The Daily Zeitgeist - Xenophobes ASSEMBLE! Lady Gaga GHOSTING? 8.18.21

Episode Date: August 18, 2021

In episode 971 Jack and Miles are joined by host of the Camp Confessions podcast Shannon Coffey to discuss the whats going on in schools, businesses not making it easy to get vaccinated, the eviction ban, xenophobes, Google wanting to cut pay, Lady Gaga and her dog walker and more!FOOTNOTES: TDZ LIVE SHOW TICKETS! School Update! Businesses aren’t making it easy to get vaccinated… Eviction Ban And Not Treating Poor People Like People Google wants to cut pay for people that WFH Lady Gaga Not Helping Dog Walker Who Was Shot Protecting Her Dogs (Also Gawker Is Back!) LISTEN: Pa Salieu - “Frontline (Yussef Dayes Remix)” Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Wednesday, August 18th, 2021. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I pot alone in closet rooms. I never thought I'd meet a guest like you. Meet a guest like you. With auburn hair and tawny eyes. But who cares, cause you brought me dew. A two liter dew. and i chugged i chugged cause i may i just chugged i chugged

all night and day i belch for half a day all right that is courtesy of neil dewey tyson and i'm thrilled to be joined as as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Oh, do you not feel so well today? But with this max, I'm feeling better. Okay, shout out to me. I was listening to Frank Ocean as it looked like a tornado came through my room because it's so messy or whatever those lyrics are and just always reading about vaccination rates it'll everything is becoming about vaccines so shout out to my loneliness

you got that booster coming through yeah eight months later i'm'm going to fight for that Moderna this time. Oh, you can fuck around and pick and shoot? I don't know. I hope so. I mean, God, wouldn't that be so American of us to be like, oh, no, you can't make some. Yeah. Oh, fuck. We got to tell people.

I just found out that the Moderna survives at at zero degrees while the Pfizer needs like negative 60 degrees. So it needs to be on dry ice. And so I don't. I was at my five-year-old's optometrist appointment today and the doctor was telling me all this shit. He had lots of thoughts on the vaccine. He's like, yeah, they don't work, man. man he was like did you feel sick after you got it nah i don't know if you i don't know if it survived you might you might need to go get that uh baderna i was like this is not helping oh for real it was like that he's like if you didn't feel fucked up it may you may have got a

bunk dose yeah i don't know who knows but he is a optometrist. So who knows? With a Blue Lives Matter flag as his eye test. So a little bit of a little shaky. Anyways, Miles, should we do the live show? Let's yeah, real quick. Before we get to live show. We have a live show. It is a week from yesterday, August 25th, 6 p.m. Pacific. This episode comes out a week on Wednesday.

Yeah. Is it on Wednesday or Tuesday? I thought it was Tuesday. It's on the 25th, which is Wednesday. Oh, shit. All right. Oh, no. Did you sketch up something?

Oh, man. So, Miles is going to be hosting a live show of the Daily Psycho. No, I'll be there. Come through, come through. I will be there. Yes. Wednesday, August 25th. Wednesday, August 25th, 6 p.m. Pacific, 9 p.m. Eastern.

We are bringing you the year 2000 in a live streaming, audio-visual interactive. We will be interacting with you extravaganza pull people from the chat pull the chat yeah questions from the chat it's gonna be wild we haven't planned anything so we're kind of hoping that you guys bring something to the table yeah like a lot of facts about 2000 like hey what was like the best movie then in the chat right dude yeah that's right. But you can also count on us having a special guest,

Chris Crofton, the cold brew god, coming through with his takes. And again, if you can't make it at 6 p.m. or 9 p.m. Eastern,

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slash the Daily Zeitgeist. Boom. momenthouse.com slash thedailyzeitgeist. Boom. momenthouse.com slash thedailyzeitgeist. And we will have the link to the tickets in the description of this episode. So, yeah, check out the footnotes. Well, Miles, we are thrilled and fortunate and blessed to be joined by the very funny actor writer comedian and director who stars in the hilarious show campfire confessions which everyone should go check out please welcome the hilarious and talented shannon coffee podcast pop a pop a pop podcast i want to guest on podcast

podcast yeah yeah do we know what song it is and then um pod you're gone yeah i just really wanted to get hansen in there real quick great yeah tulsa best best is that are you from tulsa no not at all i'm from puerto rico yeah i was gonna say i'm like yeah i remember really liking hansen in puerto rico and being like they won't come here yeah nobody will come here uh and that's and then you're like then i have to go to them yeah i think one of them works in production or something a friend of mine works in commercials like i work with the youngest handsome brother who wasn't even on in the band oh host yeah yeah yeah well there's like 14 of

them oh really okay yeah they come from a really big family so i'm sure that awkward you think for them when like they for me three blew up you know like to have a big ass family and then like three of them are doing i mean i say this as like an only child so i have no concept of siblings at all because i'm like man if there was one other motherfucker getting the attention of the parents, I would flip out. Well, I think it's less awkward for the Hansons because it was like the three older siblings. And then the rest of them were a lot like younger and not doing music. I think it's not as awkward as it is for the Jonas Brothers, where it's four of them and three of them are in the van. And there's just that one guy who's like.

Yeah. Wilbur Jonas. Kind of, like... Yeah. Wilbur Jonas. Kind of, huh? Yeah. Upstanding guy. He's doing great, though. Yeah. Oh, okay.

See? I think it's less awkward because their older brother is Chris Hansen from To Catch a Predator. Right. Yeah. That was his passion. And the other siblings were like,

we kind of don't care what people think. Why don't you take a seat right there? Are you Guitar Freak 69? Yes. Shannon, what's new with you? Where are you in this great country? Oh, I'm in L.A. in Los Angeles in my studio apartment with my two cats. Hell yeah. What are your cat names? Cina, which is short for cinnamon girl.

I didn't name her, but that was what her previous owner named her. And we will keep the name because she's 19. It's too late to change that. 19? Yeah. She's so cute. And then I have Zook, who was a pandemic kitten I got. And then I have Zouk, who was a pandemic kitten I got.

And I got him because a psychic told me, a cat psychic told me that Sina wanted a kitten. I'm sorry, cat psychic? Yeah. So Sina was like yelling throughout like every night. She just went, mom! And I was like, oh, what's happening? And I took her to the vet and they were like, nothing's up. She's fine.

