The Daily Zeitgeist - WTF Is Flagstock? Jesse Watters Weird Straw Insecurity 09.06.24
Episode Date: September 6, 2024In episode 1738, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Blake Wexler, to discuss... FLAGSTOCK, Ever Heard Of It?! No? Oh…Well It F**kin' ROCKED (OK Maybe It Didn’t), Jesse Watters Suggests That Re...al Men Don’t Use Straws… Again, Chipotle and Spirit Halloween Are Turning Sh*tty Memes Into Real Costumes and more! FLAGSTOCK, Ever Heard Of It?! No? Oh…Well It F**kin' ROCKED (OK Maybe It Didn’t) Jesse Watters Suggests That Real Men Don’t Use Straws… Again Crazy, Stupid, Love - Straw Scene Chipotle and Spirit Halloween Are Turning Sh*tty Memes Into Real Costumes Skibidi Toilet Halloween Costumes Are Now A Thing Halloween creeps into US stores and theme parks scarily early to boost sales LISTEN: The Beginning of the End by HeadacheSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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this is the first time i've had like this level of a problem oh is it i mean that i'm aware of
yeah yeah yeah but i'm usually pretty oblivious about these things there's a lot of things that
don't reach your desk jack because of your general demeanor he's not going to be able to
handle this no we're gonna have to handle this. No, we're going to have to handle this
in the early mornings
before he shows up. He is going to
shit the bed, intercepting the
newspaper on my front porch.
He's not going to like this one.
No, no, no, no, no.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
Hey, babe, the newspaper's got holes
in it again today.
Do not let him see the paper.
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We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.
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Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit,
where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky
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into something everyone in the South loves, the Biscuits. I was a lady Rebel.
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Was I coming in too hot there?
Mild.
You were coming in mild.
Coming in mildly hot.
He could have come in hot.
He's coming in warm.
Yeah.
Hey, this is the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness,
and it is Friday, September 6th, 2024.
Oh, man.
What a great day.
What a great day.
It's the old 9-6.
It's the old 9-6, the reverse 6-9.
We're here.
69 for old people?
Is that?
Yeah, yeah.
That's what I picture when I think of 96.
Oh, no.
I 96. Not with no. I'm 96.
Not with my hips in back.
It's also National Coffee Ice Cream Day.
Apologies.
National Read a Book Day.
National Food Bank Day.
And shout out to the late, great Hannibal Lecter because it's National Chianti Day.
Wasn't that a thing he did?
Wasn't that like a nice Chianti?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's going to have his liver with some nice fava beans and a nice Chianti, I believe.
Yeah.
Anyway, there it is.
The late great Hannibal Lecter.
Well, to make this about my favorite movie, Coffee Ice Cream is what Michael Brody asks
for after coming face to face with the shark in Jaws.
Wow.
And I always thought that was weird.
What kind of child's favorite ice cream is coffee ice cream?
They took you out of the movie?
You're like, fuck this.
Yeah, and that's why it's no longer my favorite.
My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Potatoes O'Brien.
Wow.
Didn't have time to find an a.k.a.
I love that.
I love that about you.
Honestly.
Those passion holes in my wall.
Because we're doing this as like a video experiment.
Maybe in a week you'll be able to go watch this on a YouTube channel.
I know you guys loved hearing how uncomfortable we were.
And just only being able to hear that.
But now you can see the awkwardness with your own eyes.
And I've just been working on my
posture so that you guys think oh shit needs help oh my back just cracked that is why i said that
oh you're the passive aggressive mom here you're you're down here and we're up here uh i'm thrilled
to be joined as always by my co-host. It's Mr. Miles Gray.
It's Miles Gray, a.k.a. Rollout.
I got my TikTok homie.
I watched that.
I stout rollie.
He copped that.
His Amex phony.
He still owed that.
He filed bankruptcy.
Don't do that.
Okay, shout out to Jimboku on the Discord discord there jimboku or jimboku i don't know how you how you want to pronounce that i'm giving it a little bit of a
japanese flair so thank you for that ludicrous aka it was weird you're talking about ludicrous
and then he threw the pitch out at the braves game with his big ass prosthetic arms yeah wow
wow fucking true genius yeah like what and how do you do like how was his
accuracy with those big things what did you actually see no i just saw a photo he got it
to home plate like in the and you know the guy who was catching kind of had to dig it out but it
surprisingly got there uh pretty on target so i'm not gonna i can't really i can't lie i can't
cast dispersions on his throne i love first of all you love to cast dispersions i love to cast dispersions so it's wild that you can't
all that you suddenly can't cast us i know wow look who suddenly i can't i shan't but i love
the giant like this trend the giant baseball hat was our first you know that when people were like rocking those in the post game
like but but now like giant shoes with giant arms yeah i mean what's next i i love it uh
what's next my teeth fall out of my mouth and i make it at school it's like a weird dream
miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant comedian, writer, actor, who's brought you comedy albums such as The Blake Album, Stuffed Boy, Live From The Pandemic.
Are you mouthing the words along with me?
His newest special, Daddy Long Legs, which you can go watch right now on YouTube, and you must go watch it.
on YouTube and you must go watch it.
The coiner of the disgusting phrase plumper's to describe his juicy thighs,
his juicy Philly above the knees stakes.
Please welcome the hilarious,
the chaotic,
the riding and an incumbent bike in short shorts.
It's a recumbent bike. Oh no.
The riding a recumbent bike in short shorts.
It's Blake wexler
this is blake wexler aka i never thought i'd zeitgeist alone but i'm sick and tired of miles's
tone i tried discord for an aka but fuck forgot my and i'm a silly duck jack takes his time he never hurries up
he's not pro-choice and i've had enough
my plumpers are pressed against my schlong i'm so sorry for this song that was producer victor's song
by blake 182 wow wow wow you did it and by the way
i do want to thank first of all you two for having me on and then um the band you two and
also jack and miles and i do want to thank ludacris for using my legs for arms um while
throwing out that pitch.
Would you go out? I generally, yeah, go ahead.
Would you just try and go out just with gigantic legs
and keep everything else normal?
