The Daily Zeitgeist - Another Little Mermaid? Blame Anything But The Problem 8.6.19

Episode Date: August 6, 2019

In episode 448, Miles and special guest host Laci Mosley are joined by Sofiya Alexandra to discuss ABC's stage play of the Little Mermaid, Republican responses to the mass shootings over the weekend, Subway sandwich artists going head to head, the 20th anniversary of The Matrix, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. ABC Is Staging The Little Mermaid Live With Auli’i Cravalho, Queen Latifah, and … Shaggy!2. The five stages of Republican candidate reactions after mass shootings3. From condemning “white terrorism” to condemning video games: Republican responses to El Paso shooting4. Republicans struggle to respond in wake of El Paso, Dayton shootings5. Subway’s top sandwich artists engage in fevered hand-to-bread combat6. ‘The Matrix’ 20th Anniversary Screenings Are Coming to AMC Theatres for One Week Only7. WATCH: Clever Austin ft. Jon Bap - Blue Tongue Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever

you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Oh, what's up, Internet? And welcome to Season 94, Episode 2 of the Delizageist, a production of iHeart Radio. And you already know what it is.

It's a podcast where we just take a deep dive into America's skull, look inside there, play around, and just be like, what is this? I like this. I don't like that. And off top, we always say, fuck Coke Industries and fuck Fox News. It's Tuesday, August 6th, 2019. My name is Miles Gray, a.k.a.

Last Dance with Miles Gray. One more take and one more a.k.a. The guitar comes in. AKA, I feel Kushner creeping in and I'm tired of my pants again. Okay, anyway, that would be the part where the harmonica comes in afterwards. Thank you to At No Lobos. There ain't no Lobos. I think there are wolves, though, to be straight up with you.

For that, Tom Petty, inspired, AKA. And now, please, if you're driving, I hope your seatbelt is on. I hope your gas tank is full because you're about to hit the pedal to the metal when I tell you who the guest host is today. Fresh off the jet, into the studio, we have none other than the goddess

of scams herself, Miss Lacey Mosley. Hey, it's your girl Scam Goddess, a.k.a. Question, tell me what you think of Lacey. I snatch my own diamonds and I hatch my own rings. Only ring your celly when I'm stealing those keys.

When it's all over, change my name and leave. Question, the shoes on my feet. I stole them. How some win. I stole it. Go on. Go on. Damn it. Miles. I'm winning. I stole it. Go on. Go on. Go on. Damn it.

The car. Miles. I'm sorry. The car I'm driving. I stole it. Because I depend on schemes if I want it. Damn it. I wanted to get through that perfectly.

I'm sorry, guys. Miles made me laugh. No, no, no. We seldom get through our AKs perfectly. And joining us in our third seat is just, you know, one of the great guests. Someone who's been here many times. Someone who I realize I have a lot in common with through her visiting the show. And we have a mutual love for the TLC show, 90 Day Fiance.

And you know what? I'm going to say something right now. I'm going to surprise y'all really quick. And I don't know if I'm allowed to do this legally, but she's also the host, co-host of a new iHeart podcast coming out called 420 Day Fiance. You heard it right here. That's what's up. This is me. And more importantly, our guest today, Miss Sophia Alexandra. Boo, boo, boo, boo. Wow, do your own dance hall sirens. I don't care.

I just was all hype from backing Lacey up on the vocal. You were so good. I was saying. I think we were all trying to figure out if it was I got it or I stole it. We weren't sure where the parody lyric came in. I was doing a Michelle and Kelly where she side-eyed me as Beyonce and was like, no, you're fucking hitting the notes wrong, bitches. I can't wait to leave. I loved it.

I love especially when Michelle falls. Oh, yes. And they step over her body and continue dancing. More importantly, I haven't seen you since the new season of 420 Day Fiance. No, that's our podcast. 90 Day Fiance.

There's a lot of scams going on. There's a lot of people who I hope, just for their own souls, don't get scammed. But they're going to get scammed. Also, we have some returning favorites. Yes. Like Darcy. And also, it looks like Angela is back with Michael. Michael?

How could you do that to me, Michael? Your bunk account is empty. Yo, he's- I don't know why that is. We'll see. We'll see what you do that to me, Marco? Your bunk account is empty. Yo, he's- I don't know why that is. We'll see. We'll see what happens with that. Anyway. Anyway, if you enjoy us talking about this, you're going to have to tune in to 420 Day Fiancé.

Yeah, and if you ever wondered what I'm like on a podcast, hi, talking about a reality show, this might be something for you. Yeah. Don't look for educated takes on anything. It's real similar to this, but it's not about anything important. And the pace is very slow. All right. Well, before we get to know you even better, let's talk about some of the stories we're

going to talk about today. There's a lot going on. First, there will be a live musical production on abc on tv of the little mermaid so if you want to be offended again um you should check this out too because guess what it's going to be moana's ali cravalho so it's not a redhead like you wanted white supremacist uh also uh talking about better he kind of showed up in a way that I forgot that that Beto existed. Obviously, part of a larger discussion about the two mass shootings that occurred within roughly 14 hours of each other over the weekend, as well as some new cruelty from Lindsey Graham. College campuses, I guess, are the new malls, according to a new article I saw in BuzzFeed, talking about a few other things too. Like there was a Subway sandwich artist competition,

and you know my love for Subway tuna. So we're going to have to talk about that. Oh my God, that's my favorite Subway sandwich. That's good. So you're also a trash person and your insides are broken. I'm gross. All right. Well, before we get into that, let's get into it. Sophia, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay, so turns out I have this recurring problem. I've not been able to remember certain details about movies.

Like the other day, my husband was like, have you ever seen Brazil? And I was like, that's about all the different Hitlers, right? And he was like, what the fuck are you talking about? And then we realized that I was thinking of boys from Brazil. But this happens literally with every movie. So my last search was Brazil and then boys from Brazil. Did that bring up a very vague search result back when you're like, Brazil, enter.

No, I did a Brazil movie. Oh, okay. Yeah, but yeah. And then he also brought Brazil up to me as a comedy. And then I was like, what the fuck? So what was he talking about? He meant the actual Brazil. But then when we saw it, he was like, oh, I remember it is a lot funnier.

I'm like, are you serious? Wait, there's a movie called Brazil that's a comedy? I'm so out of the loop here. No, he thinks it's dark as fuck. has a very sad end oh wow pitched it to me as a comedy and then he was like it's more of a dark comedy and then i looked it up it says drama slash fantasy so there's something wrong with him i mean that's how i thought the where the red fern grows was a comedy yeah when he killed his own dogs with the axe because of the cougar or whatever I was laughing so hard

I got kicked out of class so sometimes comedy is an opinion what is funny to you comedy is subjective as we've all learned where the red fern grows the dog was attacked by cougars it was like some kind of

cagey animal that was attacking the cougars? It was like some kind of cagey animal that was attacking. I never even heard of this movie. Oh, yeah. You had to read this book. We were all forced to read it in Texas in middle school. And it's something about two dogs. And the little boy gets two dogs and he's really excited about it. And then one of the dogs gets in a cougar fight or something.

Yeah, a mountain lion. Yeah. And he uses an axe to try to like hit the cougar and he accidentally hits the dog it kills on dog and so then that dog dies and then the other dog get depressed because the other dog dead and then it dies and it's probably looking at the owner all crooked like this sounds so extra that i feel like i would have laughed too right that doesn't sound like i i also had to read this like in elementary school but i've i i checked the fuck out i think yeah it was funny to me and i did get kicked out of class and reprimanded for laughing oh you really did i was laughing so hard i was like

lacey mosley please go in the hallway if you don't know how to act. Okay, bye. Did you also think John Wick was a comedy? Yeah. I will say I did think Taken was a comedy. Right. Yes. Liam Neeson neck chopping everybody to death is very funny.

