The Daily Zeitgeist - WORDLE “Crisis”, Rat Czar Of NY = Fail 04.19.24

Episode Date: April 19, 2024

In episode 1662, Miles and guest co-host Andrew Ti are joined by host of Jockular, Katie Kershaw, to discuss… Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants To Use Those Jewish Space Lasers On Migrants, Uhhh New Yorkers Are Getting Sick From What? Speaking of NY... Therapists Are Starting To Worry About WORDLE, Trump Jury Duty Sounds A Lot Less Fun Than The Show Jury Duty and more! Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants To Use Those Jewish Space Lasers On Migrants Marjorie Taylor Greene's Israel aid amendment calls for "space lasers" at the border Shrinks Think New York Times’ Wordle Is Becoming a Problem Trump trial: Dozens of jurors rejected as they say they cannot be impartial Trump trial jury selection complicated by opinionated New Yorkers Trump trial jury selection process follows a familiar pattern with an unpredictable outcome Trump Jurors May Be 'Outed' and Endangered, Ex-Prosecutor Warns Jesse Watters Goes Juror by Juror to Sow Doubt in Trump Hush-Money Case Trump quotes Fox News host on prospective jurors despite gag order  2 members of jury in Trump trial excused, including woman who feared being identified LISTEN: Wasurerarenaino by SakanactionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. Thank you for doing that. What was that? I was saying hi, like Japanese to work on it. Japanese? Oh, wow. Could you do the ya? Oh, like hi-ya? No, no. Oh, okay. I'm like, how Asian are we getting right now?

I was trying to switch it up. Oh, I got a Caucasian thing later. Don't worry. Oh, okay. Thank you. But yes, this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Friday, April 19th, 2024. It's Friday.

I hope y'all are fucking ready to do whatever y'all do on the weekends. And I hope you enjoy it. But what is April 19th officially? It's National Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet Day. Yes, because you're having a party with high schoolers coming over. Don't let them dig through your medicine cabinets. Clear all that out i have a feeling baby yeah right 419 if this feels like a thing where big farms like get rid of your like expired meds so you can buy new ones like it's kind of like what they're saying here it's also national north dakota day national amaretto day

national garlic day national oklahoma city bombing commemoration Day. I'm going to forget that. That was 4-19. And National Hanging Out Day. I know. It's such a... Look, this is America, baby. You know what I mean? We got a lot on any given day here. It can be garlic.

It can be right-wing extremism. Yeah. It can be both. Porque no los dos. Is what we always say in America. But anyway... Are you trying to make this show less white on the days Jack is not here? Is that what you're doing right now?

I have to spread my trilingual wings. You know what I mean? I mean, I guess two and a half. I mean, my Spanish is pretty basic. But anyway. Yeah, because you know when Jack, when I start speaking foreign languages, he does things like stop talking code around me. I know.

I know. Listen, you got to spread your wings while you can. Hey, people who have mixed families like that, where a parent is an immigrant, I know some American families, they say like, foreign language was discouraged in that home. Luckily on this show, we don't discourage it here. We embrace it. That's right. But guess what? I'm Miles Gray, a.k.a.

And I said, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I said, hey, my voice is gone. Oh, my God. My voice is gone because I was screaming for non-blondes while I was doing karaoke in Japan. That is a reference. Shout out to Cleo Universe for my voice. The first couple of days was real touch and go because I'm pretty sure I blew like a whole vocal cord screaming. But yeah, yeah. I mean, that's the thing about when I I'm not a great singer, but a little bit of alcohol in me, I will I will scream like my life depends on it. But anyway, I'm thrilled to be joined by my guest co-host, a fantastic person.

My new lunch homie. You know what I mean? We go out here. We have salty salads is what we do. We eat very salty food when we hang out. It does what it does. I needed some water afterwards. Oh, dude, I drank.

I couldn't believe how parched I was after that salty salad. Anyway, and look, he's a fantastic writer, comedian, producer. He does it all. He does everything in this town. He even hosts a podcast. You already know it. It's the legendary podcast, Yo, Is This Racist? Please welcome to the microphone, Mr. Andrew T.

I came up with an A. I was trying to think of an AKA this morning. And I was like, if I was a different, a different like you know stand-up type joe rogan podcast person they would have called me andrew t fake mr t aka ba abacus oh wow and i couldn't i couldn't get that out of my head even though it's both racist and whack yeah that's what i bring to the table you say ba abacus you know-B-A-C-K-A-S. You know what I mean? I just forgive it.

That was, that was my, I was trying to, I was riding that line and then it was time to record. So that's where I'm at. I get it. I get it. I get it.

Well, guess what, Andrew, we have a fantastic guest today. Yes. Someone who's a fantastic actor, comedian, improviser,

also does many things. Also has a fantastic podcast jocular a podcast like from a queer sports angle okay and it is a newly arrived podcast i believe only launched uh in march of this year on adam mckay's hyper object industries please welcome to the microphone, the brilliant, the talented, the athletic Katie Kershaw. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome, Katie. How are you? How are you? Thank you for joining us. This is your first time on the show. Thank you. It is. This is amazing. Thank you so much for having me. This is awesome. I have two other hosts to the podcast and you've got the least athletic one.

Okay, okay. Well, hey, better. Still better than us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I also talk about sports too, and I do it seated, and I dream of doing the things I talk about in the sports podcast. Right. What's your sports like? Did you play a lot of sports? Do you like... How did you get into sports that led to now hosting a sports podcast with your home?

Well, I grew up in Kentucky, which is basketball country. So it's kind of like ingrained in you everyone in my family played basketball you grew up watching basketball and i played it as a kid and then at one point the coach who was like my mom's best friend i was in like fifth grade uh tried to send me into the game and I said, I can't, I'm having a conversation. And then at that point, yeah. Um, he came up to my mom and was like, I just don't think she's got it. Wow.

And then the podcast scouts were there. We're like, I know. We actually got the perfect. Hold on. Okay. She's watching, like watching basketball and she's talking.

We've got a great idea. Yeah. Call Adam McKay now now now i don't care if the podcasts aren't invented yet they're a thing they're gonna happen yeah well dope it's uh it's great to have you uh where are you coming to us from are you in the city of angels as well i am uh highland park hey sorry do you know what i mean i i've been going i've been going to highland Park a lot I feel like I'm at Hermosillo

Every other weekend For someone's birthday It's so easy It's such an easy location It's like outside, you don't have to worry about anything You can bring a baby, you can bring a dog Great, come on through You can bring a baby dog

They're not vaccinated yet They got frickles Always a plus when you got fried pickles Great. Come on through. You can bring a baby dog. You can bring a baby dog. They're not vaccinated yet. You can have, they got Frickles, you know, always, always a plus when you got fried pickles. Why are you laughing?

