The Daily Zeitgeist - Gaetz Gate Gets Grimy, April FAILS Day 4.2.21

Episode Date: April 2, 2021

In episode 849, Miles and guest host Joelle Smith are joined by rapper Illingsworth to discuss the Matt Gaetz extortion scheme, student loans, MLB All-Star game possibly leaving Georgia, the Alamo Drafthouse, a Newsmax reporter's lame weed story, Volkswagen' April Fools joke that went wrong, and more!FOOTNOTES: Documents detail wild alleged $25M Gaetz extortion scheme A year without student loans: What the past 12 months of halted payments have meant for borrowers across the country Biden Cheers On MLB Potentially Moving All-Star Game Out Of Atlanta Over Anti-Voting Law Can Alamo Drafthouse Battle Back From Bankruptcy and Lead a Moviegoing Revival? GREG KELLY I SMOKED WEED IN KY, WOKE UP IN AFRICA!!! Claims Hilarious Stoner Tale VW accidentally leaks new name for its U.S. operations: Voltswagen 'Voltswagen' was just a joke — but VW better hope regulators see it that way, too Volkswagen admits its name change was an April Fools’ Day prank What is the meaning of ‘Petit Colon’ as Volkswagen ad is pulled for being racist? Volkswagen made a racist ad. Here's why no one got fired Volkswagen could end up in hot water over its 'Voltswagen' marketing stunt WATCH: Uh Oh, Trouble - Illingsworth Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My name is Miles Gray, here we go again with jim crow going down the only road i've ever known by a racist i was told i couldn't vote and i made up my mind I'm telling the side Okay, so, you know, White Snake, that's a good, that's not just a clever band name. White Snake. Shout out to Nico, at Nico Mantha for that. Yeah, reminding us that it's Jim Crow. The 1.0, the beta version. It's a back and we have to press back.

Anyway, thank you for that. And more than, more than that, I am thrilled to be joined by my co-host today, who's just been fucking solid. You know what I mean? I can throw the lob up, and I know she's going to catch it and fucking smash it. I don't have to even look. I can be sloppy with it. And she's always coming through to hold it down.

Got that rebound. Exactly. the look i could be sloppy with it and she's always coming through to hold it down got that rebound exactly please help me welcome the brilliant the talented the hilarious the incomparable joelle monique hey okay two things one uh i wasn't prepared for a sketch at the top i didn't know we were doing skits i almost hopped in like lauren hill and did like a miss education style thing i was gonna be like teacher, why did we make up into violence today? This is wild. Also, I don't have a song today, but I'm going to check the Discord.

So if y'all are in the Discord. Oh, yeah, exactly. Throw that up. I'll look around for it on Monday's show. And I'll sing you a song with my name in it or something. I got to get into that. Yeah, try to step up up my game I was told Jamie always comes prepared with the song and you know Jamie's a homie but I can't let her beat me either so yeah and don't worry yeah and we'll have full production on there you'll sound like fucking Quavo by the time without shoving

Sweetie in the elevator I was like Whitney Houston right I care he? I care. He said Quavo. Did you see Quavo, that thing where he shoved Sweetie, that video that came out? That was in North Hollywood last year. I was like, what the fuck are they doing in North Hollywood? Quavo put hands on Sweetie? What? Yes. There was a video. I think he, I haven't seen it, but they said there was an altercation in which he shoved her.

Yeah. What? In North Hollywood. Who can you just type straight into the internet? Yeah, your fingers have flame shooting out of them that is oh son you deserve to get your ass beat um i hope somebody meets him with that exact same shoving energy i'm glad that she got out of there i'm glad she flamed him on the way out like embarrass his whole self like his mother probably had secondhand embarrassment off of what she did um wow yeah all right well anyway just a little bit of just a little bit

yeah just a little bit of information to start off but look let's not digress we need to introduce our guest today joelle somebody who a few few weeks ago a guest is like you don't know about this guy you should have him on. This motherfucker, he's a genius. You haven't heard his fucking music? What the fuck's wrong with you? And I said, whoa, whoa, okay, I get it, I get it. We'll definitely have this man on.

Cut to, I'm listening to the music. I'm fucking snapping my neck so hard, I'm about to send him a chiropractor bill. Please welcome our guest today, the brilliant and talented Illingsworth! Hey, hey, hello, hello. I'm here. Welcome, welcome. All the way from Detroit, Michigan. Thank you for having me. How's the weather over there? Oh, it's weird. Like yesterday, it legitimately was like, you can go outside in just a hoodie.

And then overnight, it began to snow. Oh, shit. Oh, no. And now the snow is melted at least where i live it's it's a bizarro world it's very strange yeah you gotta love a midwest spring man you know is it raining sideways is there snow uh is it 88 degrees for no damn reason it was 40 yesterday it don't make no sense out there wait you can you can have swings like that? You go 40 to 80? Oh, yeah.

Easily. Easily. Sometimes in a day, Miles. Sometimes in a single day. Yes. Like the morning will be 40 and then you're like, it's 80 at 5. This is why we invented layering, right? This is why we have to have the coat, the hoodie, and the t-shirt.

Just in case we experience all four seasons in the span of 24 hours see my california ignorance is showing it's not it's not 72 the whole day nope oh man that was that was a trip when my parents are like did you check the weather i'm like i don't check the weather i live in los angeles okay it's mostly warm take a sweater in case the sun goes down it's more like air quality that you have to be aware of. You're like, is there a fire? And am I breathing in ash?

There's so many days I've just come outside and be like, oh, that's just ash on the ground. Oh, well, gotta go to work. Yeah. I've been times I'm like, oh, look at this cool little leaf on my car. And it was just a fully ashen leaf that had kept its structural integrity and like landed like a whimsical Forrest Gump feather that is so sad and beautiful but sad

the moment you touch it and it goes that's when you're like then you're in the end game 100% I'm still saving that movie stop it stop it for real?

you watched the entire season of Behind Her Eyes, but you have not seen Endgame? Is this the truth I'm hearing right now? I never saw the whole season of Behind Her Eyes. I thought you watched the whole thing. I've heard you guys talking about it. No, no, no. Jack did. Jack did.

And when he said that other shit, I was like, what? It was wild, bro. The thing is, I get overwhelmed when I miss too much class. So after Ultron was the last Avengers film I saw. And then, you know, life kind of comes at you in different ways. And I wasn't I'm more of an X-Men person than overall Marvel. Like that's I gave all my money to Jim Lee. He was drawing X-Men.

