The Daily Zeitgeist - The D**k Toilet Guy Is BACK, Cheese Heists Are A Thing? 11.21.24

Episode Date: November 21, 2024

In episode 1780, Jack and Miles are joined by writer, comedian, and co-host of Yo, Is This Racist?, Andrew Ti, to discuss… Sexual Predation Apparently A Required Skill To Be In Trump’s Cabinet, Return Of The Matt (Whitaker aka DICK TOILET), Attacking Neoliberalism’s Well Earned Complexity Problem, The Reason Behind The Recent Rash Of Cheese Heists and more! Trump Pick Linda McMahon Is Facing Her Own Sex Scandal Attacking Neoliberalism’s Well Earned Complexity Problem The Reason Behind The Recent Rash Of Cheese Heists Cheesemakers in shock as £300,000 of produce stolen in sophisticated scam Moscow that got the cream? 'Grate cheese robbery' mystery whirls with Russia now suspected after scammers pilfered 22 tonnes from dairy Man attempts to steal thousands of dollars in cheese from North Van Whole Foods Thieves strike in the Netherlands with heist of $22,000 — in cheese Why so many cheese heists? As B.C. cops foil another, here's why cheese is so valuable LISTEN: Talk Down (Live) by DijonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I don't watch that shit. Should I watch the young Turks? It sounds like I should. You don't need to. I like the old Turks personally. I like the mechanical Turks. That is my fucking just straight up regular ass Ottoman Empire. Oh yeah.

I love Gallipoli. I'm out. You won the name that tune of historical references to Turkey. Gallipoli? Ooh, Alexander the Great. That's all I got. I remember my mom was like, you gotta watch Gallipoli. Like when I was fucking eight. Didn't they make you watch that shit in school? I feel like I had to watch in school. Oh, you had to watch Gallipoli. Yeah.

I did not watch it in school. That was my mom being like, check out Gallipoli. That's, that's a good, that's a good ass mom right there. Yeah. I mean, like when you're, when you're born in fucking the rubble of world war two, Japan, you're like, bro, you need, ain't, there's no such thing as being precious. Motherfucker. I remember when I watched Bambi and I fucking cried and shit.

She was like, get over that shit, bro. I'm a dad. That's right. Soft ass little three year old dad. Why is everything so scary? Why is everything so scary? That kid was channeling. She was talking to me like, I was like like she was Vince Staples being like, yeah.

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Of all time going back to episode 1 this this season If you're new, this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into American shared consciousness We now have a YouTube channel at daily's I guess pod you can go check out What we look like saying stuff like this. Or this. Or even like this. Yeah. Oh, I just was serving cunt when I said that.

It's Thursday. I just got the recipe from Good Housekeeping. This Thanksgiving we're serving cunt. That's right. It's Thursday, November 21st, 2024. Yeah. Hey, it's National Rural Health Day. Shout out to those very, very delicate health systems we have in rural America.

National Gingerbread Cookie Day, National Red Mitten Day. Shout out, that's for the Canadians out there, I believe, based on just the image of a maple leaf on a mitten that says Canada. National stuffing day, that's actually my favorite Thanksgiving food. And the great American smoke out, which isn't the thing that I would be going to. It's actually about smoking cessation. But hey, get it how you live. Is it smoking cessation via the old school way of getting people not to smoke by making

them smoke like an entire pack in one sitting? Yes. Basically it says, this is an annual social engineering event. Ooh, that sounds good. To encourage Americans to stop tobacco smoking and basically challenge the smokers to quit cigarettes for 24 hours with the hopes that this decision will continue forever. Okay.

Well, they gave it the wrong name. The great smoke out day. It just makes me want to go smoke. Hell yeah, bro. I'm about to go get a pack of fucking Optimos or some shit. Yeah. Smoking lab Optimos. Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien,

AKA when you got a brain worm up inside of your skull that says double down on the non-facts. That one courtesy of Lesson Zero on the Discord. Oh yeah. And I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, AKA. Parties too.

Motherfuckers don't care about you. Trying to keep up status quo. They got theirs. Finna slam the door closed. Booty. Off all the money. Yes, their morals blow. OK, shout out Halcyon Salad, who did a whole fucking Andre verse

to the Elevator's Outkast track. I just hit the chorus. But I've looked the zeit gang ever since the, the more people who joined the discord, the fucking amount of AKAs in there is blinding and we appreciate it. Cause I'm dipping into this. I got to rehearse the six 16 and LA Kendrick one. That's like some are works of art that I will not sell you with my mortal voice, but I will attempt them.

I will attempt them. So shout out Halcyon Salad. Shout out everybody. Uh, once you get your wind up, you gotta, you gotta start working. I gotta get my cardio to get ready. Get that VO2 max up. Well, Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our favorite guests on the show, one of the very faces on Mount Zeitmore,

a hilarious and brilliant producer, TV writer. You know him from the Yo Is This Racist podcast. Yeah. It's Andrew T. Andrew. I'm just going to walk you through my thought process on a failed AKA. OK.

Which is now that we are in a Trump's America, I was looking to rewrite the courtesy of the red, white, and blue by Toby Keith. Oh, wow. I got too depressed. I don't even know how that one goes. I know Toby Keith. That's the one about putting a boot in Osama bin Laden's ass.

It's a throwback. OK. God. It's my perpetual. He must have been so mad when Obama, when bin Laden got killed under the Obama administration. Oh yeah. That must have been what gave him whatever killed him.

You know? Yeah. That's my, every time I leave karaoke, I always tell myself, man, you don't want to be really funny if I learn that courtesy of the Red White and Blue song. And I never do. I mean, really funny to, might be pretty popular. Mike, even in LA these days, we were saying before we started recording, we're seeing the stray mega hat popping up in Los Angeles.

I don't even know. I, there were two Trump flags in my neighborhood in Echo park. Yeah. They're everywhere. Which does over index for young shit heads. So, you know, Jenzie, Jenzie's bad. You knew Jenzie was bad. Yeah, Jenzie's bad.

Yeah, Jenzie's bad. God damn. We're, we're right. We're right. They're wrong. Is it the system? Who knows? Who knows?

That would be the kids. Yeah, these kids these days, I think they're right. Is it the system? Ooh. Who knows? Who knows? That would be the- Nah, it's just these kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These kids these days. I think they're right. They're wrong. Yeah. Andrew, how are you doing?

