The Daily Zeitgeist - WORST. Briefing. Ever. MEGxit 1.10.20

Episode Date: January 10, 2020

In episode 546, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Dave Huntsberger to discuss needing to write 2020 out on our checks, Iran possibly accidentally shooting down a passenger plane, Michael Bloomberg refusing to release women who sued him from their NDA's, Trump being our 'O.J.,' the Pentagon giving a terrible briefing to senators, woke Taco Bell, Megxit, and more!FOOTNOTES: Do You Really Have to Write Out “2020” on Checks to Avoid Being Scammed? New video shows 'missile' hit Ukrainian Airlines Boeing 737 before it crashed killing 176 - after Trump and Trudeau both said attack was a 'mistake' while Iran accuses the West of 'psychological warfare' as it DENIES it blew jet out of the sky Bloomberg won't release women who sued him from NDAs ‘He Is Our O.J.’ 'Absolutely insane': Republican senators turn on Trump over Iran briefing Taco Bell to test paying managers $100,000 a year, nearly double industry standard Black Britons Know Why Meghan Markle Wants Out WATCH: Deaton Chris Anthony - RACECAR feat. Clairo, Coco & Clair Clair (Official Video) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Spiraled on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hello the internet and welcome to season 115 episode 5 of your daily zeitgeist a production of iheart radio this is a podcast where you take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness and say officially off the top fuck the coke brothers and buck box news it's friday january 10th 2020 2020 my name is jack o'brien aka i'm your only trend i'm not your only trend but i'm a little growing trend but really i'm not actually your trend but i am blue canary and now led by the Switch. Who watches over you? That is courtesy of The Zite, The Giants, and Saucy Buckaroo on Twitter. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Miles Gray, the Soggy Fry King, a.k.a. the Soggy Bottom Boy, a.k.a. Limp Fry Guy,

a.k.a. the Half-Baked Potato, a.k.a. Mr. Mashed Potato Sticks, a.k.a. Spuddy Buddy. Thank you so much to Freddy Bidet at Buns Ahoy for that soggy fry theme, a.k.a. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian, David Huntsberger.

Hello, guys. I don't have a whole bunch of aliases. You don't? Yet! Burger King, David The David The David The David Huntsberger On the Huntsberger

Foxhunt Burger King Great, now we got it Oh, Leon Argo DiCaprio Leon, let me be mine. So this is going to be the show for today. Just an unending string.

What was your AKA song based off of? I always know I nailed it when you ask that question. Well, in my mind, I was hearing- There Might Be Giants. The song is Bird Housing Your Soul. Oh, I was hearing Hey There Delilah.. The song is Bird House in Your Soul. Oh, I was hearing, hey there, Delilah, blah, blah, blah. That's not what I was hearing. Yeah, I give off very strong hey there, Delilah vibes.

Hell yeah, dude. I've always done that, plain white tease. That's them? I think so. Great. Yeah, of course, bro. All right, Dave, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today, such as the need to write out 2020 on checks.

2020. 2020. On checks. Do you need to do it? Can you just write 20? We'll find out. Who knows? At 11.

Iran probably shot that plane down by accident based on some video that has emerged. And even Trudeau is saying it with his new beard. So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about- His new wife? Yeah. We're going to talk about Mike Bloomberg being maybe a creep. Whether Donald Trump is white Trump supporters OJ.

That's probably the most, I get that. Yeah, I can feel that too. I can wrap my head around that. Yes. He's our OJ. Look, man. We're going to talk about all of that. Harry and Meghan quitting their job, I guess.

Do they have a job? Yeah. Kind of. Apparently they have a job? Yeah. Kind of. Apparently, they are officially on the payroll. We're going to talk about Woke-O-Bell. Really good wordplay there from us. All of that and plenty more. But first, Dave, we'd like to ask our guest,

what's something from your search history that's reeling about who you are? As you know, I normally don't have much. Lately... Not using Google. Off the grid. You go to the library like a human and looks up the information there. Using a card catalog system. Yeah, it's a lot of

VPNs and borrowing other people's social security numbers, going to the library, getting the information, making sure it's not traceable in any way to me. Nice. But recently I've been doing English to Spanish. I've been speaking a lot of Spanish. And so my Spanish goes pretty smoothly.

And then I get to a word I don't know and I don't know how to like go around it. So I'm just moving along and then I go, and then I look it up. Yeah. And then, so the other day I was speaking and a guy goes, hey man,

are you also from Guatemala? I was hanging out with my, a friend of mine. Damn, look at your pronunciation. Yeah. Somebody was like, are you from Guatemala?

Yeah. And I think he was just, he was busting my chops. Okay. And I was like, yeah, I'm from Atitlan. Right there.

And you didn't know the word for no? He was like, ooh, how do I answer this? Is that right? Last year when I was in the hospital, I was in Puerto Rico, and a nurse came in. And a couple times this happened. And they would go, Jesus?

And I'd go, no. But I'd be like, all right, I'm doing it. It wasn't a reference to your long Jesus-like hair? I had the hair, and then I had a little more maybe facial hair than currently. But I'm not tamed. And you had linen underpants on with a six-pack? I mean, I didn't like the bed, so I was kind of up on the wall. I was kind of strapped in.

Doing a little workout. I grabbed these two pegs as far as I could. Come get me if you need anything. I'll be hanging from these pegs. My shoulder's doing butterflies. It's great. It's really good for your shoulders. What was the word you had to look up, though, just for the record? It you need anything. I'll be hanging from these pegs. Get my shoulders doing butterflies. It's great. It's really good for your shoulders. What was the word you had to look up, though, just for the record?

It's just anything. It's usually like the verb for something and then the tense that it's in. Right. Conjugations, baby. Yeah. So if I'm like, oh, how do I say, do you need? Can I? Necesitas?

But then I'll be like, wait, how do I say I'm going to look or something like that boy uh look for uh see you would have known that if you watch buscando amor searching for love is that really mundo baby uh what's something you think is overrated uh this is lazy but and then you guys have probably already talked about this bunch i think two parts i think yeezys okay and i think just shoe culture in general wow is overrated in that no go ahead you're celebrating people that are just being worked to death in third world areas like the the people the fucking whole nike debate is ridiculous to me. People on both sides, I think, are idiots. I think Nike is a corrupt corporation that takes advantage of the impoverished and has no regard.