But like so that's like I'm a little myopic with like you know my marvel love a little bit so it just didn't but also what happens is then the franchise gets away from me too far and then i have to become contrarian yeah well i didn't really fuck with that anyway yeah what happened yeah what i'm hearing here excuses i just want you to know that d3 plus is like a smooth 5.99 a month 6.99 somewhere in there okay so sorry to my homie chris who set up my own little my own little r2d2 yes that's what i tell you they said you could have seven accounts and they don't need to be in your home i said who needs it i handed it out like i was like get it take it take it yes because here's the thing i am the kind of person who has to talk about a movie when it's finished

okay so all my homies need to also be able to talk about that movie when it's over watch the stuff so now i'm here to tell Miles, you could just watch all of those Marvel movies right there. When one's done, it tells you which one to watch next. It's really easy. If Ultraman you haven't seen any of Ant-Man's, which are comedic gold. No, but someone I

used to date was in one of them. Fast forward through their part. I was like, no, good for you. Go ahead. No, it was a supporting background. Featured background. But they let you know. And hey, that's something. Classic Hollywood story.

Featured background player. I love it. I'll do it. And then you know what? Then we'll have to. I'll come back to you and we can have a post-mortem. I just want to know if you have the same reaction. Because I'm sure you've seen the videos of the reactions after Infinity War.

I mean, I get it. I know, like, shit's going on. But, like, I think the closest thing I know is I remember when Kamala Harris and Stacey Abrams came out the portal to save Joe Biden to win the election. That's in the movie, right? These memes have gone too far. I'm so sorry that this is gonna be this is what they were referencing i see how aoc fits into this got it got it got it oh man we'll circle back to this conversation later we're gonna talk let's put a pin in it we'll put a pin in it

and ailing's worth we're gonna talk we're gonna talk your head off in a second but first you're gonna let people what we're gonna talk about uh there's more texture to that matt gates story that we were talking about yesterday that it just got weirder and now iran is there's an iran angle to the thing so we'll talk about that talk about people you know what they're doing you know we don't have student loan debt what that frees you up to do what kind of burden that lifts off your shoulders and you know maybe we can use that to say maybe we just need to cancel it all outright you know maybe there's a that's a good plan uh then we'll beg major league baseball to please preserve our democracy and give our offerings to the uh diamond uh as well as talk about movies movie theaters opening up what that's going to look like we're going to talk about

a white guy's idea of what smoking weed is and a volkswagen april fool's day prank gone so fucking wrong that it's hilarious and so i don't know maybe the prank it's a meta prank on themselves uh but first ailing's worth yes the man from the glove yes tell us something from your search history that uh reveals something about who you are um well this relates a lot to some of the other things that i think you guys are going to ask me but like a thing that is always in my search history is nexus mods.com specifically the fallout 4 section i oh i love the game fallout 4 it came out in like 2015 i think and i've been playing it ever since and uh for those people out there who don't know

a lot of these games that you can get on pc you can get uh user-made modifications for them yeah so i'm like i'm like always on there like downloading characters and costumes and people make a whole like storyline mods where you can add more to the story and oh wow they try to make it like fit into the lore and I really geek out about that so I'm always checking. So it's like basically fan made DLCs that you can keep expanding and expanding.

I'm tethered to the console world where they cut you open and bleed you for all your money because you want to get a funny hat for the homie in Valhalla. I'm too poor for all that. I need those. I think

I bought a DLC like once. Okay. Look at this noob out here. One purchase of DLC. I bought the entire expansion pack for The Sims like a chunk. I shouldn't have. You're smart. You're not old and smart, Miles. I'm not wasting this real money on fake things a fucking video game has cost 60 yes yes you know what i mean yes six

zero and it had everything you needed there so then when we got to all this other shit they're like you i'm you want another 30 from me for what no they make it good like when i know homes i said can i get a smaller closet so that my character can actually use the product in the space allotted it was like it was mind-blowing and now somebody has gifted me a a computer like a p an actual pc so i can now get on what illy's doing and i i i haven't set it up yet because i'm like, will my life be consumed by this? Will I ever get a beat? Just let it happen.

Will all my nights just, oh, man. Let it happen. Because I've looked at those Black Sims mods, okay? I've seen the natural hair mods. And I'm going to need all of them. I'm going to need the twist and the box break. Can they change, like, the fake names, the fake words so it has a little more flavor? So it's not like, and you're like, oh.

The Simletch. fake words so it has a little more flavor so it's not like and you're like the similar just kind of little sort of inflections that oh we can kind of like i think he said i don't know i'm a fan of expansion especially when they get famous people to come in and sing their songs oh yeah when hayley williams sang uh misery business in simlish i've 15 year old me oh my god it was amazing is that that one that goes that's that one right yeah yeah all right hayley we see you and the other yeah i you know the one thing that has got me sort of my head turned is when i saw like some of the the great mods like gta because look i'm waiting 900 years for the new one but like when they're like hey man you can we'll do ray tracing and shit with this. I was like, that shit looks good.

Anyway. So, good on that. So, shout out to Nexus Mods. You know, sponsor the show. Sponsor Illionsworth. It's a free commercial. What is something that you think is overrated? Overrated?

Oh, man, I got too many things. Good. Planning is one of them. Oh, man, I got too many things. Planning is one of them. I think the idea of planning and organization is highly overrated. And I think it's been illuminated by what we are experiencing now in the pandemic, because I'm sure just like many of the listeners, we had lots of plans that we had made about things we were going to do and goals we were going to achieve. And then this pandemic came and swept through. It was like, nope, don't do that. Pivot everything and stay in the house. So are you thinking you'll come back to planning eventually? Well, I never really was a person for organization and planning. So now I feel like very validated and seen. And I feel like people are really coming to my side.

And maybe once we come out of this, I'll have more people on my team that can wave that flag. Start a church. Are you anti-planning because there's divine and just experiencing, just randomly experiencing? Is that more your vibe? Or is it just the idea of trying to put something into an organized like this is how things can happen seems like ridiculous yeah i think more of the latter like i've and just through experience of just trying to like set things up to happen a certain way and i've just had the i guess the bad look or maybe not even bad look i've just had the

experience of things not coming to fruition too many times in a row so like planning who needs it let's just get out there and see what happens let's just do it there's versions right because expectation is the you know the the seeds of disappointment and frustration or whatever so i think expectation is one thing and having a vision for yourself but like not tying it to like a time frame is good because i used to that's how i've been able to navigate my own life like without saying like you know i i know people were like i will do this by october 2018 i'm like okay get the fuck away yeah that's a little too intense yeah like you're fucking up the site you were rapping about how you shit your pants as an adult um but like but like the

whole thing with that is like yeah of course have plans for yourself but don't be like don't be brutal with yourself either like it's like walking towards a mountain you know what i mean like i know we all want to get to the top but as at least if you're taking a step or two a day towards that shit then you're good don't don't don't be a tony robbins type of person though that's a little yeah that's too much yeah in terms like don't be an abusive yeah that too yeah 100 don't do that um yeah because let's be real like he's scamming people and he's just psychologically tormenting them he's like this is gonna make you better okay thanks but to your point of like saying like now people are like coming to your side

where you sort of like yeah exactly that's what you get a little bit for having a birthday a little bit a little bit because i feel like i would be like kind of telling people about what the types of things i go through all the time and they're just gonna kind of be like oh that's too bad or whatever and like now they really like you feel it it's it's different when you have to feel it yourself rather than just hearing somebody talk about it you know yeah it's the uh experience teaches us so many lessons yes it does uh what do you think is something that is underrated underrated of erectile dysfunction i think erectile dysfunction is underrated because if you think hard enough about all the negative things that have been precipitated by erections,

it's, it's almost obvious, like the quest for power wars, assaults on people's bodies. If your dick stops working, go teach a kid how to read, uh, go start a nonprofit volunteer at a soup kitchen.

