There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.
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Speaker 1
Do you know the Farsie rapper Black Cecie.
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Speaker 2
It sounds really familiar.
00:11
Speaker 3
Bro her.
00:13
Speaker 1
Fucking I don't speak Farsie, but the flow is wild
00:17
to me.
00:18
Speaker 2
Oh, you always have the best music.
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Speaker 3
Rex.
00:21
Speaker 1
I get all so much farcie content that I send
00:24
to anim Like, what's this dude saying? What they laughing
00:26
about you? So much of my algorithm is fucking Farsie created.
00:31
Speaker 3
It's so weird. You're not Iranian, No, Bro, I grew
00:35
up maybe maybe geographically They're like this dude definitely grew
00:38
up around persons and also like.
00:42
Speaker 2
A better accent than like most first generation kids.
00:49
Speaker 1
Yeah, it's funny because like Farsie has that like stank
00:53
to it that it kind of like this is swaggy.
00:57
Speaker 2
Okay, I was just gonna say that is the hypothyroid
01:03
Like pacing we are famous for throughout the Middle East
01:11
with hyroid.
01:12
Speaker 3
Is just the same as drinking syrup.
01:14
Speaker 2
Right, It's like a combination of like hypo the relaxed.
01:22
Speaker 3
Like a little yeah.
01:23
Speaker 1
I mean like I'm like, I'm like, this sounds like
01:27
she's right. I don't know, I'm like, this is a
01:28
this is a rapper. I don't know what she's saying,
01:30
I don't know if it's work. What's not in Jack
01:33
mean that's what the thing was called. And yeah, that's
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the name of the said.
01:39
Speaker 2
He sucks a little bit. Not in just orange.
01:42
Speaker 1
Oh well she isn't, okay, I mean she's in the
01:44
orange lambeau.
01:45
Speaker 2
So she's like a little orange Spanish like yeah, yeah,
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well because Spain, you know Morocco. Yeah right, and then
02:00
the conquistadors and the you know.
02:02
Speaker 1
Right funny thing language, isn't it right?
02:09
Speaker 3
Funny thing?
02:10
Speaker 2
Yeah, it's like hypothyroidism meets hypermobility. It's like Iranian chill.
02:20
Speaker 1
All her videos are just hurt in Dubai like lambos.
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I'm like, I'm so curious what the backstory is, Like.
02:26
Speaker 3
I don't know.
02:26
Speaker 1
I don't think she's earning money like this from wrap,
02:29
but I love I love the visuals. You're definitely bossing up.
02:33
Speaker 2
Where is the Lambo from.
02:34
Speaker 1
Doesn't matter, you know, it could be a nast.
02:37
Speaker 3
The furious movies that they shot over there just left
02:40
all the cards.
02:41
Speaker 2
I'm gonna say, we don't want to know, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:44
Speaker 1
Yeah, I'll pair on the side up. Maybe we don't
02:48
want to go down there.
02:50
Speaker 3
And just let's just enjoy the orange Lambo.
02:54
Speaker 1
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get orange Lambeau forever.
02:58
Speaker 2
Yeah, there you go. I don't want to why end
03:00
up in someone's files?
03:02
Speaker 3
No, okay, I said it all right, And that was
03:05
my first thought when I saw that a Steam files,
03:07
I was like, oh man, could you imagine how hard
03:10
it would be to be in those files? Right now? Wow,
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to season four to fifteen,
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Episode four of Dr Daily's Guys. This production by Heart Radios,
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the podcast where we take a deep dive into america
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Shared consciousness. And it's Thursday, November twentieth, twenty twenty five.
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Mm hmm. You know what that meure is?
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Speaker 1
It's National Rural Health Day. God bless them, God bless
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the Royal healthcare system that is holded by a thread.
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Speaker 3
Hard to say that.
03:47
Speaker 1
National Absurdity Day. Oh, that's what the picture is. It's
03:51
a dog with a wig on.
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Speaker 3
Wait a second of absurdity.
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Speaker 1
National Peanut Butter Fudge Day and National Child to Day
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whatever that means.
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Speaker 3
I just like I can't. I can just imagine the
04:05
person who created National Absurdity Day, and just like the
04:11
energy VAMPIRESM like those ring like, so I think we
04:16
should create a day for like absurdity, you know, like
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I don't know. I feel like I'm I like nobody
04:22
gets my sense of humor. I'm so crazy.
04:25
Speaker 1
Let's see who even I'm creat We have no idea. Huh,
04:29
I have no idea. I think I don't want to know.
04:31
Speaker 3
Is kind of what I'm saying. I don't worry about it. Yeah, bummer. Anyways,
04:34
my name is Jack O'Brien AKA. Some people call me
04:38
a pure cowboy. Some called me a gangster of crimes.
04:43
Some people call me Buba, but I swear I'm not Bubba.
04:48
From those files, I was the potus Trump held m scrotis.
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We got some photos them putin stole those That one
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courtesy of Paul Moran vo on the Discord. WHOA that
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came to me in a flash. But I'm outside working.
05:03
My hands are too cold to finish. God damn working
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hard in the Discord in the AKA Discord, thank you
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for that. Shout out to shout out to Bubba, whoever
05:13
he may be.
05:14
Speaker 1
Whoever you may be, whoever you may be.
05:16
Speaker 3
Thrilled to be joined as always by my co host
05:19
mister Miles Gras.
05:21
Speaker 1
It's Miles Gray aka ninety Day feyon say only Genie
05:26
says watch is this?
05:28
Speaker 3
I it's the cognitive test. Shout out to First Blood
05:32
five to two two on the discord.
05:33
Speaker 1
Yes, my theory that only the smart and most intelligent
05:37
life forms watch ninety day Fiance holds to this day.
05:41
Don't ask me my methodology. It's purely anecdotal and biased
05:45
to reinforce the narrative that I need to put out
05:48
in the world. But thank you First Blood for recognizing that.
05:50
Speaker 3
Yeah. I tried to watch it and it was too
05:52
confusing to me.
05:54
Speaker 1
I just took I was like, what the fuck I
05:59
can wrap my head around this ship man one of physics.
06:03
Speaker 3
I was watching quantum Leap. Miles was thrilled to be
06:06
joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian
06:08
and activist, one of the hosts of the great award
06:10
winning podcast Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Senior Fellow on comedy
06:14
at the Pop Culture Collaborative. She's written in The New
06:17
York Times. I wrote and performed a piece on NPR's
06:19
Fresh Air. It's the hilarious the talented Zara nor By.
06:28
Speaker 2
High highs all around we're going.
06:30
Speaker 1
We're doing high high five and high are you good?
06:32
You good? I'm bringing you in, wapping you up?
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Speaker 3
Good, you good? Doing a complicated handshake, Patton, you real
06:39
good on you.
06:40
Speaker 2
We're still handshaking.
06:41
Speaker 3
Actually, it's gonna be happening the whole episode. That's how
06:44
the steps are in our handshake. Sora, how are you doing?
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Speaker 2
Okay?
06:49
Speaker 3
Ah, alright, I knew you were gonna ask this.
06:53
Speaker 1
Why are you getting a scroll out? Let's see?
06:58
Speaker 3
Okay, answer okay, okay, Yeah, that's a good answer.
07:03
Speaker 1
Actually answer yeah, parenthood. I'll beg you give a good
07:08
answer to that. Has parenthood going?
07:09
Speaker 2
Parent Oh boy?
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Speaker 3
Mm hmm, yeah, I heard that. I heard that. I
07:15
heard that. I'm alive. Yeah, I tell you my god,
07:22
she's mating her lips really hard. O.
07:30
Speaker 2
Folks out there, has your daughter ever had a U
07:35
T I? Oh boy, under the age of three?
07:38
Speaker 3
I believe that is yeah, that guy. I don't have daughters,
07:42
but I hear I have heard from friends with daughters
07:45
that that does tend to happen.
07:46
Speaker 1
There's a man with friends with daughters.
07:50
Speaker 3
I am a man whose friends have daughters.
07:52
Speaker 1
Okay, I have heard tell of these outies before all right.
07:57
Speaker 2
Fuck your little wieners that can take a bubble bath?
08:00
Yeah can, As if I didn't need one more thing?
08:07
Speaker 1
Wow from a bath from the bubble bag. God, damn it,
08:11
damn yeah yeah yeah.
08:13
Speaker 2
Not sick.
08:16
Speaker 3
Ingredients.
08:18
Speaker 2
But she likes to do splits in the tub.
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Speaker 3
Who doesn't.
