The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump BEGS For Help, Divorce = WAR ON MEN? 06.14.24

Episode Date: June 14, 2024

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you know man of a certain age white man of a certain age we are contractually obligated to go see vampire weekend when they're in town of course and of course yeah so i did that in line with my contractual obligation and they were great they were awesome and then they brought out uh tim robinson and you do know, I think you should leave? Of course. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, the Dangerous Nights crew.

I'm a white man of a certain sense of humor. So, of course, I'm aware of what you're going to say. Most of your words are quotes from that. Of course. You know, the Dangerous Nights crew song, like at the end of the Dangerous Nights video, the sloppy steaks. Yes. Yes.

Yes. When he's on the beach and looks over and the baby's there yeah i love that song i've looked for it online i've been able to find it it's vampire weekend their first encore was like hey so we helped this guy write the song for the show that oh my god i'm a little bummed how quiet the crowd is when he comes out though but i get i guess that you can't expect a plurality of vampire weekend fans to be i'll scream if i see tim robinson people but yeah yeah so i don't know what the overlap is and i'm always processing it too where it's like it's not in musician it's a reveal too yeah yeah the way he came out in his hoodie it you almost

believe maybe he was a little like a piece of shit literal piece of shit and i want to be like oh my i wonder who that is i'm glad they helped that guy he looks like such a he does look like such a piece of shit yeah i bet like a plurality of the audience is just like yeah man that was nice when they brought out that like make a wish kid but that's my favorite is that saying that he's a piece of shit is so vague you know it's like it's not like he was an adulterer or like he was a criminal it's like right it's it's it's a slang term which basically i'm jess casaveto executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult.

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podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 342, episode 5 of Dirt Alley's iGuys. Hey, production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Friday, June 14th, 2024. Yeah. It's getting to be birthday season. 61424. 61424.

Oh, boy. Guess what? It's National Movie Night. It's also National Bourbon Day, National New Mexico Day, National Strawberry Shortcake Day. And it's damn well, you get the jingoism is on fucking 10 today because it's National Flag Day and Army Birthday Day. It's also National Pop Goes the Weasel Day and National. Did I say National Cucumber Day? Did I already say that? No, you didn't this day is overwhelming national cucumber day and also damn hey uh shout out to everybody that's a crip because

it's also a wear blue day but i know that's probably for some kind of men's health thing it's seldom things for gangs oh it just what won't you think of the gangs please oh it's for just being like hey man hey dads think of your health before this father's day coming so what is that for colonoscopies no i think just general it's probably like everything like just make sure all your your junk's in order i think oscopy should be a more popular ending to words personally yeah personally that's what i always say i think you can you can petition the courts so you know don't give up on that my name's jack o'brien aka i've got crows i've got crows in different area codes area codes 973s 202s to all the squirrels out there hey fuck you 901 matter of fact 305 eating my bird seed we can meet outside that is courtesy of isaac on of Isaac on the Discord. Oh, man. Really referencing what I...

What's happening in my life. I am fucking at war with these squirrels. Whirl with these squirrels. Yeah, at war with these squirrels. They're fucking with them. Who am I if I don't go to war? Alright.

Listen, I Kendrick track all day just pumping yourself up. Yeah. I mean mean i'm not doing anything about it other than just being like get out of here don't get screaming from the indoor indoors so yeah it's hardly audible to the squirrels but yeah hoping that it's doing something i guess i put a bird feeder up because now now that i have this merlin app where it like listens to you can just like set shit, put it in the background of your phone, and it'll just be recording and telling you every bird it

heard for like 30 minutes. I was just looking into that. I saw that the CIA is underwriting all the technology on that. So you just leave this on all day? I just leave it on. Yeah, it's recording everything you're saying, everything we were saying before. But it calls out the birds. Oh yeah yeah oh okay it's worth it it's worth it yeah wait you can really just have

it scientific too like the birds it's like ah that was a blue one yeah well that one flies yeah that one definitely flies that was that one with the wings or whatever yeah anyways well talk more about talk more about like well yeah how you disagree with the government and the direction of the country and also that ostapy bit. Definitely not a chicken. Talk more about that. Not a chicken. Not a chicken.

I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host. And shout out to, who did I say that was on the Discord? Isaac. Isaac. That was a great one. Thank you, Isaac. Thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Man, let's just keep the fucking Ludicrous theme going because rats are all blast.

Piled up trash. Rats got a big old ass. It's rat-a-day. Sticky, icky, ooh, ooh. It's rat-a-day. Come get your trash. Dunk that stash. One hour search them stacks.

It's rat-a-day. Sticky, icky, icky, ooh, ooh. All right, shout out Kevwhatev whatever because that fucking oh man it is rats got ass i i stand by that statement rats oh yeah yeah big old dump truck asses and if you draw a rat aerial view of a rat is a pear shape you know what i mean it gets thicker towards the back that's just that's universally accepted so i think that rat lore is about big butt lore for sure. That's right. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our favorite guests,

one of our most chaotic guests. He's a brilliant comedian. He's a writer. He's an actor. He's brought you comedy albums such as The Blake Album, Stuffed Boy, Live from the Pandemic. I'm choking up a little bit. 12 Years of Voicemails from Todd Glass to Blake Wexler.

He's one of those two people. His new special, Daddy Long Legs, is a triumph. A hilarious triumph. Go watch it right now on YouTube. Please welcome to the show, the hilarious, the chaotic chaotic the riding a recumbent bicycle in short shorts he's blake wexler this is blake wexler aka save zeitgeist blake will be the host at dawn i'm coming for miles tomorrow he will be gone. Save Zeitgeist. That was from... Nobody wants to work anymore.

Let me just say that. And then also that was from Liz from Lancaster. Inspired by Liz gave me a Save Zeitgeist. And then I added in the part for taking out miles. But the rest of it was from Liz. So thank you, Liz. Liz from Lancaster. Hello.

Lancaster PA? Lancaster England. No, Lancaster PA. Lancaster. Yeah. Lanc's from Lancaster. Lancaster, PA? Lancaster, England. No, Lancaster, PA. Lancaster. Lancaster. It's actually pronounced Latin. Is that Amish country? It is. It is Amish country. That is Amish country? Yeah, right. Big time.

I'm amazed by their ability to write that AKA, you know, using a butter turner. Well, that's why I did it acapella without my normal is that your normal electric guitar out of respect yeah i mean you've you've told us from day one that you are targeting miles you're not here to make friends yeah you never take you never take miles down yeah Yeah. True. Yeah. Normally, I like an underdog, which is what Miles is in this situation.

