The Daily Zeitgeist - He’s “Cured”, Sandler Cinematic Universe 10.12.20

Episode Date: October 12, 2020

In episode 734, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Pallavi Gunalan to discuss the Trump's coronavirus universe, Trump saying Gretchen Whitmer didn't thank him, the Bernie bro Pope, Hubie Halloween, Emily In Paris, and more!FOOTNOTES: Trump grants first on-camera interview after coronavirus diagnosis to Fox News Trumpworld Insists POTUS Is Clear From COVID As Campaign Ramps Back Up The President Is Ramping Up as a Public Menace Trump says Whitmer didn't say 'thank you' after thwarted kidnapped plot. She did thank law enforcement Pope Francis, Bernie Bro WATCH: OutKast - Prototype [Boogie down Mix] Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My white thighs My white thighs I can't tan, no No, no, no That is courtesy of Trey Gang And I am thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray! I like the mush!

I like the mushy fries! The mushy fries! They are a late night snack! We mix turf and turf! I like the mushy fries! Anyway, shout out to the Discord, aka his channel over there. They heard, I'm a mush boy. I've always been a mush boy

on my way to being a mush man. The mush man prophecies coming this winter to a theater near you. Shout out to Toilet Ghost on the Discord for that AKA. And thank y'all for saving me from looking at Twitter

by hopping on the Discord. Appreciate it. Yeah, yeah. Mush King. Yeah, you just like stringy mashed potatoes that is your version of french fries yeah i think what i all i remember one time you know like those play-doh things where you could just push the play-doh through and it come out in different shapes i

put mashed potatoes in there once as a kid and just try that's where that's your superhero origin story that's how that's how you came to be the mush king that you are. Exactly. They don't know. They caught me in the back of a Toys R Us with my own mashed potatoes. Cooking myself up some mush fries. Miles, we are very fortunate,

thrilled, in fact, lucky to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious, the brilliant, the talented P Paula Vigunale! What's up, guys? How's it going? What's up? How are you? Welcome back. I'm good. Just so relaxed in this political climate. Just taking it easy. Feels like the beach.

Feels like the beach, indeed. Nice and easy. Sure. What's the Feels like the beach indeed. Nice and easy. Sure. What's the weather like? What's the air like? How's your air quality? I can't feel my body. Oh, okay.

It's been actually not great. I'm in downtown LA and it's been not good. And loud. Very loud. Lots of helicopters. Lots of random noises and explosions. It's gotten better the last couple months, though. So that's nice.

My summer fireworks still haven't stopped in my neighborhood. Really? Where are you? I don't know if you want to say. Well, you know, I'm in the depths of the San Fernando Valley where it's active still. I still get like like, every night there's at least two of them going off, like significant popping, bangy things,

whatever the kids are into. I just like to think that somewhere Mary and Pippin are having a great old time just wreaking havoc across this country, you know. All right, Pallavi, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. We are going to do an outdated but still relevant rundown of just the latest in the president's

continuing deteriorating mental state. We're going to talk about what the president had to say to Gretchen Whitmer at the end of the week last week when it was revealed that people who follow him were planning to kidnap and kill her. He was like, you're welcome, which was an interesting take. Yeah. We're also recording this. There's no telling what is going to happen in the future, but we are recording this before Trump has his rally. I guess he's announced that he's planning to have a rally, possibly at the White House,

in lieu of any sort of debate or any sort of non-propagandic actual appearance, normal presidential appearance. We'll see. You guys have seen, but that's a thing. He's got to get out there, man, so he can just cough behind a cape or something. I don't know what the fuck it's going to look like.

He's going to dangle a baby from a balcony or something. Who knows what's going to happen. He's really at that point. He's going to get John Cena, put him in a Trump outfit, and then have him break shit from the balcony. Pay whatever it takes. They won't be able to tell from that far. He would dress John Cena up as a coronavirus and then hit him with a chair.