What's something that's overrated? Mercury being in retrograde. rated mercury being in retrograde now you know how your girl hates on fake science and astrology and bullshit like that uh-huh so you hate you hate this i hate this people are always be like in los angeles oh no like i'm sorry i stood you up for 20 minutes for line of mercury's in retrograde it's like no you're just a late bitch and And like, so am I, but I'm being honest about it. Oh, yeah. No, I believe in Mercury. Do you? Yes. Whenever it's in Powerade,

whenever it's in Gatorade, whenever it's in retrograde. That's an old Twitter joke. Yeah, Kelly Oxford tweeted that, I think. So many people have tweeted that. I'm like, I don't even know

who that joke belongs to. Almost to the point where I think she had to fight other people on Twitter to claim that, oh, Mercury's in Gatorade. Yeah, because people have been saying all types of stuff for so long. I don't know who owns it, but

I always say it's not my joke because it's corny. Yeah, but I also like when people also have to prove to each other. No, I thought of this joke first. Listen, look at the taste sample on that. Okay, in January 2nd, 2019, I came up with this. I said it in 2013. It predates even the planet Mercury

I got a picture of me holding up the newspaper And the tweet Next to it You already know what it was I believe People who use that excuse Actually they can't say shit anymore Because that shit ended on Friday

Yeah but it was in retrograde for like a month July 7th to August 2nd You Yeah, you're not supposed to sign any contracts. It's just really an excuse to be dodgy, which is probably why I love it. Whenever they say, you can't sign a contract or whatever, all of it assumes I have really high-stakes life all

the time. They're like, yeah, don't be on a yacht. Don't buy expensive new technology. I'm like, this is not in the cards for me. Yeah, a yacht. They're like, don't purchase a home. I'm like, this is not in the cards for me. They're like, oh, they're like, don't purchase a home.

I'm like, well, okay. That's easy as hell. I wasn't going to purchase a home. I'm nowhere close. What do you look at? Like the Rob report astrology section?

No, but I'm saying like, no, you're right. A lot of shit about your life. They assume that you are at least wealthy or comfortable. That is very true. Cause every time I read it, it's like, don't sign

any contracts like you're saying. Don't buy a home. Right. If you're in the market for some plastic surgery, wait. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Just think that rich people have. Where's broke people horoscope? Yeah, be like Taco Bell's having a deal in a week. Don't buy the chalupas now. Yeah, don't do it.

That's what I need. Right, exactly. Don't go to the Jack in the Box at 2 a.m. tonight. You will get stabbed. Hey, don't get batteries at the gas station again. Sophia, you know ice cream is $8 at 7-Eleven, but if you wait

until you go to Ralph's, shit is $3 to $4. Yeah. Get your life together. I guess because, man, I feel like that'd be like a really good Twitter account.

Poor people horoscopes. Poor people horoscopes. Like working class horoscopes. Lacey, I think we're collabing on this. I think like that'd be like a really good Twitter account. Poor people horoscopes. Poor people horoscopes. Like working class horoscopes. Lacey, I think we're collabing on this. I think we have to. It's so good. All about you. Mercury's in retro gaze.

Right. Buy your gas. So instead. Buy your gas a gallon at a time. Don't you get a full tank. Today's a perfect day to take your neighbor's 20% off bed and bath and be on a coupon. Yeah. Take it right out the mailbox. Who gives a fuck

that they're welcoming them to the neighborhood. The day you a Scorpio. I don't know if I told this story before, but I had a homie who thought you could bring in five of them shits and your shit was free. Because you'd be like, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100% off. Now what?

And I was like, that is not what? Did you wonder like, that is not. What? Did you wonder why that place is like not bankrupt? Yeah. People just walk in and they're taking free shit. Dude, I just love the confidence though. Because I remember we were in college and he had like a few of them stacked up.

He's like, don't worry, I got my secret weapon right here. I'm like, I'm sorry. Did you, you just think you're going to go in there and they'll give you things for free because you're stacking five coupons? Like, read the fine print. If you act confused enough, you can get a really good discount. You know, you should be able to use expired coupons everywhere. Wait, what do you mean? You still can. The Beth and Beyond ones, you can still use the expired ones.

A lot of places, you can bring expired coupons and be like, oh, I didn't know it was expired, and they'll still honor it. I love a coupon. You know, I became one of those people, too, i i like to look at my in-store deals uh for groceries uh because you know sometimes you just grew a little white beard while yeah well you know meat hey you know meat's expensive there's a little bit of soup in there yeah there's a little bit of soup yeah it's still good though you could you could just get the soup out and yeah no i'm gonna leave it there or else I can't demonstrate my age.

Lentils part two. He loves that shit. What's something that's underrated? Okay, Benihana's. Wow. Because I feel like the only people who like- Go for the throat. Hot takes.

I just feel like not enough people love Benihana's. They think it's like corny or whatever. Who does? A lot of people. Yeah, see? And it's awesome. Wait, hold on, hold on. The only people who like Benihana's enough are me, my friend Dave Rankin, who you know,

and 2 Chainz. 2 Chainz folks are Benihana. We're the only people who fucking love Benihana's the proper amount. Well, I don't know if I... I don't... Hmm. See, you're one of those people. Well, no.

What I'm saying is Benihana has value. You know what I mean? Yeah. But I'm not saying... I'm not saying, we gotta go to Benihana right now. See, I would leave right now to do that. To go to Benihana has value. You know what I mean? But I'm not saying we gotta go to Benihana right now. See, I would leave right now to do that.

To go to Benihana? Yeah. Well, look, that's a trip I'm willing to take. Can we do that next time? Benihana is a place for people who have horrible children.

You're never gonna see a good child in Benihana. Everybody's kids are awful. It's like where you take bad kids. You have bad kids, you take them there. There's never anyone younger than teenagers when I'm there. You hope some of the fire gets on the kids.

Like my child's eyebrows were singed. I want someone to throw shrimp in my mouth, and I want them to make that Pac-Man joke when they're making the rice and stuff. Oh, yep, yep, yep. Well, for me, it's all about the volcano with the onion rings. Oh, hell yeah. And then they make a steam out of the little onions.

I do think it's a good place to go with somebody that you don't really want to talk to. Because then there's like a whole entertainment happening during dinner and you don't really have to make any conversation. I've had several real nice families, too, because you're always sitting next to them. Well, I guess, where are most of your Benihana experiences? Is that in Texas? Is that in L.A.? Is that in New York? I've been to one Benihana experiences is that in texas is that in la is that new york i've been to one benihana and it was in college in pittsburgh and honestly it's like if that was it for you

it's like if you take the subway but you gotta eat with everybody you sit with on the subway like i don't want to eat with everybody on the subway it's like if i was on the train and somebody was like it's show. But then they start cooking shrimp. Please clear out the way. Please move out the way. Move out the way. We got to get the grill in here. Move out the way. It's showtime.

That sounds amazing. Who doesn't want shrimp cooked for them while they're waiting or in transit? Yeah. I mean. I'm into it. You know, I guess we should go. Yeah. Because it's really fucking delicious and fun.

We're all going, Lacey. I don't care what you say. What would you do if someone took you on a first date to Benihana, Lacey? Oh my God. I could already see just the way you're like, Benihana, no. But imagine someone you're like, oh, okay, this person might be worth going on a date with. And they're like, yeah, I'm going to pick you up. We'll go somewhere nice.