You don't like, do you like fried pickles, Andrew? You said Frickles with such confidence and Frickles, you know, like I just,

like in my homey. Frickles. Yeah. Like I get it. I just, a little too familiar. A little too familiar. The formal name,

the Christian name of fried pickles. Yeah. Pickles. Right. Deep fried pickled cucumbers. Is what we like to say around here. I'm just saying. I'm just saying.

It's just probably too much. Yeah. Okay. Okay. That's fine. I mean, look, people, I'm a, I'm a frickle freak, baby. I like it. Yeah.

I hate it. You know that song, Down on Cripple Creek? They say, this man is a freckle freak. I auditioned for the band and I did not get in. But anyway, here we are. Let's talk. Let's give the listeners a preview. We won't be talking about our health food habits, but we will be talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene is now ironically leaning into her former anti-Semitic conspiracy theory,

or maybe she's being serious. She wants to bring back the space lasers, but for real this time. We'll ask about that one. We'll also ask what's happening with New Yorkers, because there is a bacterial infection that is on the rise that is due to a substance that seemingly feels very New York, but it's also a bit of a... It kind of freaks me out, this story. And while we're in New York, we'll talk about the New York Times,

not about their amazing journalism, but their amazing games, their puzzle games, and why therapists are worried that they're seeing a bit of a trend in the wrong direction with some of the New York Times puzzle games. And then we'll just check in with the trump jury selection process because it's a fucking circus already um people are getting impaneled and then immediately people like yeah i can't do it sorry no uh i actually i don't think i can be objective here i have too strong an opinion on this

or maybe they realize it could lead to a lot of harassment. We just don't know, but we will talk about that. All that many other things, but first KK is okay. Fuck all you KK. Oh yeah. Do people call you KK?

Yeah. It's like a, definitely a back home nickname. Yeah. Yeah. And I felt like that feels like a high school nickname for sure. Yeah. Yeah. For sure.

Well, I will be like, I am familiar with frickles i will be familiar with how i refer to you katie kershaw uh what is something from your search history or a recent screenshot on your phone that says a lot about who you are reveal something about who you are i didn't even think about a recent screenshot you don't have to just if you have a either one either one works i feel like they're equally telling. Yeah. Well, that screenshot can't share. I would say... Exactly.

I was looking at my search history and my girlfriend and I just moved. So it's really kind of house oriented. So I looked up guide to buying a washer. Oh, yeah. So if anyone has any tips on buying a washer yeah we're the i need them we're adulting huh we're now yeah it's not like hard which vaporizer can fuck up five people at once it's what do i need high efficiency do i need a front loader do i need a top loader yeah okay did you end up like on like wire cutter or like one of those things that google inevitably is like hey they pay us enough to put their results up top yes

of course i did i was on a best buy guide i was everywhere i think i'll i don't know what will go we're we're looking at a bunch of options it's so lame but that is it's gonna be a top loader yeah oh okay there's like you get mold like in the ring of it it never dries out yeah that or sometimes you get like old like if you use those pods i've noticed like old detergent will collect like in the front and i have to like constantly like scoop out goop no it's like just it looks like primordial ooze oh interesting yeah i i bought my first non like off a guy in craigslist appliance i got i i did get like somewhere in 2021 maybe like a new washer dryer and i turns out do my exact same thing i do when i'm getting wine which i just straight up got the second cheapest one and it it's so far, it's been fine.

I feel that. I'm like, I don't know. I don't want the cheapest one, I think. Exactly. I mean, I feel like for the most part, they're sturdy. But I don't know. Zeitgang, if you know a lot about washing machines, please, please do reach out to Katie or I, and I can pass information along. What do we need to be looking for?

Because like, yeah, in my mind, I'm like, does it clean? Okay. I don't need it to do like infrared whatever or be connected to the, just don't get anything that's connected to the internet. I would just say that. We don't need Oh, God, no. Because I saw a thing about how people's appliances

that are connected are downloading a lot of information. Oh, really? Yeah, where you're like, why is it using this much of my internet? So, yeah, the internet is kind of... Let's get away. Oh, my God. I just realized,

just because it started getting warm in Los Angeles, turned on my new window unit AC that does have internet connectivity. And I do think my household bandwidth has gone down. It does for real? Oh, really? Now I'm,

I'm probably making a connection that isn't there, but as you say it now, I'm like, it's a fucking AC. Right. It's like the, like the old, yeah.

Dad thing is like too many guys are on the internet right now. Yeah. All right, Katie, what is something you think is underrated? Something I think is underrated is the Costco chicken bake. Oh. Yeah.

Go on. I feel like all of the attention, all of the t-shirts, all the merchandises about the hot dog. Yep. It's delicious. Don't get me wrong. I love the hot dog. Of course. But do I leave wanting a little bit more?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. And also too full. Yeah. Do I leave wanting a little bit more? Yeah. And also too full. Yeah.

Like, it doesn't balance it out, but the chicken bake feels like I'm getting everything together. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, I'm, thank you. Thank you for saying this, actually. Not enough people. Oh, my God, of course.

Because we all know one hot dog does not make a meal. That's, that's just, it is what it is. We're from America. The hot dog is like a half bag of chips, basically. And that hot dog is too big to justify two of those hot dogs. You want 1.5 of those. Yes, exactly. Right, right. Three per couple, basically.

Yeah. It's sort of how we like, you know, here, I don't know if you've been here before. We kind of do it family style. I would probably for you know the two of you probably go with three of the hot dogs everyone has a hot dog and then you lady and the tramp the other hot dog exactly correct exactly with whoever you're with regardless of relationship is like the chicken bake i just the filling is basically like just cheese and bacon and flavor you know what i mean like how how would you just how do you describe it in a culinary aspect the way that my mouth is watering right

now um i would say the the flavor profile of the chicken bake is complex yeah well thank you uh-huh you are not going to be able to kind of nail it down upon first bite. Right. Because you have the crunchy Parmesan on top. The bread is nice and fluffy, but not too much because it's still like half crust. Yeah. It has to hold it in. Right.