It's kind of insulting also. I think an underdog is someone without the media experience that Jack has compiled over the years. A trained media professional. Yeah. That guy, Miles, he's got his back to the curb. You know what I mean? Other people root for an underdog. I try and take them out. No hanging fruity gnome vibes christy gnome governor gnome vibes

yeah exactly exactly puppy to the gravel pit god i mean she must have told that story so many times and had people just be like hell yeah dog like you know what's wild though i know like you know obviously we're like consuming way more political news than like the regular person but a lot of i was talking to some friends and a few of them had not heard this before well they didn't know who she was i feel like yeah i know it's like you have to really and i get it i don't know why i'm like you got to be a real loser to really be have your ear to what's happening in our own country but you do at the same time like but this is like the funny shit you know what i mean like she lies and she's a potential puppy cider so anyway it was fun telling people that and

watching the reactions on their faces like my favorite warm holiday treat puppies puppies well the one warm warms your soul yes only you know requires like three to four puppies per batch so it's for the good ones yeah you can water it down but i'll notice you'll notice yeah oh this is cheap stuff huh you cutting this no no that pooch sloop like say pooch soup did you say i don't know don't call me out on my own did you just say pooch soup i'm the guest i'm the i'm the guest in your home i don't get i'm the guest leave me the fuck alone yeah that could be a t-shirt it should and it is what i'm by the time you hear this leave me the fuck alone yeah yeah i came up with a t-shirt a t-shirt i don't think i can sell but it's gonna be um it says i'm a dickhead on it

next to dick in real small type it says daguerrean with a big picture of dick daguerrean the lawyer for uh robert durst in the trials and i think i can sell three of them yeah why are you talking what kind of fucking reference is references of all the dicks guy wore like a cowboy hat that's the visual is quite funny right oh maybe it should be a hat it should be a cowboy hat that says i'm a dick daguerrin head yeah because the hat goes on your head and a picture of daguerrin on it maybe it's not like one of those signatures like you would see on a baseball card right fake ones i mean yeah and he also not the workshop don't forget david koresh too he was david koresh's lawyer and tom delay great god do not do not forget about david never

don't never forget about well he never left so i don't know why we forget about him he's still here in a way all right blake we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things uh we might get to today or we might not. Donald Trump is on a begging tour in Washington, D.C. to have his charges overturned. These felony charges have turned out to be a real thorn in that guy's... Real motivator. Yeah, he's PO'd. It seems like it's really getting to him.

So we'll talk about that we'll talk about uh what the the right is signaling the the next rights that they're going to try to take away is that why they're called the right because they like to take away people's rights uh the next race left of them not called the wrongs uh wow and now and think about that listener maybe they should be called the wrong hey has biden tapped you yet for his campaign he's he's been working on it i don't have cell phone service so we'll we'll we'll talk about just what what rights they're going to take away next because they've told us via some southern bapt Baptist convention. That usually is where they tip their hand a little bit. We'll talk about Donald Trump shitting on Milwaukee.

And North Dakota just became the first state to approve an age limit for politicians. Yeah. Which, look at that. And what a bar they set. And how about that. But we like it. It's a start. I know.

It really is. So we're going to talk about that what like how what what stands in the way um apparently there's like 72 percent popular support for an age limit on like the president which makes sense like great yeah it should be like 40 polls have found the majority of americans think that both biden and trump are too old to serve only 11 said neither of them are and then over 70 uh no never mind anyways uh we'll talk we'll talk about it we'll get to the the hot stats that i'm holding back that's called a tease baby yeah it's called i can't read baby it's called I Can't Find the Stat that I was looking for. Because there's a lot of words and I'm sleepy. Before we get to any of that, Blake, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

Search history. I didn't realize that this is a thing, but rodent men. Hot rodent men? Yeah, we're talking about this. We talked about that yesterday. Did you? Yeah, so fucking move on, man. Something else.

Okay. What else do you got? My underrated is... No, go back. Blake's Hot Takes, aka Yesterday on TDZ. Yesterday. He's like,

dude, just listen to the last episode and then fucking steal that and then come on or something. So I'm really trying to drive traffic all across your platform right now and it's bad marketing what you're doing what's your feeling on rap what's your feeling on rap boys i think uh whatever you guys said yesterday was a great that's the right way to think about it um i obviously i think it's uh incredibly insulting way of uh speaking about

someone i well also saying they're hot right While also saying they're hot, right? While also saying they're hot and also being wrong about that because they're not hot. I would say most of these guys that they're showing are objectively really ugly people. And I don't like saying that. So you don't like that they're being mean to these guys

who you judge to be objectively really ugly. Yes, leave them in the darkness. Leave them in the shadows and let them exist. And yeah, it's just not necessary. Don't even speak their name. Who creates a fire in your

loins when you cast your... Who's a hot guy for you then? Just so I can kind of understand where we're at here. What was the name of the actor who played monk oh yeah tony shalhoub tony shalhoub that's mine that's you're not no you get come on now be honest i would say that hot who's the hottest guy to you here's here's actually i i will say that in a moment but okay i think and i will say that and i will and i will get to that when i have a chance say that and i will and i will get to that when i have a chance and answer and i will and i will get first i want to push back on the premise of the

question yeah but first i want to talk about um immigration and last i want to talk about immigration when i'm halfway through that i'll get back to the rat boys so i actually think the one the rodent man alleged rodent men from the bear and i know we're talking a lot of animals jeremy allen white yeah yes i think he circumvented rodent man yeah by being jacked yeah i think he's too like too ripped to be rodent too ripped to be rodent exactly yeah um and then the guy that i think is like think is so good looking and charming, the guy who's the lead in Dark Matter right now, he's Australian.

Dark Matter. And his name escapes me, but he's great. And he looks great with a beard. He looks great clean shaven. Joel Edgerton. Wow, Joel. You ever see his directorial debut, The Gift? No, and I won't. Yeah, Joel. You ever see his directorial debut, The Gift? No, and I won't.

Yeah, okay. That'll change your opinion. Did he look ugly in that? Is that why you brought it? He looked like a dog. He was ugly as shit. Oh, never mind. No, it's like written, directed by him, I believe,

stars him as the world's biggest creep. It's really... Oh, really? But it's good. What if that's the only thing I saw of him? Oh, no. That's the one that I'm basing this off of. I loved it.

