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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist all right it's time for a quick check-in with the business world which is what you guys come to the daily zeitgeist for i know my stocks are fucking rumping and a tumping rumping and tumping uh so tesla the company tesla elon musk has been forced to step down as chairman of the board so I thought they were saying he just had to like vamoose from the whole like company like he was

out uh when I first saw the headline but apparently it's just that he was both chairman of the board and CEO which is if you're you know if you founded a company and are insanely powerful at that company, you can be both of those things. So you're basically indestructible. You're a godhead. Yeah, because you're both the head of the company and the person who fires the head of the company. Right.

So it's like, I'm probably not going to fire myself on this one, guys. Later. But he is no longer chairman of the board. later but he is no longer chairman of the board so that opens him up to being accountable yeah which seems like it should always be the way companies operate but because he founded shit and because our country is a corporate ocarina he was allowed to operate with complete impunity and you know make 420 jokes with people's livelihoods you know for a laugh also GE fired their CEO and their stock the articles are saying their stock is soaring but it's actually just back to where it was a week ago and that in total is down since its peak in the year 2000,

the equivalent of an entire Facebook. Facebook is currently valued at $473 billion. They've lost $485 billion since 2000 GE. Oh, man. And it's just crazy corporate malpractice. Not enough war for them to make money off of. Yeah, I think that doesn't help. Hey, there might be one coming up. Hey. Shout out to GE. Oh, man. And it's just crazy corporate malpractice. Not enough war. Not enough war for them to make money off. Yeah, I think that doesn't help. Hey, there might be

one coming up, so. Hey. Shout out to GE. Hang in there, GE. Your jets will be needed. And then, Miles, you were saying that Papa John's.

Oh, man, you know how I'm, I got my eye on Papa John's. Oh, dude. Maybe this is, and this might be something I propose. He's from Louisville. Yeah, he is.

That's right. All over the place. They have not gotten the news yet. They don't knowville. Yeah, he is. All over the place. They have not gotten the news yet. And they love it. They don't know what's happened, but oh my God, someone needs to tell them. Let them know, this is not a thing. Yeah, apparently right now the ownership, the present ownership, they're just begging

prospective buyers for proposals to buy this thing. They're like, hey, y'all want to buy Papa John's? Distressed asset. Yeah, and then there's even like a thing about how they were talking about rebranding, but the only rebrand was to take the apostrophe out.

Papa John's. So it's a plural? Like plural. Multiple Papa John's. Yeah, I don't know why. Yeah, exactly.

Like we're all Papa John's. Yeah. No, I'm not. I don't sweat that much. We are all Papa John's. Really, like let's take a look

at ourselves, man. Right. We are all Papa John Really Like let's take a look At ourselves man Right We are all Papa's John That rules so hard dude I am Papa John Yeah I am Papa John

There would be like The ad with the kids Standing up in class Like the I am Tiger Woods Fucking commercial I am Papa John And it would be All people of color too

Just like Fucking woke wash the company They're like I am Papa John They would just make The n-word Papa John At that point Yeah They would be like The ultimate betrayal Is Colin Kaepernick At the end're like, I am Papa John. They would just make the N-word Papa John at that point. The ultimate betrayal is calling Kaepernick at the end.

He's like, I am Papa John. You're like, what? No! What'd they pay you? It's like a commercial campaign just trying a targeted hit to try and kill him with a heart attack. That would be the best. Oh, my God.

That would be so funny. All the news I hear coming out of there, like the fact that they wanted to remove the apostrophe and the other big thing that they were considering was changing the red and green on their label. Right. It's just such a perfect fucking satire of everything you hear about corporate America. Right, right, red and blue.

Compare these. Right. Look at this red and blue. So we like, yo, so you gotta- Compare these, compare these. Right, look at this red and blue. So we're going with a more millennial green. Sorry, I always say I'm red and blue. It's red and green. Yeah, well, there is, I mean, honestly, and I think we've said this every time,

if they want to fucking help themselves, change the fucking recipe of your pizzas. That's gotta be my favorite part of this entire news cycle for the past two years for them is that Papa John's has slowly lost like power as the um party pizza right you go to a party like a birthday party or like a yeah kids whatever you're like hanging out with people the default pizza is like papa john's because i think it's like the cheapest or best deals for multiple people now it's more domino's pizza hut local places and i'm like kind of happy about that. Yeah. Yeah.

Well yeah again only thing I like is that garlic sauce because it helps me finish their shitty crust. Other places have better garlic sauce. I thought that was

a Papa John's like patent or something. Who else has garlic sauce? Literally every pizza place. You could just get it anywhere. I didn't know it was a thing. Oh they put it in the book.

Pizza Hut has it. Domino's. I'm not like a commercial. I don't work for those people. Wait Domino's has it? Yeah. You'll never guess this. Two mediums $10.99 garlic sauce. Yo. Domino's. I'm not like a commercial. I don't work for those people. Wait, Domino's has it? Yeah, you'll never guess this. Two mediums, $10.99, garlic sauce.

Yo, Domino's. I don't know. I don't work for Domino's. I'm sorry. I want to eventually. They also have ranch dressing that you can get for like 50 cents extra. Real good with the crust. I don't do that.

What's the matter, man? You don't like ranch? I love ranch. I like ranch on pizza. I did, yeah. Yeah, not on pizza, but I like the do that. What's the matter, man? You don't like ranch? I love ranch. I like ranch on pizza. I did, yeah. Yeah, not on pizza, but I like the garlic sauce. We get by however we have to. Just like MoviePass is trying to get by.

However the fuck they have to. And they are underhanded as fuck. Because we've already talked about how they've completely self-owned with their terrible business model. And then, you know, they literally ran out of money and had to get emergency funding and things like that. So naturally, a lot of people are like, yo, this is not worth the money and have left. Their new fucking tactic to try and counteract their like dwindling subscriber base

is to automatically enroll lapsed members into their new like unlimited plan. And then they have to opt out to avoid being charged. So I don't even know who... This is really... They're in their death throes when they're like, you know what? People who used to fucking subscribe,

just sign them back up. And tell them if they don't want to pay, then they're going to have to opt out. Dude, MoviePass is like a case study and read the fine print. Because I feel like all of this is in the thing you click the terms and conditions, but we don't read it so like i bet legally they're all like yeah no you said we could come and beat your wife i don't know right yes it was you signed it

away and it's like i don't i'm sure they can well they're framing this as they're like almost like the email that goes out to those people like you're part of a select test group to try our new unlimited plan and you're like yo but yo, I didn't ask for this. But it's in my mail that you don't have to click on in order to be enrolled. No, no, you're enrolled in that shit. You are in. But that's what happens with these businesses and these fantasy businesses. And that's why, again, I think these AMCs, that shit looks like a better deal.

