The Daily Zeitgeist - Celebrity Fire Idiots, The RedNote Takeover 01.15.25

Episode Date: January 15, 2025

In episode 1799, Jack and guest co-host Andrew Ti are joined by comedian, Pallavi Gunalan, to discuss… The Racist Politicization of the Wildfires Continues, RedNote Taking Over, Matt Gaetz Is Now An Ivermectin Pitchman, Other Impressive Acts of Buzz Marketing for Ivermectin: Mel Gibson Absolutely Flying on the Joe Rogan Podcast and more! These Are The Prisoners California Uses to Fight Wildfires Misinformation About the LA Fires Spreads Fast. Here’s How To Spot It 29 arrested in Los Angeles-area fire zones, including burglary suspect "dressed like a fireman," sheriff says Matt Gaetz’s Real Fate Is Somehow Worse Than I Could Have Imagined 'Beyond parody': Internet ridicules 'grifter' Matt Gaetz as he hawks 'wonder drug' Ivermectin advocate dies from horrifying side effects — and followers report 'severe' symptoms Other Impressive Acts of Buzz Marketing for Ivermectin: Mel Gibson Absolutely Flying on the Joe Rogan Podcast LISTEN: No Gimmicks by Suspect OTB L.A. Wildfire Relief: DONATE: Support the Kaller/Gray Family's Recovery Zeitgang Lightsaber Auction and Fundraiser Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Four, three, two, one. Jack, you were supposed to say drag baby. Drag baby. I actually don't know that show at all. I don't either. That's why I said, I don't even think that's a thing from it. That's definitely not a thing from it. That sounds like a straight person talking about drag.

And this is the part where we say, drag baby. Drag baby! Drag me, mother. This is a drag town! Do I sound authentic? Let us slay, hunty! That's so good. We're back in drag!

That is definitely an accurate impression of somebody from Drag Race. That's Martin Short doing Nathan Lane. That's right. Doing somebody from Drag Race. That's Martin Short doing Nathan Wayne. That's right. Doing somebody from Drag Race. I'm going to throw out, I think there's a high medium to high chance my sister will be straight up upset with me for revealing this on air, but my sister lives in, we'll just say the South, and one of her neighbors is a little white boy named Hunter.

As they do call him hunty and it's insane. That is amazing. I love that so much. As a reference, they call Hunter. No, they just call him hunty. Hey, what's up little hunty? They don't know how funny that is. I can't tell and I tried to say something and there was no like appropriate way to do

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have time to look for an akaAA this morning. But thanks to everybody who surely wrote great ones and be back to singin' for y'all. Y'all. Tomorrow, I'm thrilled to be joined in our miles seat by a hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer. You know him from the Yo Is This Racist podcast. It's Andrew T. I just want to say for the community, I actually factually spent my AKA thinking of time, better known as the 10 minutes before I get on here, looking for some stuff for some firefighters

because a request came in. So everyone who would have enjoyed an AKA.K.A. from Andrew, please know that on your behalf, I have given it to the city of Los Angeles. That's very nice of you. We also spent a good 15 minutes trying to figure out recording on Riverside and looking at C-PAP masks that look like face huggers.

So just to bring people fully up to speed. Doing the Lord's work. Andrew, how are you doing? Are you still not, you're still in your place? Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. I don't know if we talked about this, but yeah, I'm in a pretty, I'm in a part of Los Angeles that if I was in fire danger,

it would be catastrophically, it would like, All of LA would have burned down. it would be catastrophically, it would like, L.A. probably couldn't have been done anymore. So, just, you don't have to worry about me specifically. I have been weirdly okay-ish. I do have asthma that's relatively mild. And I've been alright, although one of the things I've been doing in a mutual aid capacity has been distributing masks.

So if anyone needs 2000 masks, they're in my car. So I have a lot of masks. Yeah, we do too. I'm masked up. We got a bunch of kids ones left over from COVID. Yeah. We are using the hell out of those, baby. That is the, to the extent, I mean look things change and the generally the

issue now has been making sure things, resources, not that they're you know sufficient, but there's sort of more resources than on the ground distributable. People getting shit out the door. Yeah, yeah the distribution is not caught up. So, but masks is always a thing. Kids masks is a thing that I think has been consistently people are still looking for. Yeah, yeah. We've been giving them out.

I'm so sick of the gay agenda trying to make kids mask, okay? That's right. That was a thing. Being masked is for me when I'm having an identity crisis. It's not for children. That's right. Hey, that voice in our third seat, a hilarious stand-up comedian, writer, actor, improviser.

You can catch her on stand-up stages everywhere. Check her website and at the monthly facial recognition comedy show, which she also produces, it's Pallavi Gunali. Hello. Hello. Oh my goodness. Shout out to Andrew for doing mutual aid. That's awesome.

Yeah. Great job. It's just we all, I'm doing it purely in a self-interested sense. We're on video. This is my Solidarity and Snacks shirt. I love Solidarity and Snacks. That's such a cool shirt. We have so many really awesome mutual aid groups in LA. Like, and a lot of them were born out of COVID,

but a lot of them, they've just been going for like five years or more. That's so cool. Yeah. It's, I will just say my little PSA for mutual aid or for when it's time in your community, when you're on various chats and stuff, I know it doesn't feel like people it's not your instinct when

you're asking or providing help. But please say the numbers of what you have and what you need, it will save everyone so much time. Part like I feel like, you know, 4% of my time is spent asking people, wait, so how much do you have? How many cars do you need? What is this? How much do you need? Right. So just say what you need, say what you got numbers. I'm turning into a fucking line producer. I know. I was going to say it's like trying to communicate with my mom. These fires.