I feel like that's just kind of a funny one.
Hulk legs?
Yo, this centaur just pulled up on the pitcher's mound.
A naturally hairless centaur.
Few things more disgusting.
A smooth centaur?
Yeah, a naturally hairless centaur would you be
but yeah did you be put off by a smooth i don't know if i'm i don't know if i'm like it's gotta
have hair if it's a centaur yeah i don't think i do hair i guess i i guess i like would a horse
would a hairless horse look that much different other than color it would be like a pink oh yeah
no think of how shitty a hairless dog looks.
Well, dogs don't have
their hair pressed against their skin
the way a horse does. The horse is not
working with that much hair.
My hair is pressed against their skin.
No, when I cuddle them.
When I cuddle them.
Actually, hairless horses, they just kind of look pink.
Yeah, they're just pink horses.
Oh, alright.
That's what the Chapel Run song is about.
The Pink Pony Club.
I love that song.
God, I'm so good with learning a song and then finding a way to stick it into my conversation.
There it is.
You've done it.
Yeah.
Blake, we are unfortunately going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.
We are unfortunately out of time.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you.
We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.
First, a couple of the things we're talking about today.
We're going to talk about Flagstock.
Ever heard of it?
No.
Yeah, that's right.
Oh, you haven't?
Nah.
What is it?
Is this a thing on the right?
I had not heard of it until you put it in the doc.
Oh, no, it is.
It is. It is.
Sounds like it.
It was a big deal.
And it was an even bigger deal when it happened.
That's why we got to talk about it.
Yeah.
It was like the beginning of Groove is in the Heart, except without the up part.
It just went.
And that's made now.
Yeah, none of the.
Wow.
Is that such a dated reference now? Groove is in the Heart. Oh, yeah. I don't think it was ever of the wow is that a such a dated reference now groove is oh yeah
i don't think it was ever of the times
do you hear that groove is in the heart reference i don't know what the fuck he was cool yeah
we're gonna talk about jesse waters like working on his standup material and sticking with a joke that like doesn't work, but he doesn't have like his only audience is producers who are like our show, giving him polite laughter. So he's just, yeah. And I know a thing or two about this. So he's just riding with his joke about his observation. This is his observational comedy routine about how straws
aren't manly. And neither is
soup. Did you see
that part at the end of the clip?
He also talks about...
I went deep on this, man.
On water theory?
Yeah, water straw theory.
Is that why you were eating soup with a fork
earlier? Yeah.
I chug it.
I put it in a beer bong.
It's just a funnel.
It comes out so slow.
One of those helmets to get the podcast.
By the way,
now that there will be a video component to this show,
we will be incorporating other genres of YouTube videos,
such as mukbang.
I'll be chugging soup.
Okay. Great. Yeah. Great. We won't really be talking about it but i'm gonna bring it up right here have you noticed that the mainstream media
has started there uh-oh here comes trump like without really any polling evidence but more like
if you look at where he was in the polls before like just you know anything to make it seem like it's
close i mean you know the one thing they could just be like is like who cares about the polls
because they sometimes they're really off like rather than like faking like here he comes he's
like i don't know the the poll said a lot of stuff over the years that didn't come true but hey
who knows the people working on the harris campaign seem like they are maybe bad at their jobs.
I think that's probably the story to be telling right now.
This is an inept campaign being run against Donald Trump.
And so we all still might be totally fucked.
Anyways, that's not from a story we'll be talking about.
That's just from what's happening.
Spirit Halloween has revealed a couple of costumes that
we want to talk about. Skibbity Toilet,
Chipotle something
or other. Random Chipotle
bodysuits. And we will
of course say R.I.P.
for now
to Havana Syndrome.
No.
No. No, not you too.
Did they hide the cannons? Did they get rid of the cannon did
they find them the sound the sound cannons uh they still still no sound cannons blake so this is
i don't even know why i do this show jack i don't know you just getting news like
get there for the day that they finally discover the sound cannons yeah whatever we're not talking
about ai we're not talking about havana syndrome we're not talking about ai we're not
talking about havana syndrome we're not talking about the coal gas study do we even have a
fucking show anymore so what are we talking about i don't know hey that's up to you this is the part
where we just lean on your ass the fucking magic yeah well by asking you this is the part where we lean on your ample ample base uh by asking you what is something
blake wexler from your search history so i what if i thought this was helpful for the video
is that not good have you ever seen an old guy like in a photograph do that do the rock on
like i've seen old guys i think it's like a
some sort of like fraternity thing uh oh that's what the freemasons of pasadena what we do
yeah it does feel like a mason thing yeah like sir chistory what's going on yeah well you already
asked that but yeah uh i will answer it now i will now answer
it i was looking up blue light and for my glass for glasses because as we discussed last time i'm
sure you know a lot of people have been covering you've been following uh play by play on what's
going on with my glasses i got them fixed but i need new lenses and i'm like should i pay for
blue light that was the the search should I pay for blue light protection on glasses?
Blue blockers.
Blue blockers is what they're called.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not to be confused with beta blockers,
which is what us alphas do.
Out at the bar.
To keep, yeah, smaller men away from our women.
So do you need them the answer is like uh everything it seems like i
look up inconclusive the american ophthalmology association or something 98 similar to what i
just said says there's no proof that they help because there's no necessarily uh there isn't necessarily proof that they the blue
light causes strain on like a sort of strain on your eyes that the lenses can help with but
the article did also recommend i think it's like a 2020 20 rule or something where every 20 minutes
you're staring at your laptop or screen look away and stare at like something 20 feet
away for 20 seconds was what the rule was which helps your eyes kind of reset and take the strain
i'm inside of a closet and i yeah you're not gonna there's nothing 20 feet away that i could look at
that isn't a screen at this point okay helpful for all those workers working out in a cornfield somewhere on a platform.
Yeah, that was from suburbanremoteworkers.net is where I got that news story from.
But that was my search.
So I think I'm just not going to pay for it.
I'm going to be cheap and go blind.
I've definitely heard the wellness thing about blue light being something that keeps us up at night.