Right. It's backed by a brand. AMC, come give me this money. We're so anti-corporatocracy but we're always like Domino's, AMC they're like fucking best. Because we still live in this place and I don't have money I don't have real money to avoid big

companies. I was just thinking I can't go to if I could eat at Pizzana every day I would. Shout out to James. But I can't go to, I can't eat at, if I could eat at Pizzana every day, I would, you know, shout out to James, but I can't, I don't have Pizzana money. I have Domino's money. I have Taco Bell money.

Okay. Look, Nike makes the best joggers. I can't hate, you know. What are you going to do? I feel bad. I feel terrible, but whatever. Hey, well, you know, at least you're not wearing any Yeezy nonsense. Did you guys see that Facebook announced, in addition to giving up 50 million people's confidential information your Facebook account except for the two-factor authentication they were selling your mobile number to companies so that they could like spam

you dude I always wonder how the fuck I get so many motherfucking scam likelies calling me up all the time and numbers I don't know and so many numbers that like mimic the first six digits of your phone number so it'll be like your area code that mimic the first six digits of your phone number. So it'll be like your area code and then the first three and you're like, oh, this kind of looks like my number. And you call and you're like, hello, do you need to restructure your home? And you're like, no, what the fuck is this?

Every day I get like two. Yeah. I got to get a burner. I got to get a burner to avoid fucking spam calls. Just double your spam calls. It's just this whole shadow economy of companies that their whole model is just to like fucking spam call people.

Yeah. I think I read somewhere that the number of spam phone calls is about to equal or surpass the number of actual phone calls. Oh, that like the amount of phone connections that are made? Phone connections. I mean, I'm not joking. I have like, I'm sure people hear my phone go off sometimes in the recording. Those are always scam calls.

Are they really? Yeah. Every fucking time. I always thought you were like making moves, man. No, no, man.

I only move weight from my palm pipe. It is good to like act cool. Like, Oh no, I got a lot of business going on. Yeah. I got to restructure my, it's my agent.

Hold on. I'm so sorry. Yeah. What's up? Talk to my wife three hours ago, uh, two hours ago, got a spam call. Then one hour ago, got a spam call. So that's how my day's going so far. I've had all scam calls today except for one from the homegirl Brittany.

Right. But yeah, everything else, Avalon, West Carrollton, Ohio, Agora Hills. but it's confusing because i feel like i have to listen to like the first four or five words of each call because now amazon called me about like my actual business with them like uh like two days ago and i was like well okay now hold the fuck on and it was like legit amazon yeah so i was like and they use robots too so i hello yeah hello fuck you soft yeah exactly yeah yeah And they use robots too. Right. So I gotta like. Yeah. Hello. You soft.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. You soft ranch. I'm like, yo, you can't even. What the fuck? Roach. Meanwhile, The Daily, the New York Times podcast, that's like a worse version of this show, interviewed two journalists from the New York Times who are on the Brett's Drunken Escapades

beat. One of them is like digging around in amongst his high school friends and the other is digging around amongst his college friends. And everything they've uncovered has suggested that all accusations are real and trustworthy. And they were saying that people, and this is something I always assumed, but I hadn't actually heard anybody say it, but that classmates have pride, even if they're Democrats, even no matter what their politics are, they have pride in the fact that, oh, well, this guy I went to school with is a Supreme Court nominee. That's a cool thing to say. And I'm sure the Chris Dudleys of the world are world are like hey it's not bad to have like somebody who's on the supreme court in case i get into a knife fight at a bar or whatever um but you're alex trebek yeah but so they were basically saying that no

people didn't want to go on the record and contradict kavanaugh until the Fox News interview and his testimony, at which point people started coming out and being like, yo, this guy, like you can't just lie that hard. And so they were saying that they have a lot of people who either on the record or anonymously or painting a picture of him as like such a fuck up that everyone was shocked at graduation from college when he won like all these honors because he was the guy at the keg who was always trying and failing to like get girls and he wanted to be a ladies man but instead he was always holding up the wall which uh they meant leaning against the wall because he would fall over if he stepped away from it so he was just like constantly way entirely too

drunk and you know pestering women he's a sex pest uh i mean all the lies there's so many it's now like there are so many lies or so many conflicting reports about this person, it's hard to even keep track of. Because every single thing he said, there's always been something to be like, wait, he said he found out about the Ramirez accusation when the New Yorker piece came out, but then there are people saying that he was texting people before the release of that article, being like, hey, if this comes out, you've got to back me up. But he told Orrin Hatch,

oh, I found out when the New Yorker piece – although, I mean, you may argue that he meant that when he was contacted maybe by the New Yorker that that's when he found out. But there's plenty of – there's so many other things that, like, are so – that are already disqualifying that it's just mind-boggling that we're still kind of like, oh, okay, well, let's just hold our nose and see what happens. Yeah, man, he's lied to Congress.

That should get him yanked out of contention, should get him yanked off of his D.C. circuit position, and he should go to jail, you know, and at least for like a couple of weeks, you know, so that he can see what it's like to be on the receiving end

of what he does. Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't think he's even probably seen a prison. He's like, oh, they freak me out. Right. He looks at it and he's like, ooh, they're gross, they're gross. I mean, that facial twitch doesn't come from nowhere. There's a reason behind it.

So meanwhile on the right, the story that is gaining traction is that this is now out of control. It is a scary time for young white men in America. And this is according to the Trumps. Donald Trump Jr. said he's worried for his sons. I think we have audio of that. Toobin, who is the New Yorker writer, who is also CNN's legal expert, commented on that in a way that I found wildly appropriate. Who are you scared most for, your sons or your daughter?