Like take, take that energy that you were wasting and put it towards good okay each one teach one when the dick stops working if you had a beautiful vision of doctors being like you know what we're not gonna try to cure this anymore no we're gonna drive men to be better human beings okay this is a divine intervention your dick stop working you go go do good in the world okay i have a double-edged sword though you know i feel like how many people with that toxic sense of masculinity then go on the other side and you're like what's wrong with that i hope not something else i have i have a friend who has said more than once like if if my dick stops working just kill me i'm like no dude stay alive

and like plant a garden make an urban garden also yeah also please make your existence more than if your blood flows to your penis yeah yeah that's not i mean honestly like look if that's his measure for like quality of life what does he look like to people who achieve things he's like how the fuck that he's like the dick work i don't give a fuck about no lebron james winning a fucking right he got all those rings but does his dick joke yeah he's got the rings but what about that thing is it working is he with the shits or no okay sir please the toxic section is over there please let that go please as a non dick haffer this is the greatest conversation ever this is so funny i mean yeah like you know

i really want to give y'all something that truly that i truly think is underrated like you know i want to dig deep yeah yeah 100 we appreciate that see that's why the listeners come here and we avoided talking about shit, which is normally what will happen sometimes. Now we're going there. Well, maybe that might be a song we go out on later. You'll be very surprised. But yeah, let's take a quick break and we'll be back to talk news after this. Hi, everyone.

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Right. Okay. Let's now talk about. Sorry, I'm going to slam the brakes. Because we have to talk about the actual music. Oh, yeah. No, it's sad. So the Matt Gaetz thing.

Yesterday, we walked through the investigation, how this other conniving schemer guy basically got Matt Gaetz also the attention of the Department of Justice and now he's being investigated for possible child sex trafficking charges. And then he went on Tucker Carlson and many other

outlets. He's like, I'm getting extorted by this former DOJ official. And my dad wore a wire to expose the plot. Well, so shit's getting like real or fake. I don't know, because someone in his orbit or camp has provided and I'm going to use scare quotes documents, too. And I only use that because they were given to the conservative outlet, the Washington Examiner, that, quote unquote, prove this extortion scheme. So I'm going to start by saying this. I'm taking these documents with an entire nine pound bag of sea salt because nobody has confirmed the veracity of these documents, but also no one has denied them.

So either way, we know that the gates team is putting this out there and it could be like this may be something closer to the truth or it could be another step of them digging a deeper more fucked up hole to try and make this shit look like something it isn't either way i let's just operate on the assumption that what they're saying is somewhat truthful. So basically, this whole plan to the extortion thing was like, look, if you give us money, we'll make the investigation go away. The whole plan here revolves around a CIA officer that went missing in Iran over 10 years ago. His family thinks that this man is dead. And I believe the United States government told his family they believe he's dead. These goons who are like trying to con

or whatever, real goons or not, they've told Matt Gaetz's father that he's actually alive. They have new two proof of life videos that prove this. And if they give Iran 25 milli, they will release him. And then Matt can take the credit

for his release in order to get a pardon from joe biden for being a hero is the logic here and if that's where i'm like this doesn't make sense right because well um so okay okay okay typically when a country has like a military hostage aren't they like communicating government to government? Like, hey, we'll trade you one of our guys for one of your guys. Prisoner exchanges are normal, I think,

in those kinds of contexts. Instead, they got a senator's dad to do... Some dude who sold a pharmaceutical company to give you $25 million to pay his bail it's okay that's what so let me just so they they have a screenshot of this word document that they printed and they they're calling this whole i don't know why this is the other thing they they

sent them a word doc with their extortion scheme on it with like and it's formatted and it's the name is called project homecoming this is how it reads okay and this is why i'm like oh what the either these motherfuckers are dumb as fuck or these other motherfuckers are dumb as fuck but somebody's dumb as fuck this says the facts of project homecoming are described below congressman matt gates is currently under investigation by the fbi for various public corruption and public integrity issues. The investigation being handled by the Public Integrity Division of the Department of Justice is being managed out of the Washington, D.C., blah, blah, blah. The FBI became aware of compromising pictures depicting Congressman Gaetz and an election official involved in a sexual orgy with underage prostitutes.

There's no such thing as underage prostitutes, for the record. That's not a made up fucking term. That's a for the record. That's a made-up fucking term. As a trafficked child. As a trafficked child. In Maitland, Florida, during an unrelated investigation, blah, blah. So we've never heard anything about these pictures. Matt Gaetz has brought up these pictures twice now. And I don't know what is actually going on, but this is, it's, I don't understand why this is just all they're saying

this is what's going on then you do it then we'll free him and then joe biden's won you know what this is sounding like so okay you know how q and i was like on this date we're gonna take over like scratch that they know the plan now so it's actually this date and things just kept changing the further things go out and like it's always sort of situationally connected to a top official and with a like child uh trafficking ring and then there are like maybe money exchange but not and maybe a dead guy but this feels like some internet bro was like maybe i could get 25 million dollars if i took these guys these lawyers that they're like they're accusing have been trying have been really interested in this

cia person so i think that much i think is somewhat confirmed but it just feel it the i just don't understand the logic it's like your dad paid iran to get this cif served freed so then joe biden will pardon you from your sex trafficking charges like if i'm distilling it down to its worst like its most basic parts i'm like this is like the worst rube goldberg machine of like trying to get something to like this yeah this is like a five- five year old made up this whole plot. It sounds honestly sounds like some shit I would do. Like when I was in high school or junior high and like I lied about something. Fuck it. I'm not to make I'm not to create a threat against me.

