The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump’s Makeup Secret, Why Sneakers Are Uncomfortable? 09.22.23

Episode Date: September 22, 2023

In episode 1552, Jack and guest co-host Sofiya Alexandra, are joined by comedian, Pallavi Gunalan, to discuss… Are Sneakers Uncomfortable For Everyone? Trump's Anti-Mask Stance Was Because They Smear His Bronzer? Rupert Murdoch Is Stepping Down As Fox Chair, Bob Ross’ First Painting Is On Sale For $10 Million, Kraft Singles Are Being Recalled For “Gagging Or Choking Hazard”, Florida’s Surgeon General Is Urging People To *Not* Get Vaccinated and more! Hutchinson: Trump Refused To Wear Masks Because They Smudged His Bronzer Rupert Murdoch Is Stepping Down As Fox Chair Rupert Murdoch stepped down from Fox and the Succession memes wrote themselves THE SECRETS OF HIS SUCCESSION Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama Bob Ross’ First Painting Is On Sale For $10 Million The most expensive Bob Ross paintings ever sold are a happy little story of their own A Never-Exhibited Van Gogh Could Go For $10 Million Next Month Bob Ross’s first TV painting goes on sale for nearly $10m Bob Ross's first ever TV painting 'A Walk in the Woods sells at auction for nearly $10 MILLION - 40 years after iconic artist created it in 30 minutes Bob Ross Signed On-Air Original Painting from Season 1 Episode 1 of The Joy of Painting Kraft Singles Are Being Recalled For “Gagging Or Choking Hazard” Your Kraft Singles Might Contain a Choking Hazard Kraft recalls faulty American cheese singles that might be ‘unpleasant’ or make you gag Kraft Singles Aren't Actually Cheese. Here's Why Florida’s Surgeon General Is Urging People To *Not* Get Vaccinated COVID levels are so high, they’re hovering near 2020’s initial peak, as the WHO urges those at high risk to take any booster they can get their hands on DeSantis delivered Covid booster warning as Florida led the nation in hospitalizations Former Florida surgeon general rebukes DeSantis administration's claims on COVID vaccines The Doctor Giving DeSantis’s Pandemic Policies a Seal of Approval Trump’s New Favorite COVID Doctor Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine Medical experts reject Florida surgeon general’s Covid-19 vaccine guidance Florida surgeon general altered key findings in study on Covid-19 vaccine safety Florida surgeon general altered Covid-19 vaccine analysis to suggest higher risk for younger men, Politico reports Florida Republicans ignore controversies, give Ladapo second term Florida parents file lawsuit against state transgender youth care ban LISTEN: Stop (Askin' Me 4Sh*t) by Victoria MonétSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Is that the right date? Anyways, fuck me. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. She got a stealthy use, a bomb and shoot, so fancy it can't even be seen. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Losing all my jets That is courtesy of Johnny Davis On the discord

He had a whole ass song But I don't know how Benny and the Jets Goes that well You did pretty awesome Thank you so much I know that part I know the part that everybody knows The part that is just like infectious

And in all of our brains All of the time. I thought that was the whole song. I really didn't know there was more than that. It's like that other Elton John song, Saturday, where he just goes, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. It's like white people wedding songs. You only know the chorus.

White people wedding music. How is that not a compilation CD? I don't know how to tell you this, but we do have those playlists. We just haven't talked to you about them. Pretty positive it exists. I bet you it's been monetized. If that's not a website right now.

I just would have loved that soft focus, late night TV commercial where it's love ballads. But white people wedding music where it's just cutting to people, white person dancing. Do you kind of know the words to one second of this song? Are you too cool for this venue? Do you need to fit in yeah i like the idea of them just choosing the only songs that they think are not offensive but completely not understanding what they're about just like truffle butter what an amazing song about a very high

quality butter oh yeah you can get a lot of. I'm like, oh, no. They're like, I also love broccoli dram. It's amazing. Yes. I love to eat my veggies. This food playlist really goes. Yeah. All my favorite flavors.

How hard does it go? It goes hard. It goes. That's right. Yeah. The elderly are always saying this really goes. Anyways, enough bullshitting. That's my catchphrase.

I'm thrilled to be joined by today's very special guest co-host, a very talented writer, stand-up comedian, advice columnist, podcast host. Please welcome to the show, the brilliant, the talented, Sophia Alexandra! Oh my god, thank you so much. But I prefer that you address me as American Miles because that is the only version of me that exists now since regular Miles has been replaced by Italian Miles. Yeah, yeah. This is old.

This is Miles classic. Is this like dressing? What are we talking about? Miles went to Italy and we lost him to the old country. That's it, to the focaccia. I started thinking about dressing. It was like Italian. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Creamy Miles. Balsamic Miles. You know, just slightly spicy. You know how Miles is. No, he literally just belongs to the country of italy now and yeah yeah well we're we're thrilled to have you with us american miles thanks so much yeah thank you for doing it italian miles would just be kilometers because of the metric system They're all in their gray, but spelled with an E. Check out the big brain on Pallavi. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious and brilliant stand-up comedian, writer, actor, improviser, biomedical engineer.

You can catch her on stages across this damn country. It's Pallavi Ganali! I do my own sound effects! I'm Michael Winslow. Yeah. I'm the Michael Winslow of anti-

police academies. Yes. Fuck the police academies. Michael Winslow of the community garden. That is how we like our heroes yeah they do not like me making noises in there i love that i love the idea of a cop who just uses his ability to make noises as like his only weapon because i don't i don't believe we ever saw michael winslow pull pull his gun right it was always just he found a way to like get in just like into like behind some crates and confuse

some criminals with some noises like we don't have enough macgyver cops too many gang police officers nowadays not enough people making fun noises and distracting hijinks. All I could think about is the first thing he probably thought of was like, oh, just making the sound of a gun better than a gun. And then he very quickly found out that was a mistake. Yeah. And then he was like. Went behind a pile of crates, made the sound of a gun, and then like his fellow police officers opened fire on him. That's it. And then from then on, he's like, I have to do the Rube Goldberg machine of sounds