08:22
Speaker 2
Well do you understand that to test for a U
08:30
T I and a two year old girl, they have
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to put a catheter in. God, it's either put a
08:37
catheter in or put a sticky bag on there, right,
08:43
or chase them with a cup. Yeah, and the other
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two options. Pediatrics hasn't found a way for it to
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not look.
08:52
Speaker 3
Like assault, right right, right, right?
08:56
Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, So I just chased her with a cup.
08:58
Speaker 1
There you go go, that's what doing. He just couldn't
09:01
knock it out with some cranberry juice, huh.
09:04
Speaker 2
I mean I'm gonna try.
09:07
Speaker 1
That's always like the remedy. I remember, I need cranberry juice.
09:10
Speaker 3
Cranberry juice boarding yeah, right right.
09:13
Speaker 2
Right, if anyone has advice out there, right, Like the
09:16
doctor was finally like she probably doesn't have one, okay,
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just like got pissed on and then we left and
09:24
we were just like it didn't work.
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Speaker 1
Out man.
09:27
Speaker 3
Thanks for getting to the bottom of it. Doctor, She's
09:29
probably good. You can bring the test back. I don't know.
09:32
I'm looking at this. It's fine.
09:34
Speaker 1
I don't know.
09:35
Speaker 3
Wait, don't you need to like run it through something. Nah,
09:39
just kind of vibe it out. Yeah, yeah, this looks good. Yeah, now,
09:43
this is good. This is actually pretty good, really good. Actually,
09:47
this is wow, this is really good stuff.
09:50
Speaker 1
I'm teeing off in about an hour, so if I
09:53
can get out of here, that'd be great. Miss Reynolds,
09:57
no nor oh fuck all right, Hold I.
10:02
Speaker 2
Had a little wiener, right, she could bubble bath it up.
10:06
Speaker 3
Yeah right, yep, yep.
10:08
Speaker 1
Like my son loves a bubble bath to the point
10:11
that I feel like he only wants bubbles to consume him.
10:15
Speaker 3
And it is no longer a bath.
10:17
Speaker 1
It's like my child has disappeared into the abyss of
10:20
fucking bubbles and he knows there's an adult one that
10:24
froths up better, and there's a kid one that doesn't
10:26
sting his eyes. And when he sees me reach like
10:28
the kids, like, bro, knock it off with that weak ship, bro,
10:32
it does bubble up? Put that fucking cut Yeah, put
10:35
the fucking stinger in.
10:37
Speaker 2
Okay, how do I just get her more bubble baths?
10:40
What do I need to do? Does she have to
10:41
wear a swimsuit?
10:43
Speaker 3
Yeah, I don't know.
10:44
Speaker 2
I just need to put antibiotics in.
10:45
Speaker 1
The water or just yeah, disinfect the tuble, like you
10:48
got to bleach that ship, you know, disaffected. Yeah yeah, no,
10:51
I I look, I'm not trying to cast his version.
10:54
So the of your bathroom.
10:56
Speaker 3
Just dunk her in head first by the ankles. Yeah, yeah,
11:00
no problem solved. I'm getting Mike.
11:03
Speaker 1
I'm getting my kid into shower showers, so.
11:06
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah, oh man, my kids love a shower and
11:09
always need to be told to get out. It's like,
11:12
oh yeah, I would come back. I would come back
11:15
forty five minutes later, and they'd still be in the
11:16
shower if I didn't tell them to get oh.
11:18
Speaker 1
Right, doing like the just letting the water hit him,
11:20
just let the water hit him, doing voices, doing bits yep, yeah, yep, yeah,
11:26
I'll turn off the shower. And then my kid wants
11:28
to smear all the leftover water. Yeah, like that has
11:31
trained and he like tries to do fucking snow angels
11:34
in that, and I'm like, sir, it's you're gonna get
11:37
diminishing returns here. Yeah, anyway, Sorry, we're thrilled to have
11:40
you here. We're gonna get to know you a little
11:42
bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell the
11:44
listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're gonna
11:45
check in on the James Comy prosecution. Got his ass.
11:50
Oh yea, yeah, got his ass. All we had to
11:52
do is lie to a grand jury.
11:53
Speaker 3
It turns out it turns out the designed incomfidence of
11:58
the Trope administration has come back to bite them in
12:01
this case. And they they they did not quite nail
12:04
the case. It seems like it might get dismissed. We're
12:08
gonna check in with some sad news from Larry Summers
12:11
his career. Apparently being Jeffrey Epstein's wing man is not
12:17
the look that his neo liberal besties we're looking for.
12:22
And he's you know, this is really when you know
12:25
who's down, when all the chips are down, and you've
12:27
been revealed to be Jeffrey Epstein's wingman, who's gonna stay
12:32
with you? Yeah, it turns out not that many people.
12:36
We're gonna also check in with Bill Ackman, another one
12:39
of our favorite billionaires. And then we're gonna look at
12:42
the Warner Brothers Discovery sale that looks like it could
12:45
go very badly. Our boys as not protecting the cinematic
12:49
theater going experience as much as we would probably have hoped.
12:54
Speaker 1
No, no, really, Yeah, we're gonna get like three movies
13:00
a year, it sounds like, and.
13:02
Speaker 3
They're all going to be Avatar movies.
13:06
Speaker 1
Yeah, Mission Impossibles, Yeah, all of that, plenty more.
13:10
Speaker 3
But for czar, we do like to ask our guests,
13:11
what is something from your search history that's revealing about
13:15
who you are?
13:16
Speaker 2
Okay, just content warning for some folks. I'm gonna talk
13:20
about pregnancy.
13:21
Speaker 3
Okay, oh boy, like five minutes, Jack, I'm sure, uh okay.
13:30
Speaker 2
I had to look up anterior placenta because I'm pregnant.
13:34
Speaker 1
Whoa, congrats, congratulations Okay, pregnant with a toddler with a ut.
13:44
Now all the groans have made. Yeah yeah, yeah, don't
13:55
bury the lead. Oh man, wait, so I'm ignorant, So
14:00
will you explain that search term phrase to me?
14:04
Speaker 2
Okay, anterior placenta is when your placenta is like thicker
14:11
mm hmm in the front.
14:13
Speaker 1
Oh okay, I think and the party in the back.
14:16
Speaker 2
And there's a party in the back versus the other
14:19
way around, where people feel a lot of movement.
14:21
Speaker 1
Oh, I see, I see, I see.
14:24
Speaker 3
Getting it in the back, Like you're feeling the movement
14:27
in the back, and that can be uncomfortable. I remember that.
14:30
Speaker 2
Yeah, it's what happens when you have butt sex.
14:34
Speaker 3
Because that is not what I was implying. I told
14:37
you you get pregnant, Zara. I told you.
14:40
Speaker 2
I thought I couldn't.
14:42
Speaker 3
Yeah, no, no, I remember. I think we might have
14:46
had something like that going on and my wife feeling
14:49
like the kicks in her back, right, yeah, oh, the baby,
14:52
the baby's movement in her back more than a like
14:55
in your organs too.
14:56
Speaker 4
Maybe I didn't think about that, just kidney kicks getting
15:00
rabbit punched over here.
15:03
Speaker 2
She moves a lot. It's a girl.
15:06
Speaker 1
Hey, I'm really excited.
15:12
Speaker 2
Disease for now. Anyway, she's a girl for now.
15:16
Speaker 3
I don't know. They may choose what life holds, of course,
15:20
of course, what is something that you think is underrated?
15:24
Speaker 2
Okay, underrated, I'm gonna say disability activism?
15:29
Speaker 3
Mm hmmmm, hmmm.
15:30
Speaker 2
Have you talked about my dear friend Alice's Alice Wunk's passing.
15:35
Speaker 1
No, no, I don't think so.
15:36
Speaker 2
Oh man, that's my other big sigh. Is I really
15:40
miss my friend a lot?
15:42
Speaker 1
What happened?
15:43
Speaker 3
If you don't mind me, I didn't, I didn't.
15:45
Speaker 2
Alice Wong is an incredible disability activist. She's advocated for
15:50
all kinds of disability visibility and made me aware of
15:56
my relationship to disability as a person with invisible disabilit
16:01
And it's just.
16:06
Speaker 3
She.
16:07
Speaker 2
I miss her a lot. She danced with you in
16:09
the light, she sat with you in the dark, and
16:14
just wrote the book on intimacy literally right. And I, oh,
16:20
my goodness, I can't tell you what a good friend
16:23
she was and how good she was at friendship, so good,
16:28
so good at it. Like she sent Afy, my daughter,
16:32
her first letter saying welcome and her name on mail,
16:39
and she gave her her love that she sleeps with today.
16:42
That was like perfect. And she was just that kind
16:45
of gift giver and she's just that kind of person.