That's what Trump would do. We'll talk about how Pope Francis has been Bernie-pilled. He's a Bernie bro now. We're going to talk about Hubie. We're going to talk Emily in Paris. row now we're gonna talk about hubie we're gonna talk emily and paris the show based off of that uh watch the throne song uh all of that plenty more but first pavi we like to ask our guests what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Okay, this is the last thing I searched, which I think is very cute.

I saw a tweet online, and it was this black female doctor. And she said that one of her patients, I should find the tweet, but she said that one of her patients was scared. And then the parent was like, she's like, your doctor looks just like you and just like Doc McStuffins. And I was like, what's Doc McStuffins? And I looked it up. And it's this little animated show about a little black girl who cares for like all of her little stuffed animals and toys in her clinic. And it's so cute. And I was like, that's so adorable.

That's so sweet. Yeah. This is one of those rare moments from like, you heard it. Wait, you ain't heard of Doc McStuffins? I know, I hadn't. I don't know. I don't know what... I blame growing up in Utah.

No, I blame being old because I only found out about this shit literally three months ago. And I was like, what's this? Okay, all right, Doc. And it just ended in April. It's from March 2012 to April 2020. Isn't that sweet, though?

Yeah, that was super sweet. I was not aware of it either. So that's on me. It's a Disney thing. I think I've heard the theme song, but not up on the lore. I think actually we have a Doc

McStuffins doctor's kit that you can buy where the kids take care of stuffed animals. Oh, that's so cute. I was going to say that you can use that as a field medic kit no matter where you go. Yes. I keep that to myself. The kids will find out about it in their own time. Pallavi, what is something you think is underrated?

Okay, this is real toxic of me after saying that cute ass thing i just i think i think sometimes ghosting is underrated i think sometimes it's good it depends on like the extent that you use it but sometimes you just don't want to talk to people and they don't get the hint and if it's like a random tinder person or whatever i think it's like okay to ghost depending on like how long you've talked to them for that's the fuck boy in me though my mattress is on the floor and i don't have a headboard yeah and your and your wallpaper is just the rock movie posters yeah it's just it's floor to ceiling the rock

yeah i mean ghosting you're so you're saying ghosting in the tinder sense not just generally like in your day-to-day life because i get what you're saying is like when when something like that where the interaction is no longer a value to one party and is not necessary it's not necessarily disrespect it's sort of like i mean i could be mad rude and be like yo stop messaging me or right yeah just be a wall that you text at. Yeah. I guess what is the other alternative is like the emotionally mature thing is to have like an emotionally mature conversation where you're like,

this is how I feel. This is how you make me feel. And therefore I am assertive enough that I am now ending our relationship. Historically, men are great at handling that. Yeah, I was exactly going to say. Yeah, women get great responses from being like, I'm not interested. What the fuck? Thank you for being so fucking honest with me, you fuck.

I appreciate the respect, though. I appreciate it. I appreciate that you're fucking emotionally mature but i'm not bitch yeah i i also think ghosting is like also good and just like not like a real sense of like leaving the person forever but i also think there are some conversations where you just like don't want to respond because it's like gonna be awkward or whatever right and if or like it's like people saying weird shit to you like with family or something so like individual conversations i'll sometimes ghost where i'm just like i'm not gonna respond to this right now maybe i'll respond

later but i don't want to deal with this right now like texting and stuff yeah and as a as an emotional like a a non assertive person, I have been in relationships where like I can't win the conversation or like not win, but like I can't control the conversation. I just know there's a winner and loser in every conversation. I just end up being like, yeah, I guess you're right. Like I have my fight or flight is like neither. It's just like freeze up and agree. My fight or flight is neither. It's just to freeze up and agree with whatever the other person is saying. So yeah, ghosting is the, I don't know, the more honest thing to do in my case in some cases. I'm usually very aggressive and straightforward,

but sometimes I'm like, I got to work. I don't have time for this shit. And then I just forget about it. And then it's gone. And then I've ghosted them by accident. Well, you know, sometimes you gotta be the ghost with the most to get your point across.

