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Episode Date: September 17, 2020

In episode 717, Miles and guest host Laci Mosley are joined by comedian and My Momma Told Me's host Langston Kerman to discuss the federal government's Covid-19 vaccine plans, a group of Trump fanatics called 'Democrat Voters Against Joe Biden.' Trump's town hall, people continuing to get DVDs from Netflix, the Lady A lawsuit, and more!FOOTNOTES: Federal Government Details Audacious Plan To Distribute COVID Vaccine In Coming Months ‘Democrat Voters Against Joe Biden’ Group Has Trump Fanatics, a Psychic, but No Actual Dems Trump, in Philadelphia, Says He ‘Up-Played’ the Virus, Then Downplays It Trump’s ABC town hall revealed a president disconnected from reality Why Are 2 Million People Still Getting Netflix DVDs by Mail? Anita ‘Lady A’ White Countersues Lady A for Trademark Infringement WATCH: Amber Mark - Heart-Shaped Box (Lyrics) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Gotta stop. Oh, shit. Gotta stop. Smoking bloods before class. Hello, kids. It's your substitute teacher. I'm in here, Mr. O'Brien. He's off doing something.

I don't know what's going on, but you know what that means. I do have the DVD media cart behind me. I was a little confused because I only brought NBA bloopers volume four, but it's on VHS. So we'll have to find something to watch because I will not teach when I am the one at the head of the class. Welcome to season 151. Episode four of the Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. it's the podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared conscious subconscious and say officially off the fucking rip fuck the coke brothers as in coke industries fuck fox news fuck fondant on cake because it's a fucking waste it fucks up the flavor i don't know why it's there it's not to

make to maybe make shapes uh fuck rush limbaugh ben shapiroiro, Tucker Carlson, J.K. Rowling, all of them, everybody. Okay? It's Thursday, September 17th, 2020. I have had my Kirkland Signature cold brew, and I'm Miles Gray, a.k.a. I'm pot-blooded, THC. I've got a fever of 420. Miles Gray, do you do more than dabs? I'm pot-blooded, pop-blooded. Blow!

Okay, thank you to Hannah Soltis, at SoltisHannah, for that wonderful, aka, and I'm thrilled. Oh my God. I'm more than thrilled. I'm ecstatic.

And maybe because I popped Molly in the parking lot on my way into class, maybe that's literally ecstatic at the idea that i am joined by my guest co-host none other than from on high from mount scam limpus the scam goddess herself lacy mosley hey what's up it's lacy mosley aka the scam goddess aka okay y'all bear with me i don't know if i'm to be able to get through this. Your funds are all gone. Won't ever let you know.

Boy, you could never catch me. If you try, you'll be out of your mind. Hi, Beyonce. Why are your songs so hard? Oh, my God. I was there. I was there. Shout out to virgos all virgos it's our season the one time we will be extroverted about something is just about this time other than that we're just gonna be like oh that quiet person okay also very organized very organized or

sloppy as fuck like me i don't have that part you should see my desk it looks like me. I don't have that part. You should see my desk. It looks like I'm, I don't know, like I'm trying to channel spirits with the way I have these empty cans arranged on my tabletop. But I digress because, Lacey, we're joined by a first-time guest, but somebody who is, you know, actually part of the family, you know, on the Big Money Players Network. But also somebody who's in the family because they're a hilarious talented black creator okay this is somebody who uh you are you probably heard of them maybe you haven't but if you didn't now you will please welcome the amazing and talented langston carmen yeah i feel like i need a song i need i need a an intro Some remix of Busted Baby, perhaps. Oh, God. Don't do that.

Wait, listen. Did you see the Busted Baby television show auditions? I'm sorry. No, don't say that casually. You don't get to, like, did you see? When would I have seen that, Lacey? Oh, Miles, you haven't seen it either? Okay, you have to go on YouTube.

It's Plyiles Busted Baby. You have to watch it. Pliles Busted Baby TV show auditions. This happened when I was in high school. It was going to be a new flavor of love. And it's just a bunch of women auditioning. They're like, I love Pliles. If you want to be in the bushes, I'm going to be in the bushes with you.

It's the most ridiculous audition I've ever seen. It's very funny. How did I not know about this? How did you know about this? This isn't going to be something we're going to see you in, right? She in the background. That was a direct quote from Lacey's audition. This looks exactly like you.

This one was called Lacelle, though. I did not want to be a busted baby no no no wait hold on this is somebody talked wait i'll play a clip real quick this is her okay so this is very 2006 maybe yes okay you have to watch the whole thing and it's i'm excited i have weed and seven minutes and 28 seconds of free time so i will definitely be watching this later i love anyone leveraging a uh single song into an entire reality show premise that sounds fantastic to me i know that's that's

called that's a very very strong brand imagination and a team of flex greedy representatives who are like i think you squeezed the fuck out of this idea you know that mush mouth man let's make him the star of a tv show yeah exactly everybody wants to be with him i want to be mrs mush mouth uh all right well before we get to know youston, even better, we're going to tell people what we're going to be talking about. The feds have unveiled or at least outlined a potential vaccine program. We'll take a look at what that means. And especially, well, I mean, Langston, for somebody who hosts a podcast about conspiracies, my mama told me maybe, you know, we'll have some insights into

how people look at these things uh the fda what the government is trying to do because there's a lot of thoughts around this vaccine whether it even works uh for starters we'll also talk about this group called democrat voters against joe biden um which sounds like you you know, like progressives or leftists, but it's actually a group of Republicans who are really wanting to make something happen that just isn't quite there. We're going to take a look at that group because they have a very interesting background. Spoiler alert, none of them are Democrats. We'll also talk about Trump's massively successful town hall he had that was not on fox news so already you know that's um i mean i don't know if he can really take l's anymore but it was hard to watch we'll also talk

about the fact that two million people still like rent dvds from netflix like the discs two million people are still part of that program i had no clue uh and also uh the continuation of the lady antebellum versus the real lady a back and forth lawsuit uh because come on lady antebellum they're acting like trash and this lawsuit uh i think it underlines that uh but first before we get into all that langston what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? So I had a few things that came up that I was I was hesitant to share. And then there were some things that I felt more confident about sharing. I've been looking up a lot of pictures of Toni Braxton lately, in part because I got in an argument with a friend about whether or not i believe that she's been bleaching her skin over the years and uh i say yes the bitch looked different to me but she's she's a different shade than the tony the short-haired tony that i loved as a child but that that's

neither here nor there so there's a lot of uh there's a lot of pictures of tony braxton from 1994 and a lot of pictures of tony braxton now and me sort of correct uh connecting red string between the two of them gotcha this feels like a conspiracy theory well wait wasn't tony okay the lighting was different back in the 90s all right see this the bullshit come on now come on now that's why insecure was such a revolutionary show because they were like oh my god they put lights on negroes and they look normal the thing that insecure did it was help expose light for darker complexions it wasn't that you made you look more light skin back in the day that's i don't think that's really what the technological improvement was and listen i i once watched a 2020 special where tony braxton was spending twenty thousand dollars a month on lip gloss i don't believe that this is somebody

who i could put yeah she went bankrupt spending insane amounts of money on like a very trivial item she had gucci plates oprah literally was like i don't have gucci plates why do you have gucci plates tony she was like because i did that song with dr dre that one time and the point is i don't know that this is the person who makes reasonable choices she married birdman or at least attempted to she's she. There you go. She's not the person that I would necessarily put a lot of faith in to not Sammy Sosa herself for no reason at all. Has she ever spoke on it?

