The Daily Zeitgeist - Anti-Pa(nic), Trump Boats vs Woke Wakes 9.14.20

Episode Date: September 14, 2020

In episode 714, Miles and guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh to discuss right wing media continuing to defend Trump downplaying Covid-19, more insights into what Trump told Bob Woodward, Trump's Michigan rally, Trump boat parades, the chill Pope giving a thumbs up to boning, the Babu Frik doll, and more!FOOTNOTES: Fox Host Defends Trump Purposefully Downplaying COVID By Invoking 9/11 'I saved his a--': Trump boasted that he protected Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder, Woodward's new book says CNN Surveys Maskless Trump Supporters At Rally: ‘There’s No COVID’ "It's a resident of antifa" -- Trump suggests antifa is a place A NYT Reporter Got Kicked Out of a Trump Rally After Simply Reporting on the Maskless Crowd The wake of other boats in a pro-Trump parade in Texas caused 5 boats to sink, sheriff's office says After a disastrous boat parade, Trump gets a sinking feeling Trump Boat Parade On St. Croix River Causes Capsizing How Trump Boat Parades Became the New Unskewed Polls Boning Is 'Divine,' Says Chill Pope (Via God) MATTEL BRINGS BABU FRIK, FROM STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, TO LIFE ANDREW. & TRVE HILL - Solução Edit Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Please welcome the greatest I would say, you know, the scourge of the Unicode Consortium. The person who's haunting them. The fucking proponent, the lifter of resurfacing machines. Lil' Zam

herself, Jamie Loftus. Zam, Boney once told me ice resurfacer emoji. I made the smallest Zam in the decks. I was looking for some fun that resurfacers got spunked to

make ice really flat like a floorboard. Which I like that it just like really bravely chooses not to rhyme at the end. Yeah. Like a floorboard. Yeah. Or just like flat like a, I guess, yeah, fine.

Fuck it. Let's just do that. That's the joke, I guess. You know, human jokes. That's from my friend in yours, Zamboni. Zamboni. That was written prior to my rejection from Unicode, which, you know, it is kind of fun to have a new irrational enemy.

And I take Unicode on as my new fun enemy. For people who don't know, the fucking, the ghouls at the Unicode Consortium, they are the people, they are the gatekeepers of emojis, okay? To get an emoji included in, like included across all phones and mobile devices, the Unicode Consortium has to come down from on high and say, yes, we will create avocado emoji. We will create bacon. We will create burrito.

But no Zamboni? No Zamboni? I'm sorry. I got a series of passive-aggressive emails, one of which sort of made sense, but made it clear that they hadn't opened the document. I mean, listen, you can listen to Alex Schmidt's podcast on the topic, but the difference is he was successful. like any great campaign is we need to mobilize our allies in Scandinavia and other cold countries where ice sports are respected and exalted and say, they're trying to leave out a critical piece of infrastructure that gives us

the winter sports we love and hold so dearly. Had a lot of Canadians in the comments being like, I actually am, am feeling disrespected. Yeah. Look, I played hockey full disclosure, so I have a connection to even going to... Look, I played hockey, full disclosure, so I have a connection to the Zamboni,

but I believe it's worthwhile. And you know what? We'll figure out a way to do this with the collective might of Zeitgang because, look, we can do anything. Good use of energy. If we can get this show to number one, the number one podcast in the world right now,

then there's fucking Moji easy. But before we do that, we got to bring in our guest, someone who I love having on because her takes ain't fakes. Her takes are real and they hit harder than steel. It's the one and only Zara Norbach. What's up? There she is.

What's up gang? The sheer lung power. Yeah you especially you're up in the bay too with the air quality not great i am and i i go outside and i blow the ash away with my enthusiasm yes yes we need more of that so we need more enthusiastic people to go outside and just scream at the smoke. 2020! Oh, I lost it. How long have you been in the bay now? Because I know last time, were you on your way up there?

Were you quite settled up there? You were in LA still? Yeah, I went up to go see my folks, and I'm here. And I think it's been 20 000 years 25 days two hours no yeah 20 000 years 20 000 years yeah i think i think that was right 20 000 leagues under alabia uh that was i i love that uh graphic novel you wrote it is fantastic if you haven't read 20 leagues out of the labia yet by Zara Norbach, please check that out wherever you get your independent comics.

So yeah, Zara, I think we're all on the West Coast now dealing with the smoke. I get constant messages from people who are not in this state who just look at like a couple photos and are thoroughly freaked out, which they should be because it is a horrific situation

here. It's Mars. i can't get over that the air quality and like how much i'm coughing up stuff like look full disclosure if i smoke three blunts like at in a night i can cough up some dark things in my mucus okay but now not even smoking i'm like i'm already getting things in there uh but that's not for here or there that's for my doctor tomorrow my air quality level is that a bernie sanders level right now how are you how are how are things where you are like is it it's just over is it overwhelming wonderful wonderful it's no okay check this This morning, I get woken up to leaf blowers. Oh.

And I'm just like, why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Please take the day off. Now more than ever. I'll pay you to take the day off.

Also, it's just ash. Like, I literally was looking at a cloud of ash and dry leaves whirling like a tornado in the air. Oof. I will say that is a very 2020 poll quote of, like, it's just ash. Takes it to law. Yeah, right. 2021 will be like, don't worry, it's just ash from human remains. It's just ash.

It's just ash, though, in the end of like of people anyway before we get too too funny on this podcast on this monday uh let's take give people a little bit of a preview obviously czar we're gonna we're gonna dive into your brain a little bit more but the things we got coming up okay uh we're gonna have to check in with the I chimed in with the haven't you people ever heard of not causing a fucking panic? No panic at the shit show. It continues because now we have there's all little nooks and crannies and nuggets that are coming out of this. A new one this time about Mohammed bin Salman, as well as some more defense, weird logic deployed by Fox and friends to try and excuse Trump's admissions. Then we'll talk a little bit.

I just saw this story about Connecticut high school football, and I did not know that so quickly you could get people mobilized over the cancellation of a high school sports season. But I get it. But it's a little bit. This interesting interesting times we're in uh then we'll also talk a little bit about uh some some more super spreader events this time a rally a trump rally in michigan a little bit more info on those trump boat parades and like why these things like why they're so lit and sort of what the subconscious uh motivation is doing stuff like this. And then we're going to have to talk about good news for Catholics. Y'all can

bang guilt-free now without having the devil breathing down your back. Okay? Hey, what's that on my back? The devil? No. But don't feel bad about it. But that was part of the kink of it. The devil on your back. Right. Or just...

