The Daily Zeitgeist - Comrade Trump, Netflix Algorithmic Genius? 12.10.20

Episode Date: December 10, 2020

In episode 776, Miles and guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian Blake Wexler to discuss conservative TV ratings, the messy Giuliani witness defending herself, Russian media asking Trump to come home, Russians being unimpressed by Covid vaccine, Nick Cage's new Netflix show, Gordon Ramsay's hundred dollar burger, and more!FOOTNOTES: Newsmax TV scores a ratings win over Fox News for the first time ever Giuliani witness whose testimony went viral says she isn’t self-quarantining despite his covid-19 diagnosis Incredible Wow Did Not See This Coming Russian Media Wants Moscow to Grant Asylum to Trump Russia's Sputnik V vaccination program has started, but it's facing resistance Don't mix Sputnik vaccine with alcohol, says Russian official. Some recoil Putin still hasn't taken Russia's vaccine, months after his daughter did The Kremlin Is Offering Russians Free Vaccines, but Will They Take Them? Russian media ‘spreading Covid-19 disinformation’ Why are Russian coronavirus doctors mysteriously falling out of windows? Nicolas Cage To Host ‘History Of Swear Words’ At Netflix Oh, good: Gordon Ramsay wants to sell you a $106 burger Certified good-time guy Gordon Ramsay is launching a hard seltzer line Blake Wexler: Live From The Pandemic WATCH: Seneca B - Sunshine Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and then try and make some jokes so we can make it palatable for the public it's wednesday people what they want exactly actually it's not wednesday i'm sorry that's me i shouldn't have hit that blunt so hard before i walked in here it's th Thursday, December 10th, 2020. 40 some odd days until Jan 20. That's my mother's birthday, so, you know, shout out to her. My name is Miles Gray, and you know what? If it's me, then that means AKA, believe it or not,

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I was clocking that, a.k.a. in the Discord. That's from a month ago. And I was like, I know Jack about to be out, so I'm going to remember that one. Thank you for having that hyper-specific AKA for me. And I am pleased. No, no, no. Nay. Thrilled. Nay.

Honored. To be joined with my guest co-host today, Little Zamboni herself. Little Zamboni. Shami Loftus. AKA Alfred Molina is coming back to Spider-Man baby he's in the MCU he's gonna play Dr. Octopus

again I've got my little Alfred with me here you literally are holding on to the action figure I'm clutching him I'm white knuckling my little Alfred Molina action figure he's coming back I'm clutching him. I'm white knuckling my little Alfred Molina. You're breaking his little legs. He's coming back. I'm very, it's the first time I've smiled literally in 10 months.

I feel so good. I'm fucking flying. It's also odd because you have what I believed was a, you have smiled in my estimation was an actual smile. But now seeing this smile you're doing, you must have been angry those other times because this is beams've really been holding back because this is this is the greatest i've felt in so long i feel fucking amazing was it contentious whether or not melina was going to re-enter the mcu because of the sony thing well the thing with melina specifically i think it was

melina and jamie fox there were like two iconic spider-man villains that were not technically in the mcu because their movies were too old oh oh right before they were not canon yeah so they were like non-canon villains but now if you give a shit about that sort of thing which i don't i just want to see him in a fedora and a cloak again yeah with a bunch of claws you know making white claws specifically right i just want to see him make little horny threats on screen again and uh so he's he's canon now he's going he's going in i'm true validation i'm so happy and before excited and you know as much as I would love to let you have your moment of joy, I must introduce another supervillain in the cinematic podcast universe of this show, Dr. Chaos himself. Please welcome our guest today, Mr. Blake Wexler.

Mary Seinfeld, a.k.a. Sarah Silverbells, a.k.a. Chris Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, a.k.a. Felice Navidot Fan, a.k.a. Jeff Garland, a.k.a. George Garland, a.k.a. Seth McGarland, a.k.a. Garland Williams. Hi, everyone. It's good to be here.

Thank you for having me. Seth McGarland hit, but I don't even know it in a way that was good or bad. You never will. That's that's a posh feeling single red single red tear came out the corner of her eye one one blood one blood um anyway uh for all my folks out there that are you know into the yard like me so let's talk a little bit about what we're going to speak about on the show. And then Blake will open the gates to the chaos realm.

Yeah, I'll wait. First, we're going to talk about One America News, Newsmax, Facebook, your aunt's chain emails. Who is going to oust Fox News as the number one news source for magoworld and trump and his uh pursuit of fantasies uh what else oh that that that woman with rudy giuliani last week melissa carone who everyone's like is she turned the fuck up at a legislative hearing we got some more details about her um and also she went on inside edition to set the record straight so we'll check in on that so we don't you know speak any mis we don't misspeak on her truth as a uh actually i'm gonna even save that description because it's gonna be pretty good uh also russian media is now pretty much

openly encouraging donald trump to just come to russia and like, hey, bro, we'll protect you, you know, because it's going to be hot for you on January 21. So why don't you make a flight, stop on over to Moscow, and we'll protect you. Who knows? Well, no, I feel like it would be illegal to say what I hope the end game is there.

Oh, well, we'll bleep it out. That's so funny. What if he got off the plane and they just were like, just kidding, Mitch, and they killed him psych you thought what if wow it's like some weird fucked up like aqua teen hunger force like end of an episode type thing where you just hit credits like i'm here and they're like we're going to kill you and then you hit the credits just classic gotcha journalism that's good donald trump does look like the captain of something called the hunger force.

Like he does look like someone who is the most hungry out of anyone. And then we're going to talk a little bit about the Russian vaccine when we're on that topic and some of the stipulations and things you have to take into consideration when taking this vaccine. We'll also talk about Nicholas Coppola, this young man who is using his family's notoriety to start a career. He landed himself a gig on Netflix. And we'll talk a little bit about Gordon Ramsay. He's half reading the room and half fucking up reading the room. And we'll get into that.

But first, Blayko, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Thank you for using my God's given name. Your confirmation name. Blakel, of course. I'm going to go with, can you get poison ivy from dead leaves is the most recent search that I had. What's the answer to that? Stay tuned.

No, what if that was my idea for a tease? Guys, listen, I don't want to do your job for you, but they will hang around for the answer to that question. Stay tuned in Act 3. In Act 3. We're waiting to act. No, Act 2. I like to put it right in the middle.

Oh, that's a test. Wow, okay. It is a test. I don't know how Robert McKee will feel about that, but go on. If there's anything I do, it's test the patience of those who hear my voice. I haven't heard that news spoken out loud in 10 years. That's for all the Starbucks screenwriter crowd fucking reading story by Robert McKee. But Blake, okay, so what happened?

You saw a pile of leaves and knowing you, I know what you like to do. You can't resist jumping into a dead pile of leaves with your naked body so what happened is that what happened let's just say i went out wearing nothing but a rake and i saw a pile of dead leaves and um so i was wondering because like i picked them up and because i was moving them out of my way and i'm like oh they looks like poison ivy and apparently five days after poison ivy's dead it still has it's the oil on poison right that that gets you and the oil is still um a threat during that time period i was fine you know i'm sorry i have to just to back up i made a joke and then you said something that actually struck me as even more odd is that you had to move them out of your way

what are you talking what what was what are you talking you were yes you just like beating up a leaf pile or some shit you'd like to get back leaf pile fucking coming to like what what do you it was eminent domain actually i invoked eminent domain uh they were evident in my domain so i moved them no i've as you know i've been into a par three golf recently in los files and it was in the way of my ball and uh i moved them out of the way with my hands and didn't make a difference because i don't know how to play golf yet but uh yeah those leaves are gone and they were dead dead as a doornail and that's a term i made up had a ever had a poison oak or ivy experience ever as a child apparently no yeah i never had that either never got that never never been stung by a bee Poison oak or ivy experience ever as a child? No. Apparently? No?