Listen, Ghostbusters is all female cast, now we're making the ghosts all female cast. Exactly. Thank you. We're taking it back. We're taking Toxicity back. Female, i have female toxic been getting that a lot on twitter lately and i'm fine with it is uh britney the leader of the movement or what how do we use that gif every time every time someone calls me toxic i'm like it's me Exactly. Yeah, you got it. Everybody has to sing it.

We don't need to hear it. Everybody has to. It's a rule. It's a physiological rule. Do that. Say that. More than like contagious yawn. If you do the string sample from Toxic. Yeah, everybody has to do it.

Get it out of their system. What is something you think is overrated? Okay, I'm annoyed with this shit. I hate it. Like stealing content online bugs the shit out of me because like comedians... I mean, my favorite comedian is the Fat Jew and I think he's underrated.

I agree. He's a taste maker. He I think he's underrated. I agree. He's a taste. He's a Scorsese of tweet stealers. Yeah, he's a tastemaker. It's just I don't know. It's so annoying because like I've gotten to know more like online personalities. And it's like, I don't know. You just like fuck like this affects their income like directly.

It affects like their opportunities directly and so i've started to tell my like non-comic friends i'm like unfollow this fake ass account they stole my friends tweets and my non-comic friends like don't care yeah they like don't they're just like i don't care i like the follow it's a good follow and i'm like these are people behind these accounts that are just benefiting off of like my friend's work like what are you doing right so it's been bugging the shit out of me like a lot of them a lot of those like content curators which what the fuck are you talking like it sounds like an like an art gallery but for dick jokes like what are you doing right um these content curators some of them will like pay or like ask and tag your thing

but like a lot of them just like take shit yeah and even then the tag like sure but at the end of the day they're guaranteeing like impressions or a certain amount of interaction which makes them more you know attractive to people who'd want to pay for sponsored posts and things like that and that whole ecosystem it's all tied together but i can only imagine like trying to get someone to care about how this kind of joke theft or content theft actually affects humans in real life because it's like another layer. Too many people already don't even understand

how their labor is being exploited. So then on top of it, you're like, hey, you know that fucking thing you stare at with your mouth open and giggle at? That's also fucking someone. I'm like, what are you talking?

It's just memes. It's just memes. It's just pictures. somebody makes those fucking memes what do you mean i'm just giving 60 hours of my life for fucking nothing what are you talking about it's just work it's all good it's it's also like i don't it's like how like we all are trying to like raise our social media whatever like we try to like tweet and like put up content or whatever i can't imagine like i hate that part i hate the part of like like i love tweeting i love coming up with jokes i love whatever but i hate the part where you're like you have to screenshot and then post it on instagram and then post that to your store like the business part of it where like you're trying to like get more followers i fucking hate that part so imagine that's like that's all your job is is to like but like what kind of rotted brain wormy like thing

if that's all you do you don't even come up with a creative part right i can't imagine what a dinner conversation would be like with you but i feel like that's the direction so much of our culture is going, like sort of the curating, like valuing people who are good at like curating things and like finding cool things out of like a just massive amount of information. Like I don't think it's great, but I do, I do feel like that is just generally like the values that have taken hold in general on social media. Memes come from a book that was literally...

It's the book that introduced the idea of genes, also introduced the idea of memes. And it's just like a meme is this disembodied idea where the whole goal of the idea is to reproduce itself. And it like that book, like Richard Dawkins didn't write about it as like, you know, and that's intellectual property. It was just like this disembodied thing where like if the idea that is created is replicable, then it is a successful meme. But it's just weird. There is an inherent contradiction there, especially when you're a really talented writer who is putting your talents into creating something and then it just reproduces out of control and people remove the author's name from it, which is annoying and nobody should ever do.