The devil on my back. Or just or like the devil on my back or making up other sexual activities you could do that like weren't explicitly outlined in the bible and be like no we're good with this one because i don't i don't read i don't see this specifically in the text of the good book uh then we'll talk a little bit you know because jamie's here we got to bring in some good news for babu frick hive for people who love the character Babu Frick from the last Star Wars movie, I think maybe has replaced Darth Vader for me as my favorite character in Star Wars.

One of the most iconic Star Wars characters. Oh, 100%. This is really exciting news for about 12 people. I'm thrilled. Oh yeah, this is why we do it. And the devil on your back. Yeah. But first, but first, but first Zara but first zara zara zara what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are i just searched the grand canyon

what is that my escape hatch that's my escape that was my my escape. I thought, I was like, how? Because, okay, so to get away from the smoke in California, for those of you who are not in it right now, you would need to travel 100 miles. Oh, really? That's how far we got to go? Yeah, at least. At least. God damn. 100 miles. Damn.

So I was like, we're somewhere cool to just like go. And I was like, how about the Grand Canyon? Yeah. Because like if I travel down to LA, there's smoke there. There's a wildfire in San Diego. You go up further north, there's more smoke, including in Oregon where it's even worse. And so I was like, the Grand Canyon.'ll just i'm gonna roll i want to roll down the grand canyon like a log roll like just like arms to your sides and be like

no i want to keep my limbs out so they break oh okay oh you're gonna mangle yourself yeah i just want to see because you know 2020 why does it get to initiate all the damage i just want to see what i can do just like a kid be like i bet i could survive that let me just try i want to see i want a picture of myself at the bottom looking like a broken matchstick. That's what I want. Oh, the thoughts we have. Love that energy you're bringing. Jamie, you got away from the smoke. You were away from the smoke. Did you come back towards the smoke as your great journey across these United States came to a conclusion?

Or was that how the fire already began? The fire, we got here lucky. We got here right in time for the fire to start. Oh, wow. Great. Because the party simply doesn't start until, no. But yeah, no, we did not get here. We got here, I think, the day before fires really started kicking up.

And yeah, we actually, we almost stopped at the Grand Canyon. But then I was like, no, there's probably, I don't know if there's going to be too many people there. Traveling is so confusing that it's just like impossible to know like where is it safest to stop? I think the answer is nowhere. It's true. Yeah. Yeah.

I went to Yosemite and it was packed with people. No masks. That's the thing. A lot of people. You just never know. People like the idea of like outside equals no mask inside mask outside no mask uh which you know i get that it's a completely different scenario but like when you're in a crowd and stuff like you kind of want to feel like okay

is everybody kind of on the same page here on how we're going to get through this versus like i can't possibly i'm getting mask knee i can't I can't keep this on all day and talk. Which is a real thing. Maskne is definitely a thing, and it's just something I've really embraced as a part of my life. I got a weird pimple on my nose from having it all covered all the time. Oh, yeah? You got to get maskutane.

Maskutane is the shit. I haven't been plucking my chin hairs for months, and then I went in because of the mask. You don't need to worry about it. But then I really pulled some that I was like, oh, wow, it was actually really becoming a situation under there. It could be the mask knee, or it could be the mask, or maybe the two pints of ice cream I can stress eat in one sitting.

Oh, my God. I don't know. stress eat in one sitting oh my god i don't know maybe that gave me the pimple i don't know i'm gonna blame the masks let's say it's the mask ice cream never hurt nobody no ice cream is what you use to put on the mask knee an ice cream mask spot treatment like mario yes yes yes that's what you need about that uh zara what's something you think is overrated besides your limbs? Lungs. Okay. My lungs.

I don't need them. I don't need them. Go off, you lungless queen. Let me know. I don't need my lungs. When I opened my mouth, I wanted to sound like a carp. We don't need lungs, right? I mean, everything is attacking our lungs this year.

Yeah. It's true. No lungs November. That's. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. No lungs November.

That's. Oh, that's. You're right. It might be no lungs November from all the screaming. If people have to take the streets over a contested election. I don't know it might be no lungs november from all the screaming uh if people have to take the streets over a contested election i don't know could be no lungs for any reason we are coping yeah zeitgang write in your favorite coping food you know what i mean because i look fish food they know me at 7-eleven and when it's not in there i'm like where's the fish food at

bro i like to i like to i like to keep all the chocolate fish in the corner of my mouth when i have a big bite and then i bring them to the middle and i enjoy the chocolate fish as their own sort of thing and that's how i get down with ben and jerry's um zara what's yeah mascutane shout out mascutane and retin what's the other one uh that accutane was the one that used to like give kids like wild problems, too. Oh, yeah. And you can't you can't get pregnant on Mascutane. You can't.

Oh, right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That used to be like the low key way to get birth control in high school. That's right. Yes.

I remember that because I'm like, no, low key. Like, unless you have the devil on your back. Devil on your back. Her skin is perfect. Yeah. They have they have sex in his Bronco on Sunny Slope after school. Okay, damn. That's a lot of information.

Zara, what's something you think is underrated? Bottles of wine. Damn. Have a bottle. Why share? Right? Try to work your way up to a bottle a day. Ooh.

I mean, last time, wasn't it your birthday when you came on? Oh, 20,000 years ago? Wasn't that the last time you were on? I could have swore because we were like, yo, let's, like, because I think you were like, I want some boxed wine. I think it was yesterday. Yeah. I was like, yeah, boxed wine. One of them.

Yeah. One of those. And I am done with the wine now so it's time to move yeah and my move to gin i've been like whining it up whining dutty whining okay yeah just like you know like do i want tequila i'm not there yet i feel like i don't i don't know about guys, but I've been like really selective about my alcohol during pandemic quarantine. I'm a social drinker most of the time, so I haven't been drinking as much. But when I do, I have like, I have very specific desires.

So if I go to the store and I'm like, I want some beer, I'd always be like, I want this very specific thing. Or I want like this kind of thing or whatever. It's never like, I don't know. What is there, wine? Sure. Well, there are some alcohols that are like super social alcohols. Right. Smashing tequila by yourself at home is one thing.

