The Daily Zeitgeist - Creep: Impeached, CATS Reviews 12.20.19

Episode Date: December 20, 2019

In episode 540, Jack and special guest host Laci Mosley are joined by comedian Debra DiGiovanni to discuss the reviews for Cats, Trump being impeached and is his obsession with toilet flushing, Lev Parnas getting one million dollars, Camila Cabello's racist Tumblr posts, the concern for Britney Spears, JK Rowling's transphobia, A$AP Rocky's sex tape, Netflix's gay Jesus movie sparking outrage, and more!FOOTNOTES: ‘Cats’ Film Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Feline Fantasy Musical Becomes a Garish Hairball Cats Is Good. Cats Is Bad. Cats Is Cats. The Cats Movie Is a Void of Horny Confusion Trump Impeached for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress Donald Trump Was Impeached. Then He Yelled About Toilets. As He's Impeached, Trump Denies to Rally-Goers That He Always Has to Flush the Toilet 10 Times President Trump Is Wrong — Toilets Are Good Now. Here’s Why. Despite $1 Million From Oligarch Firtash, Judge Allows Parnas To Stay Free Camila Cabello apologizes for ‘embarrassingly ignorant’ remarks exposing camila cabello‘s racist and downright disturbing tumblr reblogs: a thread Britney Spears calls out trolls who write ‘mean’ comments and ‘bully people’ on her Instagram JK Rowling in row over court ruling on transgender issues The internet is unimpressed with alleged A$AP Rocky sex tape The First Temptation of Christ |Netflix Original Over 700,000 Petition to Ban Netflix's 'Gay Jesus' Xmas Film in Brazil LGBT rights threatened in Brazil under new far-right president WATCH: Portugal. The Man - So American Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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consciousness and say officially off the top, fuck the Koch brothers and fuck Fox News. It's Friday, December 20th, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Hack Upalung O'Brien. And I have a call. And I'm thrilled to be joined. Yes, definitely deserving of the bomb drop. Thank you. And I'm thrilled to be joined by my special guest co-host, Lacey Mosley!

Hey, what's up? It's your girl, Lacey Mosley, a.k.a. I don't want a lot for Christmas. There is just one thing I need. Your social and driver's license underneath the Christmas tree. I just want your mother's maiden, your first pet and high school name. Make my wish come true. come true all I want for Christmas

is to scam you scam goddess baby that was beautiful one for the holidays beautiful classic

a holiday classic you know for Mariah Carey's holiday. Yes. Well, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Debra DiGiovanni. Hello. What's up, Debra? Oh, I'm not going to sing.

I'll tell you that much. No, that's fine. I wish. Yeah. Happy holidays to you. Thank you. And yours. And returns.

Yes. Are you guys going anywhere for the holidays? Yes. I'm going gonna go to cabo with my family hopefully i can run into miles down here i am gonna go to philadelphia which is the cabo of the northeastern corridor uh shout out to philly that's the nicest thing anybody's ever said how about you deborah i'm staying Yeah. I've got a couple of gigs. I go to Chicago on Sunday for a day. Oh, that's fun.

And then I'm doing New Year's Eve in Michigan. Don't be jealous. Yeah, I only do the top notch stuff. But yeah, but other than that, I'm in LA for the main stuff. LA's great for the holidays. It is. I already like how quiet it's getting. All the transplants leave.

I know. It's nice. It's like a post-apocalyptic movie. Yeah. Just driving down empty streets. This is what it'll be like. You're going to be like Will Smith. With more running and screaming.

Talking to mannequins. All right. Well, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners just a couple of things we're talking about. The Cats reviews are in. And they're the first terrible reviews that have ever made me absolutely desperate to see a movie. We're going to go through a couple of them. But it's really the film critics are earning their checks this year.

The president is impeached. So that's something that happened. We're going to talk about that, how that went down. We're going to talk about how well he's dealing with impeachment, part two, because he had a big Trump rally

last night during, as he was impeached, he was up on stage just free associating, aka his brain was melting live before our eyes uh we're gonna look at dimitri fritash an oligarch uh natural gas industry oligarch uh who is stranded in vienna and who is uh doing some shady shit with rudy giul Trump. So we're going to look at that.

We're going to look at Camila Caballo. We're going to look at J.K. Rowling. We're going to look at A$AP Rocky. We're going to look at Britney Spears. Oh, no. And we're going to look at Netflix's Gay Jesus movie, which has sparked some controversy. But first, Debra, we like to ask our guests what

is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are okay let's see my i think the last thing i searched let's double check just so i'm not lying do not lie to us oh i i my last thing i was what percentage of people are twins because i'm a twin and yesterday was national twin day twin i am a twin i'm a frater and yesterday was National Twin Day. Are you a twin? I am a twin. I'm a fraternal twin. Wow. Is it a boy or a girl? It's my sister,

my twin sister. But we look like we're so opposite. It's almost cruel, I would say, is the word I can think of. Like she was the prom queen and I did not go to prom. Let's just leave it at that.

But did you know it's like one in 30 births now are twins. One in 30? One in 30 births now are twins. 1 in 30? 1 in 30! I thought it was going to be like 1 in like 1.3. No! It's because of science. It is. It's because of doing

like, it's like, you know, fertility stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, most things are because of science. Common as fuck now. But is it because of like, do they have an explanation for why it's getting more common? Yeah. It is because of fertilization, like doing in vitro, because way more multiple births are happening.

Right. Like, apparently triplets is a regular thing now. Right. Like, in 1980, it was one in 60 births was a twin. Yeah. And now it's one in 30. Because we're all just fucking old school. Yeah, we're just doing a regular. Are you close to your twin? Yeah. We are, yeah. it was one in 60 births was a twin and now it's one in 30 yeah we're just doing a regular

are you close to your twin? yeah we are it was a while that we weren't but we're back I think you do I think you at some point you go

there's a connection yeah but I think there's also I don't know about identical twins I think they're creepy weird close but fraternals we were best friends and then I think there's a while

where you're like I gotta get away from you you know what I mean and then we did that for a bit and now're like, I gotta get away from you. And then we did that for a bit and now we're good. Yeah, because you guys get to be your own person a little bit more. Yeah, because you're always known as the twins. That's what you're just called forever.