Yeah. And then parade that around, hopefully, because I'm a little bit smarter than like my older parents. I don't know how to check the date created of this word document. They won't know that I just made a 10 minutes ago. Yeah. It's like one of those things where they let you hang yourself with your own rope like i'm just gonna let you talk as much as you can and just just make it work yeah so either this is some something something is true throughout all this we just don't know which one it is and it's just getting more and more strange so uh we'll we'll put a pin in that since yeah i look forward to seeing how that's gonna play out i think tomfoolery is a play but we're gonna we'll see

i mean either one someone is so fucking dumb either the the attempted extortionists for like using times new roman 12 point double spaced it looks like a high schooler would like here's the title and it's centered and it's bold then over here and it's double spaced between paragraphs it's a weird formatting like it doesn't make sense it's like a high school student in like 2002 though right and also like there's also there's also quotation marks within quotations which isn't really following mla format like you should go bring that down whatever it feels like it feels messy like it's it's it's not yeah i it's yeah and and on top of it it's like the subject matter is so dark so it's like what the fuck are you because either way i don't i'm

just it's so confusing uh and i think this will this story will just keep evolving as an aside you know uh matt gates said he's like oh well maybe i'll just quit and i'll go to newsmax and then he started telling people he's like i oh, well, maybe I'll just quit and I'll go to Newsmax. And then he started telling people he's like, I've got offers from OAN. Who else? Fox News. All the scoundrels. You name them. He's like so many, actually. Like, it's hard for me to remember because I'm more focused right now on getting clearing my name.

But it's so they started asking all these networks and they all said, yeah, OK. So Newsmax sources said one of the Daily Beast reached out to me like, hey, well, might Matt Gates be joining? Someone said, highly doubt it. Highly. OAN, One American News. The CEO said, right now, I'm not really hiring anybody for talk shows. And then also Daily Beast is like, hey, Fox, is it true that he said he might work at Fox News? Because he said, you know, Fox Business. He named he dropped all these names.

Fox News said, quote, no one with any level of authority has had conversations with Matt Gates for any of our platforms. And we have no interest in hiring him. No. Finito. What's the first thing that has been said? That's what I'm saying. Like that level of just constant lying. Like you didn't have to do that to yourself, Matt.

Like, why did you put yourself like that? I don't saying. Like, that level of just constant lying. Like, you didn't have to do that to yourself, Matt. Like, why did you play yourself like that? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. And it makes me think that you're lying about many other things. Absolutely. It's just very, very disturbing. Let's talk about something that isn't disturbing. Or maybe it is disturbing in that we're seeing evidence of the benefits of not having people pay their student loans.

And how fucked up this whole system is of higher education. Y'all already know what it is. Most of you most likely have some form of student loan. From Insider.com, a reporter named Eric Snodgrass interviewed 10 people who had benefited from the student loan forgiveness or delays that have been pushed through. Yeah.

The Department of Education announced temporary relief measures for all ed-owned federal student loans amid the burgeoning COVID-19 pandemic. Later, there was the CARES Act, which suspended student loan payments, stopped collections on default loans, and halted occurring interest rates throughout September 2020. Now that's been pushed all the way through September 2021. So congratulations if you're like me. Currently, you either don't have to pay your student loans or on the opposite side of that you're just like here take it take it take it and like really shrinking those loans up because the debt has also been suppressed there's you're just not incurring

that crazy 15 30 percent debt they have uh it's our interest rate they have on your debt which is great some wild statistics about uh student loan debt there's Some wild statistics about student loan debt. There's 1.7 trillion in student loan debt spread across more than 44 million borrowers. There's 321,000 according to federal reserves. And prior to the moratorium, the average payment was $300 a month. A reminder that we are still fighting for a $15 minimum wage. So $300 a month is deadly. There are still fighting for a 15 minimum wage so 300 a month is deadly there are people not having children because of this like not starting families because like i

don't know how i could possibly support a child when i have these crazy bills to pay so i pulled a couple of quotes from different people about like how this had impacted them uh rachel busett is a 45 an attorney and small business owner in oklahoma city she's had a year away which she calls breathing room during a difficult year her goal is to owe sally may money when she dies which is relatable her husband lost his job in april and a lot of their money has been going toward their daughter's schooling it's wild to me that there's so many people who are like, my life has drastically improved because I have an extra $2,000, an extra $1,000 at the end of every month

so that I can actually pay for my pets. Somebody paid for their wedding. Somebody else wound up paying off almost all their student loans, everything but like $1,500, which is a much more manageable debt than the i want to say 12 000 they started the year with so i yeah let's keep this going the real thing right with all the shit of you know trying to stop everything to keep people safe in the pandemic the thing that was always should have been done was to stop the suck of cash out of

pockets like and this was the one thing they could do but not everybody has student debt not not a lot of people even went to college to have student debt to have that kind of relief very narrowly but i mean when you look at i think the u.s government owns like at least a trillion of that debt serious serious thought has to be given to erasing this and not going up with the arguments of like well i had to pay off my student debt well yeah you know what my grandfather almost got lynched and i don't think he's getting mad because i'm living in a slightly better world that's not how that's not how progress works you want to be able to see the ills of a society and say you know what i think this needs to happen

i can and i know because i live through the bullshit of it and i'm saying i don't want that for other people but you know what if you also don't want to be altruistic if you really like i want people to suffer like i have suffered fine i get that but like when people have more money they can pay you more money so if you're a business owner if you're a part of the business that relies on making money to survive like any any business period, you know, you're going to benefit from there not being more customers anymore. Right. You have more customers, people spending just willing to spend more money on stuff they already have. I promise you, I don't have student loans. I'm buying that fester internet package. Okay. I don't have student loans. Maybe I go for, I don't know,

cars, S class, whatever is more fancy than that other model i maybe would have bought you know like there's you'll have more in savings which again helps us all as a giant community it's so silly to me that we are required to have an education to even begin a career that's going to help us make money like you there's maybe five percent of jobs where you don't need an education in order to have a financially stable job specifically in like a major city where prices are just astronomical just to live student loans are crushing us crushing yeah people can't retire because of student loans like it is it is a plague predatory yeah and it's fucked up because people of color especially black and hispanic people in this country are the

the people getting crushed the hardest by this debt and it's different to have there's not the same generational wealth to be like oh you know what thank god a relative left some money behind i'm gonna wipe that debt out or something it's a completely different thing and you and in terms of upward mobility you you can't do much if you're paying off a deficit. You can't build if you're throwing money into a pit because certainly that money has to get to the top where you're like, okay, well, now I'm at neutral. And now the money I throw in there will start to save. proof if we needed it that like taking people's debts away like especially ones that we can sort of humanely take away without being like completely upending the economy is such a easy thing to do and will now put lift so many people into a different socioeconomic bracket just by virtue

it's sad that it took a worldwide health crisis for that to happen but who knows what's going to happen yeah and we have new september but it's see and it's it's so frustrating because i remember biden saying pretty close to the top of his um like right after his inauguration that he would not be able to just sweepingly wipe away this but it's like you do you do have the power and we are in unprecedented time sir and listen i'm unprecedented i was in peace no no no no man sit down hey get in here girl fan him you can do this you can with a sweep of your pen erase like oh the soul crushing anxiety people can buy houses okay you want to help the housing market release student loan debt that's that's mortgage payments y'all yeah okay and oh my gosh it's almost like it's by design though you know

oh it feels it you know what i mean it feels it it It almost feels like that. I'm still waiting to see. But I think it might be by design. I don't like to buy a house. Just I want one. Serve one. Did you see that? There's that tweet where the woman was saying, like, seriously, how did y'all buy a house? Because I'm I'm on a teacher's salary.