And then you pull up to fucking Benihana. We pull up to Benihana. Well, I don't think you should pitch it as somewhere nice. You should be like, you want to have a fun night? No, no, no, no. Yeah, you're right. You're right. No, I'm creating a character.

Yeah, if you say we're going to do something random, then I'd be like, okay, I understand why we're here. No, I'm saying what is your take on someone who looks at Benihana and goes, this is the height of refinement? I think that we truly just have so much that is not in common that this relationship would never work oh okay like we would pull up to the benihana's and i'd be like oh my god i have to go to the bathroom and you call it uber real quick you're okay, hold on. And then guess who gets out of the Uber behind her?

It's Sophia. She's like, what's up? This sounds like a dope time. I will eat the shrimps tossed at anyone. You're also eating solo, and you spot her ghosted date from across. I just sit with him. I was like, what's up, bro? You want to chill?

Hey, you eat solo here, too? He's like, no. I just got ghosted, basically. She just took off. Honestly, that would not be the first time that that happened at a Benihana. I'm sure there's lots of solo people who are supposed to have dates

who are now eating alone. That makes me so sad. I want me and 2 Chainz to rescue everyone eating alone at Benihana. I know. He should get a deal from Rocky Aoki. I can't believe they won't sponsor him. That's ridiculous.

That's Steve Aoki's dad. He has so much good- Did you know that? Who started that? Really? He started Benihana? Yes, Rocky Aoki. I didn't know that.

That's crazy. Devin Aoki and Steve Aoki, their house of cards is coming tumbling down. They didn't do it off merit. Their dad created fucking Benihana, okay? That's like all the actresses and actors that are, I say actors for everyone but uh that are coming out and other people like this person is coming out of nowhere and then you find out

their parents are insanely famous yeah exactly star of euphoria mod apatow what what oh that apatow damn um and finally what's a myth sophia what's something uh people are just getting wrong but you want to just expose the truth to them? I don't know. I feel like- Expose them to the truth. Sorry. Yo, I had never seen how a pomegranate was made or a passion fruit.

Was made? You mean grown? Grown. Like how it grows? And then I recently have, and I feel like if you don't know how fruit looks before it is a fruit you should google some shit because i didn't know and now i've seen it live and i'm like it kind of blew my mind so your myth is you know contrary to popular belief pomegranates and passion fruits don't just fall from the sky fully baked they have a process of growth. are not an underground root like everyone has been. A tuber or a nightshade

or whatever you call those things. So they are on a tree. Yeah, they're straight up on a tree and okay, so the hard outer shell

of like the little, the red flower and a pomegranate then the flower wilts and becomes like the butt of the pomegranate and then that shell becomes a harder shell

and becomes a pomegranate and it's been nuts watching it happen. There's a tree outside my house. You becomes a pomegranate. And it's been nuts watching it happen. There's a tree outside my house. You have a pomegranate tree? Yeah. Oh, that is so nice. Do you just stare at it?

Is your house to have a fence around it? No. No. Uh-oh, somebody's getting free pomegranates. You could just take away some pomegranates. Are they ripe? What do they taste like? Are the butts out yet or not?

How do you even eat one i always just see the i mean i've seen a whole video of how how to do it you like cut them into like quarters where the white like membrane is and then you literally split them and then you can just take out those those little seeds can you eat them do you eat the shits all like chew the whole shits up or do you spit out the hard part I think it depends on how nasty you are yeah how nasty you are I'm a nasty bitch

you know I be chewing and swallowing them shits do you just eat sunflower seeds whole no okay I used to do that when I was a kid that's insane

cause I didn't have the I didn't have like the oral fucking dexterity yeah to like shell them and spit them out cause you'd see people but now you're like

a pussy master right I hope so oh my god yeah that's the new that's the challenge i want to see on instagram because you know women were doing the cucumber challenge i want to see the sunflower seed challenge just non-stop rapid fire like if you cannot unwrap unwrap them shits with your tongue you're out pass you might as well be taking me to benny hon on the first date. His mouth just looks like an automatic weapon. He's just trying real hard to prove that Her Majesty is having a good life. Yeah.

I just peeled 87 seeds in 30 seconds. I just take my time. I do feel like pomegranates aren't worth the trouble, though. But once you find out how to split them, it's easy. But yeah, I know what you're saying. But then how many of those little things do you get in one pomegranate? four or five no but like you know how like they're almost kernels like individual how many kernels oh like i don't know a shit ton oh really yeah yeah yeah okay i feel like the pomegranate is a is a thirsty fruit because instead of like being like all the other fruits we're like oh our seeds are right here in the

corner like you know spread them if you want i Pomegranates are like, everything is a seed. And a little bit of juice around them, but mostly seeds. And it's also so aggressively beautiful that it's like, I dare you to eat me. I look like Jules. And then you're like, but there's not a lot of meat. You should keep us posted on this development of your pomegranate fruit. Yeah, I'll let you know how that goes. Okay, cool. Well, we'll get into more of that.

Do you like how I don't really do a myth? You know, why didn't you realize that wasn't a myth? Cool. You shouldn't have pointed that out. It wasn't for me. Now we got to start over. Okay, what's a myth for real? Don't fuck around, Sophia.

Son of a bitch. Go. Unicorns was my backup. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I have no backup. I have no backup. You got a unicorn in your yard too?

Yeah, yeah. They are also grown on trees. It's so crazy. And they helped me shell my pomegranates. Okay, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere,

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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. 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 in here that much. 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 braggadocious. 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. Listen to the Making of a Rivalry, Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, we're back. And yes, as you know, Monday's episode we had recorded prior to the shootings that happened over the weekend. And yeah, man, I don't know. It's tough when you do this show, right?

Because we talk about everything that's happening and we enter these cycles of like violence where we. It's like everything that can be said has been said and now the just feeling of hopelessness can begin to mount or this this just really just dark sense that you know i'm not sure what the actual solution is because on one hand we have a government that isn't willing to really confront these issues head on and we also have a very large portion of the country, I would say, argue at least half that is completely unwilling to recognize the issues for what they are and the root causes of these problems, specifically about white supremacy. Now, there were two shootings within 14 hours, first in El Paso, where as of this recording, 22 people had been killed

and around 26 people injured. And then in Dayton, Ohio, where nine people were killed and 26 were injured. And the El Paso case was, you know, your textbook case of white supremacist terror. The dude posted his manifesto to 8chan moments before and it's just chock full of the same racist vitriol that we see just all over the internet. The Dayton shooter, not quite clear. They don't know if there was a racial motive despite many of the victims being black. And then some people point to his social media activity, which may suggest that he was like an atheist person on the left who may have supported Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. But with all those things aside, I mean, the things that are really clear is that we have three really big problems in this country.

We have a gun problem in this country. We have a white supremacist terror problem. And we are failing citizens and unable to support people who may need help, who might be going having any kind of mental health issue. Because depending on what side of this you're on, you know, people on the right would love to just say it's not a gun thing. It's a mental health problem, but do nothing about mental health. And then on the left, it's very clear that people want much stricter gun control. And there are so many statistics that point to the fact that very simple things could have a huge impact on gun violence in this country. But we're at a standstill because

the powers that be are just not willing to begin moving in the right direction. I don't know. I mean, conservatism has been or just conservative rhetoric and talking points have always just kind of been a smokescreen for racists to hide behind. But as Trump ascended and the mask has completely come off the party, the media still acts surprised by all of this. Like you had, we had recordings of Ronald Reagan last week saying all kinds of racist shit, calling black people monkeys and things like that.