It's not great. It's not the best vibe. Tequila, soda, and lime outside. It's hot. You can enjoy that. It's casual. Yeah. five tequila soda and lime outside it's hot you can enjoy that yeah i i was i went chaos at the beginning of the pandemic and i was like we're getting a box of franzia and it's just it is what it is but i've i've tried to do you ever have like a moment in your life where you're like

i need to slightly treat myself the smallest bit better and And so I'm like, no more Franzia. And I've pivoted to Boda boxes. Hey, yeah, the Boda box. It's a little nicer. It's a little nicer. It tastes better. And it feels less chaotic to have a Boda box. Yeah, but you know what?

If you get the really high-end wines, then you don't have a hangover the next day. That's true. Is that true? Can't say that for the Boda box. Yeah. What is that? What's the deal?

Look, I'm so ignorant when it comes to shit like this. Break it down for me. Oh, my God. It makes such a difference. Tell me this, Zara. What could possibly be wrong with cheap-ass wine? Apart from the food coloring. What?

Yeah, there's food coloring in it oh you love to see it wait for real oh that makes sense i mean how you get those like deep yellows are you sure that's wine yeah i don't know that's the bottle they pass around on my corner so gorgeous wine yellows that that looks for. That's true. When you look at a bottle like Livingston, you know what I mean? Like the 7-Eleven wine and shit. That like Chardonnay or whatever. You're like, that is a deep, deep hue. And even me as a non-wine drinker, it looks like a bottle of flat beer.

It looks like Mountain Dew. Yes. I mean, hey, no Deuce Lander out here though. It's like Mountain Dew. Yes. I mean, I ate. No Deuce Lander out here, though. The Wisconsin wine bottle design while I was up there is just such a treat.

There are some local wine companies near where we were staying that had a very graphic design is my passion kind of energy on the label where it was a lot of fonts uh oh yeah a lot of fonts but the wine was good but there was a lot of fonts i didn't know there was a wisconsin wine country shout out to them yeah i don't know that much i don't know it was like fruit wine so i think it was like i don't i don't know that much about wine look uh, Wisconsin Wine Zeitgang, let us know. Wisconsin Wine Twitter, please hop in our mentions. What's the best Wisconsin wine? You make ice wine because it's cold up there? I don't know. I'm ignorant.

That's all I know. And finally, Zara, what's a myth? What's something that people think is true that you know to be false or vice versa? Outside. It's not real. I know it now. I've been inside many, many days, and I know there is no outside. Just comparatively.

I'm comforted by this. Yeah. My FOMO has gone away now, knowing that the only thing that is real are these four walls and these faces changing on this laptop screen. Here I am with my mascutane and my red lipstick. And your nice wine. And my nice wine. There's no outside. And this has nothing to do with the just nihilism that goes along with creeping wildfires and climate change and things like that.

What's nihilism when nothing matters? Oh, wow. Wow. Excuse me. I'm going to go roll down the Grand Canyon. Mic drop. Got to go. I mean, yeah.

I'm doing fine. Yeah, I was going to say. You're like turning into Kramer from the Kenny Rogers episode where all that red light was coming through his window and it was like messing him up. And like the red skies of Northern California. I've said that to so many people. Oh, really? Yes. That's how I feel.

Like when I look at like people I know in the Bay and I've seen photos of like their lives too. And I'm like, that's gotta be a, I mean mean at least here it just looks like shit and it smells awful and there's ash coming down but like the red sky the red planet vibe feels very disconcerting it's not just red it's dark it's blocking out the sun like isn't

this how the dinosaurs went yeah that's true wow I mean I'm resourceful like a pterodactyl i'll turn into a parrot on the other end i'll make it oh shit okay i've been considering marathoning all the land before times maybe it'll be like kind of comforting to be like hey they had a good run yeah look how much fun they had before that whole what happens when we when we are extinct and other new intelligent life forms become like the top? Like it'll be like dinosaurs, then humans, then like the bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep people or whatever organisms.

They'll think that we were so cute. I know. Oh, I want to be a bleep bleep. Yeah. There's like a Jurassic Park movie, but it's about like podcasters. I don't know. Oh, I want to be a bleep bleep. Yeah. There's like a Jurassic Park movie, but it's about like podcasters. I don't know. That's what they did. These were the scariest people during that time based on the utter destruction that was caused by their mouths.

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And let's get into some news. You know, the president had a wild week last week, you know, because he was out here going to his taped confessionals with father woodward at the church um in which he would confess all of his deepest darkest secrets like you know doing diet genocide on the country um and you know the needle's not really moving but you know when nothing matters how can you be nihilistic but now there's like even more material for Americans to just roll their eyes at and just get grossed out by. So there's another excerpt from the book Rage by Bob Woodward in which now there is an interesting interaction in which the president describes talking about the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. And, you know, just that little old thing. What was that?

The Jamal Khashoggi murder when he ordered the brutal murder and kidnapping of Jamal Khashoggi, but on foreign soil in Turkey. OK, I think we all remember that. I know it's 40,000 years ago, but most of y'all remember this. So what happens is, this is what he writes, that Trump called him Woodward on January 22nd, shortly after going to the economic forum in Davos.

And so he said, you know, he wanted to kind of press him about this to find out what his feelings were. This is what Woodward told Trump. He said, quote, The people at The Post are upset about the Khashoggi killing. And, you know, that is one of the most gruesome things you yourself have said. And Trump responds, yeah, but Iran is killing 36 people a day. So that was his first response. And then after a little back and forth, he goes back. Trump says, I saved his ass, referring to Mohammed bin Salman and following Khashoggi's murder. Quote, I was able to get Congress to leave him alone.

I was able to get them to stop. Now, the White House had no comment after this nugget. No kidding. Yeah. And now, I don't know. This doesn't, I mean, the whataboutism is truly something. It's like, yeah, he, this is an American that was dismembered. I don't, yeah, but I don't know

if you heard about what's going on in Iran. So I'm just going to ignore what you just said because I've thought of this other thing. That's one guy. How about 36? And what are you doing? What a swerve. Yeah, it's a, so, you know,

these are the kinds of stories that come out where we already knew this, that this is what he was doing like he was trump was never taking this seriously he was even though all the intelligence was like muhammad bin salman directed this this was direct from him for this action to take place very little done and then even to hear him it's like it's almost like more fucked up in a way because like we already knew that the president was covering for muhammad bin salman and had no interest in rocking the boat because of arms sales and just having a strategic you know place to park your war parts in that part of the

world now it just feels like the knife just kind of goes in like deeper you know what i mean because you're like i don't need you here you confirm this shit. Like we knew you, like, but that's been, I mean, that's, but that was the, I mean, I, I am interested in a,

in a cutting way to, to hear what is inside of Woodward's new book. And, but, but his, I mean, it's not his fault, like,

but his, his books on Trump, it's like, it's, it's bizarre. It's like, it's all just confirming things that we already knew instead of revealing you know revealing anything it's just like oh no

just if you were wondering if he was just well aware of what he was doing he didn't give a shit here's a pull quote where he just confirms that i have it on tape too if you want to hear him right if you want to hear him say it's just like you can have like this Dolby surround Sound you know version Of confirming what we already knew I mean I'm very Glad that the historical documents exist But in the moment it's like Jesus

