The Daily Zeitgeist - Escape To Billionaire Island, From Predator To Protector? 09.25.24

Episode Date: September 25, 2024

In episode 1748, Jack and Miles are joined by writer, comedian, and co-host of The Bechdel Cast, Caitlin Durante, to discuss… Trump Attempts To Gaslight Every Woman In America, The Right Keeps Murdering Dogs, NATO Wants To Improve Your Movie Going Experience... Plans $2.2B Investment, What Are Billionaires Doing With All That New Money? Fortress Islands Encircled By Israeli Designed Radar and more! Trump Attempts To Gaslight Every Woman In America Donald Trump claims women are poorer than they were 4 years ago. Here's what the data says. Donald Trump’s Pitch to Women Is Creepy Abuser Logic The Right Keeps Murdering Dogs NATO Wants To Improve Your Movie Going Experience... Plans $2.2B Investment What Are Billionaires Doing With All That New Money? Fortress Islands Encircled By Israeli Designed Radar LISTEN: Existe Uma Voz by ROGÊSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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that it is Wednesday, September 25th, 2024. We got a lot of days today. It's National Open the Magic Day. No idea what that is. Here's what I do know about quesadillas, lobsters, comic books, and one hit wonders, because it is national those days. Also national dense breast day, which is all about awareness

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I mean, I think for me it's yellow. We were recently talking about the people who may. Oh yeah. Speaking of Jeffrey Jones. Yeah, that's yeah. Mine is probably Mims. This is why I'm hot. I love that song. I thought that I thought Mims was going. This is why I'm hot. This is why I'm hot. Now he's I think he's in the tech world or something now. But anyway, shout out to me. What about you? I had to Google one hit wonders because I don't really know which ones are...

That's fine. Take on me? Is that considered a one hit wonder? I guess it is. It is in the US. I think they're much bigger in their homeland. Aha! Aha!

I was trying to figure their name. Aha! I've got it. That song is wonderful. There was a podcast called Punch Up the Jam with Demi Did You eBay. And Mielle. And Mielle, yeah. And they would pull songs apart and just listen to the stems and all the various strands that

make up the beautiful quilt that is the song. And that one has never left me. The take on me, just like the isolated vocal tracks, like everything about it is just like so beautiful. Oh, wow. It's unbelievable. And the video, come on. Oh, and the video is, yeah, a work of art.

Truly. You could, it's animated. Well, my name is Jack O'Brien, AKA, in the spirit of anagrams, Manish on the Discord provided the following for me. We got cabin Joker. We, we got AI jock burn, which is going to be a product. Eventually release, uh, ACE point junior is a lot of fun.

I like that. Yeah. And Jay Bryce of fun. I like that one. These are good. Yeah. NJ Brahe, okay? Okay. Which is like an aggressive person talking about a prank they did. Yeah. You know? I did the New Jersey Brahe's prank, okay? Yeah, Brahe's, yeah. Hey, put some ice in her bra. Yeah, it's the Brahe's, the New Jersey. Did the old New Jersey bra.

Banjo Eric. And finally, Justin, could I get a drum roll, please? Finally we have iJackBoner. Oh, wow. Yes. Yeah, Manish. Yes, you did. But by the way, iJackBoner is a spec script I was working on.

I hit some headwinds when I Frankenstein tanked, but. When I am Sam. But then I taught you. Yes, I taught you. It did do well. Mine was about Tarzan offering to give you a hand job. And oh, God, it didn't do quite as well. I Jack Boner. Wow.

I Jack Boner? That's like a down and out Tarzan in the 70s. He got hooked on heroin. He's cruising sunset with a sign. I Jack Boner for fucking cheap, man. Oh shit. Manee. I think we should start saying kind of like Jack O'Lantern, but like, so you do like Jack

dash O dash Brian, especially during the Halloween. Or I could move the I from the beginning of I Jack Boner to the middle. So it's like Jack I boner, Jack I like my middle name is Ignatius or something. You know what I mean? Ignatius. Jack I Boner. Yes. Esquire, at your service.

Dude, Banjo Eric is also pretty elegant. Banjo Eric. He's got my Banjo Eric. Yeah. That's Banjo Eric, bro. I just, I could never. The finger dexterity that is required to be a Banjo player. Once I get a tune, I just do all bar chords.

That's my favorite one, Hit Wonder. That kid ripped. Yeah. Dueling banjo. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, it's Miles Gray. Shit, I'll hit you with a couple of anagrams. One of my favorites is Miles Gray, aka my legs aka misery gal aka gay

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Oh no, that's the most deaf, Pharoah Monge featuring Nate Dogg Rest In Peace. I was, for the first half of that, I was like trying to work the lettering out to be like, how is this an anagram of Miles Gray? Same, same. I do, just from Manisha's list of Miles Gray anagrams, I do have to shout out one that you skipped over that Justin also, Justin, I was about to say the same thing, Supervisor Justin came

in the chat. Gary Slime. Yeah, Gary Slime and Banjo Eric, folks. You're dialed in for the show. Couple of dirt bags. Gary Slime is a fucking dude. Stay away from Gary Slime. We should be smoking resin around a trash can fire.

Gary Slime and the fucking Banjo Eric. In my van full of whale juice, kids, put your garbage bags on, it's Gary Slime coming to take you home. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very talented writer, stand-up comedian, and co-host of the Bechdel cast, one of the great film podcasts.

They also happen to have a master's degree in film and the most anagrammable name in the English language, in case you were wondering why we're so focused on anagrams. If you've been given their name in a handful of Scrabble tiles, you may know them as Lauren D. Titanic or Nine Tit Dracula, but to us, they will always be Latin Dancer UTI! No, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry. Caitlin Durante. Caitlin Durante! I'm legally changing my name to Latin Dancer UTI. No, actually, Lauren D. Titanic would hang out with Banjo, Eric, and Gary Slime.

Yeah, Lauren D. Titanic for sure. Yeah. Lauren D. Titanic was a debutante at one point. Yeah, 9Tit Dracula would be like a bit we would do on this morning's news show. It's like, oh, we got 9Tit Dracula calling in. What's going on, 9Tit Dracula? Yeah, but Lauren D Titanic Fucking banjo Eric and Gary slime. Welcome to the show Wow. Well, I have a couple new ones. Oh

Yeah, these are courtesy of a zeitgang member by the name of Mark Romano and Let me just place a disclaimer here. They're pretty, they're pretty nasty. These are pretty dirty. A little freak. It's because the letters of my name will spell things like urine, taint, tit, cunt, you know, all these clits. Cool, they will do that sometimes. They will be doing that.