Oh, yeah. Have you seen his brother Nash Edgerton? Don't you dare. Oh, my God. A little dash of Nash. A little dash of Nash. Just saying. Just saying.

A little Nash-y edges. Yeah. Oh, good lord. Makes the heart go... Aye, aye, aye. Aye, aye. I'm seeing. Oh, good lord. Make the heart go. Aye, aye, aye. Hachi machi. 51 my ass. So you like a Aussie, huh? Okay, alright.

Is that a request? Would you please 51 my ass? Hey, 51 my ass. You've heard of 69, but that's not happening anymore. I want to be 51. I want to be 51. It's when I'm being spooned I'm being spooned and someone's putting a popsicle in my mouth

this is not that kind of stuff and this is off air talk this is locker room talk you know what it seems to be when you're on I thought you were trying to help drive traffic not drive people away I'm trying to drive them to the previous episode so 50 50 is being spooned while someone puts a popsicle in your mouth no that's 51 51 that's cute that sounds

nice thank you it's nice hammock i'm just picturing you being 51 by joel edgerton and it's like really nice there's nothing like dark about it to be honest you and me both no i also i imagine him having like a paper towel, too. Yeah, paper towel along the side. That is the only dark thing. The only dark thing is if there's just... No, no. If there's no paper towel and there's just popsicle stuff

coming out of the side of your mouth. Yeah, yeah. And it gets weird and slimy. Sloppy. Yeah, it's like those sloppy mess cooking videos on TikTok. You're like, this can't be about the actual popsicle eating. I think it's about the mess. Yeah.

I would actually just get an absorbent pillow and put that under my face so Joel wouldn't even have to deal with it. So he could just be in the moment and then just let... Wait, who's this for? Is it for Joel or is it for you? I'm eating the popsicle. The popsicle's for me. I don't understand what's so complicated about this. It's called 51ing.

I know, but you're just doing a lot of labor for someone else. Three thick skull. What is, uh, what's something you think is underrated? Underrated. Shazam. The app that tells you what songs are playing.

Okay. Recently. I use it daily. I, and I have such bad taste in music and I don't even know if it's bad taste. I think I just don't have any, I don't even know if it's bad taste. I think I just don't have any. I don't know how to find music. And for instance, whenever I literally I people fast forward, I hear through Mark Maron's intros in WTF famously.

I don't do that. I love them. But I in this show, you don't listen to the interviews, right? No, no, I don't. I've never heard another voice. It is. Yeah. Except the Joel Edgerton interview. You don't listen to the interviews, right? No, no. I don't even, I've never heard another voice. He loves the rants. Other than his. Yeah.

Except the Joel Edgerton interview. But he, but I fast forward to the end of this so I can hear Miles's music recommendations or Justin when Justin does them. Because truly I do no bit actually like I always add those songs because I just don't find music well. I used to do it when I was listening like to music in my car yeah on the radio or whatever and make like a note of it so i guess it's been like 15 years where are you shazamming things you just like going by a car with its windows down

like that happened the other day really i did that yeah they were stuck at a stoplight roll down your window what is this what is this what is this it was this guy it was this guy it was it was a convertible so you, you know, the music was good. Oh, yeah. And then the other day, I have to I have to be a little quiet. But like, was it Kenny Loggins? It was. It was.

Yeah. It's Kenneth Loggins. Talk shit about your neighbor. Go on. Through the wall. I could hear him blasting music in my house. So I held my phone up to the wall. Shazam.

And I shazammed a song, his song through the wall. And it was like a song by Portugal the Man. I'm like, I fucking love this song. And I just started listening to a ton of their music. And then I went to a concert. Oh, really? You did? You went to see Portugal the Man?

They're listeners of this show. Yeah. Are they really? Yeah, they are. Shout out to Portugal the Man. I bought a hat. I have a Portugal the Man hat. I listen to them all the time.

Yeah, yeah. Literally because. They're like the zeitgeist. Oh, amazing. As they should. As they should. Exactly. I mean, I don't know why we're even mentioning that.

I mean, we were talking about Vampire Weekend before we started. We're obviously huge fans of this show. Portugal the Man should bring us on stage, Jack. Like, these two guys are real pieces of shit. You should sometimes listen to their podcast there's no reference to anything yeah it's just look at these folks all right thanks man all right get out of here what song was it do you know what song it was i wasn't paying attention what were you playing which man song was that did you shit shazam yeah what were you playing which portugal the man song was that did you shazam yeah what oh it was um modern modern jesus that one that one i had heard of that was like the big one but

it's called modern jesus and then red yellow purple blue probably not the right colors uh waves all from that one album i was like really into it and then i saw them in philly uh whenever that was and they were great. Big fan. The tech industry as off the rails as they have steered our entire civilization over the past 10 years. They have...

Don't get me caught up in that shit. They, and I'm just reading this word for word from what Blake wrote in the doc. No, no, no, no. As much as they have fucked us with this AI bullshit. That doesn't sound like me. They, they've bought themselves. Like, I think I'm giving them at least another four years just because of Shazam. Yeah.

Shazam and the bird Shazam that I can't stop talking about is. It's called Merlin? Merlin. Merlin. It's brought to you by, I think, Cornell University. Oh. The Big Red. Right?

Yeah. You lost them. Is that what they're called? The Big Red? I know all the Ivy League teams. The Big Red. Anyways, it's a great app. Shazam's a great app.

No, no. You've got five more years, the tech industry, and then I'm coming. You need a new Shazam's a great app. But you've got five more years, the tech industry, and then I'm coming. You need a new Shazam. Yeah, you need another thing that just solves a basic human problem. What about this? We can give custom names to your farts if you record them.

Another three months. That'll buy you about a week. I'm not going to lie, that will buy you a little bit of time. That's not bad. But like, they're really good. Yeah. 10 days. 10 days. Really great fart names.

Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and hear what you think is overrated, Blake. Okay. Does that sound all right? Yeah, it's fine. I'll be here. Yeah, it's fine. It's fine. That was a Tri-City Dust Devil.

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And Blake Wexler, what is something you think is overrated? Jack, I think, and Miles, I think something that's overrated are QR codes. More tech talk. That's the name. Oh, I was going to give them another 15 years for how cool QR codes are. Were you? I'm subtracting. Oh, yeah, man.

I fucking love QR codes. That Rorschach test? The Rorschach fucker where it sends you to a website that usually doesn't load. Hell yeah. There's fucking rules. I love it when it comes on the TV screen and they're like, they expect me to get my phone out and scan it in three seconds when it shows up. Fuck you.

