The Daily Zeitgeist - Gaetz Gate, Police Using Hypnotism? 4.1.21

Episode Date: April 1, 2021

In episode 848, Miles and guest host Joelle Smith are joined by comedian Marcella Arguello to discuss Matt Gaetz, Texas discontinuing the use of hypnosis, the NCAA's Supreme Court case, the history of April Fools Day, music festivals coming back, and more!FOOTNOTES: TFW Not Even Tucker Carlson Is Buying Matt Gaetz's Sh*t Texas Rangers stop using hypnosis after Dallas Morning News investigation reveals dubious science Supreme Court appears willing to side with college athletes against NCAA in compensation case April Fools’ Day COVID-19 Concert Cancellation Tracker: Gauging How Long The Event Shutdown Will Last [Updates] WATCH: Dr. Dre - Forgot About Dre (Smochi & Excez Edit) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Do you have the time to listen to zeitgeist about nothing and everything all at once i am one of those pro ucla fools a bro into the core no doubt about it okay you know johnny davis thank you for writing that preemptively we didn't know if we were going to beat michigan and we beat michigan we went from first four to final four and ain't that some shit shout out to josiah johnson a fellow bruin who makes shit talking very easy because through his genius i can just retweet and dunk on people from sc so shouts all around for that you know this is like the one thing I can carve out. Well, because UCLA hasn't done shit for, we haven't been on the final boards since 2008.

When I was there. Okay? Didn't y'all get in a whole bunch of trouble and then couldn't do things? Yeah, come on. Hey, look, why am I on trial? You know what I mean? I'm not the program. You know what I mean? I was out of there in 07.

What the fuck do I know? Josiah's innocent, too. We don't know fucking anything. Okay? Just leave us alone. But we're here now. and who that who is that voice oh well i have a wonderful guest co-host today you might know her from i don't know fake doctors real friends uh just anything she's done on the internet uh in terms of any kind of film critiquing uh just speaking on internet culture at large or just because you're a friend to her and she's a friend to everybody.

Please welcome the brilliant and the talented Joelle Monique. Hey, Miles. I'm excited for this black takeover. I'm excited to be running TGV with you. I'm going to give Jack a run for his money. Look. You're going to have to keep pace when he comes back. It's going to be a bracket.

We'll see. He might get knocked out this week. Oh, shit. All right. Watch your back, Jack. But then I'll have to fight, you know, Zach and Donald over you and be like, I'm going to do this show now.

Also, weren't y'all on fucking Family Feud? We did do Family Feud last weekend. Is the episode out yet? No, it won't air until the summer. Oh, okay. So I can talk about being on there and recording. I can talk about, like, any of the results or any of the questions. Okay, we'll do that in a second.

Because I definitely want to know about that. Yeah, I have lots of stories. Okay, good. And I am also thrilled to introduce our guest today. Somebody that Jack is scared of, for sure. I'm not scared of her. Because, you know. You're scared as fuck stop man i'm just trying to get let me do the fucking intro man what the fuck um please

please welcome one of actually one of my favorite guests to have on here the brilliant and talented and hilarious and just honest as fuck, Marcella Arguello. Welcome, welcome. I'm back, bitches. It's been a minute. It's been a fucking minute. What's new? What's new with you?

Depression. That's new. What kind of depression did you say? Just regular depression. Oh, okay. Yeah. You know, just like that quarantine. Like, i'm finally

hitting i finally hit i'm actually coming out of it but i was like hitting a wall that's why you guys didn't hear from me from a hot second and i was like marcella please come back great anna impression and i was like no bitch no it's gonna have to wait april fools i'm back bitch yes there you are yeah man that shit that shit creeps on you because sometimes this depression doesn't look the same way and it can be a general malaise yeah it's different now because you're just like oh I'm gonna do nothing because I have nothing to do oh that's weird you like meaning meaning yeah no it's not nothing I guess I could there's no means I guess I can start timing how long these blunts

i will last and then start like a grand prix of blunts to see which one it's sad it's sad your psychologist will ask you how much you're smoking and he's going to look at you like he knows you're lying i said look shemitah situation shout out dr shemitah but also i said why am i on trial shemitah please i'm coping and also if you you knew this one blunt had less than one G and it went for 17 minutes, that has to be a record. And she's like, let's start talking about your family. Dr. Kevin had the audacity to be like,

it doesn't sound like all the weed is helping. And I was like, well, not smoking weed isn't helping either. So, I don't know. Things are so bad for me. My gynecologist prescribed me Zoloft. That's how bad things got, y'all. Where you at? Gynecologist prescribed me zoloft that's how bad things got y'all where are you at okay hold on you know what let me get give me that other notepad real quick uh and then joelle you were i mean look i we keep in touch because we work together but i know you

and daniel were on family feud oh myud with Donald and Zach for Fake Doctors Real Friends versus, who are you going up against on Family Feud? We went against Neil Flynn's Improv Troop. So Neil Flynn plays the janitor on Scrubs. And he's also the dad on, I think, In the Middle. Right? Right.

But he's got Keckner and Horatio Sands were like some of them. That's a broken family was it fun did it feel did it get competitive did you did you perform well yeah so it was wild it was wild we uh i'm nda'd out the ass so i can't talk about performance but okay we like listen i and they were like we're doing family videos like oh fuck i don't know i don't want to do it i'm not into it i don't do the game shows and they were like, we're doing Family Feud. I was like, oh, fuck. I don't know. I don't want to do it. I'm not into it. I don't do the game shows. And they were like, no, Jo, you got to, please.

And then, of course, Daniel, light of my life, was like, this is a dream. And I was on the road DJing. This is what we watched in the trailer. This is it. I love Family Feud. And I was like, listen, I'm not going to be the human that lets Daniel down, OK? It could not be me. So let's just do it.

So the whole day, I'm just like, I have to be up early as hell to be at the studio. All the way on the other side of town. They did send a car which I thought was very nice. And I was like, thank you. I don't have to drive. I love that. So we get there. They're like, this is your trailer. I was like, a trailer for a game show? What kind of next level stuff are we dealing with?

When I saw Daniel had a whole new outfit. His lady helped him buy pants. they went pants shopping the day before he was adorable listen my whole heart lifted i was like okay i'm just here for daniel i'm just gonna do a day about daniel and making sure daniel feels good and has a great day on his favorite effing show competition got steep it was like it was real intense like i couldn't let him down i was worried i forgot which way to walk at one point. It was one of those moments where I was like, oh, no, that's really Steve Harvey.

