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Episode Date: July 29, 2020

In episode 682, Miles and guest host Scam Goddess Laci Mosley are joined by comedian Noah Gardenswartz to discuss William Barr defending the presence of federal law enforcement agents at the Portland protests, Trump's fake Yankee stadium pitch, Trump's campaign and Republican in-fighting, the investigation into Ellen DeGeneres Show's workplace, the one percenters Coachella in the Hamptons, and more!FOOTNOTES: Barr Expected To Condemn Protests As ‘Assault’ On American Government At House Hearing Trump Announced, Then Canceled, a Yankees Pitch. Both Came as a Surprise. Trumpists Explode Over GOP’s Thirsty-for-Cash Texts Team Trump’s Mounting Fear: His Base Will Abandon Him ‘Ellen DeGeneres Show’ Workplace Under Investigation by WarnerMedia (EXCLUSIVE) Here's Everything We Know About the Chainsmokers' Upcoming Drive-In Concert Andrew Cuomo Is Livid About That Packed Chainsmokers Show in the Hamptons WATCH: Khruangbin - Pelota (Official Video) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So get the hell on out. It's Wednesday, July 29th, 2020. My name is Miles Gray, a.k.a. each one my name is miles gray aka okay just so you know that's the that's the instrumental that's still not a player by big pun i don't want to smoke alone no more i don't have covid i just cough a lot but miles still gotta smoke indoors uh thank you so much to matt dick though at matt dick though for that one and also you know what for good measure, you did write the verse. So, hey, I'm still rolling papers, bless that B flavored. Smoking that papa, ha ha, see you later.

I'm gone, zeitgeist sweet, zeitgeist speaks, and a tweet. Jack O'Bee, 10,000 each. I mean, you had that going there. I wish the beat was there, so otherwise I just sound like a man busking on the corner. But without further ado, allow me to introduce somebody with more talent than I, especially as a vocal performer and comedian and just generally as an entity. It is the one and only Scam Goddess herself, Lacey Mosley. Hey, what's up?

Okay, I could not get an AKA in time. But it's Lacey Mosley, AKA. Scam.k.a. Sorry, guys. I didn't have time to. I did write that, but I didn't have time. You are evil. You're evil. I'm doing that a lot lately. Yeah, when really just trust the force, trust in your own abilities.

That's really the lesson today. Lacey, please help me welcome today's guest. Somebody who has been on the show numerous times, but it's been far too long. Somebody who I'm always like, man, bro, I just want to hang out with this dude more. Please help me welcome the hilarious and talented Noah Gardensports. Thank you so much for having me wonderful to be back i'm not gonna try aka after lacy just hit the vocals like that i'll

just say happy to be back wonderful to be here with both of you yes and congrats on your new family as well i realized your your son was born in the yeah i'll be no, a.k.a. New Dad. Yeah. Yeah. We just had a baby boy two months ago. Okay. And how was, did you have the bris yet? When did you have the bris? Yeah, we had the bris. You typically have the bris on the eighth day. We had to wait until the tenth day because he was borderline jaundiced and everything has to be medically cleared.

So we just had to get his levels down a little bit. And it was the new frontier. You know know everyone's been doing the zoom bris normally it's it's a big to do with all the family and friends you have a whole lot of people we actually just had me my wife uh the moyle and then my sister lives in new york and esther's mother drove up from florida to be here for the first two weeks so there were just the five of us. Oh, dope. Very exclusive. We recorded it and sent it out to some of the family to watch on a YouTube link. How many people get the Brist link? How big is that invite circle?

Well, we sent the link out to probably 25 people just because I have a huge family. I mean, we definitely weren't sending it out to a lot of people. And your family's heavy in the rabbinic game, if I'm not mistaken, correct? Yeah, I have a pretty observant family. So a lot of them. And your family's like heavy in the rabbinic game, if I'm not mistaken, correct? Yeah, I have a pretty observant family. So a lot of them were anxious to see the ceremony.

Not, we didn't do a close-up on the actual cutting of the foreskin. You didn't give them angles? You didn't give them angles? No, what's funny is- For a second screen experience. No, you know what? My wife, Esther, actually set up the camera

where like the angle was unfortunately kind of right on it. But she did some clever editing where the speeches and the actual ceremony was done. And then she did a star swipe screen cutaway on the actual cutting. Oh, Esther's killing it. That's good editing. I love it. Well, Noah, we're going to get to know a little bit more about you. Even better, even more, even deeper into who you are.

But let's just talk a little bit, give them a preview about what's on the show docket today. Going to talk about Bill Barr, the attorney general. You know, he's supposed to speak to the, you know, to Congress on Tuesday to talk about, you know, what the fuck is going on with all these federal goons in the street. We'll talk about what, you know, just nonsense and outright lies we'll be saying there. Then we'll have to get into a little bit about what is going on with Trump and the Republican Party. Just some interest. The desperation is there, which is not sure what to make of it quite yet. Then we'll also talk about, you know, in honor of the scam goddess, somebody who finessed a PPP loan and

secured some luxury items with that loan, as well as, you know, a 1% or Coachella that went down in the Hamptons, because that was wild, just visual to even look at. But first, before we get into all of that, Noah, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? What's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Well, the last thing I searched was the definition of the word auspicious. Because we were watching Indian Matchmaker. If you haven't seen on Netflix, it's a pretty dope watch. And they kept on saying matches had auspicious timing.

And I think a lot of people confuse auspicious with suspicious and think that it has a negative connotation. But it's actually a good thing. I thought that, but I just wanted to make sure. I guess that'll let you know that I like to have my vocab correct. Exactly. Especially, there's no half-stepping with their vocab. Have you seen... Wait, Lacey, you said you had already watched the entire

series, right? Indian matchmaking? Oh, yes. I devoured it. I still have five to go uh but i'm well i just i love it what did you think of houston's very own that was rough man but but you know what here's what i'll say after a few episodes it became abundantly clear to me that a parna's mom was the problem not so much Aparna because as soon as they got her mom out the way and she met with the astrologist and she started taking the matchmaker's advice to heart and just kind of doing her own thing she definitely had a positive shift in her

attitude and then when you could see the way her mom would speak about the matches or even about her own life you could tell that she was putting a lot of pain from her past on Aparna and ruining the whole thing yeah that's what's interesting, too. In a way, it's almost like therapy, because I'm sure for a lot of kids who have overbearing parents or Asian parents, immigrant parents, who try very hard to get you to this country to get a good life for you,

then there's this secondary thing of, I cannot let my parents down, no matter what. And then, yeah, you begin to see that. And she definitely had that. Yeah. Aparna had that. But also, Aparna was just like sometimes her like specifics that she wanted for people she was hurting you just hate having she

was hurting she was hurting I don't want a guy who's funny like why are you trying to make jokes right I don't want to laugh she's hurting I was like what you mean when she said that I was like you are hurting you're hurting yeah she was hurting a lot and also like baby girl traveling is not a personality like how you do like every, she was like, I've been to 40 countries. And had nothing but bad stuff to say about everywhere she traveled. She loved to travel, but also hated everywhere she traveled to. Yeah. Oh, wow.

She's like, I've been to Bali. It's ass. Hated it. Yeah. You're so right. She hated everywhere she went. And then she would say very specific niche things. I can't remember.

She said she wanted to go. Have you ever been touges in belgium it's so ghetto right she was like i want to go see the flamingos in this one very specific river you don't know about it yeah no she was she was horrified that someone didn't know i think about like the salt deposits in bolivia or something i mean that's what it was facts though really though if you don't like why are we even why are you even on this date? That's why I give them one hour. I go to the perfect wine. I go to a perfect wine bar. They're setting up the table.