No, I'm probably her only accuser. I'm probably the only person who cares enough to go digging into the research of what's happening to Tony Braxton. Right, right, right. Langston started a website on GoDaddy. No, Langston, you are a Lil' Kim truther in that you say Lil' Kim has had no work done. No work done. Yeah, exactly. She's as gorgeous as the day she showed up on this earth.

That's what I say. That completely debunks your Tonyony braxton theories because we know little kim is on her fifth face she is on her fifth face jokes lacy of course but but tony please call in let us know also how much how do you go through 20 fucking stacks worth of fucking lip gloss in a month yeah i it was a wild uh what's the most expensive lip gloss lacy i don't know probably pat mcgrath pat mcgrath chanel ysl they can go up into the like 40s 50s for a tube okay so i could is it feasible that you could use you could go through a whole fucking tube in one day?

Not a day, but maybe a couple days. If you're doing appearances and you're going lots of places and getting retouched all the time. And then not to mention, like, lip glosses, you'd be losing them house. You know how many lip glosses I've lost? You know how many times I pulled my couch back and I was like, oh, damn, all of my belongings. Yeah, you found 20 grand worth of lip gloss right here. A Tony Braxton amount of lip gloss. Yeah, maybe she's just really absent-minded.

Not that she's bad with her money. She also just doesn't take responsibility. She's like, I don't know. I'll just buy another couple cell phones every day. And she's a black woman. We got big lips, okay? Until Rihanna, they weren't even making a swab for my lips that wouldn't have me painting my shit like this old house. That was the first time I saw a swab that went across my whole lip and i was like what normally it's like a little teeny one you gotta just paint all day

langston what's something you think is overrated uh you know what i was thinking about and uh this is more just uh coming from there's been a lot of talk about tate's cookies as of late and i think they're fantastic cookies they're a good thin cookie but i think they're a little over celebrated if i'm being honest people are really going uh crazy for tates in a way that i don't care for it feels like we're we're moving delicious chunky thick cookies out of out of the conversation i don't like so thick cookie erasure with the embrace of tates i like my cookies with some curve you know what i mean and i'm not gonna let them do that to to a big old chunky cookie you don't like the thin crispy wafery cookie that's what it is it's like a church wafer cookie yeah it's a cookie from jesus and i it's

good i like it but it's not i just don't want us to go to go too far with it if you so what are you so i'm what you know what's the word on the streets what are you how are you seeing it from your perspective are you seeing a lot of people are there's just too much excitement around you there's been some chitter chatter in a way that that feels like people are overdoing it a little bit right and this isn't obviously one of the more important conversations that i'm seeing on a daily basis this is an essential for me okay well i'm glad you're invested yes because i don't want to talk about systemic racism again today tell me about the fucking takes on tapes it was either this or children locked in a pizza restaurant so for me i was gonna go with uh tapes cookies yeah i think

that their secret is it's just they're so fucking greasy like they're butter you know what i mean like they're that's when you eat you're like oh fuck you know like this is i can't put this on top of a legal document uh yeah it will ruin it uh but there's something about it that yes i think early on i was like okay cool it's fun and then you know you kind of got to keep them sealed or else they can go stale really quick and then there's nothing worse when like someone disrespected the bag you know back when we had office culture and shared food bags i'm not going to name names but bags of tates would be left open rendering them stale and not having that tate x factor but sure we've

moved on that's why you know shout out to preservatives in the end because there was like an entomans cake that we ate that we had the lid off i'm not joking for like 18 days and the shit was as fresh as the day we opened it shout out to preservatives and it will be your end but in the end shout out to him i guess but i love him you know i don't know how it was almost like a thrill be like hey you want to take a bite of that coffee cake i bet it's stale and lo and behold chemical j. We don't need more thrills. I don't need you biting into Dale's 18-year-old cake. Yeah, you're right. Going outside is a thrill when you're black.

You're like, am I going to come home? I was just talking about how much I try and animate my eyes more behind my mask to be like, hey, don't worry, friend. I'm just walking by with this black mask on. See, that's dangerous because then they might claim you have a mental illness and shoot you for that.

That's too real. Langston, what's something that you think is underrated? You know what's exciting? I saw this today that Maya Moore married the gentleman that she helped get out of prison yes that they're they're like together now and that's hell yeah that's underrated as fuck that's exciting that like she's out here not only getting black men out of jail but committing to them and making them making them hers forever I love it it. That's some 90 Day Fiance. I mean, yeah. That's a show.

Love After Lockup. Yeah. Do you watch Love After Lockup? It's trash, man. I watch 90 Day. I don't watch Love After Lockup. I watch 90 Day also. I got to step my game up for Love After Lockup.

It's kind of hard because dealing with the prison system and then using that as fodder for reality feels very exploitative. You know what I mean? that as like fodder for reality feels like very exploitative you know what i mean like on on people like who are completely disconnected from that world might be like oh i can't believe it and then other people like like this person just got he was they were in they were in for 10 years they have a lot of adjustment to do and that shouldn't just be like he doesn't have they have terrible communication skills it's like this man has been in a super max for 10 years yeah he hasn't uh said how he really felt for nine and a half years maybe it's maybe it's that that's making him struggle with his ability to communicate but maya moore i mean she is you know

considered one of the greatest and wmba players and she took two fucking seasons off to be like i have to dedicate myself to freeing this man yeah and it turns out is because they they went together but also because she was genuinely committed to uh the liberation of her people and i said release bae and everybody right y'all can all get out but he gotta come first oh man but yeah what a what a yeah definitely underrated the wmba just keeps dunking on fucking everybody like on a daily basis yeah truly they uh when the miami it came out recently that the miami heat after all of like the cool stuff the nba did of like taking a step back from playing basketball to bring awareness around police brutality and sort of the things that are happening and the

miami heat's decision was after that to give money to the police department so that they could better train their officers and it's like all right y'all y'all just silly i don't know how we can fix this but shout out to the wmba they don't do goofy shit like that right right right well that's because when you get famous as an athlete you are kind of above the law so when the police like pull you over they're like oh hey can you sign this for my kid and so you start thinking no police are nice because they're nice to me but wmba don't have that luxury because they don't know no shade they don't know who they are when they get pulled over for the most part unless you're a famous was like you're just a tall lady who i uh

don't like oh man and finally lason a question i think very very appropriate for you what's a myth what's something that people think is true that you know to be false i don't oh i don't know if it's false i'm not actually 100 sure but it it feels like a a thing that i want to to unpack yawns are they contagious i don't i don't know like why why is it that when i yawn you yawn like it you know what i mean what's happening here talking about it i'm gonna fight it i'm not gonna be uh i'm edging i'm edging i'm not gonna be trapped no i actually can't get it i can't get it because i want one of you to yeah i was hey you got me edging though yawn with the, with the yawn, with the yawn. Not edging on a yawn. Edging on a yawn.