Must be like some kind of like emotional thing she's trying to express to you so after a long time of trying to figure it out i linked up with a cat psychic and she was like she was in tune with like some of sinna's like physical like arthritis and what legs she had pain in so i was like okay this is legit and then rather than being like broadly like i think your 19 year old cat might have arthritis rather than like how's the arthritis in her rear hind leg and her right leg the right leg she guessed it and she gets a couple other things i was like okay i'm gonna believe her i know right you're right i'm a sucker 25 you got hind and four whatever they're called but she did say like oh sino really wants a kitten in her life specifically a kitten and i'm like okay i normally don't adopt kittens i like older cats just because kittens get you know they get picked up everywhere yeah but i brought home this cool ass dude his name is zook which is short for zuccarello he's named

after zuccarello from the new york rangers who isn't on the rangers on the anymore but senna doesn't like zook that much are you a big hockey fan or is that just that's what zeke's name was already right no i named zeke zeke because i love zuccarello my family is obsessed with hockey and they love the rangers and i'm not into hockey but as as a member of this four-person family i you know i gotta like be present to the likes and the hobbies. So I just choose the things that I like within hockey, which is bodies and people with nice hair. So I'm like, yeah, that guy's hot. I like that guy. That's my guy. Hockey hair rules. Hockey definitely has the best hair.

I was a big fan of Brian Leach on the New York Rangers. He was a defenseman. I played, I played hockey for like 16 years. And I had like in hockey, like you can buy like pro models of like a blade that you can affix to like a shaft, like aluminum or graphite shaft because everybody likes a different curve

on the stick. And I would always rock the Brian Leach signature heel curve blade for my hockey stick. So shout out the Rangers. Damn, that's cool. I would definitely go for Casey Jones if I had one of those blades feature heel curve blade for my hockey stick. So shout out the Rangers. Damn. That's cool. I would definitely go full Casey Jones if I had one of those blades and just start fighting crime on the streets.

Well, what's stopping you aside from revealing that you're that person now? Yeah. Right. Yeah. I think actually if they, aren't they rebooting the teenage mutant Ninja turtles again? I think I should be cast as Casey Jones.

I've seen. I think I should be cast as Casey Jones. Absolutely. I think that would be fucking awesome. And I have a good hockey jersey. I just need the stick. Right. Okay. And that is usually what they take into account when they're casting a role. It's like, well, how much of the wardrobe do you have?

Do you have already? Actually, you think that that's a joke, but it's so true. As an actor, people are always asking you to just bring your own wardrobe. And I want to say, fuck that. Please stop making me lug my own clothes places. Right, right. Can you bring like 17 looks?

Yeah, and you're like, no. Are you going to pay me that fee for a wardrobe person? No. What are you talking about? Like a kid fee for bringing? No. Yeah. That's how it should be.

Before we move along, was the uh cat psychic correct how have uh zook and sinna gotten along um the cat psychic was wrong sinna does not like zook oh no i'm so sorry zook where is he's like don't tell me this yes i can send you a million videos of zook zook is obsessed with sinna. And he always loves to put his paw on her belly and try to touch her. And she's just like, ah. But yeah, she lost her two upper fangs recently. And she tries to bite him. And it's just very sad.

Oh, it's gummy. And he's like, cool. Thanks for the violence. This is more than that. Yeah, it is very fun, though, to watch them interact. That's great. All right, Shannon, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. Just a couple of things we're talking about.

We're going to do another school update from around the country, how the return to school is working out in the South, where they have already returned to school. school is working out in the South where they have already returned to school. We are going to talk about businesses that aren't making it easy to get vaccinated, which is cool. We'll talk about the xenophobes of America uniting at their favorite place to unite, Fox News. We'll talk about Google wanting to cut pay for people who are working from home and lady gaga not helping the dog walker uh who was shot protecting her dogs or whether she should we'll discuss uh it'll be a debate all of that plenty more but first shannon we like to ask our guests what is something from your search history oh well man i'm gonna just be like a little boring freak here. But yeah, the last thing I Googled was last night, how to get cat pee out of a shoe.

Because yeah, Sina did one of her like cool screams and I was like, oh, what's up? And then I turned around and she was just peeing into my Reeboks. And I was like, oh, that's a choice. Okay. What do you, yeah. I mean, is there a technique like to yeah because in my mind i'm like will you take the insole out and then you spray it the fuck down with like some kind of

enzymatic cleaner my first idea was oh you burn them um it's like not the the answer apparently i was like you burn them and then the dark lord like just replaces them when you go to bed help put them under your pillow in the back yeah right but that's not what they suggested they just suggested putting baking soda filling with baking soda and then letting it absorb it and then you dust it out and then you burn them and give them to the dark right right right right oh so so you use that to draw the moisture out yeah with the baking soda okay and then because look i have i have cats i like to do protest peeing a lot yeah so i've gotten very i've i go through bottles of like urine gone it's like this uh odor spray shit works like somebody who's tried it all and i don't mean to make this an ad

come on we can always have another sponsor yeah anyway shout out to urine gone works on humans Look, somebody who's tried it all, and I don't mean to make this an ad. Come on. We can always have another sponsor. Yeah. Anyway, shout out to Urine Gone. Works on humans, too. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I actually sprayed that on my genitals, and my urethra just dried up.

It's gone. Gone. No, either way. Urine Gone. No need. I don't know how long I have to live now. But you're saying your doctor thinks you've become septic already? No. I mean, I really want to play Casey Jones.

So I hope I live long enough to get cast. Yeah. They're like, hey, what quick. Here's a rewrite pitch. What if Casey Jones reeked of pee? Because one of his powers was that he didn't have to pee because he sprayed urine gone down there. And then it made him not pee anymore. I'm sorry, what?

I'll just bring my wardrobe. Yeah, it's fine. Here's my box of wardrobe. If you didn't have urethra, you'd definitely sweat your urine though, right? I mean, I think you'd die. But if we were like, I guess living in a, if it was a video game version of the human body, I guess if you destroyed the urethra, then the pee would come out your sweat glands. I don't know look we're not doctors um but if you are please give us a really straightforward medical

answer what happens aside from obviously you would be poisoning yourself because you have no way to excrete your waste i'm just thinking about peepee tears now can you imagine like if every time you cried like urine just came down. Yeah. Another reason for men not to cry. Yeah. What is something you think is overrated, Cher? Ooh, overrated. I'm going to say being friends with your neighbors.