And his shoes are polished to the tens like the A-plus uncle he is. And his teeth are chiclets. I don't want to say anything else. Your eyeline does meet his teeth often. I will say that. It was wild. It was weird to be there. If you check out my instagram

uh donald i was so excited at one point that he broke out and danced to that girl is poison the whole audience they loved it it was entertaining as hell would do it again and it was celebrity family feuds so now my mom's excitedly telling all of her like cousins and stuff like i raised a celebrity and i'm like my baby's a celebrity 100 sure mommy she's very proud of me i feel like this is the least i've ever had to work for anything and she's like i just you're doing so well in life i'm like get celebrity family for you got mom's pride i love it i love that steve harvey legitimizes a lot of people to their parents i mean yeahhmm. I mean, yeah. Also, I'm just, you know,

through the transitive property, you are a celebrity. You are, if you are, if you're on Celebrity Family Feud and you are on there with other celebrities, therefore you are, you are not a,

I don't see the, I don't see the flaw in that logic at all. Steve introduced us as Zach and Donald and friends. And I was like, that's the appropriate

level of celebrity. Yeah, you should have been like, oh man, you look good without your wig on man damn i'm not trying to roast steve harvey in his house okay listen here's my favorite thing about being at so so you know they've got the hair and makeup people all the producers and stuff no one not a single person didn't call him mr harvey it's not steve steven steve harvey it's mr harvey to everyone i was like okay see the law has been laid down here i see it damn i'm not coming in i'm not coming into his house disrespecting him i feel like someone would beat me yeah well you know look that's why that's why i'm not a celebrity and i'll never be on there so i'll

i'll live my wild fantasies out through vicariously through you where i've created an alternate version and then you snap out of it and you're like yes thank you good to be here i would just I'll live my wild fantasies out through vicariously through you where I've created an alternate version. And then you snap out of it. And you're like, yes, thank you. Good to be here. I would just go on there and call him Dr. Teeth. Dr. Teeth. You're looking great today.

That's a sharp looking suit. Oh, man. What's your secret, man? Okay. Let's talk about, this is a quick preview about what we're going to get into today. Off the top, we're going to have to today um off the top we gotta we're gonna talk about matt gates because oh yesterday on trends we thought the story ended with him saying he was about to retire from congress early to take a job at newsmax well that story full-on developed and it's completely different thing now uh we'll talk about georgia uh you know and atlanta-based companies they

they've in the past they've helped you, sway the politicians to do the right thing. And this time it's time to see what maybe Delta might do or might not do. So look at that. I just found out that Texas police just stopped using hypnosis as an investigative tool. They just stopped it. They just stopped using hypnosis as a way to to create testimony. Look, it's a wild story we'll get into some you know it's april fools we need to talk a little bit about it what is it why is it who is

it why are we doing it can we improve upon it have we gotten into some dumb shit before and then just another quick thing going off of trends yesterday it's like every fucking music festival is about to come back in september october and i'm like hell what the fuck are we doing right now but the lineups are sick so what the fuck you want me to do okay um but first you know marcella what we do here we don't do the myths anymore because you're like fuck that so we keep it tight keep it right i change the game what is something from your search history then that is revealing about who you are um i don't know about revealing who i am but revealing who i am right now i googled yesterday defeating the robots in zelda because i'm i'm immersed in

that shit right now and i'm just trying to figure out these guardian robots and i figured it i mean i didn't figure it out i watched the fucking loser ass gamer dude tell me all the secrets how do you feel when you gotta watch the from your perspective the loser ass gamer dude has something that can help you I'm just well I mean I like I respect people that are doing good at what they do you know okay I don't respect him as a man but I respect focused you know he's laser. He's laser focused. Like, you know, if you're good at what you do, I will have a conversation about what you do well. Right, right, right.

That doesn't mean I want to have any other conversation with you. Outside of that scope of your expertise. Yeah, you know when you meet a weirdo at a party and you're like, oh, that weirdo's got weird stuff to talk about. I'm going to talk to them about whatever weird thing they want to talk about. And then you have that conversation like, man, you're the exact weirdo I thought you were going to be. And then you walk away because you're like, what else are we going to talk about? We you have that conversation like man you're the exact weirdo i thought you were going to be and then you walk away because you're like what else are we going to talk about we're not falling in love right you're not going to pivot to like you know the politics no yeah never no no no ideas of masculinity yeah exactly gender normativity

yeah womanhood uh so did you and you're successful and how long why'd you get into zelda what happened what What pulled you back in? You know, I always wanted to play Zelda. You know, when my brothers were playing it as kids, I was much, you know, like four years younger than my oldest brother. I was way too young to be playing what they were playing. And they wouldn't even let me play. And I also like maybe tried and I was like, I don't get it.

It's boring. You know, because when you're little, little, it's all just boring. It's boring. And then by the time. You know, because when you're little, little, it's all just boring. It's boring. And then by the time, you know, I think they stopped playing or something like that, I was like, well, we don't have the system anymore. The game doesn't exist. So I never really got into it. And then I finally was like, let me jump back in. I used to play video games all the time, but like casually.

And then around 25, I was like, I'm going to focus on my stand-up career and fucking give up all my hobbies because that's healthy and uh that turned out to be a mistake so i'm just back yeah which which zelda are you currently immersed in breath of the wild oh one of the most beautiful games on that system yes i'm enjoying it i'm going as slow as possible because i know that once it's over i'm gonna be like i'm not i'm not gonna play this again it's like a 40 plus hour game though oh it's more than that i'm definitely like i'm definitely going very slow and i'm enjoying all the little side quests like there was a kid who was like let's play hide and seek i was like all right i don't know i got nothing to do we're in quarantine i haven't seen my nieces and nephews i might as well play with this young child.

Yeah, exactly. So that's where I'm at right now. I'm like, look. Okay, so good to hear that you're stretching the game out longer than one of my champion blunts that I'm, my therapist says aren't achievements, but I beg to differ. What is something you think is overrated? You know what? I also hate this segment of the show. What is something you think is overrated?

You know what? I also hate this segment of the show, so I decided to ask my group chat what they thought were some overrated and underrated. And things I got overrated was Hamilton, Motherhood, and the Keto Diet. Damn. What a list. What a list.

What a list. Was that from one person, or that was a collection from the triumvirate? Yeah, four friends. My little Pizza Friday crew, I just asked them and then that's what they responded with. Are these friends or comedians? No, these are not comedians. That's why I asked them because they're not comedians.

These are real people. Right, right. Real takes off the streets. Yes, off the streets. And then it was funny because the Hamilton one is what got the group chat arguing because, you know, a couple of girls in the group chat were like, it's the greatest film ever made. Yeah. You're like, it's revisionist history. Yeah.

And I mean, I don't care. I mean, I watched, I remember being like, you know, when something is so hyped up, you're like, okay, I should at least try to watch it. And so my friend had me watch it with her and i was like this is the most boring shit i've ever watched i hate it he's rapping this is so dumb and yeah and and historic and it's also that thing of like you don't even have to know history to like just follow the story and be like this doesn't this doesn't make sense i don't like the way this is going and uh this is all kind of weird and are you a big musical fan in general though i mean i don't hate musicals like i mean i liked him as a kid of course you know i liked

him as a kid and um and i don't hate them oh so they're child's play from your perspective i mean you know i was a very mature child matt gates would be into it you know, Jesus. Sorry. Problematic light. Problematic. That's me. The woke lily. And then the underrated. The underrated is the bidet and sleeping in a bed alone.

That was the only two I got for underrated. True. Sleeping in the bed alone, stretching out, sleeping at any corner, changing the sheets on your schedule yes i'm really tall so corner to corner is how i sleep it's it's really oh like diagonal yeah i can't i mean if i share the bed with somebody i have to be all fucking straight and uncomfortable because i'm so long my feet hang off you know i get mad sometimes the pets fuck up my sleep style but like i don't have the heart to be like get the fuck fuck off! I'm like... My foot's asleep and shit. You gotta shape them to you.