And people in America love to put you in the same outfit. Did your parents put you in the same outfit and stuff? Yeah, I was wearing the same dress. We did, because when we were little, we looked alike. We looked quite a bit. She's blonde, but we looked alike. And then, you know, probably around like 11 or 12 is when maybe like 8, we looked alike. We looked quite a bit. She's blonde, but we looked alike. And then probably around 11 or 12 is when, maybe like 8, 9, 11. We really started to look differently. But as kids, my mom dressed us the same all the time.

Are there other twins in your family? Because isn't it like it comes from one side, like your dad? On my mom's side, there's a ton of twins. I have an uncle that's a twin. And yeah, I think there's a couple other ones. I think my grandmother's sister was a twin. You know the thing about it skipping a generation? I don't think that's true.

You know they used to say that? Yeah. About it like, oh, you won't have twins. I don't think that's true. Yeah. I think it just happens. Just non-stop twins. Twins all the way down.

Twins, twins, twins. All the time. So yeah, that was the last thing. And then that's it. That was the last thing. But twins are a scam. I feel like a scam. If I had two babies at the hospital, I'm leaving one.

I ain't signing up for two. I feel for people that are doing in vitro, like on their second birth because they want a second child. And then I know a woman. And then they had triplets. Whoa. You wanted one and then you got double my babies. That's too many.

That's too many. That's what you got to ask your babies. What y'all doing after this? Exactly. I hope you found something you have to do. You're not coming home with me. Right.

What are you doing after this? Identical twins are so interesting. Yeah, they're weird. Because they have the same DNA. They're spooky. That's when the egg splits. That's it. They're identical people.

They're two of the same person. But apparently no one's ever really, and this is something about triplets too, that you cannot have identical triplets. Only two of them will person. But apparently no one's ever really and this is something about triplets too that you cannot have identical triplets. Only two of them will be identical. And then once they're like hey just like hanging out I'm with them.

No. You gotta be the third wheel of your siblings. Can you imagine? I was in the womb. I shared the uterus. But twins, even identical twins, are not apparently

completely identical and they'll be the first people to tell you that. Yeah, yeah. I mean, personality-wise. But like DNA-wise, aren't they indistinguishable? I think, right?

I think it's exactly. So I could do mad crimes and they're just bleeding all my skin. Yes, yes. And you absolutely should. And the fact that that is not a supervillain or superhero origin story.

Come on. Yeah. I think all the murder shows have done it. Right. Yeah. All the criminal minds definitely did an episode about that. Yeah, absolutely. I had when I was in high school, I worked at a pharmacy, a drugstore, and the pharmacist

was an identical twin and they were both pharmacists. And they were so spooky that when they went to college, when they were doing pharmacy school, like they were, they had to sit them in opposite sides of auditoriums when they did exams because their tests would be exactly the same. They'd get the wrong, multiple choice. They'd get the one wrong question and they'd both have answered F instead of whatever.

Right. I mean, seriously. And they probably spoke some creepy twin language or something. Yeah, they were weird. What is something you think is overrated? What I think is overrated? I think New Year's Eve is overrated. Yeah.

I mean, that's not even an argument. We just know that for a fact. Yeah. It's too much. Calm down. Yes. You know what I mean? You must have the funnest time of your life.

Have you ever had a good New Year's Eve? I have. Have you? When? Yeah. When I was much younger. Yeah. I think maybe like 21 was a really fun New Year's.

And then when I was a child, because my mom would throw New Year's Eve parties, and then one time we got a hold of the margarita machine, and we had a good ass time. We had a good ass time. I would say the same. I think I had one, I remember one fun New Year's when I was probably about 11. And then I had another good one when I was about like 25. And then it's just been like, you know, work. There's too much pressure.

Too much pressure. Way too much pressure. And like such a letdown. And way too expensive. I have worked for the last like probably like 12 New Year's like performed. And I'm thrilled for it. It's honestly the best. I would rather do that.

You can make so much money on New Year's. They pay you really well, and it's like, and everyone's always just, you know, happy to be there, and then get the hell out. Yeah, it's one night, and then you're done.

That's it. So, overrated, Newsy. What's underrated? Good grammar and penmanship. Okay. Oh, I'm with you. I am, I'm horrified

that the world doesn't care about grammar anymore. It scares me to my soul. I feel like that is the beginning of the end. I just don't understand why people, and you know, I'm of an age, but I just, I don't understand why people, it's the yours. No one cares. Yeah. And I'm like, so what?

And I'm like, it's guys. They mean things. Why do they mean things? Yes, it really bothers me. That's just me. I think grammar's, and I also think penmanship things yes it really bothers me you know that's just me I think grammar and I also think

penmanship you know what I mean because now we don't you know little ones aren't even learning to write anymore I just had to address a Christmas card

by hand and it was not good there's just I can't keep the letters and the numbers the same size it's just like

it's a fucking disaster. It's a disaster. But I am- Like, cursive is done, right? Like, it's just done. I am rightly ashamed. It's just your signature. No, Jack, I'm with you on that, though.

My mom always said it was the mark of a genius, and I don't know if they just say that because they're trying to make us feel better. They do, yeah. But I have the handwriting of a serial killer. Yeah, I do, too. And I hate Christmas time, because I'm out here writing holiday cards to all my reps

and I know they And it looks like I know they're scared. She's gonna murder us. She's planning to murder us. I have beautiful penmanship. I have ridiculously good penmanship. You do?

I have beautiful penmanship. I knew you did as soon as you said that. I'm not gonna say it and then not be feeling like backing up. You don't know what I do. I have great penmanship.

Write my Christmas card. I will. I'm telling you. It's gorgeous. It's gorgeous. You just do. I have great penmanship. Write my Christmas card. I will. I'm telling you. It's gorgeous. It's gorgeous. You just wrote something down and your penmanship looks like the poster for that movie,

The Snowman. Where it's like, hey, Mr. Police Officer, really random reference. But I'm with you, though. Yeah, Debra, do you have a font? Oh, my gosh. Do you have your own font?

I should have a font. Oh, yeah. Oh, new goal for 2020. Deborah Giovanni sounds like a font. It does. I feel like I should be able to pull that up on Word. You know what? You should.

D. Giovanni would be a great font. Yeah, very loud. All caps. Yeah. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh, this is one. Did I look some up?