And like when Jordan wouldn't go, Tiger Woods didn't go. I'm like, you know, check a look at those sweat factories. Oh, wouldn't go to the sweatshops. Sweatshops, yeah. Like you're going to go look. Oh, I'll go look. And then they never went. Because you know you know, like the moment they did, they go,

Oh God, what am I doing? I'm perpetuating this thing where people feel comfortable opening up a closet with like a thousand pairs. Right. Yeezys look the most like someone, like a kid had a project to make shoes and they had like two, and like some marshmallows.

Right. Marshmallows and aqua socks. He was like, all right. Taped them on yeah yeah i mean yeah they gotta get those shoes cheaper man right i'm addicted my main thing is they cost too much i blame my parents for saying i couldn't have shit when i was a kid yeah but yeah no it's it's i think that's one of the hardest thing about living in the age of consumption and flex culture of like, you can't flex ethically.

Yeah. Unless you're like, check out my school for children. That's like free. But why are billionaires doing that all the time? Doesn't that seem like that would be a game they get into? Yeah, but I mean- That they can hoard. Right.

You get to be a billionaire by hoarding money and not giving any of it away. So therefore. I mean, I just think about people like that one character in Silicon Valley. Like if people who are like worth just on the dot one billion dollars, if they're like in this state of like economic edging. Right. Oh, fuck. Yeah. Fuck.

No. I almost became a millionaire. Yeah. Like, oh, fuck. Yeah. Fuck. No, I almost, I almost became a millionaire. Yeah. You lose a comma. You get disinvited from those eyes wide shut parties. Right. Start to have to go to sex parties with millionaires.

Yeah. Gotta hang out with Jeffrey Epstein. Right. I guess that'd be billionaires too. Yeah. Yeah. He mixed it up, but that's what was so groundbreaking about Epstein is he didn't differentiate when it

came to his sex parties. He would invite billionaires. He would invite 100, 500 millionaires. Wow. Guy was groundbreaking. What is something you think is underrated? Kurt Vonnegut. Okay.

Everyone knows him, knows the word. It's still better than people. It's so good. Yeah. It's just great. Very funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.. It's just great. Very funny. Yeah. I'm saying very funny.

Nice try. Nice try, asshole. I knew I couldn't slide that one in here. Slaughterhouse-Five is a ripoff of something my uncle wrote. I remember the reason my dad got me to even be interested in Kurt Vonnegut is that he showed me the drawing of the asshole in Breakfast of Champions. And I was like, you should try Kurt Vonnegut. He's showed me the drawing of the asshole in Breakfast of Champions. And I was like, I don't know. He's like, you should try Kurt Vonnegut.

He's like, you like funny shit. And I was like maybe 13 or something. And I was like, I don't know, bro. And he's like, read this part. I go, what the fuck? This is in books? Because in my mind, people didn't write funny books. And that's like a title that would be a work of literature that you would have to read in English class.

And then there's an asshole drawn in it. I'm like, well, color me Kilgore. Yeah. Yeah, he's one of the greats. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be true? I think people are wasting a lot of money on alkaline water. Okay.

A human body, it doesn't, you can't like inject something into or take a sample from cells and check their pH level. Your urine has a little bit more acidity in it. Otherwise humans run around mostly neutral. You can't, there are people that have had tons of alkaline water and still died of cancer.

It's just a ridiculous. Alkalize your life, man. Right. I dated somebody who gave me the book. I think it was called Alkalize your life, man. Right. I dated somebody who gave me the book. I think it was called Alkalize Your Life. Nice. And they were just somebody who I think realized they had like a gluten intolerance and didn't want to accept that because they loved pizza. And then it was like, nah, I got to alkalize my life first.

And then I gave them like, I'm pretty sure it's just a gluten thing. Right. But hey, you know. Yeah. Do it all. my life first and then i keep them like i'm pretty sure it's just a gluten thing right but hey you know yeah do it all i'm pretty sure for that reason i'm taco bell has to be mostly a base than an acid i can't feel like it's not it doesn't run acidic in your body yeah yeah although mine does because how would how would that food not just give everybody horrible indigestion, heartburn, acid reflux? They don't put a lot of jalapenos for it being like a... Is it technically a Mexican restaurant?

I was going to say, yeah, it's from another dimension. It's like a colonizer crossed the border, like a trans-dimensional border into another place. Or he's like, I heard tell of these double crunched gordita lupus. I mean, technically that's probably what food will be like in the future when no food is actually made from plants or animals. It's all just like, you know, chemistry paste. You know the whole thing with cloud kitchens and like very, so LA has a ton of them because there's such

urban density in areas but maybe there's not a cheesecake factory within five miles. So they have cloud kitchens. Nightmare scenario. I'm sorry to even bring it up. It's too terrifying.

What? But say you have like your favorite Thai food that's five miles from you, which doesn't sound like a lot but in LA that's at least an hour. Yeah. So then these cloud kitchens operate in really weird areas. They're just like in a warehouse, but it'll be like five restaurants together. All of the Uber

Eats drivers show up there. Oh, right, right, right. And they're just cranking it out. Yeah. Cranking it out. They have the right bags and everything. So when you get it, your human brain doesn't go, wait, how did this get here? This place is an hour away. And this order was here fresh and hot in 10 minutes. But if they could, in those shops, not only have that sweet quick service, but also be manufacturing it in the back. We have Impossible Burgers. We're making all of our own stuff.

That's the future. So Taco Bell is kind of way ahead of the game now. Thank you so much. And if Demolition Man taught us anything, they did win the franchise wars. They did. Like all of them. Aren't cars like Taco Bell branded? I think the gag was like, all our restaurants are Taco Bell.

Yeah, yeah. It's like, what? And Dan Cortez is playing on a piano. Yes. Valley of the Jolly Green Giant. Dan Cortez. I remember that movie too well. Greatest Cortez.

Yeah. Dan Cortez. AOC second. Oh, yeah. All right. But different spelling. What about... Nope. Wrong. that movie greatest Cortez yeah Dan Cortez AOC second all right but different what about nope Dan Cortez is number one not the colonizer let's talk about are you guys writing 2020 on your checks yeah oh yeah yeah I haven't written any checks. Oh, really? Yeah. Like today? In 2020.

I've written like five. I'm just out here. I pay for everything with checks, man. I just tear them off. It doesn't matter how much it's for. It just sucks. Some places don't take them, though. No, I have heard.