For like tech issues. It's like, what is going on? And she's like, five different things. Just say the number as quickly as possible. Well, speaking of people coming together, I want to give a shout out to Maximum Derek exclamation point on the, on, on blue sky. That's their username on blue sky, but this is a listener who built an incredible blue sky, but this is a listener who built an incredible, uh, lightsaber and is auctioning it off to raise funds for Miles's family. If this is your first episode listening since the fires, Miles and his

family lost their home. We will be linking off to a GoFundMe for them. And also this auction where we're there auctioning off this very cool, uh, lightsaber to raise funds. And then we'll also be linking off to a list of GoFundMe's for displaced black families who have been displaced by the fires, some vetted GoFundMe directories that you can go check out and contribute to. But yeah, it's still the next 24 hours supposed to be very windy. We are podcasting from one of

the biggest positions of ignorance about the future. Yeah, exactly. Bring Captain Planet back. All those kids were warning us about each of their fields or realms. I didn't really watch that. So they had like a fire person. There was fire, earth, wind, water, and heart. And everybody thought heart was a bitch ass, but it turns out heart is mutual aid.

So there's that. There's that. So these were not weaponized. It wasn't like they're... No, they were. They were definitely. So like the fire could like... Yeah, it would shoot fire at someone.

Take your town out. And what did Hart do? Just like kind of break your heart? Like ghost you? Just like, oh, like how could Hart be weaponized? Yeah, love bombing, I guess. I love bombing and then ghosting. I think in the show,

Hart mostly translated to mind control over animals. If I'm in as far as fighting a group of people or a bad guy, when it was usually, I can control these pigeons. It was the mother of dragons of the show. Yeah. My heart wouldn't be able to recover if somebody was able to control some pigeons, make them like kind of coo in my general direction. It wasn't, I think, super well thought out.

It was sort of like a combination of like Aristotle and Voltron, as far as like elemental forces go. Yes. Some of that Aristotle stuff. I was a philosophy major in a university department that had a strong like bent towards the classics. And like a lot of the shit you end up studying and that is like, well, we know this is wrong, right? Like, yeah, it's just people saying stuff that we scientifically have disproven a long time ago. But I don't know. I mean, you know, how's your ethereal bile going?

Exactly. The various humors was just like a guy in the entire nation who was like, well, that's the smart guy who's like, thought of stuff. And he had interesting. Yeah. The content creators of their time, like whoever was more prolific just became the philosopher of their time. Yeah, that is like one of the most important lessons that you learn from that is, and that's

actually, I forget which one of the, like one of the famous classic philosophers was like all about. The most important thing to learn is how little you know about anything. Dunning-Kruger effect. It was Dunning and Kruger, the Colabo that would change everything. I like that one guy just was like, I really want to fuck my mom and then we made him a hero. Yes.

Oh my God. It's so wild. They were like, we just be aware. We know so little, just be open to the mystery of the universe and open to your own ignorance. But then spent the rest of their career being like, so here's probably how physics works. Yeah. It probably has to do with these little dudes who are, anyways, Andrew, Pallavi, it's so wonderful to have you both.

Pallavi, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. This audience does not know me at all. Who is this? Who is she? I should come on as a different character every time. That's right. Before we get into that, we do like to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. With the impending TikTok ban,

we do just want to acknowledge Red Note, our new overlord, the number one app right now on the Apple App Store, is that correct? Apple App Store? Yeah, on the US App Store. Yeah. So, Paul V, you're going to catch us up on that. Okay. We're going to talk about a couple of new Ivermectin pitchmen. Oh my God. We got Matt Gaetz, who is now has a show on one of those networks,

OAN or like True America. I don't know what the fuck, one of those things. He's on OWN. He's going to get OWN. I know. It's so wild. It is. That there's multiple TV networks called OWN.

Is Oprah Winfrey Network still around? Yeah. I think that's right. That so wild. It is. That there's multiple TV networks called OWN. Is Oprah Winfrey Network still around? Yeah. I think it's so wild. That is the most wild thing about what we just said. The number of networks named OWN. Also, I've been acting and having a real moment right now. Mel Gibson went on the Joe Rogan podcast because this is the new hellscape that we exist in. Nightmare blood rotation.

Mel Gibson, so a lot of people are talking about how he made the claim that he was like three of my friends had stage four cancer. Now all of them are cancer-free. He was trying to make the point that they were cured by ivermectin but he couldn't really remember what it was. A lot of people are, you know, just pointing out how incorrect that is, but I feel like not enough people are pointing out like how high he was on stimulants. I don't know if you guys saw the video clip.

He is fucking flying. Okay, but like, I don't know what Mel Gibson's baseline is because he just seems insane all the time. Yeah. So like, how am I supposed to notice him on stimulants? Yeah, maybe not. Maybe it's not. Maybe that's just like who she is.

That just feels like what his brain is now. Yeah, it is. I do just want to give a performance note of whatever this is. It's interesting. He also was like, the resurrection legitimately happened. Yeah. There was just like a whole, it was, I don't know.

I don't know. All of that, plenty more. But first, Pallavi, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I think this morning looked up, who is the Desi girl from the Rihanna, Bitch Better Have My Money music video? Because she had a Desi henchwoman who was gorgeous,

amazing, whatever, and I was like, what happened to her? I looked her up, her name is Sanam Sindhi. And she's still doing stuff, still active. She seems awesome. I want to see her in more things. I don't know. That's what I looked up. Sometimes I'll have a memory from when I'm a kid and felt representation and was like,

what happened? Who was that? Who was that? Yeah. You just like wake up in the night. Why was now the moment and not when you first saw the video? Oh, I did look her up, but then it's been like however many years. I was obsessed with her and then, but like I hadn't like thought about her in a while. And then some like real popped up or something.

