The Daily Zeitgeist - UFOs Not NOT Aliens? Avenger’s Campus Orientation 6.7.21

Episode Date: June 7, 2021

In episode 924, Jack and guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian Yassir Lester to discuss the new covid variants coming, Facebook's ban on Trump, a US intel report on UFOs, the new Avengers campus at Disneyland, and more!FOOTNOTES: ‘Pfizer vaccine generates fewer antibodies against Delta variant’ Facebook suspends Trump for 2 years in response to Oversight Board ruling US intel report on UFOs: No evidence of aliens, but. ... Report does not confirm, or rule out, extraterrestrial activity in unexplained aerial events Avengers Campus Review: Disneyland's Newest Addition Is A Marvel Fan's Dream Come True LISTEN: U-Roy & Santigold - Man Next Door Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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a production of iHeartRadio. Yeah! This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Monday, June 7th, 2021. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Truffle Butter O'Brien. Gross. And I'm thrilled to be joined. I hated that. I know. Me too.

But I just found out what it was. I really liked that Nicki Minaj song. I thought she was singing about truffle butter, the food product. I thought she was saying about truffle butter, the food product. I'm thrilled to be joined by today's special guest co-host, Jamie Lofton! A.K.A. the official holder and ruler of Hot Dog Summer. I don't have a song today. I just have a proclamation. Hell yeah.

How are you pronouncing a hot dog there? I wasn't trying to add a flourish. Hot dog. I might have... I'm going back to New England soon. No, no, because that's something that I've been noticing about people from Massachusetts is they have interesting pronunciations on O words that I didn't realize. Okay, you're coming right in with an attack

right at the beginning of the show. I may have said something akin to hot dog, which is which I feel like I remember at the beginning of the pandemic, I was saying like I was saying COVID wrong. I was saying like COVID. I was saying COVID

for a while. Nobody was saying that, Jim. I was saying it and I was getting mean emails. COVID? COVID. Cape COVID? I don't know. I don't know what I was doing mean emails. COVID? COVID. Cape COVID? I don't know. I don't know what I was doing. It was a dark time. Enough chit chat.

Okay, fine. Jamie, it's time to get down to it because we have a very special guest today. A hilarious stand-up comedian who wrote on the Carmichael Show and Girls and played Chris in Making History, Yasser in Black Monday, Yangzi in the new Fox animated show, Duncanville with Amy Poehler. I first heard about him on maybe my favorite podcast of all time called Chelsea Peretti, where I think he was one of the best guests that show ever had.

Please welcome the legendary Yasser Lester! There it is. Podcast legend. Podcast legend. Man podcast legend and really came in insult you know let the people know yeah yeah get ready to listen because this guy's about to guest first and foremost you are a legendary podcast guest. Yeah, I think we can all agree. Yeah. What's your take on being introduced as a podcast guesting legend? Like, no pressure, though.

It's like, you know, when like you're performing, someone's about to bring you up on stage and they go like, this person is so funny on Twitter. You're like, that feels bad. It feels backhanded. It feels backhanded. Yeah. It's so funny on Twitter. You're like, that feels bad. It feels backhanded. It feels backhanded. Yeah. It's so funny. So to hear that I,

you know, make other people's podcasts better, I guess. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how I feel about it. I will say it's nice to be recognized. Good.

Yeah. That feels good. It is. Just, you know. So thank you guys so much for having me. And I wrote a poem called Blue Lives Matter and I want to get into it right now. Wow. Okay, great. Thank God.

Here's the thing. It's pro. It goes pro Blue Lives Matter. Yeah. So that's, look at that. That's some podcast fire right there, right out the gate. I know. Bringing the content.

Legendary content producer. Another cool thing to be known as. All right. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about. Apparently Pfizer, the vaccine that I got got elicits a weaker antibody response to the delta variant I don't know necessarily what that means but I'm just wondering if that's the thing we have to be dealing with from now on like finding out that our brand of vaccine like is broken when it comes to some Greek alphabet version of the exit or of the coronavirus.

We're going to talk about Trump's Facebook ban. They gave it an expiration date. We're going to talk about that UFO commission report, which will not confirm the existence of aliens. But I don't know. Did anybody think they're gonna be like yo it's aliens so we'll talk about that why that's not surprising we'll talk about why nobody knows how to act now that the country is opening back up the avengers campus opening in disneyland all of that plenty more but first yes sir we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Oh, God. Here's the thing. Like,

all of my searches are like pretty bogus as is like I'm not I'm not I feel like everyone else does like a cool like, oh, I can't say because it's like, you know what I mean? Like, like if I go into mine literally right now, my last search is 1996 Ford Bronco XLT in Lancaster because I used to have a Ford Bronco and I wanted to get one again and i remembered i was trying to see if this person had still had their had they not sold theirs yet but that's the last thing i searched for i thought you were looking for a ford bronco that you previously had had that would have been cooler. But, like, I mean, like, again, like, all of it is so boring. Like, the other one is the difference between, because there was some stupid meme.

And, like, what the difference is really in how they make the flavor. This is, God, this makes me sound like a loser. How do you make the crunch flavors differ in the chocolate Eclair Good Humor bars versus the strawberry shortcake ones? Like, are they using, like, is it like a blank, like, cookie thing and then they're dyeing it? Or is it, like, actual different kinds of crumbles? And I didn't...

Did you get an answer? Yeah, I didn't get an answer. So we're 0 for 2. You didn't find the Ford Bronco. No, the Ford Bronco I found. Oh, you did? And it hasn't been sold yet. But the thing is, you can't reach out unless you're serious about it.

You know what I'm saying? And it's like, do I really? Because I have a car. Right. So there's, there's more to the equation than just me. Just like in the Google verse, if you will.

Right. Google shared universe. Like, I wonder what that car looks like. Yeah. Yeah. But like, I'm not going to lie guys.