I haven't written, had to write the date, I think, on anything yet, but I have heard people complaining about forgetting to change it to 2020. What do you mean? Like from 2019. And then there are some forms that have 201 blank on them. Need new ones, need new tapes. That's a problem. But that was like this thing, right, that was going around around New Year's. I remember getting – I was on some chain email from a random aunt or uncle being like, got to write 2020 all the way out in your checks because you never know.

Someone could change the date from 1-1-20 to 1-1-2021, and then they could cash it in later. It's all like based off this idea that because it's 20, now you can alter the years and things like that. But, I mean, while I understand the logic of it, many of the people who are in the consumer protection scam watch industry are like, this is really, I mean, there's a lot worse things to be worried about than this. Because A, as you know, checks aren't being used as often as they should be. That's not to as they should be. Yeah. As often as they should be? Yeah.

People should be using more checks. More checks. Damn it. And then that number tampering on a check is even more uncommon. It's very uncommon that people are doing that. Because you catch it immediately, right? Yeah. And I think also, right, that it would be, I think,

the second someone contests it, they'll be like, no right that it would be i think the second someone contests it they'll be like you know right it's not what this was um and also i think the but a lot of the experts are saying it reminds them of like this y2k thing because the changing of the decade and the number change is fuel it's like it's just makes enough sense to get people like all you know a fl flutter over it. New number anxiety. Yeah. Just have, that's too much change for our brain.

Is it an age dependent thing or is this something we're going to outgrow as a society where we just stop saying, wow, can you believe how it's getting dark so quickly? Oh man, can you believe it's already a new year? I can tell you that I have started saying that. So I don't, I don't know if that now, hear me out. People who, I said it on this show and people were like, actually, because of like the way the planet is tilted this year. Actually, I don't think it was that.

I think it was just like where we were in the period when we sprung back. It was getting darker a little bit earlier than it was in the past. You mean fall back? Yeah, whatever. Spring forward. Yeah. Spring back. I respect.

I spring back. I respect the equinoxes. Yeah. Especially the gyms. You do. You always have. Because they give to Donald Trump. Yeah.

Wasn't it equinox that was given to Donald Trump? Everyone was like, I'm done with equinox. Yeah. It's Ross, the owner of the Dolphins. And he also is a major investor in Equinox. And then I think SoulCycle. Yeah. Oh, right.

SoulCycle was out of business. Yeah. And how did that go? Are all the SoulCycles out of business? Oh, yeah. Tumbleweeds. Across the arid landscape of lonely bikes with the faint sounds of EDM pumping in the background. You know what's cool is to see a tumbleweed in the wild.

Like actually see one. I saw one up in the hills that was so fucking big. Yeah. People were having to navigate it. Yeah. And I was like, this isn't a fucking tumbleweed. And I looked, I'm like, oh, fuck. It's just like all sticks and twigs.

Yeah. Shout out tumbleweeds. I saw one on the highway that Waze had registered as an object in the road. Oh, really? Yeah. People were like, steer clear of this tumbleweed. But it's almost like seeing a coyote chasing a roadrunner. It's like, I didn't think that that was a real thing.

A tumbleweed? Yeah. Like, I knew it was, but my brain is like, huh. Still like, whoa! I expect to see that as much as I expect to see quicksand, which is not a real thing. I think the first time I saw tumbleweeds was in the desert somewhere

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And the Iran situation has, according to the president, Iran has backed down. According to his ego. Yeah, according to his ego. He wins. No backseas, I think was a direct quote. No baxies, I think was a direct quote. And there was also the matter of the plane that crashed while taking off right around the time that Iran was sending the ballistic missiles at the U.S. bases in Iraq. So people were suspicious of it. There was, I think, cell phone footage of what looked like a plane on fire flying through the air and then crashing and exploding. And now there's been more and more footage of that.

So it seemed people are starting to... I mean, people thought from the start that something might be going on, but it seems like the consensus is starting to move in the direction that the plan was accidentally shot down. Right. I mean, this is part of, you know, the fog of war, as they all say. Right. Because this administration or this president chose to assassinate an official in Iraq, you naturally have now upset whatever balance of peace there was now, and now everyone's on edge, and you're leading to things like this. And it's just fucking tragic.

So many young people on that plane, and a lot of people who were probably like Iranians who were living abroad, who were coming to visit family. There were a lot of Canadians on the plane. There were Iranians who are living abroad, who are coming to visit family. There were, you know, there are a lot of, there are Canadians on the plane. There were Iranians on the plane. A lot of Canadians. Yeah. And a lot of people, I mean, the, the, the ages of the people is really tragic to like, as a lot, I think something like there's a large, a majority or not a majority, but a number of people were born after like 1990. Yeah.

On that plane. And the thought of the number of conversations that involved, you know, the U.S. just killed that guy. Are you sure Iran's the safest place to be going? Right. Mom, you're crazy. I'll be fine. Yeah. That's rough.

Well, I think and yeah, just by virtue of the situation, I think I mean, really, this is is a direct uh effect of this unilateral assassination that happened i'm sure i i mean now i don't know obviously we don't know what the details are of like whether you know the radar like some sort of uh air defense radar system had painted the the plane as it took off and that's that set off a chain of offense that put them in a defensive posture but you'd imagine that as a result of this the killing of Soleimani that you know things are already very elevated and very tense I mean this is this is a thing that happened constantly or almost happened constantly during the cold war like I mean there were all these examples of you know uh an alarm going off or somebody leaving a training tape in the deck at NORAD,

and everybody's like, oh, we need to fire back all our nuclear weapons right now at Russia, and just cooler heads prevailing at the last minute. But I mean, history is full of the human species just not being prepared to deal with the finality of war. We're just not, I don't know, smart enough or capable enough. There's just too many ways to fuck up. Yeah. It just feels so weird, too, to be holding your breath again, sort of collectively. Like, well, 10 missiles aimed at a base.

This is the start of it. Like, well, 10 missiles aimed at a base. This is the start of it. Yeah. Like Soleimani was kind of like the Franz Ferdinand thing of, okay, there's the first sort of thing to drop. And then, oh, here's retaliation. The fact that no American troops, at least out of the reports, maybe that's wrong. Maybe we're just getting false information.

I'm sure if someone, if there was real loss of life, that would be reported. How is that possible? Well, I think because they have, there's just such early warning systems that they know to just get into bunkers and stuff. Yeah. And I think there's also possibly something where Iran didn't actually want to escalate the situation. They knew they had to do something like this. But they knew that if they killed a U.S. soldier that that would, you know, escalate things more quickly.