Yeah. So the filling I from my sense memory is chicken, bacon, cheese, and almost like a Caesar-y type dressing. Yeah. I'm looking at the official description now. It's chicken breast strips, mozzarella provolone, parmesan cheeses, smoky bacon, creamy Caesar dressing, and green onions. Green onions? That's what the green is. That's the secret. Yeah, that's a vegetable.

This might be apocryphal, but I feel like I heard that it basically came sort of like when you're stoned and 14 and working at a fast food restaurant, you just put it together. I thought it was supposed to be the pizza dough and then they took the famous

Costco chicken pieces and then just cracked took the famous costco chicken pieces and then just cracked open their like pre-made caesar salad box and like threw all that shit together basically oh my god that's genius if that's what happened i think you're down with costco lore like that i the answer is yes yeah i was I was going to say. Wow. But I just don't know if this is false or like a fun little story, but I believe that is like all the ingredients are off-the-shelf components of other shit they already had in the store. Right, right, right.

Well, hey, I mean, look, again, Zeitgang. It's like building a car at AutoZone. Check this shit out. Right, except there's no frame or doors or other things. But we made it. It's like, man, we got a pedal, no engine, but I mean, this shit can kind of go downhill. It works. Technically, yeah.

It's got lights. It'll move. It's got lights. Got a shitload of wiper blade fluid. I'll tell you that. Shitload of windshield fluid. We got a ton of that. And, you know, some loose wheels.

Katie, what's something you think is overrated uh overrated i think giving friends advice i think it's the worst idea we should stop doing it okay give me give me an example put me in the situation where i'm fully embracing this take okay so if somebody is like i you know i'm seeing this guy and i just don't know. What do you think? I'm not dating that person. I don't know what they're like intimately. I don't fucking know. We don't have the same taste. Right.

First off, wouldn't date a man anyway. So I can't really help you there. For sure. Yeah. And if we're friends. You lost me when you said, I'm dating this guy. Yeah. What the fuck do I tell you right now?

I don't know. If we're friends, then we have the same probably mental illness. We have the same problems. Comorbidities. Emotional comorbidities. Yeah. I'm not the person. And I'll probably not like the person you're dating anyway.

So I might just be like, nah. Or maybe he's nice and has like good snacks and is really friendly then i'll say hang on to him yeah yeah i've been in situations like that i i agree now i'm like what now that you say it i'm like there there are friends you have who have like the weirdest dating habits and it does get to a point like i don't know if there's a fucking thing i can say to you that will help because there are so many other shits that are like entangled in this that it's not right. What do I do? Do I like dump them?

I'm like, I don't know if it's that's the actual solution of what's going on here. Just generally. Right. Like they are not the problem. From my perspective, you are actually the problem. But I don't. As someone who's seen every relationship yeah you've had it's for me you're the common denominator here so i don't know what else to say aside from like you do better i don't know it also is very unlikable to point out people's real flaws it turns out like turns out yeah yeah people don't

like it yeah yeah yeah it was like well it just feels like you know like you kind of don't like being single you know like the second you're off one you're on to the next and i feel like it's really those spaces in between as dave matthews says that you could really just kind of find yourself and maybe make a better decision like you don't know everything about you don't know what's going on with me i'm like see this is about just let's just not talk about this let's not talk right right yeah and those friends that and maybe make a better decision. Like, you don't know everything about me. You don't know what's going on with me. I'm like, see, this is why... Let's just not fucking talk about this. Let's not talk about it.

Right, right. Yeah, and those friends that come to you for every life decision, it's like, I really, truly don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We could talk about it. I'll just help you decide where we're eating dinner. Right.

Right, exactly. Like, lower stakes. Yeah, but besides that, let's just kind of talk shit and watch TV. KK, every time you you say we should just get chicken bakes every time can we say something else and every time I ask you

for relationship advice you always ask me if I've looked in the mirror recently oh wow just to go back a little tiny bit I felt like I didn't want to say this because it would reveal too much about myself but did you guys see that shit on the internet where people were getting one Costcoco dog a chicken bake you bite off the top of the chicken bake like a cigar and then jam the hot dog inside

oh no oh no that is fucking wild no i that shit I would eat it but It seems bad That's a bridge too We don't need to mash it up You know what I mean Glizzies in unexpected places Is not something I'm really a fan of What about glizzies in a white cream And a hot caesar dressing

Wait I'm back now Actually now that you say it like that. Yummy. Wait, but wouldn't it displace a ton of the filling? Right, it's going to be a mess. You just got to loosen it up. Oh my god. What are we talking about now?

It made it seem like this was not the hard part. The structural part is not the hard part. Don't get hung up on the engineering. Don't worry hung up on the engineering. Right. Don't worry about that shit. But the filling displacement, that is bound to occur when you insert an object with that kind of volume. That's the least of your problems, bro.

Yeah. Yeah. What do you do with the bun? You just have a loose bun? Just toss it. I think you do just have a loose bun. No, that's your napkin now. Or maybe that's your, like, bake absorbing that's your like bake absorbing goes yeah yeah it plops out the bottom into your bun and then you eat that

this is all this is getting so gross but do people like it or people saying like dude this is the bomb like adding hot dog to chicken i mean i think the problem with um especially i don't want to say the kids today but with the kids today on their internet and their apps yeah is you're you're so incentivized to be like this is amazing yeah right there's no way to know like like you're not like you're not supposed to be on tiktok being like that's all right i probably won't finish right right yeah it's because that's like yeah like like the i early on, like in the pandemic when people were like, these like Midwestern nurses were trying like Indian food for the first time. And they're like, oh my God, y'all.

Like this. I'm sorry. This is like chicken tico must salad. I don't know. It's so good. It's like, oh my God, never had flavors like this. Yeah. What about the, did you see when people were drinking beer with a glizzy straw? don't know it's so good it's like oh my god i've never had flavors like this yeah what about did

you see when people were drinking beer with a glizzy straw ew yeah and people were like don't knock it till you try it i'm like dude i didn't know no yeah it's like fucking there's no planet and then you don't want like a ice cold beer soaked fucking frank to eat at the end oh god just no no no no it's really i mean look 90 of the like of the food content on this is me a hot take there you go yeah we know is truly it's because people cannot fucking cook and so all of the life hack industry is like every one of those gadgets if you know know how to use a knife, you would not need this thing. You fucking moron. Right, right.