This is the first time coming on since the election. Yeah. Pretty good, right? I'm doing pretty good. Yeah, real good. I mean, here's one thing I will say is I'm probably, I'm guessing everyone you have on has to do a little check-in and I've been having a lot of conversations

the thing that has helped me which is not a real helpful thing is that Everything you thought Everything you think is gonna be bad and it will be bad is already happening Like literally everything you just don't let me agree. I'd say yeah, you just don't think about it. Like, you know, it was just very like odd. Like I had a conversation with my friend, a friend who's like one of the very like, you know, cable news junkie type, you know, very like MSNBC type person. And just the list of things they were very upset about,

I was kind of biting my tongue, but I was just like, I'm not saying it's not going to be worse. Yeah. But all of these things are happening now. Right. Yeah. I was, I think it was maybe last week, I was just saying like all of these things, when they were problems for like marginalized groups were just things that were happening. And now that the spotlight has been widened to touch more just, you know, people who didn't see themselves as being marginalized are now like, these are fucking problems. And yeah, I hope it can serve as some kind of a moment to inspire people to inspect their values a little bit further because yeah, it's what I will also say, while things are going to be bad,

all this shit is unbelievably out of your control. And there is plenty of shit within your control that you can do. I've been putting more time, I've been slacking a little bit on the mutual aid group that I try to help out with here in LA. But I've said this on many podcasts already. Like everything you think, your personal thing, the thing you're most worried about, even in our case in liberal ass Southern California,

liberal in quotes, we went ahead and did an outlaw slavery for instance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, everything bad that you're worried about is happening now and you can do something about it, at least on a personal level, to one or two or whatever people, and you should do that now.

I'm sort of coalescing around this idea of, for a lot of the folks who don't normally don't do much or just like fret, this is like idea that like, you know, one structure that I have found to be like very damaging to society has been Christianity as it's comprised in America in 2024. And one thing that organized religion does is ask fucking 10% out of all of its members. And I know men money might not be an option, but consider fucking using 10% of your work time. So for most people, like 44, sorry, four hours a week to fucking do something.

Yeah. That's, that's my sort of pitch. Think of it as a tithe cause you know, those fuckers do it. So I can get that Cadillac. Yeah, exactly. How does that get me to Lambeau? Yeah. So y'all buy this merch that we're selling.

Thank you. You know, spend about 10% of your income on that. But no, it is true. Like you can any, just again, when we had Margaret on, just think about how you can get your toe in, but get your toe. Just get it. Dip it. Just dip it a little bit and then just get a little bit more comfortable. And then next thing you know, you'll be, you'll be much more comfortable with it all. So anyway. And since, since I, since I pitched this, I'm going to go right into my underrated because this has been a part and parcel thing that has been happening, which is while trying to, and this is

said with all the love that is available, one part of dipping your toe into things like mutual aid, things like local community is at the end of the day, you are going to be hanging out with a lot of people that you find annoying, but it doesn't make them bad. Yeah. So hanging out with people you find annoying. Yeah. My underrated is, you know, on the balance, at least they're fucking not Nazis and they're doing shit and

you know sort of like it or not those folks are going to be the folks that are motivated and Can and have experience and and you know, yes, they can you know, some folks sometimes are a little annoying but that's Okay, I think we all should get better at fucking being okay with annoying people. Being around people who are annoying. You might annoy something from them versus evil. When the alternative is evil. You got to go with annoying. Yeah.

Yeah. That's, that's a good underrated. All right. We're that that is your underrated and we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment by getting your search history and overrated. But first, a couple of things we're going to be talking about. We're going to be looking at the one thing that we can consistently say about Trump's cabinet is that sexual predation

seems to be a required skill. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about just the evolving kind of defense, the antibodies coming to the defense of neoliberalism in the aftermath of the election and just that. I feel like complexity and then being like, well, you know, we have all these like super complex solutions that are market-based, that tie people to incentivized structure. Like those sorts of things need to stop, need to be attacked, dismantled. But yeah, there's been like some very annoying op-eds that I want to talk about.

So we'll talk about that. We might get to some cheese heists that are happening, all of that, plenty more. But first, Andrew, in addition to asking you something you think is underrated, we do like to ask, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? All right. This is the last, I mean, this is obviously just the YouTube algorithm finally honing in on who the fuck I am. They captured you. I searched for, so basically I would consider myself a enthusiastic amateur as far as eating too much goes. And YouTube recently really started serving me up, people doing food challenge type things.

Oh yeah. And so I did search for food challenges Los Angeles. Oh. So I wanted to get a lay of the land and just try to figure out. I was having a conversation with a friend the other day and I was kind of like going over the things that I think I'm genuinely world class at. And I feel like there was a time where I was like, I'm a world class eater. Yeah. And I think that time has passed, but sometimes the old dog needs to come out for another where I was like I'm a world-class eater. Yeah.

And I think that time has passed, but you know, sometimes the old dog needs to come out for another blaze of glory. I don't know if I'm gonna try it, but I'm really thinking about it. I got to come out for another blaze of glory. One last job. I'm really thinking about it.

I feel like such a bad idea. What do you think you could really put down? I think kind of anything Yeah, I I'm like I'm like one of those people that like, you know hot food like spicy Oh, I guess I probably would prefer Yeah, I would prefer not to have an element of I would prefer volume or speed right right over Yeah, vice tolerance cuz that that has that has diminished quicker than my capacity to just fucking throw it down. Do they keep a Heimlich person on hand for the speed and volume challenges?

I think they just have a mouth adapter for a shop vac. Yeah, they can just put it on your mouth and just fucking rip out your insides. I, the, the, uh, the YouTube videos I've seen of professionals who go around doing this does seem to indicate that there's a significant amount of legal indemnity you have to grant the restaurant before they allow you to try this. There's always a signing of some kind of agreement. Yeah. If you're like eating pancakes, they're like, nah, motherfucker. Cause this, this is a bad agreement. Yeah, like eating pancakes. They're like, nah, motherfucker, because this is a bad idea. Yeah, I guess I just feel like I could I

can I'm you know, again, this is I think this is exactly like the armchair version of like, I could fucking beat Serena Williams. Right. I can live in a fucking plane. Yeah. So I'm sure I couldn't actually, but I genuinely like of the like physical anomalies that exist in the world, you know, physical feats. Yeah. Yeah. I think the one that I am closest to, you know, becoming any kind of high level would be competitive eating.

Dude, I want to go whenever you're tell me when you go try one of these. I want to go. I want to see. Can you, are you, do you have, if you fuck up, I want to see. And then I suspect miles, you have the same skill or you're not. I got a, I like to watch motherfuckers. Yeah, baby. Just wanted to watch.

I hit, I hit my microphone pantomime eating. All right. Donald Trump. Could you eat like, would you, could you eat three whole shooter sandwiches? A recipe that you put me onto? Yeah, shooter sandwich once again, whole loaf of country bread, two steaks and that's all the volume of it.