You know, because people are always like, be friends with your neighbors, create a community. You have people there for you. It's like, yeah, I have people knocking on my door all day asking me for favors it's like i feel like i went i was i went hard i'm like a big like say hi to people in the in the hallways like make a chatty conversation and uh you know what now like legit like we've got we've swapped keys there's people being like literally i wouldn't be surprised if people were like oh my god i forgot to flush the turd i left and i left for work could you go and like get in there and flush it for me and i'd be like no wait boundaries all right so you're so you started off you're a very positive person and you like engaging with people but it slowly started turning into like this is a little bit now we're kind of you're kind of having me do shit for you this isn't just kind of like friendly reciprocity like what's the what's some shit that

you've been you know uh what's the situation you've been forced into due to your kindness all right i have a neighbor who's probably listening who just, constantly goes out on trips and makes me take care of their cats. What? Oh, fuck. No, no, no. One time I was like, oh, I can't. I'm sick. This was true.

I was like, I'm sick. I actually haven't even been able to get up and like to feed myself. And they're like, oh, well, we already left. So like, please feed them. And I was like, oh, no. Whoa, yo, yo. Wow. That's wild. And i'm not even kidding

that's definitely lack of boundaries i was uh they were like knocking and i'm in this acting class that's on zoom and you do like three to four hours every single day and i was like hey i'm like i'm in rehearsal and they pushed the door open open and looked around to prove that I was lying. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's on a computer. Oh, my God. You need to chill. That's like a relationship I've only seen in sitcoms.

Yeah. Of people who, like the neighbor who is that pushy. Just strolls into and you're like, oh, here they come. I don't watch sitcoms. I'm not into them at all. And yet my life really yeah you know me but like my life really does take a sitcom energy right right right yeah you don't need to watch them you live it yeah i'm like i i get so i get panicked when i have to ask people to help

me with shit because i'm like oh my god like i already asked them to i remember they watched my cats three years ago i can't go back to them. Right. Even though I brought back bottles of wine and thanks to be like, thank you for keeping my animals alive. But I'm always like, I'll fight with my partner. I'll be like, you got to ask somebody this time. We've been doing my homies the last few times. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You got to do it this time because I can't. Yeah. And that's me. I fly out my family members. Like I've flown out my family. Super exaggerated. Because Sid is also like super high maintenance. So like I like did an apartment swap with my dad once when I took a job.

Because I was like, you need to take care of her. She's your granddaughter. Right. And so I usually just like literally fly out my family to take care of my cats. Well, yeah. Hate to hear about those pesky neighbors. But yeah, otherwise, it's good to know. And so I usually just like literally fly out my family to take care of my cats. Hate to hear about those pesky neighbors, but yeah. Otherwise it's good to know. Yeah.

It's good to know who you live around too. And then sometimes you'll discover, Oh, maybe they don't want to live near, but that's fine. Yeah. I got to know who I live around. I know a lot of the hot guys. That's for sure. Yeah. I feel like I really got like especially in quarantine like i live in a 42 unit building right right i was like oh my gosh stories yeah yeah we have a

neighbor across the street from us who is uh wild and usually drunk and loves to talk to us no matter what to the point that I have, like, coping mechanisms for getting to the car without, like, when he's out on his front porch, which is almost always. Yo, is his name Richard? No. Oh, because I lived across the street from his. You were describing this neighbor I had years ago

who was always out on his porch. And if you came home when he was drinking, you had to go have a drink with him. Yeah. Dude, come on. What are you doing? Yeah.

Go. Yeah. Yeah. I got vanilla Stoli, man. Yeah. Yeah. And you're like,

Oh fuck. And then I remember her majesty. She was like, yo, I can't go out there right now. He's going to ask me. And I remember I would have to do like, I would have to periodically entertain the invite

so I could say no the next 15 times. Right, right, right. All right, I'll come over this time. But you know, I'm going to tell you the next three months. I'm going to say, fuck that, though, because I got shit to do. Right, right. I do the thing where I pretend that like everything is really bad and I'm going through the worst time of my life.

And then they like remember it. And I'm like, oh, fuck, I have to like remember that lie I told on the fly. Because I'm like, oh, things are really bad for me. I can't have this conversation. Like, right. Right. And then, you know, it just it's very bad. How's your father's ankles? Like what? He doesn't have ankles. Yeah, exactly. What is something you think is underrated? Okay.

I'm going to be real nasty and say ice and milk. But what's your choice of milk? I really love oat milk and I love putting ice in oat milk. It's so refreshing. I drink like two glasses of milk every night. I feel like. Wow. Not bad.

I know that. every night i feel like wow not bad i i know that i've you know because uh at school i remember i would always drink non-fat milk because it was the closest thing to water yeah like i can at school you didn't have an option it's like here's your fucking iceberg lettuce with ham and eat and drink this milk and i was like fuck man i wish i could get a cup of ice water and the milk would be the only shit that was cold so i would always drink two fucking things of non-fat milk but that gave me a taste for cold milk so i would drink like just straight up regular milk with ice in it because i would drink it fast enough that it wasn't diluted but i felt like ice fucking cold milk so good it's like melted ice cream without sugar yeah

it doesn't really dilute that quick like it's fun it's so delicious and refreshing and just makes me feel wholesome and good and loved wasn't there a thing like with oatly where people were like it's actually not that healthy even though it's not milk it's just like it's just like oat beverage i think it's because there's um rapeseed oil in it which is like a like scary name and also just really bad for your body but i don't know we'd be done anyway so yeah i mean it's not terrible for you but it's definitely not like the health the superfood that maybe people think it is either way the chocolate only i love yeah you guys do you guys ever fuck with warm milk have you ever jack stop warm milk that's a that's a thing i remember it was a thing like in the i i first saw it on like a rerun of a like black and white era sitcom and they like they just chronically had warm milk before going to bed oh so like happy gilmore style which is like could i trouble for

you a glass of warm milk yes exactly you can trouble me for a warm glass and shut the hell up. Oh, right. Yeah. But we, I also just, our coffee maker like broke. So we got a new one that has the little like milk foaming nozzle on it. Real fancy. But now, yeah, now you have a lot of leftover warm milk. So I've been sipping on that and it is kind of relaxing. I gotta say. Yeah, it's not bad. I don't love frothing my milk.

I just feel like the milk becomes bubbles and then you're just like sucking on air. And I suck on enough air, okay? When I want milk, I want milk. Not air sucking. Yeah. Fucking. It's like, dude, I had enough of that, bitch.

I do that constantly with or without my own consent. Yeah. I can't stop breathing, which is crazy. It's also illegal for me to make myself stop breathing. Let's talk about that. No. Breathing is so annoying. Yeah, it really is.