No. Yeah, I never had that either. Never got that. Never been stung by a bee. Lived a very sheltered life. What? Interesting. Never been stung. Never been stung.

The new rom-com. The new rom-com about it. Oh, from the people who brought you Bee Movie. Which is a horny. I watched that movie for the first time last week. It was genuinely more horny than I was prepared for it to be. Bee Movie a horny i watched that movie for the first time last week it was like genuinely more horny than i was prepared for it to be b movies horny yeah jerry seinfeld b falls in love with renee zellweger wine mom like in the whole the first couple of scenes and he's like i'm gonna

i think i'm gonna fuck this human woman and she's a she clearly, for me, it was very clear that she only views this as a friendship with Jerry Seinfeld B. She read so much B Seinfeld. She's like, clearly needs someone in her life. And so she says like, oh yeah, I'll hang out. Oh yeah, I'll hang out with this B. Oh yeah, you sure will. But then Jerry Seinfeld B kind of reads into it and thinks that, you know, it's a tale as old as time. Jerry Seinfeld B is getting friend zoned big time.

He doesn't even realize. And I think the most tragic part about bees is that their bodies have horizontal stripes instead of vertical stripes with those big fat tummies they have. And if they got a little bit of a slimming action with those those stripes aren't doing them any favors as they call them in the uk hoops hoops aren't very slimming you know no god it is what it is it is what it is uh blake what is something that you think is underrated underrated i'm gonna go with a certain uh good friend of the show cape cod chips i'm gonna go with their friend of the show, Cape Cod Chips. I'm going to go with there. Friend of the show. Love Cape Cod Chips.

You know we're a Zaps podcast. You can't have vocal Cape Cod Chips in here. We're Zaps only. Salt and Vinny Cape Cod Chips? Nothing like them. Let's just say those are right over Daddy's right shoulder right now. They're hanging up on top of the fridge, ready to be broken open. Weird flex, but alright. the amount of fat in those 40 less than the leading brand even though

in my eyes cape cod is the aren't cape cods like they're crunchy as fuck aren't they oh god yes like they're toothy like you can't come you can't pull up with some weak teeth and have a bag like same with like cascade tims or tim's a casket whatever the washington ones are stacy's chips like you're stacy's you need your teeth in good shape i can't eat a stacy's chip it makes my mouth bleed i put a mouth guard in to eat those i put them in i put them in a steaming tray for about four minutes just to introduce some moisture then i can have a one of a stacy chip i slow cook them in a instapot in an instapot for six hours and then wait why do you but you know we're getting off topic let's give some free advertising to cape cod who is not who still won't sponsor us

cowards pull up with i'm not getting a little bit yeah pull up with the truck cowards but um why cape cods so uh i mean i don't want to spoil my overrated so i won't um but yeah i just feel like a terrible answer well don't uh preempt my terrible answer by calling it one uh don't spoil it yeah no i i just feel like they have the proper you know not too many flavors they have the classics they have they don't have 16 barbecues you know like they don't have insane flavors it's yeah they like what like kettle kettle chips did you just ask me what my overrated was oh oh spaghettios spaghettio chips spagh-o chips What were they thinking? What the hell?

It was worth a shot I did a little bit of college back in the day So you're saying that Spaghetti-o's is overrated I am When I opened up that Plastic bag and there were just 80 cans In it, I'm like, what the hell is this? It's not a chip

It's putting a chip in my teeth on these cans. Overrated is kettle chips. Exactly. Yeah. Because they've gone the way of Lay's in which... Wow. Ring the alarm, everybody. He said it. Those are not my words.

I did not say they've gone the way of Lay's. What does that mean? They're a sellout or they're letting the people pick the flavors now? Exactly. I think that's very well put. Letting the suits pick the flavors. Letting the suits pick the flavors. They've overextended themselves.

And what happens to every good empire when they're overextended? It falls apart. So now they have Penelope Cruz flavored chips or whatever they're doing. They have all these crazy flavors. B baked potato with like a side of hot sauce and it's too much it's it's just they're copying foods and putting them into a chip which i think is you know you don't have to have two flavors but 80 you know thousand flavors what's the limit what's the sweet spot what are the laws if you were saying if you had to start a like a consortium of chip makers and there were certain laws that everyone in the industry like were about was abiding by

how many flavors like what are the staple flavors like probably not is double digits would almost be too much right well i figure you got to do normal you got to be salt and vinny uh barbecue you know barbecue a cheese a cheese and some oniony thing correct i guess so yeah that's true so now we're at five so five i can do that that's good but here's the thing but then i love zaps because they went and did crawdad taters and now we're introducing cajun flavors that are all see this is what so maybe i like that that's then we're at sixajun flavors that are all seed. I like Zaps as a treat. Then we're at six. But only as a treat. Wow, Zaps as a treat?

Wow. Zaps as a treat, yeah. Zaps as oxygen for me. It's all right. Okay. I will spoil myself. Anyways, that gang, if you have ideas on how we should move forward

with the chip consortium, please let us know what the other bylaws are. I guess if you're regional, right? If you're regional, then you can have a sixth interchangeable flavor yes respects where you're from i like that a lot i used to live next door to an utz delivery guy and so so i so it would be there'd be a lot of did you guys ever fuck around with utz i did because of the office sadly uh there was like one episode i'm like what the fuck is that and And they're like, you've never been to Pennsylvania?

I'm like, I don't know. It's tough growing up next door to an Utz apologist. But you know, Utz was feeding his kids. Yeah. And so it was tough when he would be like, Merry Christmas, Loftus family. Here's a bunch of Utz. And we would be like, okay, I guess we got to eat all this Utz.

It didn't feel good. Is Utz just unexciting? Utz, it's just bland. It's just bland. I feel bad. Hopefully my childhood neighbor who moved away a long time ago isn't listening,

but it's just bland. In tears right now with their headphones. He's like, I gave them all those free chips. That is a bummer saw i just saw recently when i was at the store utz came like they're on national now because a lot of the um halloween things were like utz pretzel like you know barrels and like cheese ball barrels of utz and things like that so you know what the pretzels are good i will say utzels they they they hang tight it's the chips that just don't do it for me too salty they hurt my mouth oh everything hurts my mouth everything i was gonna say

even cheetos is kind of based on how much they hurt my mouth what is this poor he's made of rocks or something it's overcooked rice you know i don't want to bring up i do i don't want to disrespect our elders but grandma utz um has a kettle chip herself which i i don't even know if that would be a spin-off of utz because it's still under the utz speaking of canon within that canon yeah but in the universe yeah they they feel like a little oily to me like i think there's a little too much oil in grandma utz and who's grandma they're trying to capitalize you know they're being cheeky and being like okay you don't fuck with those boys oh you're gonna say no to grandma you sick piece of shit trying to manipulate us and be like well grandma i don't want to say no to you ageist fuck huh you're gonna say yeah

oh wow okay i see we even made it we made it in a soya sauce flavor for you. I'm like, whoa, soya sauce? Easy, buddy. What the fuck was that? Each one comes with like a pair of dentures in there to help you chew them. It's because they're so hard to utz. All right. Well, that's got me hungry.