Yeah. Oh, you can't read QR codes like with your own brain? Oh, I can actually read that. I actually. We'll get for read that we'll get for you that's one of my five extra languages you say lick them yeah that's how I access them

interesting what's your beef with the QR code it's like we were just saying I feel like they never load you need good internet when you're using them which we don't have in America. I can see it working in Korea or Japan. It is true.

Measurably, we do not have the best internet. No, our internet sucks shit. It's crazy. It's insane. And often the cool spots that I go to, they're underground. Oh yeah, you need to find hot spots, bro. Not cool spots. You got to find an internet window and uh there's also i don't like how they leave the fucking windows

open on your browser where i'll go look for my recent google search for this show and it's like oh here's 80 menus it's crazy from you at an airport yeah yeah yeah and now yeah like you said they're on commercials they're everywhere the thing that i really don't understand like sometimes i get it like if it's like in a fixed position and you want a lot more information you can scan it like i've definitely done that before but like the way they definitely try and just like on commercials try and do it or like tv broadcasts i'm like y'all i get that a lot of people probably are holding their phones, but the amount of time that the shit is up there, it's like no one's pausing the TV

to then scan it. And that's where you're like, are they... I mean, the thing, QR codes have been around for a long time, man. So it's not like some newfangled shit. I think a guy who was working at a Toyota plant invented QR codes. Well, time's up. That's what I have to say.

It's been too long. It's time to take them out. I like to color over them in Sharpie so people can't use them. I feel like I've seen like one of those conspiracy theory cars, you know, that has like weird conspiracies written all over them.

Yeah. I think I've seen one of those with QR codes driving around LA. Like a hand-painted one? No, no, no. I think they like printed it off the internet and thank god put some effort in your conspiracy theory cars folks that would that would be funny is if they're like listen i i don't like what uh bumper stickers do the

aesthetics of my car so i think we can actually condense it into one single all my qr code yeah into one qr code and still in this car one QR code and still have the nice paint job. In this car, we believe Q is readying the storm. You're like, oh, fuck. Yeah. There it is. I shouldn't have scanned it. Yeah.

All right. Well, speaking of Q, the man himself, Donald Trump, has gone on a bit of a begging tour in Washington, D.C. to have his charges overturned. Yeah, dude. Yeah. This guy, he's visiting the, on Thursday, visited the fucking Capitol, D.C. to have his charges overturned. Yeah, dude. Yeah. This guy, he's visiting the, on Thursday, visited the fucking Capitol,

which is wild. I'm like, when was the last time he was there? January 6th, maybe? He wasn't there when he was president, when he lived there. Right. Yeah, well, it was his job to be there. He was still there.

I mean, I don't know. He's there, I guess, right now, officially under the guise of discussing his 2025 agenda with the Republicans. But that's basically just a cover for Speaker Mike Johnson that Speaker Mike Johnson came up with for the official invitation. But really, he's trying to convince Republicans in the House and Senate that they can and should help him get out of his legal troubles. So the second he was convicted in New York, he was basically on the phone with Speaker of the House, Mike, God has front row seats at my jerk off shows, Johnson, to get him to do something. And Johnson was willing to entertain this terrible idea because he thinks he knows the law, but clearly doesn't, obviously as exemplified by all the not real legal theories that he thought could form the basis for overturning the election four years ago but the army of bootthroaters

think that they can go after alvin bragg and fonny willis to help trump but these are all just fantasies because democratic senate where even if they get it out of the house they're gonna be like yeah get the shut the fuck up with this i could see the democrats finding a way to fuck it up though oh well we got to both sides this one and we're like we do like young thug and we're not really into the rico charges he's facing down there in fulton county so just on thugs behalf you know what i mean uh but yeah they've tried this dumb shit before and like all it does is like waste time but yeah no matter how much mining trump's gonna do or has done it might not get more than just rhetorical support because the margins are too slim in the house there's already people being like i don't know if i can

campaign on like vote for me so i can try and find a way to get these felony convictions to go away in new york and not everyone's in on it. So, and like, it's funny, like, you know, in political interviews, people on the Hill, there's always like a Republican senator who asked for anonymity, who like says the same thing where they're like, you know, my colleagues are saying that accusing the Democrats of weaponizing the justice system. I mean, if we're doing, I mean, wouldn't we just be doing the exact same? No, it's, it's, it's a, it's a bunch of gobbledygook. So yeah, I don't know. I don't, I mean, wouldn't we just be doing the exact same? No, it's a bunch of gobbledygook. So, yeah, I don't know.

I mean, he's trying, but not sure where the will or the, you know, the mechanisms to make that happen will actually fall into place in time frame. It makes sense to me that this is like a big deal for him. Like the more distance we've gotten from it, like at first I was like, he'll probably just like bounce back from this or like just ignore it and it'll be a slap on the wrist or something but there are some early indications it's like dinged him a little bit in polls like probably not as much as some people were hoping but some voters do seem to be a little bit put off by the fact that he's now a convicted felon and i feel like the thing that's hurting him is that his brand is corruption but it's like being good at it you know like it right like remember in 2016 during the election where he was like taxes yeah why are you paying taxes

because i'm smart that's why because yeah his whole thing is that he's good at being corrupt and like that's what makes him smart and then he just like got caught doing like the most low-level criminal bullshit like yeah like rich scumbag yeah just rich scumbag like total bullshit you know michael cohen like hey all the things were there like he's like he's a liar he's terrible he's it's like yeah well he was working for you like that's you're supposed to be like this slick corrupt businessman and you had this doofus working for you so like that reflects poorly on you and right like when he's not staying one step ahead of the cops it really is deflating to this mythos that he had like built up just by being a very consistent

liar that was able to just like hammer away with all the money that he you know had and until people would just not want to deal with the pain right and so it feels like if i am pulling for someone who is like i suspect is corrupt but i'm like yeah but he's smart and like he gets the job done and then he gets caught doing some dumb bullshit like this like that i i can see where that would be massively deflating and then having him like continue to whine and like whinge like like this like i feel like it could be at least temporarily like like that uh when that macy's day float got impaled by the light pole and just like deflated in three seconds right right right yeah it's embarrassing too because he's always been such a line jumper you know like he always gets to the front of the line yeah with through no skill

it generally generally money talking and deceit you know so maybe that is the skill he is uh skillfully deceitful but now he he's not at the front of the line anymore and he can't even make calls you know like he actually had to bring his ass to washington which is so embarrassing like the guy the guy doesn't want to be in washington ever and he can't even like be like oh can i make some calls or can someone go in my place he actually has to go in person and talk to this i mean no it's true i think that is an indication right because usually people would flock to Mar-a-Lago to fucking, you know, sniff his dandruff and be like,

thank you, Lord. But the fact that he has like the summoning or I'm clearly, clearly for him, whether or not they are going or not, he's like me just screaming about it. Isn't enough. I need to get in their fucking faces and beg them or,

you know, tell them what I need or whatever. But it, I mean, the Republican Senate is like, like, you know, some what i need or whatever but it i mean the republican senate is like like you know some people aren't even bothering to meet with him so yeah i i get what you mean like and when like you're saying jack when people are used to seeing you one way and suddenly that shifts like it does make shit well it's like i mean this this is sort of a terrible example but like even like with the drake kend Kendrick beef, like Drake was on top and Kendrick made him look dumb. Yeah.