Is that how you get high now, Miles? Edge on yawn? They're like, have you seen that dude? He's just at the bus stop edging. What do you mean? Like, with yawning. It's weird. He just kind of half looks at the sun.

His jaw is just like. He's just standing real close to people and clenching. I thought it was the mom, but it's just edging on the yawns. Yeah, I don't know. I think there there always there had to have been a thing i feel like that was one of those early weird stupid science book things in school you would read and be like look at this picture of a person yawning doesn't it make you want to yawn but i wish i could uh let's see contagious yawning is triggered involuntarily when we observe a form of echo phenomena the automatic imitation of another's words or yeah see once they start

adding phenomena to stuff y'all lying there's no science in that you just like it happens sometimes i don't know we haven't really studied it you know ask ll cool j it's something like a phenomena that's how you said it. He was like, phenomena. Something like a phenomena. Yeah, I heard it. Already. Yes. Alright, well let's go take a break

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that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere starting September 25th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back and thank you to the def jam group uh for allowing us to do that cover cool jay's phenomenon um like i said it's marketing you know what i mean a lot of a lot of these younger kids don't know him as ladies love cool james they know him from fucking what's what does he do like lip sync battle is that his other show he's the light-skinned terry cruz that's less problematic that's that's honestly fair that's a hard way a little there's a lot to unpack a light terry cruz less okay a little less buff a little less uh self-hating but yeah but not without some self-hatred not without the all the the way

better catalog of music though oh yeah terry crew's music sucks terrible terrible yeah the terry crew or whatever that was called it was not it was i was not wait he really made music no no he didn't oh my god i'm such a ditz today i was like i do like the idea i hope i love the idea of his his beats being strictly the sound of his titties popping. Yeah. Like the old Spice commercials. Against the table and then a bongo. You know what I mean?

He just makes different titty sounds and then raps over. Yeah. Like just a shitty version of grinding. Okay. So let's talk about the federal government who apparently they've got a plan for all this covid stuff. So they've outlined how a potential vaccine program would be administered in the US. And great. A lot of people talk about the vaccine is sort of thinking, OK, yes, the president needs it to get his numbers up.

Obviously, he wants to just say, like, look, I got the vaccine. I can go back to work. Wade slaves go start the fucking revenue up or great impression thank you so much i've been working on it a lot you know i've been i actually i pay anthony atamanik like 400 an hour to workshop it uh people saying he should get my money back but i don't know i don't know doesn't sound like a scam to me not at all and the guy looks like anthony so i don't know i don't know doesn't sound like a scam to me not at all and the guy looks like anthony so i don't know probably him uh so first of all 50 of americans are skeptical about any kind of vaccine you know involving this administration just as a general rule they're

like this place i don't know about all that uh then on top of that in general right to effectively protect the country from the covid uh experts say that we would need like around 70 and above 70 of americans to either be vaccinated or have just like their own natural immunity to fight off the virus so okay so we so we have half the people who are like, I'm not fucking with this in any capacity, yet we need to get to 70%. So we've got some work to do. And also in another AP poll, it said one in five Americans said they would not get a coronavirus vaccine at all, just at all, aside from not trusting the administration. And 31% said they were unsure. So an uphill battle.

the administration and 31 said they were unsure so an uphill battle uh and it's odd too because we're doing this in a country where trump needs a vaccine but also his rhetoric is so anti-science that even like it's mixed messaging to his own base it's a very odd you know uh balance they're trying to you know achieve here that just doesn't seem possible yeah and i mean when you think about like the tuskegee experiments and all the experiments that were done on black folks you know i don't know many black people who are willing they've they're actually been talking about the trials and clinical trials and how it was hard to get african americans to participate and it's like we're not gonna be to listen y'all go first and then after y'all go after a few months maybe we gonna pull up but not first i mean ivanka said i think joy behar someone challenged ivanka trump to like come get vaccinated on tv yeah if you think it's so good and she's like i

will gladly accept that's where they bullshit you because you don't know what's in that vial. Yeah, exactly. That's placebo as fuck. And she's going to be. Look, she held up them Goya beans, though. Those were real Goya beans. Those were placebo Goya beans. They were filled with sugar.

Those weren't real. Oh, my God. She doesn't. Anyway. So this is how sort of like the plan. They see it unfolding that most of the vaccines that they will be providing will be. You'll need to have two doses, either between 21 to 28 days apart. And they say that it could be several vaccines from different manufacturers that are approved and available.

So, OK, I guess that's good. okay i'm i guess that's good here here's my uh biggest issue with this is that they are now presenting a vaccine in relation to politics instead of in the window that they promised a vaccine was realistic when this shit first started so what we initially heard was vaccine would take a year to a year and a half minimum like that's the fastest that they in march in march right and now six months later they're like hey dog we figured it out and it's like no you didn't and whatever this is is not going to be good for me and could be massively dangerous and or destructive to everyone around me so i'll wait till the window shows up next june

holla at me i'll start talking about a vaccine but right now no i'm good and we've all watched too many television commercials to be duped by this like for it to be something that was developed in such a short amount of time there just isn't possible that there have been enough clinical trials for all the side effects to be identified you know what i mean we've all watched a commercial and it's like you got restless leg all right take this pill your leg will stop shaking but maybe you'll die maybe your heart will clog maybe your skin will fall up like you know what you're gonna get diarrhea that's a given now what flavor diarrhea is up for grabs but you're gonna get diarrhea diarrhea you're bleeding i don't need all that other shit

no you want your leg to stop shaking, your ear going to bleed. But your leg will stop shaking. And that's some shit that they tried, that they went through all the checks and balances to get it as perfect as they possibly could. This is something they're rushing. So y'all really, like everything's going to bleed. All my orifices. And Trump has destroyed his credibility with that because i