to get to the outcome I'm looking for without any sounds that imply violence. Yeah. There was only one realistic cop in Police Academy, and it was Tackleberry, the deranged, presumable recipient of a traumatic brain injury who was also like just all guns all the time just worried about shooting things would shoot a fly to yeah that seems like he would have passed the academy you know what i mean you mean like a pd officer just like a rat selling that is the entry level exam for the academy yeah what do you do when a fly is annoying you anyways palavi we're

gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about uh we're gonna just round out the week with a little grab bag of some stories. We're going to, uh, check in with Hutchinson, Cassidy Hutchinson. That's her name. The former Trump aide who gave us a couple little details in her new book. That's name. I'm not going to say here both because I failed to learn it, but also because i don't want to help her sell books but there's some fun details from behind the scenes there uh rupert murdoch is stepping down as the chair of fox no he has so much more to give you. Like that we went to the same place. We're just out here dancing on his grave. We're like, we ready. I'm like, I've been working on a little Foxtrot number. Yeah.

A little Fox News Trot number. Oh. So he's 92. Not dead yet, unfortunately. Or as white people call it. Just a kid. You know what I mean? Yeah, he's just so he's 92 not dead yet unfortunately white people call it just a kid you know okay you let him learn okay he's just trying to learn but we're gonna talk about i guess like why people give a shit about this it's really like the succession of it all seems to be why people give a shit about it and there are some good succession details, some success tales. So we'll talk about that.

Talk about Bob Ross's first painting being on sale for $10 million. Yes, I'm very curious about it. Craft singles being recalled for having, like this is truly a nightmare. Like the thing, you know how when you strip, when you peel the craft singles, they got the the thing you know how when you strip when you when you peel the craft singles they got the two like layers i think there's like an extra layer on these ones and

people are like eating the plastic film stuck to one side of the single fault first of all it tastes the same okay hey i like craft singles i think second of all this is discrimination against singles and i will not stand for it so like plastic you know how there's like plastic and you unwrap it there's like two layers of plastic i guess right yeah there's actually like two and a half because there's a little foldback layer isn't it like a little pocket but then there's like a double pocket by accident yeah yeah they like i i don't know exactly what was happening with this but tell americans exactly what parts of foods to eat or we'll eat it all we'll eat the rind we'll eat everything we'll eat the paper around the

cheese tell us what we can't eat we might still eat it okay by the rind you mean the snickers bar wrapper yes that's the only rind we know of by the rind we mean the silica gel packet the tide pod yeah i mean how are they gonna sell some things with a silica gel packet and then other things like ramen that have a little flavor packet we're supposed to know that like the silica gel packets are not flavor packets. Tastes like bacon to me. Yeah. Okay. It's the same format.

A packet is a packet. Also, if it keeps it fresh, how is that not the tastiest part? You know what I mean? So much. Yes. Yeah. Oh man, it dries your mouth out though. Terrible.

You know what? Then you just snack on a bunch of potpourri and then it just like honestly just keeps watering for the next like 24 to 48 months and then you're fine welcome to the la diet so you eat a couple silica packets and then you juice your mouth up with some yeah just chase it with some pups that's our new ozempic yeah we might even get to uh florida's surgeon general who appears to be the first surgeon general to have told people not to get the covid vaccine so that's brave honestly i know florida man applies florida surgeon florida surgeon yeah yeah killing it it's actually a it's actually a florida sturgeon we did mix that up i'm so sorry but it is like you know what what did we expect like one small step for joe rogan

one giant step for this man like 100 this is how it happens yes just like we don't we should trust anybody about this i'm good we're good here he's a's not the right specialty, but he's a doctor. So I think we're good. Before we get to any of that bullshit, Pallavi, we have more important things to cover, such as what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Okay. I'm not going to say exactly what it is, but I do. I was like, so I am Indian. Please don't tune out. And I have parents who are Indian. Oh, my God. Spoiler plot twist.

One question is how? Oh, my God. Listen, it was an accident. OK, something went weird in the lab. I was bit by a radioactive guru. That tracks, honestly. That's the only reasonable explanation. There you go. That tracks, honestly. That's the only reasonable explanation. That is science.

So I talk to my dogs and like my boyfriend the way with the language that my parents used to talk to me. You know how you like learn intimacy from your parents? Yeah. And then like your baby voice

is like how your parents talk to you. So that's like, so I use like nicknames and stuff that my parents gave me as a kid to show like affection. But sometimes I use them inaccurately because I'm not like from India. So I don't know. So I was like making sure that one of the nicknames I called my boyfriend was like accurate.

And it means like little girl. So it was accurate. And that's where you you're going he's my little baby girl um but it's but like my dad like for example like sometimes he calls me raja which means king so it's not always like gender specific yeah so i'm like gonna keep calling him that but yeah i was like wait a minute am i am i indian enough to know this like i'm just like googling I Indian enough to know this? I'm just like Googling my own culture. You know what I mean? I'm like this thing that I've been called my entire life.

Do I know what that means? This is how I know I'm fucking Eastern European. Because I'm like, huh, never had this happen. Oh, that's because my Ukrainian family does not use injunctions. endurance yeah there's no mystery there solved it okay that's so funny i do really love that your dad calls you king that's okay my friend arlo very funny comedian from portland they call me arlo i love Arlo they called me tiny king one time and I was like this is the correct gender expression for me like I don't I have a lot of questions about my gender but that was right you know what I mean I am a tiny king I'm not a short king I'm like a tiny king do you know what

I mean so I'm like it's always been that way my dad just knew you know yeah what's something you think is overrated okay this might end my end my relationship, but I'm not going to say it because it's not overrated because it's just that I had misconceived or notions going into it. My boyfriend is a sneaker head. Okay. And since dating him, I have upped my sneaker game a thousand percent. I have so many more shoes than I've ever had. At the beginning of dating, we were walking through a mall and there was a guy who was like doing the shoe cleaning and he was trying to get us to like get our shoes clean. And he yelled out, do you, do you want shoe cleaning? It'll help your relationship. Like that's how bad my shoes were. It's annoying getting roasted by this dude

because my dogs eat my shoes. I never give a shit. So I bought all these like new Nikes and they're amazing. They make me feel better. They're wonderful. But I will say the culture around it, I know everybody like men, women, non-binary people wear it.