They're tearing down the restaurant within 45 minutes. Yeah, that was a it was an interesting watch. But I would have lots of guards up. But you know what? That's actually interesting. I might take that from her, though, as well. Like find a spot that closes like that. Oh, yeah.

No, the time that that one I was actually like, no, that closes like that oh yeah no the time that one i was actually like no she's on to something there because if the date's going well you can go somewhere afterwards closing but it's not like all right well i guess we gotta get out of here but this was not and if it's trash they start to turn the lights off as soon as you arrive right you're like oh damn something's going on uh no what's something that you think is overrated? Okay, this is controversial. I've recently discovered Dr. Seuss is hella overrated. In having to read the children's books to my baby. Let me tell you something.

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish is trash. Trash. Those are the original bars. Listen, no. Dr. Seuss has hits. He's got hits. I'm not trying to take away some of his great ones but everyone just knows the one fish two fish red fish blue fish I defy anyone to

read all 30 to 40 pages of that book out loud to yourself your friends or your child and not be like this is garbage wait there's more than just that one page that says one fish two fish red fish blue fish exactly that's what I'm saying wait what they be saying what's the rest of it i've never heard anything else do you have a zoink go get a yoink how much zoink can a yoink go boink it's just like it's gibberish and lazy writing

oh man i'm sticking but listen i'm sticking he was on a wave he was on a wave you know like he was just writing that shit they're like right i mean it's going off the kids are loving he was the shakespeare of our time come on now one fish two fish red fish i'm saying he he's allowed to rest on his laurels of a good catch title no one's reading the entire anthology and realizing how lazy the book got i don't think i've ever i remember even as a kid getting tired of it like maybe green eggs and ham is the only one i've read all the way because i can kind of remember what it was about everything else i'm like yo this is just some shit and he's got green eggs and ham green eggs and ham as bars i think i forget the title thing it's like the sneetches and the star belly fish or something that was all oh yeah star belly yeah and like so he's got some heat like i'm not i'm not saying as a whole he presents no value

but i'm saying he's overrated if If you look at the whole, yeah. Because right now you sound a little bit like Lil Xan when he said Tupac was overrated. Right. And those kids pressed him at the Del Taco in Cerritos. I don't know if you saw that video. It was like Lil Xan. No, but I'll write harder for Tupac than I will for Dr. Seuss. No, but I just, in the beginning, the vibe of Lacey and I were like, Dr. Seuss.

Okay, somebody better let him know. Well, you know what? I will say this. Dr. Seuss. Okay, somebody better let him know. Well, you know what? I will say this. Dr. Seuss was getting the coins, right? So he had the popping books, but sometimes when you're getting coins to just crank out a book every now and then, you gotta crank out some mid at some point. I mean, there's truly a song that's

put on a happy face by Destiny's Child, and I listened to it the other day in the car and realized that I think they just didn't write the song. It's like, I'm breathing, I'm grateful, so put on a happy face. They have a good chorus and then everything else is like people

on the beat, like Kelly Rowland comes on, she's like, it's me. And that's it. I was like, where's the song at? And then Michelle comes on, she's like, everything's gonna be alright, everything's gonna be okay. And I was like, no's the song at? And then Michelle comes on. She's like, everything's going to be all right. Everything's going to be okay. And I was like, no one wrote this song.

But you know that they couldn't give Michelle the It's Me lyric because no one would know who it was. Oh, no. Is she okay? I feel like Kelly. I mean, I always hear about Kelly. Tenetra? Tenetra is doing just fine. Oh, I mean, not Tenetra. Okay, yeah.

Everybody. That's Kelly. Michelle's real name is Tenetra. Okay, yeah. Well, everybody. That's Kelly. That's Michelle's real name is Tenitra. Really? It is? Yes. They took that girl's name away

because they said her name was together. They all got the names. Beyonce, Calandria, and Tenitra. Yeah. That's Destiny's Child. See what happens? They Ellis Islanded their names.

Wait, Beyonce is the only one that got to stay as a real name? Beyonce. Of course. And her name is literally a last name that her mom would like z name. Of course. And her name is literally a last name that her mama like zhuzhed up.

The last name is Beyonce and then she made it Beyonce. Wow. You know what, Tina? Dude, you know what, Tina? All right. There needs to be a Tina Knowles name generator.

You know what I mean? Right. Like you put your name in and it gets Tina Knowles-ified. Honestly, that's classy. Somebody build that. Yeah. Ooh, Solange Selectives selectives yeah i remember that shampoo um no what is something that you think is underrated okay here's something very uh probably specific to me but underrated was having a child during a global

pandemic a lot of people assumed that it was going to be horrible when they heard that we were pregnant or expecting but honestly i have all day every day to be home with my newborn and i'm getting that quality time with my baby that i never otherwise would have gotten or had to fight for paternity leave that might not have been given to me so this has been the one blessing in disguise of this entire situation because between like working on shows or gigging on the road and stuff what it had had this not happened. Well, how much time did you foresee you having with your son?

Uh, I don't, I mean, I would have, I would have both of you. Cause your wife is also right. And as well, I would,

I would have blocked off a few months of not doing the road like that. Yeah, for sure. Turn down the road. But, um, as far as being in the writer's room, I would have been in there probably nine to six every day.

And so based on his hours of sleep and I might've got home for bath time and putting him to bed but i really would not have had a lot of great time with him and now i honestly the understanding i have of him i understand what he needs and wants when he cries based on the different pitches the communication is on point he smiles when he sees me because he knows me so well it's just been a blessing yeah no you better take time to be a dad yes like that like those psa's we were just talking about that yesterday have you been have It's just been a blessing. Yeah. Oh, no, you better take time to be a dad. Yes. Like those PSAs. We were just talking about that yesterday. Have you been, have you taken time to be a dad today? He's taking all the time.

That's how you know fatherhood is a scam. Because even though you saying like fighting for paternity leave, like that shouldn't be a thing. Like there absolutely should just be paternity leave for men in this country. But we really have scammed this country into believing that women are the only people who need to take care of their children or who even want to. To the point where it's confusing to companies. Like, why would we give the man time to go take care of the child? What do you mean? Huh?

No. Anyway. But that pandemic fatherhood. Yeah, that pandemic fatherhood is hitting. So if the bubonic plague seems to be on the rise again and you're in a good relationship, maybe take off that condom and go for it. Knuckle down and be there for the shorties. What's like one of the first lessons you learned like as a dad?

You know, like I feel like I was just even babysitting like or watching my niece over the weekend and I had like instant realizations about like gears you have to shift mentally to make this thing work, fatherhood, parenthood. I mean, I think the proof will be in the putting down the road. But one thing I'm doing that I think will pay dividends is i don't baby talk to him i speak to him in

complete sentences i speak to him like a goddamn man yeah i use this i use this voice when i speak to him no matter what i'm talking about and so unless i'm reading that bullshit one fish two fish then you're like one fish two feet but no no, I already feel like he's going to be very communicative and that his verbal is going to be on point. Although I do feel like you've been disrespecting Dr. Seuss to your baby, which ain't. No, that's the thing. I still read in the books. I still read in the books. Right, right.

That is something, though, yeah, I realized. I think even my parents wouldn't baby talk, just straight shooting. If you had a question, like, what's drugs? They're like, which ones? And I'm like, oh, okay, well, I'm not ready for this conversation. I will come back when I have a more specific answer. But yeah, I think there's also that. The thing I learned early on, I wish I would have had my core more on point

because my lower back is already on fire just from bending over, picking up this little 15-pound baby all the time. If I had maybe tightened up a little bit before he arrived, I think I'd be in a slightly better physical shape. Yeah. You can use him as a weight now. Yeah, I have no choice. Yeah, Esther's doing 15-pound baby squats with him to try to get back.