And there are people like, Oh my God, Ronald Reagan was racist. Well, I'm sure he would have apologized for calling those monkeys monkeys yeah um if we if he was alive but he's not so he's probably not racist guys right and this idea that like people are really shocked and I guess maybe that's part of the self-delusion that a lot of people deal with in this country is that there no one wants to actually fully acknowledge that white supremacy has been woven into the fabric of this country for how we started the beginning it's in our laws but we have an electoral college for racism like we have it to protect southern states

that tried to secede when they were angry about black people being people that's literally why we have an electoral college right and we have even i, just like if you look at the attacks of people of, you know, whether it started with Native Americans to slaves to Hispanics to Asians, this place has never been really that safe for people who are not white. They're, you know, not to say that every place is dangerous, but there's a good chance you will encounter some form of racism if you are not or at least you don't register as a Caucasian person, Caucasian American. And I think this has become a real issue because the media is not willing to look at Donald Trump and connect the dots and say, this person, this rhetoric is why we got here. It's like. And they had that statistic to drop that like every place that Trump visited and had a rally saw like a 220 increase in yes

something really high yeah and the uptick in just these kinds of attacks it's been really unrelenting um and yeah like aclu also dropped numbers about how many hate motivated and whatever hate crimes have occurred since he's taken office and like a nationalist and anti-Semitic and anti-Islam, anti all of that has gone up like an insane amount. Right. You know, we have a president who on one hand constantly uses these terms. There's an invasion. There's an invasion.

You hear this even echoed on, you know, Fox News, the same shit. And then you wonder when someone types out why are they're killing innocent people, they reference this invasion or this existential threat to whiteness in this country. And, you know, Beto O'Rourke, who's from El Paso, you know, some journalists caught up with him and asked, what can Donald Trump do to improve this? Like, what's his role? And he really just gave a very blunt answer. And I'm just going to play that little out uh little snippet for you he's he's been calling mexican immigrants rapists and criminals um i i don't know like members of the press what the hold on a second you know i i it's it's these um

it's these questions that you know the answers to i mean connect the dots about what he's been doing in this country um he's not tolerating racism. He's promoting racism. He's not tolerating violence. He's inciting racism and violence in this country. And then he goes on to say, so I just don't know what kind of question that is. It's the kind of question that comes to me from a journalistic practice, which is either too entrenched in upholding the status quo or not really being able to really have a sober-eyed look at what's happening. And hearing just the tragic stories, I mean, from like children being instantly orphaned with both of their parents being killed or young parents being killed and, you know,

injuring their children, trying to protect them. There's just this pattern of dehumanization that this country is still going down. And yet we still don't see anything from the leadership that is taking this into account. And again, we talk, we're not, we're not like deluding ourselves on this show. We constantly talk about how it's like, well, yeah, Trump's a racist. This is what his whole support is built off of. So he's never going to actually denounce white supremacy he did make comments which were so empty and he was reading from a teleprompter that they just don't they're not sincere and he's incapable of being empathetic

in any way and also people were pretty sure that he was on drugs while he was giving that statement were people saying that oh my god he looked yeah. He looked a little... Like he was sedated or something? No, every single person was like, as in my timeline, a ton of people are sober and they were like, oh, is someone who previously has been addicted to prescription pills and stuff? Like his behavior up there, he's like definitely on uppers and like definitely drugged out.

And I was like, cool, cool, cool, cool. Yeah, I mean, regardless of what state he may have been in, and like definitely drugged out. And I was like, cool, cool, cool, cool. Yeah. I mean, regardless of how, you know, what state he may have been in, we're really in this place now where you have the intelligence, the FBI, law enforcement raising all these red flags saying, hi, white supremacist terror is actually the biggest threat to stability in this country or one of the biggest threats just the American people face. Yet nothing is done about it uh these people are still encouraged and now we're here and we're looking at a government

that is basically saying like they're endorsing this like this is the way that they are um allowing their policies which is meant to you know scare people of color to either not uh come to this country as white men are killing white people. That's the most confusing thing that I've always just found so, like I'm completely flummoxed by when it comes to whiteness, is like white pride seems to be rooted in hating other people

and not in loving being white. Like everyone else's pride, for the most part, is about loving being a part of the culture that they are or loving something that they've been oppressed through and, you know, like taking ownership of things that were taken from them. But white pride seems to be rooted in hating people and trying to make sure that nobody can do what white people have done to everybody else which is not what other people are motivated most people are just trying to survive i don't know a lot of people of color or minorities who are like we just want to get some power so we can hurt the white man like that's not right a thing but it's a real fear for a lot of these white people is that they're going to be oppressed in

the same way and it's it's so deeply confusing because i'm like everyone is unsafe white nationalists are killing everyone it's not even just people of color and minorities like these were one of these attacks happened to be like specifically targeted to people of color but a lot of them have been at country music concerts and country bars and places that white people go and i'm like everyone is unsafe why does this not matter to everyone right and it's and it's to your point yeah it's crazy to pretend that like whiteness and white culture you can't have a culture that's based on hating other culture right that's you don't have a thing and within specificity there is culture you know i mean there are russian people there are people who have culture i'm

not saying that across the board no no i hear you. But white pride in general is never. It makes no sense. Well, I think it's just built on this idea that comes from, you know, when you start enslaving people that, oh, well, since we're the people enslaving others, that makes us the dominant culture. And they just like this idea of dominance. Yeah. That makes us the dominant culture. And they just like this idea of dominance. And I guess as that power wanes and also as you see a lot of people too, like sort of psychologically when you begin to lose power, for some people, depending on your disposition, your next feeling if you can't feel powerful is to destroy. That's the only way you can then exercise power is in destruction. That's the only way you can then exercise power is in destruction. And I think that's the other thing you're starting to see because whether it's misogynist women hating men who do it, it's like, well, if I can't feel powerful and virile to attract a woman, then I will destroy women.

And this is the same – there's this pattern that keeps recurring. And now you have – we have a democratic house that is willing to make moves towards, you know, tightening up gun control laws. But then it has to get to the Senate where Mitch McConnell could give a fuck about what happens because they, whether it's the NRA or just this idea that by acknowledging that there is an issue that it's indirectly also a condemnation of white nationalism, which the Republicans have to walk this weird tightrope where they're like, well, it's, you know, obviously white supremacy is bad. But like, I don't want to say it too with my chest out because my base tends to overlap with this group, too. Right. Also, it's all financial, too. Sure. Yeah. Like white supremacy is based on like on money being the thing that keeps white people in power yeah and uh it becomes

more and more fucked up when you realize that like uh it's a snake eating its own tail you know over and over again like that and you're like oh okay cool cool so you're just condemning us to being fucked forever while like pretending that there's some sort of uh made up uh perfect white time that used to be where all the white people were happy which was never a thing right that is not a thing so to keep invoking that oh there's a mythical white land where poor white people have been rich white people it's the biggest scam of all time it's so crazy when i worked at google and i looked at like all this uh restricted content to help with like what with the work that i was doing one of the things that i looked at were all these white uh nationalist sites in russia and like one of the funniest

but also kind of most fucked up things that i saw was all this like art that was supposed to be like for other white nationalists and they would be like these very like blonde beard, blue eyed guys with wearing space uniforms. And it was like moon, the new white frontier. Like these people are so committed to having this fake all white land that they are like making fan art about colonizing the moon to be the new white place. It is so all made up that at a certain point it becomes funny, but also like, what?