And everyone's sort of like, I kind of look at him a lot different now. Yeah. And it's just sort of like, yeah. When your brand is one way, all it takes like, damn,

dude, he got smacked like that in public. Ooh. Yeah. Usually he blocks it or ducks it, but he really just took that one on the mouth. When you think about how he was during the trial, he was like, so like above it. And like and like yeah this is like beneath me bullshit and like that is just it it was assuming and like projecting like this is who i am i'm gonna continue to be this

unflappable teflon like i mean they called him the teflon don and like and then so when that just like that unflappable like falling asleep in court farting yourself away thinking dude thinking thinking sorry yeah thinking with your eyes he was fine tuning a new app that would custom name the farts dude being startled by a bullfrog that happened to be nearby yeah yeah somebody step on a duck but like that it just makes him look stupid like the thing that he always that has always made him to those people look kind of tough and in charge ends up making him look stupid yeah so you hate to see it you do hate to see it we're just pulling for him to make a comeback and everything to be all right in his world. We're just praying for him.

Yeah. And speaking of prayer, I bet a lot of prayers for Donald Trump were coming out of the Southern Baptist Convention. Oh, man. Doesn't that sound like a fun thing to go to? Yeah, dude. I couldn't get in this year. It was too expensive. Yeah, man.

Yeah. The aftermarket tickets were in the thousands. And I only sit in the front so uh you know the cross 50 yard lines those are my seats season tickets those are my seats yes sprint when they put the uh microphone up for audience questions i sprint to that like knocking people out of the way yeah just dive for it uh but yeah so so many of the terrible policies that come from the gop have basically been telegraphed either through like what the evangelicals are angry about or what the online weirdos make their like main stories on their

like web streams and shit and they're two new ish developments because we have sort of talked about this before but these things are starting to get a lot more traction so first the southern baptist convention aka the largest and most powerful Protestant group in the nation has officially come out. Their position is to oppose IVF. And this again has been something that has been talked about on the fringes more and more and more. And we saw the bills in the South where they're like, no, we got to protect these popsicles

and from death. And it is now. In Blake's mouth. That is your weird kink. That was the type of popsicle that you were sucking on in your 51. I don't talk about that publicly, but yes. You're going to be on libs of TikTok if you said some shit like that about how you're like, this fucking freak goes to bed. His fantasy is to be spooned

by joel edgerton while sucking down a frozen embryo no who books that by the way who books lips of tiktok because i have been my agent is uh but yeah so again you know the belief here is that ivf involves multiple embryos and so them being destroyed based on the basis of viability they're talking about then you're killing the babies so they gotta save the babies they did call for the adoption be worrying about less about what's viable and more about reading the bible thank you

I tried that at the yeah they kicked you out they knew from your tortoiseshell glass frames that you were not one of them did you guys see the Vampire Weekend concert? Get the fuck out of here. Get the hell out of here, you fucking freak. What? Vampire?

Yeah. Only shit I do on the weekend is praise fucking Christ. Thank you, you damn fucking groomer. Get the hell out of here. So they did call for, again, the adoption of frozen embryos so that they may be saved. But like, let's be real.

Like, these fucking people don't give a fuck about any actual babies or they would be screaming for better social services for children and like improving the adoption and foster care system. So nice. Yeah, we get it. You had to just say that to pretend to be not fully, you know, people. And part of me was like, oh, no, this is going to be a huge deal for all those like fundamentalist Baptist Christian IVF centers. But on the other hand, look what they've been able to do for reproductive, take away people's reproductive rights over the long run elsewhere. So, yeah, which is wild because it's something that helps people, you know, be able to become pregnant. But yeah, no, this is appropriate.

They have to figure out how to just basically start their all-out war on people's freedom, especially to marginalize and take away any power that women may have gained over the last century. They're so worried

about the population going down, but they're also against people being able to procreate in some cases. The white population. Yeah, yeah. Their population. The population that comes directly from this. Well, it depends, too, they're also like against people being able to procreate in some cases the white population yeah yeah they're they're popular population that comes directly from this well it depends too because there's that version and then there's like the hyper capitalist you know elon musk and

jeff bezos fantasy version of the population going down which is more like a workforce and also this like weird caveman way do we have confirmation on that wall street journal report that he was just like fucking interns at spacex and being like oh well you know you should have my baby because i'm a high iq well he's got 11 kids already you know what i mean like and he talks you know that he's he's like he talked to that one dude like he's all into fucking trying to be the next fucking what's his name yeah ging. Genghis Khan, basically. But anyway, the other thing that we're seeing more is more conservatives embracing the idea of getting rid of no fault divorces.

We talked about this when we talked like last year about the first crow Magnin man to get a podcast, Steven Crowder, when he was like embroiled in a divorce where there were like receipts in 4k of him being an abusive shitty husband and he began railing against no fault divorces and we're like oh i wonder if this is going to be a thing well it's starting to be more of a thing so prior to 1969 if you wanted a divorce you had to go to a judge to prove that the other party engaged in abandonment adultery or

cruelty and this led to like traumatic drawn out divorce trials where typically the party that had more money for legal maneuvering would win. And in some cases, judges wouldn't even intervene in instances of abuse. So it was a fucking awful fucking system. Supporters of this regressive move say that, quote, making divorce too easy causes social upheaval,ettered dishonesty lawlessness violence towards women war on men and expendability of children um war on men um we're gonna win that war brother uh which is defeat a man i don't think it i'm sorry no fault divorces actually like helps to bring down rates of violence towards women yes of course that's

like one of the main reasons it was created you're not stuck in an abusive relationship it also prevents men from having like insurmountable power like an insurmountable power dynamic with their wives it reduces it like when these bills were first passed in the late 60s 70s it like uh suicide rates for women started going down look you, you can go on and on about why there's no reason to get rid of no-fault divorce. But state Republican parties are bringing this policy shift into their own platform. So Oklahoma State Senator Dusty Deavers

introduced a bill. I'm sorry. Wait, what? Oh, boy. Yeah. Dusty Deavers? Dusty Deavers? That's... If you just switch the Ds for Bs, you'd have a weird-ass 70s porn star.