It is heels for men. They're not comfortable, okay? They're aesthetically pleasing. I was like, they're gym shoes. They're sneakers. They're going to be not comfortable. Okay. They're aesthetically pleasing. I was like, they're gym shoes. They're sneakers. They're going to be so comfortable. Oh, they're not comfortable. Just know that going in for anyone dating, newly dating a sneaker head or getting into it.

I had no idea. Okay. So that's that. Some of my favorite high tops are like some of the heaviest things that any human has ever worn on their feet like my kairis feel like ashes on my feet i'm like there's no but they're so beautiful they're wonderful and i feel amazing like performing in them i'm actually caring where i step now i used to just walk through mud and stuff and now i'm like oh i do care about how i appear in my feet you know like my footwear

but like it's nice to invest in yourself but oh my god i thought there would be padding i'm like these people play basketball and are athletes do they just suffer all around and expect me to? What? You're like, I don't have a Michael Jordan salary to walk around in these all the time. Like, what the fuck? Or a Michael Jordan self-esteem. Like, I'm so lazy. Please make that comfortable.

There are some, like, I think the threes are really comfortable. If you're talking about Jordans, the threes are super comfortable in my experience. But it's a real crap shoot the ones like the the first air jordans which are like kind of the coolest ones the most classic ones that like you know they're amazing they there's a scene in uh the last dance where jordan like out of some sense of sentimentality plays his last last game at Madison Square Garden in Jordan 1s, and his feet are bleeding, actively bleeding. It's truly like, it's the most openly I've ever seen a corporation

admit that their product sucks outside of Domino's, where they're just like yeah these are bad man these shoes are bad i'm sorry like it's so because you look at them and you're like they have to be comfortable just like put something in there and it's and that that's the only thing is like i never want to hear men complaining about like women's feet hurting because it's like i know yours are too okay you've just been keeping it quiet this whole damn time yeah and selling these shoes we cry in the dark i suppose now i will too this tiny king is repressing their tears welcome to the team raja says

i don't know i got yeah i got one pair of uh like one of my favorite pairs of shoes i ever got were these like collab collaborations between air jordan and the levi's jean brand and the you got jews jegging shoes yeah yeah that's not right i can say that about our shoes okay i know i was like trying to come up with it but i was like i'm just saying a group of people yeah sheens i don't know no that's also a group of people that's oh yeah members of the martin sheen family and you don't want to mess with them. Oh, I thought it was like the fast fashion family. Yeah, the Sheens.

Those are the Sheens. The Sheen brothers. But they, like every piece of, I think what it taught me was like, denim is one of the heaviest known materials to man. Because like every piece of the shoe is made of denim other than the laces. And holy shit. When I tell you these are like like the mafia should put people in these before throwing them into a body somewhere jay leno is salivating yeah exactly but it's like so funny

you're like this is like plutonium yes i will say real quick paula V in defense of someone who's also a sneaker head I talked to you guys about this last time no I think I don't know how it works physics wise but I do think the bigger your feet are the more comfortable these sneakers are

because they're designing them for people who are wearing size 16 17 feet I wear size 13 and a half and now I'm offended Justin this is a tape that must be on the air yeah please I didn't want it to be because I don't

know if it's right do you want me to quote you or do you want to come on and tell us put that interstitial it's still recording put it in so my feet are too tiny to be happy is that it i don't know i don't know if i should go on record about the fact that my feet and other parts of my body are huge and comfortable and well taken care of maybe i don't know that's just how it works physically that's what i was thinking's what I was thinking that's also like I feel like

justice because it's like tall people are uncomfortable everywhere like in airplanes walking through door frames so it's like now finally their shoes are comfortable and I'd say that's exclusively reserved for the newer shoes the ones are always going to be shit they made Jordan's feet

bleed they're obviously going to make my feet bleed too that's 100% true. But I think this is true of the newer stuff. Absolutely. I think the bigger your feet are for whatever reason, the more comfortable they are. You think when Jordan's feet were bleeding, he was like, and I took that personally.

Yeah, and I took that personally. And that makes sense though. All the shoes are designed for giant human beings. Nike must redesign though, right? they must be like okay and then how do we make this so it like works on like 98 percent of the population why would they need to if we're still buying it exactly for them to just continue what they're doing because we're all idiots and we're still buying it they truly don't give a shit about their customer base i will say that or the people who manufacture them i don't think they care on either end yeah no i truly think it's just really profits and if they could just like put nike on like just

scaffolding and just make you put your feet in it they would yeah also like fabric on it i don't understand fashion but a lot of the designs of like cool newer shoes are like i guess ugly in in vogue like you know what i mean like it's like a trend to be disgusting and it's like okay make that true for personalities and i'm with you you know what i mean i'm like i never understood. And now you're doing ironic fashion. And I'm confused. These shoes look like the shitty shoes that you didn't want to get when you were a kid. Like all of my shoe taste and like shoe buying is wish fulfillment for myself when I was eight years old.

Exactly. Couldn't get the Jordans. Couldn't get like any of these things that I wanted and thought like still think they looked cool the designs are so classic and the shoes that people think are cool now or buying more now seem to be the ones that i like had to get that were like you know available at pay less shoes yeah I mostly buy sneakers for 40 year olds who get excited that I have them on the street. You know what I mean? They're like, oh my God, you have those?

And literally no one else cares. But I live for that. And that fulfills my heart in this weird little way. And I can be frank about that vanity in me. And that's okay. Yeah. Yeah, I think as long as we all look down and have fun, you know? As long as we all look down and have fun you know

as long as we can all make fun of you justin i think like whatever you believe or like love is fine yeah please please roast me lightly for it um i might have an ego death if you go too hard but i would never i bought kairi's i think i have roasted myself for this to fall. Yes, yes, I will. You know what? He's got a few hitters out there, but yeah, no. And you mean by a hitter, he's got a few hitters out there. Some of his political opinions are pretty cool.