Yeah, I don't know why. They go blue all the time. So for example, one of them is I tried cunt anal. Uh-huh. Okay. Okay. Damn, Mark, settle down. Yo, Mark.

Mark Romano. Yo, don't give a full nameano. Brother Ray works clean, man. Why you gotta go so blue? That's one of his sons, the twins. Another one is a red clit in a tuna. Okay. So there's that. And then finally, we've got red Italian cunt.

Red Italian cunt. Ah! That could be a porn search term. Red Italian cunt. That could be a porn search term. Yeah, or like a derogatory name of like a Italian communist or something. Holy shit. Wow. Yeah, something Tony Soprano has called somebody. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah Like if Meadow suddenly like she came back's like, dad, I've been reading a lot of marks and angles. She's like, ah, here we go. Red Italian cunt. Wow. Well, what a what a full day of anagramming we've had here today. Children, this could just be a children's podcast if we just like cleaned it up a little bit.

Yeah. Anagrams were jumbles. What a blast. Caitlin, we're thrilled to have you as always. I'm thrilled to be here. Always, always. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about today.

Donald Trump got like, this is the most culty I feel like I've ever heard him be. It's up there. Sounds like he's trying to hypnotize The women of America in yeah some ways so we'll talk about that. We'll talk about another key figure on the right who Murdered a dog. God damn. Yeah, stop the right cannot stop murdering dogs is where we're at right now Can't stop addicted to killing canines. That's the whole vibe right there.

Can't stop addicted to the pup blood. Yeah. We'll check in with Mark Robinson. Uh, we'll check in with NATO, the National Association of Theater Owners. Why? What did you think we were talking about? The, not the North Atlantic. The state of theaters.

And we'll check check with billionaires, see what they're doing with all their new money. Their wealth has grown by 88 percent in the last four years. Yes. They got a lot of new and they already had too much money to begin with. It's grown by 88 percent. It's always fun to just make sure they're doing okay. If you work in a trade,

if you work in a trade and ever work on a billionaire's home, sabotage it somehow. Yes. So when we have to fight back, we can just hit a switch and all their ACs go down or something. They're not doing well. They're not doing well. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyways, all that, plenty more. But first, Caitlin, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? Okay. I Googled Dunk-a-Latte. Have you heard about these? something from your search history. Okay, I Googled Dunk-a-Latte. Have you heard about these?

I can almost infer where it's from and what it might be about. My friend was like, I've been hearing about these Dunk-a-Lattes, let's go get one. And for anyone- You're very kind to Jamie. Not?

To say, my friend, notorious Dunk-a-Latte. It actually wasn't Jamie, but it was our mutual friend, Bryant, who he, Jamie, and I are in a group chat together called, wait for it, Olive Garden friends. Hell yeah. So you're at the Olive Garden, but at the Olive Garden, you're not friends, you're

family. So what's going on with you guys? That's the thing. We're very subversive. Okay. We're kind of edgy in that way. It's like when we're at Olive Garden, we're friends is how I feel about it. Yeah.

So it is manipulative. We're in this group chat together and we were making, cause it's right now endless, like limitless pasta at the Olive Garden. And so we were trying to figure out when to go. And then Brian was like, well, I also need to get a Dunkin' Latte. And so if you don't know, apparently,

and this is what I learned upon my internet search, it is a latte that is made from espresso and then something called coffee milk. And you're like, what's coffee milk? I've heard of cereal milk. I've not heard of coffee milk. Coffee milk is a blend of whole milk and coffee extract. Coffee extract.

Okay. Yeah. So I guess they mix that together and that's the milk, and then they put espresso in that, and that equals a Dunk-a-Latte. Now I know. Have you taste tested it? I have not. Yeah, we have not.

Well, we've made grand plans to go to olive garden and then go to duncan donuts This is this is what I was going. I mean, but a latte is espresso with the steamed milk Correct, but it but This is taking it one step further espresso with steamed Coffee milk. So it's just adding like a redundant coffee layer to this now? Yeah, there's just extra coffee, I guess.

Oh, so is it like higher caffeine because there's like a coffee extract? I guess so. Jack, let me, let's find out. I'm on it, Miles. I know this guy's already, yeah. So we're looking at 138 milligrams total for the small Dunkalette. That do anything for old banjo Eric or no

Yeah, I mean that's not bad. That's pretty good. That's about as much as a you know drip blonde roast of Starbucks, but you know drip coffee is actually more highly caffeinated than people give it credit for and Espresso less caffeine because it's so little. You know, right. The amount. Sure. Sure. Sure.

Okay. Huh. But it's a, it's a solid amount of caffeine. I, this all feels like, I don't know when something goes viral from Duncan or like what Starbucks or, you know, one of these coffee chains, it's usually they're doing way too much, right? It's like a unicorn thing that looks like cotton candy or some shit. Uh, but this just feels like they've invented something called coffee

milk and are doing a latte with coffee milk. Yeah. And in fact, I'm surprised it doesn't already exist. Right. You know? Yeah. Well, they, they made coffee milk. So of surprised it doesn't already exist. Right. You know? Yeah. Well, they made coffee milk. So of course it doesn't exist.

That's cutting edge technology. They use the Large Hadron Collider to invent coffee milk. Precisely. And they got Kristen Wiig. This like whole, they really launched this whole Dunkin' Dunk-a-Lock. There's like merch. They're so excited about it. They're like, you can get merch about it.

We got to get the beanie and the sweatpants. Yeah. Oh yeah. You're going to want a Dunk a latte. Yeah. That's cool. And I'm trying to imagine wanting a big, creamy Dunk a latte after a bowl of endless pasta.

And I can't, I can't get there, but I'm sure, I'm sure it's possible. creamy Dunk-A-Latte after a bowl of endless pasta. And I can't get there, but I'm sure it's possible. I just personally can't get there. No, it's a pairing that makes perfect sense. Oh, 100%, 100%. And you just don't have a refined enough palate. Yeah, I'm not there yet, okay? Yes, yes. What is something that you think is underrated, Caitlin?