But I just want to see my lungs, you know? I wish you could just pull out your lungs and just be like, what is in here? Quick check. Yeah. Because I've accidentally inhaled so many things. I just want to see if it got lodged or if it's been absorbed. What do you mean? Like a micro machine toy or something?

Anything. Yeah. I would love to just put a little camera in there on my own time. I don't want to go to the doctor and pay for it. I'm trying to get an MRI scan. I'm done with those people. I just want to go to the doctor and pay for it, you know? I'm trying to get an MRI scan. I'm done with those people. I just want to do my own doctoring. Why can't I have a friend with a GoPro?

There's always great stories of people getting shit lodged in there, like literally inhaling a frosty spoon. We did an article back at Cracked about weirdest things removed from people's body, and there was a plant, like a seed. Someone had inhaled a seed and there's a plant growing in someone's lung that they had to get removed.

Oh my God. Which is pretty cool. Damn. I would have kept it. I know. I would have been like... Also, like, yo, so this thing grew without light? Yeah, I know. Yeah, we need that plant. What plant is that one so this thing grew without light? Yeah, I know. Wow. Yeah, we need that plant. The little plant that could.

What plant is that one so we can all get it? That's a great question. I love plants. It's the new air plant. Dude, get a lung plant. Well, I mean, they said that that was the best way to fight COVID. I think if we remember foremost medical expert Donald Trump in the early days that you could just kill it by exposing it to sunlight.

Yeah, some sunlight. So if you just get some sunlight exposing it to sunlight. Yeah. Some sunlight. So if you just get some sunlight into your lungs. Yeah, that's great. I'm happy. That's why I got windows in my place. I put them in just during this pandemic. I was like,

oh shit, we put a little window here. There you go. All right. Let's take a quick break and we will be right back. How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel.

Like, what does that even mean? something everyone in the South loves. The biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County rebels will stay the Boone County rebels with the image of the biscuits. It's right here in black and white in print. A lion.

An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies.

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And school is back down south, as we've mentioned. But we're just kind of keeping tabs because it's not great, I i guess is one way to yeah but it's just i mean since people have been talking about the delta variant we've again we'll always keep saying why why are we going back to school why can't we i know we don't want we want to pretend the pandemic is over but it is not and again like last time when we did this, I think on Monday, just I did another search. I said, school COVID, see what pops up. And here's what popped up. Up first, 5,000 infected slash exposed in Florida.

This is a story from, I believe, like the Tampa area saying, quote, over 5,000 students and hundreds of employees in a single Florida school district have tested positive for COVID or may have been exposed to the coronavirus. They said in a statement that 5,599 students and 316 staff members are either in isolation or quarantine. Isolation being that they were positive test quarantine, meaning they were exposed. Then you take a trip to New Orleans. 3,000 in New Orleans. Then you take a trip to New Orleans. 3,000 in New Orleans.

More than 3,000 students and staff at New Orleans, Louisiana public schools are quarantining due to possible exposure to COVID-19. They said the district, which updates its COVID tracker, said it was tracking 299 active cases and 370 cumulative cases. A week ago, it was only 116 active cases they were looking at. Then in Texas, one district is not, they're just saying, fuck it. They're just shutting down for two straight weeks. No remote learning, none of that shit. They're like, yo, nobody fucking come back here for two weeks. And then we'll pick shit up where we left off. And they said, don't worry, we will get all the academic hours done, even though we just kicked two weeks in its ass.

But don't even fucking bother because shit is so bad. Hospitals are stressed and we can't just keep like doing all this stop start shit. How are they going to help with the sewing in the spring? As we learned, the reason that the south goes back so early is because the kids need to be out to help with the uh is it the harvest or the sewing i feel like i jack i don't know i'm my feet are charred by blacktop as a child from being a city rat kid but i don't know what yeah when you said sewing at first i'm like damn they got to make their own clothes yeah that's what i thought my mind went and's where my mind went. And I was like, right, weep.

But yeah, this is, so that's, again, we're seeing just really aggressive safety measures being put in place when all of these places we're trying to do is like, you know, maybe have mask mandates or, and have ones where people can just be like, oh, you can opt out though. You can opt out.

So if you really don't want to, you know, who cares what it means? And it's, yeah, just chugging along. Yeah. Sounds like things are going great. Yeah. So we're nailing it so far. Yeah.

And just with kids, man, like, you know, this is fucking them up too. And beyond just sort of the whatever they're trying to do to keep schools open, for all the talk of like well we need to think about our kids putting them in harm's way isn't a good alternative either so you know it's just i i feel for parents i feel for kids i again at the beginning of the pandemic i was like this must be a kid's fucking dream right like yo you don't have to go to school for like three months straight but realistically when you see all the fallout from like how it's like you know some kids are having trouble like learning at the same pace or just the socializing that you get from being in school this the

fucking toll adds up but just rushing back to it isn't gonna solve anything right yeah i just i do feel bad for like the lack of consistency these kids are having when it comes to learning i feel like school is already so hard sometimes and if i had to live through a pandemic and be a student i really don't think i'd probably be like that's it i'm out yeah i wonder what it does because you know like i feel like for millennials we have a certain disdain for like academia, like as it relates to going into debt for college and then not having the same like the upward mobility that your promise or previous generations were promised from having a college degree and how that's slowly turned into a lot of people being like, I don't know if I'm curious to your point, Shannon, like when you're a kid and all you know is just like weird shit of like how schools are run. And you're probably hearing from your parents like things could be better if that creates a generation of kids who are like more aware of like how we need to be learning or if they're just going to get burnt out by it. But I'm sure this is going to, you know, change attitudes of people like when they're in their adulthood, when they look back at their COVID school years. Is there any examples where teachers' pay has been increased, kind of commensurate with

the just absurd amount of work and like burnout that they're having to put up with trying to teach through Zoom? I feel like that would be... I mean, even when they go on strike, they're barely getting what they need. Yeah, I feel like if anything, they're probably going to figure out a way to be like, well, I mean, now that you're teaching from Zoom and you get to be in your own house, I mean, maybe you could just do this out of the kindness of your heart because this is your passion. I mean, you're home.