Serve with Branstad and pickle on the side. I think three, I think I would have a ton of trouble with. I think like in a like, I'm trying to win something, capacity, I could do two. All right, all right. That's incredible. That's a value.

Four steaks, that's a lot. Like 60, that's like 60 ounces of steak. Yeah. And two loaves of bread. I guess that's, well, you know, the bread is hollowed out in the middle. Yeah. So maybe one loaf of bread, oops,. Okay. Let's talk. Let's talk. Let's talk Yeah, I genuinely think I could do it

Okay, I don't think I would like be happy about it And I think I would I would have to do all the the training like just like two days prior Like having like just fucking gallons of water, right and and whatnot Is that what they do to train for it? To stretch the tummy up the tum tum? I can drink things extremely fast, but I don't drink alcohol anymore. So like chugging contests are kind of out the window. But yeah, when we had Margaret Killjoy on, she was saying like, you know,

figure out the thing you're good at and then, you know, find a way to help people with that. And I've been breaking my brain trying to be like, how can I, with the speed with which I can down a 12 pack of Mountain Dew, how can I help the world? And no takers so far, but I'm not jealous. So, okay. So Jessica is a doctor. Jack. Okay.

You wrote down, you love yellow number five. I like to drink it until changes the color of my veins. You can see it through my arms, bro. Oh my God. You have jaundice. Nah, man. It's a lot of dude, bro. I got John Deuce, bro.

I call it the dude sparkle. Yeah. I got John Deuce, bro. I call it the Dew Sparkle. Yeah. The Dew Glow. I look like Edward Cullen from Twilight by the time I'm done, because I'm just sparkling. It's like Twilight, but you change the color grading on your TV,

and it's sort of like... Yeah. Did you put a magnet by it, maybe? I can't tell what's happening here. No, I'm just pretty sure. I mean, again, I'm not put a magnet by it maybe. I just, I can't tell what's happening here. No, I'm just pretty sure. I mean, again, I'm not 100% sure, which is why I looked up. I, you know, once it started getting real,

I was like, could I eat a burrito that was comprised of like six tortillas and then otherwise burrito size? And I was like, I think I could. Mm, burrito of burritos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you ever done a competitive I think I could. Burrito of burritos. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever done a competitive chipotle burrito eating anything?

No, that's a thing. That was a thing. I remember when I lived in New York in my early twenties, my friends who went into like wall street stuff, that was a big thing with like bankers competitively being like, yeah dude, this guy's a legend. He took down four bricks, one lunch thing. It was like, what do you mean? Yeah, four full Chipotle burritos. Oh.

Yeah. I wonder. The closest I ever came is when I worked at Comedy Central one year, instead of paying us well, they would once a year, like get an in and out food truck to come to the parking line and they would be on the house. And, um, there was a double, double eating contest and I had signed up for it, but I had a meeting that went long, so I couldn't make it out to the parking lot in time, but the winner was

like five and a half. And I'm like,. But the winner was like five and a half. And I'm like, I could easily eat more than five and a half double doubles. Are you kidding? Double doubles was the winner? Yeah. Five and a half. Okay. It's kind of like 11 patties.

Yeah. But it's like doable. I mean, I remember eating two, I ate two four by fours in high school. Yeah. It was, I was shocked at how low the number was. And I was like, because again, to me, that seems like an unsustainable, like incomprehensible amount of food. But like, yeah, so, yeah, everybody has their thing.

And this is I agree. I'm not saying it's not too much food. I don't want to eat it, but I definitely think I could eat it. Yeah, I think. Yeah, you have a skill. You have a gift. I don't know. I think I have a skill. Yeah, I'm seriously considering testing. You do the goodwill hunting speech, but with like a bag of double doubles. You have any fucking idea how easy this is

for me? Have any idea? light it on fire for some reason. I guess I should test it. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe not. Maybe you just tested that one time. You know what? That's what my search history should have been.

How do you know if you have what it takes to be a competitive eater? There you go. What's something you think's overrated? Overrated? Uh, doing your thing, AKA getting the wrong thing at restaurants. There's a fucking place in LA, a chain, not a chain, but there are multiple locations,

a Galbi Gym place called Sun Nang Dong. Yes. Which has, so if anyone is not- Wait, so you didn't get the goby No, no, I was with someone that was like I just want soup and I was like get the fuck out of this restaurant Do you why are you think that they do right here? Yeah, it was so gubbies If anyone doesn't know is like it's like braised Korean brisket

Beef rib and if you order the upgrade, oxtail. Yes. It's quite sweet. If you order the upgrade on that, they put a whole heap of mozzarella cheese on it and bring out a blowtorch and melt the cheese on top until it's fucking bubbling. It's one of the great, like, spectacles. I will say, I am anti the cheese, but yes, it is. It's so indulgent. It's one of the great like, I will say I am anti the cheese, but yes, it is. It's so indulgent. It's so ridiculous. I need it. I think it's already. You definitely don't need

it. It turns. It's like, what if Korean food was a pizza? Right. Yeah. Essentially stone bowl. I was reminded of one because I had this fucking insane experience my friend was like I just want to like the brisket soup which the brisket soup is Fine, but it's just like brisket and broth Yeah, and I was just like and and Sunungdang doesn't do it particularly well. There are places in Koreatown that do it wonderfully But yeah, this was peaked in my brain because, uh, there was a post-mates, I think, ad like a billboard right now that has Sun Nang Dang listed as one of their things and it shows as their example food, not the Galbi gym, and it was making

me feel crazy. Also, I went with a friend to Tam O'Shanter, which is a prime rib joint in Los Angeles. And that motherfucker got the salmon. And it was making me feel like I was losing my mind. Yeah. Okay. And it was both times some version of, I'm just doing my thing.

I don't feel like it. And it's like, get the fuck out of this restaurant. I fucking hate you. It's too specialized. We're not friends anymore. Yeah. It made me so mad. That's very frustrating.

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And we're back. We're back. And yeah, it's, it's starting to look like a trend in the Trump cabinet in terms of a pattern. Yeah. Let's call it a pattern. A pattern emerges, I think, because maybe not a rule specifically, no, no, not a rule, but a pattern. I think it's just a coincidence. Okay. Interesting.

Yeah. I think there's a higher maybe cluster of people in that orbit, but yeah, when you look at the recent nominations for cabinet positions, you know, so many of these people have sexual harassment or sexual assault allegations against them. Elon Musk obviously had to settle with a private jet flight attendant who accused him of exposing himself and trying to pay her for sex. Pete Hegseth, who's the secretary of defense nominee, was accused of rape and apparently settled out of court. Matt Ga has his own shit accused of trafficking, minors and statutory. His own shit. Yeah. I mean, like he has a whole ethics.