I have some student debt to pay off. I have two kids and I'm not sure how exactly people are doing it. And something like some people were truly coming with something. They sound like those youtube videos like hey hey you see my ferrari you want to know how i got that because i was frugal and also i had a great uncle who left me a lot of money right but let's not talk about that this house is a rental peanut butter and jelly sandwiches only for three years straight bootstraps i mean some people do you crazy person. Shout out to people who have their, like, they found their way to save their money. But yeah, it is a very interesting task because as a single person, it's damn near impossible.

For dual incomes, like, it's almost like you need dual incomes for that shit to work to save 20% for a down payment to get like, oh. for that shit to work to save 20% for a down payment to get like, Oh, if you buy a scratch, Angeles County, you need at least $500,000 to purchase a house. This is what I'm hearing from realtors. Now, technically based off like what you would normally want,

you normally want like about 10%, which means you need about a hundred thousand dollars. Cause it's really hard to buy a house for less than a million here. But because we live in such a wealthy space, people are going to, on average have about $500,000 down. And, of course, they're going to choose the person who has the most money to put down up front. How?

How? House. House. Wait. My liver is probably not worth $500,000. You know what I mean? I can't sell major body parts. I don't know.

I got a guy. I got a guy. Actually, how old are you? What's your height? What's your birthday? Let me know your sign and your height, and I'll get you a quote. But it's true. I mean, it has to be dual incomes, or you have to be fantastically wealthy.

I mean, L.A. is complete. And the housing market has been completely absurd since the pandemic, especially la but there's so much movement going on but you know it all ebbs and flows uh but yeah i think again this is another reason why there's some things like this joe you know some of the other candidates you know when you're you got their nomination they have some good ideas remember elizabeth warren she was saying that a couple other people were saying that to do that rather than like those brookings institute studies that came out after she said that it's like it's only going to go to like wealthy people you know and then like what happens to the other people it's like well no it might go to some yes there are

some people with that but more than that what about everyone else that's where the real relief is going to i really don't care if a couple people get passed like i don't know why that hurts people so much they'd be like so we have to deny the people that need like it's a weird way to examine the situation it's just like when people get upset that parents take their children to other school districts and it's like what i know that if i drive an extra 15 20 minutes my baby's got a better chance at life okay like of course some people are going to cheat the system or work around it or try to make it work for them right exactly because too many people take their kids out of public school in the area where there

could have been a good public school and put them in private school and now the people who need the private school are left with an option that isn't as good which forces people to scramble like that one mother who i believe went to prison for trying to get their child in a different school district. And I believe Aunt Becky only got, you know, two months or whatever. 18 weeks, I think. Yeah, something like that. Not a lot. And speaking of Joe, Joe, remember, you're the president, sir. You can do a lot.

You know, you can do a lot of shit. Right. And, you know, since Democrats are on break right now in the Senate and have no clue how to protect this nation, we are again looking at a situation where maybe the threat of lost capital will create a better future for American people. Because the Major League All-Star game is set to happen in Atlanta in July. And there's growing concerns from the players union that it would be a fucked up mistake to play there since Brian Kemp is like, have you met this new guy, James Crow? He's a he's an interesting gentleman. So just a quote last week, the Major League Baseball Players Association executive director, Tony Clark, told the Boston Globe that he was open to discussing with the league whether to pull the all star game game from atlanta after this bill was passed but to keep especially black georgians from voting so joe had to come in he had a thought on that and he had he had very powerful presidential words to say he said

i would strongly support them doing that okay thanks joe thank you uh can you do anything else he said today's professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly how about you as president how about you how about you figure out how to fucking get rid of the filibuster and get the for the people act through so we can actually you can actually create safeguards against this type of bullshit or i don't know or don't is the donor class not interested in voting as well? Because it will lead to chaos. Like, down the road, this is pure. It will just create more strife and chaos if you are disenfranchising more and more people. It doesn't end up people go, oh, well, fuck it.

I'm disenfranchised. I guess I'm MAGA now and I'm going to live with that. No! It's not going to fucking happen. Wake the fuck up. I mean, we're seeing fights all across the South. I mean, specifically in states like Texasxas um we saw georgia flip this year i think we're going to continue as again as long as we can make sure everyone's rights are upheld we're gonna continue

to see these flips like i there's so many people who were like who left george uh sorry who left texas right as it was bombing uh after the snowstorm. Why am I blanking on his name? Ted Cruz? Ted Cruz. I was like, why would you vote for Ted? Why? Why would that happen? I don't understand. And it's like, because there's gerrymandering. And it's happening a lot, specifically

in Texas, where they are making sure black and brown disenfranchised groups are unable to vote in a way that their voices are heard and it's so upsetting to me that we can't if we see them we see them we see the statistics we've seen what happens when we allow these communities to speak for themselves what what what is the problem i don't understand the need to be like diplomatic here at this in the at this juncture this seems to me the last thing we need to be debating it's it's i mean if

you're if you're a big c capitalist democrat in a way you don't really need black people to vote you don't really need because at the end of the day you get too many you get too many people who are in touch with what their needs are and how to get the outcomes they need that's the end game is the end of capitalism yeah like you know like there's no version of that that ends with people like yeah man i'm fine with minimum wage and no fucking health care no it's going to be like living wages it's going to be medical care for everybody all kinds of care basically like i've been saying before it's going to be everything for everybody yeah and you can't do that right now because right now it's some shit

for a couple people right right right right and that's what and that's how capitalism stays you know fucking healthy but i just wanted to do at least the one thing here aside from whether or not you know we'll have we need major league baseball to do something they are looking at a huge price tag in that the all-star game will bring $40 million to the city. Take it out, Georgia. Yeah, I'd do that. But then it's like, what's a racist to do? Do I say no to $40 million?

Or do I just do my ancestors proud looking at me from the fires below? Looking up at me from down below oh shit anyway what about movies let's talk about movies oh my gosh let's okay are you ready to go to a movie joel am i yeah yeah okay so to circle circle all the way back to the top of our conversation we're talking about marvel three great cinematic experiences. All for the Marvel house. Black Panther comes out in 2018. All my people come dressed to the nines.

We have Harold Chicken in the theater. We are Black Reacting. At opening day. Without abandon. It is by far. A spiritual ascendance happened. In that theater. The end of Endgame.