Much more likely likely you can wear your robe all day if you want we don't care yeah like don't do whatever you want but just no pain all right well uh kind of on the same subject businesses aren't making it easy to get the vaccine either they are there there's new research basically showing that wage workers are not getting the time off. They're having trouble like getting the time off to even get a shot and have the time to then recover because you need, you know, it's by design basically knocks you down for a couple of days after you after you get the vaccine. Yeah. And they, you know, this Kaiser Family Foundation was, you know, every health organization is trying to figure out how to get people vaccinated or what's stopping people

aside from misinformation and like American exceptionalism culture. But, you know, they found workers who do not get paid time off to get the shot or deal with the potential side effects less likely to get the vaccine. They said about two out of 10 unvaccinated employees said if their employee, if their employer gave them paid time off, they'd be more likely to get vaccinated. And they said the time off issue was one that like these sort of surveyors and clinic representatives were encountering a lot when they met vaccine hesitant people. And, you know, there were programs that were being proposed in the earlier stimulus packages that would have given employers like some subsidies to do this and give employees more time.

But the administration decided to make that a voluntary program. So you can only imagine what that means. This attorney for the Center for Popular Democracy said, quote, we have ample evidence that relying on employer voluntary policies to protect people in this pandemic is not working. The Biden team has done a terrific job in vaccination work, but it seems clear we're going to hit a wall with vaccinations as a result of an inadequate federal leave policy. So that, and we're not willing to make this like a mandate that you have to give people time off to get the vaccine and to recover if they need to.

Because what the fuck are we talking about here? Yeah. So it doesn't seem like the magic bullet, though, for all vaccine hesitancy. They say, you know, because there's many so weird to say there's many styles of vaccine. What discipline are you? Are you the Facebook lonely person who's caught in the echo chamber? Are you someone with trauma you haven't resolved and this is just the venue for you to be contrarian and whatever? Or what they say is this

seems to impact the quote wait and see group. And a lot of these people within the wait and see group, about a third of anti-vaxxers that they were surveying were wait and see. They said most of those people or not most, but many of the people in the wait and see group have just said, yo, if I could get time off, like I probably would. I'm literally, I think I'm just waiting for time off to get the fucking vaccine. But unfortunately, the way this I'm being crunched by my bills and an employer that doesn't give a fuck, It's hard. Yeah. I mean, that's a, that's something we're seeing with rent relief too, where they are basically putting the onus on the people seeking aid to be full-time bureaucrats. They, of course, they're not making space for people to do the thing. I think, I think it's,'s, you know, with regards to rent relief, it's

the result of, you know, the last 40 years of, you know, since Reagan came along and started talking small government and the, you know, centrist media bought into that. I think we've been kind of headed down this road, but there just aren't enough bureaucrats. Everything from Ghostbusters to mainstream media treats bureaucracy like it's a bad word and just the height of just shittiness instead of a very necessary thing. So we're at a point where now if you want if you want to get like aid for paying for health if you want to get aid like financial aid during the pandemic if you want to get rent relief you have to become basically a full-time bureaucrat on top of your normal job

to yeah it feels like nathan fielder was helping like the like politicians in D.C. craft these like rent relief bills because it feels like a bit where it's like, tell him there's rent relief. But then they're going to have to hike up a mountain 20 miles to get to a drop box to process their paperwork to hope that they will then recoup that money. Because it's a very like if they just did it outright and said yo everyone's rent is relieved that's a huge outlay of cash but if you said if you know how to navigate this motherfucker then we might not be paying that much because people fall through the cracks like with taxes and shit right all right i think i have a mini pitch here though maybe we could start and like we could design like a trading cards of the anti-vaxxers. Right.

And like, like make them really, like really awesome. And all sales that we get from that. Right. To go towards helping people get time off and rent relief. I feel like those would sell, you know,

garbage pail kids are coming back, like trading cards are going to come back. So if we get like all the different styles of anti-vaxxers, like the, it's experimental. I'm not a lizard baby like that's probably gonna be the one that's like holographic i think yeah yeah i can see them turn into exactly actually oh i got the essential oils to q anon pipeline lady yes i know i'm in an acting class right now. Thankfully, it's over Zoom. And I've spent almost two months with these people and the anti-vaxxers have started to reveal themselves.

Wow. Are they being brave? Or were they with other like-minded people and then we get into these like big discussions and like we're we're trying to share resources like in the chat we're like read this it's like really manic but it's funny because people will people will be like i'm not anti-vax but like it's my freedom and you're like wait but that's it you're being anti-vax basically um someone booked like a a part on like sean penn's show and they were like oh we want to give us to you but it turns out you're not vaxxed so the person got the first shot and had to wait three weeks and they were like they better hire me in these next three weeks before i take the second shot because they stole my freedom and i was like you're sounding a lot like

a anti-vaxxer yeah i'm not anti-vaxxed, but. But I refuse to take a vaccine. Yeah. Because I'm free to. Yeah. Okay, so are you pro-vaccination? No. I can't tell.

I'm against it. So then you're anti? No. I'm freedom. I'm freedom. I'm freedom. That's it. Freedom.

Freedom. That's it. That's it. Yeah. I'm like okay i think sure however you want to identify let's go for it yeah so just going back to the debt relief um the sorry no it's okay i love the idea for these cards i've been kind of doodling a design for one that i'll share with you all later but congress has appropriated a total of $46 billion to help tenants who are behind on their rent. As of June 30th, $3 billion had been distributed throughout the entire pandemic. Right. Yeah. And it's, I don't know, it reminds me of just a lot of the things we're talking about where, well, first of all, this is also a reason people are anti-vaxxers because the government has always made getting something from them so difficult and like a full time job in a organized fashion i feel like a lot of

people just didn't trust it they were like uh that doesn't sound like y'all but also um free safety stuff yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah come on come on come on but just treating people like people like to give it taking into account that these are people who have full time jobs and like with regards to just giving them the time off necessary to get the vaccine or, you know, any of the like rent relief or eviction suspension. about Nithya treating the homeless population in LA like actual people, the policing barrier where you call, there's basically a barrier between calling 911 and the police where it's just like people trying to solve whatever your problem is, if it's not an extreme violent emergency. Just having a barrier of humanity that is just trying to solve people's problems like that is i feel like that is the thing that should be a growth industry it should be the number one thing we're trying to just apply everywhere and right it seems to be like such a novel concept to people because

we're used to 40 years of just viewing everyone as like a figure on a spreadsheet that we can like get profit out of anyways i think uh we're in good shape we're to damn yeah sorry i just fell silent so simple experiencing the the ultimate bummer of like man we see the like the possible solutions and yet yeah yeah cost money and create a bunch of jobs but again like look at afghanistan and we were talking on yesterday's episode about like the trillions of dollars that they put into that if they had just given that money to to the people or put it into like building out a humane infrastructure that would have done amazing things but instead yeah or just to not have the reluctance to spend money on people whereas trillions of dollars in

defense or a you know offense spending is just like an afterthought like oh yeah, for sure, for sure. Whatever you need. Wait, hold up. No, no, man. Teachers need to buy their own fucking supplies, dude. Don't miss me with that weird shit. No free handouts. That's so weird. We just have this fucked up disconnect when it comes to what it means to actually

fund things for the benefit of people versus the military is so complex. Yeah, I have a friend who's a teacher and they actually actually fund things that for the benefit of people versus the military industrial complex yeah i have a friend who's a teacher and they actually took some highlighters from the school that they didn't purchase themselves and they were like oh yeah i took them home and then i experienced like so much anxiety that i was going to get accused of stealing these highlighters and i was going to get fired and i was, damn, this is what teachers have to worry about. Yeah.