Like this guy was so embroiled in it, he had to be like, bro, I need to fucking resign from Congress. Can you help me? He's like, I don't even give a fuck if I get in. I just just get me out of this shit. RFK accused of assaulting the family nanny and like also set like sharing nude photos of like women nonconsensually very again, these are all like the pattern seems very interesting anyway. And now we have Linda.

Okay. What are you going to do with Linda McMahon? She a woman. Okay. She was just tapped to be secretary of education. Her husband, obviously Vince McMahon of WWE fame has faced so many allegations there's like documentaries about it now has paid out millions to settle sexual harassment and rape cases. Linda is now also was named in a suit from former ring boys.

That's what they're called. This is from the Daily Beast. Last month, a group of five former ring boys named the McMahons in a sex abuse lawsuit along with World Wrestling Entertainment and its parent company. The John Doe's alleged that from the 1970s to the 1990s, former WWE announcer Melvin Phillips Jr. groomed and sexually assaulted them and other minors without any consequences from his employer. The obviously Glilinda McMahon's lawyer is like, this is all just it's scurrilous. It's it's mendacious. It's this is this is absurd. They're dragging her name through the mud merely because she turned a blind eye. Now, McMahon has zero

experience in education. So that's also the other pattern that emerges is like, that's also not necessary. That's not a prerequisite to have a cabinet position. So I don't know if she'd maybe they're being nominated purely because she has demonstrated like the acute power of looking the other way when terrible things are happening to people around her, but any connection. Like, I, I'm confused.

I'm sure about school choice. She's definitely on that. Okay. You know, which is the other way to be like, let's, let's basically deflate public education and send the money to charter schools and other people who want to teach alternate versions of history. Right-wing liars. Yeah.

You know, the other common thread of Trump's cabinet is, of course, you know it's smell crazy in there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because these are some of the crustiest individuals I can think of. Yeah. Yeah. Cause these are some of the crustiest. Yeah. Crustiest individuals I can think of. Yeah, truly, truly. I mean, like I think at a minimum,

a lot of all these nominations definitely send like a message that, you know, holding sexual predators to like account for their actions is a futile effort. And in fact, we will normalize and reward these people. Yeah. That is the world that is current. I mean, this has been happening for a while, but this is very much a very in your face version of all of us now.

But yeah, I think speaking of Krusty though, we- Krusty and you know it's smell crazy in there. We should talk about Matt Whitaker. Return of the Matt Whitaker. Remember? So here's a throwback for those that remember was listening to this show during the first Trump administration, Matt Whitaker, he was the man that served as Jeff Sessions, chief of staff while he was attorney general. And then sessions did the thing of like, trying to follow the law. So Trump shit canned him. And there was this interim acting AG named Matt Whitaker, who was like the guy between Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr. And we talked about all these things that he was involved in. He was, you know, he was he took like $400,000 to, you know, help other people beg Trump for

pardons. He lied about being an academic all star football player. And if really the part that I think we fondly remember is he tried to, he designed a toilet for men who are well endowed downstairs, Mr. Dick toilet. That's the guy who's back. Dick toilet is back. NATO ambassador, uh, is what his, his next position could be, or probably will be definitely. It's such a great, like just, you know, why the lies that someone tells are just

so revealing and it's like, I'm an academic all-American football star. Uh, and my dick is so big that it drags in the toilet. Yeah. Wait, was the pitch for this toilet a depth issue? Yeah, I believe it was a depth issue. It was like the water too high. You're hanging. It's such a weird also clear admission that you're just an

old man with just low, low balls. Yeah. Yeah. Saggy balls. What about those of us with saggy dick and balls? I mean, a giant, giant genitals. Could it just, wouldn't it be cheaper to just create like a net to hold your sack with that you could put like around, like underneath the toilet seat?

Whatever. I'm just trying to figure people don't be, people don't have dick toilet money. They might have ball net. Nasty. You have to poop through the net. No, no, no. It's like a front net. Think with me.

Here's a front net. Okay. Can we open up the zoom whiteboard, please? Oh, that's for front net. Can we open up the Zoom whiteboard please? Yes, yes. Oh, let's turn the AI function on so we have all of these points noted for a post-mortem. Like a little net garter that goes around your upper thighs. Yeah, hair net.

Yes, bro, yes. Okay. Yes, like this is what I've been saying. Imagine like a mask, right? Yeah, mask that goes around. It goes right there and then you sit down, it's towards the front and then it's nestled in here. So it doesn't, it keeps it from going into the toilet water. Yeah.

All right. Sharks. We all know this is a problem. Small investment. A small investment. $3 million for 5% of. $3 million for 5. The ball net.

So this is a $60 million company 5% of the ball net. So this is a $60 million company. Yeah. Oh yeah. Minimum. Oh yeah. Bargain. Oh, you're getting in brown floor. This is a fucking bar.

This is the thing we're preying on, on men's sort of obsession with genital size. No guy's going to not buy it. Cause I'm like, what, you don't need one of these when you go to the bathroom. Just sell it to any public institution. The libraries of America. Yeah. Single use. And the most important thing is the big dispenser display that sits right outside of your bathroom. And that's the thing. And like a large counter that tells you how many have been used and when the last one was used. Yeah. Yeah. It makes a little dinging sound every time you pull it out. So everyone's like, yep. Whoa. Gotta, gotta get protected if you know what I mean.

It connects to your ring. So every time the doorbell opens and you don't take one, it just makes a little like, like area wide announcement, like small dick alert. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Small dick alert. Perfect. I don't know. Just thought. All right. I wanted to talk about neoliberalism a little bit because I think it's cool. Um, now I've been since the election, I feel like whatever comes next for the opposition party to the current fascist Republican government needs to specifically take aim. Not just at fascism, because they tried that, but also and perhaps mainly focus the attack on neoliberalism.

Like we were talking about with the party that got reelected during the supposed like like, you can't get reelected at this time as the incumbent. In Mexico they did, and their whole thing was we are a leftist party that attacks neoliberalism and makes the focus dismantling neoliberalism and the sort of corporatocracy. Whatever is easiest to call it, the machine, the system as it currently exists, the thing that is constantly siphoning money from people up to corporations and billionaires. I was listening to, I guess John Stewart has a podcast called The Weekly Show. I listened for the first time yesterday and he was interviewing someone named Sarah Smarsh,

who's written about like the Democratic Party turning their back on the working class. And one of the things John Stewart said was like, he was like, but the Democrats actually like do good things for the working class and they just can't message it. And he was like, for instance, like,, he made this point that was so cut. He was like, when you think about it, South Carolina is like Mexico when you compare to Northeastern states with more worker protections. Why didn't that resonate with people?