Dana Donnelly, um, who's been on this podcast before had like a really great tweet that I like have, like, I've always like thought that, but she put it into words and it was about how, like,

if not enough people, I forget exactly what she said, but if like, if not enough people replicate it, then it's stealing. But if enough people do it, then it's a meme. Right.

You know what I mean? So it's like, it's, but I think that's like slight. Yeah. I, yeah and yeah i don't know i don't know where that threshold is but i think even beyond that like with memes like people like change the punch line they change they try to come up with like clever ways but this like screenshotting and just like posting it onto your own thing with that like that's like you get money for that that's like like that's more obvious of like a fucked up thing let's at least start there right yeah but that's like you get money for that that's like like that's more obvious of like a

fucked up thing let's at least start there right yeah but that's almost like bringing like a cell phone camera to a movie and taping it on your cell phone and then hooking your phone up to a projector at your own janky theater and people are like yeah man i love charging price and you're like yo this is the shitty version of the real one over what the fuck are you doing like i don't know i just it's less less to think about i follow this one thing i don't have to yeah but then there's also the thing where everybody has the same idea at the same time and it seems like they're yeah uh copying off each other i forget which news story involving trump uh oh i think it was when he tested positive for covid and like i saw 30 people tweet i did not

see that coming like not see but not see oh yeah and uh at first i was like oh man they're like ripping each other off but then as more and more people made that exact same joke i was like wow it's just our brains are all like the same. I've tried to recently, and there's like some people, I've made friends with some Twitter people, and some of us have this attitude of like, well, like I've deleted viral tweets where it was parallel thought because you want your jokes to be like unique, right? So I've started doing that.

And before I, with stand-up, I used to not do that as much. I used to be like, well, we both thought of it. We're going to deliver it in a different way. It's going to be a different thing. But now with like tweets, I'm like, oh, it's like the exact same line. Like I don't want someone to look up this joke and then see like 30 other people make this joke. So like there have been ones that have been like, like it was on the way up and it looked like it would hit like maybe 100K in the next day. And I just like deleted it because somebody with like 900 followers also did it or whatever right but it's like so i i have that attitude i know like a lot of other

people don't but i'm like why wouldn't you want your feed to be like why wouldn't you if you're a creative if you're like making the content yeah like you don't you don't want to have hack jokes you know so like i will just tell my friends i'm like hey by the way somebody else did this joke and then like leave it up to them to the to delete but like i know there are a few of us who were like oh yeah i'm deleting that immediately because it's not unique totally i don't know um it's hard but i think you're right in terms of like stand up because that's the thing that also like began being policed incredibly strictly uh like if people had like similar observations yeah and it's just like but i mean at a certain point like a lot of it is who is saying it and how they're saying it yeah for sure i mean and like

the context and like the yeah a lot of us are coming up with like very similar ideas it's like i think stand-up has more flexibility and like how in all of those things yeah but and finally what is a myth what's something people think is true you know to be false or vice versa okay so i was looking this up it's hard for me to like nail it down but i was thinking this right before but apparently um negative messaging politically uh or the framing of things in a negative manner aren't isn't necessarily better than positive framing and sometimes positive framing works better um i apparently like people do use negative framing for like trying to get people to vote like if you try

to motivate people with like loss they're more likely to yeah so people think that but then in the at least laboratory wise um versus real world it's not necessarily like been confirmed so like i i have heard on other like political podcasts and stuff that positive messaging works better and maybe it depends on like the time frame and like if it's people have said like super PACs versus the politicians themselves is like slightly different but yeah i think the myth is that negative framing is not necessarily more of a motivator for real world action well you better tell dear leader trump uh because i got hit with not even joking like 72 straight mid-roll ads when

i'm trying to watch married at first sight on the lifetime app uh because yes i will choose a 30 second interactive ad to uh shorten my advertising watching experience but they keep playing this same one and it's the most low energy fear-mongering ad where it's like all these just i mean these like retired cops who are the most inarticulate like unconvincing people to be like you know joe biden he doesn't have the back the backs of the police so So you better, he can't, we don't trust him. And other guys like Joe Biden, he's actually emboldening the people to do crime and then they're bolding,