There you go. Just start doing some high-intensity interval training with your baby just as like a new kettlebell, you know? Yeah. I think that all works. He seems like a quiet baby, too. My sister was very colicky. We're 13 years apart.

And she is only alive today because of Law & Order SVU. Because there was an episode about shaking baby syndrome. And I was like, oh, you can't shake the baby. It'll kill it. Okay. That's the only reason she's alive. Wait, because you were about to shake the baby? I was about to shake the hell out of my sister.

She would just scream for hours on end about nothing. She would be changed, hair laid, fed. Shout out to SVU. Yeah, but you're saying because you as a childhood witness SVU, you're like, actually, that's off the table. Mariska Harkity saved my sister's life. Wow. That's lovely. Because she could scream for hours she's got lungs on her right and i would just be like because like at the time we were staying in a hotel i was babysitting her every day our house

was being built in texas and so i was just like in a hotel room with her all day and she'd just be screaming for wow oh didn't you tell her that all the time? You're like, you came this close. Came this close if it weren't for Mariska Hargitay. That's why Mariska's the highest paid actress on TV. She's literally out here saving lives. I was 13. Moses is chill. Honestly, he eats a lot

but unless he's hungry, he's cool. Right. Finally, Noah, what's a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false or vice versa? Well, I don't know that a lot of people think it's true, but I'll say based on stories and tweets that have been surfacing over the last few weeks, I would like to attack the myth head on that white Jews are fake Jews that stole the identity of the original Israelites. And I'm not even here to take away Judaism or identity from anyone else. I'm not here to say that the original Israelites were white because we all know that they weren't the original Israelites and Hebrews were absolutely black or brown. But I, as an Ashkenazi Jew, am not here as a result of identity theft.

Right. Right. I am also truly a Jew. That was more the result of diaspora and expulsion that led into Europe. Yeah. I like the way that you phrase this because. You mean what? I was going to say, Noah, man, you're not going to go to a barbershop with that talk, man. Right. yeah i like the way that you phrase this because you mean what you know i was gonna say no man

you're not gonna be able to go to a barber shop with that talk man right this is peak hotel yeah okay we what a real hebrew israel yeah this is like nick cannon got caught up there cannon yeah it's getting hot out there yeah it's really something else girl that's why you got your period like very hotel it's top peak hotel yeah it's um it's girl that's why you got your period like very hotep it's top peak hotep yeah it's um it's it very many interesting conversations had to be had i know people who work at the radio station where nick cannon records his show at i used to work there power 106 and you know i saw some people defending him and i'm like what are you doing exactly and they're like well like him as a person like he's good to me i'm like but the thing you have

to understand is what he said on his face is just just bold anti-Semitism. Like, no, I'm not I'm not even coming for Nick specifically. Not even that. I'm just yet. Right. But like all the statements that had been coming out when it started with Deshaun Jackson's repost of a fake Hitler quote is like. Right. I can't speak for every Jew, but I know I was never bothered or offended by the idea that the original Hebrews were black. I don't think anyone was arguing that or upset by that. I was offended by the idea that the identity was then stolen by white Jews who are using the Hebrew identity to dominate the world through a Zionist global agenda. And I'm like, now you're just talking tinfoil hat shit.

Right, right, right. Yeah. Oof. at you right right right yeah i will say though i think that in polarizing times we do start to see like our jewish brothers and sisters kind of come back out of the woodwork because i won't lie i do i have felt at times i want to articulate this in a way that's clear and not offensive but like some minorities have been able to not be minorities at times. Oh, sure. Whereas I've never had the privilege to do that. Absolutely. And so I think that some of the things that they're saying

comes from this animosity of like, oh, we're not allowed to not ever be minorities. Like, you know what I mean? Oh, absolutely. But it's articulated in a horrible way, and it's very anti-Semitic, and it's not even accurate, which is why it's so embarrassing to see so many people defending it because I think where their real angst

comes from is that and not from white Jewish people stealing identities. Yeah, I mean, I will say this. I don't think there's any question that both racism and anti-Semitism exists. And I also don't think there's any question that it's more difficult to be black in America and arguably in the world than it is to be Jewish in America. So there's a lot of layers to this discussion. I'll also say that I think the Jewish community

could have been better over several decades of not resting on the, we marched with King in the 1960s. So we're always like, there's absolutely ways that the Jewish community in general could have been better allies over the years and over the decades

with the black community. Not to say that there aren't Jews or the Jewish community that has consistently been on that. Like, I would like to think that I have always been a good ally to the black community,

but I'm just one person. But that is a separate discussion from the idea that white Jews aren't Jews at all. Like, we're talking about two different things. And they're conflating. Right, there's absolutely validity to what you were saying.

And I think frustrations boil over and then discussions bleed into each other and things get said that have nothing to do with each other. But in terms of the myth, I'm trying to dispel, I'm trying to get rid of the myth that white Jews are fake Jews. Yeah, and I think even with a lot of the times where people were coming out with those, just those conspiracy theories,

and then when they had to realize, they're like, oh, right, what I said is dangerous and bad. Actually, I don't mean that. Then there was a secondary effect where people were like, why are you letting these white people silence you? And then there was another level

of not examining what was being said, and this whole thing was being reduced to like, you see what happens when you speak the truth, and you get silenced. It's like, mm, that's dangerous. It becomes like a snake eating its tail, where it's like, OK, you say Jews control the media. Then you get in trouble by Jews or in the in the media. And all of a sudden Jews look bad for calling out anti-Semitism just because they're using the media to call out the anti-Semitism that was spread through it. So it's like damned if you do, damned if you don't. Well, also I think that what people forget

is that anti-Semitism and the whispers of Jewish people having control and power are literally what sent Germany into the Holocaust. So it's like hate speech is so dangerous and you can't get upset with people for silence, stopping it immediately because it's killed people. It's been so dangerous. But I think people don't want to look at it as like, oh, me saying that is actually anti-Semitism.

I think it's like a very narrow way to preserve your ego to be like, what I said is facts. And therefore, what you can take from that, I'm not going to I'm not interested in the nuance of what I said. That's what I said. nuance of what I said. That's what I said. Right. And deeper than that, I will say a lot of Jewish people aren't even educated on Jewish history to the point where like anytime anti-Semitism arises, Jewish people are always Holocaust, Holocaust, Holocaust. But the truth is there's been anti-Semitism that has hurt Jewish people based on economic anti-Semitism or the rumors of trying to dominate or control things since the beginning of European civilization. And so it's like it's been happening for way longer than before 1940. Right.

And so that's where it gets dangerous. There's a historical precedent going back to the 800, 900, 1200, 1400, where Jews were expelled from countries or attempted to be genocided over the thought that they were controlling finances or, you know, the media or resources of the time. So that's where it gets historically dangerous. But that being said, it's a tough time. A lot of people are frustrated and there's a lot of misdirected frustration and anger. And I understand.

Yeah. And also just because anti-blackness is pervasive. So, you know, I think a lot of that is just reactionary behavior from people who don't understand that they're talking about two completely different things. And it's really disappointing, though. I love that Nick Cannon apologized. I know you weren't speaking specifically about him, but his apology felt very sincere. I loved it.

