Private Equity Ruined Fire Trucks, Shark Jesus? 01.29.25
The Daily Zeitgeist
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4.5 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In episode 1805, Jack and guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan are joined by creator and writer of The RedDot Comic, Kim Winder, to discuss… Of Course Private Equity Was Responsible For Making The Wildfires Worse, Not Now, Doomsday Clock! Aquarium Sharks Prove Jeff Goldlum’s Jurassic Park Character Right, Roseanne Threatens To Make Another Sitcom and more!
- Of Course Private Equity Was Responsible For Making The Wildfires Worse
- Staggering image of 100 essential fire trucks idling in a parking lot waiting for repair while Los Angeles apocalyptic fires ravage city killing 24
- A month before fires, L.A. fire chief warned budget cuts were hampering emergency response
- 75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
- As equipment costs rise, fire departments turn to towns for help
- The Firefighting Apparatus Industry: A Year in Review
- Waiting Lists and Higher Prices Add Up to Long Delays for New Fire Trucks
- Sunday blog: Why did that fire truck cost $1.9 million? Because it just does
- Not Now, Doomsday Clock!
- What The Doomsday Clock Doesn’t Tell Us
- Doomsday Clock moved to just two minutes to 'apocalypse'
- Aquarium Sharks Prove Jeff Goldlum’s Jurassic Park Character Right
- VIDEO: Female Shark Who Never Shared Tank with a Male Gives Birth to 'Miracle' Baby
- First Virgin Births Reported in Endangered Sharks
- Roseanne Threatens To Make Another Sitcom
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| 0:00.0 | Just start cutting the sleeves off my shirts before I record so that I can just have full range of motion, you know? |
| 0:12.8 | Should rip them off like Hulk Logan. |
| 0:14.6 | Jack, Dice, O'Brien. |
| 0:16.5 | Dice, the Dice man. |
| 0:18.6 | We have a lot in common. |
| 0:19.8 | A lot of people have made that comparison before. |
| 0:22.6 | I should and would rip them off like Holkogen in the sense that it would take me 45 to 50 seconds to rip them off, and it would look shitty. |
| 0:33.2 | It would look really, really underrelevant. |
| 0:35.7 | Reveal more sleeves underneath, too. |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.2 | Everyone would. |
| 0:39.5 | Just more sleeves all the way down. |
| 0:41.8 | The snap sleeves. |
| 0:42.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.9 | It sleeves all the way down. |
| 0:49.5 | Lately on the NPR Politics Podcast, we're talking about a big question. |
| 0:54.3 | How much can one guy change? |
| 0:56.8 | They want change. |
| 0:58.4 | What will change look like? |
| 0:59.7 | Or energy? |
| 1:00.7 | Drill, baby drill. |
| 1:02.1 | Schools. |
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