then they're going to do more crime. If you don't like crime, vote Trump. Failed SNL characters for Weekend Update. It feels like a sketch because I watched it and I even was like, yo, Her Majesty, get in here. Is this compelling at all like who it's it's such like an old school way of messaging like it feels like just so dated that it's almost like are you really only trying to talk to people over the age of 60 because i feel like that's the only audience who's getting this kind of messaging would resonate with right and like white people over the age of 50 because i don't know if my

parents would understand that like joel biden i mean they gotta first get people who can say his fucking name correctly in the ad a guy called him joe biden what if what if they call him joe biden and then they pronounce kamala harris perfectly like what if they're're more progressive than we think they are? It's not Kamala. It's Kamala. Okay? It's Kamala. And it's Joe Biden. Sounds like they're not really doing a great job of laser precision targeting this time around, maybe, if they're catching you.

Scattershot. I mean, I know you are still an undecided voter, but... Yeah. Yeah, Miles, what do we have to do to convince you to vote for Joe Biden? I don't know, you know, because I'm worried about Biden if the cops are not, if he doesn't have the cops' backs,

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I would say. I mean, it's everything. Yeah. His doctor cleared the president to return to public engagements because the virus that we've been studying and learning about

for the past year just stopped operating like it had in every instance up to that point. Well, we know everything about the virus. We all know that. You don't understand. His immune system just deployed some law and order, and now he's fine.

Right. Yeah, it's just VIP syndrome that is going to kill the rest of us. Yeah. And he also called into Hannity on Thursday night and sounded not physically healthy, which was... Or mentally. Right.

Everything, he was off. That's been the case. He's been... Yeah. Again, he's insistent on projecting this image of health and vitality and strong and not mushroom penis. So he'll do everything he can to change his image. It was so bad. You know like when you

do that shit where we talk on mics a lot. So you know the thing where you're about to cough and you're kind of trying to get the last of the momentum out before you got a cough. You're like, you know, because right now I'm going to have that. He was doing that shit throughout the whole. What if I just told you he was just taking a hit right there?

Hold up, bro. Hold up. I got to put you on mute real quick, Sean. All right. That was just a bong rip, dude. Not COVID. But he had this... He was throughout it trying to fight back his coughing.

At one point, he clearly hit mute on his phone and then comes back he's like all right excuse me um and at the same time with his chest out being like i'm feeling so good so strong uh y'all never seen me like this i'm dunking on a 10 foot rim like no bullshit this is just all real like wonderful improvements i've made i like how he was like um this is earlier this week but he was like i feel better than i did 20 years ago and it's like motherfucker none of us felt good about you 20 years ago i don't care in your lifetime at what point you felt good you were talking like you had neural syphilis in your 30s like i don't give a fuck this whole thing right is this it's again there's no there's no real concrete uh information

that feels like it's truly coming from like the mouth of medical experts and what objective medical observations would tell us about his health it's all like no the president is the shit his doctor got strong-armed into clearing him to go back to public engagements. We can't tell you the last time we tested him and he tested negative. And they also have said, aside from quite literally saying they're not sharing when the last time he tested negative was, they're also saying they're not sharing whatever they would do if he tested positive again. They're like, let's just ignore any of that because we can't scare him. I mean, because they're not isolating him now.

So like, what in their, what would change? He is positive. Shouldn't we just assume that he's currently testing positive since they're not saying

that he's not and they're also not saying the last time he tested negative? Like, wouldn't he, wouldn't he be saying, oh, I just tested negative

this morning. Like, every time. who manufactures receipts constantly to try and get himself out of shit you know what i mean whether that's like new maps he's the cvs of politicians right like long ass fake ass receipts no one wants them they're useless you're like looking at it you're like this is not a proof of purchase sir this is a discount on tide pods the next time you come yeah i was like well whatever i gotta go but yeah to your point like if they had the goods you know they would be marching up and down pennsylvania avenue waving them around and dr fauci said the only way they could be unequivocal about that is if you got two pcr, uh, like within 24 hours and they both came back negative polymerase chain reaction

tests. Okay. Right. Oh shit. We're getting science. Oh, you know what's happening? Yo,

shout out to me in high school, those PCR reaction tubes. I would steal them and I put like drugs in them. And I was like, yo, I got, I got Molly in this little one. Yeah.