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and we're back and you know that the afghanistan story has really given a new opportunity for the xenophobes on fox news and on the right to just really unite and start getting people feared of what's coming because fox news people aren't real foreign policy fans so you can't really get into criticizing the war or things like that so you just got to go uh racism racism so let's turn the xenophobia up to one million tucker carlson has been very concerned about america especially after those census results came out that said there's white people have shrunk for the first time since politicians wore wigs in this country and he's been in red alert mode and now with the talk of bringing afghan refugees in at a bare minimum for how much of a fucking mess the west has made there especially the united states he is screaming about how liberals are just gonna just gonna flood your

neighborhoods that's that's what's gonna happen and and and you'll see and he goes on to say uh He is screaming about how liberals are just going to just going to flood your neighborhoods. That's that's what's going to happen. And you'll see. And he goes on to say, again, he's he's very, very intelligent. And he uses history constantly to show people why his takes are valid. So let's just check in with him about bringing in refugees. So we're getting it. And if history is any guide, and it's always a guide, we will see many refugees from Afghanistan resettle in our country in coming months, probably in your neighborhood. And over the next decade, that number may swell to the millions. So first we invade and then we're invaded. It is always the same.

Invaded. I mean, let's use history as a guide with regards to your ideology and treating people from other countries as an invasive species of you know pestilence uh because that's what the nazis did bro yeah and also i mean but he's so close right because what he's almost articulated was how um how fucked up imperialistic american foreign policy creates refugees that we then have to welcome. Because like, sorry about that. Yeah. Yeah. Come on.

Yeah. We know. Yeah. We did a number over there. But instead, it just turns into this like very fucking 10,000 foot view of like, and then they made it. Then they have to come here. Let's also check in with Charlie Kirk, who has now basically said that this is actually by design by the Democrats to change the body politic.

Joe Biden, let it fall apart to now say, oh, I'm so sorry. I guarantee you Joe Biden's speech this afternoon. We'll talk about refugee assistance and relocation support. Now, Joe Biden's going to be scrambling to make good on it, and the liberal media will love it. They'll say, oh, yes, OK, now I get it. Joe Biden is now fixing his own problem. Joe Biden is stepping up and he's allowing a flow of people from the Middle East into America. Thank you, Joe Biden. You're such a hero, so benevolent. You're so respectful. You're so compassionate. Do you see what's going on here? See what's going on here?

What's going on here is Joe Biden wants a couple hundred thousand more Elon Omars to come into America to change the body politic permanently. My gosh. Wow. Okay. So that's their version is refugees means more votes and just changing the look of America. Sure. Which party started that war? They're talking. Jack, come on now.

Get your head out of the books. Get your head out of the newspapers and stick with us in our hot take machine because we'll get to that because I just also. But unfortunately or fortunately, the prize in this fucked up award show goes to Sean Hannity, who somehow seamlessly blended Islamophobia, xenophobia and an ad integration. All right. Eight hundred nine four one. Sean is a number. You want to be a part of the program? one shawn is our number you want to be a part of the program listen there is a stampede not only out of afghanistan but a stampede away from high prices overpriced service from the big carriers like verizon at&t t-mobile uh the average family making the switch to pure talk they offer the exact same coverage oh my god the fucking gall of these fucking people. You're going to use, I mean, people, a show like ours would joke about something like that. But he really just did that without even thinking.

Yeah, there's a stampede. Now they're in Afghanistan. They're going to, they're going to Kohl's for these back to school savings. Like, so yeah, Jack, you know, you would think that They would maybe talk about this Because there's plenty of shit to be critical of There's plenty but I think part of it is You have to ignore the fact that it's Bush to their boy Bush to

Kick this whole shit off and They're not even cherry picking shit about Obama Or Biden you know they're Democrats who had their hands in this shit too And even the people who voted for this shit But that also includes their People so it's a little bit of a weird place for them and i also just think if on because on some level the outrage that you would see as like a human being seeing just like the pain and suffering of afghan people unfortunately i think that would cause fox to have

to humanize these people in order to create some outrage in their audience so they're just going to avoid that completely they're not going to point to like look at these people they've been left with and if they do it's just going to be some shit about like sharia law which already we're seeing you know the takeover headlines so yeah yeah stampede uh another kind of term that's usually used to you you know, talk about animals, basically. Right. I mean, anything that would humanize these people, it's, again, like, there's a level of, you have to have a skill to be selectively humanized people to be able to go along with a lot of the rhetoric.

So, yeah. Yeah. There they are. The Tucker Carlson video, his sort of over-the had pictures of, you know, from the airport and couple looking like, but like distant shots. So the people looked like, you know, ants basically. Like specks on the screen. Yeah. So, you know, they're very skilled at what they do.

It just happens to be racist. Skilled racist, yeah. Yeah, they're very skilled racists. All right, just real quick, we do like to check in with Google to put us all in a good mood because their motto is do no evil. Work from home movement that has kind of been forced upon employers over the past year and a half has actually been a boon. Work for hire has been shown to be more efficient for employers that are paying less rent. And so Google has taken those two inputs and decided to cut people's pay. Yeah. Why not?

Look, like Shannon was saying when she was pitching the teachers on Zoom learning, it's like, look, y'all are home. What's the problem? You don't have to do anything. But it's not just them. Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, they've all offered less pay for employees based in locations

where it's more inexpensive to live. But like, you know, they're kind of being like, well, you know, like if you're there, like you don't really need all that kind of money, like relative to the cost of living. Then some other companies have said it doesn't matter, no matter what, like Zillow or Reddit.