16:48
And in her passing, so many folks have become so
16:52
much more aware of disability activism. And there are pieces
16:57
about her in The New York Times, which is now
16:59
a tabloid but still great. And the Washington Post and
17:05
more and so many of us that she touched that
17:11
miss her desperately. Yeah, and I'm so happy to thank you,
17:17
and I'm so happy to bring her name here.
17:19
Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
17:20
Speaker 2
And I have in the past with book recommendations of hers.
17:23
You know, her books are incredible. She's written I think
17:26
five or more books. She was incredibly prolific. She had
17:30
multiple documentaries, one of them's on Netflix. She was a
17:34
MacArthur genius. She's a genius.
17:37
Speaker 3
Yeah.
17:37
Speaker 2
And if you're out there, tell UCSF and other hospitals
17:42
that you want their staff to mask up out of
17:45
respect for folks managing disability and who are immunocompromised. That
17:51
was something she always asked us to do, is to
17:54
email them and say, hey, folks wear a mask. Just
17:58
an incredible human.
17:59
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, just just I mean, I remember I think
18:02
it was maybe I feel like the book you suggested
18:06
was maybe a Year of the Tiger.
18:08
Speaker 3
Yes, I think one.
18:11
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was just reading that heard in
18:13
her sort of last reflections on life. She was just saying,
18:17
don't let the bastards grind you down.
18:19
Speaker 3
I love you all. Yeah, yeah, that's good advice. Yeah. Well, yeah,
18:24
we'll link off to whichever of those articles you think
18:27
does the best job in the footnotes. Yeah, thank you,
18:30
so people can read more about Alice Wong. What is uh?
18:34
What's something you think is overrated?
18:38
Speaker 2
Shoot? I always forget my overrated.
18:40
Speaker 1
Take your time, take your time.
18:42
Speaker 2
Like look down to see like did I write it down?
18:44
And I.
18:46
Speaker 3
Not having written down here somewhere this is a receipt.
18:53
Speaker 2
Okay, Okay, I got it. Okay, my overrated is I'm
18:59
a little late Squid Games. I'm just I'm a little late.
19:07
Speaker 3
I think we can all you know, you're not late,
19:09
You're right on time to take a step back and
19:12
re evaluate it.
19:13
Speaker 2
Yeah, it's just okay, listen, it's never late because it's Netflix.
19:18
Speaker 1
Okay, just showed.
19:20
Speaker 2
Up on my cue and I went on this rant.
19:22
I didn't know that I had last night my husband
19:27
where I just was like, how can you as a
19:30
nation connect with a film like Squid Games so deeply
19:37
right and then just move on live your life, Like
19:42
like after Squid Games came out, that should have been
19:45
the warning about trump Ism.
19:49
Speaker 3
I love that we're putting an ass on the end
19:50
of Squid Games.
19:51
Speaker 1
Yeah, I was gonna say, from hanging out with Jack's
19:54
dad a lot.
19:54
Speaker 3
Yeah, my dad. My dad would always called Brad Pit
19:56
Brad Pitts squids game, you know, squids Games.
19:59
Speaker 2
Because squid Game, I'm basically a percion.
20:03
Speaker 1
Oh you mean just sort of like yeah, because it
20:05
was the thing.
20:05
Speaker 3
It's the biggest Netflix show.
20:06
Speaker 1
Everyone's like, damn, that's hitting on some shit. And then
20:09
it's like, all right, back to the mines.
20:11
Speaker 3
Yeah, damn they would rather die than not be able
20:17
to pay for health care. That's crazy.
20:19
Speaker 2
Just like, yeah, completely connect with this film.
20:23
Speaker 1
And yeah, anyway, they did a great job then co
20:26
opting it and turning into a reality competition show.
20:29
Speaker 2
Also, now that I am on time for.
20:34
Speaker 1
There you go, I did watch season two of Squid Games,
20:38
the show, the competition show, Like.
20:41
Speaker 2
I just think we should pay more attention.
20:44
Speaker 1
Yeah, that's it's like one, I don't know, I feel like,
20:46
you know, I totally get that. I guess my hope
20:48
of it is if we stack up enough of these
20:50
pieces of media that just incrementally or raising people's class consciousness,
20:56
it will get it will reach a tipping point, like
20:58
a match tipping point where people who Because I feel
21:01
like there are a ton of people who had never
21:02
thought about this ship and saw a squid Game like yo,
21:05
oh interesting, isn't that.
21:07
Speaker 5
Like kind of like here in a way, and you're like, okay,
21:11
go on where where They're just like, yo, it's fucked
21:15
up and it's Korea. Yeah, Korean fucked up.
21:18
Speaker 3
Dude.
21:18
Speaker 1
I don't know if I want to go.
21:19
Speaker 2
There now, you know that's fair.
21:21
Speaker 3
Yeah, I do the bubble right right, right.
21:24
Speaker 1
But no, I totally get though too of like we
21:26
have so many moments we're like, yeah, come on, baby,
21:29
come on, y'all, let's do we see it now? Right,
21:31
We're all seeing it, and it's not enough time.
21:34
Speaker 5
I mean, we're so far back.
21:36
Speaker 2
Like maybe my overrated should have been that question of
21:39
like will there be a civil war in the United States?
21:41
I just want to be like, have you been around
21:44
in the last couple of years, Like yeah, you're tying
21:48
he has his own military.
21:50
Speaker 3
Yeah, sure, sure, sure, yeah. I didn't realize like that
21:55
this is the thing that happens where Like I usually
21:57
quit on TV shows pretty early, and so I stopped
22:00
after the first season of Squid Games. I just was like,
22:04
I think I know where this is going, and it
22:06
feels like they're just like drawing it out, and like
22:08
I didn't think that they really stuck the landing on
22:10
the ending of the first season that she was like
22:12
getting more popular. Like the season three debut was like
22:18
broke all the all the season's season three the third
22:23
and final season, and it broke all the records.
22:26
Speaker 1
I'm just fine with that first season.
22:27
Speaker 2
You know, I am ahead of the curve.
22:29
Speaker 1
Yeah, you know what, in that way, we so lute
22:31
you absolutely.
22:33
Speaker 3
Those in July, but you know, we're like we got
22:38
a lot on our plates right now, you know. But yeah,
22:41
I do wonder like how much of it is people
22:44
being like, we get what's going on here, Like what
22:48
an interesting way to depict the brutality of everyday life
22:51
under neoliberalism. And then how many people were just like
22:55
I like reality TV competitions.
22:57
Speaker 1
Yeah, if we could wait till we yield him like
23:01
in the movie. No, they don't kill them like in
23:03
the movie, just emotionally.
23:06
Speaker 3
It's just little paintballs that go off.
23:08
Speaker 1
Yeah, nah, I wish they shoot him in the chest.
23:13
Speaker 3
We do love a reality show where the contestants get killed.
23:18
That's that's always been a very very popular thing with
23:20
why what's another one I watch the running man. Oh oh,
23:24
you mean like just the idea of like the idea
23:27
of it is.
23:29
Speaker 2
Okay, here's my I'll watch the ship out of that.
23:33
I'm fine with that. But afterwards, I'm gonna get behind
23:41
some goddamn legislation. I'm gonna right not gonna sit on
23:45
my ass.
23:46
Speaker 1
Well not not while you have people like ao AOC
23:49
saying we shouldn't primary Hakeem Jeffries.
23:52
Speaker 3
He's with.
23:56
Speaker 1
Jesus. I don't know about the city council guy trying
23:58
to run for him. Like you look, I get it.
24:01
You're trying to ascend in the Democratic Party and you're
24:03
not trying.
24:04
Speaker 2
But like but like she's ascending, she's descending, you know
24:07
what I mean.
24:08
Speaker 1
It's like a dolly zoom in a movie where it's
24:11
are they assuming in or pulling out?
24:14
Speaker 3
I can't tell.
24:15
Speaker 1
The backgrounds certainly moving either way.
24:17
Speaker 3
The effect is unnerving. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, let's uh,
24:22
let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
24:24
talk about the current administration, who also not very good.
24:29
We'll be right back, and we're back. We're back, and
24:44
let's let's talk about so Donald Trump. Well, one of
24:47
the stories that we've been like blizzarded with over the
24:51
past couple of months, was that he was going after
24:53
his political enemies and trying to put them in jail
24:56
for being mean to him, essentially the gist of it,
25:01
and some judges were like, maybe we'll push back on this,
25:06
but they're kind of doing so. The people that Trump
25:09
put in charge of these prosecutions have kind of done
25:13
the heavy lifting. For those judges and for anybody who
25:18
was like, we need to protect democracy, they were like, no, no, no, no, no, no,
25:22
you don't have to work that hard. Actually, we're gonna
25:24
fuck this up spectacular.