Now you're talking my language. Now I hear that. I hear that loud and clear. Speaking of high rodents, man, what about them Busty Beavers? Talk about them big rats. Busty Beavers? And they got that thick ass, too? Come on, man.

I don't see the New York Times writing about Busty Beavers. Maybe they get one of their... thick ass too. Come on, man. I don't see the New York Times writing about busty beavers. He introduced a bill to the states for their own version of a no-fault divorce. The Texas Republican Party put a call to end the practice on their 2022 platform. So it may come up again this year. J.D. Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson have also spoken in favor of tightening divorce laws. So like the terror campaign to bring back conservative values and basically go back to the 18th century is in full swing. It has not gone away. But, you know, like we talked about in yesterday's trending episode, a bit of good news because the Supreme Court actually was like no you know what we're gonna do the unthinkable and uh tear this anti-abortion lawsuit a new one and yeah slap for now you can have your but based on what they said they're like you're gonna have like they're basically saying like you need a new angle here because we can't even get that shit so yeah i think they're feeling

emboldened but again just like we've seen with these other these other policy moves to try and like restrict uh body autonomy and health care access it is wildly unpopular and it's only going to less to lead to more messy and chaotic shit but this is their marching orders are coming from on high so i guess this is where they're going this is one of those things that are like a no-fault divorce is one of those things that are like a no fault divorce is one of those things that like its name doesn't show how how important or how scary the alternative it's one of these poorly named things you know where it should be like oh like like the divorce equality act or something would be like better than that you know because right no marriage it's like yeah yeah well it wasn't my fault you know it's just so like takes the venom

out of like you said these horrific abusive cases where women couldn't get divorces yeah before yeah well it's their obsession with shame too we were talking on yesterday's episode about the alito like the tape of alito's wife where she's she is talking like fantasizing about putting up a flag that just says shame to get into a flag war with people who have a pride flag. She's just like, yeah, shame. I'm going to get a flag that says shame

and it has flames on it. Let me spell it for you. V-E-R-G-O-G-N-A Vagonia. I like to make up little flags in my head. Yeah, we get it, dude. It's true. Dr. Strangelove. Upon re-watching Dr. Strangelove recently,

I'm very cultured. I was reading a New York article while re-watching Dr. Strangelove. Ah, yes. The reason they ultimately decide to end the world is because they seize on the idea of, well, we could have a little cave where the men just repopulate the globe. That gets them going, and then they decide to ultimately end it. That feels like what, with this, no, you can't use science to have a baby. You got to have a baby with sperm from from me

probably preferably why was keith ranieri convicted that's the life i want to i want to create a sex cult why won't they're all conservative values called it feels like you know well yeah and it's all to basically be like there is only one way that's heterosexual marriage that creates people and there's nothing else so yeah i mean yeah this is what they're spending all their fucking time on because the policy is not even like no real policy they're only looking for like the dissolution of rights is pretty much their only thing they're running on these days i guess if maybe increased rights for billionaires or tax dodging corporations i think those are the two

groups that yeah they're focusing on yeah and having like billionaire wealth that makes that create and like libertarianism that creates the conditions where you can have a cave where you're trying to repopulate you know a nice cave yeah yeah nice cave yeah all right let's take a quick break 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. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed.

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And we're back. Justin, include that. Did you just remember that? No, I just read it again. I just read Dusty. I saw it in print was the problem. Where I heard you say Dusty Deavers and then I read it in the show rundown.

Yeah, it stopped me dead in my tracks as I was going through the show rundown. I couldn't stop. Yeah. I just sat there looking at it with my mouth half open. He's a fucking sex bomb, dude. Dusty Deavers is? Yeah, I know. You said Joel Edgerton. Dusty Deavers is my

pay. That's yours. Dusty. Dusty. Dusty. Take away all of my rights, please. A pig professor. Wait, what? Yeah. Yep. I don't know.

Just said it. What do you want? You want my... North Dakota just became the first state to approve an age limit for politicians. Age limit for politicians seeming to be an idea that is having a moment for some reason. And we don't know why. We don't know. I don't know.

What do you mean? Like, it's been fine for Supreme Court justices, senators, members of Congress, the presidency. As old as possible. Just more fear-mongering, dude. Older. Older. AAP.

As old as possible. No, that's not how words work. AOAP. Anyways, AOAP. AOAP, Rocky. AAP as old as now that's not that's not how words work anyway AOP AOP Rocky so North Dakota voters just approved a ballot measure barring congressional candidates who would turn 81

by the end of the year before their term would expire way to fucking bring the trap door down on 81 is so fucking old. And yet it would disqualify, I think, both of our current presidential candidates. Trump's 77. No, he has time.

Biden's 81. But Trump, this would be the end of the end of the year before their term. Oh, who returned. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Trump would be like making it maybe right under the wire or might be disqualified. Yeah. It was supported by 61% of the voters.

It won't affect any of the state's current congressional delegation because they're all under the age of 70. But the move is historic. This is going to be the first state to set an age limit for U.S. Senate and House candidates. It will likely face a Supreme Court legal challenge. A similar amendment was shot down in 1995 because the court ruled that states cannot set qualifications for Congress beyond those listed in the U.S. Constitution. You could probably hear that I was making the jerk off hand motion while reading that. But lawmakers have already earmarked $1 million in state funds to defend the measure

in court. So they were like, we're passing this law because we know it's going to the Supreme Court and we want to fight for our ability to do this. So they have $1 million in legal funds basically to construct an argument and learn from what didn't work in 1994. The one thing that did work in 94 when it went to the Supreme Court last time, the person who, or I guess it was 95, the person who wrote the dissenting opinion and who was in favor of the age restrictions was Clarence Thomas.