Fucking Christ We know They don't want you to be friends with Iran because we're about to Hit second election Ahmadinejad want you to be friends with iran because we're about to hit second election ahmadina jad two real yeah three real uh actually if i can be so blunt uh and meanwhile trump is still reeling from his uh ant antipa comments uh anti-panic as i like to call it he's Antipa comments. Anti-panic, as I like to call it. He's Antipa.

Oh. Yeah, he's Antipa. Because he doesn't want to panic nobody. And so conservatives have been, I mean, we've seen it. They have been more than willing to throw their useless bodies on top of this shit grenade. And just making things worse. Shit grenade is the best image I have come across to date. You just hop on it and just

cover it in it. The punk band name too. Shit Grenade. Oh yeah. We are Shakin' It Grenade. One, two, three, four. Hold on. I like the lead singer's timbre of their voice. What was that? The lead singer is a baby. It's a Muppet.

Welcome Shit Grenade. Anyway, so it's a muppet yeah welcome shit grenade anyway uh so you know they're they're obviously willing to just debase themselves no matter what tucker carlson compared trump to fucking who was it fdr it was like the absolute worst thing yeah because he was like no i didn't he didn't say that when he said there's nothing to fear but fear itself he He wasn't. But all of that to say was just sort of like, oh, that's a great impression. People didn't drag FDR when he was acknowledging bad things like he didn't. People knew the Great Depression was fucked up. So it's not like he had to be like, guys, the Great Depression. Don't panic about that thing. You've already been living in the midst of this is my inaugural. You know, it's like anyway, I wish people were a little bit more in tune with history but yeah with this specifically um so the

most recent just smooth brain defense of the president comes from brian kilmeade from trump's favorite morning kids tv show fox and friends or as i call it yo maga maga and as they were really interested in this one because they wanted to say like you know the president didn't do anything wrong like that's just the line they gotta do even though he said he completely obscured the the threat of covet 19 people are still just like no no that's not that's not what actually happened and let me just set this up this one this happened on 9 11 um not 9 111, on September 11th, on Friday of this last week, where Rudy Giuliani was on Fox and Friends to, you know, sundown on camera and talk about 9-11 and various other things. So this is where Brian Kilmeade spins off of Giuliani's anecdotes about 9-11 to defend the president.

There's so much you just said that is so applicable to today. Number one, you heard about an attack and you didn't call a press conference to panic people. What, did you lie to them? I don't think so. Number two, George Bush, we weren't even thinking about al-Qaida. Gore and Bush were debating three times. It never came up. Blindsided, almost like the pandemic,

came out of left field. You could say that. And number two, number three, is Governor Pataki secure enough to say, it almost like the pandemic came out of left field you could say that and number two number three is governor pataki secure enough to say okay rudy city i'm the governor he wasn't saying give me a press okay i i can't even listen anymore that sorry what was happening what was number two number one was you didn't call a press conference about 9-11 what uh in what what i mean come on now come on now so much adderall in that administration they can't keep track man it's unreal i don't even know like i hope brian kilmeade didn't like high five himself when they went to break after that he's like yes

brian you fucking own that shit man fuck i was like giuliani didn't call a press conference on 9-11 now let's first of all there were reports that terrorist extremism was a becoming an issue that wasn't that wasn't a thing that was obscure also with even covid these are things people knew about there's not like the america america is going to ignore their own foreign policy in a region of the world be like yeah no they're cool with all that uh we don't have we can just ignore that region of the world like that was the mentality no like people know the whole thing is so disingenuous but this is what you have to do when you try and defend a president who out loud said i'm going to obscure the threat of this pandemic because really i don't want to fuck up the

stock market let's be real nothing to do with the human beings had everything to do with the stock market he knows what happens he's got one job he's here to bankrupt the united states of america and peace out and couldn't be more straightforward about it i mean it's like again i don't know i just really i was i'm like re-listening to woodward's fear from a couple years ago and it is just so like i don't know like if you read his book about the obama administration obama's wards you genuinely get like insight into decisions that president obama made that was not readily apparent in like public facing stuff. But here it's just like, it's, oh God, it's important,

but it's depressing because you're just like, I knew all this stuff. And it's just being repeated back to you in the most horrific direct terms possible by the person doing it. Almost in a way that's insulting. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, almost in a way that you want to be like what are you

doing here kim jung kaddafi why are you talking to me like this what are you doing to my country everyone in the world is worried about me that's destabilization we're still in it yeah and still finding our feet and like you know there was a an article i read earlier today about a like a psychologist who's like the trauma that the president has already inflicted with this, like, bio-warfare campaign will be felt for decades. Like, it's just an inescapable fact

that we are going through like, trauma. What is this bio-warfare? You mean, like, with COVID, or you mean, like, in terms of the climate? All of it, really. But in this instance. Which war?

Which war? Pick either one. Is it the one on the post office? Right, exactly. This one to do with the pandemic, unfortunately. The research is still out there for all the other wars. But who knows? We'll see when.

I mean, hold on. Just look out. If you're in California, the West Coast, just look out your windows oh let me take a look oh it's still mars but you know what when i look out there i think i should have raked up some fucking leaves so that's on me y'all i apologize i facetimed i facetimed my uh my cousin and niece yesterday and she was just like what kind of filter do you have on your camera right now it's like oh no no no no you don't understand that's just what the sky is like oh brave you're you're outside face time in my back here i was just like in our like in the back of the house all right outside bravely outside for like three minutes and i scared her so yeah you're gonna scare zara too we know there's no outside

i'm sorry we all know there is no outside there is only the outside real there's no it was a fantasy we can stay inside just not where the red light is so um the other thing so trump has just been on a tear um you know he had a rally at the end of last week in michigan where i mean this was something else like the 2020 trump rallies have had a pretty interesting theme like for all people who watch who have the unfortunate duty of watching rallies front to back or for me sometimes just to like kind of you know feel something inside i'll watch a little bit the energy is not the energy is not the same anymore in 2016. You know, the rallies, they start strong. But from you can tell just from like his energy to the way the crowd responds to like talking points.