Sleep.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's what i thought you were talking about but you were just talking about having your eyes
strained having them like worn out correct the sleep thing i do believe everyone's on the same
page saying it's bad to look at blue light before you sleep okay so but in terms of for the rest of the day, inconclusive.
Oh, well.
Yeah.
You didn't like that?
You didn't like that?
You know, sometimes you don't need to add spice to something.
You can just say something and move on.
Inconclusive. Inconclusive.
I like that you're doing the, yeah, like when Homer got the laser eye surgery and they're
like, Mr. Simpson, you need the drop so your eyes will crust over.
And he's like, yeah, there you go with the add-ons and then his eyes just like visibly crossed over
yeah but the blue blockers yeah i get it i mean i i also considered something like that too but
then when i realized it's more just like about light pollution than eye strain i mean i don't
need glasses but yeah and they do it to look. So you just decided instead of wearing the glasses to take down the system.
Yeah, exactly.
From the inside.
That's right.
Works every time.
What, Blake, is something that you think is underrated?
Watching nature shows before you go to bed.
Now, this is the same issue as the blue light.
So it's a trade-off.
But I will sacrifice the blue light, okay?
Because sometimes, I honestly have a book that I enjoy reading right now and i never will wow and i you know i was i was reading
norm mcdonald's book and it was making me laugh so hard before i would go to bed i couldn't sleep
so i had to stop reading it but i do recommend watching like nat geo shows or whatever it is and like keeping your
phone away from you because that really there's like a peacefulness for any non-polar bear related
show you know any ocean show it just really like zends me out while i'm watching it so there's a
guy named like birdie gregory who's host. And he's this little English boy almost.
I don't know.
He might be 14 years old.
I don't know how he's hosting the show, but he's fantastic.
His name is Birdie?
Like a bird with a Y on the end?
No, like Bert, but worse.
Oh, okay.
I thought he was like, I'm a little birdie.
I'm Birdie Gregory.
Okay, Birdie Gregory.
Yeah.
I'm just watching cartoons
to get
is this a show
for children
by any chance
are we
that is interesting
there is a studio audience
exclusively made up
of three and four year olds
so it might
that might be what I'm watching
going wow
but then he's got this pig friend
who's also from the UK
named Peppa
it's kind of cool
like international vibe
oh that's interesting
yeah
yeah
and there's a mother
and a father oh yeah and the brother's smaller no you're right it is peppa pig i highly recommend watching
that nature show peppa pig to go to bed what is something you think is overrated i'm done
with the summer i think we've fucked the earth to the point where it's the worst season now I know people will go on
vacation during the it's just bad it's just I would much rather be in freezing temperatures
in the winter because you can layer up then deal with being hot and I know you all are getting a
big heat wave now or soon but yeah I'm so done with the summer getting the first cold day in on
the east coast is like the nicest
thing i'm like oh good i don't have to sweat 24 hours a day how far off are you want to how far
off are you from that day though on the east coast it's been 50s at night like high 50s for the past
few days yeah it's been high 80s at night in certain parts so brutal. So brutal. Yeah, first thing in the morning. Dude. Last thing at night.
When I moved to LA,
I thought that air conditioning
was like $45 a minute to run.
And so my roommate,
and my roommate was also an idiot,
so we didn't get it for like two years.
And there were times
when it would be a hundred,
you know, that stretch in late September,
early October,
where it's just in like one tens every single day and i was of course unemployed so i would like almost
like a hippo go into the shower and like splash water on my body to cool off like cold water get
out and do that multiple times a day and then fan shit just everywhere around you like a hippo yeah
and then i would put a whole
watermelon in my mouth and crush it in front of a bunch of a bunch of amazed odd children yeah
they loved it i would do it with a pumpkin during the fall squash uh am i a hippo peppa hippo
i'm sorry i missed everything because there was another i don't know what you said about pumpkins but it's okay david has pumpkins uh the thing i would do uh when i was because
also famously uh for some reason asian moms don't like air conditioning either so i grew up
also believing that it was 45 dollars a second that like sometimes just ring out i would i would
soak a bath towel in water
and then wring it out and then use that as like a blanket because that like the very wet towel
created a nice you know uh insulating layer to keep my body cool that's really funny that you
would wear a wet a wet towel as a cooling blanket where i had the opposite issue where we lived in like this town
house and i had where i my bedroom was was like air-conditioned finished attic like really like
a great place to like sleep but it didn't have heat up there so in the winter i would it was
like a nice room but i would have to wear like a coat to bed like in the winter, I would it was like a nice room, but I would have to wear like a coat to bed in the winter when I was home from college and quilts.
And also to add like what really made it a sad visual is that I was sleeping alone in a bunk bed, too, because we just never got a new bed for me.
So, yeah, when I was home from school, I would be in a coat shivering in a bunk bed in a nice townhouse.
It was already a very sad visual. would be in a coat shivering in a bunk bed but like in a nice townhouse right it was by the way
it was already a very sad visual oh yeah okay even though you set it up it was such a nice attic but
then the second you had a trench coat i'm like picturing some like turn of the century russian
novel where it's like you know you got like shivering in my coat yeah in the attic the tin
plates that they would pass through the little doggy hole in the door for me to eat, you know, with the mush on it.
Those would get cleared out pretty quickly.
So it's not as sad.
It wasn't a bug problem.
They cleared up my tin plates real quick.
As long as the three raccoons I lived up there with didn't get to it first.
And they got handsy.
And I do want to say for if anyone ever sees the visual
of this which seems uh less and less likely but we're working it out folks
i'm moving to new york next week so by wall we're moving i'm not um uh as psychotic as everything
that i've said so far on this program would lead you to believe.
You look like you're just squatting, really, is what it is.
But it doesn't matter.
I know the truth.
We know the truth.
I bring my own Wi-Fi router with me everywhere I squat, and it's high speed.
Yeah, that's right.
All right.
Let's take a quick break, and we'll come back and learn what Flagstock is.
Flagstock is.
I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult.
And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church.
And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church,
an alleged cult that has impacted members
for over two decades.
Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths
between high-control groups and interview dancers,
church members, and others whose lives and careers
have been impacted, just like mine.