I think I did. Let me see. That I know to be false. Oh, okay. More suspect. How about the one? This is the first thing that came to my head. one did i look some up i think i did let me see um that i know to be false um oh i okay how about how about how about the one this is the first thing that came to my head uh the myth that like i think that it's very old-fashioned but men don't think women want sex that's a myth do you mean yeah there's still that sort of like oh girls oh you know you gotta beg them for it and what are you talking about yeah That's really old fashioned.

I don't know who told the men of the world that. And I think the generations and millennials, they don't believe that anymore. But dudes in their 30s and 40s, I mean, watch old school comedians. They're talking about, oh, my wife. I'm like, really? Are you kidding me? Oh, it drives me nuts. But that's because maybe there's, I think there was a time period where marriage was also

more so about contractual agreements and security. Yeah, security, absolutely. Two incomes and a house. So maybe your wife just didn't wanna fuck your ass. Right, ever, ever. He's a nice man. You should try harder. He comes home.

Yeah, exactly. I remember my mom saying about my dad that my father was a good provider. And I was like, oh, wow. How romantic. Provider of that dick. Bird, cold-blooded mom. Provider of that dick. That's what you should have said.

Provider of that dick, mom. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, but I do feel like that is dudes telling on themselves. When they're like, my wife. Adam Carolla loves to talk about how his wife should have more sex with him. That's exactly it. Maybe you should ask what she's interested in seeing more of from you. See what makes her horny.

I don't know. Come out. Put some oil on your body. I don't know. Come out, put some oil on your body. I don't know. Try something new. There's a comic that, oh God, in Canada that I know

that I grew up with and he always had one about keep it exciting in the bedroom. He's like, freak her out. Come home and freak her out. Let her come home

and she can't find you. I don't even know where he is. You know what I mean? That kind of thing. And then, you know, you gotta keep her on her toes. Make her a little scared. Stage her house to look

like a cracker. Exactly. Surprise, baby. And you know what I mean? I just come, you know, something like that. Fake your own death. Yeah, fake your own death.

And then jump off. And then yes, and that's great. Straight into love. That's makeup sex. Thinking my man is dead. Yeah, but then you! And that's great. Straight into love. That's makeup sex. My man is dead. Yeah, but then you're like way too excited.

And he's just like, shit. And then he's like, oh, forget it. I'm not gonna wake up now. You start calling people. It's done, girl. We finally did it. He's like, what the fuck? He's in the closet. Mad as hell. Alright, well we have been looking forward to Kat's reviews. He's like, what the fuck? He's in the closet, mad as hell. All right.

Well, we have been looking forward to Kat's reviews. Just curious about this. We did get Miles' mom, who is a film critic. And a queen. And a queen. Gave us still my favorite review I've heard, but we're still embargoed on that until we come back from break but she said something

that was very intriguing so I was very curious what are the other film critics going to say and they did not disappoint we got some good ones here so I'm just going to go through and read you some selections so the

Chicago Tribune and this is i believe in descending order from like a good the best review like the most positive so cats cannot be beat for sheer folly and misjudgment and audience reaction to springtime for hitler in the producer's stupefaction uh like that that's how it seems like as an audience member, you will be unable to make sense of it. The animation detracts from the film's capable performers and inventive surroundings, drawing the eye reluctantly in like the sight of a person vomiting in the middle of an amusement park.

Oh, gosh. It makes for a slow death so overwhelmingly grotesque that it ceases to be interesting at all. Do you like watching people vomit? Oh, no. Yeah, but this person seems to be more interested in watching somebody vomit than I am. Like, it draws your eye, you know, like somebody vomiting.

Our divided nation can be healed and brought together as one by cats the musical the movie the disaster and other news my eyes are burning oh god my eyes uh jarring fever dream of a spectacle is like something that escaped from dr moreau's creature laboratory an uncatty valley hybrid of physical and digital that unsettles and crashes. Yeah. People are calling it like a fever dream. We're not surprised by this, though. No.

I mean, this is exactly what the preview looked like. But the person who made it is the person who made the king's speech. So it's like, oh, well, I mean, it's not going to be like a weird fever dream. That's like, yeah. Yeah. Huh. You went a different way. This is a departure. Yeah. Yeah. This is, huh. You went a different way. You went a weird different way, fam.

What kills me about this is I remember when the trailers came out and the public, like in general, no matter your race, creed, color, political ideation, we said, do not put this out. We said, no. Yeah. Yeah. But I feel like even like the the show

no one was you know what I mean like everyone was like enough it was on Broadway for so long but it was always hated

exactly it was the joke there's no plot no one was demanding no one was demanding just a bunch of cats introducing themselves how much money

do you think all the actors made they have to have made so much money oh yeah I mean cause we have some like you know Idris Elba is in it yes jennifer hudson taylor swift um like it must be so much money

uh so just a couple of things you guys just said reminded me of some other of the bad reviews it's almost unfathomable that this one made it through all the preliminary production meetings without someone sensibly calling a halt to the process damn creepy and then one of those once in a blue moon embarrassments that mars the resumes of great actors oh yeah and then in parentheses poor idris elba you know i heard he scarred enough as the villainous macavity some of these names are don't make any sense what what does that even mean and also the black cats look even crazier than all the rest of the cats. Right.

Because for some reason, they put them all in flesh tones. So they just look weirdly naked and hairy. And it is so upsetting. There is something magical about the simple fact that this movie exists in all its obscene, absurd wonder, its terrible filmmaking choices, and bursts of jaw-dropping talent.

Oh, wow. Literally incredible. I hope I never see it again. I mean, incredible in the definition of unbelievable. I can't believe this exists. But, yeah, the rumors about how much it cost uh are between 100 million dollars and 300 million dollars so there was a rumor that it was 300 they were like no no no no it's only a hundred million yeah no they're fucked no way There's no way. And they were, that was, like, they were claiming it was only $100 million,

which any time a studio is trying to downplay the numbers. The amount of money it cost. First of all, they're lying. It's whatever the high number is. And also they know the movie's not going to do well. And that was back before, apparently they were working on this movie up until like yesterday, as we talked about on yesterday's episode.

Wow. So who got fired? Everybody? I feel like there has to be a studio exec meeting the next day and it's just everybody comes in and the contents of their desk are in boxes. Yeah. You would think so.

Like security will take you out. Please give us your credentials. I'll show myself oh god yeah but how like what movie made a hundred million dollars

in the last little bit I mean seriously some have oh yeah yeah yeah but it's it's getting much more

you know what I mean like it's just rare now yeah I mean I've seen a lot of movies come out around the like they're spending like eight million to twenty million on it and then doubling.