Look, look, I was in a lab and I was like, wait, what, what these tubes for? They're like, they're for the PCR test.

I'm like, they're for Molly now. Bye. I don't want to say what's wrong with America, but I do feel like there's been a lot of misinvestment in science. Yeah, totally. 100%. These are, of course, the doctors who were left over after he demanded that his doctors sign NDAs in 2019. Last time, yeah.

So, yeah. In 2019. Damn, he pulled a Beyonce on them? That's crazy. He was like, NDA or get the fuck out. You're about to be a part of a giant project called Coronavirus Homecoming. Yeah. So, people are suggesting that he's in a panic over his re-election bid

and that's why it's if nothing else like if you were part of his campaign it would you would be frustrated that he's become so distracted by proving that he's a strong boy like yeah that he's a strong boy. Like, that he... He's going on Tucker Carlson like a few weeks before the election just to get a medical examination live on TV. Or I guess he did that on Friday. Oh, shit. He did?

Yeah, on Friday. I mean, it hasn't happened. After we recorded this. So we don't know. He might have canceled it. He's like, wait, I have to take my shirt off. Ugh. But... Can you just do it over the clothes yeah this is his first live on tv with video appearance on tv and

he is and probably not live probably taped but uh it's like it's like his face on tupac's hologram body like i i just keep thinking about the medical perspective like the doctors or the doctors who are working for him and like what that must feel like the like the the staff at walter reed and what like knowing that this man is responsible for the most misinformation across a nation maybe across the world about coronavirus and how and like treating i'm obviously like they're professionals so they like compartmentalized but like how fucking awful would it be to be like this is the person that is causing the death of health care workers that i know as a health care worker and i have to treat this man and like he's gonna keep he's gonna go out and do it again's going to do it worse. Give it to everyone else.

In secret service. Yeah. I can't imagine. And then to be, I don't know, just to be the person examining him on Tucker Carlson. Like that person's, that's going to be, you know, that's going to be like a clown character. You know, that's going to be somebody else. So it's Dr. Mark Siegel, who is a Fox News doctor who has been on Fox News repeatedly spreading disinformation about the coronavirus. So they couldn't even get one of his real doctors to do the thing. Can you imagine?

The doctor comes in and he goes, oh, my God, this man is so healthy. I can't even get near him. Tucker, you have your information right there. But behold, this specimen. It's just a push up competition. That's all it is. They're going to arm wrestle. And he's going to be like, it's God.

It's clearly God. And I put that on God. Want to watch me push out 100 right here. But then they have like a machine that's just like lifting him up and down so he's like oh yeah you should feel these horseshoe triceps right now come here come here tucker it's yeah it's gonna feel like they're editing out coughs right it's gonna be yeah like i i don't you know considering every single thing he's done to that bizarre regeneron you know infomercial and telling seniors, like, guess what? I got, you know, discount cards

coming your way. Like, I honestly feel like they would do some weird shit. Regeneron does seem like a promising treatment. So that is, like, a new thing that he is doing, which is talking about an actually promising, like, with scientific and medical basis

treatment. He's uh claiming that he's going to like have it shipped to every household right but i'm wondering i just want to like have has anyone asked him about hydroxychloroquine and why he didn't get it now no but everyone else i know i'm like i want a reporter to be like why did you not use this yeah now tell me why right now what happened to your fucking miracle cure b oh okay so now you're on that regeneron okay i see it's it's it's the same shit of like my son's not gonna go to school but yours should i'm mailing in my vote but you shouldn't it's like the same fucking shit but with his i'm like it's so it's like i don't