Those are the best parts. Those are my favorite parts of him. Alright, well, thank you so much for joining us. We need Justin to take over the pod more often. Oh, man. Thank you so much, guys. I We need Justin to take over the pod more often. Yeah, I agree. Oh, man. Thank you so much, guys.

Appreciate it. He's been saying this for years. He's like, you guys should not be on this podcast. It should be. He publishes the podcast. It's a completely different one. We're being chill, but it's actually just a coup that Justin has been like meticulously planning. Right.

This entire fucking time. There are so many narratives about me out there right now. It's hard to know what to believe. That's what happens when you're a big-footed, chill, cool dude with amazing shoes. Everyone's like, what's his deal? He's almost too nice

to be nice. You made him sound like Bigfoot, but with sneakers on. The blurry picture, but with Jordan. If someone in zeitgang can please draw that i would absolutely purchase that from you that is somebody has to have photoshopped jordan's on the bigfoot in the blurry picture right of course yeah i'm sure all right what is something probably that you think is underrated okay like i said i'm very bad at self-care i just started using i have two dogs and they shed a lot i just started using a roomba it's like let the robots take over all right you're doing it better okay this place is so much cleaner that i could ever sweep it up just take my job i

don't care i don't care you can do it robots you know new roomba like how long ago did you get the roomba so my my brother gave it to me so it's an old roomba but i just started using it so i'm like so excited i'm not gonna say anything because it will disappoint you so i will just let you learn that on your own wait what's disappointing about it just there's a lot of that it can't do that it promises like that it can just like my father no it'll get tangled up and like if you have long hair at all that shit especially curly hair will get tangled up in it it'll not you'll have to keep cutting through uh if there's just a lot of upkeep and then sometimes it's like i don't understand that there's a carpet step i will keep knocking my little roomba head against it.

See, I got it for free and I had no expectations. Oh, see, then you're going to, it's awesome. I believe I want everyone to have that first week that you have the Roomba where you're like, everything is possible. Everything is possible. That's how I feel. Yeah. And sometimes it will start listening in on your conversations.

You'll be like, wait, why is the Roomba in the corner of the room while we're talking about our financial information? And why is it wet? Why is it wet? Why does it have those Boston Dynamic dog legs? And why is it climbing up the walls? Where to get that gun? Yeah, my experience with the room but so

i like i had the same question in my heart the second you brought up the room but i was like oh no she doesn't know yet i don't know yet yeah i saw i saw the light leave both of our eyes jack i saw that too i thought you'd be so excited and i was like ah this is so fun and then but i every time someone talks about their room but i'm like what is it a new purchase because i think they will solve it like i think eventually it won't be bad like that it because like there are things that does that are pretty cool like we've we've made artificial hearts and shit like you're telling me yeah find a fucking roomba solution like i believe in us i love i love that we're talking about it like we did it like sports teams yeah of course we made artificial hearts like let's get on it guys

i mean maybe the most advanced technology and robotics is not going to be purchasable at a bed bath and beyond like maybe i was looking for it in the wrong place, but... How dare you say that about Bed Bath & Beyond. What the fuck do you think Beyond is about? Exactly. That's what the Beyond was. The singularity. I also feel like I don't care how far technology advances

until we make a printer that works. You know what I mean? Like just print. Just print what I mean like just print just print what i want you to print and that i'll be excited about and that i also don't have to be like oh i now need to get like new ink or some shit toner primer highlighter whatever the fuck the printer needs that my face also needs you know like i i know i spend that at Fenty. I don't spend it on things for you. I don't.

Yeah, Zeitgang, for anybody who's, like, ever worked at, like, a, you know, in the government or something like that, do the powers that be secretly have printers that work? Like, do they just have, like, I feel like there is a lot of, obsolescence and designed fuck-ups with printers. The ink costs more than the printer itself, and that's by design. Big ink, man. Big ink. I feel like they... I've been saying it. Somebody's probably figured out the printer, and they just don't.

It's not profitable for them to sell a printer that is like yeah this lasts 10 years and just works you know i will say uh speaking of like the artificial hearts and stuff i have been in like academic settings with professors who are like nobel prize winners and they too who are creating these amazing technologies can only be foiled by printers and PowerPoint presentations. That is the only thing that can defeat a professor successfully. That tracks. That tracks, honestly. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and catch up on some news heading into the weekend.

We'll be right back. How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County rebels will stay the Boone County rebels with the image of the biscuits. It's right here in black and white in print.

A lion. An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the others to the bottom. Segregation academies. When civil rights said that we need

to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot. You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Season two.

Are we recording? Are we good? Oh, we push record, right? Okay. And this season, we're taking an even bigger bite out of the most delicious food and its history. Saying that the most popular cocktail is the margarita, followed by the mojito from Cuba, and the piña colada from Puerto Rico. So, all of these...

We have, we think, Latin culture. There's a mention of blood sausage in Homer's Odyssey that dates back to the 9th century B.C. B.C.? I didn't realize how old the hot dog was. Listen to Hungry for History as part of the My Cultura podcast network. Available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It was December 2019 when the story blew up. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, former Packers star Kabir Bajabiamila caught up in a bizarre situation. KGB explaining what he believes

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I felt like I was living in North Korea, but worse, if that's possible. Listen to Spiraled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We're back. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Herbs. Let's talk about Cassidy Hutchinson. She was White House aide to Donald Trump and she revealed she has a new book coming out. Oh my god.

Yay. Love it. Can't imagine that was her entire game for being a White House aide. She revealed that Rudy Giuliani groped her during the Stop the Steal rally on January 6th. Yeah.