And it was like Rihanna made that song because she wanted her money. And I was like, I don't know know this backstory but what happened to that girl? What happened to her? I do love those explainer videos that have the most baseline obvious explanation. So she actually really wanted her money. Hey yah, they were talking to you. Right. Man. I am depressed to admit that on Amazon Prime, when you pause it, it tells you all the actors

in a scene, and it's so obnoxious and idiotic, and I find it immensely helpful. That's like the pop-up music video on VH1. Do you remember how it had all those pop-up facts? Yeah. I loved that. I would do that with every animal actor. I'd be like, what's their backstory? Wishbone is still alive, right?

Yeah. What's this guy's deal? Yeah. How abused were they on set? Right. I know, put me on a set and I'll just be with the dogs in the corner. The dogs are, I feel like, always dead by the time I look it up. Don't say that. You don't know.

Don't look, you don't know. No, by the time I look it up, which usually, you know, I watch a lot of classic films. But yeah, I just feel like they don't, like, Frazier dog was, like, gone way too soon. How dare you? You better shut your mouth, Jack O'Brien. Wait, you thought he should have been dead sooner? Is that what you're saying? No! That dog is running out of farm upstate somewhere.

You don't acknowledge the past. Okay, got it, got it, got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, what do I know? So you, you don't look it up. I got it. Uh, what is something- Sometimes I'll text Jackie's like a picture of a dog from a movie

and I'll be like, he's probably still alive, right? That happened in the 70s. No. And I'm like, we're breaking up. What is something you think is underrated? Okay. Something this is so depressing. But something that I think is underrated is air quality because I am so like, what are we going to do? I miss. And also, even before this, like I would travel for a stand up and I would go to the Pacific Northwest and I would just the first thing I would do when I stepped off the plane was just inhale because the air is so crisp up there and there's so much greenery. It just feels so good.

Sometimes you see a picture of like snow and you feel your lungs expand. And I'm like, I miss, I miss fresh air. I want it to be fresh soon again. You know? Yeah. Man, I hope it's never like, oh, that was a thing they used to have is fresh air. But yeah, I'm definitely more aware. Like I'm, I'm all up in the air quality apps.

I'm seeing the little bubbles, the little numbers, the. You got yourself some purifiers. Yeah, we've got some purifiers. Are those accurate? Is that, is that. They're contradictory. I will say. Yeah.

So that's. I feel like Apple's been lying to me because I'm like the same, right? Yeah. Air quality now or airnow.gov. I'm like, it's the government. They can't totally lie. There was a PhD person on Twitter and it said PhD in her name, so I believe her, believe women.

She said that the air quality indexes indices, if you will, are not detecting some of the pollutants like the air quality indexes in disease, if you will, are not detecting some of the pollutants in the air. So the things that they're measuring aren't necessarily what is the toxin in the air because like right now because of the wildfires. So we don't know what's happening. Right. They're just kind of looking out the window being like, looks clear. I can see the Hollywood sign from here. So I think we should be good.

Can we get like windmill air purifiers? Science? Oh, wow. Is that a thing? And make them look like a face hug? Yeah. Oh, a smaller idea. Yeah.

I don't know. I'm all about air quality maps and fire maps and, uh, really like a horrible way to become extremely familiar with the geography of Los Angeles. Oh, yeah. Like all the places that are like, oh, this is way further away than I thought. Or way too close. Or way closer than, yeah. Also, I love that the air quality has like the range of colors.

So you're like green, good, smiley face, red, bad, no good red. Like, and that's how like every, everything, like every app is colored this way. So you're just like, okay, I'm just not gonna need for numbers. I'm not gonna pay attention to it. This is this remains they actually actually pushed an update since then, and they have not fixed it. And I don't know what they would fix it to, but it is crazy that on the WatchDuty app,

red flag, which is not nothing, but is basically nothing as far as warning, is light pink, whereas moderate danger is yellow, and then immediate danger is darker pink. This is a UI issue that is insane. Okay. Well, I haven't been paying attention to that. Are you pink, aka in a dry, somewhat windy area, or are you darker pink?

In which case you're on fire right now. And you should stop, drop and roll. It's it's genuinely I just just pitch it another another color. Yes. What are they going to name it? Fire Helga? Like what are they going to keep naming them as natural disasters after women? My pitch, if anyone from WatchDude is listening, a crosshatch.

A black and white crosshatch for red flag area. Wait, but how, the overlay on the map would be messed up. Okay, fine. Then light gray. See, and this is why we have these meetings. Yeah, our weekly standing meeting on watch duty, the three of us. I'm just saying the two choices are crazy. It's so hard to read the map. Yeah, whereas like every other map that I've encountered, like Polly was saying, the air quality maps

all seem to get how this sort of thing should operate. But it's like fire is red and orange and yellow and yeah. But the hottest fire is blue. The core of the fire. What if they made it like the most dangerous one is light blue? It'd be like, God damn it. I want them to add things to the map. If there's weird radioactive stuff, I want to see green goo on the map, like Nickelodeon slime.

Oh, that'd be fun. Yeah. Let's see how. This is like the Citizen app for nature. You know what I mean? Arrest the fire. Tackle for nature. You know what I mean? Like arrest the fire, tackle the hurricane, you know? Just, it's our new, I think it's better. Okay, I do wanna say,

we're probably gonna talk about this later, but I do think a lot of people are trying to like find arsonists because it's way easier to like go after an art, like a single arsonist than like the entire system. So I think that this might be a fun way to distract and focus on the weather, or the natural disasters of it, man-made natural disasters of it all.

You know what I mean? Just make the app more interactive. It's like Waze, where people are like, oh, there's a cop in three miles, but it's a hurricane. Yeah, if there was some way to catch the fossil fuel executives and the water company affording executives red-handed.