I think being able to fall asleep easily is very underrated. And for the people that this is true for, because it's certainly not true for me, you don't know how good you have it. Thank you. Because I lie awake for hours every night trying to fall asleep and sleep does not come easily. So for anyone who you, because I talk to people all the time, they're like, oh yeah, I can just like lie down anywhere. And three minutes later, I'm asleep no matter what time of day, no matter where I'm at, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, that is a gift. And no matter what time of day. Yeah, I think they might have narcolepsy.

Yeah, that sounds like a bit like narcolepsy. But shit, if you have that kind of super sleep power, fuck yeah. Shout out to you. I definitely for people who just like, they're like, yeah, it's nighttime. Time for me to go to bed. Question. They, you know, their head hits the pillow and a few minutes later they're out. Yeah.

Question. Tell me how you feel about this thing that I'm about to bring up to you about school. Did you like like most people falling asleep in class, like during puberty, right? Like junior high high school, I feel like is like a pretty, like widely shared experience. Were you like, were you a fall or a sleeper type kid in school? Or? You just could even done that oh I was so well cuz I was in the front of the class being like I know the answer and then I guess everyone behind me

I was looking at those fools. Yeah, I Put up I would put a paper eye over my eye and yeah in class Whoa like this like I'd have my hand like this But I'd have a piece of paper that looked like a ice on the back of the class. That work. It worked a few times, but everybody in class would laugh so hard. The teacher would be like, what the fuck is wrong? And they'd be like, hey, asshole, go to the principal.

Wow. Like, what do you think this is? But do you take a nap in the principal's office? Why are you so mad at me for being sleepy? Sorry, dude. I'm fucking 15, and 9-eleven is about to happen relax And you did know that yeah. Yeah, and no one listened to me. 9-eleven was an inside job with mine Yeah, I I carry that that was so uncomfortable just like feel it being hot in class and my fault Not being able to keep your eyes open was the worst feeling. But maybe not as bad as sitting wide awake not being able to sleep.

Yeah, try it being 2 a.m. and you're like, wow, I wish I could fall asleep, but instead I'm having these anxious racing thoughts that no one will medicate me for. Oh, so you have, so it's anxiety that it's not necessarily like you, when you start to want to wind down, your mind just starts kind of racing and keeps you up? Yeah, but even on nights where I'm like, I've been able to keep my anxiety at bay, I still don't fall asleep easily. Even if I have like a clear mind,

I'm not anxious about anything, I'll still lie there for at least 60, 90 minutes before I fall asleep. Wow. And I'll just ask, have you tried those guided sleep meditations, those don't work? I've tried every damn thing. I've, oh, melatonin.

Heroin. Oh, weed gummies. Oh, magnesium. Oh, this, Zequal. Wait, you've tried weed gummies and you stayed awake. Yeah. Milligrams. Usually about three. Yeah. Well, if I take more than that, I have a panic attack and that keeps me.

Oh, no. OK. Yeah. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. OK. Don't shame them for taking. Yeah. When they're already suffering from anxiety. I'm like, you can't get jiggy with three milligrams. Yeah. But anyway, I'm, look, I'm Gary Slime. You know, I've marched to a different beat, obviously, on this show. Yeah. No, I just put a little mask on, put the feather directly above my mouth, and then start honk

shoeing, just perfectly. But he puts the scream mask on. I do put the scream mask on. I do put the scream mask on. Put my scream mask on. I do have to fall asleep next to my wife when she is wearing some of the scariest skincare masks that you've ever seen. There's a red infrared one that is a true nightmare.

Oh, it's got that joint? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What is, Caitlin, something you think is overrated? I think that expiration dates on food items are overrated and not to be trusted. Yeah.

And I go by the smell test rather than the arbitrary number that they make up to body to throw away food and buy more. Yeah. Yeah. Try big food. What's a little botulism, baby? that they make up to body to throw away food and buy more. Yeah, yeah. Try big food. What's a little botulism, baby? I am afraid. I was afraid. What are you what specifically recently are you talking about milk? Because I feel like milk is always the thing where it's like, bro, this shit went bad a week ago.

I'm like, no, it didn't. Yeah, I well, I don't buy dairy milk anymore. I have a baby who needed like eggs. I'll be like, man, this date. I don't know dairy milk anymore. I have a baby who need it. Like eggs. I'll be like, man, this date, I don't know about it. Just do the floating test. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I mean, obviously some things do go bad.

Sure. Sure. Thank you for that. Et cetera. Yeah. But like, you know, I'm just like, I'm also, I'm kind of like Gary Slime and the way that I'll be like, oh, these strawberries are mostly rotten.

Well, I'll just eat around the rotten parts. Yeah. Eat around the rotten parts. The real soft parts. Sometimes they're the sweetest parts. I know. I just hate food waste. I get that. I'll make myself sick in the interest of not throwing away food. Oh God, don't do that.

But I get it. What do bad eggs smell like? I guess, rotten eggs, right? Yeah. Yeah. OK. I don't think I've ever had that experience. Maybe I'm just fucking wolfing down. It takes forever to go back. It takes a while. But you can tell if you put an egg in a glass of water,

you want that shit to stay low in the cup. The higher up it floats. Because there have been times like've taken a trip or something and then I forget I had like a dozen or like some leftover eggs that were like three weeks even before I left and I'm like, shit, let's check them in there. If they're like bobbing at the top, I'm like, okay, all right, maybe I can ditch these. But if they're still closer to the bottom.

They're like an ice cube. You can't. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Got it. Okay. Yeah, eggs are the. Got it, okay. Yeah, eggs are the one thing that I've never really had to throw out, and so I feel like I might have eaten a rotten egg. Because you're just gobbling up dozens of eggs every day.