Truly just like a mega trifecta or something. I would have been surprised if he hadn't groped anyone on any given day. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's kind of what he does. He is a walking dick with hands and an ability to consume alcohol. But she also has a little nugget that makes a lot of sense that the reason that Donald Trump wouldn't wear a mask, which was always

surprising me, right? He is a hypochondriac. He hates people. He doesn't want to be around them. He doesn't like he keeps the hand sanitizer like on the ready even before the pandemic. But then suddenly he got real brave with not wearing the masks. So she told this story. President pulled the mask off and asked why I thought he should not wear it. So first of all, cool, Cassidy, being like, why are you wearing that mask? I pointed at the straps of the N95 I was holding. When he looked at the straps of his mask, he saw they were covered in bronzer. He wasn't happy about that. Why did no one else tell me that? He said, I'm not wearing this thing. Trump was

almost never seen wearing one after that, with a handful of exceptions and the press was like you know this guy's he's rejecting the mask because of his political stance but it's wait why would she admit that she was responsible for influencing millions of people through trump to not wear a mask she was like i'm like so smart it's crazy how many people i killed that's what i think is wild about someone doing like a tell-all thing when like they don't they're just she's just looking for money obviously i know but like if you don't have enough like brains to know when you're showing your own ass while trying to show someone else's like a tell all is not your genre my dog like that is not you're gonna want to stay away from that it's just not gonna look great she's like tell all i need to tell you all why i'm a bad person

yeah that's what we all fucking heard tell all is yeah but yeah to your point like so many people were then you know his supporters took his lead started refusing to wear the mask mocking people who did they still refuse to wear masks to this day and i'm not saying it's all i'm not gonna blame it all on cassidy hutchinson but like it's certainly not helping. The most embarrassing part, none of his followers had the type of bronzer he did. Okay? It was so bad. They wouldn't have even had bronzer come off. They could have totally saved their lives and the lives of their loved ones.

All right. Rupert Murdoch stepping down as Fox chair. Why, God, why? ones all right rupert murdoch stepping down as fox chair why god why part of the reaction of this story is a little confusing to me because it implies that i was like aware that he that his position was fox chair and that like i don't know like couldn't he just continue to like the person who's taking over for him is his son like who's clearly it's not like he's decided to he's like going to prison or something like he's just this could be a purely like everyone's acting like it actually means something and i'm not 100 certain that it does mean anything it's

like you remember that movie from justin to kelly? Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. I was just about to. Exactly. Right. But, you know, from like from dictator to dictator, it's like. Right. We're supposed to like. You think Kelly Clarkson and Justin, whatever his name are, dictators.

I'm just saying. That's so funny. Are you saying they're equally talented? I'm saying that movie felt bad. And this also feels bad. And I agree with you. And I've been saying that this whole time. That's so funny.

You're like on a date. You're like, have you seen that movie, Justin to Kelly? That's what this feels like. And the answer is always no. And my answer is no. One day you'll find someone who says yes, and then that'll be your person. What a beautiful hate story.

But so taking over for him, his eldest son Lachlan, who's already serving as the chief executive of Fox Corporation. So like, yeah, like this just like doesn't mean anything to me. So he's already the CEO. It's already the same as fucking any kind of royalty, any kind of anything, just passing the shit back and forth among themselves. You're supposed to be like, oh, my God, the new queen just dropped. Exactly. Wait a minute.

Is it still the Murdoch? Why don't we pause all the press releases about this if one of them is more susceptible to like eating a pretzel then i'll be interested okay if they're not getting like shoes thrown at them or whatever i don't give a fuck okay they're just in their little bubbles i don't care yeah it like one of the types of articles this gives rise to is the article where it's like, well, he sure did a lot. You know, it's just like, I mean, you can't say the Iraq war wasn't impactful or, you know, like it's just like basically. It's one time is like, yeah, we put Trump on the cover. We said person of the year.

We didn't say good person of the year. We didn't say good person of the year. But just like sheer wattage of their influence is what is being determined. And that feels toxic and bad to me. No one needed your input on it. You know, honestly, like time. You're talking to me right now. Yeah. Well, guess what, Jack?

Nobody gives a fuck. Justin takes over. From Jack to Justin. No difference. I was just going to say that! That was amazing. I'm kind of for this, actually. Mute is Mike, Justin. I know you have control over his house. I was listening to this podcast. It's about dictators.

It's like about dictators and like, it's like pretty interesting, but like every, like the way the narrator describes success is like, Stalin was quite a successful leader. And it's like, how are we describing? Is it like, Oh,

if maybe if I was more successful, I could kill more people. You know what I mean? Like I had access to more murder all i have to say is those seven year plans were done in under five well you have a lot of tricks were unmatched there's a lot of efficiency to be gained when you just murder murder people yeah and erase them from pictures save a lot financially if you just kill a bunch of people yeah you invent

photoshop before like years before adobe did because you have to erase all those people from pictures so i mean and you never made us pay for subscription so right i just was gonna say that's why the simpsons has that iconic line that's why pencils have erasers about Germans. It's a mistake in the past, but that's why pencils have erasers. The Simpsons is going to be 100 years from now viewed the way that we view Shakespeare,

I think. Man, that was the best thing they did. It was all performed by men. Hank Azaria. He performs every single one of those voices yeah exactly what we love the most about it and that is the thing that makes it good but yeah i mean so it's obviously led to a bunch of succession memes namely people seeming to be bummed that he didn't randomly die on a private jet uh spoilers for anybody who's not caught up on succession

he was just about to go actual murdoch was just about to go to ocean gate or whatever right a titanic drop at 92 yeah a titanic drop oh my god you guys i just did the titanic drop but like his so i i had heard that there are details in Succession that caused the Murdoch family to put NDAs and really made them paranoid because they were so accurate to what their lives are actually like. And just one of the details of what this power struggle was like is that he made them fight each other because he thought that it would... He pitted kids against each other their entire lives. Oh yeah, he thought that it would create a Darwinian struggle that would produce the most capable heir. And then his daughter, is by many accounts the sharpest, but she is a woman and Murdoch subscribed to, you know, old fashioned values on which we used to rely. OK, so you're actually a family guy. Also Fox, you know, also Fox.