Yeah. Game-ify planting trees. Yeah. You plant trees up ahead for so many points. Actually, one of the things that was being game-ified sort of was people looking for price gouging in the LA rents. Yeah, that was being gamified sort of was people looking for price gouging in LA rents. Yeah, that was cool. Which was very nice. So how were they gamifying that?

Because you can do it from everywhere. Not gamified, but sort of digitally distributing responsibility for. Right. So yeah, so they're looking up, if you go on Zillow, you can look up different addresses and you can see like the price history of like the rentals or whatever. And then you can report them to the district attorney or for whatever area and tell them that they're price gouging during a natural disaster, which is illegal. And so people on like TikTok, RIP and other places are posting like their Excel spreadsheets of all of these landlords that are going to hopefully get jail time for doing that. And when you report them, it makes like a really, like a very satisfying noise.

It's like a, like the Venmo cha-ching. Yeah. Yeah. It makes like a little ching as you. We're only motivated by the Venmo cha-ching. Exactly. They're just like, ah, like that's the sound of a, it puts a like a fire out on the app.

Yeah. What probably is something you think is overrated? Okay, I was, this is all fire related and I'm so sorry, but I, It's understandable. With the evacuations and everything, I always, when I was younger, even just, there's something in me that's like,

I don't want to own many things and I want to be able to put it's something in me that's like, I don't wanna own many things and I wanna be able to put it all in my car and drive away if I need to. And like, I kinda had to do that when I evacuated. And so I think like what LA has shown people who, like all these people who are donating their clothes, donating their items, is that other than like the sentimental stuff

and the irreplaceable stuff, a lot of our like purchases are overrated. Like people are so willing to part with their clothes and with all of these things that people from the fires don't have. It kind of shows that like we don't really need everything we've bought, you know what I mean? We're willing to give it up to make other people's lives easier. Those things are replaceable and the important things that we can't replace are each other. So I think that kind of, I was like, oh man, like I am packing up my car and it does fit in my car, like the stuff that I really-

That you actually need. That I need and love, my dogs and you know and my sentimental stuff and whatever. So I was like, okay, like this is devastating, but we're all like, we're going to figure out a way to help each other. Yeah, it definitely does something to your perspective where you're just like, I guess I just need this folder and then probably like another pair of jeans, but not definitely another pair of jeans.

But yeah, for the sake of the people around me. Put the kids in the car, Jack. I'm doing a stand up about how, when you think about it. There's too many jeans. We got too many jeans. We got too many jeans. Speaking of kids, the jeans. Am I right?

Oh my God. Anyways. Yeah. I, I personally, yeah, I personally agree with that. That like, there's a lot of shit that I've realized I could just get rid of and we're in the process of doing so. Wait, I did also see a gay couple break up with that sentiment, exactly.

Really? There was like an Instagram couple that was like, well, we've been kind of headed in different directions. And with the fact that our house burned down, we're really starting a new, so we're separating. Yeah. I mean, what, there's no way to start clean, you know?

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attempting to save their household items and describe them as looters that got debunked. But I mean, just thinking about what black families are going through right now in Altadena and just around Los Angeles with this heightened, like the thing that people seem to really want to focus on at a time when we don't know what caused these fires at all, but we know what made them possible, which is climate change. But, you know, they want to find looters, they want to find arsonists. Yeah. That's, they want to find a bad guy that they can beat up. And like that was specific.

Like Henry Winkler, the Fonz, as we talked about in a previous episode, came out and was like, there's an arsonist in LA. And then we, I hope you get beat within an inch. Like he got like real violent about the imaginary arsonist that somebody told him about. And Whitney Cummings, stand-up comedian, who's had a number of very questionable moments over the past years, has just had a full break over the past decade. Seems like she had a full break. She says that people are pouring gasoline in the sewers for some reason. And also that had this video where she claimed that she was going arsonist hunting. So now that the biggest threat seems to be in addition to when arsonists

that are just lighting fires. So we're going to go to some places where that could happen. Biggest threat seems to be in addition to when arsonists that are just lighting fires. So we're going to go to some places where that could happen. What happened like the base of canyons and. Drive around, see if we find any base canyons. Why would it be at the base of kids? What's the plan if we find one? Where's the sword? If you please take them before I get a splinter. Where's the

beef? I mean, what else is the plan? What if you can't go look for something and not have a plan of like once we find them, what are we gonna do? That's true. We're gonna have a good point. I like that she's narrating our thoughts as well. It's trailheads, which is where arsonists seem to be targeting. Very good point. I like that she's narrating our thoughts as well. Where is her information coming from? And we're targeting them with swords. If that was true, Crystal Leah would be dead.

The second best option is come off so crazy that they just are stunned and just rethink their entire plan. And if anyone can out crazy an arsonist, who is it, babe? It's you, babe. She's not wrong. Arsonist? Who is it babe? She's not wrong. Also Anderson Cooper's up in Tobanga. Like, is it going to be awkward if we run into each other? This is how we know.

Wait, does she fuck Anderson Cooper? Is that why it's awkward? We're looking for shady people that could be arsonists. Anyways. And then I sent you the tweet of her with the lesbian firefighter joke? Question mark that she said. It's in the chat. Oh, God. Can I just say, it has become so clear in the last five years that nothing causes more brain damage than money.

Money and fame, really. So much of why I am looking for them. I don't want to think anymore. Being socially responsible is... It does suck. Yeah, it's hot, but it hurts my head. No, it's bad. So give me all the money.

All right, here's another tweet from her. All right, like everyone, I'm trying to figure out how this happened in California so that I don't say something that's inaccurate. I came across a video of the fire chief, a lesbian, love it, great. Fainted lesbians, try to be one, didn't take. I don't think I'm a lesbian. I just live in Los Angeles and the men are so effeminate that honestly, at this point, dating a woman is like, the straightest thing you can do.