But a Google spokesperson said, quote, our compensation packages have always been determined by location. And we always pay at the top of the local market based on where an employee works from. Our new work location tool that's what they're that's how they're describing this fucking algorithm to fuck you out of your money uh was developed to help employees make informed decisions about which city or state they work from and any impact on compensation if they choose to relocate or work remotely

and again it makes no sense if you're able to pay the wages before the pandemic it's clear that you're not in some fucking financial death spiral so how what i don't what is the logic exactly of cutting pay aside from it just looking like you're trying to coerce people to go back to the office yeah there is no logic other than they're demons and they're going to try to make those cuts wherever they can, because they're greedy, and they want that money for themselves. And there's this idea that I really, really loathe where people think that everyone who chooses to work from home is just like, sitting on their couch relaxing and absolutely chose that

because, you know, that's the most fun option for them. And you're totally dismissing that some people are working from home because they don't feel safe going to an office. Hello, offices are not safe. They're really nasty. And I don't trust any of the filtration systems that these offices have. Also, we're talking about people who are disabled, people who can't do commutes. There's so many big factors that someone to choose to work from home. And then we're completely not even talking about the fact that it's not that fucking relaxing to work from home. I'm sorry.

I actually think it sucks to have to constantly sit up my stupid laptop and like find a spot, especially if you're working with people that you have to see on camera. And they're like, I'm like, God, is that your kitchen in the background it's messy like and then you're in your space you're like bringing that work energy into your home yeah and like it's so hard to detach where it's like you used to be like okay fuck this place i hope it explodes while as i walk away and now you're like fuck this is my home i hope it doesn't explode with all this negative energy. Fuck this place. Fuck me. I'm the office. The office is in my heart now.

Like, Jesus. So I think it's like people are working really hard, even if they're from home. Just pay people what they're worth. Yeah. Which is probably more than what you're paying them now anyway, if you're going to be real about how much, you know, you're extracting from their labor. But fuck. them now anyway if you're gonna be real about how much you know you're extracting from their labor but fuck like they don't even have a really good they don't even have a like a reasonable explanation for how this makes sense yeah aside from just like we have we've created a helpful tool that's all that tells us to pay y'all less with our new fuck around and find out wage

calculator okay wowressive naming convention. It's like, I'm sure if I guess like suddenly the job is like half the amount of time and effort, maybe I'd take a pay cut. But if I'm doing the same exact amount of work, I don't care if I'm doing it from a fucking water park, like painting. Right.

That does. Yeah. At the end of the day, though. Yeah. Could you imagine taking a call? A solo water point. Taking a call on a fucking Zoom call, and you're like, yo, what's up?

I'm in the fucking inner tubes right now. Let me see that proof real quick of the logo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's swap the colors. Oh, shit. Okay, yeah, yeah. All right. I got to go.

I got to go. Yeah. It sounds fun, but you're going to be working on that slide you know yeah yeah like really harsh is the vibe what people forget is that i think we've all been guilty of being like i'm gonna take a day off and still kind of work on my vacay mode and then your vacay mode dissipates it's gone you're just working bitch we have yeah it's hard because to go full darkness go full dark mode on them. That takes a lot of discipline because we've I mean, I'm sure many of us growing up and working in the, you know, the ways of American companies. We've been we've had it implanted in us.

It's like, no, man, you got to prove that you're valuable, that you're an asset or else like it'll all go away. Like you have to keep contributing, contributing contributing contributing to the point that yeah even when you're like yeah i'm gonna be on break or whatever it's hard to truly be like i'm fucking throwing away i'm like actually gonna just like disable my email app so nothing can penetrate like my time of personal time because we always just i have have that habit too. I'm like, well, let me just check all this other shit that has to do with work. Like in between, you're just trying to relax and shit. Cause they make you feel super replaceable. They hang that threat over your head at all times, letting you know, if you don't stay on email 24 seven and I can reach you, then there's definitely some peasant someplace else that'll take your paycheck and let me

abuse them. It's like, yeah, there probably is, but I'm going to work really hard to set some fucking boundary so I have a sliver of a chance of having an endorphin at some point in my life. Not an endorphin. Just one. Just one endorphin. Just hit me with one.

Don't worry, money bags. A whole ass endorphin hit me with one yeah money bags i want a whole ass endorphin shaped like an actual ass like i don't know what endorphins are shaped like but that's what they should be yeah we need to talk to the people who write medical textbooks immediately yeah Yeah, I just want that beautiful figure 1A, and it's just a butt. This is your endorphins. And I'm like, yes. Let's talk Lady Gaga real quick.

As promised, we have to get to this story because when this first went down, when her dog Walker was shot while he was walking, her dogs put in the hospital, you know, was fighting for his life in critical condition. Which seemed kind of dismissive of the fact that this person had been like there was an attempted murder that had happened. And then he was spotted in mid-May't, like, I'm no longer in the right headspace to take care of dogs. Obviously, someone who takes their dog walking business very seriously. And now he has been on sort of a mental health sabbatical driving around the country in an RV trying to heal and, you know, been very open about his struggles with mental health since the shooting. And he's run out of money. He's asking for $40,000 on GoFundMe to help him cover the expenses as he

tries to, you know, drive around and get his shit back together. All of these things taken together make me wonder if Lady Gaga shouldn't be taking care of this person a little bit more financially, like taking care of whatever his RV bills are as he tries to, you know, get over the very serious PTSD that would come from getting shot multiple times and robbed. Well, did he have dog walkers insurance jack right that's my first question because if he did that's who should be paying for these not lady gaga i mean are we serious i don't know i mean yeah another point is like why didn't he try to shoot the shooters before they shot him yeah think about it like i would have never let someone walk my dog unless

they were also like you know armed and ready yeah yeah i mean this is fucked up 40 000 he's he he's saying i've ran out of money i have i've been recovering from being shot i've had part of my lung removed because of the incident uh help i mean fuck i mean i like i'm sure like if you're the fox news take would be like, so is everyone. So do you have to do you have to pay for your gardener if they injure themselves while working on your house? No, you don't. And you wouldn't expect to pay for that. But this is a complete this is a scenario in which this woman's high profile or the dogs that she's walking. Made this person a target. And you have the fucking means. To actually help this person. So it's a little bit different than maybe most situations. And you're not? I do know that she.

It was reported that she paid for his medical bills. Initially. So did we get confirmation. That that ended up not happening. Or did she just pay the first wave of medical bills? This is the thing. You know what? I feel like we don't know the whole story.