Caused such silence. I was at the end of endgame caused such silence i was at the premiere of endgame in california and when i tell you that you could hear a pin drop at that theater we stunned and it was the bold brass moves was incredible and finally when we get into um i switch it up so that infinity war has the crazy ending end game has an ending where it was like tears and tears grown men crying holding each other for support because not not just because captain america you know gets to say his famous tagline and all of our favorites pop out of bubbles but because you have reached the pinnacle of an epic like a cinematic epic it is the first time in history film across what was it at that time i want to say 17 movies

has fully developed like 20 different storylines and you are so damn fulfilled by the quality of final storyline it's it's brilliant and you can't it can't be denied you don't have to like it doesn't have to be up your alley but the brilliance of that arc can't be denied that's what cinema can bring you cinema can bring you the crazy midsummer and a man in a bear suit on fire i'm cheering the guy next to me is horrified right right right absolutely like the binding force of human nature to me is the first language i learned to speak is in movies i love being at a movie theater but i've taken quarantine so seriously i'm immunocompromised i have a lot of different health issues like i can't get sick and so it's been a huge struggle and then there's like all of

this financial stuff that i'm going to try to break down brettling and rebecca rubin did this great article about what alamo draft house is trying to do like post covid how they how are they going to navigate because they had to declare bankruptcy right they did they had to declare bankruptcy which entirely makes sense but then if you look at the flip side is that like in 2019 where most theaters saw a four percent decrease in revenue they saw a 5% increase in revenue and so Alamo I was opening Alamo in LA I don't say this to brag just to say that like in being there there's a vibe if you've ever been to an Alamo that is hard to replicate and they've done it across the United States in multiple cities I think they're absolutely the future of film watching because they're not interested in necessarily the newest releases or in in being flashy or showy what they're interested

in is like you came here to see a movie it's going to be quiet there are not going to be cell phones going off but also you're going to feel like you're at your local clubhouse if you had a local movie theater growing up that wasn't a chain that was owned by like some crotchety dude who was constantly yelling at the kids and no that's like most of y'all knew how to sneak into the back door and like pry it open and like it has that sort of vibe no matter where you go because it's like heavily run by regional managers and so i think where alamo goes a lot of other people are going to have to adjust in making going to the movies more like a theatrical experience. You look at theaters when movies come out, movies are very cheap.

You can play them again and again. You don't have to pay actors and people to come light and all of that. So it's like a much cheaper thing for Americans to do in the 30s. Movies become very popular. That's the big upswing in Hollywood success as an industry. that's the big upswing in hollywood's success as an industry i think the generic movie houses are going to struggle because i'm going out towards my life i want like a really sick experience even though i'll be vaccinated we're not sure how we're going to be able i think we talked last episode about like i i'm not necessarily comfortable with the movie theater asking for my vaccination card

i know that there's some concerns about violating hippa like how are we going to make sure everyone's safe smaller theaters which alamo has the lock on i think more experiences and then the way that they intertwine celebrity into a lot of their screenings ryan johnson is doing a knives out screening link ladder is doing oh what is the matthew mcconnick hey all right all right all right movie i can't remember but someone out there is screaming at me every movie no it's specifically a movie about kids in the 70s doing so oh oh oh oh a dazed and confused Dazed and confused. Dazed and confused. You're right. You're right. You're right. Dazed and confused. So anyway, I say all of that to say, like,

there's a lot to look at here. And we know, we're pretty sure, I should say, that we're going to see an uptick because China's box office has been booming post-pandemic. And busters, as they say. They are breaking records every day. outpassed us last year i mean again obviously we were all inside but it's really important to look at how we're all going to everyone's clamoring to get back to normal so i think there's an opportunity for movies and movie houses to regenerate to rethink yeah yeah but it's gonna be hard because i mean we have to look at like what movies are coming out and you've got a couple that are still holdovers from 2020 the fast nine not out yet right we'll probably do really

big numbers and then james bond i think is the other one black widow was one but they pushed that back to july and disney did decide they were going to release it on their uh disney plus so you can buy it for 30 bucks watch it in home or you can go to the theaters in july and see it i think that's the right decision to make 100 but i also i get why movie theaters are concerned you know what you gotta let people smoke weed in the movie theater you know what i mean when i was in toronto and they were like you could just smoke on the street here i was like oh for real like yeah no then we nobody cares they're like just you know here i was like oh for real like yeah no then we nobody cares they're like just you know be cool about it they had a cafe i smoked inside smoking inside is a game changer and i promise you i would

risk life and limb smoke inside of a movie theater i mean safely you know like you'd want a way to like pull the draw the smoke out so you can't even see the screen because i'd imagine if you had a theater where they're like yeah you can smoke in here everyone is like the smoke and the light and it's that's sexy i i would like it don't don't ventilate it don't let us let us marinate in the smoke box it yeah they can let people go out of there like yeah leave after there's a problem though you're gonna have to sell me tickets to like four movies up front because i'm not leaving after the first so high and comfortable i'm like yo let me just let me watch two towers just on a loop real quick that lord you know what let me just watch

the helms deep battle scene on yeah all of the stoner watches like yes i will watch pink floyd sound that was dark side of the moon to uh wizard of oz yeah let's do it i'm down exactly see those are these are all little things i feel like with i'm sure someone's got to be doing it like i feel like in colorado or oregon already but like that's that will be it's called the drive-in and people are doing it it's always like you'll smoke you'll smoke a blunt or whatever or join whatever you get down in the car parking lot and then you have to go and then like by the time you got your eight and shit you metabolize your snacks and things like that you're like i could really smoke another like by act two you're like i think i need more just so i could be like that's what i'm saying

imagine like you go to a movie house where there is now like intermissions where there's actual ushers there's a theater in chicago called the music box and when they upgraded their seating from that old 1920s padded furniture and brought to the feature they had all of these like very weird screenings uh when hateful eight came out they did a special tarantino screening with like the fancy booklets and stuff like it's a whole experience you're going with your crew you wear a tuxedo if you go to the egyptian down here in hollywood they've got the guy on the organ comes out of the floor to play and it's truly it's oh gosh watching a disney movie in the egyptian is magical okay i gotta go to a movie with you joelle you're your energy right now you sound like me what's up with like watching arsenal or something

else i'm like god damn i'm missing out i'm in awe because like none of the theater experiences in detroit are like any of that remotely like that. Right. What's your local what's your local like? Well, like an AMC or something. Yeah, we yeah, we used to go to the AMCs, but all of those shut down because of the pandemic. Right, right. Damn. OK, somebody hooked Detroit up with a sick ass movie theater experience.

It's truly you don't even need that many seats. Get them 80 nice seats. Make them comfortable. Get an actual popcorn popping machine and and then just screen some movies people love like so i don't know what is there a detroit classic movie where like people really bump this in detroit or it shows well i'm gonna suggest one i'm gonna suggest one. I'm going to suggest one. It's called Only Lovers Left Alive. It's a Jim Jarmusch film. It stars Cate Blanchett and the guy that plays Loki, Tom Hiddleston. Okay. As vampires in Detroit.