know it doesn't matter it doesn't matter what any of us say. He's just going to continue being crazy. So we just have to vote. Like, that's all that can happen. Yeah. So he's continuing to spread discord like Gretchen Whitmer could have been in any other White House. White House, the fact that the FBI foiled a plot to kidnap and presumably kill the governor of Michigan, that would have been an off-ramp for any other presidency. But because his end goal is, as a Yale psychiatrist put it, he gets joy and excitement from seeing other people suffer. He wants violence.

He wants to heighten this thing until people are being harmed. So the way that he responded to that and to finding out that two of the people who were involved in the plot were truckers for Trump was to basically double down, right? Yeah. Well, in the beginning, there were people on the news,

especially on the right, they're like, these don't sound like right-wingers. They're like anarchists because they hate both. I'm like, oh, okay. So they would attack a Trump rally? You're telling me that? Mm-hmm. But yeah, then this information comes out.

Yeah, two of the guys had like some yard signs. The two really cool roommates that could have been us in a parallel universe. Jack, just two elderly millennials like trying to figure out how to do something cool. They had, you know, they had the usual trappings of right winger shit of like they had the little Snek flag

as we call the Gadsden flag. And they had the Confederate flagppings of right winger shit of like they had the little snek flag as we call the gadston flag and they had the confederate flag flying outside their house so you know very clear where they they sat in terms of where they might be getting energized who might be getting them turnt up off of twitter um and yeah the whole thing was just with all this coming out and even more scrutiny on the president's words while he's also trying to you know there's additional scrutiny because his words are about how great he's doing physically uh he had to come out and really just find a way to make it seem like this wasn't his problem and i think the best way to do that was to just basically yell at the person who was the center

of a kidnapping plot governor gretchen whitmermer. He tweeted, he hit her with like three. Governor Whitmer of Michigan has done a terrible job. She locked down her state for everyone except her husband's boating activities. The federal government provided tremendous help to the great people of Michigan. My Justice Department and federal law enforcement announced today that they foiled a dangerous plot

against the governor. Rather than say, thank you, she calls me a white supremacist while biden and democrats refuse to condemn antifa anarchists looters and mobs that burn down democrat-run cities i do not tolerate any extreme violence defending all americans and even those who oppose and attack me is what i will always do as your president governor whitmer open up your state open up your schools and open up your churches so this thing had it all i don't know wow it's like wild yeah also like this just reminded me of like how recent um the ester salas case was where someone like murdered her son and like uh like injured her husband i think he's still or he was hospitalized her husband was

i don't know he's obviously still recovering but like this shit is real for it's like there are real people who will like kill people in office and and to be encouraged by the the supposed leader of the free world like that's wild to me that the first thing that you wouldn't do is like condemn and then like offer some amount of comfort there's no comfort ever coming from trump like he cannot physically comfort and he's never in his life offered anyone comfort ever and when you see it it's like the most awkward shit it's like he just like slapped that kid in the back it was supposed to be like a hair tussle yeah he like yeah that's true even in person he like doesn't know how to physically interact with people he's like here's some paper towels puerto ricans wepa yeah it's wild but it's

like it's a real threat i can't i don't know yeah and you know they're still the headlines continue to still describe them as uh militia members rather than domestic terrorists. Right. Because, again, the media, again, it's hard to call white supremacy out or extremism or terrorism for what it is, especially when the subjects are not the typical narrative that we see, which is brown faces. Brown faces want to do all the bad stuff. narrative that we see which is brown faces brown faces want to do all the bad stuff but i just hope they're prepared to when the election doesn't go the way that these people want it to i hope the media is prepared to call them terrorists when they respond with violence yeah and it's interesting to see how the there's a lot of people doing 180s like even people in