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Available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we are back let's talk about um the media landscape is changing i think i think you know right now we're in an interesting time where on the left and right the people who have been at the wheel most of the time are seeing this other group on either side of them being like wait who the fuck are these i thought they were on ours they want something different than we've been putting down wait how do we deal with this now what's going on because it used to just be you know zombie you know zombie in step just go with whatever we're saying down the ticket and it's different versions on either side right on the left you have more progressives leftist socialists who are advocating for you know real uh equity uh as we can set the set the scales straight you know try and get everybody fed everyone housed everyone educated everyone taken care of with their health no matter

what their needs are you know like that ridiculous you know like love and shit and meanwhile on the right it's just fantasy town uh ethno state fucking you know fan fiction whatever the fuck you want just absolute trash misinformation um and also just racism and the each each established party is having trouble figuring out what to do so i all of that is playing out on against this backdrop right now especially with like fox news uh because we know trump fucking hates them for acknowledging the accepted reality and truth that he has lost the election and i was was calling states uh as they were as they were coming in to say yes this makes sense arizona is probably going to go for joe biden we're calling it uh and he's and now joe biden will probably be the president that has made him very pissed and for someone who can't stand hearing anything negative about himself of course he went looking for new ways to entertain

himself and to soothe his wounds in the form of one american news which is absolute garbage dumpster fire this isn't that That's a relatively new entity to me. I wasn't aware of OANN. OANN, I guess. Did you get on early? Yeah, of course. I was there very early on.

They grabbed me immediately. Remember Blake's takes was on there? Yeah, you were. They couldn't afford me was the problem. Very amicable breakup, however. So, you know, and they've been around, but they were more like they weren't really hitting the mainstream because it was just absolute nonsense. Like, you know, because even for Fox News viewers are like, at least Fox News has the aesthetic of a news network, whereas OAN looked like a weird community college ramble fest with about the same quality. It looks so bad. Yeah. It literally looks like a college news network. It looks terrible.

Yeah. I think with absolutely – with maybe a third of the same vetting of news stories that even like a junior high newspaper has. Like no offense, but everyone on this news network is wearing clothes from Forever 21. Like it's like. Yeah. One of their nighttime anchors has had a shirt that said on fleek, which is like, OK, I guess your stylist is making a decision. But the thing that, you know, is that's making news right now is that like the ratings are starting to shift. Like Fox is no longer undisputed number one. I mean, they are in the sense that they're still blowing out these other networks.

But Fox's ratings have gone down since the election. And Newsmax is the other network in waiting. They have slowly gained traction. And of course they would, because what they're saying is outlandish, fantastic bullshit that is meant to just be like, no, Trump won y'all. And we'll say it 500 million different ways. So you can just pretend that Joe Biden didn't win. And on Monday, they crossed a very big milestone, which was that their ratings did better than Fox during like, yes. So on Monday night in the 25 to 54 demo, which all these advertisers like love the show, Greg Kelly reports. This is a guy who got used to get 100,000 viewers. Barely. He outdid the story with Martha McCallum on Fox. And it was only by like 26,000 viewers or something. But they fucking bested Fox for the first time on Arizona's worth.

Yeah. Yeah. Seriously. That is absurd. That's absurd. That's absurd. I mean, that does speak to how willing Trump's base is to kind of pivot as instructed. I was I was curious when he started pushing those other like shitty looking news networks. I'm like, will this work or are like are people really truly allied with him or are they allied with Fox or like how willing are they to break? But I guess the answer is very willing. Yeah. I mean, I think you think of it like this, right? It's like it's like anything, you know, let's say the Eagle, the Eagles lost or maybe the Bruins lost or maybe the Lakers lost or Arsenal.

And and and, you know, like, you know, and as a fan of anything like there's like you want to avoid the news that your team sucks by all costs. You don't want to look at the blogs that's picking apart what went wrong for them in the third period, the fourth quarter, the second half, whatever it is. You just want to avoid that. So now your human need is to be like, who's saying something that's going to soothe this terrible hit to my confidence and ego? And you go to these places because this is what Greg Kelly kelly said the other night this is what the the rhetoric is this is and keep in mind this is after the supreme court like justice alito quite literally was like hey get the fuck out of here with this attempt to try and overturn the results in pennsylvania like fucking alito said that it was a one-line rejection from the supreme court where trump was like look

at all the justices i've put there they're not fucking like apparently they have limits so greg kelly in response to all this because again they need their they need their wounds healed said quote we're getting warmer these lawsuits are coming together there are a lot of fake news headlines out there right now saying that the pennsylvania situation is over it is not it is alive and well the headlines are wrong i was on the phone today with Professor Alan Dershowitz, some of the litigants of the Trump campaign. This thing is going forward. Yes, the Supreme Court denied an injunction, but that does not mean the case is not on the docket. It's it's scary, too, because like even though trump obviously you know shook everything up and

fox too like just completely worked outside the structure of you know rationale and humanity there was still a structure there where trump was still technically a president and there are rules there somewhere he broke all of them but they do still exist and fox is still a broadcast network so they are still governed by some there are there's some sort of ceiling there even though the ceiling isn't necessarily where you want it to be and now you have these other networks that don't even have those rules you know so once trump is outside of that structure of you know like the white house and that like now that he can journalism yeah journalism yeah i mean i don't even know if that word is even relevant here i was like i know it's like is anyone truly doing journalism at this point we don't know yeah sadly yes just us

but yeah now that there's like you know uh those shackles aren't on anymore like there's no like what's to stop them from saying anything. There's nothing. Yeah. No, no. To Newsmax's point, like they've, they've said early on, like we're not a news channel.

Like we're kind of like opinion talk stuff. So just so you know, for like, you know, FCC reasons, we're not trying to be out here saying we are the news because we're not, but we're saying news like things with news, like outfits on with,

right. That news, outfits on. Right. That's my first coffee shirt. For 360p resolution on your screen. That's what we are, Newsmax. But it's interesting because Don Lemon, he on CNN was speaking about this like, you know, possible like there's a shift happening or right wing media. He was like unequivocal and is like fox will always be my dad i mean we'll always be your dad like newsmax this isn't gonna happen like he's just

you know saying that no matter how it all ends up they will never be fox news um and i on one on one hand i can see that i can see what he means like they're the established network but on the other it almost seems like this weird blind spot that like the see what he means like they're the established network but on the other it almost seems like this weird blind spot that like the media even had with like trump supporters in 2016 or they're like people aren't thinking like that or like people aren't gonna vote for this and they're like oh they are and it's just when you're looking at the migration away from fox it's like hi don lemon are you also looking at your place as a like mainstream media anchor and hoping that on the left the same

thing isn't occurring where like it's not a monolith he's he's uh maybe projecting a little bit yeah me think so oh no no there's no way we've been around for what like checks watch 20 years right uh like or how i mean yeah i i hope i mean i hope everyone at cnn is nervous because well yeah i think even as like the reporting is happening like stephanie rule like butted heads with bernie sanders over why he wanted 1200 checks versus 600 and was pointing to the fact that he couldn't get any legislation passed it was like a very weird confrontation when i mean bernie or not the point i think should be universally accepted or at least nationally accepted that we need we need 1200 checks at a minimum at least i mean yeah this the 600 proposal is fucking insulting

they're my favorite meme about that was from People's City Council. It's like the, did you guys see this? It's the Lucille Bluth. I mean, it's eight months of rent, Michael. What could it cost? $600? It's fucking insulting. Of course. No, but you know, and that's what's happening is that there's like one hand where I think both sides are trying to figure out,

are we losing some part of the viewership and are they responding to a different message? Because this like sort of, you know, let's just take the status quo and always Cape for that thing isn't working right now. And it's, and you can see the tension in the streets,

on the internet, in the news of people truly being like, I am at the end of my savings my uh possibilities for income and i like someone needs to do something like i and i think a lot of people are finding out in a really fucked up tragic way that they're living in a country where the leaders do not give a fuck about what happens to them materially. Even the leaders that you were, you know, you've been told over time are on your side. Yeah, absolutely. Speaking to like the Nancy Pelosi's and speaking to like, let's get Raytheon in the fucking Biden cabinet and on and on.