Like it's crazy. Yeah, exactly. It's so weird. And I do think genuinely it's because there's not like home ec in high schools anymore. Well, I didn't even have home ec in high school. I barely did. Did they have it in Michigan? Oh, we didn't have it.

Yeah, it was phased out by the time. Yeah, there was none. Yeah. Wow. Because it's women's work. Truly, I was like, oh, this is the only class that taught me something useful in high school. You need to get in that wood shop, man.

Fuck around learning how an oven works. Yeah, I'm going to be making a lot of fucking benches in my life. Get the fuck out of here. I'm going to be biting the end off a chicken bake and fucking tossing in a glitz. All right. Let's take a break and take an antacid tablet

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. The things we talk about between segments, it's truly, it could be its own podcast. But here we are talking about the news and Marjorie Taylor Greene. So look, she famously blamed wildfires on quote, Jewish space lasers. And many people were like, these are the kinds of anti-Semitic, like racist freaks that were electing into Congress.

And, you know, but doesn't really like to talk about it now that she's in office, even though it's like one of the things a lot of people are like, that's that's the kind of stuff that Marjorie Taylor Greene talks about. I don't know if you saw that clip from earlier this year where a reporter from the UK asked her about it and it did not go well. Did you guys catch this? Here, allow me to refresh your memory. Oh, thanks. So this reporter asked about the kinds of people that are attracted to the Republican Party and the conspiracy theories that abound on the right. That support Donald Trump, love conspiracy theories, including yourself. He seems to attract lots of conspiracy theorists. Well, let me tell you, you're a conspiracy theorist and the left and the media spreads more conspiracy theories. We like the truth. We like supporting our constitution, our freedoms in America first.

What about Jewish space lasers? Tell us about Jewish space lasers. Why don't you go talk about Jewish space lasers? And really, why don't you fuck off? How about that? That's what we call God-im. Oh my God. Easy. I love how just the, it's that dry delivery.

Why don't you tell us about jewish space lasers you know you know what well why don't i love how again why don't you and then it just had to turn into why don't you fuck off yeah couldn't get it out of her mouth why don't you think fuck you yeah like yeah truly like when you get like owned in like some getting like a roast battle or something in middle school where like you're it fries your circuits and you actually have no more comebacks and you have to go. Why don't you fuck fuck off? Yeah, weird. I mean, the whole thing was just like, why don't you?

Well, why don't you? You're spreading your conspiracy theories. Oh, no, man. Okay. She's a child. She's a child and it works. Yeah. Oh, man. Okay, thanks. She's a child. She's a child and it works. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

And that's what sucks the most because what do you say to someone when they're like, actually, you're doing conspiracy theories? What you respond with, no, you are. No. And then it's just endless.

Actually, it's you. No, I would posit that you have the record of disseminating conspiracy theories. I actually don't. You're the fucking conspiracy theorist. Oh, okay. Then we'll just go back and forth here. But then she went on social media and Marjorie Taylor Greene and claimed she would like an amendment to the Israel-Ukraine aid bill that would allow the U.S. to use Israels, for whatever reason, space lasers on migrants at the fucking border.

She said, I've previously voted to fund space lasers for Israel's defense. And it's like, again, there's no such fucking thing. You're probably trolling at this point. American needs to take our national security seriously and deserves the same type of defense for our border that israel has and proudly uses and what are we talking about like some shit from that like the movie the creator where like you just want a fucking beam to come down from the heavens and just like vaporize everything and it's i don't know if she's conflating the creator with actual technology either way it's just very weird like if she's trolling you're using this like dumb anti-semitic conspiracy

theory to then fold that into a bill where you're talking about israel like an aid package to israel and you're like this is like the weird most fucking american joke or non-joke take i've ever heard so yeah that's that's where we're at with this one. She's so unhinged. Yeah. So fucking unhinged. Like I, it is like when you're talking to like a crazy person, you can't ask them too many questions. Like, cause like,

we're not going to get to the root of this, but I want to like dive into her brain and be like, but where, when she, who created this? Did you read it? Right. It's like that thing. I bet people like how comedians will

go like full right wing when they're like nah i think my material do will do a bit like i think i get more attention if i do this yeah she seems to just she does that but with like even less like with zero talent and it's just purely like a zombie set to like attention and just does whatever it takes like literally whatever it takes i think there's at some point in like 2000 i guess like 16 17 somewhere in there it feels like she maybe just got like the memento disease and it's just like she has like a set of like like not principles but like ways to react but doesn't really know what the facts are going to be so she just like does does the thing yeah like john g killed your wife like she has to look at her tattoos every morning

was the space laser something embarrassing or was it cool the Israel okay yeah right oh I'm doing some just free form word association here and I think that's what happened but yeah I mean again just shows like how further and further we get to be be having like a serious government and that could like there's how do we expect fucking anything when right like you know i would argue three quarters of congress and that's being generous is filled with people who are not really thinking about like lived outcomes for people it's more like yeah how do i keep the ride going of being able to put congressperson in front of my name this is what happens when you give white people

the right to vote i'm sorry we could have avoided all this could have avoided it we've had it for too long we don't have a good track it would be i think it would be good if we just took a pause I think it would be good if we just took a pause. Yeah. Right. I just think we need a pause. Just for the exact amount of time that

other people... It should just be flipped. The right to vote, for as long as you've had it, you don't have it, and vice versa. Right. I'm fine with that. Just to see. Just to see what happens. Couldn't be worse. No, honestly, couldn't at this point. If we somehow were like, with that. Just to see what happens. Couldn't be worse. No, honestly, couldn't at this point.

If we somehow were like, yeah, man, we voted Oprah as president. Somehow, that's how that vote went. You're like, eh, I mean, I don't know. I don't think things will get better. They won't get worse. I think the capitalists could trust President Oprah, though, too.

So I think things would move pretty well. I mean, yeah. It's so interesting watching this also type of right-wing anti-Semitism. Because she's also voting to send $26 billion to Israel. So, like, what is happening here? I know. That's why it's such a head fuck like just when you look at all the layers of it you're like you're putting this language in a bill that's proposed aid to israel and ukraine but then being like but you know their space laser technology they got you're like what are what they that's like the evangelical Christian. I don't really know her church life.