It was being raised from the standpoint of if they just knew what Democrats did for them, like what neoliberalism does for them, they would have voted for Harris, which I think is wrong. And like all these technocratic plans are wrong and not just because people are too stupid to understand them. I think the people who are suspicious of these complex sounding, neoliberal, like market-based solutions are, are correct.

Like those things should be. And so, like, but the fact that he was like proposing this very complex idea and was like, but if, if they only knew, you know, was clarifying to me, because I do think that is like one of the core issues that needs to be focused on. Like neoliberalism has hidden unjust, indefensible, like wealth redistribution to corporations and to wealthy people behind complexity.

Like I think that is, people are onto that now. Like just look at all of wall street, look at health insurance, look at banking fees, look at the fact that we still have to do our taxes, even though every other country just sends you a fucking bill. Like the whole deal is they exhaust you with financial terms and complexity. And then they take your money basically. And like, I feel like people are onto it and like that that's like a huge fucking part of it.

Yeah. Without being able to art. I think a lot of people are on to the sensation. Yeah, that's something is deeply wrong. But it there, the articulation of it is where I think we're kind of at that crossroads with who, like how, who's going to capture the messaging around that feeling better. Because I think for Trump, there was like a version where he's just like, it's all rigged. And like, that was kind of like, yeah, I kind of feel that right. Even though he himself is like, it's all rigged. And like, that was kind of like, ah, yeah.

I kind of feel that. Right, even though he himself is like, yeah, watch this shit. He's also part of it. I'm also rigging it, but I know what y'all wanna hear. The reason I think there's this opportunity is he's about to do it like worse and more transparently than anyone ever. So it's like, somebody could come and make this point. I just don't know if they're going to be willing to, because they're just so

addicted to this fucking model of throwing out really complex solutions that they can then use to redistribute money to wealthy people. Yeah. Yeah. There's, I mean, there's a, there's an op-ed, uh, in the New York Times from this guy who was like a staffer for Harry Reid and John Fetterman. Oh, okay. And he's just, he's just doing the whole thing of like, oh, the typical stuff. He, he goes after, like, there was just too much emphasis being put on like trans rights. And you're like, that wasn't, did that actually happen? I don't think it did.

I don't think that was being articulated by the democratic party. And it sort of goes on to be like, it's like, this is a, this is a quote. It says, uh, the Democrats are quote crippled by a fetish for putting coalition management over a real desire for power. And they're too eager to please liberal and progressive interest groups that impose rigid moors and the rigid moors and vocabulary of college educated elites, placing a hard ceiling on Democrats appeal. And goes on to basically be like, they're

ceding too much ground to like these interest groups, like in people like the ACLU or people who are concerned with climate change. But again, you look at how this campaign was run and it did not feel like that at all. No. Um, so what are you saying? Weird lie. Yeah. You know so what are you saying? Weird lie.

Yeah. You know, truly, truly ran as Republicans. Like that was what they did. Right. I was, yeah, like this is, this is exactly like the thing that was evident, like during the campaign is that Harris changed her, like that, that was a thing that I think, like when you heard people like talking about it, like that, that was a thing that I think, like when you heard people like talking about it, like they were like, we don't know what she

stands for and it's because she changed positions like on so many different things. And I just, this is exactly the wrong lesson to take from this election. Like do whatever it takes by changing your positions, look like you stand for nothing. That is exactly why they lost. They're basically just like, we just need to do that thing we just lost doing,

but do it harder. Yeah. Well, because every group has some corner, it's ideological whiplash from the Democrats. It could be like, yeah, over-policing is bad. Black lives do matter. Cut to the new platform. They fucking they're like, I don't know what the fuck y'all are talking about. I didn't say that shit four years ago. Yeah. Talking about protecting immigrants, talking about some kind of pathway to citizenship. I don't know what the fuck y'all are talking about.

I never said some shit like that. Talk like there's so many things like that. People like, what the fuck are y'all even talking about? And I think the biggest reason for people to be like, what is going on with you guys? Like you don't stand for anything is they completely use the like this, this, this administration is a threat to our freedoms and our democracy line during the entire campaign. But now that the dust has settled and we know what we're going into, they're

perfectly fine with letting whatever they're perfectly fine with letting whatever, they're perfectly fine with letting whatever happens happen. Yeah. They're not, they're not even a push to be like, yo, we're going to try and gum up. We're going to try and sabotage this shit. So he there's like, we're going to put up all kinds of weird roadblocks to see what we can do just to kind of slow down the

progress of this. We're talking about, we're having Pelosi and people be like, yeah, we can find common ground now. They have sold out everything that has been their like foundational, like supposed like ideological thing. They've sold everything out. So what the fuck are people supposed to get excited enough about to go vote for? Like including in this past election, their whole thing was like, this is

like fascism, this is scary, this is going to usher in a new era of fascism. I'm like anything you've ever seen. And then immediately, and for like no benefit that I can see other than being like, I don't want to make things hot for myself, they immediately buckled. They immediately buckled. It was why it felt like the government was lost already regardless of the outcome of the election. Life is lost.

It was just like, we can't count on any of these people. One of them is worse, but we can't count on either of them. So yeah, sorry to interrupt, Jack. I just- kind on either of them. Right. So, yeah, yeah. Sorry to interrupt Jack. I just, no, that's, I mean, yeah, that's, it just feels like whatever the next viable opposition is like, it's not going to be in an op edge, that's for sure. It's not going to be in the New York Times. And then John Favreau from Pod Save America is like, we need to listen to this.