We'll see if being incredibly old as fuck will have changed his opinion on this, but I don't know. I mean, he's 75, man. He's a spry 75. Vagile. He's like, I'm good, man. I'm good as long as I have my little

RV I can play around with and whatever. I wish he rode an RV off-roaded. Like John Madden? Yeah. I was thinking of ATVs. I feel thinking of a, to fly. I was thinking of a TV.

Just like five feet and it would just roll over on him and break every bone in his body. His robe gets caught. Oh, shit. Clarence, I told you not to wear your robe. I like it. Don't tell me my business.

Devil woman. But this could be read as just a symbolic gesture coming so soon after Mitch McConnell's brain shut down on live TV and Dianne Feinstein died in office at the age of 90. That was one of those things that like when it was happening, I don't think my brain had fully appreciated that she was 90. I think because regardless of the numerical age, just visually, it was so clear that this human body should be just be at rest at home. Like not trying to like hear like be at a fucking judicial confirmation hearing and asking not pointed questions. It's just a good thing that she didn't get through that provision in her will that she be weakened at bernie's for the remainder of her term because that would have been distasteful i think well that's where the yeah uh abuse of a corpse laws end up sort of overriding her own will and saving us from it happened anyway yeah. Also, what difference would it really have made compared to what was actually happening?

Right. When she was alive. It's, oh, God. Yeah. We're hoping that this inspires other states to follow suit, which wouldn't be surprising considering the idea of imposing maximum age limits for elected officials is supported by 79% of Americans. That's how you know it'll never happen 79 yep that's just like a fucking slam dunk like any politician like in a just system would be like oh i'm gonna make this

my thing like this is gonna be i'm gonna just like ride this to office and then you get to office and you just have like a bunch of elderly people who want to kill you and destroy your career because you're coming for them. But, you know, there is the issue that, you know, people are going to be like age discrimination, age discrimination in the workplace is obviously not OK. Not OK. But there are age restrictions on other. First of all, on the other end of the spectrum, when it comes to like elected officials, you know, you can't be under 35 and be president or under 25 and be in the House or 30 in the aviation industry airline pilots commercial pilots aren't allowed to work past the age of 65 but that's of course because that's a very taxing exhausting job that requires intense concentration and people's lives hang in the balance so nothing like being president no no yeah the presidents are on the ground on the ground, except for when they're in a plane. Do you think they could...

What if they just let Joe Biden fly Air Force One? Because you know he probably asks for it. Who's to say he hasn't? They probably just set up like a video game joystick from the 90s and just be like, yeah, sir, you can do it right here from your recliner, man. There you go. Don't get too wacky now. A lot of people on board.

All right, Captain. Thank you. your recliner man there you go don't get too wacky now a lot of people on board yeah all right captain thank you in 2015 france considered instituting a law that would ban politicians over 70 from holding office i mean i i think you know the the real argument here is about the weight of the decisions these people make that they potentially don't have to live with like the fallout from these decisions like especially when as it relates to the climate and shit like that when you have people who already got fucking fucking both legs in the grave yeah like are just being like yeah man i don't fucking doing anything to take care of webbed legs yeah of like earth death it's like yeah because you're you're fucking maybe you're gonna live 10 more years or some shit but they're always cold anyways so you know they're yeah they're cold as hell there's a blanket that comes with them yeah i i mean in order to be able to be traded from one

sports team to another sports you need to pass a physical it's always like oh they've been traded pending a physical right there has to be some way some physical a fucking president has to pass and i know it's not as easy as like measuring you know a meniscus or something but just mentally there has to be some sort of exercise that you can do that's indicative of decision making ability and yeah like yeah that would have prevented maybe 95 percent of people being president. It's not Van Buren. They do have physicals that they're supposed to undergo or make their medical health

records public, but it's just so easy to skirt. But it doesn't bar them from holding office. There's nothing in the Constitution that says... But look at where we're at. We have, again, fucking a mummy from world war one yeah up against this fucking other guy you can decide who's who yeah and like it and a felon

it's like yeah these are all kinds of things people should consider but it it doesn't matter but god i wish that that this should be a standardized thing because especially as it relates to the Supreme Court and all these other positions, because we're allowing them. Yeah. And we're allowing this like kleptocracy to just flourish under the leadership of these people who really they have no vested interest in anything sustainable. And again, we're going to be left holding the fucking Mad Max bag like 30 30 years or i don't know however long if it gets to that i don't know in the most cynical version but we're already seeing temper like look the shit's changing it's happening right in front of our faces and so to bicker about like 81 no by the way this isn't just a problem in the u.s so a ago, one of the world's 10 most populous countries had a leader 70 or older. Today, there

are 8. 8 of the 10 most populous countries have leaders that are 70 or older. What the fuck happened in the past 10 years? They just made it easier to cheat, to hold on to power?

I think that or just the idea is working yeah that's true we all decided that we would prefer avocado toast over having power we quite quit worldly global leadership yeah we worked from home and then we stopped working from anywhere it turned into residentism uh exactly but i think really it's just about the people who are still mentally gone enough to think that these fucked up policies we all live under are still good or worth so they're invested in the previous system so in a sense that they would be the ones who are able to consolidate power younger people yeah they're gonna be like man what the fuck is this i mean not everybody but a lot of younger people like this is fucking

bullshit and yeah they all and all get and and the problem is the people who have the voting power or the people who are even like processing this world are still taking it through this very dated lens about how these economic economic systems should work so yeah like i mean it makes sense that like it's their swan song because as it gets younger and younger, we're less committed to upholding these fucked up systems. Yeah. But again, I think because of the nature of like white supremacy and capitalism, they'll always find a way to maintain, you know, it's like a living organism. It will find a way to defend itself. And I think right now that's being expressed through, you know, keeping these really old fucking zombie people in office and making calling all the shots.

Yeah. Capitalism's immune system is fighting back. So there are like globally, the legislatures have like houses of representatives and places like that. representatives and places like that, parliaments is the word that I was looking for, have actually gotten slightly younger. Reportedly, 30% of the world's MPs are under the age of 45, according to a 2021 report. But that is because explicitly of age caps and legislation like this.