I know. Move that sucker over. When I was a kid, my childhood dog slept in my bed, so when she passed away, I realized it took me years to stop sleeping against the wall straight, because she took up all the bed and I would just sleep against the wall

to make room for her. You were like a side sleeper with your back to the wall? I think I might I was like facing the wall. Holy oh so yeah quite literally making yourself as like thin and small as possible. Which is crazy and so after she died I was like oh yeah I don't have to sleep like this anymore. this is exactly how a parent walks in on a child in a horror movie to be like why is she just facing the wall right and she's like happening because they're in the bed too honey they're like all right we're selling this fucking house yeah i like that yeah bed size is a good thing and bid bidets also, man, you know, not just because Hello Tushy is the sponsor. Oh, is it a sponsor?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, nice. Once I, I've always, you know, being Japanese too, like in Japan, the toilet seats over there have bidets built in. So from, you know, that would always be the thing. I'm like, oh yeah, right. We got this over here. And then when it sort of became more popular or people like every for a while everyone like the take of like the world was like have you been to japan yeah have you been on

the toilet in japan have you had an egg salad sandwich from japan from like anthony bourdain it's like those three things um then the bidets became more popular. But yeah, this thing. Woo! I'm telling you. Beautiful. Never felt cleaner in my life. Shit. Yeah. Or no shit. There you go. Yeah.

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then this is the show for you. We're your hosts, Diosa and Mala, and you might recognize us from our flagship podcast, Locatora Radio. And we're back and congressman matt gates uh is in the news um mostly he's in the news because he's one of the most vile members of congress and the list is endless uh in terms of moments that he's nearly caused me to break my teeth from rage clenching them and i don't know if you remember on january 6th when he was talking with his chest while the Capitol was being breached about, I was like, just, you know, doubling down on the big lie, just straight bullshit. So right now he's making headlines because at yesterday it was like, oh, Matt Gaetz is trending because he's going to retire from Congress early to take a job at

Newsmax. And I'm like, oh, okay, whatever. And then I remember Jamie and I were talking like, oh, what, is that where the check's at? Like, that's weird, whatever. And then we find out it seemed like he was trying to get ahead of a story in which it was going to be revealed that he is part of an ongoing investigation into his involvement in the alleged sex trafficking of a minor. And essentially the allegations go is that he was having a sexual relationship with a 17 year old and paying for her to travel to be his companion on trips. And he was out here being like, yeah, I think I'm going to retire early was like how, what he thought his first thing was. Then he started opening his mouth and saying shit.

Like when, when like the story came out about what was going on with this investigation, he says, quote, I only knew that it has to do with women. I have a suspicion that someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward. I,

what, why would you even mention like an ex-girlfriend when we're talking about a child? Like, what does one have to do with the other? Like, you could just refute and be like, nope, definitely no children here. Thank you. And exit like stage left.

Yeah. You are just the most upsetting human being to come across our paths. And I mean, collectively as the United States in so long. And we just got over it. Like, we just got out of Trump's shadow. Because Matt Gaetz being like, I can maybe top that and being just a terrible like we just got out of trump's shadow because matt gates being like i can maybe top that and being just a terrible horrible person yeah he then talked to axios he did a 13 minute phone interview because you know guilty people love to blab yeah you know what i

mean like that's that's just like one of the first things you learn growing up or a peril teacher's like that's funny because i know guilty people run their mouth too much. If you're innocent, you're like, fuck that. Right. But I remember being caught as a kid in a lie or something. And then you just can't stop talking because you think if you can keep talking, if you can keep the momentum of a defense up, then surely you are innocent. Yeah. So in this 13 minute phone interview, he said, quote, the allegations against me are as searing as they are false i believe that there are people at the department of justice who are trying to criminalize my sexual

conduct you know when i was a single guy goes on to say quote i have definitely in my single days provided for women i've dated you know i've paid for flights for hotel rooms i've been you know generous as a partner i think someone is trying to make that look criminal when it is not it sounds like he's trying to um set up for after the divorce goes down like after he's when he's single again he's gonna be uh yeah he's gonna be like all these girls like i heard you pay for flights and shit no i don't even think he's he's not even married no but they're together i'm sorry they're together right someone named ginger lucky oh it's his fiancee okay interesting that's what i'm saying i knew it was something sorry sorry ginch uh you might not be lucky with this asshole

oh you proud of that one yeah i am because this is a second rate podcast that's why i don't do stand-up because i can get away with this. And there's a new episode in about 15 minutes. Imagine if I had to put this shit on an album. Every other trash open mic comedian who didn't do any work. So he then goes on to Tucker Carlson to defend his life. And I'm just I'm just going to play a few parts of this, because, again, it sounds like guilty people blabbering. It doesn't sound like someone is actually, you know, caught in some really fucked up false allegation. Instead, we've invited Congressman Gates on the show to respond to these stories and give us his view of them. Congressman, thanks so much for coming on.

Appreciate it. So this is obviously a serious allegation. Tell us what the truth is from your perspective. I just want to say what he just said right there. Why don't you tell us what the truth is from your perspective okay interesting um and here goes the blabbering it is a horrible allegation and it is a lie the new york times is running a story that i have traveled with a 17 year old woman let me stop you right there because that's that just said it all that just said it all he said 17 year old woman which i feel like the next defense is going to be i i thought that was a young woman i was with because he's not because tucker carlson before this he's i mean even though he's a fucking goon

too yeah he at least said that this was a 17 year old child yeah cut to matt gates saying this was a 17 year old woman and that is verifiably false people can look at my travel records and see that that is not the case what is happening is an extortion of me and my family involving a former department of justice official on On March 16th, my father got a text message demanding a meeting wherein a person demanded $25 million in exchange for making horrible sex trafficking allegations against me go away. Our family was so troubled by that. Can we pause right there, though?

Mm-hmm. So, bro, Matt Gaetz's whole thing is about, like, draining the swamp and like turn if somebody came and tried to distort you i there's no part of me that believes you wouldn't immediately be like look at this guy trying to extort me like this is the libs at it again like there's no way you like kept this secret unless there's a grain of truth to yep these allegations she's right absolutely absolutely and he says oh i didn't like march 16th this person told my dad it already sounds like some fucking teenager who crashed their car into a fucking 7-eleven it's like i was set up and like they're trying to like extort my dad who like you

guys know is like fucking loaded that's why i can crash like back- back to back beamers and it'd be not a thing, but like, well guys, he goes on just to say some more dumb shit that, you know, he said he went. So they did do that. Right. When they,

the extortion thing happened, he said, okay, we need to tell the FBI. And they did. And apparently the FBI made his dad wear a wire and have a phone call. Look, I don't,

last time I checked, you don't need a wire to wear a phone call. There's plenty of tech because you're not in last time i checked you don't need a wire to wear a phone call plenty of tech because you're not in the room so you don't need a wire but okay he's saying if you get those transcripts of the wire you will clearly see that this man was trying to extort us and it just becomes a really really just uh sloppy sloppy interview uh right after that to the point where like he even tries pulling in tucker carlson he's like you know and there's two people on this screen right now that have been falsely accused of horrible acts and tucker carlson's like bro don't bring me into this and he and he also was like what do you mean he's like oh because like