I loved it. Honestly, it was like I wasn't sitting around waiting for an apology from anyone, but I thought that his apology was incredibly authentic, sincere. I was moved by it. I appreciated it. And I'll say to kind of wrap up the subject, because I don't want to dominate the show with this topic, but I will say that one thing I've been very outspoken for is it's incredibly important that Jewish people out there don't use this as an excuse not to continue to support the black community in their fight for equality. I think it's really, really important now than ever that jews double down on their allyship support black lives matter support black causes and continue to build that relationship as

opposed to letting this be a bridge that burns down absolutely and also we're not a monolith we're not all hoteps like yeah yeah i also i also don't think the things that have been said are representative of the popular black community's thoughts but't think the things that have been said are representative of the popular black community's thoughts but the right the reason that kind of amplified is there's it's being said by a lot of black people who have large platforms over the last few weeks it's just intensified with black celebrities coming out i'm saying it's a it's a wild how many like old hip-hop people i've had to put down because of that i'm like damn pete rock i guess i will just reminisce over you now.

How you used to be. You're embarrassing us. You're embarrassing us. But also, I want to say, Noah, that's actually to just cap this. When people offend a specific group or anyone, it's never the responsibility of people who are their fans or whoever to accept their apology so the fact that you said you read his apology and you thought it was sincere to me means more than me

thinking that because i wasn't the person who was offended you know what i mean yeah so yeah see all good moving forward and positivity and love well yeah and i think that's what that's really what's going on. I think it just shows how fraught the whole environment is and how tense everything is because it's palpable. I mean, aside from the financial, economic, and existential risks that have already existed that are only being exacerbated by the pandemic now, we're attempting to have some kind of reckoning with white supremacy

and systemic racism in the country on top of like a thing where we're like what's going to happen in the election is this going to be some kind of total fuck fest what what is going to happen we just don't know so yeah it's uh very tense times which is why we all got to just take a second remember you know we all got it we're all on the same team most Most of the time. Most of the time. Most of the time. I would say actually most of the time. Yeah, 99% of the time. Unless you're in that 1%. Okay, let's take a quick break,

and we're going to be right back and get into some stories. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds. Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised $150,000 in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments in 80s pop culture.

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So, you know, he had to go to Capitol Hill Tuesday because he has some explaining to do as lawmakers wanted to know what was going on with this federal response to protests. And I think based on now, as we record this, we haven't actually heard his remarks, but his prepared remarks were released by the Justice Department. So we do have an idea of what his testimony is going to be. Again, they're really curious to know what is going on in Portland and these other cities. You have people hopping out of unmarked vans, snatching people up, shooting people, blinding them, maiming them. It just seems completely out of control and actually antithetical if you're trying to establish order because all it seems to be doing is riling people up more. So what is actually going on? I think most cynical people are saying this is just propaganda. So Trump has some visuals to be like, you see who cleans up the streets? Little Donnie. But this is an idea of what he's going to say based on his prepared remarks.

That Barr will decrise the violence taking place in Portland and other cities, claiming that they are disconnected from the death of George Floyd, which he described, quote, as a horrible event. He then simultaneously undermines the message of racial justice demanded by protesters in written remarks by saying that although Floyd's death was a, quote, shocking event, end quote, the police killing the police killing of, as he puts it, quote, unarmed black men is, quote, fortunately quite rare, end quote. That's what we're just lying now. We just we're not even going to try to do facts no more. That's just so next level.

That's some next level bullshit. Fortunately, the killing of unarmed black men is fortunately quite rare. It's so chill. It never happens. There's not just an inexhaustible list of victims of police violence. Okay. And then as he goes on, he goes on to rebuke the demonization of police violence. Okay. And then as he goes on, that he goes on to rebuke the demonization of police and suggest that crime rates increase when communities, quote, turn on their police,

because that makes police more, quote, risk averse and crime rates soar. So not only so, let's just, I guess, take it apart piece by piece. First, he's going to say that the protesters are disconnected from the death of George Floyd. That is complete nonsense. I mean, maybe you can say very specifically, are they there exactly for George Floyd and actually not to hold their own police department accountable for the untold atrocities that they've committed? I think either one. But it's still the sentiment is still the same that people are there for justice, racial justice. Right. They're playing semantics they're there for the social cause that

led to things like george floyd's death happening even if they're not there directly protesting george floyd exactly and i guess that's one way to again delegitimize what's happening uh and then saying that yeah that this that it's even if it's shocking that it's a rare event that is a that's just completely disingenuous i think there's plenty uh of information out there that would say otherwise um but yeah this is kind of what is being done to a i think for people who just watch at home it might not be as connected to the issues that are going on and they see his words they might think that because the way he's going to put it is that there are anarchists and outside agitators who are actually doing this rather than trying to actually let people know that the situation is so bad that these people have been in the streets for 50, 60 plus days protesting because they know that there is a terrible, terrible problem in this

country. And that's what they're trying to avoid with this kind of shit. And just to illustrate this with numbers, let's just pick one city, New York City, right? Black people, 73% of the shooting victims are black in New York City. And black people only make up 24% of the population. So the fact that he even tried to say that we don't have a problem, like, I'm just so tired of being gaslit by racists. Like, we all know what's happening here. And the thing that really is infuriating about Trump is, is that racists and evil ass white people used to at least try to tell the truth or some sort of semblance of the truth. But now it's

just like everyone is fully willing to go to court or go anywhere and just make things up. It's like you don't even have to prepare because you're going to sit down and just make things up. Donald Trump lies so much that we literally have so many fact checkers who can't even keep up with the lies. It's in the tens of thousands now. And I think this is the thing.

They have to try and scare people out of this idea that we need reform within our legal system and our law enforcement. That's the biggest thing, because the more that this just becomes about what's the federal government doing, the less we're talking about. We actually really, really need to sit down and think about how we're spending our money, how we're policing neighborhoods, how we're just describing poverty as crime rather than calling poverty poverty and saying we need to address poverty or lack of access rather than just saying it's criminal. And that's why I need police. And hey, watch out, because look, if you're if you're black and brown, people get too upset about how they're brutalized and they start protesting. That's going to make police upset.

And then, you know, they they might not actually want to help anybody and then so you know then crime rates are going to go up it's just really dark it's it's all language politics and it's been that way since the idea of defund the police started kind of trending as popular because they were they knew damn well the defund the police meant reallocating the money that was going to police to use other social platforms or social services to help in other ways. But they were painting it as just a picture of take money away, get rid of the police, and then there will be no one to help. Right.

And they know exactly what they're doing. They're just playing with the language of it to scare people who aren't going to do the research or don't know any better. It happens in every community. The same tactics. And we talked about this. We talked about this yesterday. America was built on slavery.

And frankly, it doesn't work without slavery. I mean, we've seen during this pandemic how our economy has fallen apart because everything is people being paid slave wages or the police helping to incarcerate black and brown people so that they can work for basically free. Like, and it just the society in these people's minds doesn't function without exploiting black and brown bodies so they're gonna try to fight as hard as they can for the police because they use the police to gerrymander so i mean they use prisons to gerrymander so that they can you know equate like more power in cities that are heavily white ring and republican like they use the police to incarcerate black and brown folks so that they can work for nothing. It's just, it's so exhausting because they know exactly what they're doing.

And at least they used to hide it better. Well, let me ask you this. Would you prefer they hid it? Like it's disgusting in either way, but would you rather it be out in the open or hidden? I mean, that's the gag, isn't it? Because part of you is like, which form of racism do I prefer? Right. I mean, it's Sophie's choice.