And this person is on Instagram and they're asking for 40K through a GoFundMe. They've got a trailer video that they edited to look stylized about their accident. And the video is- Yeah. Yeah. It starts with a loud gunshot which i haven't been shot and i was like oh triggered right didn't love it uh so it's very a weird choice but you heal the way you heal that's not my place to say i just feel like this might be a

case of she helped him pay some of it and he might be like one of us like we were just talking about how we don't like asking people to watch our cats yeah he might be like one of us like we were just talking about how we don't like asking people to watch our cats yeah he might not feel comfortable asking her for any more money entirely fair yeah and he might also just be like this is you know I've gotten some followers off of this these people have shown me that they care about my recovery let me like experiment with leaning on the public instead of being uncomfortable asking you know my friend who's a pop star i don't know yeah i want to love lady gaga i want this to be just a like oh she didn't know he didn't feel comfortable asking but i would say at this point like it now that it's

probably crossing her radar like hook this dude up like this dude needs help because it's probably crossing her radar. Like, hook this dude up. Like, this dude needs help. Because it's different than, like, when Kylie Jenner shared her employees GoFundMe and was like, hey, y'all, donate to my employees GoFundMe. It's like, no, no, bitch, you do that. If Lady Gaga was posting this GoFundMe link, I would have a way different opinion about the story. But I'm like, she might.

Like, I don't know where their communication is that i don't know what they've discussed and i she's actually smart she's like i'm not gonna say shit that way people think you know what i mean that i don't know what's going on i know what's going on just not helping his ass but yeah it's it seems like a 40 000 you got that somewhere i mean you got that somewhere lady gaga net worth is reportedly 320 million so okay somewhere i mean you got that somewhere lady god that worth is reportedly 320 million so okay so i mean never mind she doesn't have it yeah yeah it's not actually that great yeah do you know how much her outfits cost like you need to chill okay yeah that's true all right my bad my bad my bad like if it if it came between me keeping my friend alive or me being

well-dressed i'm gonna choose well-d dressed every time right because you can't wear your friends to a yeah event right oh wait a minute hold on idea actually i'll yeah that's a good way to survive yeah lady gaga had that meat dress i mean yeah you know oh yeah these are all my dog walkers what anyway who are you wearing uh all my dog walkers it's a group actually a group of designers no a group of never mind yeah you'll you'll read about it later shannon as always such a pleasure having you where can people find you and follow you oh um you can follow me on instagram my last name is coffee it. It's C O F F E Y. And that's my username there. Apparently, even if you go directly to the link, it's hard to find me. But yes, the

profile photo is of the Crypt Keeper because I think he's hot. So that is me. And you can watch my show camp confessions there, as you mentioned earlier. And then if you want to find me on Twitter, just add an S to that. So it's coffees on Twitter. All right. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Yes. So actually, my friend Courtney Saladay, who's on Twitter is so funny. And I'm not pulling up one of her tweets. But she also just if i'm away from twitter for too long she keeps me in the loop and for that i love her so much but she sent me this tweet by i'm looking it up marg bar america and they've retweeted the story about jake gyllenhaal saying that he doesn't shower often and it's their tweet says okay i now buy the conspiracy theory that celebrities are

volunteering this information in anticipation of water rationing as climate change destroys the planet. And I just love that conspiracy theory. Yeah. Yeah. That came up the other day, too. Was that on on the show? Did we talk about that? I don't know.

But I don't know. I maybe might. Yeah. And I chipped in with that after we were recording. Yeah. But it feels like. Yeah. Yeah. But the most low energy scam. Yeah. It's just like, let's get hot, rich people to be like, my pits are stinky. And I'm like, yeah, you got me. Jake Gyllenhaal says his ass is dirty. I'm still down. And I'll skip a shower if he needs me to hang out like i'll do whatever he wants right right right and if it's helping the planet sure no um i'm joking please don't add me to the stinky list of people okay stinky list of stinky people stinky list of celebs yeah i just thought that was interesting because i was kind of like oh yeah it seems like these people are just rich in their ac homes and that's why they're not showering because they're not sweating.

Right. Yeah. Like when you don't work, you don't have to, you know, like, oh, yeah, I on the summer, I can't keep it like above 66. So hard. Yeah. Because you like, you know, like it's summer, like you want to like feel cozy, like in a hoodie, you know? Yeah. It's like 66 i was

wondering if this was sort of their indirect way like because the imagine video got a backlash they're like well how do we help people ah we model behavior that will help them conserve water the sad version of if peeing your pants is cool consider me miles davis exactly but like hey nope no cool person showering please please miles where can people find you what's tweet you've been enjoying uh you find me twitter instagram at miles of gray and if you like 90 day fiance check out the other show 420 day fiance with sophia alexandra and i that's on twitch.tv slash 420 Day Fiance with Sophia Alexander and I. That's on twitch.tv slash 420 Day Fiance. Also a podcast. But the tweets that I like.

First one is from, at first, at Slick, at D-L-I-C-J, tweeted, garbage day tomorrow. Last day with my garbage. Another one is from Corey T. Johnson, tweeting, girl asking you on a date. I was thinking wine at sunset, smiley face. Whatever day works for you, heart emoji. Guy asking you on a date. Want to meet at a dark bar, like right now? Very real.

And the last one is from Luke Taylor, at Luke Taylor Go, tweeted, one time when I was 12, a Geek Squad guy came to my house and the computer was so fucked up from porn. He took me aside when my parents were upstairs and was like, hey, man, you can't keep doing this. I'm not going to tell them, but you have to find a better way. Oh, I love that. I know that's a better way.

You don't got to live like this young man. Honestly, find that employee and let them run the government right yeah yeah exactly who knows when to let one slide let's see uh one of my favorite just memes on twitter is has had a couple good ones lately at it penguin tweeted youth pastor voice do you know who else had his fall plans canceled uh and another one is uh from not brendan at crocodile thumbs youth pastor voice i'll tell you about another jay you and your friends can pass around find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com,

where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to where you can buy tickets for the streaming live show coming up next week. And we also link off to a song that we think you'll enjoy. Miles, what song are we linking off to? This is a track from Pas-A-Lieu, but remixed by Yusuf Days. Yusuf Days is one of my favorite drummers, like new jazz drummers,

and did a remix of this Pas-A-Lieu song called Frontline. And it's just, you think the drums are edited in there, maybe programmed in a DAW, digital audio workspace, but no. These are live drums, even though they sound a little bit like that drum and bass jungle feel. And it's just got good energy and made me feel like if I lift weights more diligently, I would lift weights to this song or run to this song. But instead, I just, I think about it. So think about it too and nod your head to this track frontline use of days remix all right go check that shit out the daily zeitgeist is a

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