But then it plays out like this. Yeah, and you can't laugh at it because it's fucking serious. And I don't care if we call it terrorism. I don't care if we call white men domestic terrorists. I don't care about a label anymore. I just want it to stop. It is so deeply unfair that we live in a country that we've all just decided that we're going to play the lotto when it comes to mass shootings. It is such a deeply narcissistic thing to think that this cannot happen to you when it has happened so many times to so many people in our country.

I literally go to the movie theater and I pick my seat based on where the entrances are and where the exits are. Like I live my life. I vote. I make sure I know where the exits are and that I'm facing them. Like anytime I'm doing something where I'm like someone could just show up and start shooting in here. And it's crazy that we have to operate this way.

It's playing into my thoughts of having a child. Oh. Because I'm like, oh, like, how could I make sure that, I mean, we've seen children die in these mass shootings. Yeah. And nothing changed. Right. So babies can get killed and then nothing changes. And it's like we're trying to, why are we trying to live our lives like everything is okay?

Nowhere is safe. trying to why are we trying to live our lives like everything is okay nowhere is safe and yet you have again when you take you look at some of these excuses that are coming from the right in response to this it's like there's this unwillingness to say yeah this is fucking bad and i don't know what it would take for people like, you know, Kevin McCarthy, who's the minority leader, for him to say, yes, this is a problem. Like, I guess maybe these people are just really saying like, well, it's not on my doorstep yet. So I don't have to take it seriously. We can treat everything like an isolated incident, despite everything showing us that every person in this country has just a sense of dread, you know, like no matter where they go. And again, some of these excuses.

Right. Trump said that mental illness and hatred pull the trigger, not the gun. Then just give everyone universal health care. Yeah, well, the gun is what- You can't play both sides of that. And let's like not act like mass killings with a gun. First of all, guns that have so much power that are literally killing machines that just should not be accessible.

Yeah, and everyone's like, oh, but there would be stabbings without. No. Okay, you know how hard you've got. You cannot stab 30 people in 30 seconds. You've got to work to stab 38 people. It's so fucking crazy. You've got to have strength. You've got to have a lot of willpower. You have to be the flash to stab that many people in 30 seconds as you can shoot with

a semi-automatic weapon that has 100 clips, 100 rounds in a fucking clip. But we know that. So I'm so tired of that clip. Yeah. And we know that. So I'm so tired of that comparison. Yeah. I'm sick of that too. Well, that's the thing that everyone says, right? Going on down the list too, he also said it was the internet and it's the fake news. Everything but saying, yes, you know what?

We have always ignored this like hateful past we have that's always just been simmering below this like shiny red white and blue veneer of this country that that's what's really going down and they're still these people aren't willing to have this conversation and not that i even expect him to but those are the steps that we need to begin to have in terms of addressing that issue the guns and everything else that's a whole other thing but this is this is where we're at because we're at the crossroads of all these really terrible societal issues. The lieutenant governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, again, it's too many video games and not enough prayer in school and not enough saluting the flag. And then Kevin McCarthy, same thing, video games.

This state representative in Ohio, the state where the Dayton shooting occurred, posted on Facebook, this was her, her name is Candace Keller, this was her take, and again, the amount of dodging these kinds of rhetorical bullets they do for, pardon the terrible pun, but like trying to not actually address the issue is mind-blowing. She says, after every mass shooting, the liberals start the blame game. Why not place the blame where it belongs? The breakdown of the traditional American family. Thank you, transgender, homosexual, marriage, and drag queen advocates. Fatherlessness, a subject no one discusses or believes is relevant.

The ignoring of violent video games. The relaxing of laws against criminals. Open borders is what she has in parentheses. The acceptance of recreational marijuana. Failed school policies. Hello, parents who defend misbehaving students. Open borders is what she has in parentheses. the importance of God in the church until they elect a president, state office holders who have no interest whatsoever in learning about our constitution and the second amendment and snowflakes who can't accept a duly elected president. Did I forget anybody? The list is long and the fury will continue. Now, this person is just trying to say that, oh, because this person is fully bought into the rhetoric of their president, they're just trying to boil this down to like a values argument that it's like, oh, if so, if our people are so bad that our president is whipping up all

this like xenophobic energy among his base, well, let's talk about what you do. But I'm sorry, where are the drag queen gangs who are attacking people violently and these other issues that she's bringing up that are actual societal ills. I mean, this is just such a it's such a disingenuous attack on like legitimate conversation around what is happening. If any of that was true, then the people cited would be the people shooting people. The people that have the most right to shoot anybody are, I would say, probably trans black women who get killed at a higher number than anyone

else. Their life expectancy is 35 years old. Yeah, so show me the first fucking shooter that identifies as that. Show me the first person that has been the most kicked by the system that picks up the gun. The people that somehow keep picking up the guns

are the people that have the most rights in our society. White men. This woman works in the government. Yeah, she's a state representative. She deleted that shit real quick. She tried to say, look, we killing y'all because y'all need to be killed. That's literally what she's saying.

Why'd you wear that skirt if you want to get raped? Why you smoking marijuana if you don't want the white man to come to Trader Joe's and shoot you? Like, what? I don't know. People are. Stop being trans at a garlic festival. And nothing that she's saying is Christian.

Like. No. Christianity is about forgiveness. It's about openness. It's not about judgment. What are you talking about? People are just so deeply full of hate and so narcissistic. And it just appalling and don't bring anti-semitism in it i i don't like it when they try to make the jews on the right side nah historically jews have been people who organize

unions who fucking uh fight for what's right that is like our legacy as being one of the most kicked out fucking minorities in the world do not try to make us be on your side by being like, oh yeah. And some people also hate the Jews. You, you are the people that hate the Jews. You hate them. You.

Stop fucking lying. What's convenient. Well, because there's nothing again, it's all about what's convenient at the time. If they can find a little way to, to completely obscure a discussion that the foreign policy of Israel and criticisms of that are anti-Semitic, then they're going to use that and immediately be like, oh, we

see like they're totally against. President Trump made Jerusalem the capital. Right. How does this what they don't like the Jews? Yeah. Those two things have fucking nothing to do with each other. Right. And I'm like, I don't see how that actually helps, you know, Jews all over the world,

aside from just a thing that a lot of people in this country wanted. And then again, you know, the fallout continues. And I'm sure over the next few days, because Congress is out of session, people are saying, Mitch McConnell, those bills that got out of the House that you've just put in your Mitch McConnell graveyard. Why don't you come back and start doing something about this? But again, I'm not sure what can. Why don't you come back and start doing something about this? But again, I'm not sure what can. Cloudflare, which was one of the places that 8chan was working with,

like they were there for some of their web infrastructure. They dropped 8chan. As of right now, 8chan hasn't gone up. That's the web board where a lot of this online radicalization begins. And we'll see what happens with that too. I mean, I know Cloudflare, I think they're about to do an IPO. So they didn't want that in part of their portfolio. So I think the answer there is money more than before that.

They didn't seem to have a problem with it. Of course they didn't. But this is where we're at now. It's just insane that those websites can exist when if you post anything online that is supposed to be harmful or threatening to the government or people of this country, it's supposed to be removed. And yet you can go so many places online and spew hatred and that's not seen as a threat to the country. If you say I hate men on Facebook

and you're a woman, you get banned. You get put in Facebook jail. Well, the loophole with 8chan is they have their servers in the Philippines where the laws are different. So you can still, the Filipino government's not going to pull up and be like, oh, we have to sort this out. It's just the laws are different. So you can still, the Filipino government's not going to pull up

and be like, oh, we have to sort this out. It's just a little bit different. That's why they're able to stay online for so long. And also our fucking Congress has to stop taking NRA money. When we look at who takes all, that's so mixed into it. That's the thing. You've got to follow the money. That's why they've been willing

to let us keep dying because they're making a little bit of money, each of them, from this organization. Yeah, or just makes a little bit easier to spend during your campaign

when you're filling your coffers with lobbyist money. The NRA is a terrorist organization. A hundred percent. They've taken many hits over these last few mass shootings and their inability to actually try and offer any kind of solution other than like, oh, you know what they're going to try and do? They're just going to try and take all your guns away.