mean when hydrochloric came out he was trying to push that on everybody and injecting uv rays and disinfectant so it's like he does not give a shit if it kills people i think that's what gives people this distrust yeah and that's what's also sucks right because even us as people we're not trying to be anti-science and say vaccines don't work we're unfortunately operating in an environment where trust of like even the cdc or fda has been so diminished that we even have to look at them like crooked like huh are you are we sure like but who told you to say that because you've said all kinds of shit now and now i don't know what to think and i don't know who is telling you to say what and it's unnerving because this is all

amidst this chaos and uncertainty yeah i i think it gets even more complicated when you take it to the micro level too because so much of this is being administered by people who oftentimes are irresponsible with the way that they administer stuff on like you're just you and your physician type relationship right like there's a massive history in this country of like you know people being forced into like being sterile like being made sterile because their doctor decided they weren't responsible enough to have children like you giving me this vaccination before it's clinically tried or before it's fully prepared is is not only a possibility, but also a high likelihood for poor people that they just want to test this shit on for their own pleasure. they have like there's you know there's tiers to how they're rolling it out right so the first tier clearly will be what they are the protecting you know essential workers broke vulnerable groups yes like the working class and those will be the means sacrificial essential yeah like if you die

that you know it means for the cause essentially you ain't being paid shit if you would have told me before this started that five guys employees were essential that they were the essence of the way that that our country runs i'd be like get the fuck out of here but apparently they're the only heroes that are left that's yeah and i think that's another reason why again people just sort of like the politics involved on top of it all i just want to add this is all under the program of what trump is calling operation warp speed that's not even a fucking joke but that's funny that's i know it's funny it's like it's like almost be like okay well i don't even have to think about this one not gonna nope sorry i've said it a million times.

I'll say it again here. He's by far the funniest president we've ever had. We can't make jokes because he's already made them. He's already made all the jokes. The man is hilarious. It's like you beat me to that one, too. To everything. But Miles, you brought up something that I think is interesting when you were saying

that there are possibly going to be like a two prong vaccine where it's like one is taken, administered, and then 28 days later you have another shot. And then you said other companies could be providing different types of vaccines. That to me is like such a huge window to open up for classism. Because then it's like what kind of raggedy ass vaccine you got to get when you live in the hood? You know what I mean? They're like, yeah, you come down here to the Walmart and we stab you one time and you die. And then you come back four months later. Like, you know what I mean?

Because even with the coronavirus test in Los Angeles, it was so hard to get them sometimes at Dodger Stadium or more like kind of mainstream places where they've been heavily gentrified and the population has been taken over by white people. And so sometimes when I got a coronavirus test, I'd have to go to like the west side which i love but like some areas in the west side where it was like a little more you know like run down and they didn't have the same test everyone i knew was getting a dodger stadium was getting like the nice mouth swab and i was getting like my brain fucked in in compton so i had to drive all the way over there to have the massage on, you know, my damn. It's true.

I mean, and it's true. People will probably be stunting with the kind of vaccine they got. They're like, oh, broke boy. You got the generic. I mean, people already stunt on what kind of lean they sit. So I have a feeling you will be calling out which vaccine you got to like there will be tears to it. And I think that's the other part that's really concerning, too, is some of them will need special handling like refrigeration and freezing. So I can also see the massive potential of maybe some of the vials not being, you know, handled properly and they're like oh well they they're even seeing that with the testing

right that like so many of the tests that they're discovering are like either either through mishandling or just through like false negatives that like they can't they can't be certain that you do or don't have the coronavirus even as they're testing you so to presume that they can somehow eliminate the coronavirus by giving you this injection feels false certainly uh nine months into the journey well i mean i i do maybe this is just a good time to pivot to this part because the president he did a town hall on abc which as we all know is not not Fox News. So whenever I mean, he can barely fucking keep his shit together on Fox News without just imploding and saying some shit that makes no sense or completely like missing opportunities to just articulate his platform and a vision for what another administration looks like. another administration looks like um so for him to go on abc and do a town hall in philadelphia with undecided voters i think everybody knows you could just say that's a mistake there that's not gonna that's not gonna go well when you have people who now at this point i don't even know

who the fuck is actually undecided but i would damn sure pretend to be undecided to ask this man a question on tv because a few people did uh you know ask him some very direct questions but specifically since we were just talking about the vaccine george stephanopoulos asked him about like what is going on with your idea of how the coronavirus is going to be handled and what his outlook is. And here, just fucking listen. And we are going to be okay. We're going to be okay. And it is going away. And it's probably going to go away now a lot faster because of the vaccine.

It would go away without the vaccine, George. But it's going to go away a lot faster. It would go away without the vaccine? Sure. Over a period of time. Sure. Yes. And you'll develop like a herd mentality mentality it's going to be it's

going to be herd developed and that's going to happen that will all happen but with a vaccine i think it will go away very quickly got to take a quick but i really believe we're rounding the corner and i believe that's true as you know he's really said without a vaccine and in the over period of time and then stefanopoulos says yeah and many deaths like yeah you mean just like naturally just letting it ravage the country if the fire is burning down and like the fire department pulls up it's like yo put it out you know it's like the door is just on fire right now it's like oh it'll go out the spanish flu yeah when it burns up the whole fucking house the'll go out the spanish flu yeah when it burns up the whole fucking house the spanish clue the spanish flu killed 50 million people and if we're lucky

we'll have the same journey through the coronavirus that it'll just wipe out massive massive amounts of people and then suddenly we'll all be fine and never have to worry about it ever again yeah and that's basically what donald trump's saying he's glossing over the fact that yeah it will go away after so many millions of people die at least five million people would have to die for us to achieve herd immunity and we are talking 60 to 70 percent of people contracting the disease and then you're talking about the percentage rates i've been on a very deep dive about this but i do love herd mentality herd mentality because i'm like man that's why you're not getting money because you don't got that herd mentality herd mentality phrase because i'm like man that's why you're not getting money come on brother wake up your your mentality ain't herded yet yeah exactly you see you're not running with the herd you heard it's not fuck what you heard it's what herd you're in you know what i

mean donald trump has gone full dr umarar Hotep. And it is hilarious. I love it. So, I mean, and on top of that, right, black and brown people, like, across the board are the ones bearing the brunt of this virus. Two-thirds. And this lack of actual containment of it. And you look at Los Angeles, over half are Hispanic. It's just, this is what it is. It's tearing through it's very easy for republicans and like the older white people of america to be like i don't know what's going on

i don't know anything about it but many other people it's very real and so at a certain point uh you know this is a question for donald trump in a town hall to be asked a question from an undecided voter uh who i don't believe this this young man was uh undecided but they were all nonetheless yeah but he was like look yeah because the black people asking questions they pulled up with a different kind of energy um and like the blicky yes exactly and the face tattoos uh but like the whole thing with this guy asking hey um you know what, what's with all this MAGA shit? Tell me when it's been great for black people. And this is a good moment to see Trump go have to directly answer a question about his views on what the experience is like for black Americans. You've coined the phrase make America great again.