So yeah, that's a comic genius right there. So look at how tight her face is. And she says she's never had plastic surgery. I think lesbians can be firefighters. Don't find don't I don't I'm not thinking about your genitals or your preferences when I need a hero, right? But is that not like, why is it okay? That'd be like a gay man being like, we need more gay men in

here. That'd be like a me going, we need more hot guys in here to be firefighters. That would be like a dude be like, we just need more hot blondes. Isn't that essentially just recruiting people in your dating pool? It's got 5.6 million views. This fucking sucks. I think that's, that's Twitter, man. Twitter. This is Twitter's just gone.

This is smart for Twitter. It's been gone, but I think like, what, what is it that happens to them? They have a lot. So they start like getting paranoid and like trying to protect that. I feel like they start only hanging out with other people who have a lot and probably people who've had a lot for longer than they have, and so are like, kind of, yeah, instituted in the like scaffolding of just rightwing ideas, like rich person ideas? Also, they have way too much time on their hands, but don't channel it into the right

things. They're like, okay, conspiracy theories are easier than fighting systemic issues, which are the true conspiracy theories. Spending my time chasing an arsonist into fire evacuated areas and making times harder or making this whole situation harder for like people actually fighting the fires is easier than me like doing actual work and like doing mutual aid or whatever. Like they, it is, it is a lot less risky for them to do these like individual is stick acts than it is for them to connect to their community. Because at that point, when they connect to their community, and they see that their lifestyle has like funded the issues, or is contributing to this like disparity

between social classes or whatever, that's when they have to like make actual changes in their life. And that's so much harder for them for their lifestyle. So it's way easier to just like blame lesbians and arsonists than it is to go do the actual work. Well, it's also Hollywood has rotted people's brains into thinking there are individual villains for this and there are, but they're not people on any They are not in a trailhead They all think they're bad. They all think they're Batman and this is Gotham Like he's wild like watching her video where she's going out to battle the arsonists with swords

like it's just so evident that she's like built herself into this individualistic view of the world where she is the protagonist of an action film. It's more important for her to believe that and that therefore she deserves her success and 100 times as much money as like other people with her job. Then it is to just let in any drop of reality. I think she also thinks this is what happens to quirky bitches when you don't check them.

If people get so quirky and people validate their absurd kookiness, I'm talking about white bitches and they and they just like they just continue like violating boundaries and people find it funny or like they you know like overstep like they get they get out of their lane and people are like oh she's just being funny it's just a joke it's just quirky quirky then they then that starts becoming the reality because like these could be jokes, but they're not, you know what I mean? Like they're almost, it's, you can see she's like,

She's laughing at how funny, how crazy she is. So it's just a joke. No, she's like going out and telling people she's fighting. On her giant platform. Quirky bitches need to be checked. Yeah, okay, we're done We're done with that. That's that's the thing that you and Trump agree on Me and Trump me that queen we're cleaning out together me and job Yeah, oh god pixie dream sword girl I mean, yeah The Batman thing is like if he actually wanted to help get rid of bad guys in Gotham City, he would dissolve his corporation and give that money equally to

everyone and it would do more than any number of fistfights he could have every night. But he and Albert would rather believe that some men just want to see the world burn. Did you say Albert? I would fucking fight you. men just want to see the world burn Listen Batman's policies bad my fanship fandom for Batman Like I'm like military industrial complex brain Not call him Albert Is Michael Cain? I like Albert. What a great idea for a butler. Just Albert.

I know, Albert. Alfred's brother who is an underachiever. He wanted to go to art school, but now has to come get a job at the Batman mansion. I need my brother Albert. Hey, dude. What's up? You want a blaze, bro? Sup, dog. Some people just want to watch one of these burn.

Burn. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, that is, I feel like a lot of people have taken that line to heart. They're just like, you know who's to blame for this thing that environmentalists and anybody who's been paying attention have been telling us is going to happen and is coming?

Just random people. Did you notice that DEI and DIE have the same lettering? Yeah, it's the same. That's the truth. They're really trying to blame DEI for this. I mean, also though, even if you just wanna blame the actual flame that started this, I would, you know, no one knows definitely

yet, but the historical likelihood it is, is PG&E transformer of some kind. That's the power company in Southern California and all of them. They are breathlessly reporting on- PG&E transformers? What do you mean? What are their pronouns? I said, what are their pronouns? Damn. That was so respectful of you. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back.

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They are reading the government to filth. That's right. And they are actually doing something. In a massive act of rebellion, they're joining the actual Chinese version of TikTok, which is Red Note. Hell yeah. It's just like, it's number one. It's the number one app, uh, the app store today, which is pretty, pretty wild. I think you should just defect, just straight up defect, just start working in intelligence for the Chinese government.

I saw one TikTok that was like, Hey, we're all going to go over to red note and then I saw one red note of this dude, this American dude who was like, Hey guys, I'm here by myself and I don't, I'm speaking in Mandarin and I don't know what's going on. No. Okay. Bye. And then like the next day everybody joined, but he was like one of the pioneers that he was so scared.

day everybody joined, but he was like one of the pioneers. He was so scared. He was like, are you guys coming over? What's going on? But now everybody loves it because they're all making friends with all the Chinese users. And it's really cute and really sweet. And they're subtitling their videos in both, I believe, Mandarin and English. And so it's like everybody can understand each other. And it's doing, it's really a doing US propaganda against China, which is beautiful. Oh man. It is like, how much more evil could any country be than our own tech companies? Like, what is the pitch here really? Right.