It's a steal, but it's like, can I, you know, can I, can I afford it? Is it dumb? Ford Broncos's like can i you know can i can i afford it is it dumb ford broncos are i don't know i don't have a driver's license they're big right yeah they're big so yeah that's what i'm saying i used to have one and this one's in better condition than the one i had and i'm like wow it'd be fun to just have it again but I already currently have a truck

how interesting is this for not only just you two but the listeners at home what no I do love now that I've googled google image searched uh the ford bronco 96 I do love this car and it's one that I feel like it's more you you see it more in california because back east like the salt and the roads have like just devoured the bodies of these cars but like i see these in like mint condition all the time in california and they look so cool because people bought them and like then just kind of sat on them they weren't they were cool cars but they weren't like the you know like people weren't right it wasn't like you know a benz or something and also you can take the top off so it's like the ford equivalent of a jeep you know right right but yeah i you guys

is it's a struggle that sounds really hard jamie jamie jamie listen look look i know you got the mints of stuff happening i know you got the Mensa stuff happening. I know you got the Lolita stuff happening. But as a prayer warrior, I got my own stuff going on, too. All right. I respect your journey. I respect your journey with trucks. Thank you. Is there something about like when you owned it?

Was it like did you have a great experience with the 96 Ford Bronco or it was just like a good car? It was just a cool. Here's what I'll say. Like, and look, there's there are plenty of like toxically masculine things that I think every guy does that they don't even realize. And then there's like the intentional ones. Right. Like having a big truck big vehicle is like mine you know right like i still for whatever reason like equate that to being like yeah buffalo wings and a gun you know what i mean like it's like all the crap that like kind of means nothing so it's not like i was like wow when i had a bronco like

that's when everything was smooth sailing like it wasn't it's just like right it's not like I was like, wow, when I had a Bronco, like that's when everything was smooth sailing. Like it wasn't. It's just that it's a simpler time. Yeah. Oh, man. Just me and my Bronco just doing what we do. But no, it's just that I just like kind of like it and i also i like you know what it is i think that they're like trucks in general even though they get expensive to me signify uh a rejection of like wealth and the bourgeoisie if you will a little bit you know yeah which i i actually as a personal philosophy and uh i find myself steeped into i just really i i think that like having money is cool and everyone should be comfortable like i think that's the biggest argument for raising

the minimum wage is just like why wouldn't you want someone next to you to be comfortable and right be able to live it's the craziest thing anyway i say all that to say but like anytime something feels too like i don't know polished and like yeah i don't know i it just really grosses me out and like i don't know i think like vehicles in particular show what kind of like what's happening mentally like if la was like set up like new york i wouldn't have a car at all like i just you know like they're great but like they're also a responsibility and like i don't want to worry about some other person like i don't drink but i don't have to worry about some other person being like a drunk driver or something you know what i mean right but that

being said blah blah blah ramble ramble ramble i do think that like your car is like a projection of what you think about yours yourself a little bit and your financial status and like whether you have the money or not, like seeing like a Bronco on the road, whether that person has a million dollars or $2, like shows that they not are just like salt of the earth, but more just like, you know,

they're worried a little bit more about like utility and comfort and not just being like a flashy psychopath. And was the 90, I'm sorry to like keep flashy psychopath and was the 90 i'm sorry to like keep going and make this the fort no this is cool this is cool yeah people are like okay wait do they talk about the news or welcome to truck tow i feel like the reason that a lot of people sat on it was like didn't it kind of become infamous through the OJ Sims? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That's the only reason I know what they are. Yeah. But they're so cool. They are so cool. But I think that's, so I think it's like a twofold thing, right? I think it was like,

cause I don't want to say it's the first SUV, but kind of right. Like, you know, this is before like the suburbans really were a thing. And, you know, like,

so this is kind of what what especially like you know the the california crowd had and so yes they like i i think that again you know the oj thing and just i think people got more into like the luxury mercedes suv or you know a bmw x5 or whatever and like that ain't me man you know i'm i'm i'm down there uh at the hurricane katrina sites with the rifle walking with sean penn and my bronco me my bronco sean penn we both have our guns looking for snakes. One of my favorite things to do on walks is there's a lot of like C-list celebrities that like whip their Teslas around. And I like to there. I saw the guy from you remember Red Fu from LMFAO. He's whipping his Tesla around.

Oh, sorry. Which Red Fu? He's almost hitting pedestrians. Oh, the one from LMFAO. He was the tall one. He's like hitting pedestrians. Oh, it was from LFM. He was the tall one. He's like some sort of nepotism, too. Hold on, let me... He's Barry Gordy's nephew.

Yes! And then... But then, he is the uncle of the other guy. Strong uncle energy in LMFAO. It's just like they're all just each other's uncle. It's kind of the same thing with Migos.

They're like cousins and then two of them are each other's uncle. And you're like, what is the hood doing to y'all? Y'all are all just each other's uncles. Wait, Jamie, you're just like seeing... He's driving his Tesla around almost hitting pedestrians. Oh, cool. I know from experience as a pedestrian who's almost been hit by Redfoo's Tesla. Damn.

Those things really have a lot of pickup. Yeah. Well, I mean, but there's all that trunk space in the front. You just would have flown right in and been like, oh, I'm comfortable actually. I'm like, oh, I'm actually Redfoo's niece now. We're going to start playing. Based on another brief. I'm would be yeah yeah lol or something uh what is something you think is overrated yes sir i think weirdly the opinions of twitter

scholars have become so overrated now because we used to live in a world where like people only spoke when they really had something to say right and like you had to like go out of your way to like get published and like prove that you were smart and blah blah blah and now it's like i don't know i just feel like i don't know even like malcolm gladwell who i think is very smart and respect like anytime he has an opinion on anything i'm'm like, oh my God. I think, how about this? I think you should only have an opinion about things that we know you're an expert in.