It's probably going to be mocked by John Favreau and the New York Times, like when it's in its early stages and until it has any sort of electoral success. But like that is what it's going to take. And it's not going to be probably the mainstream Democratic Party. Like it's going to have to be some sort of, you know, political insurgency. I think, yeah, people just got to get more into the like simple kind of analysis first, just to be like, is what they're proposing going to rock the status quo? Because if not get it the fuck out of here, it needs to specifically take our,

take aim at and be about like dismantling the status quo. That's like the only thing that could possibly work. Like it needs to, in the same way that Trump like targeted status quo, mainstream media values and mainstream Democrat party values, and even like mainstream Republican party values when he first started, like it needs to do that, it just needs to do that and actually have beliefs. And the solutions cannot be something that involves like banks and like, let, you know, the ACA, like Obamacare, they let fucking insurance companies come in and write that law, you know, like they ran this version of the democratic party ran on hope and change

and then bailed Wall Street out. Like I don't like again in like super complicated legal fashion that like I don't I think people they've lost all credibility and nobody's ever going to trust anything that sounds complex again from from this and nor should they. I feel like. Well, yeah. I mean, again. Do you think the rise of just like, I know the internet also had a lot to do with this,

but it feels like all of the culture, like I feel like that scams are so much bigger now everywhere. And I do think as you're saying it, it occurred to me, it was like, oh, all this added complexity, like, you know, from fucking cryptocurrency to just like, like all the internet shit, like, I think it partially it's people are living in a world where everything is so complicated that, you know, like your banking shit, when you hear the scam version of it, it's not that much more complicated than what it fucking happens with chase or whatever. Yeah, exactly. And it's, yeah, this whole like proliferation of liars and cheats is. Cause that's the baseline. Cause there's no simple shit. Yeah, they're all using the same method.

Did it seem too complicated or make it too complicated for anybody to follow? And then in the fucking smoke bomb that that creates, uh, abscond with all the money. Yeah. I mean, the complexity thing is so like the thing you're talking about rather than getting down to this like microscopic level or in like wonky policy speak, you just, you begin to just paint a picture that is a little bit easier if you will understand. Like people deserve more. And we are in the pursuit of finding a way to get people what they deserve in the areas of healthcare,

housing, education, all these things. And it doesn't have to be like, this is what we're doing for this specific group or whatever. It's basically that like, we're trying to do this so everyone benefits. But again, that gets into, then people start, you know, you're obviously going to have these like interest groups are going to immediately be like, they're

lobbying interests, be like, Hey, this is what it sounds like. What you're saying is like anti-corporate autocracy. So we don't like this. But again, it's simpler to tell somebody just be like, yo dude, whatever your need, whatever you need, we're trying to get that to you. Yeah. And that's, that's the thing to even talk about. Yeah. And that's, that's the thing to even talk about. And I know that's, that's going to be that's impossible for the Democratic Party to do,

because in that same op-ed, they're like, we need to go back to messaging things like protecting abortion rights, cheaper prescription medicines, protecting social security. And those things are like, they're fine, because essentially, it it's they wanna do something, anything that resembles progressive policy without actually fully rocking the boat. And again, the Democrats could have protected abortion rights but I'm sure they found it much more potent to use as a carrot on a stick to try and get people to vote for them

than to actually do the work to protect people. So, yeah. It's also hard in this media landscape. I mean, one thing that was insane about this election was the, in California, the propositions, because we have a form of direct democracy in California, the fucking Landlords Association just lying, like lying, lying in ads.

Like... Yeah. It's actually not going to create more affordable housing. What? Well, truly, it was like, this, it's actually not going to create more affordable housing. What? Well, truly, it was like this, this bill will overturn. I forgot which proposition was the good one. But it's like this will overturn rent control protections. And it's 33. Yeah, that's not true.

Like they were lying. Yeah. Well, it's because it was I think the thing that they're trying to say, like it was the existing measures around it. Yes, because it was going to get more robust. and they're just they're using that to be like it's gonna blow up the rent control policies We have yeah to usher in better ones. Yeah or to give to give local cities and counties the Ability to to in state. Yeah, it was basically like we're good they're gonna overturn the status quo, but they just lied in a way that was like a

little shocking because and you know a similar thing happened with the um the Lyft and Uber independent contractor shit right the previous uh big election where um those companies just lied they would they had like testimonials from mostly Lyft and Uber drivers saying like this would be bad for me and it's not true. Yeah. So that's the thing that is going to be tough, which is just like we're also in this era of straight up lying. Yeah.

That I do feel like is more than usual. Am I crazy? No. I mean, we've lost the media. We don't have a functional media anymore, so there's no consequences. Why wouldn't they lie? Yeah. If you turn it to your point about like the financial logic of the current system, like we're in an era of scam, like a scammer is the president.

People love scammers. They like kind of admire them, you know, as long as they're successful scammers who make a lot of money. So like the, the reason to not lie and cheat like is no longer there. I feel like, you know, so yeah, it makes sense to me that like people would continue continuously lie. They'll merely behave in a way that they feel like is reflecting how they feel they're being treated by the, like the country on some level. So if everyone around is like, oh, it's all scams. Okay, so scams are on the menu. Then yeah, that's what it is. You know what I mean? And I think

it's really, I will say one that I made this might also be my YouTube addiction now my newfound YouTube addiction. But I kind of have come entirely around on scamming people via like NFTs. I mean, of course, the NFT people were terrible. But all of the people that lost money on NFTs were people that also thought they could scam people. There is a perverse like, you know, of course, some honest people lost money, but it is sort of nice that only mostly terrible people lost their terrible people money on NFTs and cryptocurrency in general, although I guess it's up right now. But don't worry, it's still a scam, folks.

There's no use case for it. Yeah. I mean, I think the most effective thing is that they've created a bunch of people who have just had their wealth spike because of crypto shooting up. And those will, those are going to be the people who will evangelize why we need to protect it in sort of physical space to other people who are outside of that crypto world. And I think that's, that's what that whole move is about. Yeah. Then like the actual, I think I've said on this podcast before, but I might be one

of the few retail users of cryptocurrency that exists on earth. Like I'm not doing it. Like I use it to play, we'll say quasi to not legal poker online. And using it is the most odious, like, like try to use like just like a retail amount of money is insane. I think I'll just say it. I've said it before other places, the public, I was trying to move like, I think somewhere between three and $500 onto this poker site. And it cost me $19 in Bitcoin

fees. And I was like, this is this is a uniquely shitty experience that it makes me wish fucking Wells Fargo, someone honorable like Wells Fargo was involved in this transaction. Please help me, Bank of America. Yeah. That's how bad cryptocurrency is. I know everyone listening to this knows that, but it truly is amazing. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about a brand new scheme that I guess isn't that new, but a scheme that I hadn't been paying attention to. We'll come back. We'll talk about a brand new scheme that I guess isn't that new, but a scheme that I hadn't been paying attention to. We'll be right back.

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wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Violent crime may be down in the US, not that anybody was aware of that one boating apparently, but dairy related crime is on the rise worldwide, apparently. The dairy related crime is on the rise worldwide, apparently. The last month, a daring thief made headlines for stealing more than 300,000 pounds worth of award winning cloth bound cheddar. Pounds sterling, not the weight. Pounds sterling. Yeah, yeah. Pounds sterling, sorry. Thanks to, it was basically, they did an elaborate con that involved impersonating a wholesale distributor for a big French cheddar retailer. I don't associate France with cheddar, but. Oh, you feel like cheddar's beneath the French?

