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The Daily Zeitgeist

The InflaTrend Reduction Act 8/16: Fentanyl, Election Day, Blunts, Quiet Quitting, Manti Te'o, ITT

The Daily Zeitgeist

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4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this edition of The InflaTrend Reduction Act, Jack and Miles discuss Fox News discovering the existence of Fentanyl, the lack of NBA games on Election Day, Draymond Green's day of Holy Bluntrimony, the culture of Quiet Quitting, the upcoming Netflix doc on the Manti Te'o, and Joe Biden forgiving student debt... for people defrauded by ITT Tech!

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0:00.0

My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.

0:04.5

But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.

0:10.1

And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.

0:12.6

And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth.

0:18.1

And why John Carpenter movies are so good.

0:20.6

You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about.

0:26.6

And that's fine, you know, no judgment.

0:28.4

But if you like what you're hearing and I know that you do, you can listen to all of what future on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:58.4

The podcast and that's what you really missed brings you back to the choir room for a gloriously gleeky rewatch of all six masterfully musical seasons of Glee.

1:19.4

Join cast members Kevin MacKale and Jenna Uschkewitz for never before heard stories from the cast, crew, celebrities and you, the fans from McKinley High to New York City, from the choir room to nationals and from the Super Bowl to a world tour.

1:32.9

Listen to and that's what you really missed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:40.4

Hello, the internet and welcome to this episode of the inflation reduction trend.

1:46.4

I was like, oh, what what are we doing to reduce inflation? That is the name of the bill that is the most sweeping.

1:59.4

I mean, this is I've been out for two weeks. So like this is all old shit. But I don't know. I still think it's wild to realize that this is like the most sweeping climate change.

2:10.9

Yeah, legislation of all time is called the inflation reduction act because can't can't get away with doing something for all those soft hippie hippie reason.

2:22.9

It's got to be make gas cheaper at not not save earth bill.

2:27.9

Right. Make my pickup truck go room, room.

2:30.9

Yeah, but they did again, all they put a lot of rebates for electric vehicles and that's a lot of people like you should have invested more on like fucking walkable infrastructure like transportation.

2:42.9

They're like, how about a $8,500 credit if you buy an American made EV and then I'm pretty I think board. It was like, oh yeah, we just raised our prices by $9,500.

2:53.4

You can't you can't sell sidewalks miles. You can't sell and resell sidewalk. How is that going to make any one money? I know. I know.

3:04.4

Anyways, shout out to Biden getting getting it done in the big white house.

3:12.4

Yeah, it's so funny. Yeah, Ford, they're like lightning electric truck. They the starting prices are raising them by $6,000 to $8,500, which is funny because again, the Congress just said, we'll give you $8,500 for free by this car.

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