I mean, right now, I'd say my sons. But when the other side weaponizes it against men and says, you know, 40 years later, we can bring it up. And you did something in high school that no one remembers, but it should disqualify you from ever doing anything again, it really diminishes the real claims. That's text and subtext right there. You know what? Every night I cry myself to sleep over the fate of white men in America. White men have no power. White men. I mean, it's such garbage. I mean, you're not listening to right wing media where I understand that. And you know what? If you sexually assault someone in high school, your life should be ruined. Your life should be pursued.

The idea that this is somehow unjust. Remember, this all started with accusations of sexual assault. How about the lives of the women who were sexually assaulted in high school? How about the 15-year-old Ms. Blasey? She wasn't Ms. Blasey Ford in high school. How about the 15 year old Ms. Blasey? She wasn't Ms. Blasey Ford in those days. How about her life? All this whining about the poor plight of white men is ridiculous. I don't know where he gets off.

I don't know. I mean, well, when you hear these like these male politicians say it to me, it feels so clearly that these people refuse to have a reckoning with their own past behavior, that it's just easier to just look at this and say, this is such bullshit rather than like, yeah, fuck. told me shit i was i i've operated under this fucked up misogynistic culture that's there's something needs to change rather than be like oh my god like this is getting out of control like because i'm refusing to do the uh be introspective and look at my own self i'd rather just be like well see this this is all bullshit right it's it's very i mean to me it's very transparent like when you hear people start using this defense like like, I wonder what is in your past. Right. Because it seems like to to begin to agree that, oh, yeah, this is something we have to deal with, would force them to confront some of their own behavior and then put that through the context of what's going on and be like, yeah, I may have been a shitty guy or maybe I still am. Yeah. But. And the just sheer indignation from white men on behalf of other white men, like Trump,

the president himself, actually, like he doesn't give a shit about his sons with good reason, as we recently heard. But he was just saying, broadly, it's a scary time for men in America, obviously, the implication being only white men, when you can be perfect and one accusation can ruin your life. And, yeah, even though he himself admitted that Dr. Ford seemed completely credible, it's just like their brain just goes from A to C. It skips the middle step where, you know, sexual assault occurred. And it's just like, yeah yeah but think about it from his perspective it's gotta suck because i get that perspective because i'm a guy who did fucked up shit and if

that happened to me that would be terrible yeah i mean you have to remember that ivana trump uh told the police right that uh uh donnie raped her and then uh donnie Jr. was like, you know, I think I'm going to go work for my dad. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, like, Republicans will always be like, you know, or people who are talking to Republicans in order to make them have, like, even pretend to care about women. They're like, oh, imagine if this happened to your daughter or your mother or your mom.

Like, it did happen to their mom and they don't give a fuck. Right. That's a good point. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I think just to make sure to keep his father in this pristine image of a guy who really doesn't care about him. But yeah, I mean, it's so funny, too, because, you know, the solution for this problem is very simple. If you're a parent is just teach your sons that raping people is bad.

That consent is something that they need to learn about, that they have to respect someone's agency, not violate them. Pretty simple. Pretty simple, man. Because it's like, well, I want to start teaching my kid you can't do this shit. Like, that's the subtext of that, too, where it's like, oh, my God, I fear for my kids because I'm not telling him about this stuff. I'm just being like, yo, this is all good.

This is how you. Boys will be boys. Yeah, right? Am I right, guys? And it's like, yo, just do the work of a fucking parent and raise a child to know what the fucking... what the rules are to this game we're trying to play called life. Yeah, our baby Ripley

is two years old and three months now. Oh, this makes so much sense because you were talking about aliens. Yeah, I named her after the first female action star. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's fucking awesome. Thank you. She's awesome. Hey, I named her after the first female action star. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's fucking awesome. Thank you. She's awesome. Hey, I believe it. Believe it or not.

That's a different Ripley though. She's gonna hear that a lot. From very funny people. Really lame old dudes. Hey, believe it or not, you're Ripley. I love Jack Palance. Believe it or not. But yeah, I'll be not, you're Ripley. I love Jack Palance. Believe it or not.

Or not. But yeah, I'll be like, hey, Rip, can I get a kiss? And she'll go, no. And I go, that's okay. You know, you do not have to give me a kiss. Just because you're adorable and I want a kiss doesn't mean I get one, even if I'm your mommy. And I'm taking your food away from you. Because clearly you don't love me oh then i guess you

don't need my food either oh um that uh white men are in the 60s verse 30s when it comes to whether to approve kavanaugh just wait what do you mean in the 1960s no no like it's 60 something percent verse 30-something percent. They think he should be approved versus people who think he shouldn't be. Everyone else is like the opposite, essentially. Well, if Kavanaugh gets on the court, everybody gets issued a woman. So that's good. Right.

He's historically unpopular. However, and this blew my mind, most Republicans, so 54% of Republicans, said that they would support confirming Kavanaugh even if it turned out that the sexual assault accusations against him are true. They're just like, yeah, I don't give a fuck. Well, that's a bonus for a lot of those guys. Yeah. Yeah, I think, again, because these are men who are unwilling to— they don't want to do the work of looking at their own behavior.

So it's easier to just be like, no, this guy is chill. Right. Because I don't want to live in a world where this is bad and now I'm going to have to confront my own shit. It's just such a, they haven't had a reckoning with their own behavior, a lot of people. Well, it's like, a lot of them are like Bible thumpers who use the Bible to reinforce their toxic masculinity. Yeah, for sure. You know, instead of us, I believe that we are stewards of the earth and we are to protect it and protect the animals on it and take good care of it so that whoever comes behind us, you know, we left it better than we found it.

You know, just like if you let me stay at your house, I'm going to probably leave that room better than I found it. You know, whereas these guys are like, we are to have dominion and women are to obey and we have to if we can't kill it we fuck it and if we can't fuck it we kill it

but sometimes we fuck it then we kill it and sometimes we kill it then we fuck it you know and like that because that's what men do you know what I mean

and that's not what real men do I know two speeds fuck or kill which one are you going to be on today because it ain't it ain't cuck or cry on the left man it's fuck or kill which one are you gonna be on today it ain't cuck or cry on the left man

fuck or kill over here my man oh man this is uh very upsetting that character two speeds fuck or kill i mean it's it's true the subtext of a lot of things we're seeing it yeah it's like you say it's when you have people who are so unwilling to just look at this in a way that is free from politics or maybe just their own personal history, you just say it is a bad thing for someone to do this to someone else. Yeah, and if you rape someone, even if you were bad at raping and you didn't get all the way. Right. You know, you've made an attempt at raping someone. That's a disqualifier. Oh, yes.