20 years ago i said like a mentally disturbed person had accused me of a crime when I had never even met them. And then like, was immediately like this. And then later on, he's like, I mean, there are other times Tucker, we were together and you were there with your wife. And then someone came up talking to like the woman I was with, you remember that? And it was like on some other shit. And he was like, I don't know what, and he was like, I don't remember that, sir. I don't know what, and left his ass out to, you know, dry because this dude is so clearly on some other shit now the thing to keep in mind is you know tucker carlson later asked when did you know about this investigation when did you find out about this he gave a very cryptic answer and because it sounds like matt

gates this whole time is trying to make it sound like some merrick garland damn hit job now that he's running doJ he gives this answer he's like I don't know like I just know like it became a problem on March 16th when this person was asking for money this is the other there's a whole other side of this fucked up coin that you have to understand the reason Matt Gaetz even got in like DOJ's crosshairs was because they were looking into a friend of his named Joel Greenberg, who is the tech. He has a title or had the title of Seminole County tax collector. And this dude has been flagrant with his abuses of power. His recent indictment of charges of

sex trafficking of a child stalking a political opponent, aggravated identity theft. They said from May to November 2017, he targeted a girl between the ages of 14 and 17 to recruit them for sex acts in exchange for unspecified perks. Then he used his access to the state database as tax collector and to make fake IDs. This is another thing, quote, investigators said they found several fake IDs inside Greenberg's home and accused the tax collector of improperly accessing a state database to access personal information of people he was in sugar daddy relationships with, including a minor victim between the ages of 14 and 17. Greenberg allegedly made the fake IDs to help facilitate, quote, facilitate his efforts to engage in commercial sex acts. This is in the indictment. So this is how he came so whatever reason this investigation splintered off and they said oh hold on matt gates is in this too

just to give you an idea of horrifying miles like a breath jesus christ it's a lot especially when you consider this whole like q and q and you at Q? Matt has definitely been like. Where you at? Yo it's out here. And there's a giant global conspiracy. And yet now here you are best friends with this dude. What the fuck. Oh my god.

This is fucking crazy. It's also just like it's. I mean it's always no wonder you know. Like of course if your homie is you know messing with that shit. Like you're going to be like. Well I mean I can get away with it too. Yeah. Or you know you with that shit like you're gonna be like well i mean i can get away with it too yeah or you know you learn that lesson really quick you people you're on are on some fuck shit that you're not down with you're like no i'm off this exactly like because this is gonna fuck my whole future up i'm off this shit there i can point to so many times where i was i would my

life could have gone fucking left right but on some level yeah on some level you're like no like i'm not with this shit like well that goes back to like him saying 17 year old woman and it's like no no you hey i understand if you're like oh i'm attracted to someone and then you find out their age and you're like yo let me take a step back because i i i wish that people would just like admit that that's the thing that fucks them up you know but that's the problem is they don't know how to just be like, oh, shit, I just fucking played myself. Because, I mean, a child is not going to know right from wrong. You know, a young woman, a young girl is not going to know. Yeah.

And anyone, especially if there's even age, if there's a huge financial disparity, that's just that's fertile ground for manipulation. Because you hold that shit. I'm going to move you over here. I'm going to not move you over manipulation. Because you hold that shit. I'm a movie over here. I'm a not movie over here. I'll pay this bill. I won't pay this bill until you fucking become subordinate or whatever. So Joel Greenberg, I just this dude was also taking like taxpayer dollars and was buying like guns, a fucking body armor computers to start a crypto operation. I mean, that's just tight.

That's that's cool, though. That's cool. This is a and I'm going to read a real headline that came out of his conduct this is a real headline about to read quote seminal tax collector joel greenberg accused of plotting bitcoin ransom scheme against his own office huh you know the classic move um and just just to give people an idea what happened this investigation for the record bill barr okayed this investigation in the summer of 2020 bill barr yeah when i read that i was like you know shit is fucking dirty as fuck real as hell oh my god um and shout out uh evan hurst at won't get just for putting all like all these details together in one place, because it's very easy to see like how this is all happening and how it all intersects.

So, yeah, that's a mess. He's not going for a new job at Newsmax, but nice try. And and and all the talk from the Republicans are the way they're not defending him. They're like, OK, that's he's going to just vaporize upon reentry into the atmosphere. And we're not you know, we're not going to say anything. And we're not going to keep up the same energy. That's a mess, you know. I mean, more just in the sense of like how duplicit. I mean, it's just again, it's underlining the duplicity of how like they they function

ideologically with all the sex trafficking thing. And many people pointed out he was the sole vote against a sex trafficking bill a few years ago the sole vote that would it made would have made it easier for investigators to get information to try and like triangulate and understand how certain operations i do like when trumpets sound though you know i like i like when we get to see someone get their comeuppance like in real time and hopefully they just keep pressure right on matt's gate gates next where it's deserved and uh hopefully we can get him out of there and see in some prison time and what what the hell do you like oh yeah the abuses of power

are so just blatant but to also then be the kind of scum who makes it more difficult for children and women and poor people just to survive like fuck you yeah i'm always like fascinated with like the history of the age of consent like a bunch of old white dudes just got together and were like debating what age they could have sex with the women like that's really what they were like what makes a woman and then like you know and then they landed on 18 after being like what about some guy was like how about 25 and they're like oh you sicko that's an old one and then somebody was like what about 12 and some notes oh that's too young and then they finally landed on 18 i always that every time what do we say fellas 18 yeah exactly and it's like what was i always wonder how that debate

went because it's just so insane that we still have to have that conversation because of men like him. You know, that just got down to this. I love my best friend. My 18 year old, not my 17 year old. That seems weird to me. But my 18 year old daughter, like they got married. I'm cool with that. Are they out of the house?

They're out of the house. Like what? They're on their own. That's how you're. OK, do you have any perspective as a man on how this would function? okay do you have any perspective as a man on how this would function no i'm just i'm purely going off of would i be cool if someone was banging someone that age from my family that's the only rubric yeah and it's it's drummed up a lot of talk about his son you know adopted son nester um who like now people are wondering now this is i'm and this is i'm just gonna let people know speculation

this is pure uh like i say on my other podcast wps wildly problematic speculation but uh i'm not gonna get into like dragging him out of the closet or anything like that but people put this idea in it that perhaps nestor is actually his son with like actually his son because they say he has a father in cuba because he's not adopted he doesn't need to be adopted because he has a father and some people are like speculating like did he have a relationship with he did have a relationship with this sister but if you add the timelines up this the sister that he was dating could possibly be the daughter in which he would have impregnated her when she was a minor and his family having money could have created a hush scheme or whatever

that's just wps that's not i'm just my wheels are going and i'm like what the fuck's really going on because for a long time people were just like what is this really whack cover for being a racist to just say like and look at my cuban sun right right which is like the easiest thing to digest because that other shit is like whoa yeah anyway so let's uh keep this moving along no i want to keep talking about the sickos let's keep yeah well we are going to talk about the sickos in the texas department of public safety uh have y'all ever done hypnosis of any kind i don't think so tried it even as a bit maybe like a high school uh the senior year they had an event i think we had hypnosis i was gonna say we had assembly and they were like uh what do you call those things it was like a week of like we're almost out of school yeah yeah performances keep y'all busy and your activities yeah yeah but never like in the serious like therapy way or my dad got it to

stop smoking and that worked right there's it's which is interesting because there i know people like that too have used hypnosis to like stop nail biting or smoking um but what y'all think of using hypnosis to solve a murder and possibly put someone on death row or imprison them for life would you trust it then no with the police I don't trust police for anything so definitely not and this sounds

like some shit police would do to try and act like oh yeah I figured out the truth with this pseudoscience or quasi science whatever so I just read something that said in 2021 January of this year the texas department of public safety was like yeah we're no longer using hypnosis in investigations and i'm like what the fuck wait what do you know huh so apparently this has been a huge problem in texas