25:26
Speaker 1
So fucking bad. It's gonna be laughable, because I mean,
25:30
like it feels like one of the final guardrails we
25:33
have protecting us from total despotic rule are the courts.
25:36
Like they've they've been able to push back a little bit.
25:39
And while obviously there are like maga meat bags and
25:42
judges robes operating in the courts, like Eileen Cannon in Florida,
25:46
who is based like documents, I don't know anything can
25:49
let them go, they're also like regular judges who care
25:53
about like how fucking trials work, just generally. So again,
25:57
Trump wants revenge on all the people that held him
26:00
to account in some form, and he will just do
26:03
anything to get them into court, even if that includes lying.
26:06
His prosecution of James Comy has hit wall after a while,
26:09
because one, there isn't an actual crime to prosecute. Two,
26:13
no lawyer with any real pedigree would agree to this
26:16
openly corrupt bullshit, and three the person that was willing
26:19
to do it literally.
26:21
Speaker 3
Knows fuck all.
26:23
Speaker 1
About prosecuting a case. So Comy right now he's seeking
26:27
to dismiss the case against him, and he's one step
26:30
closer to that happening since the judges decided that there
26:33
were some pretty terrible missteps during the grand jury proceedings,
26:36
So the prosecution now has to hand over all those
26:39
grand jury materials for Kmy's team to review. Basically, the
26:43
judge is like, you guys don't know what you were doing,
26:46
and I think you may be lying.
26:48
Speaker 3
Was what happened.
26:49
Speaker 1
Earlier this week, Judge Fitzpatrick quote raised sharp doubts about
26:52
an account of the grand jury proceedings provided by the
26:55
Justice Department and whether it had turned over all records
26:58
of the interactions between Halle and the grand juries. Basically,
27:01
what's happening here is that he Halligan said, she like
27:06
that she was trying to get these these two counts,
27:08
to get the grand jury to accept these two counts
27:11
to indict James Comy. They rejected one of them. So
27:14
she kind of just like turned around and brought like
27:16
a new paper for the foreman of the grand jury
27:18
to sign, and just like, yeah, there you go where
27:20
one of the counts the grand jury didn't actually review.
27:24
Speaker 3
So she has like swapped it out and sort of
27:27
like when sign, yeah, signed those report cards permission permission
27:32
slip for a field trip, right, like.
27:33
Speaker 4
A cover sheet for your report card. Yeah, without the
27:36
report card attached. Yeah, they said again, like this is
27:39
how the reported. The judge claimed that Halligan had claimed
27:43
she had her last contact with the grand jury at
27:44
four to twenty eight pm that day while the jurors
27:46
were deliberating, but he also noted that the grand jury
27:49
initially rejected one of the counts against Calemy, leading prosecutors
27:52
to prepare a new indictment that Halligan ultimately signed. Yet
27:56
nothing of the record reflects the grand jury's initial decision
27:59
or consideration of the second indictment. So he's like, the
28:02
judge was like there was no time for like, based
28:05
on what I'm saying, there was no way the grand
28:08
jury could have actually considered this second indictment.
28:11
Speaker 3
And so what the fuck are you doing?
28:13
Speaker 1
Uh? He Also the judge also said Halligan, quote, who
28:17
had never prosecuted a case prior to Comey's, appeared to
28:19
make two fundamental misstatements of law to the grand jury
28:23
that could jeopardize the indictment altogether.
28:25
Speaker 3
Quote.
28:25
Speaker 1
The record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps,
28:29
missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to
28:32
potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding.
28:35
Speaker 3
So, she had never prosecuted like a federal case before.
28:38
She never any kind nothing, nothing. She's an prosecute lawyer.
28:44
Speaker 1
No, she's not a prosecutors who has a law degree, Yeah,
28:49
and was practicing. She wasn't prosecuting cases though, Okay, what
28:52
I mean? She was just there to represent people in
28:55
like like insurance here. I don't know what I don't
28:57
look her being a US attorney prosecuting a federal case
29:01
is so Jack, that's like us playing in the NBA.
29:05
Like that's you and me suiting up tonight. Watch in
29:08
the NBA.
29:09
Speaker 3
I would watch that too, but you want to see
29:10
a guy, So yeah, it would be entertaining because even
29:15
in high school, my specialty was getting dunked on spectacularly soul.
29:20
I would just be like getting dunked on in it,
29:23
like exploding backwards, like I stepped on a landmine, and
29:26
like it would be so entertaining for people. They should
29:29
put me in the NBA, just me show how good
29:31
everyone else is.
29:32
Speaker 1
I think this is the equivalent because a lot of
29:34
legal observers.
29:35
Speaker 3
Like, holy fucking shit, dude, this movie's cooked. She's proper fucked.
29:40
Speaker 1
Then Wednesday, she was in front of the judge again
29:42
quote the full grand jury never reviewed the indictment it
29:46
handed up against former FBI director James Comy. Interim US
29:50
attorney Halligan conceded Wednesday, She's like, yeah, they never reviewed it.
29:55
Speaker 3
Uh funding Okay, yes, I was lying. You're being so
29:59
annoy about it.
30:01
Speaker 1
Prosecutors said that instead of presenting a new indictment to
30:04
the grand jury after declined to approve one of the counts,
30:06
Halligan simply brought an altered version to the magistrate's courtroom
30:10
for the grand jury sports person to sign.
30:12
Speaker 3
Like isn't that a crime, like just a feeling? Yeah, yes,
30:17
So are they so bad? I mean, we know the
30:19
answer how they're so bad is because you need somebody
30:21
who's spectacularly corrupt, and people who are good at their
30:25
jobs are like making the calculation. They're like, I'm not
30:29
I'm not gonna like fuck my career to just like
30:32
act like this guy knows what he's talking about the
30:34
only people who are willing to do that are in
30:37
this case, an insurance lawyer that Trump met at a
30:40
party yeah and was like I think you're I think
30:42
you're beautiful. Yeah, And therefore and you have a law degree,
30:46
and therefore.
30:48
Speaker 1
Therefore you need to be a federal prosecutor to do
30:51
a revenge case that is already so difficult, like you know,
30:56
in a normal courtroom to try it because as called
30:59
me saying this was a vindictive prosecution, he fucking tweeted
31:04
or truth socialed about it. And now you have this
31:07
loser coming in just making shit up. So things are
31:11
looking not good for uh, this case.
31:15
Speaker 2
It's wild too, because these are like the tactics that
31:20
like sleazy folks use to keep you in lawsuits, right, yeah,
31:25
you know, and both these things legal, but now they
31:29
just run government, yeah.
31:31
Speaker 3
Right, stretching a thing out by just like filing thing
31:35
after things.
31:37
Speaker 2
Yeah, just to make your life hell yeah.
31:40
Speaker 1
And unfortunately the by any means necessary was truly by
31:44
any means, including deception. So I don't know, I mean,
31:48
like that's if this gets dismissed, just another humiliation.
31:51
Speaker 2
This is also the administration that, like, you know, with
31:55
senators have died, federal judges have died, you know, like
32:01
everything is on the table as far as I'm concerned
32:03
with them.
32:04
Speaker 3
Wait, sorry, what do you mean?
32:05
Speaker 6
What so?
32:07
Speaker 2
Uh Melissa Hortman, Oh.
32:10
Speaker 3
Beasinated but oh you got you yeah, you know.
32:13
Speaker 2
And then they just say, well it's not us, you know.
32:16
But it's like, yeah, well I don't know about that.
32:19
Speaker 1
Yeah, why yeah, I I We'll see what happens with
32:25
Letitia James, because she's also another person who's in the
32:29
crossairs of Trump's vindictive do O J crusade. They're already
32:33
like I think it was Fanny May and the Freddie
32:35
mac They were like looking at her loan stuff and like,
32:37
we don't see any kind of deceptive ship here, Like
32:41
they're like, I don't know, go ahead, I guess like
32:43
even according to us, who would know about this kind
32:45
of like mortgage fraud.
32:46
Speaker 3
We're like no, So that'll be another very interesting one
32:51
to keep an eye on, and I'm.
32:52
Speaker 1
Sure we will, because yeah, the weaponized incompetence is really
32:55
leaning into the incompetence part, like oh too much now.
32:59
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah, it's just get you get incompetent people. They'll
33:02
do anything you say, but they're not going to be
33:05
good at it. Always all right on the elsewhere in
33:09
the world of rich people who thought that they could
33:13
get away with fucking anything that they wanted. Ever, the
33:17
recently released Epstein emails don't just look bad for Trump,
33:20
although he is the name that's mentioned the most often
33:23
in them. Former Treasury secretary, Harvard President all around. Just
33:29
we've had quotes from this guy just like a complete
33:33
dipshit neoliberalism, like let the market decide guru. Larry Summers
33:40
was in there literally asking Epstein for dating advice in
33:45
twenty nineteen.