But when people are like, cool recipe. I'm like, I don't want to hear this. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, I don't. Just leave me alone. Or just this idea of like, let me tell you a story and then you see like parentheses thread and you're like no i saw this thread we're just like this very prominent black scholar uh i'll i'll leave his name out of it but i'll text you guys on the

side of course and tell you of course you know this is like someone who you know during the uprising of last summer and all this stuff is it, you know, pretty has some pretty poignant and smart things to say. But then he goes on a thread about how he was walking down the street. He started speaking to a home, an unhoused person. I'm sorry. And the person's like, hey, I recognize you. You're so and so the professor and like educator and he's like oh yeah that is me how'd you know who i am and the unhoused person said to him said just because i don't have

a home doesn't mean i don't have access to a library and to knowledge and so then he ends the thread by saying he's like so i gave that man the four dollars I had in my pocket. And then I went home and I donated two hundred dollars to my local library. And I was like, you should have done that reverse. Just so you know. So you gave someone who's living on the street four bucks who knew who you were. Like it's so and I was like see this is why I don't need to know anything about anybody

like please just like like I think you should get on Twitter if you're an expert of any sort and be like again like yes aliens are here here's the proof or like hey this is how you can save some money but like i anything else where like especially when they like give you these glimpses into their personal lives like me and the spouse

headed up to so and so i'm just like neil degrasse tyson's the worst of it i think oh my god yeah you know i'm just like like if your personality is ruining movies, which are like objectively like just the easiest thing to enjoy, like outside of candy. Like, all right. Yeah, I think I'm out. Neil deGrasse Tyson is so I feel like there he's like a reason I used to be interested in space. And then one of the reasons that I no longer engage with space news. Like I went all the way around on being interested in space because of him. Exactly.

So, yeah, I would say that the opinions of experts, the personal opinions of experts are overrated. What is something you think is underrated? God, this is so dumb. But Fruity Pebbles. Uh-huh. Ooh, okay. Not dumb at all. Especially because it's like, it's a cereal that is, yes, marketed to kids, but it's really

just, like, gangster Rice Krispies. You know what I mean? Like, we just tossed a whole new vibe into some rice. And here's the thing. They got rid of Rice Krispie Treat cereal, which was objectively best cereal of all time. They got rid of that?

Yeah. So now it's just frosted Rice Krispies. And you're like, this is a different thing. You know what I'm saying? But I'll say as a breakfast cereal, phenomenal. But also just as a dessert or a little late night snack. It's like you can't go wrong with it. And like, whereas Trix, a little bit too crunchy.

You know what I'm saying? They're too sweet for me. Oh, see. Well, then for Fruity Pebbles? No, for Trix. Oh, see. Well, then how are you doing with the Fruity Pebbles? Yeah, Fruity Pebbles will take it up a notch.

I feel like they're, I don't know how to talk about serious like the pebbles glaze is different like it feels like the crunch is different i feel like tricks gets it's really sweet and then it gets really soggy very quickly but fruity pebbles has like a resilience that trickster does not yeah fruity pebbles really you know pulls itself by its bootstraps like it really is it's always yeah yeah uh-huh it's the rosy the riveter of cereals by far i think fruity pebble like i i truly think american junk food is the greatest contribution that our society has. Like nobody's ever put this much science and education into making food that is so delicious you like can't stop eating it. Right. It really is interesting because it's like you don't have to like this is all these companies make other things.

to like as all these companies make other things like i mean it's like con agra and like all these companies that own you know right the chicken industrial complex so it's like but you also need to sell us cheetos like that just feels a little crazy to me you know but just sell us more chicken like we would all that's the other thing it's like we would all just eat more of whatever they made but they're like no let's let these idiots think they're doing something you know and to your point like the fact that like laffy taffy tastes like completely different and even has like a different texture than like a mamba it's like so it's like these are the same things and they're completely different and both of these are different than a haichu you know like yeah right and a starburst yeah they're all like they should be the same and they're all completely different and then like don't even get me started

on fucking saltwater taffy which oh jack get started on saltwater the listeners want you to get started i haven't told you this before. We started recording. Don't get started. Don't get me started on Saltwater Taffy. Wait, I'm very suspicious that they discontinued Rice Krispie Treat cereal because that is like 50% of the people I know's favorite cereal. That suggests to me that they figured out it, like it was doing something really bad.

It was killing people. Yeah. It must've been killing people. Cause people say something. Can I say something? Yeah. I don't care. Like,

I would like, like if they were like this in four years, if you, if you ate this every day and in four years like you're a goner i would be like oh okay then don't eat it every day right if i eat it if i eat it every three days that gives me what seven years yeah i'm good with that right now but i also think it's like one of those things that like and uh by the way again just guys, thank you so much for having me. But I feel like it's one of those things that kind of got out of the test market, you know, and never really should have stayed around as long.

You know how they just like every three weeks, they're like, here's a new Oreo, but it's made with guns. And you're like, what? And they're like, yeah, it's only in Kentucky. And you're only in Kentucky alright like I feel like that's what Rice Krispie Treat cereal was like it was never supposed to be I don't think it was supposed to become the legend that it became you know

but I don't know why you became Cosby there yeah man became the Woody out of cere know no one could top it what's your milk philosophy before we uh move on to less important things like the news here's the hardest thing because they're actually no matter how you do it the only correct answer is water right like there's actually there's no correct milk answer. It takes, what, a gallon of water to, I want to say raise, but I think the word is grow one almond.

Like, so if you're making that much almond milk, that's bad for the environment. Oat milk is, I think Jamie, I think actually saw this on your Twitter feed. Really? Did you tweet about, like, oat milk is i think jamie i think actually saw this on your twitter feed really did you did you tweet about like oat milk recently like in the past few weeks i don't i'm almost positive okay i saw here's the thing i follow like four smart people and you're one of them so if it wasn't you it's one of your friends but but they broke down what oat milk was and it's kind of just like again ground oats and a lot of like oil like that i didn't know which acts as a binder to make it thicker because that's the one thing we all like about oat milk right we're like oh this is like this is like this is like dick as hell and then you're like oh you're drinking canola oil or whatever and then rice milk is again just like white water but it sucks right

and then milk milk is i'm allergic to dairy actually like oh okay got it so i can't have it but that being said like if i had to choose one i get like here's the thing on taste i go oat but like on conscience i guess i go almond almond right yeah i'm trying to i'm trying to get on board with almond milk but i like i like cow milk i don't know really i like cow milk yeah i like grew up drinking one percent and i grew up something about one percent really hits for me i grew up on skim and i hate skim milk so much and then we were just like skim is nasty yeah passing through the point where like you have to have like whole milk because like we have had babies in the house and now like i'm still buying it even though they don't need to drink it anymore

because like i just like it so much better than anything else. Just have it with your morning salt water taffy. Yeah exactly little side of salt water taff That is the grossest thing I have ever heard Your spit would be so thick that you would actually die

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going to make history. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And this is just something that Super Producer Ana Hosnia told me, like, right before we started recording, that the Pfizer vaccine elicits a weaker antibody response to the Delta variant of COVID-19. response to the delta variant of covid 19 i've also like heard that we're gonna have like a new like better than ever version of covid come in like 22 like deadlier ever covid 22 is this is this just what we have from now on like trying to pick the right brand to combat do you guys go pfizer did you i mean i didn't have a choice but yeah i got what'd you go i got moderna i got i got the the dolly juice and it i don't know i mean it's i the fact that we like even have to like compare brands in the first place is so depressing on principle but yeah i

don't i mean it's it's so hard for me to wrap my head around stories like this where it just if someone tells me oh it's going to get really bad again i'm like yeah i guess i believe that i guess i believe it you know i i don't know i'm just like i guess we're never going to see avatar 2 this is i see this and that's what I think. Oh my God. Jamie, that is so funny. It's never going to come out. I was just brought up the idea of someone just like getting vaccinated every three and a half weeks. Just being like, please just get me to Avatar 2.