i had no fucking idea um i believe it was i just want to give them credit. The Dallas Morning News, they put out an investigative piece like in April of last year that sort of just laid waste to like this whole process that they use. programs for police hypnosis in the country repeatedly doubling down on the practice despite scientific evidence that hypnosis can distort witness memories and lead to false convictions dps has developed more advanced interview and interrogation techniques that yield better results uh is what they said that's why they don't do it anymore oh because we found better ones which is just lying i guess right right right they're like oh we're probably gonna get a giant lawsuit so we just told them this no longer a part of our it's very intense the idea that the same methods used by cults being used by the police like the idea i mean the police are a cult yeah i mean that's what i'm saying though it's like

it's very scary like it's not new to anyone the the police abuse their power and are often putting those with least access to power in horrible positions whether it's actually taking their lives or just straight stealing from them that's definitely a problem where they're like we're just gonna seize all of this stuff and just never give it back. But to then also implant false memories, there's something like a second layer of sinister in that making people believe that they've committed crimes. And I bet if we looked at these numbers, we'd find like the younger you are, the less life experience you have, the lower your IQ, you're more susceptible to these tactics. And so you just have to. Thinking about all the victims of this, we were probably never going to see any kind of justice either.

They said they found in this investigation that they performed at least 1,700 hypnosis sessions since the 80s. Wow. At least. Just any officer could do this? Yeah. Oh, hold on. You got to get certified.

Okay. And it takes longer than it does to get your badge. No, I don't know. I mean, it probably is. But like, you know, it's really it's really like because they were looking in this investigation. They're like, yo, dozens of men and women, dozens of people have been sent to prison and some to their deaths off the strength of some of these fucking testimonies that they were deriving from hypnosis. And that's where it gets. Yeah, just super, super, super. You're getting very guilty.

I mean, it's so weird. Or, you know, or just basically getting a witness to falsely ID. You know. I mean, it's so weird. Or, you know, or it's just basically getting a witness to falsely ID us. You know what I mean? Or whatever the fuck it ends up being. This is where it gets darker. I mean, that's what's crazy about watching the Derek Chauvin trial is like how they try to manipulate just on the strength of just language. You know, like they just try to manipulate just off the strength of language and flipping terms and using certain words. And so to think that they'll take it to the next level and be like, you know what else we can do?

We're going to get fucking brainwash you into. Right. I mean, I tried to move that witness the other day who. Donald Williams. Were you getting angrier? Yeah. Were you getting angrier? And for him to just stay so hard in his lane and be like i was more and more professional

i stayed in my body like i didn't snap despite the fact that i was watching someone slowly be murdered in front of me so kudos to me i was like wow sir that is heavier humanity question to be so blatantly accused of being an angry black man to think and also then to spin it to make it sound like calling somebody to be like hey if you step in you close me i'm gonna slap you while he's murdering someone as a negative or as um you being an out of control citizen or disruptive to the policing process and that's why he killed this man like just i know that lawyer has to do his job and i try not to like that's not a job and that's not it though it's it's the fact that that is his job that is his job is to twist things

and to make them tell the narrative that he wants to tell which is again like i think the internet has made it so that people now are opening their eyes to how the justice is justice quote unquote system quote-unquote really work and so like these methods like hypnosis and shit it's like you know i mean somebody had to fucking figure it out somebody found out about it somebody put pressure just the same with matt gates it's like somebody puts a little fucking pressure on the neck and then it's like oh shit i guess we shouldn't be doing this i mean that's it's like that's the shit that's what it takes you know and that's, it's like, that's the shit. That's what it takes, you know? And that's why it's so frustrating

because it's like, everybody has to like do their due diligence as citizens to be like, we have to keep looking for these terrible things that continue to exist. And so like, it's great. And we're even having trouble getting justice for some of the most obvious shit that we're seeing right in front of our faces.

And like the shameless cross examination of that man, Donald Williams, especially when he said, you can't paint me out to be angry. That quote, I was like, who? And you could tell he was so and he was so upset because he was trying to completely dismiss his experience as someone being slowly killed as being like, would you say you're getting angry and angry? Like, I would say that the situation was getting more fucked up and more fucked up. Yeah, that's what it was. It wasn't I wasn't I wasn't escalating the situation was getting more fucked up and more fucked up yeah that's what it was it wasn't i wasn't i wasn't escalating the situation i'm merely watching someone in real time slowly be

killed there's a brilliance in him pointing back to the video is that how many times you counted yeah 13 okay great then that's what was in the video that's what happened as sort of almost a way of saying like and we saw him kill that man like that's what happened it's on the video on that video the same one it's the it's the dissensive the sensitive i can't say it they're just sensitized yes thank you they're desensitized and because i remember when we had it when my dad was in hospice care here in the house they had a hospice nurse come but she was much older and like the way she navigated his care it was like oh she's like watched people die over and over again she's completely desensitized she has no care concern

with how we are reacting to this and she thinks we are being like we're we are overreacting to watching my father die in the house and it's and we we basically had to be like we don't want this nurse in this house anymore like she is so dead inside and it's making it worse for us. This experience is awful to begin with. Yeah. It's like we don't want. And then like the nurses came and they're like, oh my God, we're so sorry. Like, of course we will have her.

But it's like people are just so desensitized to death often or race, racism that they inflict upon others are so desensitized to it. But the way they move and the language they use, you're like, it's you, you're the crazy person, not the rest of us. We are not, there's nothing wrong with us for getting angry or watching someone die.

Well, I mean, but that's just the, but that's like, it's just so funny that if we're in a rate and a trial that is so charged with all these racial aspects that they're deploying the like go to trope, which is to through repeated transgressions, take an oppressed person to the point where they can no longer endure the repeated transgressions and now have to stand up for themselves and then miscategorize that as someone losing their temper, becoming angry rather than acknowledging that this is someone who is

reached, reached a breaking point, a threshold that they have now crossed over into in which they now have to begin to advocate for themselves however they know how to and did the same shit to that witness. So, yeah, again, I will just say one last thing about the Texas hypnosis thing. This is this is also from this article. Quote, Texas law also still allows evidence allegedly gleaned from hypnosis to be used in courts. Great. The Supreme Court was like, yeah, they were like, nah, up to y'all, up to y'all. They almost heard it. They said, no, it's not up to y'all if you want to do that shit. We didn't bribe the witness. We hypnotized them and we gave them 100 bucks afterwards thanks it was it was great slam dunk case guys oh disgusting yeah so uh and this was not an april fool's joke that's for real i thought for a second i was like this might be

like a weird right fucked up april fool's joke like onion style like texas cops right you know swear to stop using hypnosis to solve murders or whatever here's what i will say i will start using it in relationships i think that's a great tactic in relationships yes low stakes low stakes low stakes as long as they're not like some kind of carceral setting you know go go off you know don't don't uh stereotype my type okay i like what i like all right if they're in prison i'm'm going to make it work. Miles. Okay. Shit.

They're like, I'm gonna have him send me money. Okay. Let's, uh, move on. Shall we? Let's do it.

Please. For God's sakes, miles, another terrible story. Go. All right. Well, I don't know what's going on with justice.