It's like it's now that people are paying closer attention it's like the stakes are so much higher but um you know democratic leaders are acting exactly the same they would have 10 years ago which is like by doing the absolute bare minimum and then doing like a five-week victory lap about it and well we at least we paid our defense contractors a little something during this time it's just not going to fucking fly. I'm glad that people are angry with them because it's like there is an amount of suffering and lives that are on the line here. Oh, yeah. Eight million people have drifted into poverty since the pandemic began. Like instantly, without effort.

That's what's happened. The unhoused population is like rising at a completely unprecedented rate we don't have the infrastructure to take care of people and on top of that most of the establishment even the establishment that we voted blue no matter who is not doing anything about it it's sorry i'm my i'm my brain gonna start leaking out of my ears well no, no, it's fucked up. Well, no, I just think, you know, it's really fucked up to think that you could be, you know, you're in a situation where your job prospects are minimal. You have mounting bills to pay.

You have pressure from landlords who actually you are the one supporting their lifestyle and trying to act like you know you owe them some shit um and you know people could turn on the news thinking like what's the news saying because i can't be alone out here in this situation of being in dire straits and there you want and then you tune into somebody arguing whether or not someone needs twelve hundred dollars versus six hundred dollars like speak to the human lived situation of day-to-day people rather than your perspective as someone who is an economist or on wall street or whatever fucking think about what is just like the the minimum you have to do to help people like what the fuck and i think that's why everybody's brains are going to start leaking because this kind of just like aggressive barbaric treatment of like vulnerable people i mean i think as as time goes on i think more and more people are waking up to the sort of fallacy of what this american dream is and you know the shitty metaphor it's the american fucking

nightmare at the moment it's also there's a weird thing too where there's a new argument that happened this year where people use things are like dead people are doing things argument more than ever we're like dead people are voting dead people are getting all the so don't send out the checks because they're all going to dead people you know which is one of these weird false flags from the simpsons yeah yeah exactly this is this odd trend where dead people are getting 1200 checks well200 checks. Well, they're not, you know, cause no one can cash them. So like, that's one of the many excuses that,

uh, that's being used as to, I'm just sick of the excuses as like 1200 already isn't enough and you can't accomplish that. Like it's been how many months since the first like checks were dispersed? I mean, they're saying what it five, six in,

in terms of back rent that's owed, there's something like $80 billion worth of back rent that they believe is owed at this point. You could fucking handle that. Yeah, you could. You could do something about that. You could work something. That's a manageable number. Fucking rent.

It's so it's so ridiculous. like when you look at other countries that are you know like at least on the surface not that much more quote-unquote liberal than america is that are just doing a logical things that are not just going to protect human life even if you don't give a shit about human life because you're like nancy pelosi or vanessa hudgens or like whomever uh you know it's it's like it preserves the economy to do these things too so I don't like it makes me mad that was a reference to that remember when Vanessa Hudgens went live on Instagram and was like I don't care if people live or die I just think

about that a lot and we're like okay Vanessa now I'm not going to recommend any of your Christmas films I still watch them but quietly the new Princess Switch is good the new Princess Switch is good and recommend any of your Christmas films. I still watch them, but quietly. I know. The New Princess Switch is good. Dude, also Night, what was it? Christmas Night or Night Before Christmas?

Night Before Christmas, that wasn't great, but the Princess Switch with the Vanessa that has the blonde wig is good. And she's got range. I'll say that. When that wig switched, I was like, who is this? She's got at least three wigs and you have to hand it to her anyway love a wig love a wig what i love even more is a proper recovery package that actually helps people that have been skull fucked by this pandemic it's just so weird we have such

a weird fucking cultural hurdle we can't get over which is giving a fuck about each other it's that simple like we truly just as a nation we don't have this like sort of inbuilt value system of being like hey help your fellow person out like if you're doing well be so fucking thankful that you can have the energy now to direct that towards somebody else who needs help how about that you know it's uh anyway come on america let's one day at a time but we need to get there very fucking soon uh let's move on to some i guess lighter or heavier fare i don't know how to describe this it's hard to tell melissa carone um she was the woman that helped most americans tune out of whatever anti-democratic attempt was being made by Team Trump and Rudy in Michigan last week. She seemed, as I said before, a bit turnt up possibly during her testimony in Michigan where she was saying things like, I signed a paper that says I'll go to jail if I lie.

Did you? Or all Asians look alike, so fraud or whatever that line was uh it was a of all-star testimony she gave um and also on linkedin people are doing a little digging she's listed herself as an uh ethical hacker um i don't know if you cared to weigh in on that but she's uh she's saying she's one of one of your own ethical hackers we we in within the ethical hacking community do not claim her i understand why she would want to be included uh because you know we we throw the best parties we've got a great group chat but no she's not involved she's been she's asked many times yeah uh but no she doesn't get not not a sip of our white claw goes to her sorry oh oh that's hard not a sip of white and certainly not a sip of

code red the chosen drink of hackers i mean you know she became the an snl character she became all kinds of memes so i think the next logical step was that she would do an interview with Inside Edition to insist that she was not inebriated. That's one of the stages of grief. Yeah, going on Inside Edition. I've seen this woman get kicked out of a South Philly bar like 80 times

in my life, some of which were during my comedy shows. This is a person, it just goes on the offensive, which is almost in an admirably blind way in that my back is against the wall actually it's not really it's even the best part you're just being asked to leave um or tell the truth in this case and then just to go this hard yeah so what she's saying like i almost i almost watched her inside edition but then i was like, I cannot watch this Inside Edition interview and Olivia Jade at the Red Table.

I have to make a choice. Oh, using women of color for her rehabilitation scheme? Yep. That was something. That was, but Gammy called her out and we loved to see that. At the beginning and pretty much the whole time. It was great. Gammy was having none of it.

But so I didn't watch this. I watched Red Table. Yeah, I think that there's a little more accountability in that one than this one. It's so funny because like anything with Inside Edition, that trope from The Simpsons still holds up where like they're just Franken biting and hyper cutting your words or like everything seems very edited because even this seemingly natural back and forth feels very edited. So I just want to, you know, bring up. So Melissa Carone, she did go on Inside Edition to defend her honor. And we will listen to this now. There's a lot of people who are saying some not so nice things about you speculating that you may have been drinking at the hearing. I signed something saying that if I'm wrong, I can go to prison.