I just got to see one more and then i can pass away i don't know it's just stories like this it's really hard for me to wrap my head around i have a bad brain for it uh and i feel like it makes me susceptible to news that is both good and bad and i can't always distinguish it until someone smarter than me tells me. So first of all, I got the black one, Johnson & Johnson. Just even if that wasn't the one they were giving to black people, I think by people's sheer aversion to getting it, they should just have to call it the black one.

Now, I got it and i'll say like i thought there would be a little more pomp and circumstance with like this idea that something was gonna save your life right but like i went to cal state la's campus and that's where they had like a big thing no one was there by the way and i was like oh this feels like a bad sign for the city for the nation for i was just like oh people because that's the one thing like if i could stress this enough like everyone who's vaccinated is acting like everyone's vaccinated when in fact nobody is vaccinated like even like the headlines that come out of like the L.A. Times, it's like Gavin Newsom says that 70 percent of adults in California are vaccinated. And then you keep reading and you're like, partially, you know, they never showed up for their second shot. You're like, OK, like I get that's still a level of protection, but it ain't, you know, vaccinated.

Yeah, it's not vaccinated. It's you know, that's like if a doctor's like come back in two weeks and we'll really finish the operation and you're like nah i feel like i feel like i'm good and you're like really we haven't put a cast on your leg you're like take my chances baby you know like um so jamie like you it's so odd like i don't think i was a pessimist or an optimist before this and now i'm like i feel like i'm turning into a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist a little bit i'm like it is gonna be bad again like because again like it's everyone who and pardon me if this is y'all but like it's like everyone i know who is constantly talking about crypto is also saying they're not getting vaccinated and i'm like i'm like wait you think you are an expert

in both things like you don't have a car you know what i mean like how like and not in a way that you're choosing not to drive it's like you cannot have one which is a different thing altogether you know so that being said got johnson and johnson and like i'm still like i don't know i guess i believe that article i just feel like another thing is gonna happen because again if no one's getting vaccinated it is gonna mutate and it is gonna get worse and like you know they haven't told us how long these things last and like i, I just like, I'm still trying to play at moderately cool, whereas I feel like I'm seeing my friends

just like play games of like, everyone's spitting the champagne bottle and then we all drink it. That's a game? Yeah, it's a really popular game, actually. People are making up things that they like missed doing

that they never actually did. They're like, oh, remember like the before times where we'd all fucking spit in a cup miss that those were the days it's great so so yeah i don't yeah i i don't know i feel like yeah because they were all emergency use anyway right so. So it's like, I feel like the vaccines were developed for the version of COVID, you know, uh,

COVID, you know, OG. Right. Regular standard OG COVID. Um, and then like a new one's gonna come around and, you know,

whatever. I, again, I hope that's not the case, but like, it's also, again, like,

I just don't know what else we could expect when the everyone just rushed back out immediately like we all want to be in offices again and blah blah blah and i'm like i don't know i'm just i'm just not like that yet nobody wants to be in offices just the just the no people jack i do people do it is so odd to me yes i know so many people who are like i cannot wait and i'm like do you not have a second thing in your life oh my god like i do miss recording in person with free food in front of me yeah that jamie but that's but that's a different thing like i feel like podcasts and like i mean like you're dealing with like a different, I hate to use the word vibe, but I mean, just like truly the energy and the thing you are creating is so different. But like, I know people who like are like, you know, work in production and they're like, yeah, I just, I miss being able to like talk to someone next to me. I'm like, you know what you need to do? Get a life. How about that? What is that?

You want to be in an office because you miss talking to a stranger? You know what I mean? I just really miss the small talk. What? Yeah. I mean, that is just more evidence that most of the world is the direct opposite of me in like every way.

standard definition of like what makes a loser right right you're like oh yeah that's why you know like podcasts are interesting because they're like wow listen to interest what do interesting people say right what do they think about you know so they're just at home being like oh hell yeah i wish i was jamie and jack you know i wish i could talk to my to a stranger about what we said today but that's true right like i feel like after this i could call either one of y'all be like hey i have this weird thought about x y and z and then we would have a conversation about it right but like the person who's like i want to be in an office so i can talk to my cubicle mate again right they're gonna say what you said they're gonna be say what you said. They're going to be like, what'd you do this weekend?

And it's like that, like, that's what you needed to get back to. Like, I don't know. It just, it's just, nobody's asked me what my,

if I have any big plans for the weekend in like two years, it's fucking killing me, man. It's like, just do the plan. If you were making plans, then you wouldn't have to have this conversation. Well, I have no reason to now because nobody's asking me.

All right. Let's talk about Trump's Facebook ban. We got a two-year window now from the original ban, which was January 7th. This is apparently what Facebook Supreme Court asked them to do was like to come up with a time frame. And they decided to put the end or like the reevaluation date like right when his reelection campaign was kicking in. That's interesting. What? Who the fuck decides like, well, we can't ban someone from Facebook for more than two years.

I'm like, my aunt has been banned from facebook for much longer than that and like rightfully so bad stuff on there it's because mark zuckerberg wants him to win right if trump comes back like i do think that it will show a i think it already signifies a loyalty to him in being like hey we're gonna let you because like i mean like here's the thing whatever we have to say about jack dorsey like he's not out there being like you know mark your calendar because our our king is coming back you know what i mean like it's just like you're gone until you're gone, you know? And like, I will say that like Mark Zuckerberg, especially in that, you know, I am making it about everything else.