It's like, well, guess what? I'm already in a situation where the government is allowing things like this to happen. So I'm not sure. I don't even know who I'm protecting myself from anymore. Right. Okay. Let's take a quick break and move move on to some lighter things we'll be right back

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Grind it on her. Oof. They were grinding. Like clips. Next. I got a boner, you know, and I wasn't even there. Wow. Sorry, guys.

Let's get into something that gives me a boner, and that's sandwich artists. Ooh. Okay. into something that gives me a boner and that's sandwich artists okay so recently there apparently there's like a thing called like the sub jam or something sub jammers basically like sandwich artists and people like subway employees from across the globe gather for this like annual event and this year it was just wild to see there was a video basically of sandwich artists from the US, Canada, France, Germany, Singapore, South Korea, and the UK. They met in Toronto to basically see who could put together a turkey sandwich the quickest and properly. sandwich like the quickest and properly and it was just i didn't even know this was like a thing that they did but as someone who is a how should i say this i preach the gospel of subway tuna yeah that's my shit i was a little pissed that they were using turkey uh but i get it because like

the there were some people i was seeing how they folded the turkey it was not not very good uh but the winner just so you know america's still on top. Sarah Teagues from Pullman, Washington, also claimed the title back in 2017. Last year was second place. So I think she's a go. Get it, Sarah. Bring that home to America. So is Sarah working at a Subway currently? Yes.

For two years, she's crushing it. Oh, word. She about to become an influencer. She about to start making sandwich videos on Instagram. She's like, if you want my custom knives. She's making sandwich-inspired cocktails. Oh. I mean, I was-

She's like, a little bit of tuna on the side. She come out with her own bread. She's like, this is not made from yoga mats. Oh, you're the second person to bring that up. I think we talked about that yesterday, too. Oh, really? About the yoga mats and the bread. Oh, why is everybody upset about that?

What's wrong with a little namaste? your yoga mat look if the bread's fluffy the yeah the thing that i wish they did again i always bring this up is the u gouge is how they used to cut them shits in the 90s when rather than splitting it down the side and opening it they used to just cut out like a u-shaped top that they would just lay yeah upon top the sandwich but again it's 2019 i guess things move on um and i'm still stuck in my old ways um but you know i just wanted to bring this up i don't even know why you gouge is like a scam though because then they're just giving you mostly bread right because they just like cut out a little bit of the bread what do you mean well you still got the same way you still have the same amount of bread either way wasn't you can't add bread what do you mean no i mean like she's

saying like it's face wise because then it's like skinnier wait oh oh you're not leaving enough room for the topping yeah well they i mean look depending i don't know who your sandwich artist was uh mine was robert uh we called him the Picasso of Studio City. Shout out Robert from Studio City. He's very chill. He's now the manager. But the Yu Gao Zhen, it was plenty of space for the sandwich to be balanced. But I know what you mean.

If you just literally did this little mohawk strip out the thing. Yeah, that's not good. That's how I would sell sandwiches. Right. Scammer. Yes. Oh, only three slices of turkey fit in there? I mean, look at the bread. Where am I going to put it? That's how I would sell sandwiches. Right. Scammer. Yes. Yes, yeah. Like, oh, only three slices of turkey fit in there?

I mean, look at the bread. I mean, where am I going to put it? You see what I'm doing here, okay? Yeah. Look, you can look right through the glass. You saw what it was when I was making it. I didn't go back there and shrink the sandwich. Now, you can eat this. You can also go do downward dog on it.

The lettuce is free, so. One thing that I wish is Sarah Teagues from Pullman, Washington. If you have won twice now and you came runner-up last year. What happened? Why aren't you the fucking manager? I hope she's a manager. I don't know. But I feel like at that point, if you're already the top sandwich artist,

there has to be some kind of wild promotion. I was like, what happened in that year in between that she didn't take it? But you were like, no. Oh, you had the immigrant mom take on that. Yeah, I'm like, why that minus on that A minus? So you won in 2017, but you came runner up in 2018. What happened, Sarah? And you won this year.

I told you, you lost your focus and you weren't taking it seriously. Right. So you just thought because you won one time, you was about to pull up to the sandwich competition. It's going to be all bread. Exactly. Got to stay sharp. It's the Subway sandwich game.

You act like we don't remember Ja Rule's second album. The sophomore jinx. What's crazy is if I won the sandwich competition, I was working at Subway, you wouldn't be able to tell me shit. I would be on break constantly. Could you imagine if you worked at Subway? But I guess what if your manager said, Lacey, I want to enter you in the sub jam this year,

and you're going to go to Toronto to compete? Yeah, that's fucking dope. You'd go? Absolutely. Of course you'd go. And then when I come back, if I won, I'm flexing on everybody. I'd be like, no, Tracy, you can't have a break. I'm going out. I'm the sandwich queen. You see that picture? You see that picture of me on the wall, bitch? I'm a franchise artist. You make it rain

with that little individual serving chips. Cheese? Oh. Just slices of American cheese or whatever the fuck that is. I'm not cleaning ramekins no more. Are you crazy? Ramekins? Yo, yo. Have you lost your mind? You refill the mayo.

Yeah. I don't do that no more. The fuck out of here, Robert. I'm not cleaning shit. I'm the fucking sand jammer. These hands, they don't even touch bread. I ain't toasting nothing.

They said sandwich artist, not sandwich filling preparer. That's on you, Robert. Please refill the tomatoes thing. Please don't confuse my journey with yours. Moving on. The Matrix. Now, I don't know if y'all give a fuck about this.

This shit blew my mind 20 years ago when it came out. I haven't really watched it that often since, unless I'm hungover and it's on FX or one of those channels on a Sunday. That's typically when I watch those films over. But I just wanted to tell people, no, if you are like me and you weren't able to get high and go see it in the theater at the time because your parents had to give you a ride like mine. Now you can drive your own stinking ass to the theater because it's going to come back for, I think, one week from August 30th to September 5th. for, I think, one week from August 30th to September 5th, but they're doing it now, if you are a projection nerd,

in like Dolby Vision, Dolby Cinema, all that format. I think we're having a Keanu-sance, don't you think? Yeah. We are. Oh, interesting. He's really just come back into the zeitgeist. Yeah. Buzzword.

Yes, 10 points for you. I do want people to leave Keanu alone, though. What do you mean? Because now it's becoming harassment. They're like, oh, Keanu is so nice. We need to sift through his trash and watch him constantly. What if we poke him enough times that he snaps? What does he smell like? Leave him alone.

But he sounds like a lonely guy, right? Actually, that one article was fake. I just want someone to love. I love that he doesn't touch people i love that he's a nice guy i just want everyone to leave him alone it's like he doesn't harass people so we in turn decided to harass him right right right it's like he was minding his own fucking business playing it low they're like the reason we didn't really know about him is because he was seemed like that's what we love about you keanu your solitude can we ruin it eat my ass king like what people line it up for that shit like yes we stand for you he's like uh

I'm outside my therapist's office I was like yes king yes cry in this little bottle I want a Keanu tear right I want a Keanu tear what's a movie you would want re-released to see in the theater for one last time? Drop Dead Gorgeous. Wow. Very quick responses. I couldn't have

think of two films that had more in common. Pootie Tang and even though you still want Louis C.K. to get that check? Oh, shit.