Clarence Thomas. Oh man. Okay. So the NCAA is at the supreme court right now and they're going through like just trying to decide if the model is legal i think is what the actual court case is about right now where players are basically like hey you're not a professional so you don't get paid you get some like cheap schooling and then maybe you get a major career and you're welcome.

We're not in here being fans of Clarence Thomas. Obviously the man has done a lot of harm to us as a society in general, but he does bring up a really interesting like point during the, the conversation where he was like, I don't understand why if these coaches are having ballooning salaries, if they're also coaching at the amateur level. Right. How can we give coaches giant salaries? Why do we have billion dollar stadiums?

And at the same time, we can't find space, money, time, food sometimes for these kids. So, you know, maybe he'll do one like really nice thing in his life and help these players get some justice. Also, like Clarence Thomas famously is one of the most disengaged Supreme Court justices. He's known as like, oh, you don't have a fucking question? Surprise. You're just here to fucking side with the other conservative justices. But that's really wild. For whatever reason, he's like, well, hold on.

You're making more money i like the idea of him like what like getting into basketball as he's like disengaged from what he's supposed to be doing he's like they ain't paying these kids come on they ain't paying kids can't get a fed he's like what's that coach at uh gonzaga make you know i i don't know sir this is actually i don't know, sir. This is actually, I don't know if this is even material to the constitutional case we're arguing at the moment. Well, look into it. Why don't you look into it?

Look into it for me. Can we take a quick recess? I want to make sure. I just want to see what he's making. It's a good team. That's all it is. What do you guys think? He's just super into watching it

and now he's like feeling bad for them. You know what? Yeah. Good, good for... That's all it takes. That fucking... That what yeah good good for that's all it takes that's fucking that's what's funny is that that's all it takes you know like someone to give a i mean that's what that's why that argument is always funny when people apologize for something like they were fucking racist against asians and they're married to an asian right and they're like oh i'm married to one i didn't mean it i. Right. But that's the fucked up thing is that sometimes it takes that association for people to actually open their eyes to the terrible shit that has happened.

Right. So that's that's the thing with him is like, you know, suddenly into basketball. I just like that. That's hilarious. What a weirdo. Yeah. I mean, that's great. Glad to see you opening your eyes and asking questions.

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it's like it's a joke on noah first or some shit and then some other people like i've heard so many origin stories there's like 26 different origin stories and history.com did not have clear answers for us because we're all fools we all been fooled right i checked i picked some of the ones i liked so the theories i thought okay maybe so i'll just read a couple so some historians speculate that april fool's day dates back to 1582 when fran switched from the julian calendar to the georgian calendar as called for by the council of trent in 1563 in the julian calendar as in the hindu calendar the new year begins with the spring equinox around april 1st so people were calling it

january 1st it was chaos they were like haha april fools you don't know anything stupid and then it became popularized throughout britain during the 18th century and scotland the tradition became a two-day event which is far too much April Fool's, starting with the hunting of gawk, in which people were sent on phony errands —gawk is the word for cuckoo bird, a symbol for the fool— and followed by tally day, which involved pranks played on people's

derrieres, such as pinning thick tails or kick-me signs on them. You know, in case you've seen that cartoon from the 50s. That's what was happening then. I don't like this holiday. I think it weird i mean it makes phony errands it makes us it makes sense of the time like whatever 200 years ago people were bored as shit they didn't have the internet meme so they were like you know we should do play tricks on each other uh fetch me some grain my good man we got him to fetch his grain can you imagine what a fool

now kick him in his asshole wow what a holiday save that for day two with my pointy shoe the original oppression april fools yeah right oh my god i'm trying to think of how you can make it better right because i was reading another article i think it was av club where they're just pointing out how like whack just how like what the holidays become yeah like i remember it used to be like you lie to your mom or something and get oh man i did that shit once i fucked around and found out on april fool's day very quickly what did you do to your mother miles oh i pretended i was really ill yeah it was not it was stupid it was like like you need to go to the hospital like i was like

passing out like oh no i mean like yeah no and as a kid you're like i look i like to see you know because i was like the kind of kid who like if my mom like you know we go to the mall or some shit i would hide in the clothing racks until she was like miles or like my remember my grandma's she's small you know she fucking almost body slammed me at a macy's because she thought i know again and this is all things i i learned over the years i'm like when she pulled me aside she's like you don't ever do that she's like because you're my grandchild and if i lost and i was like oh my god she's and like she just made it too real for me like she was awesome like my duty to you as an adult you are my you are my descendant and you must be alive and i was like i'm so sorry yeah

she's like i told her ass already and there isn't even cell phones yet ho buckle up motherfucker so yeah i did that i didn't like it because you know it's just like the vibe of like seeing an adult like off their shit was sort of how i thought that shit was funny cut to it was not so i kind of stopped doing that shit um but really i think now it's just all like whack ass corporate pranks i feel like that's what it's all become and they put a list together, McDonald's Shake Sauce when they did the H&M Mark Zuckerberg collab fucking

on Yelp they did a thing that looked like your screen was cracked when you opened the app from my world they really enjoy fake casting rumors every April 1st it's like surprise so and so has been cast as this what do you think leave me alone i don't need to get my hopes up needlessly i don't want to have to spend an entire day like april 1st has kind of become a date of just like let me just black out

the internet like let me not even check it what's the point i just think it's become redundant we have a lot of ways to have fun now do we need to trick other people does anyone like i've never seen a successful prank where it's like both hysterical and both parties at the end are like that was good fun buddy like we did that no here's what i'll say i hate april fools never participated in april fools i don't do no pranks i don't play like that but one april 1st i was uh hanging out with the family and the kids i have eight nieces and nephews you know and uh my brother i was watching them and then my brother came to pick them up and um so i was in the front they left i was like bye guys and they drove off and then i was hitting my vape pen in the front just hitting it big ass

blows the smoke. And then my brother's car pulls back around. And right when I'm letting out a big ass ball of smoke, my nieces and nephews are like, what are you doing? And they were like, is it because it's April Fool's? It's April Fool's joke, huh? And I was like, yeah, yes, it is April Fool's. I got you. I would never smoke. Are you crazy? April Fool's. I got you. I would never smoke.

Are you crazy? April Fool's, I'm a dragon. Yes. And it worked. And they never thought about it again. And it was so fucking perfect. So I was like, God bless April 1st. Did you call three homies right after that?

You're not going to believe this shit. I couldn't. I was so in shock. I was like, oh, my God. What the fuck just happened? God was with me that day. April Fool's. God is real.

You ever prank somebody, Joelle? No, I don't think it's funny. I can never think of a way to, like, properly deliver a prank. It just seems like it's just a way to embarrass people. Or, like, there's some kind of lack of self-confidence that you're like oh man let me just really bring this person down and i don't that's not really my vibe i'm not here for it oh you don't like humiliating your loved ones that's weird oh no i really don't strange i know when i was a kid it was really popular to be like oh we'll put like toothpaste on oreos and like and like that just

seems mean also waste of Oreos. Thank you. Oreos are delicious. Why are we scarring people? You know, I don't, I think we are now evolved past this holiday. And I think we can put it to rest.

I think most of us are evolved past this holiday. Some people are stuck in this holiday. Like, because even Punk'd, right? You know, it was still psychological warfare yeah is really what it's about i think the way you can get a good prank off is if you the prankster puts in an

inordinate amount of time to make it like believable but also it's truly not at the expense of whoever the mark is like i've seen videos where people convinced their friend they were going skydiving and they just got in a car but they put in like a loud engine like near his head. And he thought he was going up in a plane and shit. And they jumped out and he just like went into a bucket. And he's just like, and he was freaking out because he really they really tried to fuck with him to think he was going up in a fucking airplane. And he was like, oh, shit. And then he got up and he was like, oh, my God.