So they made it easy for them to learn. It doesn't make them look not inept. How'd it go? It dropped like 10? Great. And how was it? We took down a plane accidentally. Right.

That's on me. Yes. I messed up. Yeah. Did you get any of them? No, zero. Right. That's a weird look.

Well, I think it's all, but part of it too is just posturing because, you know, like this country too, you have hardliners who are expecting something and you're like, okay, well, I don't want to fully, you know, put this whole region into just miserable armed conflict like that. Yeah, yeah. that. So, I mean, again, this is where, you know, the Iranians, they're saying like, that's sort of our response. But again, knowing the numerous ways that attacks can be carried out, I mean, it's foolish to think that this is actually the end of it. But, you know, this is where you hope that if they actually had people in foreign policy advisory positions that were actually worth a fuck advising him rather than people who are hell bent on just like trying to bomb, you know, other countries who don't yield to this American empire. Right. And based on like him surfing the news cycle and just whenever he feels like it's going to be a good moment for him to make a big splash. It's going to be a good moment for him to make a big splash. But just with regards to the crash of the airline,

so Iran is still saying that the plane had a mechanical failure. Specifically, they're saying the plane's engine overheated. It was making a turn to go back to the airport when it crashed. But the details that don't kind of line up with that. And again, these are early days. Usually investigations into big plane crashes like this take months, if not up to a year. But that doesn't totally make sense because the pilots didn't make a distress call.

By all indications, it was a normal flight, and then the plane disappeared from radar, and you see the plane like in flames falling and they're not gonna turn over the black boxes either right that's what they said um and yeah you you would definitely have a distress call if there was an engine problem like that would have have happened. And then, yeah, there's also these videos where the plane appears to be in flames pretty high in the sky as it falls out of the sky. Yeah. And then, yeah, so the theory is that the plane was told

that they were entering airspace by whoever ended up shooting them down, and that's why they were turning, was to try and get out of harm's way. But those are just, you know, it's hard to do evasive maneuvers in a 737. Like, that's a massive plane. So obviously we'll keep our eye on that as more news breaks, but it's a fucking terrifying situation. All because this guy hates Barack Obama. Yeah.

Yeah, basically. Let's talk about Mike Bloomberg. Yeah. He's not a creep, it turns out. No. He's super. All right. Let's vote for him.

Okay. That's good. Let's all listen to what Judge Judy says says and vote for him you know judge judy political ads judge judy my goodness i love you my honor i like your show but i have to remember too you're worth like almost like 500 million dollars that's right so of course you are not you don't live in the same planet as most people do but that that video where she's like, I'm a judge. You can judge a character. Mike Bloomberg, Judge Judy. Out.

But yeah, so now this story is coming out where back in like the 90s, he was in a few different lawsuits for making crude remarks and creating like a toxic workplace for women in the 90s. Yeah. Okay, so yeah, he should be president. Okay, women in the 90s. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, he should be president. Okay. That's what I said.

There we go. All right. That's it. Yeah. And like there's three cases that are still active against his company. But the whole thing is he's not like releasing people from these NDAs that were signed as a result. Because a lot of women are saying like, I really would like to talk about mike bloomberg the dude not mr presidential candidate mike bloomberg right but they're like but i'm in like these ndas and i

don't want to and so his whole thing is like his take on this is you can't just walk away from it talking about the ndas right they're legal agreements and for all i know the other side wouldn't want to get out of it okay the other side being the women who say they want to get out yeah i mean the shit he was saying like was they said there was uh during when he was running for mayor there was like a book of quotes from him in the 90s and one of the things he said was if women wanted to be appreciated for their brains they'd go to the library instead of the bloomingdales uh-huh boom and then said women wait no he just won right yeah? Yeah, I guess so.

That wins the whole debate. Men win forever. He said then at the time, he goes, they were just, quote, Borscht Belt jokes. Uh-huh. Okay. That's what I say when a joke doesn't go over well. It's a Borscht Belt joke. Blame the Borscht Belt.

Can't you hang out in the Borscht area? Right. I'm surprised he didn't say his locker room talk. Yeah. I'm surprised he didn't say his locker room talk. Yeah. This, of course, comes in after somebody, I think it was years ago, but it came up again recently when he announced his candidacy. It was a journalist who was really impressed with what he did

when it comes to gun control in New York, and they were at some mayor mayoral dinner and he entered and they like ran up to him and were like oh man I really want to say like what a great thing I think he did and had somebody introduce him and he like spent two minutes telling him like how great it was what he did and why it was great like doing this for gun control and Bloomberg just turned to him and said would you look at the ass on that one about a woman who was close by? Oh, yeah, right. Yeah.

So, again, that's who he is. Pretty fit to be president. Right. Yeah. I would say, based on the evidence I'm looking at here, he's got a really strong shot at this. He calls him like he sees him. I like that.

I don't want another politician. Yeah. He's ROJ, which is what they're saying about Trump right now. I love it. So political. Which yours truly. Do you follow OJ on Twitter? No.

He always opens every, he posts videos of himself. He's like, hey, it's yours truly. Oh, he does. Hey, Twitter world, it's yours truly. Somebody at the Bills game had a Bills jersey with yours truly written on the back. Oh, wow. It was pretty great. Anyways, proceed.

No, well, just Politico, they were, you know, around the time of the that the president is being impeached for, if all the details were the same and you switched out Donald Trump for Hillary Clinton, would you still be so, like, casual about it? Right. And a lot of people are like, it's a false premise. I reject that. Nice try. Okay, but one man, one brave soul, Keith Swartz from Tacoma, Washington, 66 years old. His response said this. First, this is odd because he describes the president as manic, uneducated, illogical, and essentially a horrible person, vulgar, amoral, and narcissistic. Okay.

Okay. But this is the thing. He said he's done a fine job in the economy, in particular with all the face of a democratic opposition that bends the rules and abuses the process for three years and, like, you know, trying to thwart him. And he says to those who support what he accomplished, it feels like he is ROJ.

Now, the guy wouldn't say what he's accomplished. But I have, I don't know. I think it's purely that like this guy in the face of he's thumbing his nose at the people I hate. So it's fine. Yeah. And the economy. Right. Although like with OJ, you know, you had a lot of like black people looking at not OJ is clearly a killer.

Right. But like the energy around it was sort of like, man, this legal system is so fucked up. We see white people skate all the time. Right. Whoa. OJ, huh? Yeah. Who'd have thought?