I think you could make a pretty good guess. Yeah. They still haven't got the lead paint and asbestos out of there. They need Israel to exist, right? They have to have it to exist. And they need the holy war to start the the end of the world sequence that's right jesus right right yeah i mean yeah i grew up baptist in the south like the most anti-semitic people like not my family where i grew up but are those people that are like but we have to

protect israel and i'm like right right right for what yeah is going on because when it all blows up jesus can come back yeah i guess that's the part that right it seems like a contradiction but it's just not yeah because it's wrapped up in some other weird ass magical thinking yeah it's like and then what gas will be cheaper when christ returns what are we fucking saying here but like when he comes back where yeah where is he going is he staying for long yeah where does he live the story is he just gonna is jesus gonna be like hey man can i crash somewhere and they're like oh yeah yeah please please please please please crash in my place crash in my place you're gonna love it

you're gonna love it i got pictures of you everywhere i didn't kind of awkward awkward little awkward concerning the fact you don't look like this sort of anglicized version that I thought you were. Are you sure you're Jesus? Because your hair's kind of curly. Yeah. That's the real thing. Real Jesus showing up is probably in a detention

cell in a Texas type situation. And broadened out too. Jesus was a community organizer too. You know what I mean? Who'd you work for? Obama? Sure, whatever. Alright, let's move on to

New York City. Going through a lot right now between the Trump legal circus and having Mayor Eric Adams. The city could use some good news. Just a win right now. Sadly, this story is not that at all.

Depends which side you're on. Apparently, the city is in the midst of record-breaking infections for the life-threatening bacterial infection known as leptospirosis. This is something that can cause a wide range of symptoms, including nonspecific ones like fever, headache, chills, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea, cough. But if it goes untreated,

can be severe and life-threatening, kidney failure, liver damage, jaundice, hemorrhage, bloody eyes, respiratory distress. And you're probably asking yourself, how does one become sick with this bacteria? Well, the main culprit for transmission is rat piss. Once rats are infected, they shed it through their urine and it jumps to humans through direct contact with open wounds and mucous membranes. You can already tell this story is not going to be happy and it's probably going to shed a larger light on issues we have societally. But just to give you perspective, between 2001 and 2020, the city averaged about three cases per year. But the pandemic led to a rat boom. Is that a thing you'd say?

A rat boom? Yeah, a rat boom. People will be saying that. Yeah, yeah. It was a rat boom. And the population just exploded. And by last year, the city had 24 cases in a single year. They went from three, like, because someone who is living in a, you know, their brownstone, brownstone that they they've owned, probably isn't interacting with

like rat urine or things that have been, you know, like contaminated with it. Because like, in those instances, living or working environment with like, that means it's in the soil, or maybe materials that are frequently contaminated with rat urine, like trash bags or food waste bins. And also the other thing is that like the bacteria itself is very fragile. So experts are like, usually they die in extreme heat or cold. So that only leaves like a very specific window for infections to go up. But because of the warmer and wetter temperatures, due to fucking climate change. Alleged. Yeah, allegedly.

Sorry. Thank you. Thank you for bringing some sense. So called. I was worried I'd be alone. It's actually pretty cold for LA right now. So... I'd argue we're cool. Where's your global warming now?

Well, I guess... I like that we got new words for summer now. Okay, cool. Well, yeah, it's global warming. I don't even know which side we're on anymore. It's more fun to be unserious and anti-scientific. And also because it allows you to deny the dire situation, I think, is why it's more fun to be like, does that happen? But yeah, so it's just extended the window.

And now they are really trying, like Eric Adams was like trying to do a war with the rats and saying like they could maybe potentially sterilize the rats with like heavily salted pellets that they eat. All of them are not, you know, maybe housing security, maybe housing security. Is he catching a teeny tiny chicken bake with a hot dog in it for every rat in New York City? If so, I'm on board. Mayor Adams, contact me.

Yeah. Like, yeah, Katie, Katie, so he has rat makeup on. She's like, yeah,

man, I'm out here having too many. Give me that pellet, please. They're like, they're not actually chicken bakes oh man i thought new york had like a rat czar they did have a rat czar and what happened to the rat czar i know hey katie why why is the rat czar on trial right now you know i'm sure that's exactly this story should also be like, what about the fucking rat czar? Y'all hired someone to be the NYC rat czar. And we're still talking about this.

That's it. And also summertime sandals. So many people are going to get rat piss on their feet. Yeah. Luckily. And yeah, don't have, you know, again. Well, the other thing is, is too it mostly it's the 98 of the infections have occurred with men so i i don't know okay do with that information what

you will but i have a feeling again it's like it's it's it's people in dire situations i don't think it is you're not gonna get to your feet even though times square feels like it might have a lot of rat pee everywhere it's you're you're probably fine. The last time, if you look up what's been going on with the rat czar, the last headline I saw, the rat czar says, stop feeding the pigeons if you want the rats gone. Don't fuck with the pigeons. That's not your job.

The rat czar, I feel like, are we kicking the rat can down the road here, rat czar? By saying like... First of all, I can't do my job if everyone's feeding the fucking pigeons. It's an impossible task. And the way Eric Adams runs New York, he might as well make them,

these various people, dress up as their jobs. So it should be someone in a rat costume yelling at someone in a pigeon costume. Right. Oh, I would love that. Arguing. Right. He might as well.

It would not be less effective than the current government dude you know what else they've been doing according to the rat czar kathleen karate uh has also said they've been pumping carbon monoxide into the rat burrows so they're just it's all out chemical warfare this rat burrows into the rat burrows as they call it it's like the queens of rats like yeah we go to the bronx of rats yeah oh my gosh so anyway that's that's where we are with the rat problem let's stick around new york by really talking about the new york times do y'all play wordle? The game Wordle?

Familiar? I think we're all familiar, right? With the game Wordle? Yes. Yes. Okay. I used to play every day. And then as soon as I use the same word every day, and as soon as that got like the number one, I was like, I can't return.