33:47
Speaker 1
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
33:49
Speaker 3
And then in some emails dating advice. In some emails,
33:54
Epstein described Summers as his wingman.
33:57
Speaker 1
Yeah that's oh.
34:00
Speaker 3
That's even worse than the one I had seen where
34:02
he's like, Jeffy, what do I do? She doesn't want
34:05
to fuck me? What do I do? Should I be quiet?
34:09
Should I be strong? Yeah? Very good, very good, very good.
34:12
You were strong when you when you complained about her?
34:15
Speaker 1
Yeah right, Oh my god. To be that's being described
34:20
as Epstein's wingman has to just instantly under the jail.
34:25
Speaker 2
Yes, but okay, between the Ebstein files and the me
34:31
Too movement, Okay, I just feel like, just be fucking
34:36
nice to women, man, you know, you know what.
34:40
Speaker 3
I'm sorry. I hadn't considered that.
34:43
Speaker 2
Fucking cool.
34:45
Speaker 3
What if you were just nice?
34:46
Speaker 2
What if you were just nicer to me? Because think
34:50
of all of the young women at Harvard that he
34:53
prayed on.
34:54
Speaker 3
Oh god, we don't know that. You can't prove that.
34:56
That's all he just happened to. You get dating advice
35:02
from somebody who made a guilty plea to sex crimes
35:06
against children in two thousand and eight.
35:08
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. But it's
35:10
a sweetheart deal. Sweetheart deal though.
35:12
Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah. God had already stopped accepting donations from Epstein,
35:18
which I'm sure that wasn't easy for them. He's an
35:22
economics professor, he wined, that the woman who had abandoned
35:27
plans with him for another man was really attracted to
35:31
the other guy, and that I'm unsuitable as a partner.
35:35
He resigned from the board. So this has not gone
35:38
over well with like this honestly, like I feel bad,
35:43
how old fashioned this feels that he had to step
35:47
down from anything, Like what is this the fucking Obama administration? Right,
35:53
what is this? What's going on here? He had to
35:55
step down from Open AI and the New York Times
35:59
is cutting ties with him upstanding, there's there's still consequences
36:03
to people being complete fucking just revealed to be monsters.
36:08
Speaker 1
Yeah, I mean it is tough when you're described as
36:12
Jeffrey Epstein's wingman and you.
36:15
Speaker 3
Can literally the dangerous Nights Crew, the literally dangerous Nights
36:18
Crew with their slick.
36:19
Speaker 1
Back hair going out sloppy steaks, which we is ephimistic
36:23
probably for them, but like this is absolutely this is
36:27
like the most purely cancelable offense right now is like
36:31
you're his You're his wingman, he was describing at being
36:34
described as And it's enough that you leave Open AI
36:37
the New York Times, but you can still are you
36:40
still teaching?
36:42
Speaker 3
I mean look teaching the children.
36:46
Speaker 1
Of fair most are legally adults at this point when
36:49
they're according to.
36:51
Speaker 3
Him, these are not children, according to him and Megan Kelly,
36:53
these are basically adult. Okay, they're not five okay. Uh.
36:58
And they have to learn economics from this fucking ghoul
37:04
who does all the people who's just carrying water for
37:08
corporations in a corporatocracy.
37:10
Speaker 2
Boy does he understand economics.
37:12
Speaker 1
There's a clip of him, a student in one of
37:15
his classes at Harvard video taped him opening up the
37:18
lecture where he has to be like, guys, I'm a
37:24
shamed on myself, although not really saying that, no.
37:28
Speaker 2
But he's always saying that because he's caught exactly.
37:31
Speaker 1
But it's just wild. Just listen to this guy having
37:34
to be like, I know I'm in the FC fund.
37:37
What Okay, Larry Summers try and explain this away.
37:40
Speaker 6
I'm going you will assume my statement regret expressing my
37:45
shame with respect to what I did communication with miss Remstein,
37:52
and that I've said that I'm gonna step back.
37:57
Speaker 3
Part time. But I think it's very importing, m very
38:03
important that you be in a room with young people.
38:07
That's very important. Nobody else could do what you do,
38:11
you fucking wizard of us Street. Yeah, I'm sure they
38:15
all agree that this is a great vibe.
38:18
Speaker 2
I'm glad that he at least captured. The thing that
38:21
I was the most irked by was his communication with Epstein.
38:24
Speaker 3
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, how ashamed I am by my
38:26
communication and nothing that was indicated or suggested by that communication. Oh,
38:32
by the way, he's mister Epstein. Now, because y'all seemed
38:34
like very friendly and informal in those conversations, I thought
38:38
you were his wingman. Dude like that. You seem like
38:41
you guys were brothers. That's some dude.
38:43
Speaker 1
That's just some fucking guy man. And I shouldn't even
38:47
shouldn't even emailed him anyway. Today's lecture is about multilateralism
38:53
and its future in the G twenty.
38:54
Speaker 3
You're like, oh huh, thanks.
38:58
Speaker 2
Lectures on the mix of blackmailing and how you can
39:02
work from the CIA and the government.
39:05
Speaker 1
And do whatever the fuck you want to, and shout
39:07
out to Harvard Man that.
39:09
Speaker 3
He just will really quote launch a new investigation into
39:15
the nest one the last one. The last one went well. Actually,
39:18
we actually found that he was really good, So we
39:21
gotta might we might need to do a little better
39:23
with our investigations.
39:24
Speaker 1
Yeah, this is the kind of ship where it's like
39:27
like these are this is the low hanging fruit to
39:29
bring these people to account of, like the Larry Summers
39:33
types where you're like, you're here, you're in the emails,
39:36
I don't know the fuck your relationship is, but like
39:38
you have no business being out here in like normal
39:41
the normal world anymore, let alone teat like lecturing at
39:45
fucking Harvard.
39:47
Speaker 3
They have to pass their wisdom onto the youth because
39:51
they do like all those people I feel like have
39:54
bought into their own myth that like the reason they're
39:58
so much richer than everybody is because they're that much smarter.
40:01
So like, sure they have one hundred times more money
40:04
than most people, that's because they're one hundred times smarter.
40:09
So the idea that he has now been like publicly
40:13
you know, ostracized, but like he's still want like it's
40:16
important to him to continue to be like, I like
40:21
what you want me to not pass this fucking galaxy
40:25
brain onto the children of the future. Come on, just
40:28
like you are so eminently replaceable. All you do is
40:33
carry water. You carry water for the most powerful people
40:39
in the given system that you work under. That's what
40:42
you do, and that's how you've gotten all the success
40:44
is you're just doing the thing that all the people
40:47
with all the money and power want to be done,
40:50
and then you you get benefits from that.
40:53
Speaker 2
Yeah yeah, okay, but before we squid games this mmm,
40:58
I am going to bring it back. We can watch
41:00
the ship out of this, but then the actionable ship afterwards. Right,
41:05
I don't want to hear anymore about how unlikable a
41:09
woman is at your workplace.
41:11
Speaker 3
Oh yeah, that was all New York Times. That was
41:13
the New York Times, the New York Times of location.
41:18
That just was like, did women ruin the workplace? Even
41:21
they were like no, I think that's the New York Times.
41:25
Speaker 2
But I hear it from every guy, you know, all
41:28
this fucking woman at my workplace, you know? And no,
41:31
but she really sucks, you know, no woman has sucked
41:34
this much?
41:35
Speaker 3
Right, right, exactly, not this much? Okay?
41:39
Speaker 2
Ever, Like I don't care how annoying she is, how
41:41
shrill she is, how squeaky she is, how whiney she is, right,
41:45
how bossy, how bitchy.
41:49
Speaker 3
Bosses? Oh my god, I.
41:51
Speaker 1
Hear it all the time should hang out with better
41:54
than me.
41:55
Speaker 3
Yeah, I do just want to like, while we're on
41:58
the topic of rich people thinking that they have like
42:03
galaxy brain and that we like they're doing us a
42:06
favor by even like, first of all, they love to
42:08
be like I created so many jobs as if that
42:12
wouldn't have happened without them, But they also I think
42:15
they really feel like we need them. And Miles, you
42:18
found this Bill Ackman fucking thing where he came out
42:23
and was like a little advice from an old man
42:26
who's fucking killed.