Yeah. Cheddar feels like that's like some US. Yeah. It feels like that's what several wars have been fought over, is France versus England. But yeah, basically, Ocean's Eleven, if George Clooney got hungry halfway through the movie and changed all his plans to be about just getting as much cheese as possible.

But yeah, I don't know. This ties into what we were talking about. There's just a lot of appetite for cheese in the black market, apparently. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's wild. Last week in Vancouver, police stopped a thief from stealing $12,800 worth of cheese from Whole Foods.

That's so much cheese. Yeah. Yeah. The thing that's really interesting though is like the Y, you know, cause you're like, what the fuck? What cheese? Like a 300,000 pound sterling cheese heist. What, what are y'all doing?

Where is this going? Where's the market actual pound? Like weight pound. Uh, it was apparently as many as four full, uh, weighed roughly the same amount as four full sized elephants, which that's, I'm like, so that's why you normally do jewel thief. That amount is called a truckle. They said 950 truckles of cheese. I'm like, Oh, a truckle.

I once you step on it, throw in a little Velveeta. Right. Fuckin you don't even know how big it is. Exactly. I'm like, Oh, a truckle. Plus, once you step on it, throw in a little Velveeta. Right. Exactly. You don't even know how big it is. Exactly. Exactly. Oh yeah, bro.

I turned that 950 truckles into about fucking 3000 truckles, baby. Yeah. Basically the price of cheese and specifically fine cheese has been going up on the black market, meaning that the resale price is also higher everywhere. And it's just wild to me that people are buying cheese on the black market. Right. But like right next to where drugs are sold, they're like, well, it's wild too, because it's not like somebody's like, yo, bro, I need my

cloth bound cheddar, man, I'm sick. Oh, like I need that shit. It's because the price are high, like restaurants and bakeries are like kind of the ones are like, you know, you got that shit on the low. OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll cop that. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, I'm going to make a. I'm just going to make a business pitch to the lovely Viking out here. This luxury cheese got to be something you can forge.

Right. Oh, you just put that fancy cloth on the outside of it. Got to be something you can fucking, how many dickheads are really going to be like, like, oh, take a little taste and be like, this is, this is fake. Could you imagine though, it's like, it's like a whole fucking Miami vice. Sure you don't mind if I sample the goods? Yeah, switchblade, puts it into a brick, and then like licks it like, nah, this ain't Camembert. I'm just saying there are levels of funk you can achieve without whatever the fuck happens in there. Just straight up, just like shitty fucking, just odd-ing smells.

I'm just saying, it has to, given the incentives, this has to be doable. And somebody fucking do the great cheese heist or no, the great cheese forgery. Someone, someone is the Rembrandt of forging cheeses. Yeah. Who is it? Block of Philadelphia cream cheese with like some spices mixed in or something. Listen, I listen, there has to be to be some version of just apple cider vinegar, a little bit of fucking, a little bit of the original. I'd imagine, well, like, because if you think about it, right, like the way it's being reported, it is like small businesses that are the biggest buyers of black market cheese that I'm sure those people involved in the game are like, yeah, bro, I just flipped like a fucking 18 pounds of Tillamook and I told him that

Yeah, England You can dust it up you can fucking add a little bit of whatever the fuck needs to go on to the straws and whatnot Because also like, you know, this is the thing like When you tell people some food is a fine thing. They fucking buy it. Your brain fills in all the gaps. You just add enough like fucking complexity. Again, my pitch is a little bit of mustard powder, but it could be anything. Yeah, right.

Little bit of cumin. Yeah, I feel like mustard powder would trick my ass. Yeah, I mean, one of the things I say is the strength of this, because like, obviously like Jules fine art much easier to transport like then. Yeah. Four elephants worth or fucking 900 truckles worth of cheese. But one of the upsides of cheese is that it's, they say it's easily laundered because you just repurpose it on the kitchen and it's gone.

It's in someone's digestive tract like four days later. Yeah. The evidence is evaporates. Yeah. It goes right down the big deck toilet. Yeah, exactly. The FBI is not like this person suddenly came upon a whole lot of cheese. You know, it just, it shows up in like the bottom line of a restaurant three

months later and no, nobody's the wiser. It's just, yeah, it's just wild. Like in the early two thousands, cheese was the most stolen product in the UK and Europe, not the most stolen food, but the most stolen product. I mean, I get it, bro. Like what's, what are you going to do? How, like, how many years do you do if you get caught with like three truckles of cheese versus a fucking kilo of fucking heroin?

Yeah. And like restaurants are shady as fuck, you know, like the restaurant industry is, I'm sure like it's so infused by mobs and stuff like that, that I'm sure it's so infused by mobs and stuff like that, that I'm sure it's not that hard to plug that shit right into the supply chain, you know? Someone out there write a, write a The Bear spec script about the cheese guy. The cheese guy shows up one episode.

Right. Hell yeah. I got heroin and cheese. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is fucking crazy. But this also, that's the other loophole. Now the fucking restaurant can claim, oh, this has whatever, you know, insane cheese

in it. And then if they ever get found out, which they never would, they can be like, oh, my black market cheese guy fucking lied to me. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Told me the scam scams up and down. It's everywhere. Told me he got it at whole foods for, for real.

That it was just on sale. I did realize like at a certain point, my, my surprise at it being cheddar is just me being like, come on, this has gotta be Parmesan, right? Because of mafia. Come on. Well, what are we doing here, folks? You've been conditioned immediately. Not them, not them.

Come on. I was thinking good fellas. I know what they, the mafia does in prison. Slice the garlic so fine. Premium cheese. Anyways, maybe we can connect this black market cheese smuggling to an eating contest. Look, because I can't, if you know somebody

who's in the game, like, I just wanna know a little bit more about how that works. Like, you know. We need the mongers. We need the scammers. We need the dairists. We need the cows. Everybody. There's some cows, there's gotta be black market cows out there squirting out this black market cheese. That was right.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Come find us. Let us know. This is like already stressed out cow. Looks like Adam moves like Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems. Andrew T, what a pleasure having you on the podcast.

Can people find you follow you all that good stuff? Oh man, you know, since day one, I've been just posting nonstop on blue sky, just fucking blue bluey and get just off the roof. Uh, I don't know. just off the roof. I don't know. I will say, I have, I don't know why I replaced Blue Sky with where the Twitter app was on my phone, just like in terms of app placement to thumb muscle memory. And it did make me say it's not good, but it did make me significantly less anxious.