Did you? I wasn't drunk. I mean, I would swear under oath that I wasn't drunk. Okay. Then she goes on to say like, you know, hey, you're with Rudy Giuliani. You know, that guy who has fucking covid now um and the state of michigan was saying anyone at that hearing uh we're considering that a super spreader event so you have to quarantine if you're at that legislative hearing uh because of that and they're

like what are you doing are you good it's like no i'm not i don't need to do that i'm fine i don't i'm not gonna get sick and was like just aggressively being like i don't trust the tests i mean i believe in testing i just don't trust the tests and you're like you're like okay okay okay i'll make it to me sure i don't know i mean she said that because she has no recollection of being at that hearing she's like what are you talking about i was ever at that she was in the middle of a blackout juliani are you fucking serious no get out of my face inside edition yeah and so more digging has gone on too and she was recently just getting off of probation um because she was harassing her fiance's ex-wife um and the the tactics she was using very ethical hacker type tactics okay she kept like to sign off she

kept sending sex tapes to his her fiance's ex-wife to essentially i think quote put her over the top and yes but it was of coron and her husband she was like that was what she's like. Look, yeah, it's like I'm fucking your ex-husband and multiple times sending it to this poor woman who'd never asked for them in the hopes of just causing her as much torment as possible. And she was in her first charge

was first degree obscenity and using a computer to commit a crime with a different name, apparently. And then she took a plea and just got disorderly conduct in a year of probie. So allegedly allegedly she allegedly

sent those allegedly sent sex tapes that were between 3 and 7 minutes like a VHS tape sender more than a computer user you know like I'm surprised that's what she got with like the letters cut out was like the label on the VHS tape exactly

I mean can we need to be done with this woman like can we god i'm being as hell the next internet villain this is i don't like this one this one's bumming me out yeah it's all well i think all this to say is right they've also like she said a lot of things at that hearing like she had two degrees and on her linkedin page said she went to university of michigan at Dearborn like the school is like we have no record of anyone there and then when they asked her to clarify she's like I don't have a bachelor's degree I'm like four classes away from a bachelor's degree and I'm

not telling you the school because I don't want them to get harassed and all this is just basically I think demonstrating that the useful idiots that the that this campaign finds they're all like very similar in that they're willing to say and do anything for whatever, like whatever serves them personally or, you know, scratches their itch for vengeance or whatever is going on. So, yeah, just tune in to see whatever the next debacle is as Rudy screams half-truths from his hospital bed. So let's move on to the Russian media. Because we don't, you know, we talk about our mainstream media, but we don't talk about Russian

mainstream media or Kremlin state media at all ever. Well, right now, they, on like their, I think their show's called 60 Minutes, like their equivalent of 60 Minutes is just called 60 Minutes. They got 60 Minutes in Russia? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They got all sorts of minutes. They're loving it. All the talk, especially on like these state news shows, are people having full on debates about whether or not Trump should just fuck off to Russia and come to Russia to like escape accountability in the united states and like they all start like they talk very affectionately like being saying like our donald or comrade trump or trumpusha like little affectations like on like these little names pet names for him and these they're saying that all these like you know political commentators lawyers wonks or whatever they have on these shows this is from this daily beast article saying, experts in the studio enthusiastically discuss the likelihood of Trump being charged with a bevy of offenses from tax evasion to fraud

and sexual assault. They concurred that Trump's presidential pardon would not help him in state cases, unlike the recently advanced constitutional amendment in Russia that secured lifetime immunity from criminal prosecution for the country's former presidents. And then they also just saying like that Trump and Putin can relate to each other because it like they love the ruthless pursuit of power, but they just also don't want any kind of accountability. So let's this is the place for you, you know, we'll protect you. And it's very interesting to see this like coming out

like i don't know if they're really trying to be like hey come here and then they could fully turn him into a tool of propaganda if he lived in russia like you know what i mean like to say i mean is is that the end he wouldn't know do you think yeah yeah i mean i think he'd be down to do it either way because it's like it's you know it's going to be hard for i mean it's not it wouldn't be impossible for him to continue in the u.s obviously but but if you know the russian if like the russian media just wants to set him up and be like you're set for life now and you know i don't know i guess that would make sense well the piss tape industry will skyrocket there if he that's true that's true the value of piss is gonna really sustain the economy for years to come that's true the thing is like you know the most of the

rumblings were that he's just gonna fuck right off to mar-a-lago you know and never you know some people are saying christmas is the last like we're gonna see the end of him in dc when he goes when he leaves for the for the holiday break. Like he's not going to come back is what some people suspect, which makes sense because why fucking come back? You're already you're not even doing anything as president. He was never really there. Yeah. And also just like he doesn't give a fuck.

He's like actively doing nothing now. And just he's complete. It's like weird. He has like the weirdest senioritis for the presidency in like this in the worst possible time ever but anyway i mean i think those are the expectations that he'd go to florida but it is also true that there are a lot of attorneys that are just like rubbing their mitts to hit him with all these lawsuits whether it's like there are people in congress who are really interested in his tax stuff or in the things that are going on the state of new york like he does

have a lot of um legal liabilities he's facing so part of me feels like shit maybe he would because it is kind of like the most sore loser way to like peace out is to be like on one level i'll be like his i don't think his ego could handle the idea of him having to flee the United States for safety because he wants to feel like King Shit of Turd Mountain. But this whole thing of like, because it's kind of a, there's really no other way to stay away from the grasp of the law that you would just kind of be like, yeah, well, the thing is, it's all fucked up in the US anyway. That's why I had to get the fuck out. Like, you think I'm stupid if I stayed there? Seriously? You think I'm going to stay there? No. Like, I'm in Russia, dudes anyway that's why i had to get the fuck out like you think i must i'm stupid if i stayed there seriously you think i'm gonna stay there no like i'm in russia dude where it's fucking cool like it sounds like typical sore loser shit where like in high school it was more like oh i didn't go to that party because it was done like i did this the other and i'm like okay

i don't i don't know what this is about i was i was gonna go to harvard but it like then i was like umass dartmouth baby like UMass Dartmouth, baby. That's not nice to do. UMass Dartmouth was great. Fantastic. By the way, I'm only asking this because I don't know. How different are the extradition policies of Russia and Florida? Are they similar, or can you be stuck in one more easier than the other? Yeah, which jurisdiction? I mean, when you are in the autonomous zone of Mar-a-Lago, I'm not sure which of our lands laws apply. Okay, you don't know either.

Oh, that would also be... I mean, like the logical... The Mar-a-Lago autonomous zone sounds like a thing. Likely? It sounds like a thing. Wait, don't you... Maybe you just gave them the idea. I don't know where they go with it. Because they also say Jared and Ivanka bought like a thing wait don't you maybe you just gave them the idea i don't know i don't know where they go with it because they also say jared and ivanka bought like a weird like they're blowing out the bedminster golf course or whatever in new jersey to be like their own village that they never

have to leave and can pretend it's manhattan or whatever yeah and then they also are they have more land like in florida they just bought like in some very protected space where reality can't get you. I guess it's their autonomous zone. Yeah. Yeah. But so but part of me is like if Trump he would be like, I got to leave because I'm not they're going to fucking take me to court. I can't fucking do that. If he really is on this, like I didn't do anything wrong.