He's like Rocky. Just right out of the hen house near my house. Trespassing. Eating them raw. I go to the hen house by the elementary school where they're raising them for a project. Just snag a couple, eat them right there like a fox. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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And oftentimes it's some Trump jazz where he's just like riffing off to the side about something he saw on TV. This feels like a concerted effort to hypnotize the women of America. Oh no. Yeah. So during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, first of all, he suggested that he doesn't believe that he's not doing well with women voters, claiming that women are less safe now and much poorer than ever before. suggested that he doesn't believe that he's not doing well with women voters, claiming

that women are less safe now and much poorer than ever before, which goes without saying pretty fucking rich coming from the guy who was instrumental in overturning Roe and has been found liable for sexual assault. Yeah. Also just not true statistically, women are doing better economically since 2019. Well, what stats are you looking at? Because I'm looking at the ones that agreed with what I said. Now, you're saying that's not true.

Do your own research. Okay. He also told women, this is the part where it gets weird. He told women, I am your protector and with me, you're not going to be in danger any longer You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today

Created yeah, also you will no longer be thinking about abortion Wait, what? Yeah, let me just play this hearing him say it is like Mind-blowing because the first part when he starts out he's like they say I don't do well with them and you're like yeah no shit you fucking creep what are you talking about but here's this is like the beginning part where he's like I don't know they say I'm bad with women here's Trump. All right so we have to talk business I always thought women liked me I never thought I had a problem but the fake news keeps

saying women don't like me. I don't believe it. I think I think you know why they like they like to have strong borders. They like to have safety. Yeah, okay. Anyway, this is the guy who like had that like meandering press conference a couple weeks ago. Like and then in the 70s, I think the art of the deal came out. I'm making out with this woman. We became intimate. Right. But she she wouldn't be the chosen one. This is Mr. Sometimes they aren't hot enough for me. But anyway, this is the part where he says I will be your protector.

And this is where it gets to like you are getting sleepy territory. Because I am your protector. I want to be your protector as president. I have to be your protector. I hope you don't make too much of it. I hope the fake news is, oh, he wants to be their protector. Well, I am. As president, I have to be your protector. I will make you safe at the border. Oh, at the border. On the sidewalks of your now violent cities, in the suburbs where you are under migrant criminal siege

and with our military protecting you from foreign enemies of which we have many today because of the incompetent leadership that we have. Okay, so he's not addressing anything specifically women would think of in terms of like their health care or anything like that or reproductive rights. It's like, I'll keep you safe from the immigrants. I'll keep you safe from the freaky Antifa people. And that's sort of like his tack that he goes on. And then, yeah, he gets on the abortion thing.

We were just like, well, and you'll forget about this whole thing, man. Just, just not going to be danger any longer. You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems of our country has today. You will no longer be thinking about abortion. That's like straight abuser psychological manipulation where he's suggesting that women are crazy for caring about reproductive rights. And the real problem is loneliness and abandonment is what he says elsewhere. Yeah. Yeah.

Which can only be fixed by voting for him. True dictatorship. You know what I mean? And only I can be the solution to the problems I was the cause of. He's basically like, come with me if you want to live. Yeah. Shitty Terminator. Yeah.

Rights Terminator. Yeah. Shitty Terminator. Yeah. Rights Terminator. Yeah. Your foster parents have been killed. A couple people to live. Yeah, I don't know. This is, it's like, he's just getting. Sleepy. Well, everything's just getting weirder and weirder the closer we get somehow.

Like when he said he was going to put serial numbers on immigrants, like it's the fucking Holocaust or some shit. He said that last week. He's just it's just like now that I don't know, man, so this motherfucker cook and I let him the polling. The polling looks bad in terms of support from women. So let's just march him out there and have him do this like act where he's like, and I'm your protector and your greatest threat.

But I can be either. We'll see. Anyway, I love you." And yeah, it doesn't, I don't know. We'll, I don't think this is going to do much, but here, here he is giving at least a sound bite that he is a protector, that everyone likes. He definitely sounds like he's a cult leader who is going to be like, and I am all of your husbands as well.

Right. You know, like it feels like that's where this goes. I'm your protector. And then, yeah, just rather than claim that his abortion stance is more reasonable than they assume or that they should vote on the basis of other issues, which is like what you, how you would expect him to address the abortion thing. He basically is just like, you're crazy. Once you vote for me, he'll stop being crazy. Everything will be cool. You'll knock off the crazy shit and, uh, you'll come to your senses. Well, speaking of crazy shit, so the people, the, the right, specifically the MAGA movement has been trying to project

their penchant for pet murder onto immigrants with, you know, the stories about people from Haitia in Ohio, as JD Vance called them. JD Vance's favorite, yeah. But obviously we know who is actually just unable to keep themselves from killing beloved pets. Of course, first we had Kristi Noem's story in her own book about bumping off her dog and like how it was like kind of a tough decision, but not really. She was using it to illustrate that she's just like a tough leader who's willing to do the hard stuff. Yep.

Including murdering a puppy. I'll shoot a puppy in front of my kids, man. That's the kind of leader I am. You know what I mean? I can do the hard work. Oh, okay. Thank you. But now there are allegations that Heritage Foundation president and

project 2025 architect, Kevin Roberts, repeatedly bragged about murdering a neighbor's dog. Like this. And this one is not, yeah. Like Christie Gnomes is obviously horrifying, but this one is just, I don't know. It's like true, truly like criminal. Psychopathy. Yeah. And he says it a lot, apparently like multiple people are like, yeah, when he was working as like a professor, like we heard him tell this story, like in the hallways and like at a dinner party, like to people that murdered a dog.

Not only could he not stop himself from murdering his neighbor's dog, he couldn't stop himself from bragging about it to other, like this is when he was a history professor and he was just like telling other history professors, uh, Roberts allegedly bragged to colleagues that a neighbor's pit bull was barking and keeping his baby up. So he killed it with a shovel. One professor said that he overheard Roberts telling this story in a hallway and two others, another professor and her spouse, claimed that they were told a similar story from Roberts at a dinner at his home. Yeah, yep, yep, yep. That's, that's Hannibal Lecter shit right there.

Yeah. Oh my God, you guys loving your Salisbury steak? Well... Guess what it actually... Yeah, and you probably noticed the distinct lack of pit bull barking this evening. It's because I killed our dinner with a shovel. Enjoy. It was just keeping my baby up. I guess that's what he, that's like his justification.

Yeah, it was keeping his baby up. And so he murdered it with a shovel. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway, project 2025. What happens when his baby keeps him up all night? Right. You know, what happened to that baby? We still don't know.