They're even getting bored, which isn't a good sign because they used to go for, you know, like white supremacist Coachella and have them do all the hits. And they loved it. But now apparently like some journalists saying like in the last few months around the hour mark people start leaving like even if he even in the middle of him talking because typically they have to wait for so long just to get to the front to be able to see uh dear leader that they they want to like by that point they're old and shit they're like i can honestly i can't feel my knees and we have to go by that point they they're old as shit. They're like, honestly, I can't feel my knees, and we have to go. By that point, they have COVID. By the time they get to the front, they've got it.

And so on that note, this rally was packed. Thousands of people, very close together. No mask wearing. Very little mask wearing. A reporter for the New York Times was actually kicked out because she had tweeted images from the rally pointing out the lack of mask usage. The reason was she didn't get a press credential. She didn't get a press. I mean, they're doing in a very American fascist way, which is like there is a way to do it.

She just didn't do it that way, which is she didn't have a press credential. So she didn't she didn't get hers in time. So when she kept pressing the office of the campaign for a credential, they just wouldn't give her one. So she showed up anyway, but she didn't have a press badge. But they're like, you used your New York Times account and tweeted it. Therefore, you're working and you don't have a thing. So you can't work here as president. You have to go because you told on us.

Very cool. Very cool. Very chill. Inhales where you're about to start crying. Yeah. You actually can't do that so yeah that like when when like you have that like coward standing up for themselves kind of moment you're like oh you're crying uh but also it's very important not it doesn't always mean

it's not a sign of weakness to cry but sometimes you got to compose yourself if you really want to give them all that energy so the other thing that uh was just to give you some insight at the rally before we get into the president's words was, again, the attitudes of the actual people attending. And you can only imagine, you know, with Donald Trump's quotes this week, how people were feeling specifically when someone from CNN is asking them, hey, so what's up? How y'all feeling about COVID in here right now with none of the mask wearing? And here we go. Because there's no COVID. It's a fake pandemic created to destroy the United States of America. But the president said to Bob Woodward that there is a virus, the coronavirus, and that it is devil.

That's his opinion. The truth is, is that the CDC said there's only less than 10,000 people die from COVID. The other 190,000 have 2.6 or 2.8 other mortalities. I'm not afraid. The good Lord takes care of me. If I die, I die. We got to get this country moving. You heard it here i die i die we gotta get this country moving you heard it here folks we gotta get this country moving and these people who can't actually acknowledge their own privilege or uh you know proximity to the pandemic uh aren't able to connect the dots and like well i think god is hooking me up or not that I'm a retiree who can afford to socially distance and, you know, even like their own like devotion to capitalism.

We're at the end. Yeah, man blatantly says like, well, you know, if, if the fucking like capitalism has a plow over me to keep going, so be it.

I accept it. Capitalism is God's plan. I'll eat a shit grenade right here, folks for capitalism. Shit grenade. This is bizarre. I'll eat a shit grenade right here, folks, for capitalism. We are shit grenade. This is bizarre. I got to tell you, it is so surreal on so many levels to be here as an Iranian American looking at Mars covered in smoke,

wondering how the second election is going to turn out and listening to people so into their dogma and their like love of god that they've enmeshed with capitalism in this like bizarre theocratic twist on 9-11 i'm just having like so many odd jaggedy mental moments yeah yeah but anyway i've got wine i was gonna say it sounds like it's a glass of wine this one's 12 it's new it's past noon i mean y'all we haven't i haven't even told you about the rally yet oh my god i know so let's do this dive in so one more the rally kicks off with air force one pulling the fuck up with the ceiling missing like two chains and the fucking fortunate son is blasting out of the speakers which is a song about wealthy draft dodgers during the vietnam war so you hear fucking fogarty you hear his voice the time of fortunate son trump comes out on it's like oh

y'all are the fortunate son 100 most fortunate um and then the whole thing like i said it was just meandering starts off strong says a couple of things and then we just get into like weird shit that people just check out when they're like listening to um first i just you know there's a couple and i'll play these like sort of out of sequence because these are just sort of ones that uh you have to check out aaron rupar at at at rupar uh on twitter because he typically will capture most of the trump rally stuff and clip it out for you on twitter so you don't have to endure the whole thing. But if you follow him on Twitter and you're watching live, it's kind of the same thing.

So one of the first things he did was say that he, I don't know, he got an award. He said he won the Michigan Man of the Year. And I just want to preface this clip by saying,

I want to just preface this clip by saying, when it comes to Michigan Man of the year And Trump winning it No he fucking didn't And it's a made up award Just so you know

What he's about to talk about right now Is fake Is it a fake pageant? I don't know but listen to him He's just up there making stories up now Again he's in Michigan I'm Michigan man of the Year. Peep this.

Hold that. But I was honored. I was doing very well. I was honored in Michigan. Does anybody know that? I was given Man of the Year award by somebody. Somebody? I came in and I spent like 45 minutes talking about how you've been ripped off, how all your auto companies are leaving and going to Mexico.

And by the way, to Canada, too. But how they're all leaving and going to Mexico and Canada. I spent the whole time talking about it. I said at the end, I felt embarrassed. I said, I hope I haven't insulted the state too much. But why do you let this happen? I stopped it. Okay.

I just have no more space in my head for stuff like that. It sounds like he does not either. No. I don't know. It's pure jazz. I used to be jokingly like, when Trump gets off prompter, man, that's just Trump jazz. He's just going to kind of do his thing. And there's no way to predict what comes out of his mouth he is now full-blown like improvising anecdotes like

are completely disconnected it went from michigan to mexico to because he he was the theme with him in michigan is all he can think of is auto plants and here was another anecdote he gave about how he like basically told shinzo abe the former prime minister of gave about how he like basically told Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan. He was like, I told Shinzo, I said, you gotta bring these companies back here. It ain't happening. You gotta bring them.

You gotta bring these auto jobs back. And people were like, what's going on? Why does your Trump sound like Batman? Yeah, I mean, they're all the same, you know? But I think in that sense, it was just one of those moments where he's so sort of superficial in his understanding of like what the working person's gripe would be in that state that all he gives like Michigan auto workers. But, you know, he does know the history of Michigan, especially with Detroit. You know what I mean? The things that have come out of Ford, you know, Barry Gordy.