And honestly, like I am the God of the U.S. That would be the logical conclusion. Like I actually declare Mar-a-Lago a sovereign nation within a nation. Shout out to the indigenous people of this country. And my law, your laws do not apply to me. And they're like, all right, asshole, we're sorry. This we're taking you to court now. Could you could you imagine how just inbred these autonomous Trump zones are going to be in 20 years?

If you let Ivanka and Jared have that zone, it's just going to be a no-go. You can't go in there. We all descend from one of Jared, Ivanka, Don Jr., or Kimberly Guilfoyle, our ancestors. You're like, oh, God, your ancestors? All of our? Yes.

Anyway, so that's what's going on. I don't know. I mean, my money. I don't know. What's your money on? If you had to make a bet now, Trump going to Russia or no? I I don't know. I mean, how much money would you put on it if you wanted to?

But you don't want to take too big of a punt on it. I think it depends on it depends on I mean, it always depends on the day with him. Right. But I feel like it's it'll be a battle of whether it's ego or cowardice that wins out. Because if it's cowardice, I think he'll go to Russia. Oh, yeah. If it's ego, then he'll double down and stay in the Mar-a-Lago autonomous zone. Depends on the day he has to make that call.

Right, right, right. We will soon find out if we're going the way of the Mar-a-Lago autonomous zone or back to mother Russia. And speaking of Russia, I just want to talk about their vaccine that's being rolled out, the Sputnik 5 vaccine, which, whoa, I wonder if that's a nod to the space race with the U.S. That you're also now framing this vaccine thing as another race. But that's that's a the answer is yes um but they have begun their vaccination campaign and they've also their hopes is to have two million russians vaccinated by the end of december um are they really rushing it yeah oh boy well they're hitting a few roadblocks there comrade um the deal is that they don't like a lot of russians do not want to take the vaccine um because for a couple

reasons uh a they just didn't trust vladimir putin in august when he was like trumpeting his own like success story he was like we've got the first vaccine my daughter took it it's fucking way better than anything else you're fucking hearing about that essentially made 69 of russians say nah fam oh i'm sorry that essentially made 59 of russians say nah fam to a vaccine because they didn't like putin's confidence on that they're like no full this fool came out way too tough with it and we don't we don't trust him sorry we're not gonna take it i wish we could like talk to i want to talk to russian people i feel like we we would have a lot to talk about just the fundamental mistrust in the government yeah our brains are fucking like

kamikaze by lies to the point where we're we're you know we don't know whether to to live or die interesting are the greatest collab a russian working russians and americans to work together to overthrow their respective governments for the people. They're like, we can help each other, y'all. Come on. Grandparents will hate. They're like, this will make Joe McCarthy fucking disintegrate into a pile of shit

in his grave. We're going to fucking do it. So along with this perfectly preserved, by the way, right now, whatever awful bile was in that guy to make him do the things that he did has preserved his body perfectly. He looks like the day he died. It's immaculate. Just waiting for this moment.

But the other thing is that Russians are really pissed because they're being told to abstain from alcohol for two months if they're taking the vaccine because it can interfere with the efficacy. This is coming right before the holidays yeah and i'm not making i'm not making stereotypes this is in any country that has year end traditions you're drinking you are fucking drinking and when you're when it's cold you drink a lot more and it's warm yeah so many people are like what the fuck everyone's like the fucking holidays are coming and now you want to fucking tell people this so other people are like what the fuck everyone's like the fucking holidays are coming and now you want to fucking tell people this so other people like dude i'm not doing that because i have to have a drink on new year's like that's sacred more than my life like i will have some

vodka on new year no i'm not abstaining so it's caused like this other ripple effect and then there's like infighting between the health administrators like in the country who are being like please don't drink it could like affect you and then there's like infighting between the health administrators, like in the country who are being like, please don't drink. It could like affect you. And then there's like the people who developed the vaccine. Who are using meme warfare. One person who is like one of the vaccine developers said one glass of champagne won't hurt anyone, not even your immune system. And then the official account of the vaccine.

There is such a thing. to anyone not even your immune system and then the official account of the vaccine if there is such a thing did the did the fucking leonardo dicaprio gatsby champagne cheers fucking still as like the don't understand but i'm on board but then like these doctors are like yo what the fuck are you doing but nick vaccine tweeting out memes i don't like it yeah so a lot of people are like this is fucking stupid we don't like it you're it seems like a pissing contest with your space race references um and then not to mention like this is all also against a backdrop too where people are witnessing russian doctors who have been critical of the government's like overall health care strategy they've literally been just falling out of windows um and so i just

like some of these are so fucked up um there was one doctor in siberia just fell out of a window during a conference call she was on a conference call and fell out of a window on in the middle of a conference call and they're like brutal what the fuck um the next day an ambulance doctor uh fell from a second floor window at the hospital where he worked at um and you know had a got a fractured skull another doctor chief of emergency medical services at a training base for russian astronauts who was critical fell out of a window where she was being treated for covet 19 it's an epidemic yeah i mean it's a fucking we were talking about this like it's a weird thing that they do over there um we're like okay so you're just going out a window the way things have been going they're like the dude who

fell out of the second story window um he first said something about like i don't want to like you know we have to do the right thing like with coronavirus care he uh let's see like five days later he like came back he's like oh i want to take back my statement i was in an emotional state then less than a week later he fell out of a window that's why he got the second story one because he recanted if he stuck with it he would have gone higher up in the building i bet that's what they do like every day every day it takes you to recount, we go up a story. That's true. By the way, Sputnik, I believe, means traveling companion in Russian, which makes sense for a spacecraft. But is that means for the vaccine,

are they insinuating it travels with you in your blood? Because that's kind of a stretch. Or it helps you travel? Maybe. Yeah, I was like, maybe it means you can travel again. Or maybe it's just a fun throwback. Maybe it is. You're right. We're a nostalgia-driven generation, baby.

We were like, oh, I remember. Well, we don't remember Sputnik. I remember when my dad talked about Sputnik and I was tuning it out. I remember first grade. They told us about Sputnik and I was tuning it out. I remember first grade. They told us about Sputnik. Jesus. All right. An RC Cola vaccine.

Remember that. Oh, man. Dude, are you getting that Pepsi, that crystal clear Pepsi vaccine? Right now. Pepsi Blue. It's a tiny thing. Was that blue though? Pepsi Blue wasn't actually blue, was it?

Pepsi Blue was blue. We'll never know. I think Pepsi Blue was blue's a tiny thing. Was that blue, though? Pepsi Blue wasn't actually blue, was it? Pepsi Blue was. We'll never know. I think Pepsi Blue was blue, wasn't it? I never bothered. Like, it was so off-putting. I think it was. Even a blue Pepsi, I'm like, I don't want that ever in my life. But the crystal was clear.

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And we're back. And I want to check in with this young man whose career I've been following very carefully. This young man named Nicholas Coppola. He started just a kid, you know, trying to make his way, making a couple little goofy superman shorts to show people that he too uh was just as talented as the rest of the people in his family

um and all that to say is i'm talking about nick cage who's actually a coppola for most people who don't know that some film people know that but nicholas cage is a coppola his name is nicholas i love the look on someone's face when they didn't know nick cage was nepotism and then all you see it all that's like right now i'm so happy i could straight into my veins wait really uh no bit i did not know that yeah it's this is yeah this is great news doesn't make so much sense like i like nick cage but there's no way he could have got he could have on his own he didn't get this on merit yeah no he didn't get rumble fish because he was good oh wow i'm sorry to interrupt that's great uh yeah his full name nicholas kim coppola

yeah from long beach california yeah um so this young man, he's had a hard life, you know, just trying to figure out where he fit into his talented family. And he realized, I'm just going to become a meme and I'm going to scream a lot and I'll be a meme and I'll just be, have all kinds of fake hair and people will love me. Scream a lot, meme a lot. Yep. Scream a lot. Scream a lot.