When has America been great for Africanrican americans in the ghetto of america are you aware how tone deaf that comes off to african-american community okay he is not undecided first of all just like that he started off like that but you know what credit to you got to go in there to ask this man these questions he might be deciding if he's gonna move to ghana before the boat but uh i don't think they would give us a birth certificate I don't think they're gonna give you a birth certificate I don't think that's how that works but they were going to offer dual citizenship to people who could uh make their way there yeah if you if you want to move to Ghana and you can commit to, like, I think building, like, resources there.

Like, you can't just, like, show up and be like, hey, I'm a citizen now, fam. Oh, got it, got it. But if you're, like, down to clown with Ghana, then they'll give you dual citizens. My dad is, in fact, down to clown in Ghana. He built a house there on the beach, like, 20 years ago. Okay. Hell yeah. I've been to ghana yo ghana is fucking dope though it's beautiful and oh my the fucking there's just fruit fucking growing

everywhere it's the most beautiful place i've ever been uh and yeah my mom's moving there and uh she wait seriously yeah she's moving there and she ain't getting vaccinated. She just turning up in Ghana and like starting a new life. Yeah, Ghana's beautiful. So everybody explore that option now. I need your mom's number because it's getting real. Hey, you can have it. That lady's wild. I'm going to start doing Hollywood movies, okay?

Fuck acting in Hollywood. Right? I'm killing Hollywood. Those hand-painted African movie posters of you? Oh, I love that. Yeah. Okay, so back to this question, we digress. He was saying, when has America ever been great for black people? Well, I can say this. We have tremendous African-American support. You've probably seen it in the polls. We're doing extremely well with African-American, Hispanic-American at levels that you've rarely seen a Republican have. If you talk about make America great, if you look at just prior to,

and I'm talking about for the black community, you look just prior to this horrible situation coming in from China when the virus came in, that was probably the highest point. Home ownership. Okay. Then there he goes. Can't really speak directly to it. He said polls. He did the thing where he tried to tell a black person what the vibe is like in his community. He was treating this black man who asked the question like a white political operative.

I love it. His answer was like, I don't know if you've seen the polls. It's like, yeah, to someone who's disconnected might buy that and be like, Oh, what did the poll say? But he's like, what the, who are you talking to?

I'm living the polls. I love the energy of being like, Hey, you were winning before that Chinese man came and ruined everything. Like, Whoa, you're not going to make me racist. Cause you right.

No, fuck you. Turn me against my mother, Donald Trump. Y'all got the travis scott meal at mcdonald's black people are living good what do you mean the burger the the the bacon looks like his braids this is this is winning if i've ever seen it oh shit so then the president goes even even further to demonstrate how disconnected he is because that that answer was not sufficient, especially given the age we're in, given the history of this country.

And Trump further underlines his ignorance to a time in which we cannot identify with such greatness. And I mean, you've said everything else about choking and everything else, but you have yet to address and acknowledge that there's been a race problem in America. So if you go, well, I hope there's not a race problem. I can tell you there's none with me because I have great respect for all races, for everybody. This country is great because of it. You call it a virus, the China virus. So many African-Americans have filed lawsuits against your unfair housing practices. You've gone on record talking about how you only want Jewish people to count your money. Like, you took out a full page ad in the New York Times for the Central Park Five.

What? Children, children. Children, little babies meanwhile kyle rittenhouse everybody's like you know see he was 17 he made a mistake his mama drove him over you know we all had an ar-15 and murdered some nice white people who were fighting for justice because they were white i want to bring that up because i feel like they don't get enough time in the press there were some nice white men that kyle wright kyle rickhouse murdered and it's not right well again i mean it's it's wild to see how often the well white boys will be boys argument to the point where it's murder in the

streets now you know what i mean like yeah all right well before they're like yeah sexual assault i don't know their prayer their predators will be predators and now it's like well murders will be murders but also young boys too so let's also extend our empathy in that direction that's a good meme though predators will be predators and then you got you got a predator like the the predator from the movie just sort of shrugging you know because he's being himself you're gonna do what do you want me to do yeah sorry and when i get scared i become invisible it's something my therapist and i are working on is just a way to protect myself from this i chop people's heads off in the jungle that's my thing what do you want from me that's all i want i don't care about money or anything

else like that that's just the one thing am i so bad then i leave people alone and it's people who just fuck around my area anyway they shouldn't be around here anyway i also just want to touch on this group also because since we're talking we're in the midst of an election apparently uh where people are undecided or some people are deciding how racist they want to be in public uh but there is a group out there called democrat voters against joe biden you know because there's anything republicans and the right love it's that big candace owens yay energy of them exit leaving the democratic party i realize now it's a sham or blah blah blah and you know there's some truth to that uh given like how you know incremental and the glacial pace of reforms from politicians on the left that actually uplift

communities of color. But that's a whole other episode and mindset to talk about. That's on our other podcast, Herd Mentality. So this is more of this other thing where there's this other group out that's actually legitimately called Republican Voters Against Trump. And we've seen this. There have been plenty of people who are like, I've voted Republican all my life. And we've seen this. There have been plenty of people who are like, I vote, I've voted Republican all my life. I actually can't say I drew the line at like racism or sexual assault or whatever, you know, the myriad of reasons to be put off by the president is, uh, and that's been gaining a lot of traction. And there's a lot of like prominent people who are behind that. So then like this group started popping up on Facebook over the summer, Democrat voters against Trump.

And all they could come up with in their first ad was like one tired ass video of some man named Tracy who lived in Phoenix. And then when people started digging around for this guy, it turns out this man is named Tracy Chavez and his son is a field organizer for the Trump campaign. this and his son is a field organizer for the trump campaign and then by looking at his son's posts and things his father tracy has been a trump supporter since the 1980s he tried in the 80s he would like mention he's like yeah he was like i've been all in for him before any of this wow they don't know when he's registered as a democrat they don't know this timeline but this is this is the weak ass attempt that's a bottom bitch if i've ever heard of one he he holding his man down that's like when you fought like when you start liking someone's music that's like when i loved the weekend's house of balloons and i was like

i love the house of balloons and now the weekendnd's making all his pop star fake Michael Jackson music and I'm like, y'all ain't real. Right. It's the same sound. You just gotta listen right. And it's like, no, I don't think so. I think those are different. It's not making me cry in traffic with an erection.