Yeah. Like, oh, we're supposed to be scared of foreign governments? Like, what is the pitch here, really? Right, yeah. Like, oh, we're supposed to be scared of foreign governments? Like, sorry, dudes. Like- Yeah. Why don't they just sell it to Elon Musk? That's the way to handle this situation. But that is a headline that's happening. It's gonna remain a Doge note.

Yeah. Red Doge. God, he's so corny. I mean, yeah, I wonder if this will just, I just don't think it's going to work, I guess. The move to red node or the banning? No, the banning.

I'm just like, it's too easy for people to get around it. So like, so they just use like, tic toc with a VPN, is that essentially going to be like the easiest way for I just think that yeah, some some shit like that is going to increasingly become it's just going to become an arms race and of like, you know, because that's the whole thing with tech companies is like, the only like actual advantage they don't provide anything, but what they do

is provide loopholes around existing legislation, which is the only reason they have value. Right. So yeah, we'll just do more of that. It's going to be an endless fucking race to like, whatever the fuck. Right. That sounds like life, Andrew. An endless race to whatever the fuck. Right. That sounds like life, Andrew. Yeah, dog. An endless race to whatever the fuck.

Fuck is whatever. Brought to you by. The US government. Oh, man. All right. I want to talk about Matt Gaetz's OAN show, which is obviously terrible. You're the only one who wants to talk about his show. It's just we knew it was coming.

I don't think anyone's watching it, but- I didn't even know it was a thing. Yeah, it's- And I'm very online. It makes- He's got to, he's got to have something, you know, because he can't just go away. A 16 year old girlfriend. Yeah.

I mean- Something besides that to leave us with. So, you know, the editorial content, not great. It's not great. You just blame Dutton Howes people for the wildfires. Performance-wise, people are saying he's constantly stumbling over the teleprompter. His facial features are slowly getting smaller, but his head of size is still staying the same.

Yeah, his eyes really are very small. They seem to be getting smaller. He does, he did have a sponsor to launch with, and that is a Boca Ruto pharmacy with easy access to Ivermectin, which he notes, uh, has been helping so many people during COVID use Matt 10, one zero to get 10% off. I just, I just want to play a quick snippet of the ad, which was going a little viral. It's pretty wild that this is where we're at. And also, it does seem to be like, it feels like ivermectin is making a bit of a comeback.

I think you just haven't been watching the right news. I think it's been, ever since they decided that was better than medicine. It's been their new snake oil the whole time. This is like the right's Ozempic. They're like all of the diabetic people. Except Ozempic does something. Ozempic does do something, but Ivermectin does too for animals. So all the diabetic people are like, stop buying Ozempic. We actually need it and all the horses are like, please stop taking our ivermectin All right

Here is uh matt gaits talking about how ivermectin is making the waves Medical freedom is important. You've probably heard about ivermectin the medication Has been making the waves for years and helping so many doing the way Let's be honest finding a reliable source to get it. That's not as easy as it should be. That's why I want to tell you about all family pharmacy. They're making it. Buddy, buddy, buddy.

It's not a race to get to the end. He's reading this like, you know, when a kid will read in school. And just like it's a race to get to the fastest. Yeah, he is fucking flying. Their ivermectin is made right here in the USA, And just like it's a it's a race to get to the the fastest. Yeah Their ivermectin is made right here in the USA not imported from India or China, it's high quality American I'm fucking offended our ivermectin is fine. Yes First of all, it won't do any less than the American ivermectin Right, which does our ivermectin will let you shit your pants just as fast as the American. I know that at the margins, this is still going to cause obviously terrible suffering

to some ignorant people that don't deserve it and that it will fuck up our healthcare system with these people who should have, for instance, been getting actual medicine instead of doing ivermectin. However, there is kind of a big part of it. It's like, fuck it, let them do this, good. I'm glad that anyone who wants to financially support Matt Gaetz takes fake medicine. Yeah. Okay, but also, how many times have our parents

said dumb shit? You know what I mean? Like, a certain age parents are children again and you have to take care of them and they're stubborn and they get Misinformation and then you're like, but I don't want you to die of cancer because you're taking ivermectin So that is the big that's the new claim like I do just what so I want to play another Piece of ivermectin buzz marketing that has come through, which is Mel Gibson out of his gourd on something could be that he's just out of his gourd on being Mel Gibson, but he was on the Joe Rogan podcast. This is one, another one of these videos, like the Whitney Cummings thing was

just as like so many more views than you thought possible. And he is talking about- So did Joe Rogan. Yeah. He had so many more views than I thought possible. Yeah, exactly. So this is, here we go. I'll tell you a good story.

I have three friends. I just want you to watch his energy and then in comparison watch Joe Rogan's energy here. All three of them at stage four cancer. All three of them don't have cancer right now at all. And they had some serious stuff going on. And what did they take? Jesus. They took some, the Yeah, methylene blue, which was a fabric dye. Yeah. Yeah, it was a textile dye. And then they find out it has profound effects on your mitochondria. Yep. Yeah.

Profound effect. Jesus. There's a lot of stuff that does work, which is very strange because- Which is strange. Look at these two idiots. Again, it's profit. When you hear about things that are demonized

and that turn out to be effective, you always wonder, well, what is going on here? How is our medical institutions, how have they failed us so that things that do cure you are not promoted because they're not profitable? How, I'll tell you, how they failed us so. I saw Joe Rogan at the comedy store, and this was years ago, and I saw that on his,

I didn't know how much of an idiot he was and I saw on his Instagram he was wearing those fucking toe shoes those like things first like running and I I was like with toes in them though Yeah The shoes that have like that are basically like have no support and stuff and I was like hey you might want to be careful with those because like I've heard sometimes they can cause like nerve damage or like, if you don't have the proper support or whatever. And he like rolled his fucking eyes at me and was like, that's only if you're not wearing them right and blah, blah,

blah. And I walked away like humiliated, like, Oh my God, Joe Rogan hates me. The famous guy. I'm a new comic. And now I'm like, thank God that was his reaction to actual facts. Thank God I'm on the right side of history. This man, it would be so fine if he had his podcast in a bubble with all the other idiots and then they didn't affect the real world. Do you know what I mean?