So, I guess, I guess follow me there. I don't know. Yo, is this racist? That's my podcast. I will say on the premium show, because my co-host has been out of town, I've been doing a lot of single person musings about mutual aid that I have heard people find useful. I don't know if that's true. I'm a dumb ass, but consider it.

There you go. Go check it out. Always a great show. Thank you. And go follow Andrew on blue sky, blue sky, Andrew T. Head me up on threads. This skeet.social. I'm still at the point where like I, every time I type blue sky into a actual computer browser, I go to just blue sky.com, which is a random place that

sells like home goods. Even log into blue sky on the, I've never even tried. Yeah. I don't know if you can do it. Can you? Fuck yeah. Is there a work of media Andrew that you've been enjoying? Hell yeah.

I've been trying to teach myself how to write procedurals in our new media landscape, it feels like that's the shit that people are going to want. And so I have been watching the fucking Rockford files from the top. Wow. Let me tell you, I don't know much about the history of it. I don't know much about detective genres. What I do know is that the entertainment industry in the 70s was rife with cocaine,

and watching like mainlining episodes of the Rockford Files really underlines that shit, because some of that shit is cray-cray. Wow. What is the Rockford Files again? Is it like a police procedural? Yeah, it's a detective procedural. Just fucking, I don't even know, his name is Rockford.

I don't know if he has a first name. I'm sure he does, and I just haven't read it. The Rockford? Yeah, it's like a thing where I don't really have any connection to any of it. It was his name, fucking James Garner was the actor. I'm looking at the Wikipedia now. But it's mostly just like to me, the way the stories come together, I'm trying to learn the rhythm of a detect of a quirky detective procedural. And he's that but it's very LA and

it's very just it seems to be an incredibly hot woman comes to him with a problem of the week. seems to be an incredibly hot woman comes to him with a problem of the week. Mm-hmm. Somewhere around 36 minutes, there is a car or plane chase that doesn't totally connect for me in terms of how we got there. There's various types of kung fu of various quality, and oftentimes a pretty fucked up gunfight that also feels tonally a wee bit out of the blue, in my opinion. Car chases in the seventies, that's just one of those things where I'm like, I'll never understand. This isn't interesting to me. A lot of these car chases are just boring as hell.

It's really weird. The Blues Brothers is a real overlap of two things that I will never be able to understand. It's hard to put yourself in the mindset. I know all of our attention spans have been eroded, but I feel like classically, at the time, people are like, fucking like a new episode of Rockford Files was like, oh, what if they made a new Fast and Furious movie every week? This is the most heart-pounding shit Yeah

You know when people are like Movie podcasts or whatever like what's all right top three favorite movie. Yeah car chases you might as well be like That part in bullet where his car goes like three inches off the ground. Like, holy shit. Oh, just like, how? Why?

Why, I don't care at all. You might as well be like, I felt like the five greatest volleyball players of all time. All right. Sure. Sick. I think I'd actually,

if I went and watched the volleyball players, I'd be, I'd have more of a reaction than the carjays all just seem the same to me. Any entertainment that has to cut, for you to get it, that has to cut to a guy in a director's chair going, what you have to understand about the time is. And then, it's like, just a long, long explanation. I'm like, wow, that does sound thrilling. People still hadn't gotten used to the idea of cars.

Miles, where can people find you? Is there work in media you've been enjoying? Uh, yeah. Find me everywhere. Miles of gray, including blue sky. Check us all out over there. Uh, and you can find Jack and I on the basketball podcast. Miles and Jack, I'm at boosties. Uh, find me talking about 90 Day Fiance on 420 Day Fiance.

A blue ski I like is from at this one over here. But the O and over is a zero. And they said, this place is big coffee shop inside a bookstore vibes. And I'm here for it. It's like a very specific, you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you kick it in here, I think, I think I have an idea of what planet you're from. Yeah. I, I'm going to say to make this proposal.

Um, and I'm sure it's happened elsewhere, but I feel like I've, I'm not hearing this as much as I thought I would, which is, Elon doesn't fucking want it. I think we should just call posts on blue sky tweets. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do that. Tweets are things, sounds that come out of the sky. Keep, did you imagine that?

He just sues people on blue sky for using it. Every time. As like their preferred nomenclature. All this, like, are we calling them skeets business? Really? Right. It's like just because in crawl personally, just because you can be like, hey, let me get some Kleenex or whatever.

That doesn't mean it's the brand. It's like we just associate the thing. Oh, may I have a facial tissue? Get the fuck out of here. Kleenex. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien and on blue sky at Jack OB the number one dot B sky dot social. Somebody pointed out it could be interpreted as Jack O bone rock lobster on the discord

was like AKA no sorry doc underscore lobster on the discord jack It's like aka no, sorry doc underscore lobster on the discord Jackobone dot B sky a jackal bone But it's jacko be number one. I did a bad job on picking my blue sky name who cares It was fucking where I don't give one point over there exactly. Yeah, you should add your aol.com address on there I know I should have jackob at aOL.com address on there. I know, I should. It's a little cute af. JackobadAOL.com. com.dsky. .whatexactly.

I've been enjoying an account over there called Awful Taste but Great Execution where they feature photos of things like somebody who just like completely nailed a glossy nail that looks like salami or nails that look like Tongues coming out of the tips of their fingers Yeah This is the perfect time on a social media thing where you just take shit Wholesale from reddit and post it on another app as if you're the one like Yeah, it's a plagiarism all the way. That's because that get famous. Because that's like so many content accounts are just like, if you're on Reddit, you're like,

that was on Reddit earlier. But yeah, that's a whole subreddit called ATBGE, awful taste but great execution. I'm a fan. Who cares? I didn't catch it on Reddit. Yeah, no, I'm just saying, this is the time. And I am catching it now. One of them is like a shag carpet that looks like,

they've made it look like a crocodile is emerging from the sh shed carpet. It's fucking so rad. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. I think we're on Blue Sky. We're going to start posting episodes and all that shit on Blue Sky pretty soon. We're at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes

and our footnotes. Footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do you think people might enjoy? We're going back to the Well, the Dijon and McGee Well. Last time there was a video of that track, Big Mike's, the live version. Well, there's another performance

from that same sort of visual album. This is Dijon and McGee, but this is Dijon's track. It's called Talk Down, but check out the live version because it's super dope too, kind of a similar setting. I think the album version sounds cool, but the live version sounds, in my opinion, way better. So check this out, it's on YouTube. Dijon, Talk Down, the live version. Check it out. Hell yeah. We'll link off to that in the footnotes. Today, we say

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