But I think that like the idea that Apple started regulating him and regulating these companies in the way that they did. I think that he thinks that if he gets trump back and i think that it's not just getting trump back but it's bringing people back to the platform which will force apple's hand a little bit right and uh i i think if anything and on top of what you guys are saying now is like you know it falls right in line when you need to start asking for money. And like it really it it's I don't know, horrifying. It scares me. Yeah. Ultimately, like billionaires benefit from an unjust, like corrupt version of the world.

So, yeah, it's going to be much better for any billionaire, anybody who is willing to exist as a billionaire without being just fucking horrified at their own existence to like have somebody like Trump in in office because that's a way that they can, you know, stop the inevitable progression towards like breaking up these massive monopolistic companies. I mean, it does seem like a very much like an appeasement kind of decision where it's like people will be mad at him on one side of his user base if he doesn't ban him at all. But then on the other side, like he still wants to open the revenue stream and in time to get the other side of his user base, because it's like you have to imagine I don't got the numbers on this but when trump comes back to facebook in two years which given that he's like literally counting it down like it's an avatar sequel means that he probably will then there's going to be a huge surge in users and there's going to be like all the people who are like whatever polarized by facebook and are just like festering in these fucking bizarro secret groups right now are going to come right back to maine posting about trump again like it's he wins either way i mean he always wins no matter what but yeah this is this is such a fucking bummer especially

because i was seeing people on twitter like celebrating this says anytime someone online is like good on zuck or like good on any fucking billionaire i'm like could you like put in an extra two seconds of critical thought here like it's not it's never good i also i'm a little worried about what twitter is going to do just because they they do seem to be the one corporation that absolute i mean i think i think it's probably true of facebook too but like they definitely lost like shareholder value or whatever the fuck when they banned trump and even though like they seem to be kind of more sane than mark zuckerberg like the i could totally see that you know anytime you

want to know what a corporation is going to do just ask what is in the best interest of their ability to grow capital you know yeah it's hard because we're also living in a moment where yes there are more billionaires than ever and millionaires but i think we'll really know the answer by not this summer, but by next summer. Like last summer. Right. The public, the you know, the general public was they weren't hella woke, but like it was pushed in a further left direction than almost any generation before. Right. it's like do i think they wait and see like is this something that's gonna hold up right and as you know we're in the midst of pride month right now and like you know you go to target and they're just like we've always only's how they do it you're like whatever um so like does it financially benefit as you're saying like and i think it will it really depends on society at large does society at large stay veering to the left or does it just,

I don't know. We're like, I really, I am shocked so far that like, there just hasn't been a, you know, like blue lives matter, like,

you know, gun rally that just, you know, I hate to be like a, you know, a domestic terrorist attack, but I kind of am shocked that it, it hasn't,

I, I guess it's because we're all still kind of am shocked that it hasn't i i guess it's because we're all still kind of inside but like i i think they're jack dorsey will just look and be like okay people stayed more to the left it's not worth it or like hey everyone if anything if he probably just like by parlor right and then it's like he keeps he you know or mark zuckerberg but you know like i don't think he'll do it now that he's letting trump back but like that's kind of the move right you secretly become the majority shareholder in that and then you you know there's there's nothing one of the only things saving us from that at the moment is how bad a businessman he is because

those companies have been like trying to get him to they're like buy us like here but we'll pay you like all this money just be like we'll call it trumpler or whatever the fuck you want just like come lend yourself to us and he keeps turning them down because he had this big blog that he wanted to drop on the world that lasted 26 days but i do think that's probably coming pretty soon is that like trump will own parlor yeah yeah do we think here's the thing oh i'm sorry jimmy those groups uh migrated to telegram is that right i'm pretty sure a lot of the parlor groups migrated to telegram and that's kind of where they're waiting i don't know what the right word is but that's

where they're just like hanging out in groups and that's where like ron watkins is and that's kind of where they all kind of jumped over yeah number one didn't know telegram was a thing you gotta get on there's a lot of great ideas yeah um wait which one's telegram tell me about it telegram is uh i don't i don't know too much of it about it as a business model i learned about it like maybe a year and a half ago it's kind of it's supposed it's marketed similar to signal where it's like you know an encrypted texting service um i don't know why they went over from parlor to telegram and not to signal or to somewhere else but it seems like a place where you can just organize gigantic group chats and that's where a lot of uh q types have headed since parlor shut down i love that i love that they finally found an encrypted

secret app to chat with one another makes i feel I feel safe. It's community. Daddy feels safe. Oh yeah. Anyway. I was driving earlier. Near Venice Beach California. A pretty liberal place. And there was just. Again.

I'm a truck owner. A truck pulls up next to me. With like a. Don't tread on me flag. And then like a thin blue line flag. And I'm like. You're not even doing what you think you're doing like you know what i'm saying like because it's also this idea that they think you're scared i don't know why we're talking about this but like i just like i don't know

so many of them it's just like if you just hit them in the face once yeah it's over you know what i mean and like i don't know if am i allowed to say that on here yeah hit people okay we gotta start popping these people right let them know we're pro nazi punching um anyway what's the next topic after we go to a break we are going to talk about uh the ufo commission report that is coming uh but. Let's take a quick break. Fantasy football fans, the NFL season is here and now is the time to get ready

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truths on us when it was like that that 60 minutes report that segment that had like some really cool shit in it but then it closed with marco rubio being like the face of like we don't know we don't know so that there's this report that people have been talking about for years that was i think at least partially like brought about by Rubio being scared of the UFOs. And basically what the people who have been briefed about it say that it is not going to confirm the existence of alien life, which is so shocking to me that anybody thought that was going to happen, that they were just going to be like, we figured out it's aliens y'all we're that's what it was uh anyways yeah it's just more confirmation of what we already know

which is that we don't know anything it doesn't there's no explanation big tic-tac is that related to yeah the big tic-tac from a couple years ago i loved that big tic-tac yeah they're not gonna tell us what's going on with the big tic-tac yeah you know they never tell you what the big tic tac really is and and i'm sick of being teased about it i want to know what's in there i want to know who's in there i would be i feel like honestly best case scenario is it's aliens but probably it's not and it's something really scary inside the tic tac right i just i'm like just do what y'all gotta do at this point that's how i feel about it like if y'all if it's aliens do what you gotta do if it's just some weird secret society with future tech do what you gotta do but like the teasing it's like just leave us alone like

