No Allies Is Good! Big Tech Wins Even When They Lose 04.01.26
The Daily Zeitgeist
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's what's going on with you guys got a billionaire tax going on right in Washington? |
| 0:09.2 | Oh, Millionaire tax. |
| 0:10.7 | Oh, we got a millionaire. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:12.8 | I saw Rick Steve's post about it. |
| 0:15.0 | And I was like, all right, Rick Steve. |
| 0:16.9 | Wow. |
| 0:17.5 | Oh, man. |
| 0:18.6 | He was like, don't listen to these other fucking loop. |
| 0:20.7 | And he didn't say it like that. But he was basically like, they're going to start whining and it's nonsense. This is a public good and we can afford it. You want Rick Steves in the Blunt rotation. Oh. There you go. Oh. That's crazy. You caught out of blood rotation. Yeah. I got the fucking, and it's Easter week. I got the last supper right here. Oh my God. How, Colin? How? How do we do that? We're just linked. My God. Got to have me on more, I guess. Yeah. People who don't get to see this. I'm wearing a fucking t-shirt that says Dream Blunt rotation. And it's that iconic painting of The Last Supper. Who painted that? Is that one of the big Ninja Turtle names? I feel like it's a Da Vinci type, yeah. Yeah, right? Is it? Oh, no. I wanted, I wanted to know the answer. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, it's Da Vinci. |
| 1:12.7 | And I go, one of them, Ninja Turtle, to me, I'm like, it's one of the Ninja Turtle named Renaissance people. |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.6 | Oh, the blue one. |
| 1:20.5 | You were closer than both of us. |
| 1:22.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.5 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 1:32.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 1:41.1 | Hello, the internet and welcome to season 432 episode three of the Daily Zekeyes, the production of IHeartRadio. |
| 1:45.2 | This is the podcast where you take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness consciousness you already know that and you already know because you're a loyal listener and zeit gang since day one |
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