Through powerful, in-depth interviews
with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts,
the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives.
Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration.
It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again.
Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden.
We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.
When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions.
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What is it like you miss 100% of the shots you never take?
Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself.
Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep.
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I'm
Keri Champion, and this is season
four of Naked Sports, where we live at the
intersection of sports and culture.
Up first, I explore
the making of a rivalry.
Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese.
I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about
women's basketball just because of one single game.
Every great player needs a foil.
I ain't really near them.
Why is that?
I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on.
From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.
Angel Reese is a joy to watch.
She is unapologetically black.
I love her.
What exactly ignited this fire?
Why has it been so good for the game?
And can the fanfare surrounding these
two supernovas be sustained?
This game is only going to get better
because the talent is getting better.
This new season will cover all things
sports and culture. Listen to Naked
Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network,
iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.
It was December 2019 when the story blew up. In Green Bay, Wisconsin,
former Packers star Kabir Bajabiamila caught up in a bizarre situation.
KGB explaining what he believes led to the arrest of his friends at a children's Christmas play.
A family man, former NFL player, devout Christian,
now cut off from his family and connected to a strange arrest.
I am going to share my journey of how I went from Christianity to now a Hebrew Israelite.
I got swept up in Kabir's journey, but this was only the beginning.
In a story about faith and football,
the search for meaning away from the
gridiron, and the consequences for everyone
involved. You mix homesteading
with guns and church
and a little bit of the spice of
conspiracy theories that we liked. Voila!
You got straight away. I felt
like I was living in North Korea
but worse, if that's possible.
Listen to Spiraled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
How do you feel about biscuits?
Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the Biscuits. I was a lady
Rebel. Like, what does that even mean?
The Boone County Rebels will
stay the Boone County Rebels with the image
of the Biscuits. It's right here in black and white
in print. A lion.
An individual that came to the school
saying that God sent him
to talk to me about the mascot switch
is a leader. You choose
hills that you want to die on.
Why would we want to be the losing team?
I'd just take all the other stuff out of it.
Segregation academies.
When civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools,
these charter schools were exempt from that.
Bigger than a flag or mascot.
You have to be ready for serious backlash.
Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
And we're back.
We're back.
Why?
Flagstock.
Yeah.
So did Flagstock just happen?
Flagstock happened on fucking Labor Day, right?
Oh, hell yeah, Brad.
So I know you probably, okay, you may not remember hearing about Flagstock, but you probably remember.
So last spring, right, when like there are a ton of pro-Palestinian like protests happening on campuses,
there was this moment at UNC Chapel Hill that like warmed the hearts of conservative media
when all these frat guys
like rallied around the American flag to like keep it from touching the ground.
And they're like, oh, I can't touch the ground, dude.
They were trying to put a Palestinian flag up.
We're going to hold this flag and we honor it to make sure it doesn't touch the ground.
That kicked off like this whole thing where they're like, look at these like young men
who like really understand like what's at stake here in this country.
So, so brave.
Yeah.
Rally on the side of the country they're in.
Totally.
Totally.
Yeah.
Rally around the sort of universal symbol for oppression at the moment.
But anyway, these guys were the darlings of conservative media for like a week.
But during that week, right, this GOP operative guy named John Noonan
set up a GoFundMe to be like,
we should thank these young men
and throw these frat boys an epic rager
like that they'll remember forever.
That shit raised over $500,000, okay,
during the course of the go.
This is how they described the fucking event.
Quote, commie losers across the country
have invaded college campuses to make dumb demands of weak university administrators.
But amidst the chaos, the screaming, the anti-Semitism, the hatred of faith and flag, stood a platoon of American heroes.
A platoon.
Armored in vineyard vines in Patagonia, fueled by Zin and White Claws.
Sorry, did he start making fun of them at this
point i don't this is where it gets weird uh fueled by zin and white claws these triumphant
brohemians protected old glory from the unwashed marxist horde laughing at their shrieks and
wails and shielding the stars and stripes from soviet missiles so missiles think, I mean, maybe they're using the term
when people throw things
that's like a projectile from a crowd.
Like sometimes they call it like a missile or whatever
in a technical sense.
But again, he's evoking a lot of cool stuff
with words that don't make sense anymore
if you actually look at the meanings.
But all that to say,
he got this GoFundMe fucking cracking.
So once the funds were
secured the organizers they reached out to the frats and it kind of all went basically downhill
from there like a lot of frats were like this kind of isn't like a great look for us to like
be involved in this it just feels like very right wing and i get like some of the guys were there
for you know protecting the flag but it's funny some of the guys were there for, you know, protecting the flag. But it's funny. Some of the guys are like, I didn't really do this like as like a Republican thing.
I just I just knew you couldn't let that flag touch the ground.
So I'm not really here for like I'm not really trying to go like a Republican event.
But it's like, oh, you sweet, sweet boy.
That's exactly what they've become.
These are mega heroes.
Yeah.
So they really they thought this thing was going to be like in the fucking thousands.
Right. In terms of attendance. So they really, they thought this thing was going to be like in the fucking thousands, right.
In terms of attendance.
And as they were talking to the frat guys, they're like, dude, we're going to have like
7,000 people there.
It's going to be wild.
The frat frat guys were like, but like the money, like what, what are you going to do
with like the 500,000?
Like, dude, it's going to go to make the sickest party for you guys.
And some of them were like, could we like we like maybe like it might be better spent like
improving our own frat houses or maybe just even like donating it to like a charitable cause because
it's not that like we were down and out um and they're like yeah you just shut the fuck up man
we're gonna have sublime with rome there and big and rich and cowboy troy you fuck wit so so it's
like a cool kid accidentally like looked at them and they were like we're
actually super tight uh based on that and i'm throwing the sickest party at my house for them
yeah for their birthday and presumably that went really well and not was not of course so they said
7 000 tickets but then they they like the details were held so closely, like guarded that people didn't know the venue until the day of.
And something like what they thought was going to be 7,000.
Then they're like, sorry, we only were handed out like 3,000 tickets.
About 200 people showed up total.