Forever. Yeah. Forever. Yeah. You know? Yeah. One thing, just while we're on the subject of him being too drunk to sexually complete his attempt at sexual assault. So the actual definition of devil's triangle,

like people have just been pointing to that as an example of him lying because he said it was a drinking game. Right. But the actual definition of devil's triangle is a threesome with two men and a woman, which is what he was attempting to have happen if you believe dr ford's account of the events he was two men in a room two men in a room alone with a woman and like he just didn't you know whether she was into it was not like didn't appear to cross his mind

and like but people are just like see he lied about that and it's not actually a drinking game it's like no it's actually the thing that he would like right was attempting to do like why aren't we talking more about that but i guess in the the way that the logic is operating in the senate the only way they can get the the gop to concede that anything bad happened is for this investigation to come back and say that that in fact happened. They're not interested in the fact that he's lied about his drinking history or all these other things. That's why the scope of the investigation is so narrow, too. It's just limited to these allegations of sexual assault. It's not about whether or not

he lied about his drinking or many of these other things that should be relevant, because they would probably show that he did lie to the Senate. Yeah. No, it's very clear he lied about his drinking or many of these other things that should be relevant because they would probably show that he did lie to the Senate. Yeah. No, it's very clear he lied about his drinking and he lied about the definition of that. I'm just saying like it seems like the media at the very least should be pointing out like he was bragging that him and his homies like had threesomes with girls like that. We're not into it. woman wants that from brett kavanaugh and mark judge have you seen these guys jesus christ like like and like and you have to have a discussion about that you know i i would think you know if i were to be with two guys i'd be like all right now here's uh diagrams of what's allowed and what's not allowed it's a very thorough vetting process the diagram

the two of you fuck off out of here. See ya. There we go. They need to get hooked up to a polygraph. She passed a poly. This isn't a criminal prosecution. That's inadmissible in court, but this is a job interview. Hook those two up to a polygraph and see what happens, man.

Right. And it's so funny, too, because even in the Senate hearings, they're like, well, we use it to hire people in the intelligence community. And we employ it in all these other ways. But again, I'm sure, yeah, there's he can't there's there's no way he could because I don't think it would in any way show him to be honest about it. Yeah, it would just like it just start smoking. Yeah, exactly. But it just melts the second he puts it on. What's the second he puts it on?

On the Daily, one of the reporters was saying that the people who drank with him are like, yeah, he probably believes that he believes it when he denies that this happened because he doesn't remember it. But he was like blacked out all the time. Like he was just constantly blacked out. So like, yeah, it's easy for him to deny it. And maybe he would pass a polygraph, but he was blacked out all the time. Like we all knew those kids in college and high school who were just always completely blacked out. And, you know, some of us may have been those kids.

And there's no shame in that, you know. But like, you know. And then you make you kind of get real with yourself and acknowledge that you, you know, that you don't just like drinking beers or like beers. Right. Yeah. I think, yeah. I love beer. I love beers.

I'll continue to drink beers. He's the worst commercial for beer ever. I know. We were saying that that whole day was great for Coke and probably the worst thing that's ever happened to anheuser-busch like ever because you associate beer with this fucking just douchey monster you do you think he has like a michelob tattoo on his lower back i feel like he has to have a tattoo like some shitty tattoo that he doesn't remember getting yeah exactly all right. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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No kidding. Well, the thing that seems like it cuts the most against, because I think everybody, including his supporters, are of the impression that he finds loopholes and finds ways to cheat. He's a smart business guy. Right. But the thing that he has always claimed is that he only got a million, only got a million dollars from his dad and then paid it back fully. So it was just basically like a bank loan. He's a business genius, you guys. Yeah, daddy gave me $400 million. But what they found is that by age three,

Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today's dollars from his father's empire, which, I mean, what a business genius. By age three, he was earning that much? Yeah, why isn't he hanging his hat on that? Right. He's like, how much you making right now? I was making fucking five times that when I was three. I was a boss baby. He was the original boss baby.

He's the original boss baby. That movie's about me, you didn't know? Fucking Alec Baldwin's ripping me off left and right. Closest thing to a biopic of my life, boss baby. He was a millionaire by age eight, and this is all just money being given to him. By the time he was 17, his father had given him part ownership of a 52-unit apartment building. And then right after he graduated college, he was receiving the equivalent of $1 million a year from his dad.

Hot. The money increased with the years to more than $5 million annually in his 40s and 50s. So he was just- Oh, so he's starting to, you know, it's like you got to ease him into adulthood. Right. Give him a little bit of my girl started. When you start giving him $5 million a year. When he turns 40.

Yeah. When he's out in the real world, only getting $5 million a year. Tough. Yeah. When he's out in the real world, only getting $5 million a year. Tough. So it's just he's a, you know, I think a lot of people who have doubted his credentials kind of suspected that he's just a rich boy who got a lot of money from his dad. Right. and financial reporters and people who actually understand huge quantities of money like this, a point they've made is that if he had just taken the money that his dad gave him and put it in some managed fund-

Like an S&P, right? Yeah, or just like, yeah, an S&P, he would be way richer now than he is based on all the shit he did with the money, which was basically invest in businesses that should be very easy to run, like casinos, and just bankrupting those businesses. It's funny to talk about, too. He hates that estate tax. And when you find out, essentially,

that his mother and father, who, my goodness, are two beautiful human beings. They look like just evil elderly parents from a Tim Burton movie. Some real seven days to live imagery. Mary's hair is actually the most impressive thing I've ever seen. It's like Marge Simpson if she got her hair done by a very drunk person. It's solid. Yeah.

It's falling off to the side. And you don't know where it starts or begins. Who's that guy, Escher? Like an MC Escher drawing? What her hair is like. I'm like, where is the base? Is it twisting on itself?

Anyway, when you read about all the money that they inherited and what they actually paid so you know they probably they're saying they inherited around a billion dollars and you know based on the taxes that they would have had to pay which is about uh what 55 percent for like you know gifts and inheritances so by that math they should have paid about 550 million dollars in taxes total and all that inherited wealth. But through all their fucking trickery, they ended up paying only $52.2 million or 5%.