Yeah. And then some people. Yeah. Some people. Look, everybody has someone in their family who, you know, to this day is probably like that. That didn't happen. Right. OJ is innocent.

Right. Most people have figured out. Oh, no probably like, that didn't happen. Right. OJ's innocent. Right. Most people have figured out, oh no, OJ bad. Right. But this whole thing is sort of like, I don't know where Trump, you know, I don't know where he lines up with that exact energy aside from just feeling like white people feel like they're being oppressed.

I don't know. The trial, I mean, you watch the documentary, you see, like they show old footage from 93 when the trial trial was happening people every day would show up with signs you know that's the that's that rally energy that same thing of like i'm here i'm wearing a shirt i made a sign i'm psyched i'm showing you love there's other people who agree with me yeah yeah and there's like there's power in the numbers involved in that where like you can tell some of them like the look in their eye if someone just pulled them aside privately and was like all right let's get you some breathing and some water right now i want you to just read this report here and look at these crime scene photos and then do you

still feel the same way right right yeah that would be the same thing i think with trump like people go what would he do if you just started going like let's start with grabbing by the pussy let's just start there then let's go to stormy daniels just these character things to begin with yeah well that's weird because that guy knew like it was weird he was able to articulate that now i don't know if he's just around so many like progressive liberal people that he just learned how to navigate like be like the sane conservative or something was like no i get it man right he's disgusting he's narcissist. But the way he gets these brown people upset. He sticks it to the browns. He's my OJ.

Sticks it to the browns in both cases. All right. That's a terrible joke. Wow. I'm going to leave forever. Don't forget to tip your server. It's definitely a false equivalency, though, because on one hand, you have the aggrieved party being people of color who have been discriminated against and like put in prison for not doing anything for years and years and years, like the entire history of America.

And in the other case, Trump is getting back at the world for I don't want to completely like diminish what the complaints of rural America, but it doesn't feel like it's the same thing. I think if one person from rural America was falsely imprisoned. It's purely like, well, you had a bad guy who you refused to say is bad, and I think that's sort of where it stops. Yes. There's nothing about it. And in the end, I mean, just even looking at some of the other defenses people were

offering, it was just like all whataboutisms. It was never like, huh, I will engage this, this like theory directly or this question directly. I'll just be like, yeah, but like, you don't know, like Clinton, like Clinton body count. Huh? I mean, they do have a good point. Clinton body count. I mean, hey, you know, like let's, let's look at what happened to Epstein.

What happened to those tapes, huh? Ooh. What happened to that tape? How'd it get destroyed? One tape got destroyed. They recently announced that another tape, the tape of his cell from the first, quote, unquote, suicide attempt, got deleted. Whoops. Just got deleted.

So crazy. I was going through my DVR. I was like, okay, I've already seen that episode of Dr. Pimple Popper. Whoops. Just got deleted. So crazy. I was going through my DVR. I was like, okay, I've already seen that episode of Dr. Pimple Popper. Right. And then I hit delete. I go, wait, I think I just deleted the Epstein first. Right. The Epstein suicide attempt. I mean, that's interesting because that was one of the more mysterious aspects

of the whole thing. You know, he had this weird thing where he was like, I got assaulted and. You know, he had this weird thing where he was like, I got assaulted, and people were like, he tried to kill himself, and then they were like, we're gonna put him on suicide watch. Psych, we're not going to. Psych, we're not. Your celly's a corrupt cop. Right.

Like, what? Did you guys see the original deposition stuff when his like, his attorney's with him? You see the footage from, like like you kind of see like a guy who's in a suit maybe from behind him bit of an arm some shoulder you see mostly on Epstein

and then the guy is very straight faced trying to get to the bottom of these questions going okay question two is it true or not that your penis can be defined as egg shake and then he just shakes his head i don't i don't need this right and then his lawyer chimes in the person taking the deposition goes no no

this is this is material this is material this is absolutely the case yeah yeah it's described as being narrow at the base wider in the middle and i was so mad at the suicides i mean the fucking killing. Because I want to get to the bottom of that. I don't know that we'll ever have that answered. And that would have been the first domino to fall. Oh, no, I think it's been confirmed. He has an egg-shaped penis.

Yeah, he does have an egg-shaped penis. More of a lava lamp. Right. Well, no, no, it's narrow at the bottom, wide in the middle, narrow again at the top. It's like a football. Like a lava lamp. Yeah. Yeah, it's a little lava lamp. Oh, okay. I see it.

Or a butt plug. Yeah. Okay. Butt plug. Yeah. There we go. Boom. Now something I'm familiar with. Moving on. I think the reason it was material and they have enough people who have confirmed that it's egg-shaped because the people he sexually assaulted who he claimed not to have all confirmed it. People sometimes ask me – sorry to jump in. I just had this epiphany.

People sometimes ask like, oh, you like sports? I go, yeah. I'm not like proud of it. I go, why? Some of it's because of the idiot nature of like painting up your face and dressing all crazy. But now I realize the real reason is it's the perfect distraction for billionaires to see what we're really interested in. 50,000 people all gathered together yelling and screaming and they're there. They're going, hey, you know when you're being asked by the March of Dimes to donate your

money and I could cover the whole fucking bill? I'm not. And I'm right here among you watching you idiots buy my popcorn and my beer for $12 a beer. $12 a beer? Where are you going? This is the cheapest stadium in the country. Yeah, $12 a beer.

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on the assassination of Soleimani. It was condescending, it would seem. gave them a briefing on the assassination of Soleimani. It was condescending, it would seem. Yeah. Well, it was, you know, everyone was sort of like, hold on. If y'all are really trying to meddle around, like really fuck around and trying to find out what a full-on, like full-scale armed conflict will be in the Middle East, you need to have some fucking receipts here. Because like, even though, yes, yes we love trump they're still like we

still have to sell this to other people right so what the fuck happened apparently at this briefing it was a whole lot of nothing yeah one of the first complaints that both republicans and democrats had was i didn't hear anything that i didn't read on the news in this briefing yeah so like when they're like what about this imminent threat they're like yeah well look this is the thing just do a book report on what it says on fox news guys so that'll work so right after that briefing naturally democrats are like this is a fucking disgrace right what they just tried to sell us in here like it was a non-briefing uh which just just it looks terrible for the administration but you also had ran paul who's already been kind of vocal like he was very upset about well i mean, seemingly outwardly upset by the move to assassinate Soleimani.