We still don't know. He's not bragging so much about that one. No, no, no, not at all. But yeah, this is like a really like, I mean, like not it makes sense, I guess, for someone who is like, you know, in the driver's seat for like this, like Christian nationalist agenda for 2025. And a second Trump administration is also someone who will dispatch an animal because it's inconveniencing him and also

thinks that people around him are of a similar mentality. You know, I mean, like it kind of encapsulates sort of what these people think where they're like, yeah, and I'm going to come out here with a really backwards take. And people, a lot of people don't agree with me. That's, yeah. They're just pretending not to agree with me. They're faking the outrage. They're all secretly murdering their neighbors dogs and they just, they're

just looking for an excuse to make fun of old Mark or Kevin. Or Kevin, whatever the fuck his name is. Yeah. It just feels like, I mean, this is like real, like dangerous criminal, violent criminal, like predictive behavior. Like if, if Trump wins, he's going to have just a menagerie of sickos around him to compete with. Like, I mean, this is what like Hitler's cabinet looked like is like a lot of people with just like really creepy backgrounds and beliefs and all

sorts of just horrifying shit. But even like even Hitler was a dog lover. These German shepherds, like it's even wild to think it's like even a bridge too far for Heinrich Himmler and Goebbels like a pit bull with a shovel. Yeah, like what the fuck is wrong with you? But I don't know this is just yeah again part and parcel of like the psychology of the people who want to be in power for a second Trump administration or have Influence over a second Trump administration.

It's people who are like, yeah, dude, I'll kill a fucking dog. And you know what? Guess, like life does not even meaningful to me. Like if it's in my way, it's fucking trash. I guess how I can apply that to fucking everything. Robert's denies killing a dog with a shovel, but didn't bother to explain why so many people say that he told them that he did Feel you need a little bit more a little more to go to go with along with your alibi if you're gonna

What a dog no those people Anyways, I'm gonna leave now, right Oh, those people. Uh, anyways, I'm going to leave now. Right. Right. Yeah. People are like, well, so we heard you killed a dog. He's like, no, I did not kill a dog with a shovel.

And they're like, we didn't see anything about a shovel. I didn't kill my neighbor's pit bull when they were asleep one night. Yeah. Okay. Hop over their fence, wearing my wife's to hosiery over my face. Like an eighties bad guy. I didn't do that. The fuck are you talking about?

So weird. I would straight up Robert Durst shit. guy. I didn't do that. The fuck are you talking about? So weird. Why would you even do that? Straight up Robert Durst shit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He killed them all of course.

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this is the National Association of Theater Owners. I love that they are just sticking with that. We're actually the more famous NATO. So everybody should just shut the fuck up and stop asking us if we're that NATO. Ask them if they're that NATO. Okay. Cause they're not. We're that NATO.

We are that NATO. They're that NATO. Okay. Cause they're not. We're that NATO. We are that NATO. They're going to invest $2.2 billion in movie theaters to fix problems that I personally didn't notice movies having, but I don't know, Kaitlin, you go to more movies than I do.

Thank you so much. Are you ready? Are, was this something you're asking for? They're like asking for, they're like, well, I had bowling alleys and video game arcades like 1980s, better air conditioning and better projectors. And I don't know. Come on down to where the movies are played. It's dope.

It's fresh. It's cinema arcade. All right. We're great. Wait, world reference. That was great. When you're old reference. That was wonderful. Yeah, I don't want any of that stuff necessarily. What I do want is honestly more air conditioning.

Bad idea. AMCs are too cold. Freezing. Oh my God. Freezing. And so like lay off the AC, honestly, and they're too loud. You need to pack for mountaineering to like go to an AMC. It's fucking freezing in there.

Yeah, you need layers. So this is it. So NATO, right? They represent the likes of AMC, Cinemark, Regal Cinemas, and they control about like 70% of the market. So they're talking like, we're putting 2.2 billion, like 21,000 screens, basically. And I think ever since Barbenheimer summer, like the industry has been really positive, like the theater industry has been really positive, like that the movies are fully

back. But now they want to evolve in order to compete with like smaller chains that offer premium experiences like I pick or Alamo draft house. And and we're like how do we get in on that? So again it's like arcades, it's bowling, better sound systems Caitlin, better seating, improving concessions and like all this other stuff, new signs, revamped carpeting which are like okay but they also said that the competition, the quote, competition for consumers, hard earned dollars is fiercer than ever. But I'm like, is making the movies a more premium experience the way, like if you acknowledge the hard earned dollars part, but then make them like, then make the movies easier to go to rather than be like, well, now you got recliners of

shit, this shit 45 bucks for a ticket. Right. The thing that gets me to see so many movies is any, is like a pass, a movie pass, the AMC, A-list, because yeah, movies are inaccessible price-wise for most people unless you have some kind of thing like that. The reason I go to AMCs is because I have the thing. So they need to like incentivize people that way, right?

Not by being like, we have a bowling alley now. And it's like, well, I'm not I'm going to see a movie. I'm not going to I'm not going to here for bowling. I get that they probably see an opportunity with like families and shit like that. But like, to your point, Caitlin, like if the point like if I think the emphasis should be on ease rather than like so there's more friction as it can. So, for example, I saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice the other night. And when her majesty and I were looking at tickets,

we based our decision on the price, you're like, how come the fucking grove is like 10 bucks more than this other theater that's like closer? Like, fuck all that like I'm gonna pay fucking $30 to be disappointed in a movie. I'll pay I guess 20 to do that So like I get though to like on a premium experience is nice for like a date night But I just like if I get the itch to see something I don't want to pay more and be like well I need all this other shit like I've I've always been fine with a dark theater that has a functioning

chair that isn't dirty and it's reasonably temperature controlled. And that's fine. I don't need to fucking, like, I don't think the reason I'm going to sit down and sit through Sonic the Hedgehog seven is just because I get to eat pizza in a suede recliner. Like, no, make the movie. You're going to go for the film. The story telling, the magical.