Wow. I mean, he gave us the Simpsons. He gave us family guy and we're going to sit here and bad mouth him? I think about biting a giant chicken. That's what I think about when I think about Rupert Murdoch. I think it's so funny that they were

like, there's so many secret details that are so accurate that we can't let out. Like how the woman is smart. Don't let that The biggest shock of all they'll never believe this the brains went inside the woman one all the time like a trojan horse but i mean if it if it was so accurate that they felt like they needed to like get litigious with people about like leaking details and he just let one of his sons actually take over i feel like that's a good thing for us because the actual like the children on succession were fucking idiots you know like they were all monsters who were the beginning of the end

yeah so maybe like hopefully this is the beginning of the end wait do you think he really killed a waiter do you think that actually happened i mean i'm sure they killed a lot of people that would be the sort of detail yeah i mean these like the stories you just casually hear about the sort of evil done by not like necessarily the first generation of people who get rich but like the ones their kids who have been like raised in it yeah just raised in like being ready to inherit like millions or billions of dollars like they are so ruined like just the least humane human people like of all of all time like so i i wouldn't be shocked like of all, of all time. Like, so I, I wouldn't be shocked if that was one of the details.

Of course I have no way of knowing that though. So yeah, that, that made it sound like I like helped them cover up a murder. I know. And we just let you hang in that. No way of knowing that. And any allegations otherwise are completely specious.

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said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot you have to be ready for serious backlash listen to rebel spirit on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and there's a big story. Bob Ross first painting on sale for $10 million. A Minneapolis art gallery is reportedly selling the first ever painting he created on his PBS show for nearly $10 million, which seems like a lot for a work of art that took 30 minutes to make. to make on the other hand i had the immediate thought i was like well it's like his rookie card it's like i don't know i don't i don't care about the artistic value of like major league baseball like baseball card rookie card like it's just cool that it was like their rookie card that came out when before we knew how awesome they were going to be and that is exactly the sales pitch from the con artist who is selling this thing who's like what are you talking about it's a fucking rookie card bob was a rookie card

the last time it was on zeitgeist and we had another art story remember and we were talking about the way that the art market it was about the british museum remember and then oh yeah and all that stuff but also about how in addition to all the other reasons like that museum and a lot of others are like a crime the fact that so little of the artwork is exhibited right and like that also what ends up happening is like much of it disappears or gets misplaced by a man that runs the gallery and put by him on ebay right but the other thing we were talking about though like the capitalism of like art in a way that is like gruesome and won't leave anything in its wake and it's like the gagosianization of like everything and to see like some like i would

love it if say that 10 million dollars or whatever the fuck went to like an arts program or some shit but like uh doubtful you know instead now we're making a thing that that man prided himself on making accessible to everyone on public television we're making we're setting the bid at 10 million anyway yeah i also think it's terrible anyways i'm selling my first joke for like two million dollars so if anybody wants to buy my first open mic joke classic get in while you can it's probably about dicks or something very bob ross of me. Classic. Classic.

Yeah, so much of the art world is basically money laundering. And so much of, like, all these stories where it's like, they just bought this for $90 million becomes a lot easier to believe when you realize that. Yeah, that it's just, like, rich people hiding their money in

a brightly colored thing yep i want to rob them so bad they deserve to be robbed so bad you know i'm empathizing with the bling ring right i want to bob rob them am i right i'm quitting i quit um so i i do just want to read this part though so i i'm like all right fuck this this is terrible capitalism like destroys everything including art like and then i'm reading this description of bob ross the bob ross's other most expensive work of art, which, you know, people are saying $10 million is wild. Just if you look at the internal market for Bob Ross paintings, his previous most expensive was $95,000. And this is them describing that. And they said, painted on an oil on canvas, this gem features a rowboat padding to the shore on a sunny day with reeds and sand visible in the foreground it allowed bob to spend special attention to the way the sunlight illuminates

the clouds and how to stipple the edge of the waves of the tides to get that white foam and like i was like my blood pressure fell by like 345 points or however you just like reading a description of like what he did like a a description of like that's a plot synopsis of an episode of like a bob ross show it's an asmr of asmr yeah yeah and so i i'm like kind of in not not on how much money this is, but on the Bob Ross art market. The money part cancels out the blood pressure drop. I get stressed out thinking about a painting that costs that much and who it's in the hands of. That's what capitalism looks at a thing and is like, how do we make this stressful? This is like yoga run by someone with anger management issues.

You know what I mean? At some point, it it's gonna snap. How do we make this like fuck people's whole shit up? Like just like really stress them out. Wait, the thing where the guy like calms everyone down. Yeah. How do we make that like really stressful and like make people want to murder each other? You know how like he made you feel like sunshine inside? What if like our thing was was taking that and making it feel like it was hailing in your heart?

Yeah. Can we bottle that? Can we sell it? Oh, I think people were enjoying the sunshine of it. No. Nah, fuck that. Another one of America's great creations, craft singles are being recalled for gagging or choking hazards. Okay, gagged.

Yeah, that's right. Bad news for those of us who are too lazy to take four seconds to cut ourselves a slice of cheese. Wait a minute. It's got wrapping on it in general? I've been eating stacks of them at once. in general, I've been eating stacks of them at once. I've just been unhinging my jaw like a snake and housing 15 of them at once. Yeah. 83,800 cases of Kraft singles are being recalled, which apparently one of the company's wrapping machines had a bad day at work and some packages were shipped out with a thin strip of plastic film stuck to the singles which is confusing like i don't know how it could be

more stuck to the singles that's what i think already is that's what i kept thinking too i was like how would it be any different than the other plastic like of all the things that of all the foods that i would not be worried having a thin strip of plastic stuck to them, this would be it because it's our, it opened, that's its opening offer. That's what I paid for. Is it has thin plastic stuck to it. I buy it for the plastic and then I melt the cheese down and sell that. It's like crying in the ocean. Like who even can tell?

Yeah. A third piece of plastic. Not me when I do it. Exactly. It's a victimless crime. The only victim is yourself. Just like with craft singles. And crying in the ocean, which I will be doing on Sunday with Sophia.

