly changed their name to Troopa. So yeah, it's so funny to such a, I mean, like this, this all falls into the right wing grift. Like it's like, no, we care about the troops and we don't, we don't, we don't, but we know you might now give me your money and I can

use it for something else. But yeah, I mean, it must, it's probably so opaque too, for people who donate their money to even understand how, what the outcome is of their donation. So it's probably like the second, like, I don't know, it's for the troops. And that's enough for me. I do wonder, uh, this is such a silly thought that I'll need to spend more time on if including America in the the name of whatever your organization is, if that's completely gone the other way

at this point in terms of convincing people that you're doing the right thing. I don't know if this is MAGA or if this is something else, but just hearing the name moving America forward, it's like, ah, what are you fucking up to? My hackles are up. Yeah. I was like, ah, what are you fucking up to? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fucking. My hackles are up. Yeah, yeah, 100%.

Yeah, forward wear. But yeah, it's... I feel like it's not been great for the brand, for the American brand. I'm going to say it, guys. I think Meg has been bad for the brand personally. Wow. Okay. Yeah.

My take-a-thon. I'm a little weird like that. Yeah. I mean, it's like, Yeah, I mean it's like I'm again I think there's just something so grim even hearing about the idea of a candy buyback program Even without all these other details. I'm still like, huh? This feels odd. It feels strange and I feel like there's so many other ways if it's truly about like dental health a lot Better ways to do that than to be like yeah Give us your your candy for some for very low return. I really liked the idea of it

when I was not investigating it whatsoever like this was a thing that for the last couple of years as someone who uh I mean my last place I had I lived in a neighborhood where you got a lot of kid trick-or-treaters and then I ended up with a lot of candy afterwards. It was really great cover for me whenever I would talk to other adults who had too much candy I would be like well you know there's this great organization that lets you buy that candy and it sends the candy to the troops. That was a thing that I never had to investigate because it seemed harmless enough. It didn't they a lot of the early messaging

didn't include that the troops were giving it to children specifically. It seemed like this was just like, give the troops a little bit of candy. They love it. A little treat, huh? And the other reason I didn't investigate it was it was mostly cover for me. That like, if I told you that this organization exists,

then surely you won't think I'm eating all the candy, right? Yeah Wow, I end up eating so much my kids a Halloween candy. It's it's really I need to come up with a better solution Well, no, no, you're doing your part to fight American imperialism. That's right I think that's how you should look now now. I'll feel like a hero when yeah exactly not a collab Hey, I'm not getting my kids mixed up in no war crimes and fraud over here. Oh, fucking father of the year. Thank you. You tell your kids, you like scare your kids like, well,

do you want to go in front of a war tribunal? You want to go to the Hague? I say it's like chocolate cake. The Hague is fucked up. I'm telling you. I'm telling you, man. Why do you smell like peanut butter cups? The doctor says I'm going to smell like peanut butter cups for a couple months now, but nothing can be done.

Oh my God. I got this great dentist. He doesn't give a shit about teeth. So I'm clear. Just ask. We just talked about politics. Daniel O'Brien, truly a pleasure having you on The Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you,

follow you, all that good stuff? You can find me on Blue Sky. I'm there every once in a while. I mostly left Twitter, but I came back to promote a rare live show appearance. I'm going to be doing some comedy of comedy at Late Stage Live, which is a queer and trans focused late night comedy show. It's gonna be part of the New York Comedy Festival. That's at the Bell House in Brooklyn on November 12th

at, hoo boy, 10 p.m. You can find information about that. What are you, 20? I know. I was when Ella, who was the host of that show, also a writer for Friend of Hours, Cody Johnston and David Bell and Katie Stoll's Some More News show, when Ella reached out it was like we would love to have you as a guest on our late night show in New York. I was so thrilled at the idea of doing comedy in New York in front of people again and then then when she said 10 PM on a Tuesday, I was like, oh, that's right.

That's what this life was like. That's what it was, yeah. But I'll be doing that November 12th. It'll be a week after the election doing a late night show that, you know, we'll see what everyone's mood is. There's no way to predict what the vibe is gonna be, but we'll be there doing, making as much fun as we can. Beyond that, you can listen to the show Quick Question with Soren and Daniel.