So stuff like this can work. And people in those countries seem to be happier. Yeah. I don't know. That's just like your opinion, man. I want my grandpa who I want my grandpa who's bleeding from the eyes to still run things, you know, like Mitch McConnell, who looked like he would like, again, that shit that you want to see what a Theragun hard reset looks like a successful one? It's Mitch McConnell when he's up there just being like... To your

point, there is an eye test to it, too, where it's like, I don't know how old that person is. I don't know if they look bad for 60 or if they look correct for 90. That person cannot... If you have to hold the door, if you're worried if the person can

make it through a door ever unless someone holds it for it's you need to hold our president's elbow like obviously they're not gonna let it happen when like in front of cameras but if i were walking up the steps with him i feel like i would want to hold his elbow you would be an asshole if you didn't yeah you'd be a bad person if you like my wife would look at my wife would look at me and be like how the fuck man like don't let him carry that briefcase yeah what are you so fucking heavy he's trying to put it in the overhead bin are you just because you hated your grandfather doesn't mean it's like whoa whoa babe oh we don't have to go all the way into this not right now no not right now no not in the oval the oval office oh shit blake wexler god another successful return to the daily zeitgeist yes yes waiting on pins and needles

where can people find you follow you all that good stuff tonight uh on on the day of the christening of this podcast june 14th friday i am at cap city comedy club in austin texas and i will be there on june 15th which is tomorrow night saturday so just two shows 8 p.m get tickets to that nashville i'm doing backyard comedy on june 27th doing stand-up in nashville and you can get tickets to all of those on my social media accounts at blake wexler stand-up special daddy long legs is out and i've so many zeitgang zeitgang zeitgang people have been coming out yeah The Genghis Zyte Gang. Zyte Genghis Khan. That's the one. Zyte Genghis Khan.

Zyte Genghis Khan. I love it. It's been really cool meeting them. So if you come to shows, please come say hello. There were a ton in Lancaster. I did a show that was so sparsely attended in Pittsburgh. Literally everyone there except two people were Zyte Gang. Yeah. Thank you.

It was incredible. The Paris of Appalachia. The Paris of Appalachia. That's what they kept telling me over and over and over again as I counted my $3 that I made off of that. No, I'm kidding. But they were great. It was a great show because it was Zeitgang people. Yeah, those dates. Austin

this weekend, June 27th Nashville. Pull up. Yeah, those dates. Austin this weekend, June 27th, Nashville. There it is. Pull up. And Blake, is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Yes. So I generally don't like purely positive things. What a weird thing to say.

Yes. I generally don't like purely positive things. I generally don't. Wait, first, can you give me an example? Upworthy shit where it's like, look at this baby panda. Yeah, look at this baby panda eating a leaf or something.

You're like, fuck you. There's no leaves left. Gen Z killed leaves and you're giving it to this fucking panda? Thank you. It's actually a dog painted black and white but this by i painted it yeah for for it's my it's gig work that i do so this one though was uh the account people have probably heard of it it's like five million followers it's md motivator is what the name is on instagram and they posted a video of the most i

don't i generally don't even give a fuck about kids either of the cutest kid I've ever seen in my life. It's this little kid in England, English accent. The kid loves baseball and they give the kid like tickets to the Phillies Mets game, which was in, in London, I guess like last week. And the kid is so excited. I've never, it is the cutest thing i've ever seen in my entire you have to see it is so cute the kid's so happy it's adorable so if you want to be in a great mood maybe even tear up a little bit it's so sweet like check out check that out yeah you hate purely positive shit well that's what i thought and now i love it and i and that's

why i like you guys so much and i just love being here with you too and you just make me feel like i'm right now like not right now i have to say you you're not pieces of shit you're my best friend hey blake dude don't make it fucking weird dude it's not your fault like footnote footnotes uh bios where can people find you there work media you've been enjoying? Now I'm just looking for this beautiful child that Blake thinks is the coolest kid on earth because the right answer is my song. But anyway, I didn't...

Miles gets real competitive when you just even say that... If you mention other kids exist. Yeah. I bite my tongue when Jack brings up how proud he is of his kids and their chess playing and how talented they are and his fancy school I'm like my kid will be doing that shit boom

anyway you can find me at milesofgray on twitter and instagram you can find Jack and I on our basketball podcast Miles and Jack I'm at boosties where we're talking about the NBA finals oh boy that was that was a real one on Wednesday. Yeah, Mavs in three still.

I'm still holding out for Mavs in three. Yeah, Blake was on our finals preview episode. And I think it's safe to say we nailed it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I think because we were right. We were just like, it's probably Celtics in four. But then we had to really start hitting the copium. And it turned into Celtics in four. Like, yeah, Mav start hitting the copium, and it turned into Celtics in four.

Like, yeah, Mavs in three, probably. Mavs in seven, I don't know. But anyway, they just don't got it. So let's see, a tweet that I like. So there's this woman on TikTok who was using the N-word, and she started using it to sort of, she was kind of like, oh, well, now I'm going to launch my right wing career because I lost my job doing it. And it was like this whole thing that played out this week. At Blackwood, or Blackword, B-L-A-Q-U-E-W-O-R-D tweeted,

I was right about that white woman who said the N-word, by the way, the neo-Nazis are rejecting her for being a psyop and not being white enough. They're bullying her. She ruined her life for the worst audience in the damn world. Worse than the Shade Room comments. And if you're on the Shade Room on Instagram, you know how bad those comments are.

So, yeah. You hate to see it when those racist riffs completely backfire on you. And you thought cancellation was... Yeah, yeah. Tweet, I've been enjoying Natty Winters. This will buy you another 10 weeks tech industry natty winters at utility limb tweeted so i'm at first cyber truck irl and here's what i

think how about a reverse next door so we can report these to local vandals i think that's a really good idea reverse next door i think a reverse next door for people to get away with like petty. Yeah, it's great. It's called run my neighbor's shit.com. Yeah. Run my neighbor's shit.com. Like lawn furniture theft.

And you know, like I'm, I'm here for it. Tie that shit down. Tie it down. They're like, man, I got this neighbor who's fucking with these crows,

man. I want you to do something. What if they come for you, Jack? You know what I mean? I know you to do something. What if they come for you, Jack? You know what I mean? They wouldn't. It's for other people. People who aren't cool like me. 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. Footnotes. Where 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?

This band, Gum. We've definitely gone out on a couple tracks from Gum. It's made up of one of the members from Tame Impala. So if you like Tame Impala, you'll definitely like the work of Gum. And this track is called Ill Times. And it's just, like, a good rock track, but, you know, with that Tame Impala synthy kind of, you know, that

it's got that vibe. So you're gonna like this. Take this into your weekend. Synthy Crawford. And have an ill time. Yeah. Yeah. Consider this Shazammed. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for us this morning.

Back on Monday. Monday morning. Yeah. To tell you what is trending. And we will talk to you all then. Bye. Bye. I'm Carrie Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports.

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