But then Mike Lee, who's also pretty much like a nailed on Trump vote for anything. Two of them came out and they were fucking heated. So this briefing must have been, I mean, the briefing has to be bad when you have sycophants come out and they're like, what the fuck was that? Yeah. And just listen to Mike Lee describe what this quote unquote briefing was like. The worst briefing I've seen, at least on a military issue, in the nine years I've served in the United States Senate. about that briefing was that one of the messages we received from the briefers was do not debate do not discuss the issue of the appropriateness of further miller military intervention against iran and that if you do you'll be emboldening iran yeah that's that's what a authoritarian

yeah right government what are you gonna debate whether or not we should drag these countries into war? Imagine being one of these dudes having to go have a town hall, which I thought was so funny during the impeachment here. They don't want to hear from America. None of them have had

a fucking town hall in a year. And then you have to go have this town hall and there's no national security advisor, Department of Homeland Security, all these head positions are empty. And then we've perpetuated this ridiculous narrative that the whole reason this uh impeachment sham is happening is the deep state can't trust the intel can't trust the cia or the fbi right who fucking gave you this knowledge who did who gave you this intel

that was so crystal that you could trust it and go get it if it were not just you trying to do what you went on video in 2011 to say Obama would do, which is start a war to get reelected. He doesn't remember that. Exactly. He was not. He's like, Dad, you said that like seven years ago, eight years ago. In his briefings from Trump Tower. From his cluttered ass desk. When he was running for president, we looked at that when I worked at Cracked.

Cody Johnson found that channel. And those videos had like 3,000 views. Right. Nobody watched them at all. Even while he was like the leading candidate for presidency. But yeah, it was just an obscure place for him to rant. Yeah. But yeah, it was just an obscure place for him to rant. And yeah, it's shocking to me that there's still people who are like, wait, they're behaving like authoritarians? It's like, where have you been, Mike Lee?

Well, I think it's like to a point people are so, you know, factioned off and so partisan that you're in your mind. You're like, well, that's my team. And you don't get that. You're like, wait, what the fuck is this yeah yeah to a point but again i don't know what this actually means because they never like that full interview or that those their comments they gave after they never go at trump's neck like directly right like start if you watch the whole long version he starts it with going i'm a big fan of the president i think he's done a wonderful job he's been an excellent leader i I got he deescalated. But what the fuck was that?

Yeah. Yeah. But that briefing, I mean, they must have had like that must have been a rough draft that somebody gave that. That seems to be their answer. Early. Yeah. Hitting send early.

They keep doing that for some reason. They just knew. I think they really thought maybe these people would just be like lockstep with the president and be like, no, this is what it is, y'all. Come on. You have your notes. Now sing the song. I mean, when Bush wanted to go to war in Iraq, he fabricated all the CIA intelligence.

They got America's most trusted military mind to go before the UN and just lie through his teeth. And they're just like here's a book report about what it says on fox news now if you question it i'm gonna fucking end you right on twitter well and also like they realize how different the dynamics are like they used a lot of political capital to get the iraq war to happen oh yeah and to the point where everyone goes what the fuck do we do yeah i mean i mean any sane person was like we should not be doing this but the other people who want to pretend like they weren't part of the war machine like oh that was a mistake huh yeah but i think now like they're doing like this shitty sequel version that everyone has already seen plus it's low budget cg graphics in it like

no one's falling for it this time or many people don't and i think they also aren't taking into consideration how many people are like have been affected by the Iraq war. Right. And aren't necessarily being like, yeah, like let's do that. Let's traumatize another generation of people. Yeah. Like so, you know, but this is a very, this is the kind of short-sighted, you know, strategizing you'd expect from this administration. I mean, he definitely had something else in mind when he actually okayed the assassination because he is quickly backed away and be like, no, no, no, we want to smoke for here.

I mean, I wonder how many people just jumped on him. I mean, as much as they can or people like that was really the we really got to tell you that was fucked up. But I don't know how that conversation works in this administration, because I feel like the last thing people in the white house are going to do is tell the president he's just fucked up someone does though because the good people on both sides thing there was a contrite response with the crazy adderall and looking back and forth to teleprompters right the same way this one was where his natural reaction is like do it best at bed and then someone dude, we're going to write you a fucking speech. Don't go one word off track. But I'm saying who has that?

Like who checks him like that? Well, I also wonder if he, because I do think the one thing he trusts other than his own gut and Ivanka is what he sees on TV. The footage from Iran of like 3 million people in the streets for Soleimani's funeral, the only time that America has had remotely that close to that number of people in the streets are protesting him. So I do wonder if he just sees that and is like, ugh. Or I mean any poll that he looked at, a majority of people were like, that was the worst thing you could have done. Now I trust him even less. The global poll, there was the one that was like 62% of Earth doesn't trust him with his own fucking hair. You know what I mean?

Yeah. So. Well, let's talk about our- Our brighter future. Our brighter future. That's right. Thank you. Things are looking up, guys.

Taco Bell. Taco about it. Taco about it. They are on the path for all kinds of wokeness. They want to make all the consumer-facing packaging worldwide recyclable, compostable, or reusable, and add recycling and composting bins in all restaurants by 2025. And they're going to use that to make their food, right? Yeah, just a nice material.

Exactly. That composted food becomes your next-door-to-it. Guys, we shouldn't knock this. We shouldn't in any way even give a sliver of doubt for companies to catch on to, at least attempting this. Yeah. So many major chains don't offer any kind of recycling. People will give an option.

Yeah, just like throw it in this fucking hole here. Yeah, ridiculous. Half the time I'm like, I'm going to leave this here in case maybe someone, like in my, sometimes it's, I have like that thing where like, I can't throw this in the trash. And then there'll be places like, nah, we don't recycle here. Yeah. Or like you'll travel and certain counties are like, yeah, there's no recycling program. And you're like, oh, okay, I'll take it home with me then.

Such a high percentage of airports. Would you think that's a little bit like higher tiered as far as awareness? I think it depends on the city. It could be. Because like in LAX, you have like paper, I think so. A little. It's not like universal at every terminal. I think it's baffling.

Like rental car companies almost never have it. And virtually everyone at some point stops and gets like a bottle of water so anytime you drop off a car there should be one there little things like that like if hertz adopted the same thing we could at least start getting behind like good for you taco bell i think we should i think it's ridiculous that so many giant companies go well no one no one pressured us to yeah and they're like when it's like expensive so anyway so that what they're also doing is, like, we've talked, they're, like, increasing their college, like, education fund for, like, employees and people who are, you know, fans of the Bell.