you know what i mean like just do the thing like do the thing right do the thing you need to do but like just like moving in shadows and you know the fact that we have to hear marco rubio be like i'm the guy to talk about it you know what i mean right it's whatever you're trying to accomplish is already not being accomplished because he's now involved with it you know now that being said if it was like a dream scenario it would be really funny if they were just like we're angels and everyone's like oh my god i mean i think that's what i do think that's what the conservative side is hoping for, because like I'm seeing this covered in conservative media as it's not aliens, y'all, because they didn't say it's aliens. People are like, see, we told you it's not aliens, which like nobody was saying that this report was going to be like aliens definitively no and nobody

like i don't know i don't know anybody who thinks that like yes it's definitely aliens it's just like i'm intrigued by the fact that we don't know what the fuck it is like that's that's interesting to me oh you don't think it's aliens i don't know what it is i honestly don't oh i i i don't think there's any other answer like just i well i just think statistically it's like what are we what are we doing right like what do we think it's it's either and this is like so this is gonna get really convoluted for a second but it's like either we are becoming closer to viewing an objective reality right right and because of where because we're getting smarter and we're viewing an objective reality we're seeing things that language has kind of sliced from our purview by learning certain words right

you know like and again noam chomsky and a few other people talk about you know how like language dictates literally what your reality is yeah right yeah and it's like the world is completely different from us to a spider to a dog just by like the mental fitness that you have right so so it's either that or it's aliens but like i i mean what's the is the other you know like option on the table that it's what it's tech from a different like country yeah i don't i don't think that's likely or at least i hope it's not that but i think that's what conservatives hope it is because that like takes them down a direction of we need to like tool up for the coming like world war four or whatever yeah but yeah i mean the against them chinese space ships there's just

i i agree there's like an overall hopefulness to at least the reason that i hope it's it's aliens is that like they are just observing us or like doing work in the background that suggests that our fears of like a war-like alien species that's gonna come and murder us all might just be us imagining like a future based on our history like the further back you go the more warlike humanity is and like there's reason to believe that the further we progress the less likely we'll be to intentionally kill each other which would be like this group or whatever entity that's behind these things like is much more advanced than us and maybe they're just i don't know like maybe this is just the equivalent of like a fish seeing a person snorkeling you know and they're just i don't know like maybe this is just the equivalent of like a fish seeing

a person snorkeling you know and they're just like what the fuck and then they disappear and you're just like huh well that was weird you know it's just i don't know i mean i've heard i i feel like whenever ufos come up like i obviously they exist in some capacity but they're but they're never like the study of ufos aren't helped by the people who super believe in them because anyone i've talked to that is like ufos are a real thing are like objectively a scary person that i didn't want to like spend a lot of time with right but but it is i mean i don't I'm trying to remember what movie is making me think this. But the like I've definitely seen it like proposed in like bullshit theories and pop culture stuff where it's like, oh, it's the American government. And then they make the report to make it seem like they don't know what it is, but they do know what it is. And it's like, whatever, peeing in the pool yourself and then being like.

Feels like there's piss in this pool, which I have done. Just pulling from like my lived experience. Right, right. But I don't know. I mean, I hope it's aliens. It's like the little, what was the Amy Adams alien movie? Arrival. Arrival.

The aliens came and they're like we're friendly we just want to let you know you're gonna date jeremy runner it's like such a weird here's here's my problem with that movie it's like so they had to come to us they're an advanced to unstuck from time civilization and they had to come to us to get help in 3 000 years like it's just like i was like what are we doing here there it's just an it's an impossibility right you know what i'm saying like if someone came to me right now they're like hey i'm the smartest living creature in you know know, the known universe. But I need your help in 3000 years. I'd be like, you're lying.

Like there's nothing I'm doing 3000 years from now that I'm not doing right now. You know what I mean? Like this is the peak, you know. And so that's Yasser's critique of Arri of arrival a movie that came out four years ago your silence was definite i i feel like these have more in common just based on like the one anecdote that's like unequivocally uh it was like a fighter pilot who like went up to it and it just like kind of circled in front of him but like almost like playfully and then just like zipped away. It really reminded me of like a Spielberg alien, like just like kind of a friendly, like goofy alien who's just like, you know, playful and then just doesn't want anything to do with us really at this point, which.

Well, so I read this report in Popular Mechanics, you know, years ago. And that's kind of what they propose, right? They're like any advanced civilization is knows we pose no threat to it. So they're sending satellites there, you know, like there's not an alien in that space cart going like, Whoa, cool.

A pilot. Like, you know what I mean? Like they're looking at us. They're like, this place sucks. It's like cool, a pilot. Like, you know what I mean? They're looking at us. They're like, this place sucks. It's like smoky and dirty. Like, let's get out of here. Bring our little drone back or whatever, you know?

And like, I think that's the biggest thing, but I don't, I think that's probably the most sane version of it, but I don't think you can even propose that version without like three of my neighbors walking outside with a rifle right now and shooting like it's just like if we're like no no no they don't care there's not even beings in those things they'd be like it's space mexicans you know like and it just don't you know like it's just we're dealing with psychopaths there's just no way to be like oh yeah no it's they're they just happen to be smart and checking us out you know what i mean because i'll also say like even if it was your neighbor who you've known for years if they're like hey i'm just coming by your house to check on things, you'd be like, why?

You know? So the fact that I could be an alien, I get the anxiety. Looking in through your windows. Yeah. Hey, hey, just wanted to make sure that everything was A-OK over here. Yeah.