And they said it kind of basically got down to about 150 is where it sort of like leveled out to once people are like what the fuck is this but it's also like all the details of this are so fucking wild because again this
is like some boomer maga dude's like idea of what a fucking rager is so they had an ice luge in the
vip section for the broletariat uh that was exalted uhalted. And this whole event was in honor of.
They also had lawn games
with fucking customized logos or whatever.
Still not sure where the $500,000 went.
One of the musical acts, Big and Rich,
they begged people to come on Twitter.
They're like, guys, you gotta come.
The mystery spot has been revealed.
It's free.
Please come through see
lee greenwood us and other 60 year old people perform for young college people and you know
how did the event go well why don't you tell me why i show you this clip you call me fuck wad and
tell me how fucking sick this event was i'm at the on the edge of my seat here. All this build up, it sounds like it's going to be so awesome.
There's a flyover.
There is a flyover.
It's the most out of tune
guitar
national anthem.
It's like a minute clip where they just kind of jump
through the low lights of the whole thing.
For patriotism and to show our love
for the United States of America. thing patriotism and to show our love for the united states of america
look at this crowd dude the crowd is scattered those protesters tearing down old glory there's
like an old guy who's like lost in the crowd who's like what it was like in a vfw is he the one with
the microphone uh no he was the guy if you go back a
few seconds he's the guy in um very high uh pants with his shirt tucked in who has like a very
skeletal old man figure yeah you'll see anyway uh you saw it earlier anyway so they're like there's
a ton of like monologue like they're like eulogizing these guys and playing all this like
footage of them holding the flag then there's like this one moment where like this guy comes on to do like the unc fight
song it's also just very again dude a sick ass razor when you have a 58 year old dude go up there
to fucking turn the party up of you it goes And when I die, I'll be Tar Heel dead. So it's hoorah, Carolina, what?
Hoorah, Carolina, what?
Hoorah, Carolina.
Go to hell, Duke.
Is that what he says?
Yeah, that's the end of it.
You got to cap it off with go to hell, Duke.
Go to hell, Duke.
Yeah.
It is a bad turnout for the fourth stage at a state fair where Montel Jordan is playing. Not even, dude. That's like where... No, no. Montel Jordan's playing the fourth stage at a state fair where like montel jordan is playing not even dude that's
like we're no no montel jordan's playing the main stage oh oh oh right right right thank you for
fixing that yeah thank you for correcting yourself this is where cory feldman is performing yeah yeah
like whatever is on this stage is like bumming people out but my favorite part about i mean
there's so many favorites a favorite part
about this is because it's five hundred thousand dollars you can estimate how much money these
idiots got paid to perform at this stupid fucking thing because it's like you look at the stage
all right so a lot of money went into the stage there's also they and the organizers definitely
pocketed at least three hundred least at least 500 000 yeah at
least 500 000 well so it's like oh big and rich are working for free like they love this so much
they're done saving horses and riding cowboys right no this is what's fucking murky though
right like a lot of people like we're what the fuck is it's like even the frat guy's like dude
you could probably throw a rager for like 30k like they were even like they've thrown enough parties
with fucking 30 000 dude we could fucking everyone can get alcohol poisoning yeah yeah but like you
just put some antifreeze into the oh yeah dude easy easy works the same so but the whole thing
was kind of like a big grift like the organizers continued to raise funds even after the gofundme
was successful
and like it was real mergers like anything left over will go to charities which ones i don't know
and how much money's left over what why am i on trial there are people saying that like one of
the musical acts said the stage was donated like the stage infrastructure was donated the beer was
you had to buy food and alcohol so you're like where did
this money go exactly where did the money go yeah the fucking musicians did it for free apparently
they only did it for their travel to the venue and based on how shitty the sublime rome fucking
performance was i believe that these people were not fucking paid rome ramirez who
is now like the new front guy for for sublime dude this is like you know bradley the original
singer from from sublime was obviously had his issues uh with drinking drugs and stuff like that
this is like this is like next level like guys should not have gone on stage to sing
a like a sublime song yeah this is this is
rome hey this is rome baby when in rome do like the fucking tar heels do because this is this is
him hitting fucking santa ria right here
oh no Oh, no.
Oh, buddy.
So that's what they were being fucking serenaded.
That's on par with the Star Spangled Banner that sent that girl to rehab.
Oh, yeah, right.
At the baseball.
Yeah.
All-star weekend the reason that sublime is so popular is that literally everybody can sing their songs pretty well right it's just like the
most basic easy songs to sing you get the song stuck in your head and then you're like damn
should i be the lead singer of sublime yeah so to have the person who is the lead singer of sublime get up there and just fucking that
biff it that hard yeah yeah gives us all hope i think yeah i think so 500 000 well laundered
i'll say uh for her fucking flag stock so yeah like in the end like a lot of people were like
there was one interview with this one guy one frat guy who was really trying to act like it
wasn't an l and he's like like, you know, going into it,
we didn't know if this thing was going to be huge
or tiny and no one would show up.
And now that I'm here,
it's
huge. So that's cool.
It's huge.
It's huge.
It's huge, dude.
Question mark?
Yeah.
Well, congratulations, dude. Question mark. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, congratulations, guys.
Congratulations.
I'm sure this is going to do great for you.
You won't regret this at all going forward in your history as adults and in your future trying to meet girls on UNC's campus.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Same time next year.
Yeah, that's right.
Be right back. Same time next year. Yeah, that's right. Be right back.
Same time next year, yeah.
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there he is oh he's just always ready to you know hop in yeah he is he is it's friday
that's right all right uh let's check in with j Waters because he just blasted Tim Walz for not being masculine enough.
And we know that's true because, A, women that Jesse Waters personally claims to have talked to don't want to fuck Tim Walz.
Gotcha.
And B, and so that one you might be like okay hearsay your honor uh well b we have
actual scientific evidence an expert witness your honor i bring jesse waters to the stand
who has a theory on why tim walls i think not even a theory right i feel like because this
has been borne out scientifically i think we can call this a law now right yeah law of science yeah this is that helps me that helps me not
having seen this yet yes so now this is what this is going to be exactly now take everything jesse
waters says as just absolute immutable truth that you must accept here's jesse waters on his take on
masculinity women love masculinity and women do not
love Tim Walls. So that should just tell you
about how masculine Tim Walls is.