That's what House of Balloons would do. You'd be like, fuck, bro. Damn, I'm horny instead at the same time? I don't know how. Because high for this, I remember I was single. And that shit, I was like, I was in my mind. I'm trying to manifest somebody to be on like at a concert with just grinding on.

I'm like, this is what I need. God, please deliver me this. And then my mom would be like knocking on my door like, what are you doing in there? I'm like, nothing, man. Listening to this new album. I just started college and i was super sheltered and so it was like the first like music i heard where people were like talking about cocaine and i was like oh you know what's funny to me about the weekend is i don't even believe he does cocaine he's too much of a cutie pie to actually be the things that he claims to be. But it's good music. It's believable somehow that this soft-cheeked boy is out here doing cocaine and hurting women emotionally.

I mean, it's just savagery. The shit like, man, I left my girl back home. I don't love her. And she'll never fucking know that. It's like, whoa. Okay whoa okay oh you can't say that in falsetto yeah put some bass in there and then let's talk it's beautiful nice that i'm staring at okay sorry oh my god am i emptying out my car? OK, so where are we talking about? Oh, yeah. The election. So this group, Democratic voters against Joe Biden. When you start digging deeper, it's just a bunch of people who are just big Republican fans, fundraisers, just nobody who's even close to rejecting uh the democratic party it's all just operatives

basically doing their best it's so bad and like they're so desperate to copy the actual style of the republican voters against trump the language on the website is almost literally verbatim copied and pasted from the other from the republican version uh or the republicans against trump site and then they just changed obvious things to make it so that it was Democrats against Biden. And this is where it gets funny, though. On top on the board, right, is this guy, just a few people, some dude who's like in bottled water in Arizona, that kid whose dad is in the video, some other people. Then there's a man named John Michael Capaldi. And you're going to like this one, Lacey, because they're like, who is this man on the board?

What is his background? Capaldi's past ventures are considerably more unorthodox than his foray into politics. This is from the Daily Beast article. Quote, he describes himself in his Instagram profile as a, quote, internationally known celebrity, psychic, life coach and stylist. End quote. A resume posted to his LinkedIn page lists Capaldi as an employee of Nicholas's Rain Tree Media. That's another person who's working in this group. He's an active member in a number of philanthropic and cultural initiatives in Arizona.

It also details experience with the supernatural and the occult, noting his participation in a number of, quote, ghost hunts and his experience teaching classes, including, quote, exorcisms done right. In an interview on Tuesday, Capaldi said he, quote, stopped working in that world. And the reason I did is too many people are doing it. And unless you have a TV show, it's not fun, end quote. Oh, man. Get you an exorcism that could do both. You know what I mean?

Oh, I love that. Exorcisms done right. I thought he was a scammer who was just like, the industry's too saturated i know it's too many robberies happening i can't i'm supposed to stand out amongst all of this yeah ghost hunter reality show guy like that is such a specific energy but also like anyone in entertainment can kind of feel that. Unless you're on a network, what's the point?

There's no stimulus package for scammers. They're not getting unemployment. I say this all the time. I really argue that scammers are hurting the most and robbers because everyone's at home. How are you going to burglarize when everyone's at home? They need a stimulus. They're not getting it.

I realize why he got out of that industry. That makes absolute sense. Oh, speaking of scammers, there are people who are abusing the unemployment. Because I've been getting so many overpayment notifications of somebody using my address to collect that shit. I'm like, hey, I don't know, bro. Holy shit. No such thing. The government's been scamming us for forever.

We've been paying for wars. We don't even get no updates. I'm filling them out on their behalf. Like, yep, bro. Holy shit. No such thing. The government's been scamming us for forever. We've been paying for wars. I'm like filling them out. I'm filling them out on their behalf. Like, yep, I look for job this day, this day, and this day. There you go. I'm like, hey, keep it. You're a very kind soul. Just keep surviving.

How many trillions of dollars has the government robbed us of to take us to fake wars? They don't give us updates. They're not like, this is what happened in Baghdad today. We don't know. We're not getting any quality assurance or results or you know what I mean? No, no. We don't know if we're not getting any quality assurance or results or you know what I mean? No, no. We don't know if we're in the red in war, you know? We had a good day in war

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And aside from just checking, let's just check in with the war report. Okay, it's fucked. Back to you. We do want to check in with the millions and millions of dvd consumers on like the netflix subscription package there are two million people who apparently are still getting

their dvds mailed to them i did not know this i know my mom i saw i caught her doing it and then i shamed her months ago but i get it for like people who like really niche things i i know that people still use it but i had no idea it was two million people are still on the books i guess i wonder how many of them are genuinely still returning and receiving dvds and how many of them are just signed up and don't know it anymore like netflix ain't gonna update you like hey bro we're charging you an extra ten dollars a month because you wanted dvds they're just gonna let you be signed up for the shit um well i thought apparently like it's pretty active because there are people just who are signed up specifically for that like not even the show yes they're they have revenue they're getting in the hundreds of millions of revenue

from people who just do dvd don't even fuck with the stream damn that's crazy now that's that's insane just like what's going so when you look at it there's all this information so people have different reasons right for like i saying, selection is one thing. There's a lot of shit that I'm sure you've tried to find. Like you can't watch In Living Color on streaming anywhere. Like you'd have to rent the DVDs. Is that on DVD? Because I got that on tape.

Yeah, I used to have the DVDs. I used to have the DVDs. I definitely have seasons one through four on DVDs somewhere in my mom's garage. Actually, I'm lying. It wasn't In Living Color. It was In Loving loving color and it was the first time i accidentally saw porn oh wow wow the guy was like i'm arsenio balls and then no it was yes it was i swear arsenio wasn't even on in living color i don't know why that happened i don't like inaccurate porn parodies yeah that's that's clearly a white writer who was like they all black in the 90s go ahead put

them all i would hope that black writers are getting the porn writing job there was no like jamie cox there probably was i pulled the tape out because i was afraid i think i think that's fair there's we've we've gotten enough diversity in hollywood let's get some diversity in some of these vegas uh rooms you know what i mean in some of these these porn hubs i want porn hub to have writer diversity oh wow they have a black lives matter hell yeah oh you know they they do it's probably some weird there was all like i remember for a while people were doing like protest porn where that was like a thing people were vibing on,

like people in masks and like protest signs. Yes, yes. The internet moves too quick, y'all. And my connection speeds are too quick also. So the other thing is internet speeds are also actually a factor for the people who are renting DVDs. Because if you live in the rural part of the US or you have a monthly data cap, you can't just be streaming all the time.

Your shit gets throttled because fuck that. Honestly, that's a whole other conversation about throttling people's internet speeds. This is less fun if we're laughing at poor people. This is more fun if they were just idiots who didn't know that you could stream. No, no, no. These are all different versions. OK, yeah. I'm not like and then and shout out to the broke people with rural Internet.