I was like, I'm done. I have too much to say about Wordle. Well, okay. Let me set this up. Let me set the table and I will allow you to say more than enough. So it's huge. And I think, again, we've either played it ourselves or we know someone who plays religiously. But now the New York Times puzzle game and a few of the other games, too, have mental health professionals a little concerned because they're hearing more and more people be like, I can't focus on anything but

Wordle or doing these other games, or I'm spending an inordinate amount of time playing the game. They're just saying like, they're doing stuff like I can't do my job or others are like, I've canceled plans with like close friends. So I could just kind of Wordle out. I think these are probably more severe cases, but enough therapists have heard enough that the Daily Beast is like, let's just survey some therapists really quick and hear how many people are hearing this. And apparently it was more than just a few. One of the therapists said, some of our patients have expressed anxiety about the puzzles because they cannot finish them or don't have enough time to do them every day. Or others have said, one therapist said, seen anxiety in patients who fear

being asked about their scores by their peers or comparing their own scores with those posted on social media. Quote, this is one from Dr. Lauren Schweitzer, a psychologist, said, people are thus looking for external validation or something from other people rather than looking for something within themselves, perhaps. Yes, very Zen. On the flip side, it's self-judgment when we feel like we sucked at something people are doing. That's so weird. I myself, I'll just say my piece. I'm so competitive that if I'm bad at something, I say, man, fuck this game. And I stop playing.

So I never got hooked on Wordle because the first couple times i was asked that i'm like man this ain't for fuck this shit and i went on with my life wordle is a guessing game for idiots it is not a real game it is there's no skill really yeah the thing is it's like people are like i got it in two it's like then you guessed it it's fine but you didn't anagram it you didn't do like a high level like letter frequency analysis after your first guess you just got lucky which is like fine but like it's not really losable unless you're incredibly unlucky or like really not good at games right but i would just throw out because there's lots of there's lots of dopamine hit phone games for bozos that are out there. I would just posit that Wordle hits a particular group because it's people who think they are smart, but also are more likely to have the means or live in the culture to have a mental health professional, for instance.

Right. And this is not materially different than candy crush or like fucking whatever yeah like it's a guessing game for bozos it's a little finger tappy thing that you get rewarded it's like it's like black jack or a slot machine and it is as addictive as those things but we only hear about wordle because they are new york times readers yeah they're dumbest of the new york times readers they're on their couch oh doctor yeah i i i was supposed to have dinner at chip riani's yeah i i couldn't because i was playing wordle and i was too humiliated for not getting the wordle uh but i will say in the early days of wordle, I was like, this is idiotic. What's the

actual pack of words? So it's not about, like, basically, I came up with the maximum... The game that I found fun was trying to think of four words that covered as many letters as possible without duplication or anything like that. So, perpetually, my first

four wordle moves, uh this is for me me more than everyone and you can find others but it was i was proud of coming up with darts chink globe and jumpy and that only leads wfzxv unused and so after that, it is trivial to get it. Truly, that is only for you. Yeah. They'll be like, hey, Katie, what words do you use?

All right. Jumpy. You're like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. They stopped. Actually, when New York Times bought it, they stopped letting you use chink.

And then, so I think they may have put it back, but that's what I got. I was like, fuck these people. I can say it. Don't take away my innate advantage here but you don't need the left to babysit you and the words you use but no it's it's like this especially when you have the u placed it's like that essentially knocks the

key off the it's listen i like word games and this is like for idiots well i think because you probably arrived there by being like it's not like it's just about the brute force of trying to eliminate letters rather than like inherently because there's no clue right like it's just you put the first word in and then you have to narrow it down from there yeah I think if you

were a very high level like computer you could probably do some sort of like fucking frequency analysis or whatever right that's not what people who are quote good at word alert right right well they have like a thing to analyze your words after now right yeah yeah so it's like the word that yeah the word bot like and you just click on it shows like okay you got it in four most people got it in three this is the most commonly used start word like right yeah it goes i think that data is biased though because i think a lot of people that don't give up at or go past

four who would if they played the whole game end up at five or not getting it just close the thing right right i don't think most people get it at three because it's not like you can't i mean not that you can't but it's not like worth you're just guessing yeah you like at three katie did it ruin your life what was your journey with with the word with wordle there was a time where it was like sharing scores back and forth like my sister and i, very competitive. And then I just kind of stopped doing Wordle. And then I had a resurgence because a friend of mine started sending me his score.

So we like didn't really even communicate outside of that. We were, our text chain was just like Wordle scores. And then I got it in one and was like, okay, I've done what I can do. But now every morning my girlfriend and i get up we drink coffee and play connections right the mini and the big crossword and our day doesn't really start until those three things are done are done wow yeah and connections is it can really kind of move your day back and forth.

If you like Connections, so Connections was stolen from a British game show called Only Connect. And it's much harder on the British game show. Well, without a doubt. Yeah, I would, and I probably shouldn't say this on broadcast media, but somehow almost every episode of Only Connect is available on YouTube. So I highly recommend it. That was our, on the last show I worked on, our writer's room break was watching an episode of Only Connect.

Because... Refined. What a refined writer. But I highly recommend it. It is like... I will watch. It's's just like the problem is because it's british and it is i think it's considered the hardest game show like around so it's very difficult and it's further exacerbated like i almost think like with some study and work i could do like an american version and And by that, I mean, I don't even like like baseball, but like so many of their things are like,

which cricketer. I was like, okay, it's just not in my, and then like a lot of like Royal family succession stuff that again, I'm not an expert in the presidents, but if they just kind of like tilted the flavor a little more towards America, I think I would do it.

And I'm not, but like the fucking British one is impossible. Yeah. Replace cricket with baseball. Yeah. I think I would do it. And I'm not, but the fucking British one is impossible. Yeah, replace cricket with baseball. Yeah, I'm kind of there. The royal family with CEOs of American companies. Yeah, it needs to be like Bezos. It needs to be...

But those are our royals. Highly recommend. Connecting Wall will make you feel... Watch a bunch of... It's called The Connecting Wall. It's the third round. And once you watch a couple of those going back to connections will make you feel like oh you're playing this is for baby

yeah oh my god i can't i can't wait my co-workers and i used to send our connection scores and then i would notice a friend of mine she would just sit our entire lunch break and just stare at connections and like would refuse to get one wrong to the point where i was just like giving her answers so like her choices wouldn't go away right because it had to be perfect oh i mean i don't think it interrupted her life enough to you know talk to a therapist about it i mean god willing the worst thing in my life to talk about with a therapist is wordle like right what a gift yeah what an absolute gift i hope to get there one day but right yeah yeah no i i love them i love those games i gotta say oh yeah the other day someone like showed me one of the newer ones and i was like oh man i could see how this could suck me in but i think the

second my whole thing is like i don't like being frustrated so the second i am i'm like i don't give a fuck about the comparing my shit to somebody else's i feel fucking hit it right now but the games the games are well designed to know they are going no with wordle like wordle is not designed to be a good game it's designed to be i want to play this tomorrow well and also because it's been a huge boon to the New York Times business. Because once they bought it for something like the low seven figures from the engineer who put it out, they were like, we're seeing adoption rates that are unprecedented in the tens of millions. So everyone think about where your Wordle money is going.