The other day you saw him with a vanilla
ice cream shake.
Had a straw in it.
Again, that tells you everything.
Judge Jeanine.
Judge Jeanine, over to you.
Sorry.
It was
he had a straw in it,
and that tells you everything you need to know.
Yeah.
No, we know.
We can tell.
We are all in agreement.
Obviously, dude.
I haven't been used.
Why did he even think you had to say that?
Everyone knows that if you drink through a straw,
that's unmasculine.
Ivory of oxygen to live.
It's like, what?
Yeah, dude. Also, real men Ivory of oxygen to live. It's like, what? Yeah, yeah.
Dude.
Yeah.
Also, real men don't go fucking snorkeling because that shit's sus as hell, dude.
Having a fucking snorkel in your mouth, dude.
Having a fucking straw in your mouth, dude.
Even when I go to the dentist,
I don't even let them do the suction
to get my saliva.
I just let it pool out
and just fall out of my face,
all over my face
because I ain't having no tube in my mouth. You know i mean you know what i mean guys man you look like rocky
with just blood hell yeah dude i'm looking like million dollar baby i've been intubated or
something dude fucking tough shit i i saw this beta horse eating straw and i got so pissed off
eating straw i threw a hamburger as hard as I could at that thing's stupid brainless head.
And it stopped and it ate that.
And I'm like, there we go.
Make progress.
It's wild that he's been like holding on to this for a very, like it's part of his brand.
Obviously.
Weird takes on masculinity.
It's a thing he tends to come back to the way i come back to the coal
gas study or um the havana right right right right right right but it's uh so i'm not gonna begrudge
him that but i am a little confused why he thinks it's so compelling well here like you know let's
just let's this is from last year when again, he was like, dude, did you see that fucking guy using a fucking straw?
Is he OK? This is again, Jesse Waters with his straw straw man takes.
On Monday, I covered Joe Biden's Thanksgiving trip to Nantucket.
He polar plunged at a little Black Friday shopping with Hunter and he called one of our correspondents stupid.
And we're willing to look past that little outburst,
but some things we just can't let slide.
Joe Biden uses straw.
Now, if you've seen me on The Five or on Primetime,
you know I recommend that all men refrain from using straws.
It's unbecoming.
The way a man's lips purse.
The size of the straw is just too dainty.
The way your fingers clasp on it no
come on wait i'm sorry you like a size queen is he like a size queen he's like i don't like
like i want to i want to wrap my i want stretch marks on my mouth when i put my fucking when i
sip from a shot that's some little puny thing you know what i mean i drink through pcp pipe
is what i what is it called i'm smoking out of a pc
yeah whoops this is by the way we've had to edit all the other times blake has accidentally
brought up pcp pipes in this episode so many and used um yeah and used on the show no i like to
drink out of a gutter i like to remove gutters off my house and then drink through them.
An ice luge.
I guess we'll let him continue.
There's a little bit on the end of this, right, Jack?
You're saying as he continues to talk about this?
Yeah, yeah. He also has
some soup takes.
Straws are for women and little kids.
But apparently, this is controversial.
So then we show
Jimmy Kimmel, who's making fun of him.
Men should never suck anything through a straw.
Really?
Is that a thing now?
Jimmy, you know I don't apologize.
That, along with the straws and others, one of my many tenets.
And I'm sure Trump would agree that wasn't a good look.
He's better than that.
And as you've heard me say, it's not just straws, Jimmy.
Soup is another problem area.
Men shouldn't eat soup in public.
Again, you're pursing your lips in anticipation.
Okay, we got a stock photo of somebody eating soup.
You lean your head out, trying not to spill it.
Come on. It's like a balancing act what soup isn't even filling balancing sometimes you have to blow on it if it's too hot it's too hot it's not dude i what what happened in jesse water's
life you know what i mean where you end up so like so in your head with your like homophobic
shit where you're like dude don't fucking fucking put a tube near your mouth or something.
And then you got to blow on something, dude.
And men should be fully reclined, laying down, eating with their hands.
That's the only way to eat.
Otherwise, you know, I don't know.
You look a little...
Only manly way to taking calories is have grapes fed to you
while you're being fanned.
Otherwise, starve to
death yeah with peacock feathers i mean based on what we know about tucker his predecessor like
one would have to suspect that jesse waters's dad got cucked by uh like a straw man yeah no by a
straw yeah by a straw straw salesman a soup guy. A straw salesman. A soup guy? I don't know. Yeah.
The soup, like, people don't even purse their lips to eat soup as far as I know.
Is he talking about blowing on something that's hot?
Yeah, it would just burn your mouth.
Again, it doesn't make any sense.
The thing that, for me, resonated, because I do agree with some of what he's saying,
you know, more than anything, is, like, you know how, like, when you're a kid and you
take shit from, like, TV and movies when you're a kid and you take shit from
like tv and movies and you kind of like bring that into your personality like most kids thought they
were ace of ventura at some point yeah or like you're like i talked out of my ass literally
before and now it's only figuratively but but you know what i mean and like you're kind of like oh
that's that that thing that character said i'm gonna take that on in my life as a philosophy
but you're like 12 this guy is doing it like in his 40s because i don't know if you remember the film uh crazy
stupid love like ryan gosling's cool guy character tells the nerdy steve carell character in that
film to knock it off with using a straw because it looks like they're sucking on a little dick. Oh, I mean, that's it.
He's just like stealing.
Yeah, I think I think I think he saw that.
It was like, dude, this Ryan got this Ryan.
This is my whole shit right here.
Sickest dude I've ever fucking seen.
And if his rule is like you don't sip fucking anything out of a straw to be a man, that's just one of Jesse's laws, baby.
It is what that idiot only used
it for one line. I can
stretch this out for years.
I don't have to ever stop.
Really, Jesse?
No straws? Yeah, I'll tell you why.
You got to purse your lips.
You got to cup the
water.
You got to drink the
water. It's just unbecoming.