And in the end end he had a good he had a laugh psychological warfare don't traumatize you are you kidding me that's crazy you know what's funny is your listeners strike me as a type of people that would not participate any type of april foolery and but there's gonna be like one listener it's like well i thought my april fool's joke was good yeah look your april fool's joke i think maybe kids is easier to do it on like if but you can't make them cry oh yeah i don't know how can you make a can you ever lie to a kid and they don't cry yeah because i feel like you should not build lies when you're when you're at a kid when you're a kid you say santa claus is real and they smile oh my god also

like yeah because you're also your embarrassment levels like you get real easily embarrassed so like if an adult got one over on you like yeah i probably would have just fucking melted down so you know what fuck it um i think that's why other websites are like we should make it like halloween like just dress up do some fun like do something fun in the spirit of humor i love that listen any chance to put on a giant costume or wear wacky makeup i'm in give treats like i don't know i don't know what kind of treats we should get for april fools but tasty ones and and it should be warm and give us a day off federal holiday done or yeah or like a spiritual day of atonement where you can you you're honest about a thing you're mad ignorant about you can today be honest and there's no

judgment you know i like that admitting you're foolish like meeting admitting it yeah wow i thought i hated april fools before you guys took it to a whole disgusting child development psychologists have come up with a better way it's not fun oh my god speaking of shit that could be fun or lethal, music festivals. Are they getting a little too eager? Now, I just want to say, as I sit here unvaccinated and watching case numbers rise in certain parts of the country, the last thing on my mind is when can I go to a massive music festival? And don't get me wrong. One of the things I am waiting for the most is to see live music with like around people.

Like the, to me, that's like the fucking, that's the gas of life that I need. But now we're seeing festival after festival announced dates that are earlier and earlier outside lands in San Francisco. I love that festival. They've put an October date for this year.

Firefly in Delaware did a late September date. Bonnaroo is doing an early September date. And Hard Summer, which is like an LA one, which is mostly like EDM and shit, but I think 2 Chainz will be there. It's going to be at the end of July. At the end of July? July 31st to August 1st. That's not even the end of July? July 31st to August 1st. That's not even the end of summer. Could you maybe really late August

and give us a chance to... Because we're only opening up vaccinations to everyone in LA April 18th. And there's a lot of us here. That's millions of people we got to get through. And not just that. It's going to be all the people traveling into LA. Yes. Yeah, that's good. Or to these other places. Right, right. You know what I mean?

It's just... and i'm looking let me just read this fucking lineup for bonnaroo because it's not like there it's not like some shit where you're like well fuck the hell no i'm not fucking putting my life at risk for foo fighters megan the stallion ronda jules janelle monet death tones tame impala lizzo uh g easy i meanEazy for me. Incubus, though. Oh, hell yeah. Tyler, the Creator, Lil Baby, Lana Del Rey, Leon Bridges.

It's a fucking full-blown festival. Brittany Howard and Phoebe Bridges is going to be there. They've got your alternative chicks, your rap chicks, your old school rock band. There's something for everyone. it's a problem are you a trippy psychedelic use in person then strap up for king gizzard and the lizard wizard i mean prime is disco biscuit and nelly on one day what's a trip what's a trip is that the artists are protected you know like you know the artists are going to be social distancing and they're all vaccinated. Yeah, mostly vaccinated.

But even if they are not vaccinated or anti-vaxxed, they're still going to have their tiny little area. Nobody's allowed to be over there. That's what's fucking crazy about it. It's like the people at risk are going to be the people in the audience. Yeah. And you know, San Diego Comic-Con just announced they're coming back this year too not wait when not thanksgiving weekend they're gonna do san diego comic-con we're gonna do the

busiest travel fucking weekend of all the fucking what it makes very little sense uh for a lot of perspectives like for one thing uh some people haven't been home in two years. It's been a long time since people have seen Family. I don't know how many people are going to take the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and be like, no, Family, I've got comics to look at. Yeah, I got to go see what's happening at Hall C. Particularly after the 2018 Comic-Con. I'm sorry, 2019 Comic-Con, where we saw a lot of major studios. They're not releasing as much. They're not announcing a lot of like major studios like they're not releasing as much they're not um showcasing not announcing a lot of like sweet drops it's it's a changing thing and so

to do it thanks get i mean really it just seems to me like we can wait another year like 2021 most people vaccinated will have figured out a way on a smaller scale i know movie theaters are starting to experiment with like are we checking cards before people come in to see if they got vaccinated are we doing vaccinated only screenings and then some not like there's a lot of things we have to figure out as a society like how we want to move forward but this seems chaotic this is so reckless though because it's this is the kind of shit that people are going to take as cues to being like, oh, we're done. It's over. It's over.

Because previously, the indicators from my perspective and my world was that the music festivals were gone. So that meant shit was real or whatever it was for people to say it's coming back and like, yo, get together, sweat on each other, pass fucking drugs around mouth to mouth, whatever the fuck you're going to do and breathe on each other uh pass fucking drugs around mouth to mouth whatever the fuck you're gonna do and breathe on each other it's okay because lizzo and tame impala are gonna fucking shell the stage on night two like yo this it's it's more just about like getting back to normal these are things that are gonna i'm not joking like i'm curious to know how much this could actually affect people's behavior right now

to see lineups like this being announced. I mean, it might be helping them stay home and save money so that they could have a full-blown anti-vax weekend in September.

Yeah. It's just tough. It's fucking weird. I agree. It's fucking weird. Because we're already like, you know, the vaccine rollouts

are getting wonky where people with means are finding ways to jump the line. Other people are like, I didn't even know I was eligible because I'm living

in an underserved part of the community where there's little outreach. But people who are at the Gelson's are all that. Oh, okay. And then, you know,

like then we have a growing number of people, especially conservatives that are becoming vaccine skeptics, OK. And then, you know, like then we have a growing number of people, especially conservatives, that are becoming vaccine skeptics. So it's not we're not dealing with positivity all around this situation. So it's I mean, look, I hope it works. It's definitely complicated the matter that like even if vaccines are available, people are anti-vax. So it's like, well, what do you do with these rapidly expiring vaccines right maybe you know send them to the global south uh where there is an absolute shortage of vaccines because the western would be too logical miles are hoarding them who thinks like that you know

some cuck snowflake oh man well Marcella thanks for joining us today oh my god thanks for having me always a pleasure can I unfortunately plug dates inside of a comedy club yeah please I mean look you gotta get you look we're all trying to live so yeah where can people find you follow you I'm doing socially distant shows

in Fort Collins and Boulder April 14th and April 18th Comedy Fort on the 14th and the Ray Beck Collective in Boulder on the 18th so if you guys want to come

I know you're in Colorado I know they are a lot of them are vaccinated in Denver so people are getting vaccinated in Denver? hell yeah Colorado I guess the numbers are low A lot of them are vaccinated in Denver. People are getting vaccinated in Denver? Hell yeah. Damn. Colorado, I guess the numbers are low and the vaccines are high.

