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The Daily Zeitgeist

The Uncancelling Hath BEGUN, Tech Billionaires Can’t Read 05.22.25

The Daily Zeitgeist

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Society & Culture, News, Comedy

4.64.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In episode 1868, Jack and guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan are joined by comedian and co-host of The Worst Idea Of All Time, Tim Batt, to discuss… Climate Change OG, Have the Experience of Stealing From a Porch Without All the Risk, Kevin Spacey Compares Himself To Victims Of The Blacklist During Unhinged Cannes Speech, Is The World The Way It Is Because Billionaires Are Too Dumb To Understand A Sci-Fi Book Series? And more!

  1. Dallas Comedy Club Presents: PALLAVI GUNALAN
  2. Climate Change OG
  3. Have the Experience of Stealing From a Porch Without All the Risk
  4. Kevin Spacey faces another civil sexual assault lawsuit in UK
  5. Fact check: Is Kevin Spacey really being honoured at Cannes?
  6. 'Nice to be back,' Kevin Spacey says, accepting achievement award in Cannes
  7. Writers Guild Censures ‘Schooled’ Showrunner Tim Doyle for Posting Lynching Image in Facebook Joke
  8. Kevin Spacey Compares His Plight to Hollywood Blacklist in Fiery Defense in Cannes: History ‘Often Repeats Itself’
  9. Writers Guild Scribe Apologizes for “Epically Horrible” Joke Gone Wrong Using Lynching Image
  10. The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans - Why Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos love Iain M. Banks’ anarcho-communist space opera.
  11. Why does Elon Musk love this socialist sci-fi series?
  12. Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’
  13. Elon Musk Names SpaceX Drone Ships in Honor of Iain M. Banks
  14. 30 years of Culture: what are the top five Iain M Banks novels?
  15. Amazon TV adaptation of Iain Banks' Culture series is cancelled
  16. A man of culture
  17. Ethical future? Science fiction and the tech billionaires
  18. Jack's Piece of Media: Future Adam Curtis B-Roll

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0:00.0

Tim, what time is it where you are?

0:07.4

Right now it is 6.38 a.m.

0:10.5

So it's actually not that bad.

0:11.6

I've got two young kids.

0:12.7

So this is pretty normal.

0:14.1

The funniest time of day.

0:16.3

Famously.

0:17.1

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.6

I put all the comedy shows on.

0:20.8

That's right.

0:22.9

It's usually when improv troops meet, they, you know, wake up at 4 a.m. do their ice bath.

0:30.6

Yes.

0:31.0

And then come together and just start unleashing hilarity.

0:35.9

It's funny you mention that, not to get on one too early, but I was in the shower

0:39.3

and I was like, rich people misunderstand what a shower is.

0:42.4

A shower is like for, you know, working class people to get warm.

0:47.9

Rich people are like, you go take a cold plunge, take a cold shower, do an ice cold

0:51.1

shit.

0:51.4

Fuck you, dude.

0:53.0

We're like, we live in shit houses that are cold and

0:56.2

damp. The shower is like the one time in the morning where you can just heat your body up. Don't

1:00.7

take that away from us, you house. The shower is my time to return to the womb. And I do not like

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