That's been very popular too. It's like keeping in the lower budget and just doubling your money and getting out. I feel like the only way this has a chance is if people are going to see it because it's so bad. Do you know what I mean? Like do the reverse. Well, that's what I think I'm going to do. I really want to see this because it is, it sounds.

Because you want to see the, you know. because it is, it sounds. Because you want to see the, you know. Like one description, Ian McKellen having the most fun of anyone as Gus the Theater Cat. That's a character's name. Lapping out of saucers and rubbing up against corners. Oh, God. So it's like one of those acting.

Imagine I'm an actor and I do some rough jobs sometimes. Right. I'll never tell you which ones. But when I get older, I'm going to Quincy Jones this shit. I'm going actor and I do some rough jobs sometimes I'll never tell you which ones but I will when I get older I'm a Quincy Jones this shit I'm gonna tell everybody but if somebody told me

I had to lick up out of a bowl right who you know that money good right that's what I'm saying it must be

the money was good millions upon millions but I feel like that's like one of those warm up exercises from like intro to acting 101 intro to clown okay you're a cat now for like that's like one of those warm-up exercises from like intro to acting 101 where they're like okay you're a cat now that's super clown oh no woof yeah uh yikes appropriately enough yeah yeah um all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back

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Republicans were like, hey, you don't get to cheer uh but yeah it's i do love that the house is planning on holding back the articles of impeachment from the senate unless mitch mcconnell agrees to a fair trial because i mean he's never going to but it seems like at least they're taking some agency in the whole decision right it seems like at least they're taking some agency in the whole decision. Right. It seems like at least they're not operating in good faith, which Democrats have done for too long. Right. I'm like, we don't have rules anymore, y'all. The laws is out. Okay?

Right. They are just a suggestion. I'm a Canadian human person, right? So tell me now, nothing changes, right? He's impeached and what? Now what happens? He would have to, so the senate would have to vote for removal which is impossible because that won't happen yeah but is it true that he cannot be

re-elected no no that's not true he can't be re-elected he can be re-elected easily oh god so then what was the point of this so sis we had to do it just just for the yeah you know we had to do it just for the yeah you know we had to do it to him yeah and I mean I think people are you know we had to do it to him yeah yeah but I think the people

there is a small sliver of hope that perhaps he would be removed for his crimes and obviously he's been a detriment to the country unfortunately oh my gosh this is kind of late in the game

because re-election is right around the corner but oh god you said re-election is right around the corner oh and you know what that was a Freudian slip but as a black I mean it is right around the corner. Oh God, you said re-election is right around the corner. And you know what? That was a Freudian slip, but as a black, I mean it.

I think Trump might be president for the next 20 years or until he dies. We have completely disregarded laws. We have completely disregarded that this man is a criminal and we no longer care enough about the country to actively do things about it. And he's a criminal on

all different platforms. Oh, he's not at all. Yes, he's a thief and a crook and a liar, but he's also a rapist. He's probably a murderer. Does he set fires? This is what we need to know. Then he would have the entire gamut of crimes

and nobody cares. Unfortunately, the Senate is majority Republican and the Republicans, listen, they're a gang. And, you know, maybe more dangerous than the Bloods out here. You know what I mean? Like, do the Republicans have their own dance?

Is there a crip walk for the GOP? Imagine what that would look like. Oh, it would be very bad. Very slow. But it's all they're missing, truly, to complete their gang mentality. They have the OK sign. But because they simply will stand behind anybody.

Look what happened when they were, you know, electing a Supreme Court justice, like, who was like a rapist. They couldn't just be like, oh, we'll just bring somebody else in who hasn't been marred by, you know, this kind of scandal. They were like, no, no, no, we're going to push my mans through. How dare you be mean to this man who's a rapist? It was like they just got mad. And then he started yelling at everyone. push my mans through. How dare you be mean to this man who's a rapist. Oh, God. Was like, they just got mad. And then he started

yelling at everyone. They were like, yeah, okay. And that was allowed. Good enough. Could you imagine if a woman did that? It's like,

you look at all the, like, they're just, they're human people. Like, my thing is always like, how do you go home and look at yourself

in the mirror? Like, honestly, how do you go home and be like, good work today? Like, so you're just completely empty inside. Is that what it is?

You're just dead inside. Sociopaths. Just greedy. And that's all that they care about. And they also think that, like, what they're doing is the better of two evils or the lesser of two evils. And you also have to get to a point in your mind where you don't regard every human being as human. If you can. And a lot of them have that because they're descendants of slave masters, as is everyone

on your dollar bills. So they've gotten to a point where they don't see humanity anymore. It's time for the world to end, is what we're saying. I wish Jesus would pull up. Jesus, scoot over. I got shotgun.

I'm out. You want me to take my I mean? I'm out. Yeah. You want me to take my clothes off for the rest of it? There you go. You want me to take my clothes off? That's what Jesus demands of us. That's his first request, I think. All right, everybody, let's get naked. According to this Brazilian Netflix movie we're going to talk about later, he does seem

like a good time. He seems like a fun dude. Come on. to talk about later he does seem like a good time he seems like a fun fun dude come on um but yeah so the idea is basically apparently there's a process you pass the like he's impeached but then the house has to like send the articles of impeachment to the senate uh the senate is like mitch mcconnell is already saying he won't let the Democrats or anyone call any witnesses, which so it's just like a sham trial, essentially, like there's no there's no trial to it. There's not there's no process that he's allowing them to do.

And so the House is just like, well, we're not going to send you the trial if you're if you're just not going to do do do your job and this is not the operation of an innocent person this is not how you operate if no one has anything on you let them come talk this is wild right well speaking of not the operation of an innocent person uh trump is dealing well with all of this uh so he had a rally in mich, I think, last night. With one black woman standing behind him. Sis, when we find you, you'll never get a hair care product again, sis. It's over for you.

Like most of his rallies, it felt like an amateur comedy open mic night being emceed by a runaway from a senior's home. a runaway from a senior's home. He talked about a variety of subjects that included his favorite Fox News host, Bill Clinton, and Tom Cruise, who he randomly said is a good guy. Good guy, by the way. Tom must be a bad man. I know.

And an hour after he became the third president in history to be impeached, he started talking about toilets which I think is just appropriate so he was like talking about again the low flow thing like he

he can't flush his shits down yeah he only eats garbage and he's on Adderall, which makes you go. Does it make you go? Yeah. It makes you poop?