And they're also, like, been really aggressively trying to be, like, the number one fast food place for, like, vegetarian options. Okay, fine. I mean, they already are, aren't they? For the most part. But they don't really advertise that. It's almost like a secret vegetarians know is that you can go to Taco Bell and get a really good. You can get it all, baby.

But now what they're trying to do is they're testing a program where they're actually trying to retain their top employees, paying restaurant managers up to $100,000 a year to get their salaries up to that point, which is interesting because, A, yeah, people need to be paid living wages. And I think right now a Taco Bell manager makes between $50,000 and $80,000. So some people could potentially double their income. But also there are some places like In-N-Out. People over there, shit. Locally, everyone knew you could get a lit-ass job at In-N-Out

because managers there get between $100,000 and $150,000, depending on if you hit your goals and shit. there shit like locally everyone knew like you could get a lit ass job at in and out because managers there get between 100 and 150 000 yeah depending on like future goals and shit also shout out to the soggy fries i will eat them i will order light fries this is a soggy fry segment because taco bell has some some very soggy potato options oh yeah yeah yeah yeah i love them yes and those uh chicken roll-ups. Yeah. Like those two. Got to try them all. Got to live Moss, baby.

Oh, I'm sorry. All this to say I'm leaving the Daily Zeitgeist to become a manager at Taco Bell. Congratulations, man. Thank you, man. Come by my store. I will. Store 3328. I like it.

What's store 3328? That's my location. Oh, okay. Yeah. The one on Ventura. And I can live Moss there? Oh, yes, sir. Oh, good. Okay. location oh yeah so one on ventura and i can live moss there oh yes sir oh good uh let's talk about megxit as super producer sophie is calling it uh that is harry and megan uh quitting their job

they have a megxit is when taco bell got rid of the mex email right yeah that was did they bring it back though no you got it look i can tell people on Twitter all the time, you have to order a cheesy roll-up, add beef, add pico. Got it. Okay. And you're good. Okay, guys. Okay, guys.

Okay. Okay. Okay. So apparently they're not just British-y socialites, which is what I thought the royal family was. They are employees of the state, sir. Oh, they're workers. They make those appearances that the queen's behest and the queen controls all their money, which is wild, but they have a lot of money. They are funded by taxpayers. And they basically mentioned that or made allusion to that in their uh you know divorce papers or whatever like a their letter explaining why they're leaving oh their dear dear queen elizabeth

yes uh they're saying part of their goal is to establish independent wealth uh and some people in england are saying that that's kind of bullshit because they're, they're still going to have like a million dollar a year, uh, protection, like social security type thing. Well, look, I mean, we're not social security, a secret service type thing. Oh, got it. Got it. I mean, look, Megan should just get, start acting again, you know, fire it up.

Yeah. You can be making more money than your man. You can, you can, you can support your waste role of a husband. Fire it up. You'll be making more money than your man. You can support your waist roll of a husband. Also, move out here, like I keep saying, so I can hang with Harry. I'm saying, we need to launch the equivalent

of Encino Man for Harry learning what it's like to be a human being in society. But specifically the San Fernando Valley. Yes, and Megan is the San Fernando Valley. Yes. And Megan is the Pauly Shore character. It's weird. I should tell Harry, I'm like,

hey man, before we entered our physical bodies, we were just souls in the universe. And you happen to end up in that body and I ended up in this one. Who knows? You could have been me. Oh, right. Because you guys were born same day.

Same day. Exact same day. So think about that hello uh harry yeah hello me a couple things so the standard brother oh no he's like that makes me rather uncomfortable so people uh the comments on instagram are shockingly mean to megan and saying she's like a black widow who's... Oh my god. Really? Oh, I don't know if the word's black widow, but like

that seems to be just the idea that she kills families. I wouldn't be surprised because even in the tabloids, it's like her exotic DNA. Oh yeah. And then there's another one where she's like straight out of almost Compton. Yes. And I was like, fuck up out my face. That was the headline after their engagement was announced.

Yeah. Those are real? Yeah, those are real. 100% like this. So she's been just endlessly shit upon for being different, not adapting to royal culture, wanting privacy, for being- Not white. Right, not white person from America.

There's genuinely racist like openly racist stuff on social media and then like codedly or you know implicitly racist stuff in the mainstream media so that's worth keeping in mind why she wants out of being like hounded by the media and harry has ptsd from his mother being literally killed by being hounded by journalists. Like that's, she was speeding away from the paparazzi when her car crashed and like was dealing with all sorts of shit. So I,

I don't, I'm not as mad at them as, as the Royal watchers are in England. Uh, yeah, that all makes sense. Cool. I mean,

yeah, I don't know why we still give a shit why are we their royalty it's an absurd antiquated notion that we pay attention to them that's part of it we perpetuate it by going what are they up to yeah and then we if we all just went like who gives a shit they don't do anything yeah they. They suggested that Megan's avocado consumption is responsible for mass murder. That's a real thing. Oh, you can't fight that. Her charity cookbook was portrayed as somehow helping terrorists.

Oh, also, you know, it's a fun fact. The exotic DNA line comes from Boris Johnson's sister who works at the Daily Mail. Yeah. That's who wrote that. Well, his background is being a conservative journalist. And overall just a piece of shit, I think Daily Mail. Yeah. That's who wrote that. Well, his background is being a conservative journalist. And overall, just a piece of shit, I think. Yeah.

I just think of a rose you never used your thorns. The ones you loved abandoned you from the office when David Brent sings the whole song about them rushing through the Paris night. They hounded you lost.

Anyway. Oh, that's Goodbye English Rose. Good night, my sweet princess. That's what David Brett sings at the, I think, what is it? The training episode. The training episode is one of my favorites. And then he starts singing about aliens coming down. All kinds of shit, man.

One of the great episodes of TV of all time. Super producer Anna Hosnia wanted me to emphasize that, in her opinion, he has Harry Still has PTSD from watching his mother be literally murdered by his grandmother, which is a conspiracy theory some people subscribe to. What kind of fucking spicy xenophobic shit was Queen Elizabeth saying to him? Oh, yeah. Like in the beginnings? Because you know grandm him. Oh, yeah. Like, in the beginnings. Because you know grandmothers? Oh, yeah.

They take the break off if they really need to get through to you. Like, they will damage your whole soul with some shit. She's like. Like, you're saying I'm hairy and you're her. Right. And I'm like, she's just lovely. She's charming. She's so excited to meet you.