So as high as the altitude. There you go. And as high as the people there too, man, with the free legalized weed. Come on. We're right. Actually, go see Marcella's show because it'll actually be funny. And it's on a Wednesday and a Sunday. I'm not ready to commit to weekend dates yet um because i'm very petrified of this shit but yeah how how's

your like re-entry anxiety from it's uh it's uh i mean it's interesting i'll say that i did a show a socially distant outside show in la on sunday two shows and it was cool and you know but the worry is still there you know like like, how could it not spread? I mean, that's I think that's why those festival things kind of blow my mind because I'm like, don't we all just kind of want to go slow and see how this happens? Like, see how it unfolds as opposed to just being like around thousands of people. I mean, you would think that you would, you know, want to, you know, slow and steady wins the race. Right. So because I get that people do

want to like do shit but i mean a festival is not on my priority list that's what the other day i was saying like i'm trying to you know slowly turn up the volume on my social life again yeah like i was saying like you know maybe when if like it's it's safer and like everyone like we're all vaccinated and shit i'm like okay let's go to a movie right i mean and then but like on a tuesday at 11 30 in the morning like exactly and we're not and we're gonna meet up in front of the theater right and then we'll catch up a little bit watch the movie at the end exchange some ideas about what we just saw and then go home and then panic like oh my god that was a lot that was i know i mean and that's the thing it's like i want to do the little things you know but i don't I don't want to do the big things just yet.

And not on like the spicy days, you know, like it shocks me that people are out on the weekend eating in a restaurant. I'm like, for what, guys? For what? Yeah. Because I need to be served. I need to be served. That's that shit. That's that shit.

Yeah, I know. I don't understand the difference. What's the difference? Because the food isn't that much hotter if you could just pick it up right when it's good and ready and then eat it. Um, okay. And,

uh, but other than that, uh, what about on social, you know, where can they find you? At Marcella comedy. I'm barely tweeting these days.

I'm barely IG. My IG is on private cause I got a stalker. Um, but you guys can send me a friend request on IG. Um, and I try, I try, I tweet every once in a while now I'm really off of it, which is crazy to think, but you guys can send me a friend request on ig um and i try i try i tweet every once in a while now i'm really off of it which is crazy to think but you know what i'm not at all i'm

i'm i'm saying crazy to think of how it used to be you know like i'm i'm happy to be off of it but it's just it's wild to think like how aggressively i was on twitter before right yeah i mean i mean because i think once once like you're forced to like really prioritize like your well-being in such a fucked up year i know like that shit goes like down the list well it was like it was what i did on my free time you know like in between shit or doing you know like if i was working it's like oh i need a break i'm gonna sit down just be on my on my phone you know because i didn't have i didn't always have like the mental focus for like picking up a book always you know right and now it's like i know that being on twitter is a lot it is everybody's mad about

something every day like there was one day i went on and like comedians were fighting about some comedy shit salvadorians are fighting about some salvadorian shit and then and then like the general news was just like unfolding and people were mad about that and i was like i i why am i here yeah i mean even with the shooting in atlanta i was like man fucking even like i'm watching black and asian people discuss like whether who hates who more if there's hate and i'm like that shit is wild like fast track to get off the internet i'm like no no no this ain't no it's sad when people these aren't the people that are going to solve it either right it's sad when people don't know the history you know like yeah you know not that everybody should suddenly just be informed

but like it's i guess it's also sad watching people learn about shit that you wish everybody already knew and it also contributes to why this shit is continues to stay terrible you know yeah absolutely but so because of that you probably have a tweet that you've been fucking with that you know what i did see one hey all right it's actually you know i think my friend sent it to me that's what it was she sent it to shout out to rosie daddy rosie it was from I want to say, at Nazir Artad. I don't know. N-A-Z-E-R-A-R-T-A-U-D. Artad. And it said, y'all are worried about Lil Nas X giving the devil a lap dance. When I was 12, I witnessed the devil in a gay relationship with Saddam Hussein.

Your children will be fine. Because on South Park, the devil was in a relationship. And that shit was so. And we watched it. And we loved it. Classic. It was classic. They were And we watched it and we loved it. It was classic. They were fucking.

Yeah. Yes. Regularly. It wasn't even a lap dance. And then Lil Nas X, in a way, like, he handled the devil. Yeah, yeah, exactly. He said, I'm off to your head. I mean, the devil is bitch. Yeah, he said it.

Full split on that. He was, yeah, he was ready. Also, like, to not examine the full message of that video and just be like, look, he's trying to bring the devil to us. Like, well, way to miss the point. Yeah. And he even had a press release with it to help you understand the allegory. Yeah. But who knows?

That's fine. He's bodying all these people on Twitter. Yeah. And the song's good, too. I'm like, is he going to start missing? Because I thought when Panini came out, I was like man how the fuck does this shit go he has a really good ear for hooks yeah um like you know it's i think that's like one of his greatest strengths is like he has really good gay men love hooks they love a hook yeah they were raised on them they love them i mean not since 50 cent was someone just coming out with all the back-to-back songs that were just about the hooks.

And this time, the music's actually good. You just called 50 Cent gay. I knew it. I knew it. I'm calling him a fake-ass millionaire for sure. Every time he's like, hey, I ain't really fucking with Biden's tax plan. Oh, my God. That's a great 50.

That's hilarious. Miles. You just got to talk like your mouth. Oh my god, that's a great 50. That's hilarious. Miles. You know, you just get a tack like your mouth, always like this, you know, and that's 50 cents. And then just come at people inappropriately all the time on the internet. Joelle, what about you? Where can people find you, follow

you, support you, hear you, and what's the tweet you like? Yeah, we're doing fake doctors, real friends, once a week. Come see the internal lives of Zach and Donald it's good times over there you can find me on the internet it's J-O-E-L-L-E-M-O-N-I-Q-U-E my tweet this week is from

Julia Young she's at OK Julia her tweet is do Kong and Godzilla kiss at all or am I wasting my time on this dumb movie and I think that's the energy we could all be carrying this weekend as we get ready for that epic movie watching in home theaters. Yeah. I ship everybody and

everything. So hopefully, Julia. Hopefully they do kiss. We shall see. We shall see. Some tweets I like too are from Reductress. The first one at Reductress says man who hurt you upset you told people he hurt you. And it has like this guy in it, like it was like kind of a dick move.

Like as a picture. Yeah, that's what that's called reaping what you sow. And then another just one more just from Reductress again, just crushed. It says, man, pretty angry for someone who has never had their rights settled by a Supreme Court case. Boy, yep. True, true, true. angry for someone who has never had their rights settled by a Supreme court case. Oh boy. Yep. True, true,

true. Uh, you can find me at miles of gray on Twitter and Instagram and other, other podcasts for 20 day fiance. Uh, and that's on Twitch too. Twitch.tv slash for 20 day fiance. And let's see.

Um, you can find us on Twitter at daily zeitgeist at the daily zeitgeist On Instagram, we've got a Facebook fan page And a website, and we can find our episodes And our footnotes As well as the song we're going to ride out on And this one is actually Just for the old West Coast heads This is kind of like a

Sort of a funky house-ish remix Of Forgot About Dre From the Chronic 2001 album It's the Forgot About Dre from the Chronic 2001 album. It's the Forgot About Dre, Smocie, and X Says Edit. S-M-O-C-H-I-E-X-C-E-Z. And you can only get that one on SoundCloud, but the link will be there in the footnotes if you just want to have a little bounce to your Chronic 2001.

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