Just think about it. Wordle money is going. Just, you know. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yep. Yep. To do copaganda and the like. Here we go. We're going to take a quick, quick, quick, quick break. And we'll be right back to talk about jury duty.

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I, you know, in the pre-internet days you just have to just have to take a book with you and read it in the waiting room and i remember i would just bring screenplays with me because i was like well that's like a watching tv like i really that was like my thing was just like go get a screenplay and just read that like like rent or rent one check one out from the library. Oh, my God. You're the most L.A. fucking kid. That's the most bullshit thing I've ever heard.

Yeah, yeah. I'm reading the Inglorious Bastards fucking screenplay waiting to see if I can just weasel my way out of my civic duty to potentially help a person. Oh, it's so weird. Tarantino just wrote the N-word all the way down the margins. Wow. He's really moving. Damn, this dude really wrote it. Whoa. I thought

he was just giving the actors the free reigns. Oh, no. Maybe I don't want to count. Anyway, but yeah, no, it is the most LA shit because like that's my... Dude, TV, it's TV of the mind. Just read the script and you're good. You don't need videos.

Dear Lord. But anyway, little hack. You know, sometimes if you can get your jury duty move to Burbank, it can go a lot quicker. And you'll find out much sooner rather than later. And you're right by an Ikea, so you can eat Swedish meatballs for lunch. Okay. Delicious. That's my thing.

I knew we were all on the same page culinarily speaking when our eyes lit up talking about Costco food hacks. There's no way, that Venn diagram, there's no way that overlap is a Swedish meatball. It is what it is. But anyway, when jury selection got underway on

Monday, they came away with zero jurors. And part of that too is Trump being like, I thought I had unlimited like knockout points like where he could, you know, say, I want to I want to strike this one. I want to strike this one. Like, no, you only get a set amount. He's like, well, you should get more like someone playing a carnival game for the first time.

But then why did they give him more? Why did they give him more? That's his right. He's the president. I mean, the stakes are so much higher because he might be held accountable and maybe not based on the way we've seen these other legal cases go. But like over half of the potential jurors were quickly dismissed because they all admitted to like, yeah, I don't know if I can be impartial, to be honest. Like, I just don't. If I'm being really honest here, there's no, I'm just going to be like, yep.

Yep. Guilty. I don't need to hear shit. Like, let's just go in. If I'm being really honest here, there's no. I'm just going to be like, yep, yep, guilty. I don't need to hear shit. Like, let's just go in. We'll go right back out. And it seems like almost no one could ever be impartial in this case, unless you're Michael Ian Black. I think he wrote something about it. He's like, I don't like Trump, but I can definitely be impartial. And I'm like, okay, we've heard enough from him.

Both the defense and the prosecution have copped to the fact that it's, quote, nearly impossible to find someone with, quote, no opinion of Trump. And then by Tuesday, they picked seven people. But that wasn't going to last because this whole process involved getting all these details out where like reporters were putting this information out about like some of the people that had been impaneled one juror had said he already served on a jury for a case between donald trump and merv griffin in the 80s he was also familiar with the fuck is wrong with new york that's crazy and then he said that and then the same person said he was also familiar with relatives of the central park, but he was dismissed by the prosecutors

because he said that he, quote, appreciated Trump's style of humor. What? Just a bro. Gotta give it up for a fellow bro. Yeah. You know, he keeps me laughing. He keeps me laughing.

It's wild. It's like, yeah, I served on that. And I also know parents of some of the Central Park Five, you know, the wrongly accused teens. Fuck. So that may have put a sour spot on me. But no, but I also,

I kind of fuck with his, kind of fuck with his humor. That is, that might be the closest you could get to someone with no opinion on Trump. I mean, let somebody be like,

I separate the art from the artist. Yeah. That was just like, like 50 Timberlands in a trench coat right that's like how do you get there that's crazy yeah yeah lawyers are also uh working with like jury consultants who are like people who like quickly fucking comb through social media posts to be like

did they fucking like what did they say so it's just so it puts people in this weird situation where like someone will go up and the jury consultants will be like, okay, here's their thing. And they're going to basically read out their tweets shitting on Trump, but with Donald Trump in the fucking room. Yeah. So one person apparently shared a lock him up post. Another posted a meme of Trump being decapitated. Another made post suggesting that the fictional superhero team, the Avengers, would defeat Trump, while also at the same time this person expressed

quote, amorous thoughts for Mark Ruffalo. That was all included. And you kind of are thirsty for Mark for the Hulk, huh? You fucking with the Hulk like that. What do we say back of the envelope do we imagine like

billable hours is going into this oh my god oh my hundreds of thousands per hour yeah more could it i feel like any of us could i mean i'm sure i think most of us know how to comb someone's social media posts for stuff you know oh my god i could do it in a second yeah so like i'd love it yeah i'm like yo i find you anything well because i know i know ways they might word shit you know oh my god i could do it in a second i'd love it yeah i'm like yo i find you anything well because i know i know ways they might word shit you know what i mean it might not always be trump baby you need to search orange you need to serve mushroom there's a lot of other keywords that you need to look up to get to the bottom of this so yeah the other thing is too obviously there's concerns also that the jurors who do get selected could face harassment because Trump even himself was admonished by the court for intimidating candidates by, you know, the judge like, you know, what the fuck?