It's an amphetamine. So just like how coffee will make people poop, Adderall will send you to the restroom, too. So I just want to read from what he said. He said, and what goes with a sink and a shower? Crowd chants, a toilet. Oh, God. And then he said, times right 10 times trump does flushing motion while saying something that sounds like bop bop then not me of course not me but you

you but i never mentioned that because one time i mentioned all three i said sink showers and toilets the headline was trump with the toilets toilets that's all they want i don't even mention the so i didn't mention that okay i go off the record what the fuck are you talking about this is the president i can't no one in their good mind right and it's only gonna get worse he also how is he gonna get reelected he also who is still bleeding in this oh yeah a lot of the come on

a lot of very racist people oh god he implied a senator so a senator who passed away and was replaced by

his wife voted for his impeachment and Trump said that her deceased husband

was looking down on her or maybe looking up. I don't know. So implied that her recently deceased husband is in hell. That this good black man who's been fighting for civil rights. Is in hell. His whole life. Yeah.

And his wife is also very qualified. A lot of news outlets have described her as his wife. Right. But she's also actually been in politics and in activism her entire life as well. his wife is also very qualified a lot of news outlets have have described her as his wife um but she's also actually been in politics and in activism her entire life as well she's extremely qualified but donald trump is absolutely fucking oh god yeah um oh god the mood in the room is like ah right he just he's trying to act like it doesn't bother him, which is he keeps saying, I'm not worried. I'm not worried. But apparently behind the scenes, he is fixated on like finding ways to punish Democrats. He also talked about how Adam Schiff is ugly and hot meat.

Yeah. What? But, you know, that's actually one of the good things that he does as a scammer is like, and hot meat cattle yeah like what but you know that's actually one of the good things that he does as a scammer is like you really

have to stay on phase the minute you start to panic is the minute that people think that you're

unraveling so he's very good at staying true to his yeah and also he's always been brash he's always

been uncouth what's crazy about white supremacy is is that like we went from Barack Obama to Donald Trump so basically white supremacy like supremacist what Barack Obama to Donald Trump. So basically white supremacy

like supremacists, what y'all saying is that y'all lost. Because if you compare these two men, the blacks have won. Like you didn't even have to do this to yourselves. Like there are plenty of great white men and you did this. Why would you do this under the name of whiteness? This is not who you want as your white representative. There are

so many other great white men who could have done this job and not been an embarrassment to your entire race um but it's exhausting because i truly think that he is gonna be able to miscarry justice here oh yeah yeah he's not he's not being held to account yeah for sure but i agree with what you were saying earlier that i think i mean they're already starting to float the idea that he would be able to be eligible for a third term because the Democrats, like, illegally resisted him or something. That's what Mike Huckabee was saying. I think that we truly have to get to a point where we realize

that the sky is the limit. Yeah. And everybody thinks there's no civility about this. At some point, guys, you might actually have to be out in the streets with your bat or your gun. Yeah. Pulling up to D.C. I wish I was joking, but it might get that real. I don't think he's leaving the office of president in any way that isn't being led by police.

Forcibly removed. Or in a body bag. Like, they're going to pull up with the moving trucks, and he's like, no, thank you. Yeah. No, no, he's not going anywhere. Like, no, he actually has to move. He elected somebody else.

Yeah, and even if he loses the election, he's not going. Like, you think he's going to accept the results of an election that says he lost? We'll be in recount hell. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it'll be recounts amid massive conspiracies about how the Democrats conspired with the Russians.

He'll just take whatever is true about him and put it back on the Democrats. I also need us to stop being so reliant on uh on nostalgia and on old timey isms in america we love to talk about the constitution that was literally made by old racists who own people who died at like in their 30s and technology has improved you're not pissing in the outhouse. We don't need an electoral college. It literally was a consolation for ending slavery for southern states. And it's the whole reason that Trump was elected, because he did not win the popular vote.

And it's like we rely on this stuff, but why can't we evolve and grow? And it seems like in just that one area, I know, and just that one area too, everything else. You know what I mean? It's like we are, oh, yes, everyone's thrilled for improvement. But this is, you're right, it's archaic and it stays that way. I mean, the whole Second Amendment was created so that if the government knocked on your door and said, hey, fam, we going to war. Pull up with them guns. Like, you got to go to war.

Now, if I knock on your door and you own AR-15s and I say you got to go to Afghanistan and risk your ass right now, you're not going to come out. Right. And that's the whole point. The point was not so that you can enjoy having crazy ammo and pretending that you hunt for venison. Yeah. And gun culture is very... Oh, it's crazy. If you look at those gun magazines,

they're all like, don't get your man card revoked, bitch. It's so just toxic. It's wild. To be honest, I didn't know that about the war thing. I didn't know that. Like, I didn't know that. Okay.

Yeah. Wow. Oh, my God. So I want to talk about an example of a story that is just kind of flying under the radar right now. This dude, Dimitri Firtash, is an oligarch who got rich in the natural gas industry. Dimitri Firtash is an oligarch who got rich in the natural gas industry. He's also facing charges in a federal court of trying to bribe an American company that was operating in India.

And he's facing extradition orders and would very much like to be able to do business in the U.S. to make even more money off of natural gas and continue to make money corruptly. But so currently he's stranded in Vienna because that's a place he can be without getting extradited to the United States. He's been stranded there since 2014. And that was after a U.S. federal indictment on the charges of foreign bribery. That was after a U.S. federal indictment on the charges of foreign bribery.

So he after he he's recently been meeting with Rudy Giuliani and his homies. Of course. And he has figured out a plan. So Firtash can help manufacture dirt on Joe Biden in exchange for clemency, basically, is what seems to be the exchange. Rudy, why can't you operate in silence? Right. No, he's not good at crime. I have never seen someone do crime so loud.

I'm like, turn it down, Rudy. We can hear you. Right. Well, he's, I think, drunk most of the time. Okay, that makes sense. That does make sense. And he, but yeah, so this has been revealed over the last few weeks. But the way that, so remember when there were those two people,

like Lev Parnas was one of Rudy Giuliani's bag men, basically, who got arrested trying to leave the country. And he randomly had like a million dollars in the bank and they didn't know where it came from so this is where it came from lev parnas's wife received five separate two hundred thousand dollar payments in september they tried to hide it and then they were contributing to pro-Trump politicians. So it's just like they're taking money directly from corrupt oligarchs and giving it to Trump. It's just like it's the most straightforward criming. They're just doing crimes out in the open. Do we know if this was an offshore bank account or was this their bank account in America? No, this was just his bank account.