It's unbecoming, especially not of a president. What you got to do the water. It's just, it's just, it's unbecoming. It's unbecoming.
Especially not of a president.
So yeah.
What you got to do is freeze the soup and lick it like a block of a popsicle.
That's how men eat soup.
Just lap it up.
You know what I mean?
Like a dog.
Yes. Like a male dog.
Yeah.
Poor guy.
Tough man dog.
Yeah. That is, that has to be haunting to have a movie character's
voice ringing through your head like and be like oh my god i'm doing the thing ryan gosling's
character said to not do in that rom-com that most people kind of remember yeah i wonder if
this is like one of his writers is like stealing from that and he's just like confidently like this is good stuff
right right right we're killing it more stuff like that yeah that's it it's also like donald
trump has like talked about the fact that he because he's a germaphobe will not like drink
anything not through a straw including like if he's at a black tie event right we'll only drink
through a straw because he doesn't trust the glasses to be clear and to the point where like
in the culture wars they were hawking their like full pvc pipe straws that they were putting out
like in response to like oh everything's a paper straw or like not plastic anymore buy your trump
maga straws um it's a big part of the brand but anyway it doesn't matter
because nothing is consistent with their outrage it's just they just say whatever and i'm sorry
kind of fucked me up because my mother-in-law for a long time has been complimenting me on how much
i like soup because i love korean soups and it is a great thing about you it's probably one of the
only good things well yeah it's the only reason you come back on the show like yeah it's because
of his love of soup yeah yeah and thank you and but then recently was like you know most men don't like soups
when she was like telling me about soups and she was like so that's why we think it's like so nice
that you like soups and yeah now now i don't eat soup because i feel like you can't makes me look
jack i made my mother-in-, Jack, I made your favorite soup.
Yeah, put it on a plate for me.
Yeah, plate that.
Let's plate that, please.
Yeah.
How are you going to?
Don't worry about it.
Put it in a rocks glass.
Oh, yeah, it burns.
It's going all the side of my face.
It's fine.
It doesn't bother me.
But I got to have it hot.
I'm not going to blow on it and purse my lips.
No.
Wait, but so she's, was the implication there that soup is truly not
a man's food i think that is a thing in korean culture maybe that it's like not or that men
are like soup is too easy for you to make make me something that's not soup or she's a big jesse
waters fan huge i mean i should mention that yeah she, oh, you want me to get you a straw for your soup, Jack?
You're like, what?
Because you're a real man, aren't you?
Yeah.
70% of what she says about me is in Korean within your shot of me, and I don't speak Korean.
So she entirely could be like, Jesus Christ.
She's like, wow.
She's like, I wanted more for you as my daughter. But hey, you know what?
It is what it is, huh?
She loves you, babe.
She loves you.
Yeah.
Getting behind me and giving a thumbs down to everyone else in the room.
Doing a little straw motion.
Straw motion.
Yeah.
What's that?
Oh, nothing, Jack.
Your soup is ready.
All right.
Should we look at some Halloween costumes? Yes. Oh, nothing, Jack. Your soup is ready. All right. Should we look at some Halloween costumes?
Yes.
It's Halloween costume season already, even though it is 111 degrees in Los Angeles, which would melt most Halloween costumes, which are made out of basically rough polymers.
Yeah.
Candle wax.
All right.
So it has arrived in stores earlier than ever this year
target home depot and lowe's rolled out their halloween collections back in july and spirit
halloween has already opened over a thousand stores in the u.s with more to come amazingly
spirit halloween's worst costume is not the inflatable skibbity toilet, but it's pretty bad.
Do they have a mask on the
Skibbity toilet?
No, that's what that guy looks like.
Because the face is that of
a cartoon character.
It's strange
that they felt, because the head
of the Skibbity toilet is not,
it's just a dude with dark hair. It looks like Elon
Musk got ran over by a steamroller.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Just flattened it fully out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
God, your kids aren't asking for a skibbity toilet costume.
No, no, no.
Probably my nephews, but not my kids.
But that's what they're getting.
Yeah.
They're not asking for it.
They're getting it.
You can be that or a man who drinks soup with a straw.
Make your choice, kids.
You can be that or a man who drinks soup with a straw.
Make your choice, kids.
But probably the worst costume we've seen thus far is a Chipotle-themed costume.
They're just unicolor bodysuits that are meant to represent a napkin fork, water cup, burrito, and to-go bag.
And for some reason, all except the burrito cover your entire face yeah why does the burrito get a face hole and everyone else he was the only handsome one i think is why the others
are so ugly the rest of the guys are the skibbity toilet guy underneath the mask so they're like
exactly yeah let's not do it really just looks like like even if I saw them walking down the street together, side by side, I would be like, Chipotle branded sleep paralysis demon.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Why I couldn't have put it together because, yeah, none of them really look like the thing.
The skin tightness of it feels strange. It feels like it doesn't help in any way right
well like what's offensive i get that it's against morals it's revealing it's um yeah it's not it's
indecent i think this is what yeah i was trying to say it should look like old-timey bathing
costumes very baggy down to the ankles yeah yeah it's like one of those things
too like where i get that on the internet people were joking like with like a really non-descript
thing and we're like i'm a chipotle fork and you're just wearing an all black bodysuit and
like that's what they're sort of being like oh man the internet loved that let's make let's do
literally that because we're brands and we're so savvy with like internet culture that they're like
hey now we did it you guys like it and everyone like this in the midst of people being like man
chipotle's fucking falling off yeah they're like well wait you think we've fallen off well we've
been investing money and we're going to do nothing yeah we're gonna do this with it yeah there was a
like meme where you know somebody created a fake a fake Spirit Halloween costume bag that said Chipotle fork and was just a black bodysuit.
And they were like, wait a minute, we have an idea.
No, you don't.
No, you don't.
No, you don't.
That's not an idea.
That's not what an idea is.
Yeah, and it's not funny when you do it it's funny because someone said this this dumb thing is now a chipotle fork rather than being like guess what this chipotle fork
is now a dumb thing and you're like nah nah nah nah see you know the sequence is the sequence is
all off it's all off yeah yeah i think the burrito got a breathing hole because its suit appears to be made of a real unbreathable plastic.