All right. He's not getting money for this fictional situation. And this fictional situation, we're just talking about the art, not the artist. No. Okay. This fictional situation, men are great. He wrote and directed that shit, right?

Oh, God, I forgot about that. Damn. Didn't he direct it, too? Biggie Shorty. Please tell me Drop Dead Gorgeous is safe. That was written by Bill Cosby. No! No, I'm joking.

Produced by Miramax. I was, dude, Drop Dead Gorgeous is phenomenal. that was written by bill cosby no no i'm joking uh yeah no i was dude dropped at gorgeous is phenomenal i fucking love that movie so much phenomenal a lot of jokes that i was i saw recently that like in 2019 i was like oh okay what the fuck there was one character that wasn't there like isn't there an asian character in there that's like, fucking, what the fuck was it? There's a lot of crazy shit. There's Will Sasso playing a mentally challenged man. Handicapped person, yes. There is CJ Craig from the West Wing playing that white trash mom. Yes.

Whose beer can gets welded to her hand after a fire. Those characters, man. But my favorite thing is, what's her face? Kirsten Dunst? Kirsten Dunst tap dancing while doing makeup on dead people. On dead people, yeah. That's the best thing I've ever seen. Shout out to her.

It's a good movie. Now I really want that to happen. Let's re-release both of these. Let's do a double feature. Shout out to the scam of nostalgia. People are just selling stuff we already bought. And I love it. I love it.

You should do an outdoor screening like your own Synespia. It's on VHS. It's going to be on VHS. It's going to be in front of my apartment complex. And it's going to be on one of those TVs that you remember from school that had the strap. The AV cart. Yeah, that had the strap on the TV. They're like, the TV is glued.

You cannot take it. They're like, what the fuck is this? There's 200 of us. You don't have a projection screen? You're like, I didn't say that. Read the fine print. Yeah, come in closer. This is about unity.

I said it was a retro experience. Yes, exactly. That's what you paid for. Right. Speaking of retro experiences, this just in, as I'm looking, ABC is going to do The Little Mermaid live. Now, it is announced that it will be a musical production, not like a full-on live action version because they don't want to cannibalize the market for that film.

They're already cannibalizing it. I know, in a way. So, this production will star Moana's Ali'i Cravalho as Ariel, Queen Latifah as Ursula. That's dope. And Lacey already knows because I spoke to her about it before. Guess who is playing Sebastian? Who? Just guess. Gilbert Gottfried.

No. No. But it's almost on the nose. Like, they're like, oh, yeah, this person would be Sebastian. Who is it? You don't have any guesses. You almost look angry that I'm making you guess because you just want to know. I didn't have any guesses either.

I was like, tell me. This is sick, Miles. Wait, is it a singer? Yes. Like a singer first? Yes. A musician. Artist.

Not an actor. If you say Ed Sheeran, I'm going to throw myself out the window. No, what the fuck? Ed Sheeran? Just he's in everything. So he is climbing out the window right now. No, he's going to be Shaggy. Wasn't me.

Shaggy. Mr. Boombastic. And I was on the sofa. Yes. Wasn't me. It wasn't me. And then I went to the shower. It wasn't me.

It wasn't me. I thought it was great. I even. And I did a dumb camera. She wasn't me. I thought it was great. I was actually very happy about this because I hate- That's actually Rick Rock for the record. Oh, yeah, that's true. Technically. I hate the faux Caribbean general accent that always happens for Sebastian.

Like, we're from Samoera. We're from an island. What island are you from? What island is that? You know, General Caribbean. I'm from Caribbean. I know. Sebastian should have been Rihanna.

Oh, that would have been good too. Whoa. Disney can't afford Rihanna. No. Let him break out of that stereotypical role. Let Rihanna take Sebastian to the next level. That's the casting we deserve. If Disney texted or emailed her agent saying,

we would love to cast, we're interested in Rihanna playing Sebastian, I think she would have responded with a gif of herself. You know that one where she does this with her phone, where she waves people, and she's like, nah. Or the one where she rolls the window up.

And like rolls right back in. Bye. The window is so good shade queen wow yeah no she's selling highlighters and makeup I hope we get an album at some point but also I will just listen to her lip gloss you know I love it

oh just put it to your ear yeah I've been putting it to my ear for a few years now do you have Fenty Beauty oh you know I have Fenty Beauty is Fenty Beauty the most lit Fenty is actually very good. They have so many shades. I love a lot of their makeup. I love

the quality of it. Rihanna put her foot in that makeup line. Oh, really? Oh, all up in it. So it's displaced. I mean, I know it's performing massively well. I just secret, I don't wear makeup. Oh my God. Every day. I would have sworn there's a little bit of highlighter on those I got a little BB cream on.

I got a little BB cream on. I'm not going to lie about that because I need the SPF. SPF. It's okay. A little mild coverage. Yeah. Well, you know, I had a lot of sugar this weekend. So, little blemishes I wanted to hide.

But is there – I'm curious. It has arrived at the top, right? You can't really say shit about Fenty Beauty. No, it's doing extremely well. In the makeup industry, it is not regarded as a celebrity endorsed makeup product like this is a new brand yeah i've rarely been on a set and seen like kylie lip kit like you know what i mean that's still kind of a faux pas um it's doing very well you know internationally exactly it's where you get a lip liner and a lipstick

that are pretty close in shade. Got it. It kind of like does the work for you depending on your skin shade. Sometimes they'll do one where it's like

a gloss and a Yeah. But it's done extremely well obviously and Kylie's made so much money but I don't see her products when I'm on a

professional set with makeup artists. I haven't really seen them. But you'll see Fenty? Yeah, I'll see Fenty. Totally. Hey, give it up to Riri. I think'll see Fenty? Yeah, I'll see Fenty. Totally. Hey, give it up to Riri. I think Kylie's stuff is mostly bought by like teenagers.

Yeah, by children. Of course. From what I understand financially. I'm sure. And I think Fenty is for adults and everybody. Yeah. Right. People who are looking for makeup that actually matches their skin tone.

Yeah. And it was like, why can't KK come out with more shades? Yeah. Oh, as a response. Because you're like, oh, right. They were like, you're saying it's inclusive, but then there's like three or two black shades. We have two black people shades. Yeah, so it was. We have very, very dark skin and then like a little bit lighter.

Right. Wesley Snipes and what Ariana Grande is trying to look like. Right. Those are our black people shades. They're like, damn, so do I mix the two if I'm in between? They're like, nah, just fucking kill yourself. Yeah, buy both.

A part of the culture, sorry. Okay, well, that's good to know. So shout out to them. Shout out to Fenty Beauty. Please sponsor this show. Oh my God. That would be amazing. Give me that whole,

and you know what? If I have to say fuck Kylie Jenner lip kits, I will. I'll say whatever I got to. The thing that's happening though, just one thing about this Little Mermaid thing. Apparently, as they say, live performances are going to be, quote, interwoven into the broadcast of the original feature film. So I guess maybe they'll be some.

Dub the voices? Or for a musical number, they'll suddenly go to cut to this stage where they'll then do part of your world. So Ursula will be the Ursula from the movie, and then all of a sudden she's queen latifah this sounds like a mess singing look i don't know look let's just keep our claws crossed and our flippers when you get asked to do a stand-up show but they're like and also it's an interpretive dance uh show so the first half will be interpretive dance, then you'll come out and you'll slam. And you're like, these two things do not

go together. Why are we doing this? Then we have someone coming out doing a very dark, what we call black people spoken word, which is where you talk like this and then you talk like that. When I said go, I meant G-O out the D-O to the flea-o.