The characters is called Miles. Yeah. They do have those like, what are the, what's it called? I think there are a few different versions of this, but they basically, you, you watch a movie, never heard of it. And please, Caitlin, film. It's an existing movie, one that came out probably 10, 20 years ago, but it's a beloved movie and then they design a menu around it and then they bring out, for example, this

is a thing with Shrek. You buy a ticket to this Shrek experience where at certain points of the movie they bring out food, like the food that they're eating on screen and they're like, Oh, we made this little- Oh, hookers and airwax? Yeah, like a little eyeball cocktail and you drink that, but it's whatever, apple juice or some shit. So I would pay more money for like a fun immersive experience like that. But that's only like something I would do once every six months or so.

Yeah. So something like that, I get it. But don't upgrade your like shitty theater and stick in an arcade that I'm not going to go to and use that to justify higher ticket prices. Yeah, exactly. Like, this is going to entirely be passed on to us, the filmgoers. Like, whatever, $2.2 billion is so much fucking money. Well, and what's crazy is it's because they've made so much money from raising their prices over the years too, that they're like, man, we got a lot of money we can play with right now.

And that's kind of like, all right, next phase, make it more expensive. Right. It's also like, don't give Nicole Kidman $25 million to make a commercial for the theater that I'm already at. Right. Like, make your concession prices a little lower because then I'll buy a popcorn, but I'm not going to buy a $12 popcorn. No.

Well, Katelyn, but you can't recreate poetry like Nicole Kidman thing. And we go to the movies because here we are in the movies. We come to this place for magic. We come to this place to laugh, to cry, to care, because we need that. All of us. They really hit that last line where she's like, because here it is. Like it's the fucking best line that's ever been written. It's like we know.

It is. It is. Heartbreak feels good in a place like this. You sick fucks. All right. So I'm a weirdo. I mainly go to the movies because of the movies they are showing there. What? See, I knew he was a cop.

I'm a sicko. Banjo Eric. what the heck? Banjo Eric. Sick freak. Ah, Banjo. Come on. The two pictures I've heard that are actually, I think, would benefit and make movie theaters more solvent.

One is the one that you always talk about, Miles. Do you want to pitch your idea? Yeah, being able to smoke weed in the movie theater. You can smoke weed in the theater. Smoke weed in the the movie. Yeah. You can smoke weed in the theater. Smoke weed. You can, or at least vape weed in the theater or have like designated smoking shows. Yeah.

Yeah. And like sell weed and like, it's basically a glorified like weed cafe anywhere. Yeah. Cause half these places got a little mini bar like out front. So just fucking burn up. Whatever. Okay. All right.

All right. What's one. The other one is like doing the thing that you said, Caitlin, about like having the like locally program basically replacing there, there used to be this thing at video rental places where you would have people who worked there, who had the same taste in movies as you. And they would have a section of like movies that they were picking. If you create, because the other thing that we're lacking, other than like independent cinema right now is community.

If you make theaters a place where people can like have like, we're all fans of Banjo Eric's taste in movies, and like he shows here every like Wednesday and gives a little speech before. And then everybody comes and watches his great movie selections for this month. I feel like that would be cool, especially if it's a place where people can have drinks and smoke like that. And local theaters do that. But like, I don't know if you're going to invest in like making

this a really cool place, like it would be great if people could just pay to. Like right now you can rent a theater and screen a movie, but it has to be like one of the movies that's out right now. It'd be awesome if like, you could just be like,, yeah, I want to show this movie from the 80s. If I let you know a month and a half in advance, the fucking public library can get a book for you that's rare. Why shouldn't they be able to just get a digital printer like a print of the movie?

I feel like people would pay for that. It would be a lot of fun. Yeah. Me and my friends want to see Dunstan checks in. Hell yeah. With a thematic menu. Yes. Baby's day out.

Fuck. Thank you. Can we get on the same page here? Yeah. But yeah, I, it's just like, it's just so funny. Like what they perceive as the friction to getting more people in the theater, they think it's, oh, this thing has to cease

to be a movie theater with affordable prices, rather than, I'm sure so many of these movie passes are becoming huge parts of their business, and realizing, oh, maybe it should just be that it's easier to come to the movies and that through having more affordable prices And I'm sure you you're gonna sell it'll offset the amount of empty seats You have by having seats that are just reasonably priced But again, these are mostly publicly traded companies so line has to go up and now they're like, yeah

They're gonna love these 2.2 billion dollars you put into like new Seats or whatever. I feel like we're at the peak of the cinema experience right now. I don't know what else you need to add for people to be like, ''Oh God, there's such a gaping hole in the offerings of what a movie theater is giving people.'' I don't think, I just don't see it. People are craving that 4D experience where they splash water in your face.

Splash me with water, make it smell like someone farted on me. Yeah. Call me a dirty, filthy banjo Eric. Yeah, exactly. All right. Should we check in with the billionaires? Because we are always concerned about the billionaires. Over the past four years, we were worried, you know, like Bernie

Sanders got a little bit of heat, you know, he got some national attention. And we on this podcast, we're like, okay, that is dangerous. What is going to happen to the billionaire's wealth now? Cause what if I become a billionaire? Yes. Good news for those of us with a growth mentality. Billionaire wealth has grown by 88% in the last four years. 88 fucking percent is so wild.

After Trump left office, it's grown by 88% because the pandemic was really good for them. Because basically every event, it turns out, in our current system was really good for them, because basically every event it turns out in our current system is really good for them because they will take any opportunity to manipulate the rules to be better for them. And we live in a society where that is entirely possible and will not stop unless they are stopped. So billionaire wealth way up, staggering amount of money that should never be accumulated by a single person.

Right. But if they're not, like if they're not unburdening themselves of this wealth by buying Nazi memorabilia. Yeah, because that's apparently not allowed anymore. Shout out Harlan Crowe. So what do they do then? Where do you take your ill-gotten gains? So the problem with having that much money, we're learning is bad for us who

don't have that much money. Also bad for them because they go a little bit crazy. And they get very scared of us. When you get that much money, you start to be afraid of all the money you have because it is a unjust, just irrational amount of money that you have. And you turn into Gollum and you start just wanting to be isolated from everything around you and treating everyone around you like an enemy combatant. And so that brings us to Indian Creek, which is a island that is privately incorporated by billionaires in Miami's Biscayne Bay.