I think people know him as famous music label. I forget what the music label was called in Motor Town, Motor City. I don't know. Let me let let me let Trump just put us hip to what he believes came out of the great state of Michigan. Oh, no. Michigan gave us Motown, gave us Motown, gave us the Mustang. Oh, rebound. Got it on theown. Gave us the Mustang. Oh, good rebound. Got it on the rebound. Got it on the rebound. Yo, he gave us Motang, y'all. Motang.

We were talking with Danielle Radford last week about how it's just like, at this point, it's just like, there's no more space in anyone's head for this bullshit. Like, it's just so yeah oh it's it's infuriating motang motang and i just i wouldn't be right to leave you with just a little bit more antifa fear-mongering um because again uh anti-fascists people who oppose fascism oh yeah that's a sentiment you know the other one if a bowling league is not going to be thrilled about these little comments that have been made well

like we'd like to hear this how trump again what even his perception is of people who are antifascist but again this is very much the fox news right-wing media perception or concept of what antifa is which is people clad in all black wearing masks and just like busting windows and shit that like that's just a mode of existence for people who are just like walking the streets with chains like I'm fucking Antifa. It's like, no, you're a conservative boomer, if anything, people who are like walking down the streets looking for trouble. So listen to this great just sort of again, he doesn't like to panic people unless it's about making people fear anti-fascists. They want to shut down auto production, delay the vaccine. They want to destroy your suburbs. Look at what I've done for your suburbs. You know what I've done. You know what I've done. Does anybody want to have somebody from Antifa as a member and as a resident of your suburb?

I don't think so. Wow. Next door. Oh, it's a resident of Antifa. No, thank you. Let's get out of here. Let's get the hell out of here, darling. Let's leave our suburbs.

I wish Trump were president he wouldn't have allowed that to happen and that's exactly right i'm sorry a resident of antifa has just moved anyway and if you want to say well yeah welcome to antifa usa that's a fun cartoon yeah oh hell yeah oh miley cyrus remix let's see let's get that one. So, yeah, this is, again, the state of the rallies now. And even in the energy is waning, all the clips, there are moments where he brings up things like just typical run-of-the-mill xenophobia. And they can't even get excited for that. So, you know, you hate to see that even racists have a threshold for boring content. They are.

Mix it up yeah i genuinely think they're all just like getting sick while they're standing there and just running out of steam right i mean his i mean just the way he's even talking now like he's just he can't even go the extra mile to get people to cheer he's like and you know what i did for you you know what it was you remember that come on cheer everyone so the other thing i want to touch on really quickly before we go to break uh are these boat parades that we've seen or like everyone's like look at this like look at all these boats that have come out for dear cheater it's it's it's amazing what what has happened here two weeks ago there was one in te one in Texas where five boats were submerged.

A couple actually sank. It's been sort of a regular thing because larger boats are just creating huge wakes that are just coming over the sides of these smaller boats. On conservative media, some people were saying it was sabotage. Other people who actually understand water and boats were like, it was not. It was the wakes of all these boats but either way they've been trying but the thing that's really interesting is that a lot of this has become just a way for the president and the party and the media to

undercut like polling numbers because where they can't show polling number polls tightening and even in rasmussen polls which favor you know because they only use landlines so they typically skew conservative he's not even gaining in those polls the whole thing is like fuck it you know these boat parties are they show a group of people coming out and that's what we can point to and apparently like on the media they are using this to sort of say like this is is the silent majority. Like to the point where even Trump himself has just saying the polling is fake. We have a silent majority, the likes of which nobody has seen.

I just look, there are thousands of boats and lakes and rivers and oceans, thousands and thousands of boats. It's called boaters for Trump. And it's just toilets. It's just toilets with little boats in them. Just a million tiny titanics like right well and also great sample size too like do you anyone any person i know with a boat

is a old white guy with more money than me you know i mean or another dude who all i know is this i don't know somebody broker than me with a nice boat you know i mean so it's a very specific group of the boat owning public sure the boat owning public has spoken yeah uh i mean that story was again just it was just so ridiculous that when i found out no one got hurt i'm like okay so that's just i guess funny to me yeah the boat as a boating public. I was voted boat of the year. Oh. I'm boat of the year.

You were Michigan's boat of the year? I was Michigan's boat of the year. And I talked for 45 minutes about how I didn't like when Chrysler left here, whatever that was, Dodge, or you know what I did for you. And I stopped it. Yeah. I stopped it. I stopped it. You 100% did.

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And we're back. And time to check in with the vatican you know see see what's going on over there i mean as someone who went to a catholic high school and has had a lot of uh catholicism it just smashed into their head even though i was you know don't believe it but i could i could bang with the best of them if you want to talk Catholicism. It's always interesting to see what's going on with Pope Francis, that everyone loves it, called Chill Pope. He's the most chill Pope, which I guess when...

I mean, it's like, what is that really saying? I mean, there was Nazi Pope, so it's all relative, I guess. Yeah, it was like, really look at the yardstick there for Chillist Pope. So, there's a new book coming out that someone you know there's working on and just getting some quotes and you know he's had some interesting uh you know takes that have

felt more in line with the modern world and this time they're they're like what about sex uh pontifex father what about sex what about fucking pope what fucking? What's your stance on fucking, Pope? And Pope said this. Pleasure arrives directly from God. It is neither Catholic nor Christian nor anything else. It is simply divine. I don't know.

Was he like jerking off while he said that? He goes on. Oh my god. The pleasure of eating and sexual pleasure come from god yeah okay that was my own emphasis on those words but those are his words verbatim theater a bit of verbatim theater i believe is what it's called i mean you gotta hand you gotta hand it to him That's some chill pope rhetoric I mean

Dude the pleasure of eating and sexual I'm like oh sign me up I'm like okay so he's a kinky pope They're like does that mean I can masturbate While having a communion wafer Can I combine them Catholics have been waiting To hear this shit for

Centuries to be like God come is from God that's the loophole I've been waiting for baby yeah right that's that that is a game changer someone's got to tell my uncles about this right I gotta go I'm gonna go to my high school and march out front of my old high school and be like, Come, comes from God. Come, comes from God. I knew it. Yeah. I mean, come 316.

Check out my jizz grenade. I'm surprised my old high school never has me come back to address the youth. Really a shame. I have a lot to say. Just a quick update, everybody. Yeah, right? Just so you know. Yeah, we could talk a little about podcasting and my journey from this school and into the working world.