Welcome to Camelot. And Nick Coppola is now booked a new gig. Like the last time I feel like we were talking about him was because he's going to be playing Joe Exotic in like this Amazon thing. Like that we thought was a joke. And I was like, that's right. He did say he was going to do this. I hope that goes away. I feel like the collective trauma that we all had around the time that Tiger King came out, we should just be like, let's forget.

Let's forget about it. No one wants to be reminded of the time we were watching Tiger King. Yeah, we didn't know what was going on. We were like celebrating the pandemic for like giving us like time to chill out. It was a very odd moment. I feel like the whole that era. Yeah, just a few months ago. That whole era.

If you remember that era. I can't believe few months ago. That whole era, if you remember that era. I can't believe he's a Coppola. This is awesome. Still wrestling with that. Isn't that so wild? Yeah. It's so good. I mean, not to say like he's a fantastic bad actor

and also capable every now and then of a really good performance. I'm not going to take that away from him. We can't take adaptation away from him. You know, when he's good, he's great. But I just, you know he's he when he's when he's good he's great but i just you know what he does he cold audition well probably not when he's not the bees but then it's a meme baby and we still love it uh but he is now treasure saga incredible he's now doing a new show on netflix that's called the history of swear words and i i'm like okay like

my first reaction was like okay that makes sense um like because i think of like when nicholas cage like swears like it's kind of iconic or like you know yeah like you can remember him because he's so he's so over the top with his acting sometimes and so it's gonna be like looking at like the cultural significance of like you know swearing and it has like cognitive scientists and author of what the f benjamin bergen a linguist um named ann charity hudley a professor of feminist studies uh morel miller young a film critic elvis mitchell the author of holy shit a brief history of swearing, Melissa Moore, and word by word author Corey Stamper. So like they're doing a thing to like really tackle it from all sides about talking about,

you know, like whether they're misogynistic tropes within swearing and things like that. Like it seems like it's going to be a somewhat elevated conversation about saying things like pussy. Like, let's get into that. What do we know about this, Nicholas Cage? I hope every episode starts with, like, Nick Cage just saying the swear for a straight minute. Just to see it.

Like, he's like, all right, today we're talking about... Pussy. Fuck. Pussy. Puss. Puss, puss. I hear this show. This show is actually just the summary of words that his family refers to him as behind his back.

Talentless shit brick. Things my uncle Francis has called me. Yeah. Get me more of my wine. Love knee-bomb Coppola wine. The other thing is it's produced by Funny or Die and actually has a lot of funny comedians, too. Joel Kim Booster, DeRay Davis, past guests, open Mike Eagle, Zaynab Johnson, Patty Harrison, Nikki Glaser. It's got, you know.

This sounds like a good vibe, honestly. There's going to be some interesting people. Yeah, Baron Vaughn, Isaiah Whitlock Jr., Jim Jeffries. I mean, the list goes on, London Hughes. people yeah baron vaughn isaiah whitlock jr jim jeffries i mean the list goes on london hughes um so i think you know it could be it could be something very interesting but at the same time i'm just like i there's something that so many of our friends get to meet nick cage maybe that's exciting or distant or they're like or somebody like do i have to interact with him incredible could you imagine what that looks like he's wearing like a silk i feel like he's like he's wearing a big outfit he's like your boy molina in boogie nights like silk robe underwear

underneath and he's like what what's fuck me what if i just had an action figure of that also that would be wild that would also be an iconic uh molina action figure for all the for the pt anderson fuck boys who only know him from that movie miles but this whole thing i mean look i'm one of them trust me i'm from the valley like and i'm like yo dude he holds it down for the valley and he's with maya rudolph okay like i'll fuck with him um all that to say is i'm just have have toxic pride in my little part of the san fernando valley the other thing i do want to say is that this show feels like another netflix algorithm like algorithmic hit where they're like i think if we do a show about swearing and we intersect it with nick cage and comedians

it's gonna it's like a meme of a show that people are now going to watch and it freaks me out because i really do feel like they are beginning to just develop things based on like algorithmic data rather than like the you know the the olden days when comedians would get really drunk say something offhand and dude no hold on man we should develop that right that's the olden days yeah yeah and now it's just some you know readout where it's like nick cage plus fucking plus history equals hit and you're like all right fuck it the history of swearing with nick cage yeah there it is there it is cool you know what it's not my least favorite clearly algorithm pitched uh show idea ever i'll i'll watch it i mean purely too because like it seems like when you look at the

experts and comedians i'm like this seems like i can't really there isn't much i'm saying no to right you're just like it's a list of things i like i don't really know why they're together but i guess we'll just see i got time yeah and like who isn't gonna tune in for a fucking you know however long episode about like understanding that the origin of the word shit you know good yeah that's good shit yeah yeah there we go see we know all right it gets a stamp nick cage nick coppola we'll call you by your your stage name if you want and finally i just want to check in with one of my old bosses gordon ramsey because he is he is taking his talents talents and burger restaurant to a new location inside Harrods in London.

And what's on the menu? A $106 burger. Oh. And I'm like, yo, read the room, Ramsey. I make that in a week. Yeah, seriously. Dude, we're not. I mean, look, from our point of view in the United States, it seems like absolutely ridiculous.

I know in the UK, too, things aren't that great. And last I checked, Harrods is not open. So I don't know when you are going to even go into this restaurant to eat this burger. But just to let you know how you get to $106, the extravagant patty is a Wagyu burger, apparently featuring. Apparently? Okay, interesting. That is weird. Why is that word in there?

I don't know. That was in the release. We can't commit to it being in the burger. Wait, hold on. This is a scam then. It can't be apparent. What a passive way to talk about an $100 burger. This shit needs to be unequivocal.

It undeniably has to be this. 100% UK heritage beef patty, seared wagyu sirloin fresh black truffles and truffle pecorino cheese i can see they're like 40 i don't know why they even why even put a press release out it's gonna anger people like you want to talk about your luxury burger in the time of like the global depression um but he did read the room on the other side because he's entering the seltzer game also uh and it's called wait for it hell's seltzer isn't white claw just hell seltzer yeah i mean and the seltzer seltzer game is getting crowded i'll tell you that at this point you need a good name.

You know, it is coming down to, because they all cost about the same. They all basically taste like shit. Yeah. So it's really coming down to a name game for me. What's the deal with Hell's Seltzer? Oh, well, the website that apparently, like, you know, they're doing, apparently. Wasn't that that kid? Wasn't that that meme, the kid who said apparently all on that oh yeah he's like on and apparently well you know come down

and apparently that it's like okay i just learned a new word also um the website that's like doing the press release says that ramsay's quote discerning palette is behind the seltzer's four unapologetically bold flavors like what they're all inspired by the popular menu items from his hell's kitchen restaurant i'm like so what beef wellington yeah that's lobster risotto i i worked on the hell's kitchen show so i know what else we're talking about is it the uh i i mean beef wellington seltzer sounds like it's worth a punt. It does. And I hear the ingredients, by the way, are seltzer, natural flavors, and hate. Right. Three.