It's two horrible choices that you shouldn't have to choose. You shouldn't have to choose between. But I guess if the question is, would you rather it be hidden or out in the front so at least a few people can wake up to what's happening,

which is preferable. I mean, I think the lazy version is to say I prefer when they didn't do it, but I think deep down, it's better when people are just out with it because you can be like, okay, miss me with that shit. And also like-

Right. Say it with your chest. Is this an order of smoke? I think I would say it with your chest. Okay. Racism. I can bring that to your doorstep. But the thing, you know, I think-

One order of smoke, please. Yeah, one order. I'll have three smokes, please, for my daughter and my wife. Anybody else? Would anyone else like a smoke? I i'm ordering smoke and a refill on the smoke okay just making sure i got a lot of tables today got a lot of tables um you know the i think because also because of a lot of the influence of like overt white supremacy that that it's sort of waning or the symbols are going down it's inspiring more people to get more aggressive with it because they realized it's a guy keeps

saying it's like the fourth quarter right now. It's like, OK, you can't just be in your house thinking that the other races are going to do it. If you also are down for this like white supremacist utopia, then you got to go out there, too, with your stars and bars. And that's kind of what you're seeing now. The counter protests are getting like a little more coordinated than they were before when it was just all blm marches and things like that you're starting to see that again they're just there are white people who are also invested in a version of this country where

it's it's business as usual from like about the 40s and like let's stop progress around there right i mean that's that old joke that we used to a lot of comedians have said where we've been i don't know if you guys have been in this position, but I have definitely been in a position where I was talking to white people and they were like, if there was a time period that you could go back to, like, what would be your vibe? Like, I would definitely go to the 20s, like 1920s. And it's like, bitch, I wouldn't go to no past. I'm trying to go to the future. It's bad for me here. Go to Wakanda.

Can I go to the Marvel? Can I go to the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Right. me here go to wakanda can i go to the marvel can i go to the marvel cinematic universe right but that's why make america great again was such a excellent brand date because it was like we're gonna put all the browns back in their places guys we're put the browns in their places the jews the gays the disabled we're gonna suppress everyone like we used to well i mean now you understand why mad men was such a popular show. Right. So many white families could just watch it and realize how it used to be. They're like, honey, I wish you dressed like that. Remember back in the day we could get drunk at work and harass our secretaries?

Why don't you wear an apron, honey? So, you know, the other thing, let's just talk a little bit about Trump. One stupid petty lie that came out is, you know, Dr. Fauci threw out the pitch for the Nationals. And that apparently set off a wave of conspiracies. petty lie that came out is you know dr fauci threw out the pitch uh for the nationals and that apparently set off a wave of conspiracies i've even heard from uh inside knowledge that just queuing on people were even getting swept up the the man on the receiving end of dr fauci's pitch uh that it was all like a whole thing was some kind of conspiracy whatever uh but people were like i think obviously he's been somewhat of a positive figure throughout

this pandemic and trump could not stand any of that shit and he was basically saying like you know well i'm gonna be throwing out the first pitch at yankee stadium uh you know he said he was like he's really good friends with uh you know uh the team over at the yankees and he had been offered you know in the past to open out the throw the opening pitch. And this, so he went out there and really said, he's like, yeah, so I'm going to be throwing it out. No one knew this. The Yankees didn't even know this. So like, what are you talking about? His aides had to like scramble to try and be like, yeah, so the president wants to throw out the first pitch. And they're like, uh, what? Then like over the, like a couple of days later,

Trump is like, because of my strong focus on the china virus including scheduled meetings on vaccines our economy and much else i won't be able to be in new york to throw out the opening pitch for the yankees on august 15th so even so first of all even in recovering from his lie he had to get racist with it yeah like the first line of his excuse for not going to the china yeah this is also girl you don't even go here you were not invited that's just like this year i turned down my emmy nomination right i definitely got one today like what i want somebody else to get some shine i want somebody else to get some emmys okay it ain't all about me you are such a kind goddess. What would we do without your kindness? But yeah, it is a weird, it definitely has that whole, it's so juvenile, that kind of

line. Like I haven't seen that since like high school of that kind of thing where it's like, it's like, and also it's the kind of lies that used to be the plot of like a teen sitcom in the 90s. I forget which sporting event it was last year. It might've been the world series where they showed Trump and he got booed heavily. And I think there's also a chance that maybe the yankees might have been even trying to work it out with him and then his team was like uh by the way yeah do this they're gonna boo the shit out of you you know i

guess people wouldn't have been there there's no crowd right so they would still i think find a way for the speakers boom yeah right we would bring some booze in. Okay. Even if we have to use them like stock, stock booms. I mean, the man's, the man's ego knows no limits. And it's getting bad because, you know,

we all know people whose egos have gotten in the way of them succeeding, or actually their egos have actually made their problems worse for them because of an inability to let go of this very self-centered, I must protect the perception people have of me because that's more important than what I experience on the inside as a human being, dot, dot, dot, whatever. And it's getting to the point where you can start to see how far he's going. Like every day, it's some kind of escalation on things that we never thought we would be talking about. But here we are. And I think there's no way for us to cease to be surprised by anything we're seeing. Like, I think we always have to steel ourselves to be like, it's going to I can't I can't imagine dialing it back.

Yeah, like that's why it's unfortunate to already be mentally preparing for this or even for the government or the armed forces to put a plan in place. But there's zero percent chance this man honors the election results if he doesn't win. It's that or the only other way, right? Because I know people who are like big time ego people who will never take an L publicly. They do the thing, they quit. They rage quit.

Shut off the Madden game in the fourth quarter because they're getting blown out. So it's in the wheelhouse. It's in the quiver of that kind of person but i just don't know with this like that's such a big l to take publicly like that like it'll be hard to spin that in your own mind like you can do that with the homies because you can just smash the xbox and run out the room but with this i'll be like yeah i'm actually quitting because fuck the haters and then you just go back to like what new york and then

deal with all these lawsuits i don't know i'm i'm of two minds one mind is is that if donald trump does win again i'm gonna buy a house because the market's gonna plummet um so that could be great for me this is lacey mosley's 2021 financial playbook listen y'all get with these scams start getting on redfin and get your eye on some houses and then get your eye on some damn houses if donald trump is president again y'all go buy a house okay because the market's gonna plummet um but at the same time i i just want it's probably very fun honestly to work as one of donald trump's staffers because he's just constantly saying crazy shit so your whole day is just spin spin spin it's like being on scandal in real life

it's like you're olivia pope they're all wearing big purses and big white coats and white hats like and no red wine for the devil and no red wine because he no red wine she loves that one um okay you don't need to drink when you have Adderall. No, not at all. He's on meth. He's on that fucking allergy medication, man. He loves it. He's loving it.

So the thing, because of his, you know, he's impetuous. He's impulsive. He has no discipline. He's completely, you know, guided by his ego. You know, the GOP is continuing to semi-privately panic over how bad, like, the president is just doing, and just at running for office, like, he's not even doing the good thing about politicking,

which is sort of like, yeah, like, I get that I can't just win with the people that, like, are my ride or die. It's like, I got to trick a couple people to go out with me, so I'll say what I got to say. I'll compliment you on what you're wearing, on, like, on your house, on your yard maybe you'll you'll consider voting for me this man is not doing any of that like he's not even doing the like the bare sort of minimum he's just being like fuck it maybe if i just get the you know his like his hardcore base to come out that's how he's

gonna win and you know he forgets that in 2016 like he he was able to court some you know, he forgets that in 2016, like he he was able to court some, you know, blue collar Obama voters. That was 53 percent of white women. Yeah, right. Exactly. That's what he turned Pennsylvania red and Pennsylvania was blue for Obama. He turned it fucking red. Absolutely. And I think so because of that, I think he's his ego is saying, look at me.

I'm the God MC. Nobody wants to fuck wouldn't step to this and so he's not has no sort of um reasonable way of looking at his re-election chances and when they show him polls he says they're bullshit they're fake he goes and like and in one tweet will attack the reagan family fox news and paul ryan like these are like establishment republican people you have to remember like, yes, there are conservatives. And then there are like the full on Trumpists who are like, no matter how hard he hits the gas on white supremacy, like they're,

they will not let go of the vehicle. They're like, no, we're, we want, we want to hit the wall with you. Like this is, we're in,

but a lot of people, you do end up like, you know, flinging a few people off the car because you're going a little bit too fast for them. And that's the thing that a lot of consultants are worried about. It's like you don't want to deflate those voters either. You need them energized because we're looking at a really bad situation.