Like let them be fucking stupid together. Well, give them a McDonald's play place of ideas, and then just contain them there. But his influence is insane. Yeah. But anyone he can influence is just a moron. I don't know. It's just I think we're just like, depressed that there's so many right wing idiots out there. It's very sad. But there's a part of me that truly is like, let them do it. Like, then it affects us. I know. I know. And they shouldn't suffer. But but it is just like, I'm not going to fight someone on if they think ivermectin cures cancer, like, what can you do?

They are so repellent on so many levels, and they're choosing to fight you on real medicine. Like, what the fuck can you what like, what the fuck really is your responsibility at this point? Like, I'm just like, I kind of I'm like, yeah, they should all be doing it. Please don't don't come don't go to hospitals. I mean, I know, again, it's not how that works. But there's Joe Rogan, he's opened his own comedy club. Now he should open something that is the second most powerful thing, because obviously, comedy is the most important thing. That's right.

He is one of the 150 comedians in the world that matter, as he said on his own show. Laughter was the best medicine, but now Ivermectin is by far the best. Yes, exactly. I think he should open his own hospital. With Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson? His mannerisms seem off. Right? I don't know, man. That's just with Mel Gibson. Having a...

He passed, but my white uncle, who was like a right-wing dickhead, every time he thought he was giving you a little something to stick it to the libs, that's exactly how he talked. That's how he got. He just got like so like, I just think that's what they're like, man. Yeah, man. Yeah. I don't I just I'm like, it's so weird, like, because we feel like people always tell us like, oh, like I get told by people in my family and stuff that I'm in an LA bubble echo chamber. It's like, okay, there's 18 million people here,

but all right, I'm in an echo chamber. But watching them talk to each other and their mannerisms, and they never question each other. They never call each other out. I've been hearing this. Yeah, that's what he's saying. Yeah, it's just us ending us into the apocalypse. The worst fucking improv team I've ever seen my whole life. Yeah

I mean It's also like in what ways an echo chamber like I I know everything That these people have to say and I don't I'm actively trying to avoid it like I Yeah, it's it's not like I need to hear this more than like a couple times every other week, honestly. Right. Like, I, yeah, oh shit, oh, they believe the dumbest shit that they've believed for the last five years, and they're super like racist and homophobic and transphobic. Yeah. Oh, cool.

I think, I think also like- That's just your echo chamber. I think also part of the thing that I feel like we need to do more is, because I feel like they really want to get a rise out of us, and that's funny to them because we care about people, and so they will often get a rise out of us because we're like, hey, the stakes are much higher than what you're saying. We can't all just get along if you're like affecting people's health and taking away rights. But I think like when when Kamala's campaign did the whole like, you guys are

fucking weird thing that really like did deflate them. So I think if like if you do ever see Joe Rogan, like he's constantly or like Dave Chappelle about trans people, like they're constantly surrounded by like yes men. They're constantly surrounded by people that are telling them like, thank you for saying that. Like that is so smart. You were so smart. So if you're just like, like I was like, if I see him, I just want to be like, you're a fucking idiot, dude. You're so stupid. Like you're an ape. Like to Joe Rogan, because he always like pretends he is, but he like literally is like dumb as fuck. You're an ape to Joe Rogan because he always pretends he is, but he literally is dumb as fuck.

You're dumb. The Elephant Graveyard episode of just analyzing Joe Rogan's stand-up special, did you guys see that? No. There's no way I would notice. Oh, it's so good. It's just like it uses material from his past specials and from his show where he's like talking about how good the standup special is going to be. And then the special like Burn the Boats is just so bad.

It's like not it's just him going up and like repeating talking points from the podcast. So lazy. I one thing I will say not to turn the right-wing goons against each other but the single thing that Joe Rogan is good at is Debunking bad martial arts advice. Yeah, and I do I want him to Talk to Whitney comics about her sword technique He's that's the thing that makes the dumbest assholes on earth think he's smart is he is genuinely good when he's like...

He knows MMA. He knows MMA. Yeah, he's a commentator. He does the stuff. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's a mixed martial asshole. Yeah.

You know? So it's so weird because he's definitely not wrong about that stuff. And then every, I mean, it's like every one of these dickheads, they're good in exactly one domain and think that means they're geniuses everywhere. Yeah. And it's so- Like Aristotle? Yeah. Yes.

Did you- He's Aristotle, unfortunately. That is true. Speaking of that very thing, did you, this is a side note, but did you guys see Bill Maher's special trailer? No. No. It looks so bad. Did you this is a side note, but did you guys see Bill Maher's special trailer? No, it looks so bad. It's like I watched this, but I was like, it looks like a fake trailer out of 30 Rock. Like, so I'm like, who thinks this is comedy and who thinks this is good?

Yeah, that's his only stand. That's his only punch line now. Oh, OK. Who are these idiots? Am I right? It makes me so mad that these people will never doubt themselves like normal human beings do. You know? Yeah.

It's like, I just want to destroy their belief system. It's bad. Pala V, what a pleasure having you on the podcast. Thank you for having me. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? I am at PaulaVeganAllen, P-A-L-L-A-V-I-G-U-N-A-L-A-N. Follow me everywhere.