We cool? All right. Let's talk about the Avengers campus, which is a new feature of Disneyland that opened on Friday in California adventure. And this is personally bad news for me because it looks like the sort of thing that will be life-changing for like my three-year-old who's obsessed with superheroes and amusement parks are the worst places on the

planet it like wow if you have to be there with children it is really it's really exhausting it's really bad but this looks fucking cool as hell man i don't know i mean yeah it's it's really exhausting it's really bad but this looks fucking cool as hell man i don't know i mean yeah it's it's disney like they just do everything right like they're like you know i've been lucky enough to talk to what their imagineer i believe is the exact term right yeah um and like you just hear about the things that they're developing and the things that they're like just dreaming up and you're like, why weren't you a doctor? Is this the best application of these skills? I'm sorry. You're the most brilliant person I know. And you're making a dragon. You should be a doctor uh but yeah of course it

looks cool and it's gonna be cool and like i don't know like here's the thing i hate adults who love disneyland yeah but when you're there you're like oh yeah right this is cool you know yeah it's cool i mean that park specifically is like good at making me give a shit about things that I really didn't give a shit about. Whereas like, I don't know when I heard about Avengers campus, I'm like, I just don't really,

it's just never been a huge thing for me. But then when I saw the footage of it, I was like, Oh fuck, this would be great. I mean, I felt the same way about fucking star Wars land. I'm like,

I give a shit. And now I'm like foaming at the fucking loins for a Ron. I don't know how they do it, but it looks cool. I want to go not summer, but at some point, even

Cars World is fucking cool. Those movies suck. Netflix is fucking so awesome. Toon Town, where you like, they even have like the stupid thing where the barbells are stuck in the ground but the bar itself is elastic so it looks like it's straight like you're just like i i'm not kidding you could have given me 10 000 years to think of that and i never would have thought of that and it's nothing but an elastic band on the ground you know what i mean like they just do everything right there's always the exact

food you want exactly where you want it like it's just like again like jamie you're like you start caring about things that like you know you're just like walking through and you're like wow i wonder if germany really is like this you know like and i'm like i don't care about germany but they just do a good job with architecture and smells and like there's never a piece of trash like you know what i mean like it's so it also all this leads to my other review of a film that's 20 years old now is banksy's exit through the gift shop and that's when i watched it i was like that this is how i know it's fake it's because he never would have been allowed to do any of that stuff at disneyland that he proclaimed that he did it's like you're hanging dead bodies from roller coasters and they didn't catch you like i've never seen a nutter butter

and like you hung the body of a guantanamo bay prisoner like stop stop so yeah they're simply too good find me on letterboxd or whatever right i did go to disneyland recently having been radicalized by uh disneyland youtube and i went i brought i was doing like a zoom comedy show i was like oh i'll just do it from disneyland that'll be hilarious i brought a fucking jason mask with me to wear and they they took it we've seen it they took it away they took it they they and they said specifically the teenager it was very funny that the teenager was taking my jason mask and i'm just like an adult woman not with a child but uh but he was like i need you to know like i'm gonna take it and i'm gonna destroy it like the destroying it was also very much on. So he's like, you can go home now

and come back later and keep the mask. But if I keep the mask, I'm going to destroy the mask. And I mean, I have no way of knowing if he followed through. I hope he just kept it. He's wearing that mask right now. He had to tell me he was going to destroy it. Like they don't fuck around there.

You can't do anything scary. Is it because Jason is not not friday 13th is not disney ip so i like to i like to think that yeah if i if i had brought a terrifying uh disney owned property i could have like dressed up like who that what's like a avengers villain i could dress up like ursula or the guy with the glove. Could have looked like him. He's scary looking, but not Jason. They didn't buy him. Yeah. The hamburger helper guy.

Yeah. Right. Yeah. Right. Right. The hamburger helper mascot. He snapped and people died. Just became some loose stroganoff.

So they apparently. That's what that movie was about. Like they have just Avengers milling around. There's only one ride and doing displays like the Dora Milaj do a staff demonstration

from Wakanda and it looks dope like somebody was posting video from that. But there's also a Spider-Man game where you can legitimately they just use cameras to track your movement so you're able to shoot webs like with extreme accuracy and like fight off spider-man villains so yeah i'm gonna be there soon for sure and there's the infinity war one where you lose half your family right Right. They take half your family.

They separate you. Yeah. For the rest of the world. Yeah. And they just, they keep you there as long as they can. And then they bury you and they bring them back. Right. I love when attractions make you think about your mortality. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's like that, you know, California Adventure or, yeah, was it California? No, California Adventure is the park, right? Soaring over California you know and when they rebooted it it would just drop you from 75,000 feet and you would plummet over California it's just 500 ways to die in California

yeah there's the 500 waysays to Die ride, which Disney owned the rights to, so they've been doing that one for a minute. You and Random Comics from LA reenacting stupid deaths on, god, what was it? TNN? Anyway, this is gone.

I've talked enough. Y'all's turn. It's been such a pleasure having you, man. Where can people find you and follow you? Twitter, Instagram. Like, here's the thing. Let me be real. I'm going to give you guys the handles. But don't expect anything.

Like, I'm really, I don't know what's going on. I feel like I'm not really firing on all cylinders on Instagram. I think I'm aging. I'm 30. I'm about to be 37. I feel like I'm not really firing on all cylinders on Instagram. I think I'm aging. I'm about to be 37. I feel like I'm aging out of it a little bit. It's the thing I was talking about earlier, but I'm not an expert so it's fine. So it really is just like happy birthday to my brother

and sister. It's like stuff like that. The idea of making a funny video right now, I'd pay someone to just come in here and beat bash my head open with a baseball bat instead of having to be like all right this is gonna be the funny one here's my little video here's here's you know what jamie here comes a little skit just make me a little heart. So, Yasser underscore Lester on Instagram.

Same thing on Twitter. And I'll say this on Twitter. I'm kind of out here just faving some Jamie Loftus tweets, faving a few others. I don't really have much to say anymore. Like, the fact that I'm tired of my own typing and voice and opinions. I'm like, God, can you imagine what it's like for someone to have to read what I'm saying? That feels crazy. And like, look, I know, look, Jack, of course, huge fan. But I read more ofie's material than yours okay that's just this is just but but like someone like jamie right who has perspective opinions

has oh you know a wealth of knowledge about many things like that is like what i'm seeking out for others and like the fact that me and her are allowed to exist on the same platform i think is you know what i mean that's a major oversell of what i know and what it's not it's really not because like look i mean like you know our boy jackie jack's like holding down daily zeitgeist right and like i just feel like my contribution to the world is like like i'm more of like uh that's good you know like i'm like i i help other people know what they're doing is good so like so like for this i'm like jack jamie you guys are crushing this you know what i mean but like you could take all my dialogue out of this podcast and it would probably be better you see

what i'm saying like let me this is for everyone listening let me encourage you so how about this everyone if you heard my if you heard any of my social media handles, reach out to me and tell me to follow you. I'll tell you. Just start some conversations. That was good. I don't know. I think the Fruity Pebble discourse was necessary. I think we changed a lot of minds here today. We touched a lot of hearts today.