Right, right.
That's a safety.
Yeah, yeah.
You don't want someone to pass away dressed as a Chipotle burrito.
Good Lord.
I second that.
This year, I feel like if we're talking Chipotle, the costume would have been about those assholes who were filming Chipotle workers.
They'd be like, get cheap on me with the carnitas, all right?
You know what I mean?
That felt like more of the popular culture thing about Chipotle that was brewing more than, hey, I can be a bag.
Yeah.
Well, I guess we know what Miles is going to be for Halloween.
He's just snapping at uh service workers
nice try asshole gotcha all right well blake wexler what a pleasure having you on the daily
zeitgeist likewise where can people find you follow you hear you all that good stuff people
can do all of those things on at Blake Wexler
all social media. I have a stand-up special called Blake Wexler
Daddy Long Legs, which is streaming for
free on YouTube. And then
some stand-up dates in the fall.
We have Wayne, Pennsylvania
on September 29th. Brooklyn,
which is in New York, on
October 26th. Boston
November 2nd. Philly December 5th.
And Bethlehem pennsylvania
on january on january 4th so two days away uh two days away yeah wait wayne pennsylvania
september 29th is the most uh is the one that's coming up the soonest so get those tickets yeah
and which one are you gonna be the funniest at of those shows definitely not brooklyn um i would say boston probably i'll probably be the funniest because i'll be in a mood so yeah
let's do that i'll be in a mood you know when i'll be in a little bit when i get to mean town
i'm in a mood you know oh i'm in a mood that city's not on the grid system and that gets me
pissed off that's why i hate paris yes i can't stand fucking the sham silly
sorry is this bad podcasting what i'm doing right no it's it's peak podcasting i think it might
we're documenting the societal breakdown that's happening in real time and i think that's what's
important yeah and it's it is sweeps week yeah it is it is. Oh, God. Blake, is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?
Yes.
I saw a tweet from Ariel Dumas.
It's A-R-E-L-D-U-M-A-S.
And Ariel retweeted a screen grab where it was a news story that says,
Open AI pleads that it can't make money
without using copyrighted materials for free and then ariel wrote i have been told to stop
stealing muffins from the bakery unfortunately it's the only way to keep my lucrative muffin
stand in business everyone is fine with this that baby laughed miles where can people find you is there a work of media you
oh god where do you find me find me on thanks blake twitter thank you blake um what did that
other man just say to me blake what did he ask uh just go right ahead promote whatever you got
to promote here this is the space for it at the end of the program and then jack i believe will
go and say his stuff and then we'll wrap up talk
about episodes and whatever social media that you guys are on go right ahead uh 40 day fiance
and miles uh miles is gray and yeah uh find me at miles of gray twitter and instagram the basketball
podcast is miles and jack got mad boosties and And 420 Day Fiance is the 90 Day Fiance podcast.
The thing I saw that kind of blew my mind is,
I didn't know there was MMA for people in full suits of armor now.
Amazing.
Because, again, we're doing great.
Are you talking medieval times?
Dude, this fucking clip, this is from At Happy Punch,
and I guess they just specialize in... Blake, Miles just found out about medieval times. um this fucking clip this is from at happy punch and i guess they just
specialize like miles just found out about medieval times hold on and so you go it's this
cool restaurant you go to and you sit down in a section based on each color and each color has a
night and then you get a you get this like you eat off of pewter platters like medieval times
they don't have silverware because they didn't have silverware in medieval
times.
Hence they don't have it at medieval times,
but they do have Pepsi.
And no,
anyway,
this is like medieval MMA.
These people are whacking the shit out of each other with like broadswords
headbutting each other.
Oh my God,
dude.
Oh my God. Fucking beating the shit out of the guys. What the fuck? Oh my god, dude. Oh my god.
Fucking beating the shit out of each other.
And then like, when people go to their corners,
like, they're taking off their helmets.
They're like, bloodied.
Oh my god.
Over the fucking place.
This guy's got his like, mouth split open.
So again, I don't know.
I saw that and I was like, what the fuck is that?
I don't say that because I'm like, we should all watch it,
but more just like, holy shit. How did I miss the latest, the fuck is that? I don't say that because I'm like, we should all watch it, but more just like, holy shit.
How did I miss the latest trend?
The latest craze.
And we don't give a fuck about ourselves.
Our society dissolving in front of us.
I can't believe I have to watch all these videos now.
Thanks a lot.
You can find me on Twitter.
Thanks for asking, Blake.
At Jack underscore O'Brien.
Me on Twitter, thanks for asking, Blake, at Jack underscore O'Brien.
A tweet I've been enjoying is from Dave at Iridescent Audio,
who tweeted, do something that scares you every day.
If you do that, then each day, little by little, you will be scared.
Every day will be scary, and your life will be very scary.
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well as a song that
we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that we think you might enjoy miles is there
a song that you think people might yeah what is it miles yes uh footnotes great drop in there's a
band called headache uh that is like a collaboration between this other guy vegan and another writer
but they it's like these like trip-hop beats that almost feel like they would be like interludes on
a radiohead album.
But the lyrics are written by like one of the guys in the group. And then they use like this like English AI voice to like perform it.
So it's like this spoken word over really interesting beats.
And they're just kind of like, it's just sort of surreal.
This track is called The Beginning of the End.
The band is called Headache.
And it's just kind of, it's kind of arty but also has like
really solid sort of trip-hop chops um and it's all just very strange but i i like it so anyway
the beginning of the end by heading just like this podcast is also the beginning of the end
the beginning of the end a headache and a headache and a goddamn headache to do in the night thank
you all right we will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of
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Back on Monday. There you go.
To tell you what is, what was
trending, what is trending, all
of that. We're also also gonna drop a little weekly
zeitgeist which is a digest of all the greatest moments from this week's episodes like this
right now i'm sure we'll definitely make the cut let's put that right in there
probably just gonna repost it open with this yep until then be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves.
Get the vaccine. I don't even do that
here, do I? Wow.
Don't do nothing about white supremacy.
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