Well, here's why I think Trump might be on to something. I think that the reason he isn't courting voters who are probably on the fence with him right now is because he's counting on the lack of enthusiasm coming from Democrats when our candidate is someone that most of us are not excited about. We truly think that he's senile. We're voting begrudgingly because I told you guys, leg 2020. That's why I'm voting for Joe Biden. He said, we should shoot folks in the leg and not the heart. And I said, I guess I got to vote for the leg. Because Trump is the heart.

So leg 2020 it is. I'm making merch. We got to get excited. I'm going to get y'all some anklets so you can walk to the polls. But I think he's counting on that lack of enthusiasm to help him kind of even the playing field. And I don't,'t guys i know a lot of liberals listen to this podcast y'all we gotta somehow trick ourselves into be excited like to be like excited about this because every time the democrats have had a character

why do i keep saying character jesus christ because they're all playing i'm like every time we've had a candidate that we weren't excited about. Think about John Kerry when we wanted Bush out of office and we were voting for Heinz Ketchup. Like, we hated him. Like, anytime we've had a candidate that we're not, like, jizzing over, we lose. Because Democrats are all about feeling and sensationalism. And it's like, right now, we have to be about survival. That needs to get us excited. I mean, the only difference is, I think, Trump's done a a hell of a job to despite there being very low enthusiasm for the candidate there is high enthusiasm for

him to be out of office and i think it'll be interesting how those are reconciled and how that turns out because one thing that i worry about is more than even the lack of enthusiasm i i even though there's low numbers for the candidate enthusiasm, I know how a lot of people are also just feel about what this election means. Not to say that that's the entire voting population. But despite that enthusiasm, I think the disapproval that people have for this presidency is that all these polls that the media keeps showing people, I think it's going to have the effect of making people complacent on top of being like not enthusiastically like, well shit enough people give a fuck to vote this guy out. I mean, he's getting,

he's losing by double losing by double digits in Texas or in Florida or whatever the state is at the day that everyone's like going like, Oh, you just, you better watch out Trump. No, no, no fucking no.

Don't. We're not saying it's fucking, it's the fourth quarter for everybody. Everybody's got to pull the fuck up. And we all got to get the fuck in the game. We all have to be doing this. That's why I'm saying it. They're already laying the groundwork to contest it based on if there's a second wave of the coronavirus

or if they do that bullshit where they shut down a lot of polling places in typical Democratic or minority strongholds, then there's going to be less people voting in person or less people willing to wait in the cold with a global pandemic going on for six, seven hours to vote. And they're going to want to mail in their votes. And then they're going to say Trump won the in-person vote and he only lost because of the fraudulent mail-in votes. And they're laying the groundwork for that bullshit. Damn, Noah. Damn. It's a lot, but I think that's why it's important to not think there's no way you can take it for granted.

Yes, he's objectively the worst president that most people have seen with their two eyes in their lifetime, but that doesn't mean that everybody knows that they have to go and vote. It's just more like your brand is weak. That doesn't necessarily mean that's what the voting results are going to look like that's just saying right now the biden brand is stronger than the trump brand in those states that does not mean people get that despite that you still have to drag every motherfucker you know the polls and make sure they vote everyone you know who's 18 or older needs to be voting also i just want to point

this out to liberals who listen to this podcast and millennials because we used to be on Twitter. Remember when we were on Twitter during the primaries like, I'm not a Bernie bro or I love Warren or these were our candidates, right? I went back home to Texas and my black-ass parents who were like, my dad's

in his 60s, my mom's 50, had a goddamn Mike Bloomberg sign in my yard. And I took that shit out so fast. I was like, what the fuck is this? Oh, your parents are rich, rich, huh? Business. They do got many Democrats.

That's all I know. I'm like, oh. They do got some coins. They're like, what the fuck is this? Take this shit. Y'all embarrassing me. I live in LA. You got it at the end of the day.

But that's when I talked to them and they told me that they didn't trust older white folks to vote for someone who was so liberal. So they were never going to vote for Warren. They were never going to vote for Biden. But we thought on the internet that we were having the conversation that mattered when all the people who were being quiet were the ones who changed the vote. Biden wasn't even campaigning at the end we he just kind of showed up out of nowhere and was like here i am like wait yeah uncle joe where did you come from he emerged from a bush the one thing that is also just i just want to point to the the sort of level of desperation i mean the like a lot of the senators especially you know susan collins uh

martha mcsally there's a few people who are like, in just, it just looks like there's no coming back for some of these Republican women in the Senate. And just in general, like the fundraising, like, you know, it ebbs and flows, but the wording of some of the texts from the National Republican Congressional Committee, like they're, you know, the fund, like they get the campaigns together, raise the money and identify candidates, etc. You know, the fun, like they get the campaigns together, raise the money and identify candidates, etc. This is like one of the texts they've been sending to prospective donors has read like this. OK, it says the election is in 100 days. There's no time to waste.

Help now or Schumer will take control of the Senate chip in one hundred dollars for one hundred days. OK, that's fine. That's kind of a little bit like, all right Fear mongering. A little bit. But how about this next one? This came, someone just took a screen grab of their phone. That first one came, like, these texts came 48 minutes apart. Then the next one says, we texted you twice.

Why did you let your 500% Trump House Patriot match expire again? We'll give you one more chance. 500% match for one hour. is the gop drunk texting yeah i was gonna say that's like a that's like a thirst dm that goes from like hey beautiful to you're not even that fine anyway bitch i'm gonna let you respond one more time right we don't even need you to vote for trump with your ugly ass oh shit it's definitely like a lot of

people were pointing to that and the way it sort of fell apart there's this conservative pundit named kurt schlichter he like he called the tweet out he's a republican he was like what's going on with the nrcc he's like this is so desperate it just looks so weird it talks down to people who would donate this is all wrong then the nrcc's twitter account responded with a gif offering him a hug. And then one of the people who's affiliated with them also was getting sloppy in the replies. Then the NRCC Twitter quote tweeted him and referred to him as a Karen. They're like, oh, I guess he wants to speak to the manager of this social media campaign. Then Tucker Carlson waded into the fight.

And then he quote tweeted the nrcc tweet and said why is the nrcc using ethnic slurs hilarious i mean so sad it's just nonsense it's just nonsense they don't also they'll call karen an ethnic slur before they'll call the china virus an ethnic slur right which is like definitely a slur uh but you don't karen is an ethnicity okay just so you it is an ethnicity but also i'm so tired of like we talked about this yesterday i was like white people stop bothering us if you hate if you hate us stop bothering us like we say karen in our in our own homes and in our own lives like we didn't tell you to join we didn't ask you to join us with this we were like hey racist white people why don't y'all start using off slogans and phrases like get out of here the rncc is trying to take back the power

of the world yeah exactly reclaiming it you know what i mean they are reclaiming karen and they're gonna start they're gonna start saying carry and take the n off the end yeah right oh shit you did it with a hard end at that music yeah put it on shirts Yeah. Putting on shirts. You see like Laura Ingraham and Cornel West having like epic debates over it. Carrie, please. Carrie, please. Oh my God, I can't, I can't. What if I said the N-word, Dr. West?