Cannot wait for that sweet date. We just go out on the surf and we just sob. Just up to your knees in the ocean? Or what are we thinking? Up to your shoulders? Yeah ocean or what are we thinking up to your shoulders yeah just you just walk out actually you just slowly walk out to the ocean in like a white long dress in a white long dress with rocks in your pockets don't turn back and you just sob it's the coolest thing in la. It's right after puppy yoga.

It's called the Virginia Wolf Diet. I don't know why they call it a diet. Just for marketing purposes. We juice a little bit after. We eat a little potpourri. It's a lifestyle. Fucking LA type of day. Type of death.

Both, honestly. What's the difference? do you guys fuck with craft singles are you are you above it okay i'm vegan now i hate being vegan let's not talk about it but like i'm vegan now so i can't but i used to fuck with it a little bit you know little cheese on that sandwich you know only in grilled cheese anything other than that i'm like it's it's necessary it's made for melting yeah it is the thing that i appeals to me about it and it's most american cheese i i actually don't think i have had craft singles in like you know a couple weeks but it's it's mainly the low melting point like i

think my there's a part of my brain that's like, that's not supposed to melt that quickly. And it's just like, it's like a non-Newtonian. They're like, water's special properties are that it's polar and crafts cheese. An unnatural melting point. Exactly. All right. And in other science news, let's talk about Florida's Surgeon General. He, you know, Donald Duck.

Despite the fact that COVID infections are nearing the first peak of 2020 levels. A flip-flop with a mustache. I thought we were still taking candidates. No. And a little earring. Yeah, we're pitching candidates for florida

i didn't know if registration grandpa just a grandpa selected at random a jet ski on fire okay i'm done i'm sorry i like i like the cut of his jib yeah You know it's him because he's on fire. He doesn't seem like he gives a fuck at all. That jet ski's not wearing a mask. Why should I? That's right. The CDC just released new data indicating that he warned healthy adults under the age of 65 against taking a new COVID-19 booster. And CDC just released new data that he gave that advice just days after

Florida ranked first in the nation for COVID-related hospitalizations. I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with COVID and everything to do with critical race theory. And this is how I'm going to say I will. Yes. His predecessor was like, the vaccines remain very, very safe and have a really proven efficacy, particularly against preventing severe disease, which I do feel like we always need to say. Because the way this story has trended is just people being like, yeah, but I don't know. Like, everybody had different things to say during the pandemic. It was a crazy time. And it's like, no, those people were wrong. And they killed many, many people with their wrong opinions.

And now one of them is the Surgeon General of Florida. But to be fair, his like scientific backing is that the vaccine is gay. So how can we argue with that? You know what I mean? My dog's right for that one. Oh, I'm so much gayer than I was, honestly. Meow. Like he actually had, he's a little like Dr. Oz in the sense that like he, when you look at his background,

there was a time when he was like a very respected medical professional. He's a Harvard grad, accomplished clinical researcher at UCLA. And then COVID hit and he started being like, fuck the lockdown. We should all just go about this like nothing matters for you guessed it. Rupert Murdoch in the wall street journal and then he joined a little uh yeah i know r.i.p to a real one then he joined a little group called america's frontline doctors which you remember might remember oh my god i remember that image of them yeah they protested at the capitol they were all wearing white coats. Yeah. And I was like, are these real doctors?

And then like most of them were plastic surgeons. And I was like, what the fuck? Then you're like, yeah. So obviously, no. Right. And this was the one real doctor that and that's why DeSantis like selected him and was like, I know you have like no background in politics or like being any sort of surgeon general or any position like this but because i feel like i could use you to pwn the libs i'm going to make you the surgeon general and then kill so many people like just

really playing with fire in Florida. So many old people. They're so old there. Also being chosen by DeSantis. I just imagined that explanation you just gave as a drunk history episode where DeSantis is being played by

someone like Rob Hubel and he's like and I chose you because for all these reasons on the lips i have a little drunk everybody can probably tell that but yeah i also think like people like sure people can have like having gone to like a really sciencey engineering school it's like yeah you can be very smart in like one or one specific thing, but then really dumb in another, but also like don't underestimate the power of selling out. Like to have like power and be tokenized and be given like higher platforms because you are a token or because of these credentials and you can earn money

from that and earn connections from that. That is not impervious to your academic like institutions that you've attended or the degrees you've accumulated so it's like people who think that they shouldn't trust science because they can't trust some scientists like that really bothers me because it's such a blemish on like stem and everything because it's not it's just like anything it's like it's not the knowledge it's the people who wield it right that are corruptible so that really bothers me i'm like you're not doing us any favors in science yeah i mean it's not like one one profession is going to be 100 percent like smart and right on a subject but people act like you know because

they found a single harvard harvard grad who like has a medical background that like, well, that proves it, folks. I was like, no, it's science defeated. There's this crazy thing called second opinions. And you are the only person with this opinion. So, yeah, it is an opinion. It is truly an opinion. And it is an opinion. It is truly an opinion.

So since he's been the Surgeon General, he added a thing claiming that, like, warning men against taking the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, pointing to an analysis claiming that shots increase the risk of cardiac-related deaths among young men. That's what I said. Gay! Right. increase the risk of cardiac-related deaths among young men. That's what I said, gay! Right. But then later revealed that the evidence he pointed to in that analysis was written by, let me see, him. He had personally altered the state study he cited, and the Florida Department of Health study said that there was no significant risk associated with the covid 19 vaccine for young men and then in a draft labeled dr l's edits that is so funny modafo uh modified the report so it read that like it was a risk to men between 18 and 39 which is like false it's like that dude from the british museum remember who was solely selling the art, making his fucking eBay seller name, just his actual email connected to his Twitter connected to his everything.

Yes. I also have a folder on my desktop called Dr. G's edits, and it's just pictures of me photoshopped as Andrew Garfield's wife. So like, that's also real to me. That's a real fact to me. But anyway, despite like that, that became a scandal, obviously, because he like altered a scientific paper with just like things he wished were true.