42:28
Speaker 1
It okay with women, Like because Bill Ackman, obviously we've
42:33
you've probably heard us talk about him. He's a fucking
42:36
billionaire hedge fund dude. Persian Square Capital is his hedge fund,
42:40
and he's we probably talked about him recently because he
42:43
was shitting his pickleball shorts over the election of Mom Donnie.
42:47
Speaker 3
Yeah, and he's constantly giving out the first people to
42:49
move out of New York City Yeah, and never do it.
42:52
Speaker 1
And I think and then we also talked about his
42:53
uh what was that where he bought his way onto
42:55
a he put.
42:56
Speaker 3
Onto the professional tennis tour and then most and then
43:01
but like wouldn't accept it. He was like, there was
43:04
something off today, like my I think my strings were
43:07
too loose or some looking at the racket. Something about
43:10
the racket.
43:10
Speaker 1
I think, No, it's because you're a fucking idiot who
43:12
just bought his way onto here, because you live in
43:14
a fucking simulacrum.
43:16
Speaker 3
Anyway, this is what he this is what he posts.
43:18
Speaker 1
I'm just gonna read his whole fucking bang or tweet
43:21
about relationships.
43:22
Speaker 3
I quote.
43:23
Speaker 1
I hear from many young men, Oh God, here we go,
43:26
that they find it difficult to meet young women in
43:29
a public setting. In other words, the online culture has
43:32
destroyed the ability to spontaneously meet strangers. As such, I
43:36
thought I would share a few words that I used
43:39
in my youth to meet someone that I found compelling.
43:42
Speaker 3
I would ask, quick, what does he mean by it's
43:45
difficult to meet young women in a public setting because
43:48
he's women.
43:50
Speaker 1
This is based off of him watching the Fresh and
43:52
Fit podcast on YouTube. Yeah, that's what ship And he's like,
43:56
I'm surprised he didn't say females at some point. Anyway,
44:00
this is what he's saying. This is what I would do.
44:02
Speaker 3
Quote.
44:03
Speaker 1
I would ask, may I meet you before engaging further
44:06
in a conversation. I almost never got a no. It
44:09
inevitably enabled the opportunity for a further conversation. I met
44:13
a lot of really interesting people this way. I think
44:15
the combination of proper grammar and politeness was the key
44:19
to its effectiveness. You might give it a try, and yes,
44:22
I think it should also work for women seeking men
44:24
as well as same sex interactions. Woke Okay, uh huh.
44:28
But then and then the last one. This is just
44:31
two just two cents from an older, happily married guy
44:34
concerned about our next generation's happiness and population replacement rates.
44:40
Speaker 3
Whoa mm hmm.
44:41
Speaker 1
It's always the population shit with these fucking people. It's
44:45
either wrapped up in there like fucking you know, olive
44:50
ark brain, where they're like I need more bodies to
44:52
fucking exploit and consumer fucking it starts winding down, or
44:57
it's the fear of the brown planet thing to just
45:01
two cents from an older, happily married guy with love
45:05
in his heart and eugenics on my brain, exactly population
45:10
replacement rate.
45:11
Speaker 3
It is kind of crazy, though, because I don't think
45:12
I've ever seen like when when he described his approach
45:16
of may I meet you. There are literally hearts coming
45:21
out of the star's eyes. Yeah.
45:25
Speaker 1
He was spanning himself with a stack of one hundred
45:27
dollars bills as he said.
45:28
Speaker 2
It, listen as a young woman.
45:34
Speaker 1
Canonically gen z g Z, I just.
45:39
Speaker 2
You know that's that what do you call it? Warmth
45:45
mm hmm, yeah, that I meet you right looking in
45:50
my eyes as like the the the vehicle for for
45:54
population generation replacement. It's just such a turn on.
45:59
Speaker 3
May I meet you? What is your breeding viability? Yeah?
46:03
Speaker 1
I meet you to evaluate. Do you mind if I
46:06
bring calipers?
46:08
Speaker 3
Do you mind if I measure your skull circumference?
46:11
Speaker 6
What?
46:12
Speaker 3
Uh? Nothing, nothing, nothing?
46:13
Speaker 1
May I meet you?
46:14
Speaker 2
I mean, and I mean he did, and it was hot.
46:16
Speaker 1
It's always like this advice from people who do not
46:20
live on the same fucking planet as we do. Like
46:23
it's like I'm worried about y'all happiness, worry about the
46:25
fucking income inequality then mm hmm.
46:28
Speaker 3
Like you wonder why, Like there was a whole thing too.
46:30
Speaker 1
I was looking at how the under five population is
46:32
swinging in certain places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York,
46:37
these really expensive cities. They're like hemorrhaging, like young families
46:41
because they're just so hard to afford to live in
46:45
and it's going up in other places that are more affordable. Like,
46:48
that's your fucking issue.
46:50
Speaker 7
It's not exactly may I meet you, it's I can't
46:55
fucking afford to fucking live And that's the like again,
47:00
So first of all, we've just we've seen the dipshittery
47:03
in the Epstein emails of like Larry Summers being like
47:06
what do I say to her?
47:08
Speaker 3
And Jeffrey Epstein being like, you did well by expressing
47:11
disapproval that you had planned a vacation for her and
47:14
she left you for a guy on a motorcycle, very
47:17
strong of you. Like the fact that they just they're
47:21
in this world where like their wealth just surrounds them.
47:24
They just have not taken a single breath outside of
47:29
just a world where everybody is just kissing their ass constantly,
47:34
and so they're just like gassed up on this idea
47:36
that everything they say is so fucking wise. And now
47:40
I feel like we all looked at the Epstein emails
47:42
and we're like, that's so weird that everyone was like
47:46
my sex guru aka child trafficker, what shall I say?
47:51
Bill Ackman looked at it and was like, there's a hole.
47:54
Speaker 1
In the market here.
47:55
Speaker 3
These people need to hear from a pickup artist like myself,
47:58
right right Exactly. A lot of people like it's funny
48:01
when you tweeted it. They're like, yeah, all right, asshole,
48:03
what because you told him you're a billionaire And he's like,
48:06
I was.
48:06
Speaker 1
This was working for me when I didn't even have
48:08
two nickels. And you're like, uh uh huh, yeah, sure,
48:11
sure go ahead, May I need.
48:14
Speaker 2
He's weird when these guys like have their pickup lines
48:18
like that, they want to like bequeath unto us, like
48:21
so fresh in their memory as happily married men.
48:25
Speaker 3
Right, And he thinks this is such a good line,
48:28
May I meet you? You should see it.
48:33
Speaker 2
Cheating on his wife. You know he's cheating on his wife,
48:36
you know what I mean, And you know he's using
48:38
his money to do it.
48:39
Speaker 1
The boot liquor fucking replies in this tweet are just
48:43
so funny, like because it's a mix. There are people
48:46
who are real life people, then they're like box and
48:48
then they're like the people who are so capitalism pilled
48:51
that they're like, this is actually brilliant, But someone I
48:54
like one person. Like an even better way to do
48:56
it is with no exception or no expectation in return,
48:59
you know, And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, agreed, agreed, agreed,
49:03
I don't appropriation.
49:05
Speaker 3
Yeah yeah, yeah. All right, let's let's take a quick
49:09
break and move on to billionaires who are ruining the
49:12
film industry.
49:12
Speaker 1
We'll be like, okay, okay, may meet you, and we're back.
49:27
Speaker 3
And Warner Brothers Discovery is officially talking to some big
49:33
companies and saying, may we meet and may you tell
49:37
me what you want to do to my body?
49:39
Speaker 1
Yes, many time you say, may we consolidate the media
49:43
environment even further under a billionaire rule.
49:46
Speaker 3
They're officially for sale. The deadline for the first round
49:49
of bids is this week, November today today, get your
49:54
bids and ship. We should have given you guys a
49:55
little bit more warning if it goes through, If they
49:59
if they get a fired by one of the companies
50:01
that is expected to make a bit, it will become
50:04
the latest old guard Hollywood studio to just get gobbled
50:09
up by another corporation. We had Amazon acquiring MGM, the
50:13
Disney Fox merger, and you know it, but it makes
50:18
sense for the people for the product. As CEO David
50:22
Zaslov explained of the decision, it will unlock the full
50:27
value of our assets. Oh wow wow. So surprised that
50:32
the significant value of our portfolio is receiving increased recognition
50:36
by others in the market after receiving interest from multiple parties.
50:39
We have initiated a comprehensive review of strategic alternatives to
50:42
identify the best path forward to unlock the full value
50:45
of our asset. Motherfucker, like Chad GPT could have written that, like,
50:50
it's just a series of comprehensive reviews, strategic alternatives, identify
50:56
path forward, Like we're going.