What if I said the N-word? I would smack you. We truly are living in the most pathetic version of the Matrix. Yeah, and really like everyone, the joke continues, like everything's just bad writing like everything just feels like a bad rejected you know like a pitched bit from a

writer's room of like a show that no one wanted to watch no you're a stand-up how has comedy been like on tour before obviously covid like with everything that's happening politically like how um i mean it's it depends on what kind of comedian you are because like i'm not a political comedian and so it didn't really affect my vibe in the room or like my shows but i will say that when trump won in 2016 i wasn't surprised as most people because i had been doing so much comedy on the road and touring the midwest and the in these middle of the, like I saw Trump enthusiasm and Trump support where a lot of people that live on coastal cities were kind of blind to it.

Right. Yeah. That's what Billy Wayne Davis says. Yeah. But like, I will say as a comedian during the Trump presidency, I just got Trump fatigue. And like, even though I was never a political comedian, I wouldn't talk about Trump on stage anyway, just because I was so sick of hearing about him. So yeah, talking about him, that I wanted to give myself and any audience that came to see me a respite from even hearing

the name Trump for 15 minutes of my set. Right? Yeah, I mean, it's, we all have to find ways to especially like when it comes into your like work or your craft, you know what I mean? Like in some way, it's like you don't want to taint that with it being by by centering it around something that's just so chaotic rather than like using it as a way to express yourself right and for me it wasn't like for me it wasn't about avoiding politics because i didn't want to immediately alienate half my audience like i didn't give a fuck about hurting people's feelings or like you know i just like that's just not what i talk about so there's no reason to start talking about it now. Right.

Can you imagine some comedians come out of quarantine and suddenly they're doing like some new like woke set, woke warrior sets? Oh no, that's 100% happened. I mean, you saw that happen in standup is, I have nothing against political comedy, but if that's what you do, do it well. And if that's not what you do, then let the people who do it well, do it. But you saw so many comedians who aren't political comedians try to become political comedians and then all of a sudden they just had no jokes in their act they just went up and yelled and complained for their entire set yeah and that's what we call the daily zeitgeist all right so let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds, Sword Quest. This wasn't just a

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racism, toxicity rumors that have just basically been blowing out of LA since forever. Um, and you know, Buzzfeed, you know, they had a story come out, I think last week that was talking about all kinds of stuff, you know,

talking about the, especially from black employees, the racist behavior, microaggressions. There was jokes about mistaking two black female employees with the same hairstyle there was things about uh someone who was having a mental health issue and like the company was completely just unsympathetic to them on top of like when you know when the quarantine happened a lot of the people who used to work on the show did not hear

from their employer for a long time in the midst of this pandemic and then found out like another company was just sort of like doing a little bit of production on the side there's been a lot going on that i think on top of again sort of like the open item or whatever you call it just a known item uh news piece that has just been sort of the anecdotal stories in this city or just in the industry about her so what what's also interesting is that they talk about two executive producers, like in this article, and some of the executive producers released a statement to Buzzfeed. And this is what they're saying, you know, about what was when I said,

quote, we are truly heartbroken and sorry to learn that even one person in our production family has had a negative experience. It's not who we are and not who we strive to be and not the mission Ellen has set for us. For the record, the day-to to be and not the mission Ellen has set for us. For the record, the day-to-day responsibility of The Ellen Show is completely on us. We take all of this very seriously and we realize, as many in the world are learning, that we need to do better, are committed to do better, and we will do better. Yo, can I?

Okay. I've never done this before because I'm scared of Ellen. I've never done this before because I'm scared of Ellen. But I am going to tell you guys two anecdotal stories that I've heard from people that I trust that I don't think we're lying at all. We'll say allegedly. But we'll say allegedly for a little reason. Allegedly. These are alleged stories. Allegedly, allegedly stories.

Allegedly. So allegedly. During Christmas. Allegedly. Ellen. Allegedly. um during christmas allegedly ellen allegedly would go into her staff writer's room and give everyone a present but the presents weren't the same in value like the top present was allegedly you get your house redecorated and ellen pays for it like that's like you're the best

and then allegedly the worst gift was a starbucks gift card and if you got the worst gift allegedly you also got a lecture about why you are last place and how you can improve unless you're gonna get oh that's like some pimp shit yeah or she was watching glenn gary glenn ross yeah right this is like you just have fun being right you gotta have fun being chaotic evil if you're doing shit like that because it's like this is some people are toxic because they have short tempers or because they don't respect people but have a whole craft that's like a little sadistic thing like that it's a little sadistic and Thing like that. It's a little sadistic. And then also, allegedly. Allegedly. I know a musician. Allegedly.

Allegedly. He may or may not exist. Right. Hypothetically. And he allegedly, hypothetically, wrote music for Ellen. And allegedly, hypothetically, maybe this never happened. He wrote for her during several stand-up specials. She took the never paid him for it oh oh just did he do it without a contract like just off the strength trust in that i don't think so i i mean obviously if there was a contract it wasn't anything that was iron

clad allegedly allegedly but um yeah it's crazy because in LA especially, people have secretly known about Ellen for forever, but she's so powerful that if they get the floodgate to open, if they get one person to talk, it's going to be a shit show. It's like Lea Michele. I had heard shit about Lea Michele for years from people who worked very closely with her

who were like, she's evil. And then as soon as one black person had the gumption to say something when she did a faux Black Lives Matter post, the floodgates opened. So I'm just like, but we don't want Ellen's floodgates opening because who cha? It's going to be. Side note, less important, but nice use of gumption. I love when you throw that word in conversationally. Gumption bonus. I know you like words.

No. I love when you throw that word in conversationally. Gumption bonus. I know you like words, Noah. Okay, and lastly, I just want to talk because this deals with your region of the globe, Noah, and also, Lacey, a place you have a lot of experience, the Hamptons, New York, the Northeast. Not to say you're from the Hamptons, but I feel like New Yorkers are much more familiar with the Hamptons. I've lived there. I've lived there. I know you said you've done a little, you've worked some events, you had to live out there, you have experiences with the clientele. The one time I had ever been to the Hamptons, it was a wedding for one of my dad's college friends. And his wife was the daughter of an investment banker. And to this day, I have never been in such physical proximity

to that kind of wealth and opulence in my entire life. I could not believe what I was seeing. And it got me, they were serving my 17-year-old ass like full mugs of Grey Goose. And I was like, you know what? Thank you, Wall Street. One day, I would like to be like this too. And therefore, I will fight to protect your wealth

and make sure you do not pay one cent in taxes because I like what I'm seeing here, y'all. How quickly you got turned out. Oh, yeah. Boomer 2020. Immediately, yeah. Just boomer. Just boom, boom. I'm in the room.

So in Southampton, is Southampton a nice Hampton? I don't know anything. Southampton is expensive. It's got real estate, celebrities. It's like a very trim year area of the Hamptons. And East Hampton's like the old people. Montauk is the really,

really young people and the locals, but also there's like fun bars and restaurants there. Thank you for looking that up. Yeah. I'm like, yeah. She also sounds like

it's like House Hunters, like bougie edition. We're like, you guys are gonna love South Hampton. Like Noah and Miles are two comedians, interracial couple, just looking to put roots down

in the Northeast. So this whole thing, and it makes sense now that you're saying it's the nice part because opening for the Chainsmokers is DJ D. Saul, or as you know him, CEO of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon. Stop. This man, yes, he was opening for them. And also one of the town supervisor of southampton jay schneiderman

was also an opener now these tickets were very expensive like the whole idea was it was going to be socially distanced you could drive in it was like a drive-in concert some tickets were going there were between 12 50 and 25 000 okay for no kid hungry children's medical fund of new york there was like supposed to be this fun thing but then just shit just got out of hand even though they tried they said look we've got all these cdc things they said people are going to fill out like a covid survey they'll get a face mask i have a temperature taken and they have like there's hand sanitizing stations but the deal was nobody stayed in their car it turned into like a straight up concert with like a ton of people just gathering around when dj solomon is on the ones yeah when desol is just fucking on the wheels of steel i mean

you already know the appeal although there's no group that you can get together that's going to be more dangerous when it comes to a pandemic than rich people they're the most entitled selfish people so they're not going to do any because like you wear a mask to protect other people they ain't gonna do that yeah they're like they're rich too they're not sick that's for poor people bye that's for poor people yeah when i think also too at a certain point you do life shows you to your face that money can actually solve a multitude of problems for you very quickly. So there's no, in a way, I'm like, I get it. Yeah, too. If I grew up like that and my parents never taught me the value of work and what money was,

I'd be like, yeah, you're rich. You can go to the doctor. If you don't like your body, you can go to the doctor. If you don't like your car, you can buy a new one. If you do a murder, you just call a guy. Yeah, your dad just blackmails the chief of police. Yeah, that's Success you just call a guy. Yeah. Your dad just like your dad just like blackmails the chief of police. So that's succession to season one. Yeah, right.