This is no shut the fuck up. And and this is we actually need to keep this as anonymous as possible. And one former federal prosecutor has expressed concerns over jurors over the safety of jurors because quote they're not supposed to be outed in this way um like by having all this information and the media is oh it's like they're going out of their fucking way to expose the selected jurors as much as humanly possible without actually giving their names like the washington post referenced the length of time that a juror worked at a small bookstore, also named the bookstore, before deleting the info. And then, like, on Fox News, Jesse Waters was going through every juror one by one,

giving all of this information except for a name, and suggesting Trump wouldn't be getting a fair trial because they were all, like, teachers and New York Times readers. And then when he said, they're all like teachers and new york times readers and you know when he said they're all people who like to dance like what the fuck is this footloose and then trump later was like yeah i get it man they're all undercover quote undercover liberal activists but anyway it's the other thing is too there was this other woman who was like she had to come back after she was selected she's like i actually need to i need to i need to resign from the position because there was so

much information my family was like this you like because they said like where i worked where i lived what my job was it was enough information for people who knew me to be like oh this is this is homegirl so right now they're in a fucking weird bind and the judge that's presiding over the case quote immediately reprimanded the press for offering too much information about the jurors and told them to please stop talking about like these details because you're fucking up you're putting them at risk and you're also at this point they're like there's going to be a rat jury probably by the end of this oh yeah i was gonna suggest a rat jury i think that would be i mean that would be a jury of his peers yeah uh-huh just get the get the all your wordle money is going

into paying for this so hey man look got improvisers here that's how you elegantly wrap up a nice old a lot of spoon river herald look, pick whatever form you want because we brought it all back here. Katie Kershaw, thank you so much for joining us on The Daily Zeitgeist. Thank you. It was great having you. Where do people find you, follow you? And is there a work of social media

that you've been enjoying? You can follow me at thisiskatiekershaw. And you can also check out the pod at jocularpod on Instagram and TikTok. And the piece of social media I've been enjoying is kind of a person. Her name's Carrie Levine, and she's the godmother of diamonds. And it's just, do you know her? I feel like I've heard this name.

I need to see the face. I love her. I watch her. They're the most soothing videos. Just the most New York woman. Yes, yes, yes. see the face. I love her. I watch her. They're the most soothing videos. Just the most New York woman. Yes, yes, yes. With the hair. Yes, yes.

I want Uncut Gems 2 starring the godmother of diamonds. She's phenomenal. Cannot recommend it enough. Got the cigar and everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's got the pictures. She's everyone's godmother there's so many it's so much it's funny because there's so many godmother of something on social

media these days and i'm like which was the godmother of travel oh godmother yes okay yes yeah yeah oh i'm familiar with that godmother yeah yeah so many we have so many godmothers thank you and thanks shout out to all the godmothers out there truly also are do what are your favorite teams when you i forgot to you as someone who talks about sports. Do you have a favorite sport or do you have a favorite team? What's your... Well, my favorite sport is basketball. I would say my favorite team in college is going to be South Carolina because I love Dawn Staley so much. I just love to watch her coaching. It's insane. And professionally, I got to Staley so much. I just love to watch her coaching. It's insane. And

professionally, I gotta say the Sparks. And I'm hoping that this year we can really kind of rebuild. We've got some really great people coming into the Sparks. And then Angel City is my soccer team. Maybe we'll win another game.

Yeah. That would be great. Maybe. Hey, we're struggling in la right now we're struggling in la you know what i mean it's it is rough it's been rough it's been a bummer i did not realize i i hadn't been watching the televised games and my seats are not close enough to really see the bench i did not realize how like how much of a british lady the angel city head coaches i don't remember her name, but I love her. I was just like, oh, she looks like she just woke up in Ibiza.

I'm fucking... I love this vibe. Passed out, yeah. Rolled up and was like, let's go. Let's fucking go. I was like, oh yeah, we got a fucking chav. Hell yeah. We're getting three points today, innit? One day.

It worked out out there. Andrew, where do people find you, follow you, hear you, and what's the work of social media that you've been digging? Oh my God. Just Andrew T,

I guess. He was just racist. I forgot it was social media. So instead, I'm going to do the literal opposite of social media. I watched this movie last night that I think is not easy to find. But they were showing it at Alamo, a Japanese movie from 1995 called Anatomia Extinction. It's only 55 minutes long.

It's the prequel to Tokyo Gore Police. And it was a delight. It was fucking crazy. Wow. I can only imagine what some of these special effects were yeah real real weird special effects real like kind of like from 90s japan medium budge right yeah just like bizarre okay okay okay well that does can people still catch that or was that like a I doubt it Well, hey Try and catch the next one

That's why you gotta be on your P's and Q's, bruv You can, let's see A work of social media I don't have a work of social media That I've been enjoying per se Oh, I've been playing I've been playing a video game That's called Rise of the Ronin

It's another samurai thing. And it's fun. It's fun. That's all I can say. It's actually the most, it's funny, I was telling a friend of mine, it's the most Japanese designed game.

Like I can tell the second I look at a menu, the way a menu is laid out, I'm like, oh, this is designed in Japan. Or like if it's way too detail oriented, I'm like, this is the right dose of Japanese game design that most american people would be like how come sprint is it when you push down the left stick uh because that you know there's a literacy to to gaming in the west that that we experience

anyway so i'm playing that give me your tips i'm terrible at counter sparking if you play the game you know what that means but let me know know. How do I get the timing better? You can find me at Miles of Grey on Twitter, Instagram, and the like. You can find Jack and I on our basketball podcast, Miles and Jack got mad boosties. And you can also find me on the 90 Day Fiance podcast for 20 Day Fiance. And let's see. Oh, you can also find the show at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. Got a Facebook fan page, website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnarts.

Footnotes. Thank you. Where we post all the links to all of the articles that we talked about today, as well as a song we're going to ride out on. I'm feeling a little bit. I long to be back in Japan with my friends and family. So let's go out. i want to encourage people this song is great but the music video is fucking even better and most of people if you're like online a lot and you know about cool stuff online you've probably seen this video it's by a band called sakana action it's spelled s-a-k-a-n-a-C-T-I-O-N. Like sakana, which is the Japanese word for fish. Anyway, but action.

Put that together however you like. The title is going to be even harder for you to spell. So let me first say it and then I will spell it out. The title is wasurerarenai no. Wasurerarenai no means I can't forget. It's unforgettable. And the way you spell that, W-A-S-U-R-E-R-A-R-E-N-A-N-O. N-A-I-N-O. Wasurerare naino.

I got hypnotized by that. I know. I'm a mentalist. Yeah. And sleep. Just put everybody down. Dude, the video is great because they really lean into like this like early 90s late 80s sort of camera style with green screen and it's all one continuous shot

and the bassist is so fucking good anyway it's a great band great video check it out rewind it if you need me to spell it again because i can't spell it again without putting people to sleep uh that's gonna do it for us this week we will be back on monday to tell you what's trending over I'll rewind it if you need me to spell it again, because I can't spell it again without putting people to sleep. That's going to do it for us this week. We will be back on Monday to tell you what's trending over the weekend. Make sure you can check out the Best Of episode on Saturdays. You can get just a helping of all the best bits throughout the week if you don't have time to listen to all the episodes. And that'll do it. We will talk to you later.

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