50:58
Speaker 1
To figure out how much we could sell this fucker, Yeah,
51:01
for the most money they have.
51:03
Speaker 3
To Everything is so basic in that world that they
51:06
have to just like make bull encode.
51:09
Speaker 1
Yeah, because the distillation of that statement is we're trying
51:12
to figure out how what's the most amount of money
51:14
we can get for this. There you go, that's it.
51:17
Speaker 3
You unlock the value of our as they can't say that, Yeah,
51:21
we have to align allown some around some strategic assets.
51:25
Speaker 2
Even about money anymore, you know, I mean the amount
51:28
of like I feel like it used to be that
51:31
you get into becoming a billionaire, because I mean then
51:35
you're into arms dealing, right that, because that's that's what
51:39
that is, Like, that's that level of investing. Sure, you know,
51:43
and now it's just like more and more about this
51:46
like wild.
51:47
Speaker 3
Ass power, right yeah. Yeah, it actually makes me feel
51:51
really good to know that I'm going to destroy the
51:55
film industry because then my mark will have been left
51:57
right on the world. The three front runners seem to
52:00
be Netflix, Comcast, and Paramount. Oh god, who will have
52:05
to submit bids and make arguments for why they're the
52:08
best option?
52:09
Speaker 1
Oh?
52:10
Speaker 2
So, like it's like the bid by these guys, Like
52:13
is that what's happening?
52:14
Speaker 3
Like, yeah, they're bidding. It's like The Bachelor, if the
52:16
Bachelor had the potential to kill the entire movie industry.
52:19
Oh my god, will you accept this bid? So all all,
52:23
there's no good option here. Comcast is in ninety nine
52:26
billion dollars in debt, what does that even mean anymore?
52:28
Netflix interest is First of all, it's caused Netflix's own
52:33
stock to decline as people were like, oh, that seems
52:37
like too much for you guys, right, And then there's
52:39
Paramount sky Dance, which is now owned by David Ellison, which, yeah,
52:46
that that's been bad. That like they they bought Paramount
52:51
and are immediately putting right wing people in charge of everything.
52:57
Speaker 1
Barie Weiss as Minister of Truth at CBS, Who's.
53:00
Speaker 2
Yeah, does does anyone else out there feel like like,
53:05
we don't I get to be in charge of what
53:08
movies are?
53:09
Speaker 1
Like?
53:10
Speaker 3
No, yeah, don't. It's three billionaires. We don't even like movies.
53:15
And then okay, there's actually good news. Also Saudi Arabia
53:19
and Guitar and Abu Daviir going to also be involved
53:24
because so Warner Brothers rejected one offer from Paramount and
53:28
they were like, well, you know who's got money, little
53:31
guy by the name of NBS.
53:33
Speaker 1
What if we do a little light media washing? Yes, okay, okay, okay.
53:38
Speaker 3
They're trying to submit a seventy one billion dollar bid
53:41
for Warner Brothers Discovery. God, this sucks. And Ellison was
53:45
just at the White House for the state dinner honoring
53:48
Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Ben Salmon.
53:51
Speaker 1
Dude, did you see who was at that dinner?
53:53
Speaker 3
Sounds like every rich literal murderers were out, every every
53:58
fucking tech fuck giant was there.
54:01
Speaker 1
Johnny and Fantino, the head of FIFA, Cristiano Ronaldo.
54:05
Speaker 3
I'm my, that's fucking this nightmare dinner, dude. Wow. Concast
54:09
bid could similarly involve funding from Saudi Arabia, and the
54:13
Trump administration has reportedly endorsed Paramount bid for obvious reasons. Yeah,
54:19
that's you know, you.
54:21
Speaker 2
Guys, movies are already bad.
54:23
Speaker 3
Yeah, it's even great.
54:25
Speaker 2
I'm so sick of true crime, you guys.
54:29
Speaker 3
Jesus Christ.
54:30
Speaker 2
Yeah, and keep happening reality TV.
54:35
Speaker 3
Yeah. And if you thought CNN was bad before, just
54:37
waiting until the guy put fucking Barry Weiss in charge
54:41
of CBS News gets ahold of it. But yeah, So
54:44
the big problem as a cinematic movie going fan, there's
54:48
not a good option here. It would no matter who
54:52
wins in their bids, it's going to really hurt the
54:57
theatrical movie going industry.
55:00
Speaker 2
Theaters are pregnant for this news, Jack, I'm sorry, Yeah,
55:04
go ahead, I'm gonna calm down.
55:06
Speaker 3
It's okay. It's getting kicked in my guts by.
55:08
Speaker 1
A fetus right now. This is my spinal column. Go ahead.
55:13
Speaker 3
So obviously, Netflix, who doesn't really put movies out in
55:19
theaters his style towards It is being called worst case
55:22
scenario by everybody who cares about there being movies. But
55:27
any of the other two options would also have a
55:30
negative impact on movie theaters because mergers lead to fewer movies.
55:34
For example, before being taken over by Disney, Fox was
55:37
releasing between twelve and seventeen movies each year, and since
55:41
the merger, Twentieth Century Studios has never released more than
55:45
five films in a single year. Wow, they're just taking fewer.
55:49
Speaker 2
Swings, no man, So then one of our next three
55:52
films will be a triumph of the Will the sequel?
55:54
Speaker 3
Yeah? Yeah, I mean why the sequel? Why not re
55:57
release in three a bad Berman musical about Lenny reef
56:01
install or something. They're like, Lenny Love You. It's called
56:06
Lenny exclamation point.
56:09
Speaker 2
Even the B movies from the nineties are still better.
56:14
Speaker 1
But this is one thing out there's like, I think
56:18
this is this is I've read so many things about
56:20
independent There are more independent films doing better because people
56:23
are just.
56:24
Speaker 3
Like, what the fuck suck? And I still want to see.
56:28
Speaker 1
A movie and it's still possible for people to do
56:31
it with like smaller funding.
56:34
Speaker 3
But yeah, I mean, I think this is this.
56:36
Speaker 1
I don't know. I feel like in that way, when
56:38
it all consolidates like that, it's the same way how
56:41
journalism has It allows for like independent journalism to also
56:45
end up getting more attention as a result of people.
56:47
Speaker 3
Being like, what the fuck is this crap? But yeah,
56:49
it's definitely not great for the overall industry.
56:52
Speaker 2
Weren't all these guys gonna go to Mars anyway?
56:55
Speaker 3
That's when we really need to kick that back up.
56:57
Speaker 1
Yeah, they're they're timing it with the Proletarium Revolution.
57:01
Speaker 3
Yeah, like we can keep fucking them over, just slowly
57:06
until the ragged ship's already. There's also blatant anti trust concerns.
57:11
A winning bid from Paramount would put both CBS News
57:14
and CNN in the hands of Ellison, which would be
57:17
over thirty percent of the market share, which is illegal
57:24
under Section seven of the Clayton Act. Currently, Paramount and
57:27
Warner Brothers combined share thirty three percent of the industry.
57:31
But that's probably not gonna be a problem for Donald Trump.
57:34
What would be my assumption, Yeah, this is the same way.
57:38
Speaker 1
Like, there's another company, I think it was Next Star, right,
57:42
who was like really getting behind the Kimmel things. They're like, oh,
57:46
we're gonna we're getting Kimmel out of here as a
57:49
way to kind of like lean in with the MAGA.
57:51
Speaker 3
Think.
57:51
Speaker 1
They also have a merger up with a company called
57:53
Tegna that would put them well over the FCC's limit
57:57
of how many local stations you can own. And they're
57:59
kind of like, well, hopefully all that debasement of our
58:03
our values and like backing the Kimmel blacklisting will get
58:08
us put us in the good grace.
58:11
Speaker 3
Why they were so willing to like buckle to whatever
58:15
the Trump administration wanted.
58:16
Speaker 2
Okay, wait, so where are all those weird folks now
58:19
post Epstein file release, because like everybody's turning on him.
58:24
Speaker 3
Uh. I don't think they're gonna totally turn on them.
58:28
Speaker 1
I think they'll be all right.
58:29
Speaker 3
Yeah, I think we'll see, We'll see, we'll get Larry Summers,
58:34
Poor Larry Summers.
58:37
Speaker 1
Well, I mean it is happening in other countries, like look,
58:40
I mean Prince Andrew, although he they're like you you
58:43
have to leave the nice castle and go to the
58:46
just slightly less nice castle.
58:47
Speaker 3
Now you have to basically live in Prince Charles's backhouse.
58:52
Speaker 1
God, just because I'm a fucking criminal fuck. But yeah,
58:58
the merger ship is really is that. I mean, it's
59:01
definitely the death of the film industry as we know it.