Right. And like this is the kind of shit we're talking about. I don't know. I mean, I'm glad that this story was effectively reported. I don't really – do we not all know that at this point? It's weird, yeah. I mean that's the sad thing. That's why we're sort of in this weird moment too where immediately I'm like, well, what's the statute of limitations on this shit?

It's all passed. So there's only civil litigation they could go through to try and recoup any of that money. I know Bill de Blasio has said like we're looking to see how we can recoup some of this money. But it's not like the kind of thing where it's like, aha, finally, like as John Oliver will do on his shows, like we got him. Like, no, it ain't going to happen. And he's not even really denying it. Either Trump is just like, oh, that's tired.

That's an old story. And if you want to hide information from a Trump supporter, just put it in a 55,000 word New York Times article. I'm sure nobody's reading that. But I mean, at the same time, just, you know, truthfully and honestly speaking. Right. What he does is rob the 99 percent of Americans out of money. And still be a bad businessman.

Right. And then blow that money on helicopters and failed businesses. Do you think I mean, I just look at the photos of him and his parents, like how much do you think they raised him being like, oh, Donald, you are so miserable. Or do you think they were encouraging him? Well, his dad in the article, it says that his dad and him always they were like clones of one another. They had the same values. In the article, it says that his dad and him always, they were like clones of one another. Right, right, right. They had the same values. They viewed everything as like kill or be killed, essentially.

They only know two speeds, fuck or kill. If only he'd gone in the Durst direction. Right. You know, like Durst, he, not to, we should all be a little more like Robert Durst. I think we could all learn a lesson or two from Mr. Jamie, if you've said it once, you've said it a thousand times. Just burp during your murder confession. But, you know, wearing neck brace to court, I think, is a good lesson.

Say you were on heroin, say your crimes don't count. Could you imagine, though, if that's where Donald Trump- If he's just like, hey, it seems like this Durst guy has some good ideas. And then wears a neck brace to court. All that to say, Robert Durst had just as much money. And he was like, nah, I think I'm just going to kill people. Right, right. Sadly, why am I longing for President Durst?

And then like the jinx with Donald Trump. Just a switched reality. Oh, my God. Do you think, was Durst pretty progressive? I mean, the pro-murder agenda is very... Okay, murder aside, I mean... Murder aside, I mean, there are worse people out there. Yeah.

Certainly, certainly worse people. I don't know what his politics were. He's usually in hiding somewhere. He seems apolitical. How he treated women would lead you to believe that maybe not the most progressive dude in the world. But he did also kill a man so close to parody. There we go.

If he had killed one more man, it would have been a parody murder. They cancel out. You're just a straight up murder. Dozens of dogs that he all named the same thing. Which is one of my favorite crazy details of any crazy person is that he just kept naming them all the same thing and murdering them.

That's your Durst Update of the Day. Hugs really do make us happier, you guys. Says who? Says Carnegie Mellon University. They're smart. I'll buy it. In Pittsburgh, they did a study where they found that people who are huggers have better overall health and stronger relationships.

And so this isn't just people you're in a romantic relationship with. This is people who say, I'm a hugger. Yeah, yeah, yeah. relationship with this this is people who say i'm a hugger yeah yeah yeah and uh that is definitely a move that i do not have that level of comfort with uh just acquaintances yeah i know i saw you high-fived your your one-year-old yeah yeah he was like daddy pick me up and i was like hey put it here pal nice to meet you son you're a man. I aspire to be more of a hugger. But yeah, my initial instinct is not as warm. But I also feel like this study could have been sponsored by Ecstasy.

So do we even know if this is valid? So there's a bunch of stuff like this where the study of touch is becoming, like there's a whole industry that we, at my last job, we interviewed people who had started these cuddle parties and all these different things where it's just basically finding a synthetic way to replace touch. Because people used to, I guess, see each other in often. And so like have more physical contact with other people. And there's just like a certain amount of that that we apparently as, you know, a species need. We need to like touch one another. And there's even like this weird study

where they looked at NBA teams who like how often they touch each other during games and found that teams who touched each other were like more successful, had like more assists per game. And that has apparently been taken on as like gospel in the NBA, because if you ever see like during free throws, everybody,

everybody touches the shooter, but like almost like it's like a, a thing they have to do that. They've just been told like, you know, touches. There's not even like eye contact it's like let me swing my arm right it's just very like workman like and like yeah and whatever that the half court line it's like a no look the guy's shooting is like all right do you get me okay yeah yeah like obviously i was a candy striper when i was a kid and they always wanted us to like touch the people in the nursing home and like rub their hands or like rub

their feet and that was not necessarily our favorite thing to do what yeah they're like you have to rub their feet i mean it was part of the job but i mean i see how that can be really important especially if you're starved for it right or just yeah i mean man a hug really can't go a long way but i guess this is this is also like I feel like even without the actual study itself, I think most people be like, I have a feeling if you did a study about hugs, we would find a positive benefit. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I think it's probably more beneficial than I had anticipated. But I think big hug is behind this study big hug the hug industry but it is interesting because it's one of those things that you can't necessarily monetize and so therefore it probably is culturally underrated unless it's ecstasy right and even then that's not nobody's making

big molly behind it big MDMA big molly now MDMA. Big Mali. MDMA, NBA. You see what I'm saying? Uh-huh. There's a through line here. Now, for the more dystopian way that people might solve the lack of human contact, a Canadian sex doll company has plans to open a shop in Houston where customers can rent one of their sex bots. Yes. where customers can rent one of their sex bots.

Yes, but bot, they only use that term because they moan the robots. Oh, cool. So it's not totally like a sentient AI being. Moaning lifeless bodies. But it's supposed to be a sex bot that looks like a human. It's a very hyper-realistic with skin and that feels real. And it's meant to look like a human being and so yeah people would go in i think they have a shop in toronto where people rent the dolls for like a half hour hour and you know use them uh as they would at the location

and the mayor of houston was like nah i think we're good on a sex bot brothel or whatever uh and they felt like it was unnecessary, unwanted. And then religious groups got involved. And that's when it started getting weird because they were using this really tired argument where they always try and conflate sex work with sex trafficking. And they're saying if they have these sex doll brothels, it will, quote, ultimately harm men,

their understanding of healthy sexuality, and increase the demand for the prostitution and sexual exploitation of women and children. Now, I understand that as a concern, but I think we're also in an age where we can have actual real conversations around, like, our sexuality, consent, things like that, without sort of going down the immediate road where it's like, oh, sex workers are evil, sex work is evil. Oh, you think we're at that point based on this conversation? Yeah.