Yeah, exactly. One hundred percent. And then you get to like just kind of, you know, blow some steam off in a lovely spa in Iceland. So the thing that, you know, when New York state officials, including Governor Cuomo and the health commissioner of New York saw this. They were aghast. They just could not believe what the fuck they were seeing. The health commissioner said, I'm at a loss as to how the town of Southampton could have issued such a permit for an event, how they believed it was legal and not an obvious public health threat. public health threat. So again, I remember I told you, the man who is the town supervisor,

Jay Schneiderman, he was opening, he was participating in it, and he also had to respond because when he, so he tried to defend himself by saying, quote, we believe the conditions of the permit were violated. No shit. And then he goes on to say, the organizer was supposed to make sure that people stayed in their square. They didn't have enough security. security i had questions i had conversations with the organizers making sure they were going to enforce the rules it's unfortunate that they allowed this to happen excuse you sir you are a city official who probably had a hand in even okaying this permit i just also want to say he goes on to defend himself um when they were talking about like yo but your band played there what the fuck are you talking about he said that when his band performed okay when i was on stage motherfuckers were following the rules he said quote i stayed for a while and when i became aware of the vip area i told the two security guards from the organizers to stop um so you have

to come to the car right now that's what i said to one of the guys in my band we have to leave he said after we finished our set yeah after we get the set yeah let me take a few pictures backstage then we gotta go once i hear somebody shook a few hands play the game of suck and blow yeah and then i left but this whole thing like it's just everybody like even the people in the municipality are involved in fucking up but But, oh, boy. 1% or Coachella. You love to see it. I can only imagine.

They didn't get their Coachella. You know when your boss pressures you to come to an event that they're doing in their personal life? Imagine these Goldman Sachs employees that are like, oh, by the way, you got to drop 25 grand on a ticket on DJing this weekend. Can you imagine the 24-year-old traders at the trading desk spending their bonuses to go see DJ D-Saw? Also, I fully blame COVID

because this guy was probably like, fuck it. I gotta seize the day and become a DJ. This was probably his first DJing event. That's how fucking rich he is. He's like, I don't know. I'll open for the chain smokers i'll make it happen right he's like i got dead mouse to give me lessons i paid him in cocaine it's just like wow bless them all um it shows you really again this is why we aspire to protect the wealth of billionaires so that we may one day completely

act recklessly and foolishly in the midst of a pandemic uh and then put people who actually had to work to survive at risk with our recklessness it's all just a vicious cycle you hate to see it or maybe you do uh either way noah it's been fantastic having you on the show today thank you for stopping by man always always love hearing from you always good to talk to you um what is you know let people know where they can find you follow you you know listen to some of your comedy and let let us know a tweet that you've been liking uh so they can follow me at my website noah g comedy or on instagram at noah g comedy they cannot follow me on twitter and i do not have a tweet that i like because i got off twitter two weeks ago and i feel so much better and happier and healthier for it. Fuck Twitter.

You got off the island. But I do know that the Daily Zeitgeist listeners are active on Twitter. They used to show a little bit of love and a lot of hate after every time that I came on. So they can come and DM me on Instagram anytime, at Noah G Comedy. Boom. Yeah, it's true.

I'm like, I've slowly and slowly used it less and less and less i just i can't i realize how much it affects my mental well-being right more than like a school of hatred yeah it used to be fun and now i'm like you know what i don't need to inform myself like the stuff that like because granted there are things that happen on twitter that a lot of the mainstream media won't get covered but sure i have other ways of interacting with those stories that get, that I don't have to log into Twitter and then go down a rabbit hole of watching, you know, Karen's going off down in Australia.

I see he's like gang down. They ain't been sending me a few links of Aussie Karen's. They're pretty intense, mate. They're like, you fuck with. They're so fucking it. I mean,

we just need a Karen Olympics. You do a really good Australian accent. You do. I watched a lot of TV by myself as a child and would like to dial in accents as a way to entertain myself. Lacey, hello. Yes. Where can people find you, follow you, listen to you, support you, and even put people on a tweet that you like? listen to you, support you, and even put people onto a tweet that you like.

Guys, you can follow me as always at D-I-V-A-L-A-C-I, Diva Lacey, on all platforms. And if you like scams, robberies, cons, frauds, you can listen to my podcast, Scam Goddess. And then a tweet that I have been liking. So this is a tweet that I'm enjoying. It's not actually like a written tweet it's like a news article from the new york post about teens who have been dressing up as masked grandmas to score alcohol yes it was happening like all over right in europe and like australia and sometime in the u.s too yes and this of course it's gen z and then here's one of my own tweets about gen z that i this is pointedly directed at my sister who mariska harkaday saved her life um i said i love that

gen z talks shit about millennials economic progress like they aren't about to pay 100k for zoom university oh yeah i shouted that tweet out last week of yours when you weren't on the show you did i was clocking that tweet yeah Damn, okay, well, that's recycled. The joke's on you. But, Jinzy. Yeah. Jinzy, come get with the winning team. You didn't get drunk in a building?

You never been on campus? Get with the winning team, ho. Yeah, at least my debilitating educational bill came with some experiences that involved human contact. Right, at least we got to get drunk. There were also ones, though, too, that were comparing ones where like grandparents

would be like, yeah, and I had to walk in six feet of snow and they're like, it was 2020 and it was a motherfucking pandemic. Like,

what the fuck you talking about with no snow? So yeah, they might have a little bit of a heat they can bring to their kids too. Okay, you can find me on Twitter

and Instagram at Miles of Grey. Also my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance, where we talk about 90 Day Fiance, Sophia Alexander and I. So check that out. Keep the laughs going. Promise you there's no politics miles of gray also my other podcast for 20 day fiance where we talk about 90 day fiance uh sofia alexander and i so check that out keep the laughs going promise you there's no politics in that one um and let's see the tweet that i like a couple first one is from at tawny newsome at trani

newman she says very proud of the black people my life actively resisting refusing opportunities aimed at harvesting our knowledge and experience for free be wary of folks wanting to quote add your voice, which means make their brand appear diverse, or, quote, hear your thoughts, which means profit from your lived experience. Yeah, we always got to have our head on a swivel, but yes, shout out to everybody who's able to at least turn down those opportunities

because sometimes surviving takes precedent. Next tweet is from Solomon Giorgio. At Solomon Giorgio, he says, I practice coming out to my parents on my baby niece if this sounds cute and endearing please understand that i was screaming i'm gay and you can't stop me at a 16 at a 16 month old baby solomon's funny man he's so funny and you can't stop me. And a baby. You can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We got a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes every day. Thank you.

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