I'll be sometimes I just keep shit streaming in the back. I haven't touched like a CD or a DVD in a long time. But I wonder, like, if you're renting it, no one's responsible. So if you're renting from Netflix, are you getting that joint and it's, like, got skips in it? Or, like, you know what I mean? Remember skips? Yes, I remember skips. I remember the and one basketball player skipped to my loo.

Also known as Rafer Alston. Fantastic. Also, who did play in Professionals. You know, shout out to him. He did make that jump. Orlando Magic. Yeah. Shouldn't be, you know, undercut.

I think that's significant. But back to the DVD scratches and skips, I'm pretty sure like that was part of their whole process. Because I remember I remember back in the day when I did get Netflix DVDs. I think the last thing I got was like a Michelle Gondry music video anthology or some shit because I was just getting high watching music videos on loop. look it was it was 2000 um and that was sort of the last time but i remember like when it was scratched you would you would tell them and they would immediately send something back and like oh check on that but i don't know yeah they were good about it but i can't imagine they're as good about it now like why would they had a whole staff that was servicing dvds all the time now who gives a fuck like well the other thing is blu-ray so that's another reason people use them is because you also have the like the video audio visual nerds who are like i don't like the compression in streaming movies you can see the artifacting and i don't like that um and

people just need to make peace with the fact that blu-ray died it ain't happening it's not it's never gonna happen you invested in floppy disk and floppy disk is over so move on and get a regular fucking dvd player if you're gonna what about iomega zip drives those should still be those still work right because i got a i got a half a missy elliott album on one i need you to let that go have you heard super duper fly on iomega zip drive it is jarring i remember that was actually an enhanced cd that album remember enhanced cds i don't know what's an enhanced some album some albums cd you could put in your like disk drive on your computer and it would bring up actual content on your computer.

I do remember that. Miles, we're not that far apart in age. Were you just like the oldest little soul? I was. Exactly. Coming this fall to Fox, the oldest little soul. He's like, y'all remember the crank xylophone? That's how I listen to Superfly.

What do you mean you don't remember old Victorolas? Come on now. Now stand still. I'm going to take this daguerreotype of us. You got to stand real still or else it gets blurry. I hate a riff that I can't join in on because I don't know stuff. Bygone technologies. It's really not a good one, I'll be honest with you.

technologies i don't it's really not a good one i'll be honest with you uh okay so finally uh just to touch up on you know touch on lady a versus lady antebellum if everyone remembers that one week uh where powerful white people were making nice gestures to act like they were on the same page in terms of addressing racial injustice in america you will remember the moment that lady antebellum was like whoa whoops uh i mean we knew the name was referencing a real shitty time in american history but uh now with all this lack of intentional ignorance around racism i guess we're gonna have to do something about this and we'll just go by lady a and that's what they did they changed their name to lady a uh rather than full you know going full-throated lady antebellum uh and but here's

the problem right and we talked about this at the time there is a woman named anita white she's a black blues singer from seattle and she has been using the name lady a long before these pinterest looking motherfuckers found their conscience okay they tried to work out a deal first because it was clear to everyone that this big name band was changing their name would absolutely affect the original lady a's career so they were like oh you know what yes let's let's have a meeting let's try and work something out that didn't go well apparently because in the end they sued lady a and people like what the fuck happened why did you come out of that meeting being the bigger, obviously the bigger act, and you're now suing this woman? And it wasn't for financial restitution.

They basically just wanted the court to assert their right to also use the name. Basically like, shut up. You can't sue over it. Just leave it alone. Just accept it. 100%. So she said, then I want $10 million. How about that?

That's not bad. That's why they sued. Because she said, if we're not going to work something out, if you're not going to acknowledge the hit that it takes. For example, the SEO. When people search Lady A, when you change your name, I used to be the only fucking thing that came up when you searched Lady A. Now, nearly everything is about you. You've erased me from the ability to like sell my work. So she was like, just let's just call it 10 million and then I'll feel I won't feel bad about it.

And she was planning on giving half of that money to Black Lives Matter organizations. And she was just like, whatever, let's let's if you're really about it, let's do it like that. And I'll and I'll leave you alone. So now she is countersuing because she's like, no, I'm not going to let them fucking sue me to let go of my right to have my name as an artist. So in her suit, she is saying that she's suing all the members along with their LLC and saying that, quote, she has nationwide common law rights to the trademark Lady A in connection with music and entertainment services, et cetera, et cetera. And that her ownership of that predates any rights that the Lady A people allegedly say they have. So this is getting a little bit more escalated. But this is what she said at the end,

like when they first had their first sort of disagreement with each other. She said, quote, if they are in fact allies, they have the resources, they have the money, they can change their name. It wouldn't cost them a dime we have to remember the reason for the name change if that wasn't the true reason for the name change then none of this makes sense i think that it's true i've been saying it couldn't be more true i've been saying this for months i think they should have just changed it to lady n word and uh had it made it nice and clean for everybody we still know you're racist but now you're you're not bothering anybody who already has a name that belongs to them right your first

band name was lady jim crow and now you're basically trying to be lady jc it's like we still know what the a stands for and also if you were doing this in any kind of concession to black people and black lives you've completely negated that by ruining a black woman's life like if you care about black lives then you have to care about them on an individual level and also on a macro level so the fact that you're suing this black woman to try to change your fucking image from racism means that not only are you super fucking racist you're here capitalizing on the system that oppresses black people in order to look good which is basically what liberalism is in the first place. It's like, oh, look, we don't say the N-word and, you know, we hug trees and we – I have one black friend.

We'll push this woman out. We make Chad uncomfortable all the time. We're like, Chad, you're not really black, but he's our black friend. You know what I mean? It's like this is the same notion that we're so goddamn tired of. It's so addicting. He nailed the shmoney – I think it was the shmoney dance he did. It was something of. It's so addicting. He nailed the shmoney. I think it was the shmoney dance he did.