They meant hate in there. Yeah. And you idiot. Right. The other, his like, his cheesy ass, like, you know, puff promo talk is amazing too. Quote, this is Gordon Ramsay. Quote, yes, even I enjoy a hard seltzer after a long day. So I decided to toss the devil horns into the ring and heat things up.

Hell's kitchen will never freeze over, but a cold health seltzer is a great start. I'm in. Wow. And you know, those are words directly lying through his fucking teeth. He would not take a sip. You think Gordon Ramsay would drink hard self-fab?

Why would he lie? Did you hear what he said, Jamie? He said, yes, even I. He's acknowledging that it would be strange. This is real. He said even he would, after a hard, long day, he's going to kick back with a Helzer? Helzer Skelzer? Helzer Skelzer.

I'm going to drink this damn Beef Wellington Helzer Skelzer. That's great. Yeah. Beef Wellington Helzer Skelter? Helter Skelter. I'm going to drink this damn Beef Wellington Helter Skelter. That's great. Yeah. Beef Wellington Helter Skelter. You'll be like, I think we need to speak with them. Are they okay? They're drinking beef flavored alcohol. It's 81% alcohol.

Also with the seltzer, you got to, it's all, all of it is like low though. And it hurts you. But somehow my thing with seltzer, you got to, it's all, all of it is like low though. And it hurts you. But somehow, my thing with seltzer is like, you drink one, the alcohol content is very low. And yet you're still like getting hung over in real time. And you're like, how is this possible? I'm not drunk and I'm already hung over. What's your favorite flavor? I do like a mango white claw.

I like the main white cleezy too. I was going to say that too. I play around with a little black cherry from time to time. Sometimes I add vodka to it. Is that a weird move? You can't live like that. You can't live your life in that way.

That's fine. That's what I tell Her Majesty. I say, yo, give me that mango cleezy, but boost it. Boost it. Boost it. Boost it. Hey, you set that thing up a little bit. What do you think?

Hey, Her Majesty, let me get a mangleezy, but don't trim the claws. Actually, put some claw extensions on. Sharpen those claws for me, please. Sharpen that claw, Her Majesty, one time for your boy so he can fall over picking up dog shit in the yard that's just an insight into my Sunday mornings Blake

thanks so much for stopping by anytime where can people find you follow you that's a great great question what's a tweet that you like

that is a great question oh which one if you had to choose which one I answered first which would you go with tweet I'm just yeah I don't know you're called baby I'll do the tweet second okay alright Which one? If you had to choose which one I answered first, which would you go with? Tweet? Yeah.

I don't know. Your call, baby. I'll do the tweet second. Okay. All right. If that's okay. Or do you want me to do it first? Hey, dealer's choice, man.

Your choice. I'm going to do it first. I want you to be comfortable here. Yeah. I think I'm more comfortable. The tweet thing at first was a little tough for me, but now I'm coming around on it. Okay. Whatever you prefer.

I think I prefer this. I'll do the tweet first, then i'll give you i'll give you my whereabouts um the tweet is from roy wood jr who is one of my favorite follows and who's that uh very funny comedian i'm joking and jamie's face you look like when he heard yeah when blake heard it in the cage was a copola, you did the same face when I said, who's Roy Wood Jr.? And his tweet is, the three stages of wealth. One, I'm going to call my cousins. Two, I'm going to call the police. And three, I'm going to call my lawyer.

Or the three stages of wealth. That's a great one for Roy Wood Jr. And then I had an album come out, I guess, yesterday when this releases. It's called Live from the Pandemic. I recorded it outside a steel plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. And it was outdoors and it came together great. I didn't plan on recording it and it came together so well I released it. So, yeah, Live from the Pandemic.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you. It was really, really fun. It's my third time back on stage since this thing happened. And maybe my last because, yeah, we locked it down again. But yeah, that came out today. BlakeWexler.com, at Blake Wexler. Blake's takes, for God's sakes.

It's a podcast. But yeah, live from the pandemic. Available everywhere. Yammy Lofty, what about you? Where can people find you and follow you? What's a tweet that you like? Well, I'll go tweet first as well. This one comes from Cheesy Might Scroll.

I don't know. But they tweet, Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried could do The Lighthouse, and Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson could do Jennifer's Body. And I think that they're right to say that. I agree. And I would like to see it. For me, tonight, I'm going to be doing a livestream fundraiser for a mutual aid group that I really love called Ground Game LA.

So I'll be tweeting about that over at Jamie Loftus Help. Check that out. Speaking of Alfred Molina, about that over at jamie loftus help check that out speaking of alfred molina um i released a very abrupt collaboration with one of my favorite um t-shirt companies super yaki and we released two t-shirts yesterday one says alfred molina could have done it the other one says alfred molina my one true love so wasn't expecting to become a fashion designer this week, but Alfred Molina made a decision, and now I'm a fashion designer.

So go to SuperYaki and get one of those. The hits don't stop. And Lolita Podcast, if you want to be real sad and cry all day and all night, that's what I do. Oh, it's fantastic for y'all, for anyone who's don't sleep on the Lolita podcast at all i mean

like it's internationally known and locally respected at this point it's like just just get out the way get in or get out the way seriously um wait fuck none of my likes are saving on twitter i'm sorry i'm like going to my likes and then it stopped from three days ago even if i force like refresh oh god oh no um sheet what's going to happen uh i'm just gonna wait i just know one of them is one andrew t liked so i was looking his likes and i'm not sure likes in a picture Matt I hear the podcast is amazing Jamie like I've never seen people unilaterally like something before other than your

podcast like the Lolita Pod so congrats that's great thank you congrats on the album what a time it feels so weird to promote anything I know I know it's a nightmare you don't want to sound tone deaf, but I think you're doing the right thing.

Trying. I mean, I'm excited to listen to your album. Thank you. Yeah, this show just keeps getting more depressing. I love doing it and it means a lot to me, but it keeps getting sadder. It's heavy, yeah. Okay. Some tweets that I like. One is from

at Chris underscore A425425 she tweets is it for fuck's sake or for fuck's sake uh it's for a work email so it has to sound professional um and then fuck where is from Rakesh Satyal at Rakesh Satyal uh tweeting a black mirror episode in which we all count down on new year's eve but return immediately to january 1 2020 oh my god that would be upsetting to the highest degree um you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at MilesOfGrey. Also, the other podcast for 20 Day Fiance. Check that out and, you know, check the Daily Zeitgeist out. You know, we're on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist,

Instagram at The Daily Zeitgeist. We got a Facebook fan page. You know, the Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. So for more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the app or wherever you get your favorite shows. We also got a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnorts. Oh, sorry.

Is that what she's like? You bloody fucked it up again, you fucking drunk guy. It's the footnorts. That was my first exposure to that bit. I really liked it. Episodes? Oh, I wasn't ready oh shit um and let's uh and then also this is for the song we write out on and this track is gonna be from seneca b and it's called sunshine yeah this track is just got good acoustic guitar picking, haunting vocals from Seneca. It's just like a, I don't know, it's moody.

I like moody on a Thursday. I don't know about y'all, but Thursday is the moodiest day of the week. And this is a vibe, I guess. So we're going to ride out on Sunshine by Seneca B. Thanks again, y'all, for joining me while Jack goes out for cigarettes. And we will see y'all later today to talk trends until then love y'all bye Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you.

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