They just put this in Wells Fargo? It was Lev Parnas' wife. Yeah, we had TD Bank. Put the crap money in there. Yeah. What? Yeah. This is Rudy Giuliani.

Here's the thing. We all know where there's smoke, there's fire. And literally all of Donald Trump's homies, including Rudy Giuliani's homies, are being arrested or have been indicted or have been charged. And yet we're acting like there's not crime going on. And what the hell happened to Rudy Giuliani? He used to be New York's mayor.

I was going to say, wasn't he like the savior? Yeah. He was there for 9-11. But he was always in it for the attention. Well, you know his daughter steals, so apple don't fall far from the tree, honey. Oh, yes. Rudy Giuliani's daughter got picked up at the store, honey, out here trying to get the five-finger discount. Oh, really?

Yes. She got that shit from her daddy, honest. Wow. Makes sense now. Yeah. At first, I was just like, oh, she's young, and you know, let's go. How old? She was like, let me figure out how old she was at the time.

That's amazing. Because his son, who was played by Chris Farley in a sketch back in the early 90s, currently works for the White House. But I'm sure he's world's biggest shitbag. He's the ugliest man I've ever seen. Rudy Giuliani or his son? His son. His son looks like it's Donald Trump and him had a baby. I'm not even kidding. It's actually crazy.

So, yeah, his daughter was 20 at the time and was at Harvard University. And she was in Sephora, honey, getting them glasses and getting them shadows. So she sold like five items worth about $100. I mean, but isn't that just the fact that she was at Harvard University is like. It's all corrupt. All the way up and down the whole fucking system is just corrupt. The fact that Harvard let in a Giuliani just because presumably. Yeah. Clout.

But none of this is going to get better. Like there's no, we don't, as human little human peoples, we can't fix this. What do we do? What do we do? Seriously. I just got my green card. What am I doing? Oh, girl.

Like honestly. It's like what am I doing? Like honestly. Wow. Sis, that was a mistake. It was. Harvard's endowment is $40 billion. Oh my God.

What the fuck are they doing? Why would we even think that they are not an evil institution? $40 billion. That's crazy. They're doing research, John. They're not doing shit. They're not. And they're associated with fucking Epstein.

It's just like the whole thing is, it's corruption all the way down. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about some fun celebrity bullshit. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks.

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okay what did she do? She said bad stuff. So she, some posts have been unearthed from when she was a child. Like 15? 15. And she's still quite young. She's still too old. She's still, yeah, it was like five, six, seven years ago, I think. See that? Okay, let's go on.

She said, I like racism. I do racism. Tumblr, ooh la la. That is funny. That is Tumblr. Which is crazy. To go down for Tumblr, you can go down for Twitter like the rest of us. So if you go on her Tumblr, there are several, I can't even count how many racist re-blogs and posts,

mostly having to do with Asian and black people. There's one where there's a woman who is, I guess, guarding a basketball, but the basketball has been replaced with a bucket of KFC. It's a white woman. And then there's a black woman guarding her with very large wide eyes underneath because she want that chicken. Right. That's funny. There's posts on here that say nigglet. There's one that is from do you remember that running game?

Temple or Temple of... Right. Temple Run. Temple Run. Yes. Except for it says run, nigga run. There's a lot of I can go on and on and on. There's like several. There's a lot of, like, I can go on and on and on. There's like several. So this is, I mean, there's a lot.

This isn't like one mistaken. Oh, I'm scrolling, honey. The receipts are, this is like a CVS receipt of racism. As long as you are tall. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. Sis got all the deals on racism. Okay, so what is she saying?

But she was what? She was a teenager? Yeah. Is this, come on, this is no. Can we read her apology? Yeah, let's read her apology. Oh, let's do. So she said, also her Tumblr was called John 316.

So it was like the Bible passage. Wow. For God so loved the world that he gave his only one son and forever believes in him, shall not perish. So it's her. Except for the Negroes. She's in the Christianity. In the Asian. She's in this Christianity thing for the eternal life thing.

She's like, yeah. And before you read this, I just want you guys to know that, yes, she is Latinx. She identifies as a Latina. But being Latina does not mean, it's not a race. You know what I mean? So there are white Latinas and there are black Latinas. And everything in between. And people forget that and think like, oh, well, this is somewhat of a minority.

And I'm like, no, she is still a white woman. Yeah, yeah. So she doesn't have a get out of racism free card. When I was younger, so this is her apology. When I was younger, I used language that I'm deeply ashamed of and will regret forever. I was uneducated and ignorant. And once I became aware of the history and the weight and true meaning behind this horrible and hurtful language, I was deeply embarrassed I ever used it. Sweetheart, you were 15.

Sure. I was deeply embarrassed I ever used it. Sweetheart, you were 15. And it's weird, because I don't like cancel culture in the way of, if you say something 10 years ago, you couldn't possibly have evolved and grown from your stupidity, because we all have shit that we had to learn. Absolutely. But for this, it was like, you had a passion.

Yeah. For bigotry. I mean, yeah. She went hard on this honey okay so how old is she right now 22 so that was 7 years ago

I mean do you know what I mean and I mean it was 2012 I guess she thought the world was going to end so nobody was going to see your vlogs but Camila Cabello has so much racist and hateful things on her page that if I was a racist and I was on Tumblr, I would follow her for her hot

racism. She was giving it. This one is, yeah. She was a reliable source for bigotry. She had a bigot blog. It's not like one bad statement or a couple bad tweets. A couple bad tweets. A couple iffy tweets. No.

Oh, wow. Why do Asians speak the Ching Chong language? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That was another one that she tweeted. Yeah, I'm glad you got to that one so that we do this. Because she wasn't just doing black people. She did spread it out.

She was equal in her hatred. Yep. Truly. God bless. Oh, my gosh. I don't know how you recover from that. You know, or should you? Do you know what I mean?