I find her hair to be a bit rough. Yeah. What, grandma? What the fuck are you talking about? I mean, again, I'm not surprised from someone who's literally the queen of England and your grandma if she had some old school takes on biracial. Because I mean, what? She was with Dodi Fayed before.

That's who could have been her stepdad. You know what I mean? Yeah. And Mohammed Al-Fayed, he put up so much money trying to figure out what the fuck happened yeah Princess Michael of Kent wore an overtly racist brooch uh to brooch my good man uh yeah wait what was it brooch brooch uh it was a like blackface thing like a what the yo get the fuck out of here man uh and also i i said that the mainstream media was less overtly racist but a bbc host compared the couple's newborn baby to a chimpanzee on uh twitter so good group over there yeah i don't know if this has been said before

what's her problem but i and i'm going. I'm going to say something very brave. I think we should cancel the British monarchy. Yeah. Sorry. Said it. Yeah. They're canceled. I don't think that's that controversial a take.

And I haven't even read history. You're not into colonialism, man? No, man. Give it a chance. Oh, my favorite form of architecture. Imperialism? Into that? Oh, yeah. Well, man. Give it a chance. Oh, my favorite form of architecture. Imperialism? Into that? Oh, yeah.

Well, that's why I live here. David, it's been a blast having you, man, as always. Where can people find you, follow you, and is there a tweet you've been enjoying? There's a tweet I liked. This is kind of a two-parter. The first one is, let me get the guy's name it's a stop motion thing from um atul kesbukar i believe atul and it's just this on twitter k-a-s-b-e-k-a-r an astrophotographer has clicked an exceptional video wherein we can feel the rotation of the earth using a tracking

mount aligned with the North Star. He kept clicking images every 12 seconds for the next three hours. The camera is looking at the same portion of the Milky Way the whole time. So you just see the curvature of the Earth as well as things moving. So normally it's a tripod, and then you see shit going by,

but this kind of moves with it. Oh, that's cool. It's really neat. And then Brendan Walshalsh my buddy who goes by malibu brendan on twitter uh wrote this doesn't prove the earth isn't flat though just scientific wonder he's gotten really into the hashtag kag for cube america great he's he's such a punk on twitter that it's real maddening to follow him because he pretends constantly to be like a MAGA guy. Yeah.

Well, then he also pretends to be his ex-wife. Right. Trish. Yeah, Trish. And then his son. Yeah. And then what else did he do? Farts Make Me Come is another tweet.

He's just a fucking troll. He's just a child. I live with a guy. I won't give out his name because he's so embarrassed by this, but he didn't know Brendan at all. And he came home one day and he was like kind of perplexed and sort of beside himself. And he like threw down his keys and goes, man, Brendan and his ex got into it today on Twitter.

Oh my God. That's amazing. But you can find me at davidhunsberger.com on Twitter at Hunsberger Junk. And January 14th through 18th, I'll be in Canada, in Winnipeg, at Rumors Comedy Club. That's coming up next week. And then two weeks, or basically a week after that, the 26th, here in Los Angeles at the Dynasty Typewriter, I added a thing.

Did I talk about this last time? You can add the code ZYTGANG at checkout and get two tickets for $20. Whoa. Would love to have you there january 26 all the info is at david huntsberger.com or you can go to dynasty typewriter.com did you remember when brendan walsh put those stickers on the billboards yeah that was like the cell phone it was was like for one of those like mobile, like pay-as-you-go mobile providers. And it was like a cell phone,

but it was a text conversation that said, your father passed away last night. And it says, OMG, what? What? Oh, God. Miles, where can people find you? And what's a tweet you've been enjoying? Ah, well, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram. I'm Miles McGregor. You can also find you and what's a tweet oh you've been enjoying ah well you can find me on twitter and instagram i'm also greg and also find my other podcast for 20 day fiance with sylvia

alexandra that's a fortune and that's probably my favorite night show now love it is there a tweet i like yes there's a couple and if you weren't clear on those you should go back to past episodes if you like me that much uh first is from the war axe at i I am the war acts. If the U S army matches with you on Tinder, that's your draft notice. Uh, and also, uh, Joe, uh, Joe Castle Baker says my five-year plan is to fuck. It's a simple and dumb as fuck. Uh, you already said in that mishmash, you said, uh, also just around 20, 25th, uh, the live shows. Yeah.

People need to know about these live shows. They do. January 25th, Gateway Theater. Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. Thank you so much. In San Francisco. Then January 30th, we're going to be in Portland, Oregon. I mean, look at my Twitter thread.

You know, we got tickets everywhere. We're coming for you. Everywhere. And then for everybody who's asking, what about this place? What about Atlanta? What about?? What about... This is just till February. You know what I mean?

And then once these places... Clearly, we'll probably be going to Staples Center at some point. I'm pretty sure off the strength of these smaller venues, they will realize. And then I think Wembley in the fall. Anna's shaking her head pretty aggressively now. Okay, I misspoke. It's going to be the O2 Arena in London.

Sorry, not Wembley. Tweet, I've been enjoying Dana Donnelly tweeted, I would do anything for my family except spend more than two days straight with them ever again. You can find me on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes.

Footnotes! We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we write out on Miles West. It's from Deet and Chris Anthony, who's like a designer and producer. I'm this person who wears many hats. But this song featuring Claro, Coco, and Claire Claire, it goes. It's called Race Car, and it's just like, I don't know. It feels like some shit you would hear playing in Corbin Dallas' cab in Fifth Element or something.

Like if hip-hop was around in that dimension. It is. Yeah. It's got to be. I don't know why I thought of Corbin. I think Chris Tucker was supposed to be played by Prince. Who thought it was. Chris Tucker was supposed to be played by Prince. Who was? Chris Tucker's character was supposed to be played by Prince.

Ruby Rock? Yeah. What? Isn't that wild? See, that's why Prince probably passed away. No. He should have played Ruby Rock. I think it was drug addiction.

The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for today. We will be back on Monday. You guys have a great weekend now. Are you here? I don't know. Also, buy tickets for our live show.

Did you say Saturday, 25th, 8 p.m. at Gateway Theater? I did, Grandpa. Okay. What's a live show? I did, Grandpa. Uh, okay. What's a live show? You microwaved your socks again, too. That's not how you're gonna dry them. Ah, shit. Uh, alright. We'll talk to you guys on Monday.

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