It was something else. Real fun. But yeah, it's true with this entire thing, right? The whole point, right? For all people who want to be good allies, right? There's this issue of creating space and making space for people. And for Lady Antebellum,

by basically encroaching on this woman's identity as lady a you are not creating space you are pushing her out of it if you were creating the space if you're trying to be you do right you would change your name to something completely different that wouldn't intersect with someone else's career and their fucking back so please uh reconsider but i don't know this is probably gonna end up being some kind of just piss contest that uh ends terribly for everyone yeah i don't know i i hope she i hope she prevails i i really do as well but i have a strong feeling that uh she's gonna lose in this and that's uh even more frustrating because it's like a woman who spent, who's older and spent her entire career building an identity and building

resources on her own is not like some, like, you know, a nationwide popular performer, just a lady. Some people knew is now going to lose everything to a band that uh i could name more than one song of i don't know uh yeah i don't know yeah but they got so there we go there it is yeah they got the money and they have the lawyers and unfortunately that's another way

people win in the legal system just say i'll outspend you legally and then i'll drain you and then you won't have a dime anymore and then you'll give up and then i win yeah and then we'll use the courts to do that and i'll dominate you that way anyway with all that said langston thank you so much for joining us on the daily zeitgeist what a treasure what a treat i'm so pleased to have been here oh man the pleasure was all ours uh where can people find you and follow you and you know what let's talk about uh your your podcast a little bit yeah tweet you like i you can find me at uh langston kerman on all platforms instagram and twitter please don't find me on facebook i'm trying to get off that motherfucker and uh you can uh listen to my podcast it's called my mama told me it's about black people

and conspiracy theories and i just talked to to my friends and we we talk about conspiracy theories we may or may not believe and uh we mostly create mayhem and nonsense it's great there we go uh and is there a tweet that you like from somebody out there that you want to give a shout out to? Oh, hell yeah. Here's a good one. My friend, Marcela Aguayo. She's very funny. Very funny.

Oh, yeah. Stand up. Friend of the show. Friend of the show. Apparently, that's what I'm hearing through my headphones. Friend of the show. She wrote the other day, men will forget your birthday, but we'll remember all caps when they spell mf doom's name and that that shit cracked me up oh man the respect yeah that that was pretty funny and also like you told

everybody keep an eye out like i out like i i captain lacy where can people find you follow you support you listen to you on that other network? And what's a tweet that you like? Guys, as always, you can, if you like scams and you like comedy, Scam Goddess Podcast, you can follow Scam Goddess Pod on all platforms. If you want to follow me and my shenanigans, D-I-V-A-L-A-C-I Diva Lacey on all

platforms. And a tweet that I've been enjoying, I'm so, so sorry because I don't know who wrote this tweet and I can't find it um but it's a picture of a black man and his son and they're doing laundry and then the caption says okay so we're gonna put like six or seven dryer sheets in here because black people like to season their laundry that's nice i love that uh you can find me on twitter and instagram at miles of gray and also my other podcast for 20 day fiance you know it's getting high talking about 90 day fiance right sophie alexandra

uh it's one of the great shows it is the number one podcast about 90 day fiance that's hosted by a black and knees guy and a bisexual ukrainian jewish woman uh who smoked weed and grew up in the los angeles area in the late 80s and 90s um but that's very specific but we are on the top of that chart some tweets that i like the first one is from molly lambert at molly lambert she said proud of la for being so unwelcoming and difficult we got joe rogan and ben shapiro to leave. Yeah. All right. Thanks. Good on them. Ben Shapiro went to Nashville because apparently it's not as wet out there.

It's definitely drier climate, and I don't have to worry about my wife's condition. Oh, wait. I have one more tweet. I'm going to give Yasser Lester credit for this. Yasser on Twitter says, dang, today was wild. I'm going to Postmates me a big old dinner tonight to feel better. Me every single day since March 11th. Oh, man.

Yeah, sometimes you get, yeah. I felt very attacked when I saw that because I told you guys, I don't know if I told you on here, maybe with Jack, but I went outside to get Postmates the other day and my neighbor was like, dang, that girl gets Postmates every day. I was like, what? He said it out loud? Out loud to his girl. And I thought I was being crazy, but I turned around and looked him in the eye and then he stopped talking. So I know he was talking about me and I was like oh okay i'm ordering postmates every day am i depressed or am i rich that means that you're like you got somebody shut the fuck up you reached a point where your your postmates ordering feels like an addiction to him like

that was he was talking about you like a crackhead. Do you know what I mean? Like, damn, that lady's still doing that shit. I'm a single black woman in America. I just need to have as much Postmates as I want. There she goes, nodding off again on the corner right there. Stop scratching your neck, Lacey. Leave it alone. Breaks your heart. Breaks your heart. You're fiending.

See her throw all that money away. I guess the residuals are pretty good, though. We might have to rob her. Don't worry about what's going on. I'm like, if she's getting Postmates every day, we might have to go through that apartment. Every day. So many tips. Hold on.

Hold on. Jessica Simpson? What's going on here? Listen, I went to the grocery store, okay? Because I was feeling ashamed. Yeah, do what you got to do. You know, live your life. We're all trying to survive every way we can.

Another tweet I like I just want to say is from at the underscore red dot. Oh, we all know her. Guest of the show. Friend of the show, fan of her work. Her tweet is, my ass is so flat that all my farts sound a little disappointed. That's pretty good. Wait, are we all doing multiple tweets? Because I got some others that I like. Okay, hit me with another one.

Okay, hell yeah. I don't even know how to pronounce this name. It's just something I saw on the internet. But at A e m e j e y'all know how to do that anyway me me me afima g i think is how you do it but uh somebody said uh miley was 16 when she released the climb and then they were they replied back gohan defeated Cell at the age of 10. And I love that. That's just hard facts. Shut your dumb ass up.

Don't nobody care about Miley Cyrus. When Gohan out here doing the hard work. I can't. Don't even get me started. The erasure of that. I mean people don't realize. That was an epic battle. Come on now. And I don't know if people are too caught up on Frieza. I don't realize. That was an epic battle. Come on now.

And I don't know if people are too caught up on freez. I don't know. We can get there the whole other time. Although I will say, I always wanted my hair. When I have my little curly Blake Blazin hair, I always cut it so I could look like Trunks. Oh, did you? A little bit of trivia about your boy, Miles. A little bob?

You had a little bob cut for yourself? A little middle part surfer cut. You know what I mean? Oh my God, not the middle part. But it was like wavy as shit and look i look like i had a fucked up perm it was bad trunks was a very specific type of person and i don't believe he was in fact asian in any form yeah we're black so it wasn't i had a weird look going on like people thought i was like a thai cosplayer or something. I don't know. Anyway, you can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. Thank you, Lacey. Footnotes. We got all of that. Oh, thank you. Where we post all of that and plenty more.

And I guess we could go out on a song by the weekend, but my blood pressure is too high right now and i need to give myself a break but i do want to play this cover by amber mark uh she's fucking fantastic uh you know singer songwriter this cover that she does of nirvana's heart-shaped box has it's it's just it's spooky but it has like flavor to it it's not often I'm like check out this you know woman of colors cover of Nirvana track but this is something else and I think you should check it out all her music is fantastic

I think recently did a cover of thong song that's very soulful but Amber Mark with heart shaped box check that out and we'll talk to y'all later today with some trends and then tomorrow and all that. So peace and blessings. Talk to you then. Bye. Hey, hey, I've got a new gun play Forever in there to your priceless device Yeah, forever and ever and ever, yeah In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles,

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