I might go to Red Note. Please don't take my handle yet. Oh my God, please don't take my handle. Maybe cut that out. Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, go, go, go. But I don't know if I wanna download it yet, but please don't take my handle. Okay, and then I am doing a show,

I'm doing multiple shows at SketchFest. I'm doing facial recognition comedy on the 25th at night. That's the show that I'm co-producing and we hope people are gonna be there. Aparna's gonna be on the show. It's gonna be really awesome. And then I'm also doing Comedian Clash the Same Day, which is the show that Jacque East does, his game show.

Please go to Mutual Aid LA and look up their spreadsheet of the wildfire resources and how to help. Please distribute the masks out of Andrew's car trunk and help people and love people and show up for each other and stop hunting arsonists in the trailheads of LA. Also, the arsonists are in almost certainly a boardroom somewhere. Yes. They're in a sea suite. They're not on the street. It's a decision they made three months or decades ago that led to this. Pops up in a boardroom dressed like Kill Bill. Listen, if Winnie Cummings does a Luigi Mangione, like, she can win it back.

She can win it back. Allegedly. I don't know. Allegedly. Whatever I need to say to legally insulate me from what I just said, I'm saying it now. Don't do that. That's the title. Don't murder people.

Pauly, is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? I am still obsessed with the fires and everything that's happening. Hassan Abiy, Hassan the Hun, Hassan Piker on Twitch, um, and, and YouTube and all of the things every, I'm sure this audience knows him. He did a really great interview with the incarcerated firefighters. Um, it's on his YouTube. It's about an hour. It really gives an insight into their experience,

the things they need. They hadn't showered for like five days by the time, while they were fighting the fires, by the time they got showers that were donated from Coachella, I think, but, and people didn't want them using the same bathrooms while they were fighting the fires. Their pay is awful, but and people didn't want them using the same bathrooms while they were fighting the fires. Their pay is awful. But there are people and seeing them be humanized in that way and spoken to directly and having them be able to speak directly to camera, I think was the journalism.

some people don't, but whatever. That interview is really great because it does allow them to speak directly to camera and talk about their experiences. So I suggest you go watch it. That's on the New York Times, you said? No. Oh, no, I'm sorry. It's on the Sun. That's right. Just on the Sun. Yeah.

Yeah. No, they would never. Andrew T, what a pleasure having you. Where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Just Andrew T, I guess on Blue Sky, fucking... The answer is truly no. The only media I've been looking at is either a Discord channel or multiple signal groups. It has replaced my- Can you add me to your signal groups? Sure. It has replaced truly my social media in a good and bad way.

So I don't, I kind of don't really know what's going on. Tell us something funny someone said on the signal that they didn't want anyone to know about. Yeah, you can't encrypt this podcast. Yeah, that's right. I will say off of this, I don't know. I mean, one thing I will say is for anyone listening nationally or internationally outside of this area,

we, the sense I'm getting, and actually typical for a lot of disasters, is people feel like they want to do a thing. Oftentimes, especially if you're from out of state, the thing that is most portable and flexible is unfortunately money. I know it feels like kind of gross or weird to just be like, here's whatever money as opposed to like, here's a bunch of socks. But like, unless unless you

have like, some insight or some like it some specific ability to fill a need almost always the the answer is money, which is I know it's not emotionally satisfying. I know how they're going to spell it. Yeah. How do I know how they're going to spend it? I want to spend it spell it with a dollar sign. Yeah. Instead of like regular money. Money. I need I need some means testing for my Spend it, spell it with a dollar sign instead of regular money. Money. I need some means testing for my $80 donation.

Yeah, but also, you know, depending on how things go this week, there's also just going to be less enthusiasm. If the fires are perceived to be burning out or under control. We're just going to be like Southern California, LA is going to be in a long period of need. And, you know, it's this thing where like even just like on, I, you know, I don't have full information, but just from what I'm seeing, like we're really switching from a phase of like, let's gather, collate, sort, package resources into like, okay, we need to like think about storage, we need to think about like logistics, like, we're in the kind of boring stage, I guess, of a crisis. So like, it's important, but also, I don't know, I'm

saying a bunch of different things, but like, send money, and we're still going to need need, we still will have it for quite some time. Yeah. Jack Heath is collecting on his Instagram at Jack Heath, Neil, J C Q U I S N E A L. He went to a, to drop off donations. And they said that a major thing that people need is money, like you said.

Um, and so people can be doing that in the gift, in the form of gift cards, like for food and for whatever so that they can buy their own stuff. But, you know, it gives people, I guess, something to give. Yeah. So he's collecting money for gift cards over the next couple days to get people to be able to buy their own groceries and things that they need along that same vein. I think it's like that flexibility helps so much because it's like, even when there's one need, like word goes out and then it gets filled and then there's too much, but then there's like a deficiency somewhere else and right.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, sorry. That's the only media I've been looking at. Okay. We can link off to some of those resources in the foot. Huge leak from his signal chats. I know.

It's really, really, very- Wow, salacious. Top secret, that link will be called top secret signal link. They're not really secret, I don't think. All right. Let's see. One working media I've been enjoying, Julia Claire, oh Julia tweets, wrote, finally watching season one of Severance and I'm loving being part of the community.

And then screen capped something from Reddit from somebody named Hello Reddit NBA, who tweeted, Helly R should have pooped her pants at the end of every day before getting in the elevator. This would have sent a clear message to Aldi Helly who would have, who, and who could ever, and who could ever keep going to work every single day, knowing a moment later they'd be standing in and it cuts off.

But it's actually a really good note. Like, really, it is what you should do in that situation. You would poop your pants right before you walked out of the elevator. I like that she Like spoiler spoiler for season one, but she like literally tried to kill herself and people are like no shedding your pants Just a great Single day you you wake up covered in shit standing in a pile of shit All right

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