But just so you all know, come 316. Okay? I got it titled. Oh, new merch. New merch. Come 316. Come, comes from God. Come, comes from God.

Yeah, leaf blower from God. Yeah, leaf blower. Yeah. Oh, you got a leaf blower going too? Yeah. See, solidarity. Leaf blower solidarity. So the Pope continued saying that like, because they're asking like, okay, Pope, this is kind of a hot take for you. You know what I mean? Especially from the church.

This is hot, Pope. Again, you know, like, what's the deal? And he said, basically saying that, you know, referencing the lifelong, the life of the entire life of the church about how it's been condemning the sexual pleasures and things like that. He described it as, quote, overzealous morality, a wrong interpretation of the Christian message. Ooh. I think many people, like people also took that quote, and I think their first thought was also like, okay, but what about some of these other things y'all still got going in the church that are

sort of rigid? I mean, yes, very valid. What about all the crimes? Sure. What about a woman's ability to choose what to do with their God-given body? Oh, hey't let's not

touch that we just got to come yeah we just got to come for the first time in the history of church yeah and i look i'm the first pope to write come on a chalkboard and spell it c-u-m nasty style okay like you like he's bart simpson come comes. Come, comes from God. Come, comes from God. Come, comes from God. Come, comes from God. Someone please make it. Okay, and before these lightning bolts just fly through my ceiling and strike me down to smite me,

I do want to bring a bit of good news. A reason for all of us to rejoice. a big a bit of good news so a reason for all of us to rejoice uh especially for people who are have a big investment in the star wars the sequels uh episodes seven eight and nine which no one really does but the news is still good i love them i love also how reddit and the internet has an inexhaustible energy source to keep rewriting the fucking films or re-editing scenes it's unbelievable oh that's it doesn't stop yeah and you're like to the point where you're like did you like illegally obtain the footage that didn't have a score underneath it so you can like mash these things up and they're like i actually was able to like i was like okay thank you just

so you know that's still not the movie and you're gonna he was like but jamie i really i really brought this in for you um because babu frick i appreciate it is your favorite character and i think also for me when we like around the time we watched it he was like one of the best moments is that babu frick was just sort of like this absurd moment. He's only in two scenes. He's only in two scenes. He's the one that busts C-3PO, wipes C-3PO's brain. And he works with What's-Her-Name, the unnecessary love interest they gave for Oscar Isaac. And then he goes, hey, hey, that's his catchphrase.

Hey. I love it. He's just, you know just so for people who don't know i'm just gonna uh say that he is who lived during the war between the first order and the resistance working as a droid smith okay among the spice runners of kijimi okay and he could reprogram we don't have to get into all of that, but those are sort of his bona fides. And this plush toy, I think, is really endearing, but it's missing his whiskers. It's missing his whiskers and long old man eyebrows that remind me of like...

I don't know if I mentioned this the last time we talked about Babu Frick on Zeitgeist, but the puppeteer who did his character has this like whole backstory about babu frick and how like babu frick has this like lost love in his life and there's like there's a whole piece that came out about it on cinema blend a couple months ago that it was like she has this whole she's like people don't understand because babu freak says maybe six words in the movie and they're all hey hey right um but he there's actually a deep lore and i'm like i mean i don't i i'm i'm looking for a reason to cancel my disney subscription, but if they did a Babu Frick series, I would be like, okay.

Okay, I'll stay. Did you hear that? Oh my God. If I can stomach the Mandalorian, whatever that is, I don't know what that has to do with Star Wars, but Babu Frick? Babu Frick really got overshadowed by Baby Yoda as the cutest Star Wars character of last year.

That actually, we didn't discuss the concerted campaign of Babu Frick erasure from the expanded universe or just the universe. I think it is. It's true. They are trying to subvert this man because he's a droid Smith. He's like a working class hero. You know what I mean? He's our Joe Plummer, Miles.

Yeah, exactly. Oh my God. You crapped it. Hey man, Frick Babu, Babu 2020, man. Fuck it. I'm writing Babu Frick in. role uh you know what i mean he's our joe plumber mile yeah exactly oh my god you hey man frick babu babu 2020 man fuck it i'm writing babu fricking this man gets it apparently though in the original like sort of iterations of the script babu frick was gonna get got and he would have been dead actually he would have died oh i'm so glad he lived so now we have six seasons and a movie and i just so you know before he became babu frick they were calling him babu zazi i'm kind of feeling babu zazi too like i like that just as much if not more they should be like anything with a z in it or bring them back back. Yes, Zara, go off. Yes, Babu Zara. Bring them

both. Put them together like a Milli Vanilli type duo. Oh, I love it. Babu Frick and Babu Zazi. Babu Zazi. So here's the pull quote that I found. Troy, do you know it's true? The pull quote about Babu Frick's backstory

is this. It's beyond the film babu has lived a life somewhere out there he has a lost love he thinks about her sometimes when he sits down in his workshop and lets his thoughts drift away that's what i think anyways i was like wow babu freak is a fucking like casanova oh my god God. This is from Shirley Henderson? Yes. The woman who voiced him? Yes. And she's like, listen,

there's more to this man than meets the eye. He's sensitive. Now, I didn't watch Harry Potter, but she also voiced Moaning Myrtle. That's a thing?

Oh, did she? Yeah. No way. Is that good? That's kind of fun. I don't feel one way or another about it that's fine wait she didn't need the to voice moaning myrtle because moaning myrtle had like a body

was that did she play moaning myrtle is that the same person i don't know she said she's known for roles such as moaning myrtle in harry potter in the chamber of secrets and goblet of fire weird oh i guess maybe that is her yeah who played yeah it is that oh shit that's her oh whoa damn love her love this shout out moaning myrtle myrtle elizabeth warren is her full name y'all so uh frick hive 2020 we're in the building Frick Hive 2020 I guess 2024 I think we have to wait till 20 let's be realistic here yeah

that's true we're biting off a lot more than we can chew trying to get Babu on the ballot for this presidential election but

you know what we need to unify and get behind one reasonable candidate uh huh Babu Frick Babuu frick haha i'm excited this this tour doesn't come out till october 17th which is just long enough for me to forget that i ordered it and

then it'll show up and i'll be like hey do you do that when you forget you've pre-ordered something and it arrives do you ever go okay thank uh 45 days ago jamie was not really thinking much about this purchase or you're always like yes that's right i got it do you ever like regret it i don't really i don't know i i usually don't i always worry about that and then i don't pre-order things and then i kind of regret it later i have the opposite sold out yeah yeah you don't want to be that one kid who comes to school without a babu frickick plushie. Oh, no, no, no. I'm not going to talk to you. No.