Call of Def Comedy Slam. The mic is on fire right now. I love Def Comedy Jam. Ooh, so good, baby. I haven't seen one of these that's been done well in a very long time. I liked Hairspray. I thought that, what was the one that Uzo Adobo was in? That was, not Peter Pan.

There's another one. They did Annie, right? Yeah, she wasn't in that one, no. No, I'm just trying to name all the ones I know. What else did they do? Oh, I think it was The Wiz. Oh, The Wiz. The Wiz is the one from years ago?

The Wiz live was very, very bad. Do not tell the black people I said that. It was awful. And a lot of the live singing was painful. Really? Super duper horrible. I only watched the first one of the live ones, which I think was Peter Pan. And Christopher Walken was so out.

I mean, I just watched it because I wanted to see how out of it Christopher Walken was. He didn't disappoint. No, he was fantastic. I mean, you're looking to laugh. I've never seen any of these because I don't really fuck that much with musicals. I don't either. And I think I only did it at the time because a lot of people were getting together. I was like, oh, shit.

They must be doing very well in the ratings because otherwise they would not keep breaking these out. Well, yeah, they kill in the ratings because people still love musicals, you know? I guess. Or nostalgia, like what you were saying. They bought this shit, they're going to buy it again. Yeah. Oh, we need to do a musical. We need to do a nostalgic musical.

Let's do a musical version of Pootie Tang. Okay? Followed by a musical version of Drop Dead Gorgeous. How do you do a mockumentary as a musical? It's kind of interesting I will scale that amount okay well why don't you go

I'm into it head to the lab this is revolutionary head to the lab cook something up and let me know some shit was decided and made today

on this podcast so much actually Sophia thank you so much for coming through thanks for having me I feel like I see you all the time though because we're constantly in the lab perfecting 420 Day Fiance.

That's right. Where can people find you and follow you, respect you, message you, honor you? Please find me at TheSophia on Twitter and Instagram. That's S-O-F-I-Y-A. And then find me on my podcast about love and relationships around the world called Private Parts Unknown that I co-host with Courtney Kosak. You almost said Kohak. Kohak. And 420 Day Fiance coming soon for me and Miles.

Get excited. Get excited. Oh, and right now I started doing a fundraiser thing every Friday called Give an F Friday. So I just want to plug that. We raised like $758 the first Friday for races. And this Friday, which was before the shootings, well, not all of the donation, I will throw in an extra five bucks for everyone that does that. So please holler at me. Yeah.

Damn. It used to be all about follow back Fridays, you know, Friday follows. I know. And now it's like give a fuck. But that's great, you know, because people need to give a fuck from what i hear um lacy you're a goddess a scam goddess i might say thank you uh with a show of your own yeah uh please let us know where we can find you and hear you follow you and honor you of the 900 000 you got. And Miles is one of my guests. This is so dope. So guys, don't kill me.

The Scam Goddess release, it's October 1st. I know I said August. It got moved. Not my fault. Network. But it's going to be amazing. We've got super great guests. Miles is on.

Nicole Byer is on. Lauren Lapis is on. Paula Tompkins is on. You guys are going to love it. I promise you, it's not a scam. Wow. I feel honored that my name was even mentioned amongst those other ones. I'm like, yeah. It's is on. You guys are going to love it. I promise you, it's not a scam. Wow, I feel honored that my name was even mentioned amongst those other ones.

I'm like, yeah. It's not even, this is the only scam I'm not doing. This is a legitimate thing. Everything else is a scam. I cannot wait to listen to this. It's so fun. But also you can find me at D-I-V-A-L-A-C-I on all platforms, Twitter, Instagram, and the like.

You can follow Scam Goddess Pod on Instagram. You can email me scams at scamgoddesspod at gmail.com if you've been conned or you're running a con. Don't tell me about your con unless it's retired. I'm not trying to mess up your flow. But, yeah, hit us up. Let us know what's going on with you. And watch Florida Girls. The season finale is this Wednesday, 7 p.m. if you are in L.A.,

10 p.m. if you are on Eastern time or in Central time. So 7 p.m., 10 p.m., Eastern Standard. Yeah, why can't I talk right now? Florida Girls season finale this Wednesday. Please watch, guys. I appreciate all the support so, so much. Love you guys so much. And if you like watching my life and my schemes and scams,

follow me on Instagram and watch my stories where i'll teach you how to be shady um a tweet not shady you know not shady shade is bad i'm not shady you're like water you just move to where you can flow i'm flowing exactly like that more of a dappled shade yeah like it's pleasant to be in and then the tweet that i'm enjoying also my aka AKA was from Trite Gang, just TDZ AKA. Shout out to y'all. I love you so much. And then my tweet that I'm really enjoying is there's a tweet on Instagram and there's a photo of this woman and she covered the guy's face, but you can see his body and he

has like all these tattoos and he's like really buff. Oh, yes. Yeah. And the girl's like, men with this physique really do something to me. I'm down on bended knee. Then someone retweets her, a woman, and goes, look, no cap, which means I'm being completely honest. This is my current boyfriend. When was this picture taken?

Oh, my God. Did you see them people look at the magazines in the back? Yeah, that's what's happening. So she goes, he claims it's an old pic. I just want receipts and then the next photo is someone some random person on Twitter who has zoomed into the back of the photo where there are some Houstonia magazines and she goes well sis judging from one of that magazine covers early 2019 that's the February issue and she takes a screenshot where she's googled Houstonia comparing it yeah that is dope and it's like

inverted to the image so like at first I was like those don't match and i'm like wait it looks backwards because it's a self what detective work twitter is undefeated i love this shit i know it's so funny on one side you have absolute fucking garbage and then you have people looking out for each other catching the cheaters i love it um sophia i forgot to ask you what's a tweet that you like um i like this one by big racks white women be like how can i be racist if i'm bisexual oh boy laugh really hard and i also retweeted this thread because i loved it so much it was a family basically staging a funeral for this lizard this girl got. Oh, yeah.

Did you see that? Saw the pig, yeah. And then her sister basically takes videos of the whole funeral. And, like, some of it is basically the little girl being like, this lizard has had a huge impact on my life. And then, like then her cousin yells, you mean like from two days ago? And it is hilarious because they really try

to take it all seriously and stuff for the little girl and it's the best threat ever. I had a funeral in college for my fish Beyonce. You did? I'll actually put this on my IG story, guys,

if you want to see it. You had a full-on funeral? Yeah, and I invited people to my dorm room. I had goldfish snacks. I hadedish fish i had goldfish punch i had um i played music some shit i found that had to do with fish at the rite aid local rite aid and i had people sing and do remarks and then i made a song that was based on beyonce um it was like she swam from the right she swam to the left to the left and now she's here in this box

to the left and then the box was on the left of me. Yeah, it was a whole thing. Please post that. I know my roommate murdered my fish. What? It was my roommate Cece. If you're out there, I know you murdered my fish. Cold blood. Okay, well keep an eye out for Cece.

Damn Cece. Okay, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at MilesOfGrey. I like a couple tweets. Again, Dana Donnelly. I hope she comes on the show because I like the Twitter feed so much. At Dana Donnelly, D-O-N-L-Y. This one is, watching a girl do stand-up, she makes a self-deprecating joke about her appearance. I'm with the guy I like.

He doesn't laugh at the joke. So either he thinks women aren't funny or worse, he thinks this girl is hot. Regardless, I am fuming. What else? What else? Who else? Another one from Molly Moleshine, at Molly Moleshine. How could

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