Yeah, I know. Shit. Also, it seems like a weird. My utopia. Argument a little bit in that, like, I could see a religious argument for the sex bots. Right. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Like, if you're so worried about sex work or whatever like yeah maybe try to put them on a business what's the difference between somebody you know like using a fleshlight or like a dildo like you know like there's all these unhuman ways to get you to get off or whatever right and like using this whole like it's a gateway to sex trafficking. Like, I don't know. I don't see how this is necessarily going to lead to the sexual apocalypse that the religious right thinks it will. But this shit is always so like religiously motivated. Like you don't have actual groups who like advocate on behalf of sex workers

or things like that being like, oh, no, no, no, no. You actually don't want this. You know, it's only these groups who, I think the main group that came out against this is called Elijah Rising. Okay. And they are a Christian nonprofit seeking to end sex trafficking, in part, through prayer.

Okay. So they'll teach you to pray, but this thing that doesn't really harm people that would replace sex trafficking, they're not on board with that. I also just want to say, if you have a weird kink like some Republicans have been known to have, like maybe, yeah, I'm kind of pro this. Yeah. I don't see the problem. It's a fucking, this is a sex doll.

If that's how you do, that's how you get off, then whatever. Like, I don't understand. But again, I think that's where this happened also, I feel like, in Louisiana too around sex workers, where there was like a huge crackdown that without actually acknowledging the agency of some sex workers and like that there's, that if you're, if there's consensual sex work, there's, why are we vilifying that? Yeah. But this is, this is just with why are we vilifying that? Yeah. But this is just with a doll. Yeah.

It does get tricky with, yeah, just consent and whether they're, you know. Yeah, because some sex workers may not be fully have their own agency and may be, you know, working for like a pimp or something who is fucking wild abusive and shit like that but I think there is also in the internet age which I think this was actually going around was the idea of like back page and websites that allowed sex workers to just be their own manager and coordinate their own appointments that they were taking that away which eventually would drive people to the more seedier version of sex work which involves pimps and things like that yeah yeah and I i have noticed just in like keeping an eye on the front page of drudge and other conservative websites that

sex bots is a constant there's just a constant drumbeat of like new story about sex bots new story about sex bots and i think it's probably a because it's the same way that like when the internet first became a thing they were like person murdered on the internet. Right, right. You know, just anything to, because they had a chat with the person they murdered like five days before, you know, it's just the new scary thing. But maybe it's also like you were saying that they are excited that they can get their kink satisfied. Yeah, you know, they're just looking out for humanoids. Exactly.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Oh, wow. What a break. Miles holds his breath the entire break. The whole time. Yeah, it's pretty incredible. It's mostly because of the smog. Oh, God.

The smog is bad. Speaking of the smog is bad. Just to that point, though, every time as a kid when I would go somewhere that was not shitty L.A., I always was like, the air, I'm like, the air. You were breathing with parts of your lungs that you didn't know existed. I would like cough up

like auto parts and shit. Oh my God. It's true. Sorry. Just love clean air. So I think that's why I like the Pacific Northwest. Shout out to British Columbia too.

So researchers in India have been analyzing all the ways that people have died taking selfies over the past years. And this does not seem like it's an exhaustive list because I think they only like clearly identified a couple hundred or like- About 259 total. Right. About 259, give or take. Give or take 0.001 within the margin of error. give or take give or take 0.001 within the margin of error uh but you know these were the ones where it was undoubtedly like somebody was looking at them as they backed into a you know industrial jet engine while trying to take a selfie or whatever yeah they just looked at articles

that first they used articles that were like so person dies trying to take selfie or whatever right and i mean it is it is an interesting thing to study because a lot of it, like the things they're saying is most of these people, they are just risking their lives just in the pursuit of looking cool. Like in the flex, in the search for likes. Here's my hot take. Okay. We could afford to lose 250. Right? Hey, it's a Darwin Award for take. Okay. We could afford to lose $250. Right? 100%.

Hey, it's a Darwin Award for sure. Right. Look, if you're out here climbing a motherfucking antenna that's 300 feet in the air to just do a selfie and you fall off that shit. No. I'm sorry. I don't feel. But you knew what was going on. You didn't even use safety equipment.

But it's interesting. They broke down sort of based on the reports that they did collect. Because it's hard to know because selfie isn't a recordable cause of death. So they would have to look. But they found the top way to go for these people that they looked at while taking a selfie was drowning. So that would be people being washed away by a wave on the beach or capsizing in a boat.

Some people were just getting into water without knowing how to swim. So yeah, in those cases, I'm sorry. Like that is a tragedy, but you know, the Darwin Awards, they do move on. The next one was transportation. So that is the biggest risk they were saying was people clicking a pic in front of a moving train. So a lot of people were getting hit by trains or maybe hanging out the side of a train trying to do it lot of people were getting hit by trains or maybe hanging out the side of a train trying to do it. I remember there was

the woman in that one video, the one woman who was like hanging out the side of the car dancing on the gram and then she got hit by a light pole. Like her friend was too close

to like a light pole but half her body was out of the car and she hit her head on a light pole and died. Did she die? Yeah, she died. Jesus.

So there's even shit that's not even really the selfie, but like the flex on the gram because you just want to be geeky. Do you? Thwack. Also, the third they were saying was from falls and fires. So people climbing shit, falling off tall shit, or being near a fire. Running into a house fire.

I don't know. And instead of trying to like drag out like a person who's stuck in there, you take a selfie? You just go live. You're like, watch me be a hero. Oh, did you guys see the person who got into the accident? He had some sort of social media following. This was a few weeks ago. And there was someone dying in a car that he caused the accident.

Oh, he was a boxer. He caused the accident. Oh, he was a boxer. He caused the accident. And he was Facebook-living instead of helping this mother who wound up dying. That's crazy. That should also be a crime, too. If you're in a position to help somebody and you choose to go live on the ground, that's a felony right there. That's 15 to life.