And the fact that you guys are bringing it back to that and like you know like i'm gonna have to go back to being like the fruity pebble guy once this is all over and then you guys gonna go back to legitimately being smart and like contributing to society and i'm gonna have to be like oh i wonder if that apple watch i saw on sale is still at best buy like that's that's kind of my day i do this podcast every day and talk about like the philosophy of like extraterrestrial life and the only thing anyone ever sends to me is memes about a baja blast because i said like baja blast one time that is true but that's not on you other people's intelligence isn't on you the fact that

you are intelligent is like see essentially you've just brought on someone who would have tweeted at you like you you've really let the inmates run the asylum a little bit by breaking me is there a tweet or some other work of social media social media you've been enjoying yeah um i don't want to give away the full part of it so i will i'll say and then there's a little bit of work left on the on behalf of the listener so it's a quote tweet but there's a u.s vaccine tracker right and the u.s vaccine tracker tweeted that 40 of americans are vaccinated and then someone named at john modder quote tweeted it and said wow i guess that means 40 of police too everyone google 40 of cops for more vaccine and if you know what that means it's very funny and if not you should google 40

and it really made me laugh for an hour and a half i was just like some people just do it right you know there's something for everyone in that tweet that's beautiful i know right so there's there was that and then there was another dumb little meme that said the reason y'all young folks don't like soul food is because all y'all's grandmas is 33 and that one it's just see i had this i saw it two days ago and i saved it on my phone i was like this is getting used again i don't know where but here it is all right jamie where can people find you what's a tweet you've been enjoying you can find me on uh twitter at jamie loftus help i've mostly been tweeting about hot dogs recently which if you have a suggestion for a good a good hot dog anywhere in the continental united states

i'd like to hear about it share it with me because I'm going on a road trip. I want to get as many hot dogs as I can. And I want to make sure that I'm getting a healthy variety and not getting a false idea of what this nation's hot dogs are like. And then Instagram where I don't think I have much to say there right now. It's mostly just I got a JCPenney photo shoot done a couple months ago, and I'm just really trying to make it last for as long as possible. So if you want to see a picture from the JCPenney photo studio every couple weeks, you can head over there. And that's where I put my JCPenney pictures.

I'll shout out a tweet from my friend Cullen Crawford, who does... I don't know how often he does this. I think it's just been an ongoing thread for about a month now. But he'll post the best cars on Craigslist. And he was able to find a Zamboni for me that was in Sylmar. I guess I'll just describe the Zamboni to you. It costs $15,000. silmar that i guess i'll just describe the zamboni to you it's cost it costs fifteen thousand dollars and it's being marketed as dumb and dumber to chevy zamboni uh and what it is is it's a strip club zamboni it's i don't know what where this zamboni was what the proximity to the club it's advertising, but it says Mr.

Pants all night cabaret and, and then the address of the club. And so if anyone, also, if anyone wants to send me $15,000 and, uh, and an ice rink, that's a,

that's a little project I've got going on the side, trying to get Mr. Pants. Are you going to use it to clean up Echo Park? You turncoat! Oh, God. I'm going to run over Councilman Mitch O'Farrell with my Mr. Pants cabaret Zamboni.

It'll be a slow and incredible win for the community. A tweet I was enjoying is from Ryan Perry. He tweeted, oh, you're an NBA fan? Name your favorite last three minutes of a Bones episode. 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, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also often link off to a song that we think you guys might enjoy. But I don't have a recommendation today. Jamie, do you have a song

recommendation yes sir oh my god any any song our listeners should check out um here's the thing i only listen to macklemore oh right i mean macklemore is pretty good here's here's the BLM, but not with rap. Only white rappers. Only. I like Macklemore. I like, what's her name? Iggy Azalea. Yeah. Jack.

Oh, yeah. Jack Harlow. He's white. I resent that I have to learn who Jack Harlow is he comes up so much can i say something jamie i don't quite know who he is but it's gonna be it's one of those things that it just happened enough times around me that i like found out who he was but like again i like it's like the olivia rodrigo thing like there's been so many adults being like, oh, my God, I connect. Oh, my God, this is bringing me back.

And I'm like, has nothing else happened from when you were in high school? Like you can't you don't like, come on, let's think like there has to either listen to the song from that you listen to in high school or listen to a song about adult you now. But like this idea of like this nostalgia adjacent thing where people are like, oh, I am in my feels. And also like this is the last thing I say. I am in my feels right now. Nothing more sinister than an adult being in their feels. Here's my thing, y'all. Like, Jack.

Yes. Like, let's say adult version of you right now. What was your favorite musician in high school? Wu-Tang. Okay, Wu-Tang, right? If you now traveled to the past and met 16-year-old you and went, what's up, young Jack? Guess what? We both equally

like Wu-Tang you'd be like oh I grew up to be a loser like I don't like a new thing or like Jamie like Jamie who'd you like in high school I was a bright eyed teen. Okay imagine you now coming back meeting

cool bright eyes loving 16 year old Jamie being like, don't worry. You're always going to listen to Bright Eyes. He's still listening to this album every week. Wow. Oh, no. Whoa. Nothing changes.

How depressing. You know, like I loved like, you know, I'm from the South. I like here's the thing. I love Outkast. I love. And but these are like people loved like, you know, I'm from the South. I like, here's the thing. I love OutKast. I love, but these are like people with like longevity, right? If you're talking about of the moment, right? Let's like Chingy. You know what I'm saying?

Like if 16-year-old me met me now as being like, ooh, we just get even more into Chingy. I'd be like, I guess I'll kill myself. All right. It's crazy. Anyway, sorry. That's all right. That being said, I respect her myself. All right. It's crazy. Anyway, sorry. That's all right. That being said, I respect her.

Yes. Go ahead. And thank you because during your take there, I got a recommendation from super producer Anna Hosnier, who thinks people should go check out Man Next Door with you, Roy, and Santa Gold. It's a good reggae jam we're gonna link off to that in the footnotes and go check it out the daily zeitgeist production of iheart radio

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