And there's something about the way Jarmusch films the city that shows sort of, it sort of is like a comparison like how detroit is vampiric in that it's dead but not it's living and it's thriving and it's beautiful and you can see it in this rundown theater and there's history here and we have to like honor that it's so i was gonna say robocop okay robocop i love i love robocop but i don't think they film that i don't think they film that here wait for for det Detroit people, like Detroiters, is there like culturally of the city, you'll point to me like, man, that movie doesn't, I know it's called Detroit, or I know it says 8 Mile,

or is there like, what's the movie that you feel like the people of Detroit can rally around as being a little more like a film about their city? They can actually rally? I really don't know. Like on the flip side, there was this weird thing here a few years ago where like dudes did a like a kickstarter to get like a robocop statue made and put here and people actually like uh funded it and they got their funding and uh i think the statue exists i don't

know where it is but holy uh but yeah like all right so then robocop y'all got the crow robocop and dream girls i mean how are we gonna be like yo yeah we fuck with robo 12 don't we have to have a reckoning a little bit i'm like he was he was the police yeah Yeah, but damn. But he was fighting that other big robot, so it evens it out. And that giant gun just blew people away. It was amazing.

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Wait, his official handle is at greg kelly usa i just think we have to point that out why sir your country shouldn't give you a boner that's weird yeah sir you're not even verified and you're on tv sir you perpetuate the big lie please shut the fuck up forever and don't we don't need your take i have a feeling he tweeted this out because this was around the time New York legalized marijuana. And he was like he wanted to just hit people with his like KKK dare take. He said smoking weed, a.k.a. grass in a parenthetical is not a good idea. I've tried it.

Parenthetical back in the day and it was worse all caps than anything that happened to all caps hunter biden okay i quote unquote toked up with some buddies in kentucky and woke up four days later in nairobi kenya with no idea what happened. Don't do drugs. Okay. You fucking cop. We have to digest that one at a time. I'll say this. If Twitter allowed for a few more characters,

it would have gone full blown clan robot racist. It's funny. I see what you're doing. It's funny how disparaging this is about weed, given that this feels like a cocaine tweet. Right. It's not weed. Yeah. You you were free basin or some shit you think that you probably smoked angel dust here's the thing here's the thing i had a friend who once smoked a blunt that was laced with pcp worst night of her

life like i mean big people got into clawed out fights had to be taken to the hospital horrible she knew who she was the following day how did you get to nairobi like on a plane also did you have a kidney you might not have actually smoked anything someone may have hit you with a tranquilizer right why would you evoke hunter biden's name what was the point i think to just like dog whistle that it's for conservatives to like rallyer i don't know it's so stupid and then like he has to evoke africa for something because you know he didn't go there like yeah it's there's so many levels of responsibility that you would have to have to like make it on a plane have a passport make it to like

huh what oh yeah like okay let's right? Let's assume you smoked whatever. And if this is weed that you know about, hit me the fuck up, people in Kentucky. What is this? Because I know Mitch McConnell is starting to get into hemp and shit. But, like, you're smoking. What is it? And then you're walking around faded. And they go, hey, should we buy tickets to Nairobi, Kenya?

Yeah, man. How much are they? I don't know. $2,000? Because I'm guessing back in the day there was no kayak right to find the best flight at the cheap i don't care if it's 23 hours and there's a couple stop we gotta get to night lobby we gotta go it falls apart immediately as you say like where's your passport show the passport stamp then also why does he have like

toked up in quotation marks like is he quoting somebody or did it not happen? Like, what does that mean? It's just like, that's why it's like you never smoked weed, sir. So please stop with your made up drug story. You sound like Steve Carell

in the 40 year old virgin. First of all, yes. Second of all, if you're concerned, weed is great. Start with a low dosage. Have a friend around who's sober to help you out in case

you get a little lost in the weeds yeah it's gonna be and it's not all good you know it's really not for everybody you know truly truly it's not so no no pressure but some of us it's i think my blood type and the reason i didn't get a lot of retail jobs so that and i think my they're like aren't you the guy who was stealing like cigarettes from here i'm like no no no no no i'm like fuck i shouldn't have walked in there um okay let's talk okay we're talking about fucked up april fool's jokes pranks and you know so you know illingsworth you're in the motor city so this is relevant because we're talking about cars. Volkswagen completely fucked up their April Fool's Day because what started as. OK, essentially, their whole thing was like their April Fool's prank was going to be we're going to be called Volkswagen now, implying that they are going to now be doing more electric vehicles. But they fucked up because a press release got posted to their website and was later deleted

on march 29th so that's not the first of april so people thought this was for real they're like well this isn't and then but some people were like well hold on is this early like did you guys make a mistake or something like that they fucking doubled down three days early and they doubled down then so to when they said it was just an early joke they said no oh fuck no and to prove it here's a legit press release that we're putting out right now that had quotes from the ceo they even put a video on twitter this so and it was still march Being like, oh, this is for real. We're Volkswagen. It's sounding very Matt Gaetze at the moment. The head of communications

for Volkswagen was straight up asked by reporters, they said, is it early? And even the head of communications said, no. The name change is real. Were they like really invested in making sure that the joke landed they were like listen

if we then if we do it on april 1st no one's gonna believe it so i really i need people to believe that we would change our name to volkswagen so that then tomorrow we'd be like april fools everyone has a nice chuckle it's been a long year volkswagen trying to help us they just don't understand comedy that i'm not willing to go with that. Yeah, they were not willing to bail on that joke. They were. No. So weird. But the funny thing is, too, like, in 2015, they fucked up when the EPA was like,

your diesel cars have, like, cheap devices that are making them look like low-emission vehicles. Like, that was a huge scandal. And Volkswagen paid, like, almost $20 dollars in settlement money because it was so like so egregious how they were deceiving people about how uh nature bound their cars were so this is like oh this this is oh i guess it is kind of like them so the other thing is because of this right the like doubling down saying no we're getting into electric vehicles. This shit had an effect on Wall Street. Wow. The stock rose by 5% because everyone is looking at this.

They're saying, I mean, clearly the CEO is here saying they are committed to electronic vehicles. And like one of these like analysts in their like letter to shit like, you know, traders and things said that the name change quote underscores volkswagen's clear commitment to its ev brand and so guess what now you're gonna be fucked up with investors and the securities exchange commission the sec is not gonna be like because you cannot make false statements that would affect your investors or the stock price so it's like what are you what the fuck it's it's all it's all it's all jokes yeah they had a clear commitment to working on their type their type five for the next open mic that's what it was right like i mean like what do you it's true like what did they really want to make sure that people believed it because either way

if they really believed it then the stock price probably would have changed as well just like what happened so it's kind of odd to try and sort out like what exactly happened or did volkswagen is not synonymous with humor and like i yeah and then there's another thing our writer JM was talking about some racist ass ads that they had last year where like this white hand like flicked a black person like away from the car and then into a cafe that's

the name was called Little Colonist what? yes I don't remember these ads because they vanished pretty quick. Yes. Well, thank goodness. I prefer when a company at least has some common sense even after an event as opposed to, like, I guess what they did this time, which is double down.