Yes, you're right. We, as apologies, and people are allowed to change. And grow. Wow. But I don't know if you have changed or grown. And I said this when we were researching earlier, because as a performer and actor, the first television deal that I signed,

I went on my Twitter, and I shouldn't say this this because people are probably going to go on my Twitter. But I started searching to see if I was problematic. It was the first thing I did because I was like, before 2014, we were all saying dumb shit. I was in college. I was in high school when I got a Twitter, which no one in high school should have a Twitter. And we all say ignorant shit. And I don't want to cancel anybody forever. But it's like, Camila Sweetheart, first of all,

them songs, not that great of bops. It's not. We already are truly that dedicated to you and your career. Please don't give us a reason to say no. Yes, yes. Now, on the other hand. She didn't delete it. God.

Yeah. Now, great bops. We're talking about one britney spears oh britney so you you were just you came in with were you listening to britney spears so i was listening to um express yourself by madonna oh yes madonna gets on my damn nerves but her music is still so good but the reason i was listening to express yourself is is because Britney Spears plays it a lot on her Instagram page. She'll use it in the background of a lot of her videos. I recently got on the Britney Spears conspiracy theorist wave that she is indeed being trapped by her conservators and cannot leave her home.

Right. She takes supervised bike rides around the neighborhood and sometimes goes on vacation but it's very sequestered supervised bike rides around the neighborhood is the is the least free sounding something i've ever exactly like that is not a leash right there's someone behind her on a um in a go-kart and you can tell by the way the video's filmed because sometimes you'll see the cart like you'll see parts of the cart in and out when they're filming her bike ride. But what has happened? Like why?

Because we know she's had some troubles. So her father, Jamie Spears, has her under a conservatorship, which normally they only last a year. And basically it's like if you display what a judge deems to be a severe amount of mental health problems and erratic behavior, then someone else can take over and manage your funds and manage your estate so you don't destroy it while you are taking care of your mental health. Right, okay, okay.

Yeah. So she is unprecedented in the length of time that somebody has had control over her via this conservatorship and also presumably unprecedented in the amount of money that is coming in that they have control over her via this conservatorship and also presumably unprecedented in the amount of money that is coming in that they have control over. And he has started to

dissolve some of her companies and make them his company. He's over there doing crazy stuff with her money. It's very... It makes a lot of sense. She's been working since she was eight. I was going to say. But she already had problems with her parents, didn't she?

Yeah. I mean, years ago. Yeah, stage parents. Well, so I think the children have a restraining order against the father, the grandfather, if I'm not mistaken, Jamie. There were some issues that happened with him and the children that really hurt her custody battles as well. Right.

Wait, with her children? Yeah, with her children and him. And her dad. Yes, and her father. Oh, no. So I've just been watching her Instagram, and it just tears me up. All her clothes are from 1997.

Very low-waste. Very, very low-waste. Low-wasted. Like, very. Does she not want to shop anymore? Is that what it is? Oh, very low waste. Low wasted. Like very. Does she not want to shop anymore? Is that what it is? Oh no, Chad. I truly don't know.

If you saw these rags, you might think she might not be able to shop. I do think that famous people freeze, like their conception of the world freezes at their moment of peak fame. Fair. So like that's why Michael Jordan dresses the way he does. That's why she probably still rocks the low-waisted clothes and barely has eyebrows. And I don't want to make fun of her in that way because it's not about that.

I'm more just deeply concerned with her well-being. Physically, she looks great. There's something in the eyes, isn't there? Oh, no. Yeah, it's a video of her twirling around with a huge stain on her shirt. Oh, God. It is. It is heartbreaking

because you're just like, what's... She's done a lot of good for us. She's a national treasure. It's very sad that this is, she's done a lot of good for us. She's a national treasure. And now it's just, it's very sad that this is what she's being tended by people. And I just, I wish she could just leave and just go somewhere small and start over and just let her live her life.

Poor thing. She recently posted, and TMZ reposted this, I think yesterday, that she was afraid to post anymore because of the negativity that was coming on her page from her post. But it really hasn't. When I scroll through the comments, it hasn't been negativity. It's been a lot of concern.

Right. And people just being like, sis, are you good? Are you okay? Drop the Addy. We will come pick you up. Right. Yeah. But she is kind of holding up the facade that she's in control and everything's good.

Yeah, but it's very obvious that it's not. There's videos on her page where she's like, just decided to try on some clothes today. I don't think she's allowed to leave. So now she's just in the house bored as hell. She was like, I guess I don't know what I'll do today. I just feel like a lot of it's like she's reading a ransom note. Do you know what I mean? There's a lot of that. I am doing reading a ransom note. Do you know what I mean? There's a lot of that.

I am doing very well. Stop. Everything is fine here. Stop. You know what I mean? It's that sort of... Right. In between every... She's like, hello, two, nice two, one, see you, four, five. She's giving her phone number like, please call me.

It's our code. Poor thing. Anyway. JK Rowling. We're just fire take after fire take. JK Rowling. So she is the first person I heard the term TERF used to describe. And that means trans exclusionary radical feminist, right? Yeah. I never knew the exact words for it, but I knew that it was for people who hate trans people. feminist, right? Yeah. I never knew the exact words for it.

Oh, no, me neither. But I knew that it was an anti, it's for people who hate trans people. Oh, no. Yeah. It's a bad word. So J.K. Rowling tweeted about somebody who, I guess, lost their job at an international think tank after. after so that JK Rowling was tweeting about somebody named Maya Forstater

who lost their job after a series of tweets including one in which she said men cannot change into women and JK Rowling it just this seems to be a recurring thing with her

where she just cannot and will not she just cannot and will not. She just really chooses to believe and express the fact that her belief. Well, what's crazy about her statement is, is that, yeah, men can't change into women. Trans women were born as women. Right. Yeah. So nice.

Right. Yeah. If you truly understood what it meant to be trans, you would understand that these people are born this way. Right. Yeah. Nice. Right. Yeah. If you truly understood what it meant to be trans, you would understand that these people are born this way. Exactly. And no one would willingly choose to take on one of the hardest, you know, lives imaginable and truly the most dangerous, especially for black trans women who have a life expectancy of 35 years of

age. Right. So it's just so deeply insensitive and so like exclusionary, you know, feminist to act as though that is not the case. Right. Yeah. So her tweet was dress however you please, but force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? Question mark. So, yeah, that's her. Her take is that if you support the rights of trans people, then you are stating that sex isn't real. JK. Yeah. You are looking real Slytherin in the light.