No. And I'm glad you pre-ordered it. And actually, I will ask for evidence of that. Because if not, I will have to block you on all my social media. Fair, fair. Zara, thank you so much for coming by and joining us from the red part of California. Not politically, just sky-wise. Thank you for having me here here all the way from Mars.

Where can people find you and follow you? And what is a tweet that you like? You can catch me on this season of United shades of America with W Kamau Bell on CNN. Yeah. Caught you there. Follow me everywhere at Zara comedy. My favorite tweet is from Josh Gondelman.

He wrote, every so often I look at pictures of myself from February as a reminder that I didn't have it together before the pandemic either. I love Josh. That's the best. Oh, man. He went from like, what, last week tonight to Jesus and Mero didn't he yeah very very I like that move look at that dude I just I wonder what that's like to write for Jesus and Mero that what that vibe what's what kind of vibe is that exactly um okay how about this young babu babu zazi aka babu jamie babu zamboni babu bony uh what what uh what's uh thank you first of all thank you so much for you know being with me as i spiral out of control on mic uh

on caffeine to be a ta yeah thank you so much uh yes that's my ta you will respect her so if she asks you to do something you will also do something okay thank you to my students she's a freshman in college so please so she kind of like knows stuff and like don't ask her about partying and stuff she she's not allowed to talk to you guys about that uh well where can people find you and follow you and what's a tweet that you're liking uh you can follow me on twitter at jamie loftus help instagram at jamie cray superstar i'm gonna shout out my dear friend andrea moore um at a more underscore or less uh she is awesome and we this week along with a bunch of other people with street watch la did an action about uh so so the the framing for this tweet is that the screenwriter for Point Break had boulders installed where unhoused people used to live in an act of hostile architecture. And a bunch of people moved the boulders.

And so I'm going to shout out her thread. It's a really interesting look at hostile architecture in la in general and if that is not a term you're familiar with today is a great day to become familiar with it but the tweet is uh nimby spent 3500 on ugly boulders to prevent unhoused people from existing in their neighborhoods so we moved them and the pictures are very funny because uh boulders are hard to move and everyone looks very tired this has been that topic comes up a lot, you know, like especially on LA, disgust, internet, anythings. And it's still so baffling to me,

the mindset of a lot of these people who like going to like, well, you know, the people are just concerned about like their neighborhoods because these people can be violent and dah, dah, dah. And while I understand that they're like any walking any street, just concerned about like their neighborhoods because these people can be violent and while i understand that they're like any walking any street there's a risk of encountering someone who may not be a do-gooder but like the idea that like that's the only reason why and completely missing the point that this is a failure of the city uh and like absolute bullshit like yeah it's

the most heartless thing you could possibly do. And like you're saying, like just missing a connection in your head of like, oh, if I put rocks somewhere, then the problem solved. Then this person who didn't have access to the support they needed, whether that was medically, financially, for their mental health, etc., is in there. They want to be there. And I just want to tell people, if you're not in a city that has a huge unhoused population, please start using the term unhoused because that already says homeless means you are not in possession of a home, but unhoused puts a little more emphasis on the people who we pay taxes to and things like that to ensure that things like that are a basic human right, a roof over your head uh and it's also tight i think who is it uh britney nichols too i think was part of that yeah yeah and i saw her i saw on her twitter uh somebody was like i took some of your pictures

and put it in a craigslist ad and basically on craigslist said hey if you're looking for some fucking boulders for your yard boulders free boulders! Just come pick them up. Brittany Nichols rocks. I'll shout out Brittany as well. That's at B is hilarious. Yeah, we gotta have her on soon too. You should. Yeah, she's the best. She's like another person who I'm like we follow each other and like each other's stuff and then I'm like, are we?

We should use our voices to talk at some point. It's time to be fresh. She's like doing the coolest shit and I've learned a lot just from like following her alone but yeah so but the good news is the boulders the the guy who basically organized to install boulders had to then pay to have them removed because it's littering good um so i just liked how like he hadn't tweeted in like four years because i think i think britney had added him in a tweet and i was like let me see what this fool is doing he hadn't tweeted in like four years because I think I think Britney had added him in a tweet.

And I was like, let me see what this fool is doing. He hadn't said shit in forever. But I like how people are in his replies like, hey, turd, you want to keep fucking around? OK, well, thank you for that. In terms of me, let me just tell you all a tweet that I like. This is from at remember underscore Sarah from Sarah Marshall. The tweet is, remember the 90s david schwimmer would say lesbians and the audience would laugh and laugh and laugh damn what a fucking

the lack of awareness man there are times i saw i can't i still think about this uh her majesty my partner she's like you don't watch friends i'm like no man i don't see a fucking person that no i don't know i don't watch friends there's nothing about it that appeals to me and like but everyone's like it's such a good show i'm like okay i'll watch something and then i saw how like matthew perry's uh like like mother was transgender and they became like this whole bit i was like yo this is aggressively out of nowhere yeah oh see i like i've seen like your mom your dad's a cross dresser and it was just like well okay anyway but look how how far we've come from the 90s which isn't that far at all it's like let it go let's let these shows go the man in a dress dress trope i think that lasted until like three years ago yeah oh still i mean people still say things like people still say that like terribly dated problematic uh you still like problematic

terms i have to like hit my older family members to it all the time like oh no no no we're not no no come on keep up with the times uh yeah there There was, I'm trying to find the name. Disclosure. That awesome Netflix documentary that came out earlier this year that like explores that trope and like the portrayal of trans people on TV and in movies in detail. It's really good. Yeah. Okay.

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right after the W. And then this other artist is T-R-V-E space Hill. Okay. So I don't know how you say that. Maybe if they're trying to be clever using the V as the U's, or maybe it's an A, like ASAP. I don't know. Okay, I'm old. I don't know what the new things are that the kids do to type their names. But this track is called Solo Sao, and it's got this violent funk vibe.

I don't know, man. You feel like you in Brazil and the gingas shooting up your spine, like the devil's wine. So check this track out. You will enjoy it. You can only find this one on SoundCloud, so go over there and go support those artists. And with that, we will ride out on that.

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