It's a podcast I do with my best friend and former crack compadre Soren Bowie, who is currently a writer for American Dad. We are two working comedy writers for television and we never talk about it. We are two working comedy writers for television and we never talk about it. We mostly just, it's an hour long phone call where two buddies catch up every week and you get to listen to it if you want, I think. But what if you guys talked about comedy?

Like, have you ever thought about that? Like a comedy podcast where people like talk about comedy? Yeah. Every once in a while, we think I want to just like sit down and be like, so sorry, who are your guys? Who are your guys? Who's coming up for you? We look at it. We like it.

We like it. I like Mark. I it's so easy to make fun of that show, but he does it well. All right, Daniel, is there work of media that you've been enjoying? Oh, yes.

Tina Frimmel It's the last name is spelled F R I M L She is a comedian that the the good folks at Instagram's algorithm brought on to my feed She is a young up-and-coming comedian one of the things that will immediately Distinguish her to people who aren't familiar is that she does have cerebral palsy and her comedy touches on that, but it's also just like genuinely like the two parts of her work that I love is that I'm hearing from someone in comedy like a voice and a perspective that I'm just not really getting anywhere else.

And two, she is just hilarious. She's one of the funniest people to ever do it. I can't believe how young she is. It's, it's very frustrating and I cannot recommend her enough. I've been working in comedy in some form or another since 2007, which means I'm old and that I can still be like surprised and excited by a new voice is really, really fun. So Tina Frimmel, check her out. F-R-I-M-L.

We'll add that in the footnotes. Great footnote. Great recommendation. You got it. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah, yeah. Wherever they have at symbols at miles of gray basketball talk.

That's miles and jack. I'm at boosties 90 day fiance talk. I do that on 420 day Fiance. Some tweets I like. First one is from at bimbo underscore hours. Reagan Lee Stallion tweeted, you got to dabble in just enough recreational drug use in your youth to develop a solid taste in music, but not enough to permanently addle your brain. It's a fine line. And I felt that I felt that as someone who

prides themselves on their fine line. And I felt that I felt that as someone who prides themselves on their musical taste. And then Josh Gondelman, again, if he again, he's a Boston guy, he's hate for New York stuff. It comes through in really awesome ways. Add Josh Gondelman, just sports, not New York style. I think he lives in New York. Or dunking on New York sports stuff. He, he's the best at it. He comes out like with his last thing, referencing the three and oh, the three oh, come back from the Red Sox against the Yankees. This time Josh Gondeman tweeted the Yankees should have a fan that helps put the ball in their players.

Oh, so good. God bless him. God bless him and God bless the Yankees. You know, tough, tough to see. You hate to see the Yankees lose. They could have had a 28th ring. Yeah. Yeah.

Some tweets I've been enjoying. Alice doesn't have bangs at CinemaMilf tweeted, Nicole Kidman being in a film called Baby Girl is actually perfect because it's like another version of her last name. Kidman Baby Girl. God damn it. I never noticed that. And Frank Bullitt tweeted, watching the Yankees lose is like seeing cops going to jail. Yeah. I kept texting this to you, Miles.

I just like every new person who would come up on the Yankees, I'd be like, God, each one looks more like a fucking cop. It's crazy. Yeah. Culminating with the guy with the mustache and the NYPD turtleneck underneath his uniform. Yeah, well. Anyways, you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do you think people might enjoy? Just look, it was just something nice and easy as we go into a stressful weekend, probably.

This is a track by Unknown Mortal Orchestra. You may have heard it's called Nadia and a DJA, but I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Un-Narn? Un-Narn Mortal Orchestra. Miles is Australian and sometimes it slips out. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, exactly. Losing the accent. Kilometers gray.

But yeah, yeah, this is a great track, Nadia. Enjoy and just relax. Relax. And don't think I missed that kilometers gray. That was very good. I really had to sit and think for a second. Is that, do they use that system down there? Do they use the metric?

I feel like if anybody outside of the US would be not using it, it would be Australia, but I do think they're on that KM shit. All right. Phew. All right. Well, The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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