I know. What the fuck? And then she tweeted the hashtag, I stand with Maya. Maya, again, the person who lost their job for tweeting that men cannot change into women. JK, if you stand with Maya, we're going to have to knock your ass down. I don't understand what you think this is. Also, maybe just go write them sex Dumbledore books, girl. We don't need these tweets from you.

Yes. There's an ASAP Rocky sex tape in Better News. On a positive note. People seem underwhelmed, though, which is disappointing. That's the last thing you want if you're putting out a sex tip. Or if a sex tip leaks. Everyone's like, eh. Oh, no.

I want it to be scandal. No, you want people to slut shame you. You don't want people to be like, damn, that really ruined the fantasy for me. You want to be like, whore, rather than just like, yeah, that was only a play. Yeah, I would rather people call me a whore than to be like, ooh, I don't want to fuck Lacey anymore. That's exactly. Boring.

I don't want that. Yeah, yeah. Jeez. Yeah. And it's crazy because ASAP is so politically relevant these days. Right. He came up in the first impeachment hearings in Congress. Fashion icon.

Political prisoner. Truly. Political prisoner. hearings in congress like fashion icon political prisoner who was then freed by the trump administration i do i do respect the fact that i might be they freed him in order to get a endorsement from asap rocky and he refused to endorse Trump but got the got the yeah he was real quiet after he came back but A$AP Rocky has also said very problematic things about Black Lives Matter he has so black people are very petty and Black Twitter when he got locked up they were like oh unfairness and you're Black Lives I thought you I thought you didn't have to worry about that because you're in Beverly Hills. Black Twitter was so petty to A$AP Rocky.

I mean, obviously we want the man to come home, but we did give him a nice ribbing. So there was no way in hell he was going to come out and praise Trump because he already knew that our patience was limited with him. I'm searching for this. I want to see it.

Anyway, we'll look for that. I will. We'll check it. It's like a minute or something. I saw it. It's like you minute or something. I saw it. It's like you can't, the only reason you know it's A$AP Rocky is because he has very recognizable stomach tattoos

and hand tattoos. And he talks a bit in the video. Mostly it was an awes, but a little bit of direction as well. Like, come back here. You know? So who's, I've thoroughly analyzed it for you.

Is she releasing it? Like, what is it? You know what I mean? It's like. It was leaked. Nobody knows how it was leaked. Right. Yeah.

Okay. And like, and also the woman, good for her, is not, she's, you can't see her face. You can only see her booty injections. And everyone has those. So this could be anybody's injection. It could literally be anyone. I mean, it could have been me. I would love if it was you.

Yeah. Someone, I would not be you I need that sort of press I really do so there is a satirical movie on Netflix in Brazil I mean I'm sure it's on all Netflix but it's aimed at the Brazilian audience

it's a satirical movie that includes a scene where Jesus is given a surprise party by his family and friends but he's with his male lover. And, you know, that seems like not shocking that it might cause some controversy with religious conservatives, except for the fact that there was this same production company made a movie last year where Jesus was involved in like a hangover style thing where like they woke up the night after the uh last supper and like nobody knew where jesus was because uh everybody got so fucked up he's trapped and that was treated as like hilarious like a show or a movie in which Jesus is a sadistic, homicidal, hedonistic drunkard.

Everyone was like, ah, that's hilarious. But then when he's harmless and gay, everybody is up in arms. People thought that Jesus' hangover was funny. They were like, bro, you turned so much water into wine last night. Like, what? Yeah. But yeah, just let him be like a quiet, law-abiding citizen who happens to be gay.

And it's, no way! Oh, come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When are we going to stop with that? Right. Who cares? I bet that company thought like, okay, well, if we can do Jesus Hangover,

we could certainly do Jesus Hangover. We could do anything! Yeah. Because that feels like Jesus Hangover should have been across the line. Where did they find him? Instead of the roof, he was on the cross? I guess so.

Like, Jesus, get down from there, bro. What are you doing? It's like three days. Give me three days. Deborah, it's been a pleasure having you. It's been a pleasure here. I've learned too much. I'm scared.

I'm going to have a bad dream tonight, but I'll be fine. Where can people find you? Deborah DG, D-E-B-R-A-D-G. That's my, that's the thing because D-G-O-V-E-N-E is long. So finally, Deborah DG. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, you know what? I won't lie.

My bestie, Zach Noe Towers, I find him, he's a really good tweeter. And just one that I can't stop giggling about, the other day it was, ah, 5 p.m., time for my first sip of water. And that just made me giggle. Honestly, that truly came from my neck. That's amazing. We're supposed to drink so much water and we just don't. But anyway.

Lacey, where can people find you and is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yes. Okay, so guys, as usual, you can find me on my podcast

at Scam Goddess Pod. Yes, thank you, Dan. If you have any scams that you've retired because we don't want to fuck your bag up, email those scams

at Scam Goddess Pod at gmail.com. Also, D-I-V-A-L-A-C-I-D for Lacey Haney. And a tweet that I have been enjoying isn't actually a joke tweet, but the subject is very funny. So Nicole Byer retweeted that a couple is suing Lifetime after being called ugly in a Christmas movie, which used their family photo without their permission. And Nicole was like, ha, ha, ha, they was really watching the movie. Is that how it's in the back?

They were like, look how small the photo is. And they noticed that it was them. And then were like, you called us ugly in this movie? We're suing. That's amazing. But at the same time, I kind of respect that. I get it.

Yeah, I get it. Crispy Scream tweeted, tons of Star Wars discourse, but honestly, I don't think you can replicate the feeling of a movie where all the actors were on cocaine, the director was on cocaine,

and also low-key, just an idiot who made stuff up. And, of course, Prime Harrison Ford, parentheses, on coke. And Jelani Cobb was the one who pointed out Nancy Pelosi just impeached a president while wearing Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation outfit. So shout out to him. Nice. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

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Woo! Do you have a pick for us? Okay, so I love the band Portugal the Man, and I always listen to Portugal the Man, and I don't ever talk about it, which I think is bad because they're so great. And so I want to recommend this song. What are you so scared of, Anna?

I don't know. I just recently realized, I was like, I don't really ever express how much I love Portugal the Man. Like, every song they put out is a bop, if you will. No one else would describe it that way. But this song is called So American, and I thought it was a great way to end this horrible fucking year. Yeah, this is our second to last daily daily yeah so this is so american by portugal the man and i think it kind of nails how much we are just like so american dude so all right all right well the daily zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio

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