And so funny. Since then, he's been confirmed for a second term by the state Senate. So also, that's really funny because of how papers and science are peer-reviewed and like how reviews and edits go about in that in that profession like you have the peer-reviewed journals are a thing where like other experts in the field like examine your experiments and your methods and your materials and they're like hey add this experiment

or like this uh this isn't sound enough. You need to have more subjects or whatever. And it's just like it's just so funny that he's like, you know what? I'm going to publish this on my own. I'm going to add my own appendix. It's like it just adds to the hilarity within academia of like these professors are on a power trip and want to just do whatever the fuck they want to do. Yeah. It's so fun. Yeah. So I love i love that i'm gonna start doing that i'm gonna do dr g's edits and there you go be like you know what we are going on a date okay these are dr g's

re my notes counterpoint see my notes below yeah yeah see my edits well paula v such a pleasure having you on the podcast as always where can people uh find you follow you all that good stuff i am at paula vegan allen p-a-l-l-a-v-i-g-u-n-a-l-a-n everywhere i've been posting more stuff on instagram because x is dead uh slash dying slash we're gonna have to pay something for it. So I'm tired of it. But I am there still. Until it goes down.

And I'm like doing more shows. We're all in that cesspool until. Hell yeah. I'm doing more shows. So I run a show at the comedy store. Called Facial Recognition Comedy. It's all South Asians. And Middle Eastern people.

And North African people, all Brown people. You do with Karen. Yeah. Karen is on our show. I co-produce it with VISA and Zara, but we book Karen all the time. Love Karen.

I also am going to be in Chicago at November 8th at the Lincoln lodge. I'm really excited for that. And I'm going to be just doing shows everywhere. Come on, Zyke Gang, go out in full force. Yeah, some of you showed up to Seattle. So thank you so much for that. I appreciate it. Yeah. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Yes. Okay. So this person named Liz Elkind tweeted, she tweeted, Matt Gaetz pins shutdown on McCarthy. We will have a government shutdown and it is absolutely Speaker McCarthy's fault. We cannot blame Joe Biden for not having moved our individual spending bills.

We cannot blame House Democrats. We can't even blame Chuck Schumer in the Senate. And then the official White House account quote tweeted it with that Onion article. That's heartbreaking. The worst person you know just made a great point about the white house so i'm like some social media intern is on their game like taking that meme and posting it yeah it's wild i was like i think that's the first time the work of media we've been enjoying was from at white house at white house. Yeah. If you guys have heard of it,

like they're doing really terrible work. So go ahead. Check them out. Follow them. Work. Disappointment. When your student loans aren't canceled. Every 40 years,

there's a good name. Amazing. Sophia, such a pleasure having you as guest co-host. Where can people find you? And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? First off, thank you so much for having me. Second off, it was so nice to hang out with you, Pallavi.

Third, I am really interested in Ellery Smith's quote tweet. I love Ellery Smith. Of this film updates, recreation of Ben Schwartz recreating this cable knit sweater billy crystal look and ellery wrote the quality of sweaters has declined so greatly in the last 20 years that i think it genuinely says genuinely necessitates a national conversation and sweater yeah so ben schwartz was like trying to recreate the Billy Crystal sweater from When Harry Met Sally. Yeah, and just look how soft and plushy this motherfucking sweater is. And then, what the hell is this?

It's a mess. Acrylic nightmare. It's really... Acrylic nightmare. It's a Sheen sweater. I got this in high school when I was in Ross. And I was like, maybe I'm preppy. And it was a hard no then too.

I will say I'm actually opening for Ellery Smith's special taping on the 28th. So you guys should go buy tickets to that because it's going to be amazing. And she's very funny. Very funny. tickets to that because it's gonna be amazing and she's very funny very funny like anybody who has a good way of looking into the ways that like things have gotten worse because like we've talked about like they're definitely like things like movies have gotten worse because of like cgi and like the ability for companies to just like send you like a scam bullshit product or more but it calls yeah but if like phone the ability to use the phone has gotten worse the ability to use email text

everything is getting slowly turned into just complete bullshit but at the end of this are you gonna say make america great great again i'm just saying can we make america great again but i'm just saying can we make america great again no and under it is a maga hat and has been this entire time is there somebody who's like tracking because i feel like clothes are getting worse and like quality 100 yeah like what what is somebody keeping track of this do we have a database where it's just like is there a subreddit where it's just like things that are way worse than they used to be? Yeah, Jack, let me get my manufacturing guy on it.

My textiles man. Hello, manufacturing guy. Yeah, those dastards that I asked you about, will you please? Oh, yeah? Dr. G, I hear you'll make some edits. No, I'm making some edits to our textiles. It's going to make them worse by far i knew

you guys would be able to help me with this amazing uh you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien and event the second that twitter you have to pay for you will find me on threads at jack underscore o underscore brian uh tweet i've been enjoying mere i am like will i am but miriam tweeted willy nilly is short for william nilliam and that was just a fact that i needed to know that's so true you can find me that's so true uh 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 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 uh super producer justin you've already come in with the wild conspiracy theory about shoe design and or a correct fact check we're not sure which end of the spectrum it lands on we're gonna let it ride Justin is there a song that you think people

might enjoy? there is as we head into the weekend I wanted to give y'all something fun to listen to everybody has been put onto the Wow! since. One of my favorite outstanding songs on there is Stop Parentheses Asking Me For Shit. I love it! Yeah, there's some fun rhythm changes and playful songwriting going on here. It's the perfect way to enter the weekend. So if you haven't heard this

yet, I really suggest you throw this on. This is Stop Asking Me For Shit by Victoria Monet, and you can find that in the footnotes. Footnotes, 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 is going to do it for us this week.

We are back on Monday morning to tell you what was trending over the weekend, what's trending on Monday morning, and all sorts of good stuff. We'll also have a greatest hits of the week episode, if you missed a bunch of episodes this week. And yeah, the weekly Zeitge If you missed a bunch of episodes this week. And yeah, the weekly Zeitgeist, I believe, goes up on Saturday. But yeah, have a great weekend, everybody. And we'll talk to you on Monday morning. Bye.

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