And then the last one they were saying was like animal mauling, electrocution, and firearms. And they note most of the fatalities involving pigs with firearms occurred in the United States. Aha. Well, it's interesting because, I mean, another sign that they did not capture all of them is that this was a study done in India. And while they only captured 14 deaths in the U.S., they captured 159 in India.

Again, they were focusing more on India. I think this is a snapshot into probably what could be a much wider global study around this. Almost definitely is. Yeah, I think, you know, because like there's some, some countries have, or some areas have like no selfie zones too, because they're like, we don't even, people aren't even looking where they're going. I know when I was in Japan, a lot of people had selfie sticks on our, near the train platform where the wires above are electrified. So they're like, yo, you could just straight up zap yourself. And they have signs of like, yo, put, don't, don't let us catch you with a selfie stick

near these live wires. But yeah, I mean, I think. This is the new smoking, though. This is like how people are killing themselves to try and look cool. We really are just getting stupider, man. But I mean, look, I mean, you know what I mean? What I mean in the sense that our sense of vanity

and like social one-upsmanship is like starting to go into a place even more now where you can record really actually avoidable death. Right. But again, this is where society is moving. What's the craziest place you ever took a selfie? Jack. I don't really take selfies. Wow.

That's why you'll live to be 300. Because I just have that photographer who follows me around at all times. How many photographers have you burned through who have lost their life? Lost a few of them. Lost a few, yeah. Unrelated. What about you? I don't think I have a good one.

Also, I'm not that type of person. I would not, I'm scared of heights. Anything that could potentially kill me, I'm trying to stay away from it. Yeah. Yeah. Good for you. Yeah, me too. I'm a coward.

How about you, Miles? When I was in London, I was on the London Eye, and I got out of the fucking pod, and I climbed on top of the car. No, you didn't. And I tried to get the selfie with the town in the background, and it was lit. But I took it down, because I didn't want to inspire any copycats.

But, yeah, I'm the same way. Like, I think the most is, like, I'm, like, seated and I'll take a selfie or like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even walking. Like, also the idea. When I see people, like, walking and, like, selfie-ing at the same time, like, I kind of cringe for them. Yeah. I mean, but, you know.

I've probably done something like that, like, been walking, like, on vacation and, like, taking a picture. And, like, not realized I was in the middle of the street or something like that and could have gotten, like, hit. Wow. Uh-oh. Yeah. Think about your kids, Jack. Yeah, I know. Before you're trying to flex on the gram.

It was before kids. Oh, shit. Well, then, you know, flex away. It was before kids. Oh, shit. Well, then, you know, flex away. So this is an interesting little release from the Hater app, which I was not familiar with. But, Miles, explain what the Hater app is. It's basically Tinder for haters.

Right. Their whole idea is that they'll match people based not on shared interest but shared hatred of something, which I think is called the 4chan dating section but yeah their whole thing is like you put in like what's the thing you don't like or whatever and every like i feel like every year the last or for the last year and a half the apps existed they've like released lists before they're like based on our data these are what the people hate most in these specific states and now they just did one that was all based around food. And it's a very interesting image because it just shows like in each state what the most

hated food is. Now, this in no way is real scientific data because it's a dating app that matches people based on what they hate. One of the first things you notice is each state has a different food that they most hate, which is the sign that this was edited for it to be good content and not to just have a bunch of interesting information rather than actually being a scientifically based thing. No two states had the same food that they hate the most? No. I love content.

Right. I mean, they're just laying? No. I love content. Right. I mean, they're just laying in some sick tent here. Sick tent. And it's a good way to get people to try and download their so overtly negative, cynical app. It's like, what do you fucking hate? Right. We'll find somebody for you. But yeah, it reads like a thing where I don't know if this, you know, you look at each state.

Some states make sense, right? Texas is they say steak cooked well done. OK, I can see how that makes sense. But they voted for Trump. So how do you explain that? Well, how about this? New York, they hate ranch on pizza. So I get that too. I can see how as a New Yorker, you look at that kind of shit like, oh, that's fucking nonsense. Right. But again, you don't know where these people are using this app so i would just reckon that it is like whatever the most like the two most populated cities are actually determining what each state actually hates right um because california's

chick-fil-a that doesn't mix man i drive by chick-fil-a i go to chick-fil-a you know i see people there they got past it i don't know what's going on but again i feel like if you're on an app and you're trying to find a mate, you would say, I hate Chick-fil-A because that will probably mean someone who does not appreciate homophobia. Right. You know what I mean? Right. And then that way you know if you put that shit there, you're not going to get some weird. Oh, the subtext.

Yeah. Or you're just a dude who's like, hey, this will make me seem more like woke or whatever. So you never know what someone's motivation is. Literal virtue signaling. Right. Massachusetts, my home state, is mayonnaise on fries. Yeah. As a chub head myself, I strongly disagree.

Sure? Yeah. You love the chub head. Yeah. Starting a new podcast, Chubbo Trap House later. But yeah, what I don't understand is North Dakota was tapas? Yes. Like, so you hate everything about tapas?

Or was there one tapas restaurant that opened up and you're like, man, fuck Olay. All right. I have my most baffling one that I'll get to. But there is another trend that you see that is basically the reverse of virtue signaling, where it's like, we don't give a fuck about you east coasters like west virginia's tofu uh kentucky is hummus because you know which one's la croix i don't know what nevada states are okay nevada yeah yeah nevada states are colorado they they hate flaming hot cheetos i don't know man all the weed you smoke up there oklahoma not liking veggie burgers.

I get that. Right. That's what you would expect. There's one that's, okay, there are a few. I'm interested in what Jack's baffling one is. A few are throwing me here. Okay, what do you got? What's really throwing you?

I don't understand foraged food. In Tennessee. In Tennessee, and foraged food is like a hippie dippy like trend. So they're like fuck you lefty foraged food. Okay so that's another fist shaker. Kiss my ass we pay for our food in Tennessee. That's another fist shaker. And it's just you know it's like basically

going around gathering your wild food up and they're like oh okay. Quinoa is one like that where they're like hippie suck. Right. Also Arkansas cilantro. Yeah. I wonder if that's just like, I like the Alabama, it was just straight up Chipotle. Yeah. I can hear

that dog whistle loud and clear, my man. You do not fuck with Chipotle. Florida licorice is bumping me too. Right. What is that? Okay, so this is the third category that we were talking about earlier, which is there's some self-hatred slash self-deception where it's like licorice is, they're like, we're not all old. We hate licorice.