Hey, Jeff Bezos recently bought in, bought, bought like three homes on this island. It is essentially a military fortress at this point. Okay. So it has guns and stuff? Yeah, yeah. Oh, well, it has, so it has basically a cop for every person who lives there. Not quite, but they have 19 cops and I think like 60 something people who live there. So if New York had the equivalent citizen to cop ratio,

it would have like 6.5 million cops or something like that. But they all also have private security for it. Like Elon Musk travels with 20, travels with up to 20 bodyguards at a time. So this Indian Creek place, it used to be just, a place where rich people lived in Miami. There is a publicly funded bridge that goes to the island that is part of the Miami city municipality. And it used to be a thing where like people, like this one guy said, who, who lives like on the other side of that bridge, on the Miami side of that bridge said,

the security is very different from how it used to be. And then recalled a time in the early nineties when he could bring his college friends to Indian Creek's gate and get permission from the police to give them a tour of the island. Now, if he approaches the bridge, the cops start flashing their lights and order him to back away. Approaches, approaches the bridge. Not even on it. Get the, don't even fucking approach this bridge.

We can tell what you're thinking and no, don't even fucking come close. You're visibly too poor to be anywhere near here. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Threat, threat identified, threat identified. The community on the other side of the bridge is called Surfside and people are like, uh, and on the island, they call it surf with an E. Surfside. Oh my.

Ooh. So, but if you, if you want to approach it or just like be in the same bay as this island, that's going to approach it or just like be in the same bay as this island, that's going to be a bit of a problem for the billionaires who live there because the trees all have AI equipped cameras that watch every boat that passes basically between the island and the horizon and is attempting to determine if it's a threat. People who like run tours out of Miami Bay are like, yeah, like you will just see a red light, like lock onto your boat and just follow you across the entire

bay. And then if you come within a certain distance, the, they will basically, the security force will come out, meet you and probably give you some bullshit ticket for like creating too large of a wake or something. Basically it's just stay the fuck away from our island, Lebowski. And yeah, so I don't know, like a lot of the surveillance technology and weaponry comes from Israel. So that's another kind of detail we'll link off to the article.

It's worth giving it a read, but in case you're a person who lacks empathy and like wants to know why you should care about Gaza and the West Bank from a self-interest perspective, it's because the wealthy want to do what Israel does to Palestinian people, to all of us. Like, and that is where they're headed. The extremely wealthy want to watch you and monitor your every move in the name of their safety. Yep. I just want to read a couple of paragraphs from this article.

It was on MSN. I think it was originally written by Business Insider. It says, multiple billionaire security professionals I spoke with described an increased interest in security among their ultra high net worth clients. Some are shelling out millions on highly trained bodyguards or deploying high-tech surveillance drones. Elon Musk travels with up to 20 bodyguards at a time. Others are building bunkers to wait out the apocalypse.

In India, which we've covered before on Evergreen episode if people want to go find that. In Indian Creek, if you somehow evaded the island-wide surveillance dragnet that Bezos and his neighbors have amassed through public funding, you'd still have to contend with the formidable private dragnets guarding their individual mansions. And then they speak to somebody who's an expert in this. And he says, security has become a really big concern for billionaires now because there's never been more talk about the divide between

the haves and the have nots, says Brian Daniel, who operates the Celebrity Personal Assistant Network, a company that connects billionaires to security staff. So basically, by pointing out that they have too much money for the successful operation of a civilization, we are forcing them to arm themselves to the teeth and invest in military technology to, you know, aim at us when we're taking a boat by their private island, their private military fortress island. Oh man. Yeah.

Also Tom Brady lives here. So it's everyone from Tom Brady lives here. So it's everyone from Tom Brady to Bezos, baby. I don't want to have killer drones, you know? It's the last thing I want, but I'm sorry, pores, the increase in class consciousness, it's kind of freaking me out, I gotta admit. So now I have to arm robots with weapons because,

Yes. Oh man, I just heard about like proletarian revolution. I don't miss it. This is freaky stuff. It's freaky stuff. So we're going to go to this island and you will fucking die if you get near the bridge. How's that? How's every time you point out how much money I have, another gun gets cocked behind me.

I'm not even looking back there, but you're going to hear it and just know that you're making me nervous. And when I get nervous, somebody else shoots you. So yeah. Yeah. Why can't more billionaires just like go in those submarines looking for the Titanic wreckage and then implode? That really was our finest moment.

Yeah. It was really the greatest. It was like the best we could hope for. Can't like sea level rise just consume this island or something too, and just render it fucking non- like non-operational at some point. I know, I mean, like maybe not in the immediate future, but I know that is a huge obvious concern in South Florida. Yeah.

Miami, especially. I mean, it was originally dredged from the bottom of Biscayne Bay. And so it was like manmade. I believe that's what that means. Originally just a place, uh, exclusively for white Gentiles that, where they would not allow any non-white or Jewish person to live and the way they enforced that is all electricity was doled out by the local country club. So if somebody lit moved there and was either not white or Jewish, uh, they

just couldn't get electricity. So, but they, they've come along and now they're super woke billionaires who will kill you for not having a high net worth. God, make these fuckers sweat more. Yeah. But I don't know. But this is it's interesting how this like the increase in awareness around the absolute greed of these freak billionaires.

It also it like manifests in how like different political campaign campaigns are elevated or how discourse is controlled. Because yeah, they're like, no, we need to stop with this like conscious shit. Like we, we need more ignorant people to like completely ignore the fact that I exist and I might be the architect of a huge portion of climate change or whatever, or inequality or lack of access to certain things. Please just shut the fuck up. Or else, you know, more of us are going to have to vote for Trump, unfortunately.

Yeah. It is interesting that they, the people who have access to like all the information about like what they're doing to fuck up the world and to keep the proper amount of resources from the rest of the world. They are like, we better arm ourselves with fucking radar on every tree. Like, we better treat it like a military bunker because when they find out what we're doing, you know? Like, it's very telling how they are pressing.

Yeah, they're preparing for this violent backlash from people. And, oh, God. And so we should do it. We should unleash our violent, like, revolution onto them. You're forcing our hand here, Caitlin. We should unleash our violent revolution onto them. They're forcing our hand here, Caitlin. You're forcing our hand. We're going to have to put missiles next to the radars now. Yeah.