Volkswagen in its history has been known for trying to have, like, comedic ads. Really? Yeah. When the bug came out, everybody, everybody like it was poorly reviewed and so they made a double page spread in a magazine and called it a lemon because it's sort of shaped like a lemon it's a lemon and in the 60s you're like what that's what you called your car a lemon wild so funny and there's like and they've done that I remember in my youth they had like weird kind of kooky ads and so this is it's a step too far

Volkswagen you're doing too much yeah they've lost they've lost their way you hate to see it when a comedian loses their way in such a big public way well you know what prayers up for them maybe not whatever who gives a shit anyway Illingsworth

thank you so much man for stopping by the show. Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it. Oh, yeah. We'd love to have you back. Where can people find you, follow you, listen to you, support you? I'm on Twitter and Instagram as Ellingworth. I have a Bandcamp page.

It's called Ellingworks.Bandcamp.com. I have a podcast of my own called Eternal Invite with my two buddies, Sean Uppercut, Rufio Jones, and a whole cast of characters. Shouts out to King Chloe Katz. I'm out here on the Internet, and you can find me easily. There you go. Fantastic. And what's a tweet that you like?

Is there something from social media that you like? So I haven't been on Twitter a whole lot lately, but my friend tweeted this recently, just I've been laughing about it. He didn't get a lot of love for it. So I'm like, let me let me spread the love for this. My friend Rufio Jones, he tweeted Jason Momoa's Aquaman can't be the real protector of the seas with the metric tons of t-shirt pollution. He's

personally responsible for fucking died and I've been dying ever since I read that oh my god that's brilliant I'm glad you like it because I fucking loved it and it got like no love yesterday I had my

Aquaman t-shirt on I switched to you don't have one here today whatever I digress well you don't because Joelle thank you I switched to, uh, you know, I have on here today. Oh, nice. Whatever. I digress. Um, well, you don't because Joelle, thank you for being a wonderful host again today. Um, where can people find you and follow you and support you? Listen to you.

Yeah. Thank you for letting me come rant about movies and how much I miss them. It was obviously, honestly, I've never, I've never been more excited of when the, in the after times we're getting fucked up and going whatever movie I'm going to be like yo just take me somewhere you know what I'm going to bring bottles of champagne let's do this and they'll kick us out and I'll be like sir are you smoking in here I'm like say something it's 2022

and I got an eye patch you don't know what I just survived sir I need this I'm Joelle Monique you can find me all over the internet at Joelle Monique it's J-O-E-L-L-E M-O-N-I-Q-U-E a tweet I like comes from Film Updates it's at The Film Updates

hashtag Black Panther director Ryan Coogler says he turned down an Academy membership I don't buy into this versus that I love movies for me that's good enough if I'm joining an organization it's going to be labor unions where we're figuring out how to take care of each other. That's my man. I love you, Ryan Kuzler.

Bet. That's from an IndieWire article if y'all want to read it. Oh, love that. Hey, you can get screeners and stuff and it'll help our diversity numbers. That would be great. No, no, no, no. Maybe y'all need to sort that out on your own. I'm going to be over here making sure PAs get paid.

Yeah, I'm going to make those films and you just obscure the lack of diversity on your side over there. Okay. Some tweets I'm liking. Let me pull up the old like section here. First one is from Jabuki at Jabuki

tweeting, do y'all for real wash rice before you cook it? Because I thought the powder was flavoring. Jabuki at Jabuki tweeting, do y'all for real wash rice before you cook it? Because I thought the powder was flavoring. Jabuki, you fucking monster. He's always so out of pocket. I know. As a Japanese person, to actually quote the late D12 rapper Proof, I'm a roll. Oh, no, I'm a roll away like a roller blade till my eyes roll back in my skull for

days because I cannot. Yes, you have to wash the rice. You're getting the starch off of that shit so it doesn't stick together and you have even texture. Whatever. You know what? I'm thinking back to the times, all the times I had to wash rice as a kid and I had my technique down

to not let the rice spill out the water and not put too much water in it All my rice makers you hear me And then a couple more From Matt Rogers At Matt Rogers though said My mom is coming to stay with me and is one of those moms That can't not clean

So I decided if she finds my poppers She has to do them No No No That's awful oh shit and this one fucking struck me straight into my heart it's from tay

at t-a-a-a-e-e-e underscore underscore tweets college students do not deserve a ticket for parking at a school they pay tuition for agreed I got so many fucking tickets at UCLA because Do not deserve a ticket for parking at a school they pay tuition for. Agreed. I got so many fucking tickets at UCLA because, A, I wasn't responsible enough to buy a parking pass. Come on, man.

The fuck is that? So I would use the metered parking because we had a little thing going where somebody, if they were at another class, they could feed the meter. The timing did not work out because those parking enforcement people were on your ass. And I gave so much fucking money away just for that. So I appreciate that. I felt that. You can find me at Miles of Gray, G-R-A-Y, on Twitter and Instagram, even PlayStation Network. And then my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance, where it's just about smoking trees and talking trash TV.

And actually, if you're hearing this on Friday, we'll have a Twitch stream later today at 420 Pacific Standard Time. So go to twitch.tv slash 420 Day Fiance. That's numbers for the 420. Smoke with Miles in real time. Oh yeah, and it's a party. On the

Friday episodes, we talk married at first sight, actually. Oh shit. And we're going to be, there's going to be, there'll be some fun. You can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and we got a website, you know, where we post the episodes and our footnotes

where you can find this episode and the song we write out on. Obviously, this production is iHeartRadio. So for more podcasts, get the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your apps. However you get down. Just get down. Okay?

For the song. I was saying, you know, maybe I'll keep it shit free. Because I do want to play a track for y'all from Illingsworth. That if you understand, you know the songs I'll write out. There's a quality that has to be met. To have the head nod, headphone music that just makes your big toe shoot up in your boot and i'm telling you you can pick any fucking song on this man's spotify or wherever his band camp whatever give this man some money but this track is called uh-oh trouble uh because it again

this was the one that i was like okay illingsworth you got the goods you got the goods sir and i i bow and prostrate before you. Thank you so much. For your talent. So it's really wonderful to share your music. So this is Uh-Oh Trouble by Ellingsworth. Catch that on the flip side. Until then, we'll see you later for the trending episode today.

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