59:05
But to your point, Miles, I mean, maybe there's hope
59:06
in the fact that we you know, start getting smaller
59:10
independent films selling out that are worth watching because they're
59:15
not it's not impossible to make a film if it's
59:18
not being made by Warner Brothers or Fox or Paramount,
59:20
you know what I mean. That's that's and I think
59:23
you know, at the end of the day, people respond
59:26
to seeing like, well that thing is selling good, maybe
59:29
I'll put a little bit of my you know, people
59:31
are so profit driven that if they see a little
59:33
bit of success from the smaller productions, that will help
59:36
kind of bolster that operation. But I don't know, I mean,
59:40
it just feels like everything, like as predicted, everything will
59:44
the consolidation will just become more and more intense, and
59:47
it's truly going to be like you get all your
59:48
news from one guy who believes Palestine shouldn't exist, and
59:53
you get all of your movies from another guy who
59:55
is so sexually repressed, he has no he doesn't have
59:58
a creative bone in his body then doesn't move, just
1:00:00
gonna watch a fucking plastic bag blowing in the wind
1:00:03
like American Beauty or some shit.
1:00:05
Speaker 3
You're talking about my favorite movie there, man, watch your mouth. Sorry, sorry,
1:00:09
I miss Nora Evrod. I know Nora. It is such
1:00:14
a mind fuck that like they've chosen to just like
1:00:17
torpedo popular culture at the time when I would be
1:00:23
getting to the age where I would otherwise be like
1:00:26
everything used to be better, you know what I mean,
1:00:28
And it's just like, yeah, but like did kind of
1:00:31
like there's definitely still good movies being made, but like
1:00:34
the kind of mid brow movies of the nineties and
1:00:38
eighties are like do seem like they're better than what
1:00:41
we're getting these days.
1:00:42
Speaker 1
Yeah, And I think there's just this vision of the
1:00:44
world that these oligarchs have, which is like, well, we're
1:00:47
going to tell them what to think with all these
1:00:50
because we have we have our hands on the levers,
1:00:52
and that will work to a pretty up to an extent.
1:00:55
But I think there's also other people who are just
1:00:58
kind of like turn off generally that's going on, that
1:01:02
they're so disengaged that I'm I'm hoping that they don't
1:01:05
have the effective return. They're hoping for to control the
1:01:09
masses with the idiot box.
1:01:10
Speaker 3
But they're gonna be eating out of my hands. I'm
1:01:12
gonna say that we've initiated a comprehensive review of strategic alternatives,
1:01:18
and they're gonna love such a pleasure having you as.
1:01:23
Speaker 2
Always a pleasure to be here.
1:01:25
Speaker 3
I can people find you and follow you and all
1:01:29
that good stuff.
1:01:29
Speaker 2
You know what, wherever the fuck nerds aren't Okay.
1:01:33
Speaker 3
Oh that's true. There's one thing. That's one thing that's
1:01:36
true about you, you nerds. Straight up, I'm done.
1:01:39
Speaker 2
I'm done with these nerds.
1:01:41
Speaker 1
Sorry, she's talking about the candy just for people for
1:01:44
the rest, Yeah, done with these candies.
1:01:48
Speaker 3
Make a big nerd you can keep like an apple.
1:01:52
Speaker 2
I just feel like, remember when nerds were good guys
1:01:55
and not like a bunch of like psycho tech narcissists. Yeah,
1:02:00
with like no interests other than just controlling everything.
1:02:05
Speaker 3
Yeah, yep.
1:02:06
Speaker 1
We were just talking about Erkele on our icon recording.
1:02:09
Speaker 3
About how them Yeah the words alone and.
1:02:15
Speaker 2
Yeah, the brail anyway, that's.
1:02:18
Speaker 3
I don't think we got to the question of whether
1:02:20
Erkele would have been on the flight long, so I
1:02:21
guess I'll have to cover that in the Oh yeah,
1:02:24
in the yeah amazing. Is there a work of media
1:02:28
that you've been enjoying?
1:02:29
Speaker 2
Oh my god, I have been going back through Alice
1:02:32
Wong's works, books, articles, her podcast is fantastic and just
1:02:39
hearing my friend's voice again, which she lost for some
1:02:42
time before her passing recently. And I'm going to read
1:02:46
Alice's send off as my sendoff. And she posted this
1:02:51
via our dear friend Sandy Hoe, who you should also
1:02:54
follow at Not your Average Hoe one on one. Hi, everyone,
1:03:01
it looks like I ran out.
1:03:02
Speaker 3
Of time I have.
1:03:05
Speaker 2
Oh gosh, so sad. This is harder than I thought.
1:03:10
I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill
1:03:13
and plans to create new stories for you. There are
1:03:18
a few in progress that might come to fruition in
1:03:21
a few years if things work out. I did not
1:03:24
ever imagine I would live to this age and end
1:03:27
up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid
1:03:30
riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see
1:03:35
a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some
1:03:38
great teachers who believed in me that I was able
1:03:42
to fight my way out of miserable situations. Into a
1:03:44
place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We
1:03:49
need more stories about us in our culture. You all,
1:03:52
we all deserve the everything and more in such a hostile,
1:03:56
ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unfre lynching. I'm
1:04:01
honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like
1:04:06
us will light the way to the future. Don't let
1:04:09
the bastards grind you down. I love you well, Tell
1:04:13
your friends you love them. And just what an incredible
1:04:18
human Yeah, what incredible work, what an incredible legacy. And folks,
1:04:24
immerse yourselves in disability activism. There's just so much there.
1:04:30
Speaker 3
Yeah.
1:04:31
Speaker 2
Yeah, thanks for having me, folks. It's been a blast.
1:04:35
Speaker 3
It's always always a pleasure.
1:04:38
Speaker 1
Miles.
1:04:38
Speaker 3
Where can people find you as their workI media you've
1:04:40
been enjoying.
1:04:42
Speaker 1
Uh yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray talking
1:04:45
ninety day Fiance on four to twenty day Fiance. I
1:04:49
just started watching that show I Love La that's on HBO.
1:04:53
Speaker 3
I Love La.
1:04:55
Speaker 1
It's yeah, I've almost done it right, Yeah, Rachel sent it.
1:05:00
There's a writer director, yeah yeah, yeah, and past guest.
1:05:04
Speaker 3
Uh.
1:05:06
Speaker 1
Max Silvestri is actually a writer on that but he
1:05:09
there's just a there's a funny moment in the first
1:05:11
scene because like the show is very la, which you know,
1:05:14
we we have such New York shows that you know,
1:05:16
every now and then you get a very la show, uh,
1:05:19
And there was just like a loose line where like
1:05:21
one of these like really wealthy characters is talking about
1:05:23
how she used to have like this like like handbag,
1:05:25
and she's like, oh, but that was at the Palisades
1:05:28
house that burned down, and like they're like, oh my god,
1:05:31
I'm so sorry, and then they just immediately shift back
1:05:33
to their normal life.
1:05:34
Speaker 3
And I was like, yep, yep, yep.
1:05:37
Speaker 1
But yeah, that was That's something I've been watching recently.
1:05:41
There you go.
1:05:42
Speaker 3
Uh, you can find me on Twitter, Jack on Our
1:05:43
scorel Brennon on Blue Sky JACKO be the number one.
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Speaker 6
Yeah.
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Speaker 3
Basically, anytime I see that video of the guy talking
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coming yeah the nigga you be hanging with. Anytime that
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clip comes up, I'm enjoying it. I like to tweet
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from Jennifer at jen Underscore in Underscore Revere who tweeted,
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I think the elephant really ties the room together. And
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then a big idiot girl tweeted going on a date
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has me googling things like clothes people wear. Oh fuck
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that hit hard. Yeah, every once in a while, and
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we're hitting a new wardrobe time of the year. You know,
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it's getting cooler, and I'm like, these pants don't seem
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to make sense anymore, these shorts pumps. You can find
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us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zeickeeist, where
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at the Daily zeke Heist on Instagram you can go
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to the description of the episode wherever you're listening to it,
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and there at the bottom you will find the footnotes,
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which is where we link off to the information that
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we talked about in today's episode. We also link off
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to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles,
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is there a song you think that people might enjoy? Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Fantagram was a band I used to listen to a
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lot ten years ago and then uh kind of like
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lost track, lost touch.
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Speaker 3
But they just dropped a new single called earth Shaker. Uh,
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and it's got the it's got the Yeah, it's got
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the vibes.
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Speaker 1
So I'm digging it. So this is the new Fantagram track, earth.
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Speaker 3
Shaker, Here comes the earth Shaker or I'm Up. The
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Speaker 2
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Speaker 3
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