Yeah. I was telling my friend about this. He was like, why have a bridge? Like, why do they even have a bridge? And the answer is because they have hundreds of laborers coming out because they're all cons like Jeff Bezos just bought three properties and he's like building them into one giant mega mansion. So there's tons of blue collar workers having to go onto the island every day.

So just, just a note. Yeah. So what we need to do, So just, just a note. Yeah. That's what we need to do. We need to learn a trade. We need to become masons or something. Get hired electricians. Yeah.

Right. And then we're like, yeah, we're here to work on your house. And then we, we do something bad. And we make their, their stone fireplace ugly. Yeah, not as good. What's the new Daisy Ridley movie that's coming out? There's a new day is rid Daisy or no, which one is it? Is it? There's like some movie where it's like, activists take over a thing then it's like it's like all about like it's sort of painting Activism like these like boogie men type characters. Oh, yeah. I mean that's coming for sure No, but I mean like it's funny again how then you're gonna see like movies made that are kind of sort of being like well

These people suck because you know I love to see a movie that was about kind of what we're describing Caitlin or it's like Working people being four steps ahead of billionaires in this race to the end. So like when they think they can close up shop, it's like, we had the keys the whole time, y'all. Yeah. I know that's what the Ministry for the Future covers.

If people, uh, we, we talked about that last year. That's a cool novel that talks about like potential ways to activate some manner of change. But it's also, I feel like if you want to actually sell a movie in Hollywood, that shit's not going to resonate with the studio heads and the people who are approving the movie that the thing that's going to resonate with them is like, man, it's poor people are like getting scary, right? Yeah.

That's why I do. I don't know. It feels like now more than ever, a phrase that I love to say, we're do, we're ripe for a resurgence in independent film because there's better technology that people have access to and also the studios are just making dog shit. But I also feel like we're kind of in a sticky situation because distribution is now being kind of controlled more and more by the big companies. By NATO.

Yeah, by NATO. So I don't know. Like I do hope that there's a resurgence in people making movies that actually are from the perspective of people who don't have a billion dollars. Right? On that note, I highly recommend the movie

How to Blow Up a Pipeline. Yeah, that was a good one. Which is about activists who, I mean, just watch the movie. This is the synopsis for the movie Cleaner, which is an upcoming British action thriller film starring Daisy Ridley. When activists take over an energy company's annual gala held at the Shard in London,

some more radical members of their group try to take the guests as hostages, and that's where Daisy Ridley's character enters to to help. She's the cleaner. Yeah. Like I take care of problems. Knuckle crack, knuckle crack. She's like apparently a soldier with a secret type of character in the building. It's like I actually do have a special set of skills and I don't know why these people would attack the people who are destroying the earth with their energy. I don't know. I don't know why these people would attack the people who are destroying the earth with their energy. I don't know. I don't know what exactly the tone is. But that just sounds

weird when you're like, what's the tone is? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. This billionaire is actually fucking cool. Oh, I'm sorry, just because we're making the earth uninhabitable. You think you can like resort to this kind of extreme shit? Um, I don't think so. Honey. Shout out Los Calderistas. Kaitlin Durante. What a pleasure having you as always on the daily zeitgeist. Where can people find you and follow you?

You can follow me on Instagram at Kaitlin Durante. My website, KaitlinDurante.com, has info about my upcoming classes, and sometimes comedy shows when I do them, that is. Oh. But yeah, I think I'm actually doing a show in Boston, not till November, so it's a ways off, but hey, never too early to start plugging. Yeah.

But yeah, and check out the Bechtel cast, the podcast I host with Jamie Loftus, one of my Olive Garden friends, and yeah, we talk about movies through an intersectional feminist lens. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? The substance, the movie, the flim.

Okay. Yeah, it's the Demi Moore, Margaret Coley body horror movie and it's awesome. Okay. Nice. The end. Miles, where can people find you? Is there work of media you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter, Instagram at miles of gray. Find Jack and I on the basketball podcast. Miles and Jack I've met. Boosties!

As we continue to break down the upcoming seasons for the different teams and their conferences. And also if you like 90 Day Fiance, I'm on 420 Day Fiance. A tweet I like is actually we're talking about the loss of community. And this has been a thing that I think a lot of people have talked about in just like, not even as a joke previously about how like bowling alleys used to be like a huge space for people to have community. And this tweet kind of sums it up. This is from at Lauren underscore Wilford tweeted,

bowling is an undefeated casual mixed group. Hey, freedom to mill, but forced breaks and conversation for your turn, opportunities to cheer on excellence in others, and graciously accept one's own failures. The general convivial vibe of a bowling alley and connection to a shared past. Yeah. That's like last year I went bowling for my birthday because I was like,

yeah, I miss doing this. I love the pressure of having to throw a gutter ball in front of your friends because I always I always rise to the occasion. I can always throw a gutter ball when needed. Yeah, my knees start shaking uncontrollably when I get up to the line and then I go, and then the ball just kind of barf out from my hands. Looking like that one animatronic robot in a haunted mansion who had got a dog. And he's like, Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, t Tony eating out of the bottom eating outside of the bottom bang and or no, what was the place the being?

satrials Satrials eating outside of Satrials and he says I thought moodang would be a cow tea on account of the moon her name That's just yeah, yeah Looking forward to having more Christopher multisanti thoughts. You can find Me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can 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 website, DailyZeitgeist.com,

where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We're going to link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do you think people might enjoy? Just some, you know, classic Brazilian vibes, but from, again, an artist who's like a contemporary artist. This track is by an artist called Rogé, R-O-G-E, and it's called Existe Uma Voz,

and it's a, dude, it's a great track. If you like sort of old school Brazilian music like Jorge Ben, that kind of stuff from like the sixties and seventies, like latter days, Sergio Manz kind of stuff, this is sort of super down that alley and it's nice to listen to and it's groovy and melodic. So yeah, this is the track by Roje and don't make me say the name again. Wait, what was the name?

Oh, you want me to say it? It's Roje. What was the name of that? Oh, you want me to say it? It's Roger. It's called Existe Uma Vos. E-X-I-S-T-E-U-M-A-V-O-S. Got it. That is trapped in my brain and not going anywhere. Thank you.

All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio for more podcasts from iHeartRadio. Visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning, back this afternoon to tell you what's trending. And we'll talk to you all then. Bye. Bye.

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