It's like where there's originals and licorice are the things they hate. And another state that you see that trend is in New Jersey, where their most hated food is gas station wine. Oh, that's so specific because you don't want to be seen as a bridge and tunnel person. The corner piece of a brownie. What is that? That one is very confusing to me. Or what Missouri's is the last bite of a hot dog. Yeah.

Why? Do people just like rate? Do you just be like, fuck! This is the thing I hate about eating a hot dog, man, that last bite. Yeah. Oh, are they just saying, I love hot dogs so much, I hate when they end? Oh, wow. God damn it, I love hot dogs.

I never thought about that. I just love them so much. You're just so tortured. You're like, I'm so sorry. I don't know how to take the last bite. Do you guys not like the last bite of a banana? Do you have any thoughts on that? I don't even eat bananas.

You don't eat bananas? They make my throat itch. They're not. Yeah, and I don't love it. It's not my favorite bite. Right. Does it bother you? It does bother me a little bit.

And one time I was in a forum, and there was a big thread of people being like, I hate it too. We all just discovered we didn't like the last bite. Why? Because it's all warm? Because it's like everything meets there and it like becomes this like it's not even worse. It tastes

exactly like the rest of the banana, but it's just like some weird unconscious thing. You know, actually now that I think about it, as a kid, my dad would be like, yo, you better finish that fucking thing because I would get to that part and be like, nope. Yeah, I just wonder if that's the same as two dick-shaped foods. I wonder if there's some unconscious thing about like,

oh, well, it's the tip and it's where it gets all, I don't know, mashed together. You don't want to eat the whole penis. Right. Also, why do they hate Coca-Cola in Hawaii? Is there something going on? I don't know. Did Coca-Cola help with the annexation of Hawaii?

Is there a political reason why everyone in Alaska hates a specific brand of water? That's a very good question. Voss water. I just said water like I'm from Baltimore. Water? Water? It's just very

interesting to see. Again, this is not scientific, so I would not trust this. We took a survey of hateful people. Here's what they thought. I mean, pumpkin, spice,

anything. Was that Wyoming? There are some that are just trendy. I think that's, is that not North Dakota? No, tapas is North Dakota. Oh, okay.

Yeah, maybe that is why. And then Idaho, they hate dim sum. Uh-oh. And Maine hates Asian fusion. Yo. It's like, uh-huh.

Come on, I like Maine. You like Maine? I'm literally Asian fusion. I played hockey there a couple times and it was nice as a kid. It's good for ice-related activities. Here's the thing. Last time I was there, 11 years old. Yeah, Maine's great when you're 11 years old. The second you

who, I mean, there are some wonderful people in Maine. But there's there are some wonderful people in Maine. Yes, of course, of course. But there's also some scary fucking people in Maine. That's what intrigues me about Maine, because there is this sort of wilderness culture out there still, where they're like, this is fucking Maine. I spent a lot of time in Maine growing up because my grandma lived there, and the neighborhood she lived in, it ran the gamut in terms of political opinions,

and people were live wires. who she lived in, it ran the gamut in terms of political opinions. People were live wires in me. And there's a lot of space to yell. Right. A lot of space to yell. A lot of beautiful nature up there. A lot of space to yell. Love yelling. Love yelling.

Hey, Stephen King didn't come from nowhere. Stephen King lived in that same town. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. Also, what's going on with Nebraska not liking chili peppers? Yep. I feel like that might be one of those.

Yeah, because it's like too much where it's like, ooh. Yeah, yeah. Is that Colorado who hates Flaming Hots? Yeah. Why? I don't know. Colorado, speak up. It's a very white state, I feel like.

You would think that Flamin' Hot's, everyone loves Flamin' Hot. I know, especially a place where weed is legal. I feel like Colorado, there would be an unusual, like if you were percentage-wise breaking down Flamin' Hot-induced UTIs state by state, Colorado would be up there. Flamin' Hot, yeah, who knows? And then, yeah, in Oregon, theirs was fast food. That feels like a Portland vibe.

Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Because that feels like that would probably be their biggest market. Portland and Eugene. Yeah. They're just like, come on, man. Oh, man, Eugene.

Keep your fast foods out of here. Cheba Hut. They're like, just let your neighbor baby bird into your mouth. It's just as good. It's just as good. And then New Mexico hates chicken nuggets. Got it. Right. That's just as good. And then New Mexico hates chicken nuggets. Got it. That's a very odd thing.

I get if you hate quinoa or something. Or some people don't like biting string cheese. They're very offended by it. That was Illinois. That's an action. That's confusing, too. Yeah, but I like that as a pet peeve, though. Because I know...

I get it. The first time I remember seeing, as a kid, some fucking psycho caveman kid I went to school would bite a fucking string cheese I was like that's not how you do it

you do it that's not how it works you thread it down until you're holding fucking spider webs so much wasted flavor yeah the one that I'm most

confused by is Minnesota beans hmm I just don't beans all beans all beans they're showing string beans The one that I'm most confused by is Minnesota beans. Hmm. I just don't. Beans? All beans? They're showing string beans, it looks like.

So is it because of casseroles? I don't know. You'd think Minnesota would be way into casseroles also. Yeah. Maybe they're trying to disperse. New Hampshire hates expensive cocktails. Yeah. And Vermont, the spray cheese, they're like, we take our sharp cheddar very seriously.

Most of it just seems to be rural virtue signaling where they're like, I don't fuck kombucha. That's Arizona. And then California is virtue signaling too. Chick-fil-A, no way. Not here, bro. Can't get away with that. Chai lattes in Pennsylvania. Utah's I think.

Matcha tea. What is wrong with balsamic vinegar? That is also oddly specific where you're like, I hate balsamic vinegar? That is also oddly specific. I hate balsamic vinegar. Balsamic vinegar is considered crack in Utah. That's too much. They don't sell it on Sundays. I mainline it.

We're not monsters. We don't do balsamic vinegar. I'm mainlining balsamic vinegar right now. Balsami? Balsami yummy. Balsami yummy latte. Balsami Balsami yummy Balsami yummy Alright that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist

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