the michigan state legislature who are like you know in the beginning were like yo this is so fucking sick these people are at the capital with their fucking ars and shit just trying to show show the governor what's up and a lot of like other democrats in the state legislature were like yo they're fucking high like the republicans are high-fiving some of these people with guns like what the fuck is going on and then cut to after and they're like obviously these people are traitors they're disgusting they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law i'm like y'all are complicit too you were getting you know kiki and with them at the capitol as well but everyone it's everyone's being real slippery again too because even when all this stuff is on its way there there's still people in office fanning that shit and and being you know cheerleaders for them it's like the cops like high five or like saying hi to kyle rittenhouse or whatever his name is

right yeah yeah or the cops talking to the proud boys and telling them where to go to avoid being uh in the line of fire as they're taking out left-wing protesters. Yeah. Well, speaking of left-wing protesters... Somebody say my name? No. Pope Francis, baby. The woke pope is at it again.

First, he was like, man, things don't look good over there with this whole climate change thing. Y'all better. Did he really say fuck like the world is ending? Was that a direct quote? I took that to mean that. I mean, he obviously came out and was like, he's like, yo, fuck, baby.

Fucking is like eating. It comes from God. And that's on God. OK, and I'm the pope. And you could take that to church. So fuck away. I'll fuck away. My children.

Am I, am I religious now? I know. Well, the way he was, the way he was talking about it was really like sensual. And I'm like, that's right,

man. Cause food is like an experience and sex is the same way. We're like, we're engaging with our senses. And I'm like, yo, like, okay. Okay. Pope senses. And I'm like, yo. Like, okay, Pope Nasty. Cut to next week.

Cardi B is interviewing him on her live Instagram. He's at a nail salon with her. They're having champagne. And he's like, I'm so glad you got rid of Offset, Cardi. He wasn't shit. You know what I mean? And he wasn't respecting you. So I bless your next relationship.

So he comes out and was really saying, like, looking at the pandemic, looking at how billionaires have just been siphoning all of the fucking wealth. Like, you just look at the charts since March. The people who are making out of this shit like fucking bandits, you could just straight at the top. Look up there. And we need to normalize stealing from these people, by the way. So as he's looking at all of this, he he said he made this statement, quote, there were those who would have had us believe that freedom of the market was sufficient to keep everything secure after the pandemic hit. And then he basically goes on saying that he absolutely cannot believe the

way things have gone or i mean he can but it should prove that we really need to rethink how all of these economic models are moving and he he was saying like he thought after 2008 people would have woke the fuck up yeah like uh did you see what happened okay so you're still not going to do that so he then goes on to say because the no one you know took a cue in 2008 said quote but instead government's response to the financial crisis only quote increased freedom for the truly powerful who always find a way to escape unscathed trickle down economics pope francis continued persists as quote the dogma of neoliberal faith and that last quote neoliberal like him him uh criticizing neoliberalism that's some mlk that's some like uh that is some bernie

bro shit that's like straight up i mean but straight like neoliberal is a is a bad word i kind of i'm feeling that well i think if you're looking purely on what the outcomes are and the policies that are being preached and promoted, then yeah, it's been an utter failure. We've wrung the towel dry for any possible other outcomes. It's like, maybe if we squeeze it a little more, something else will come out. It's like, no, it's only death and despair and pain and sorrow, unless you can really begin to know, begin to treat people and their labor, uh, like it's worth as much to the people who,

you know, just sit back and, and, and cut the checks. But his, his whole vibe generally, since he came into office, no,

into popedom. Uh, yeah. Since he, uh, mobile. Yeah. Occupying the the mobile the papacy papacy papacy papacy i'm chasing that papacy since he papped up a level papacy papacy sounds like something i get done at the gynecologist's office but since since he came, like he was succeeding a dude who wore like red,

fancy red leather shoes with like gold trim and like walked around with a cape and a scepter and, you know, was just born to, he thought the giant popat was understated. He was like, yo, we need to make that thing a little bigger. The previous guy. And then he came in and he was like yo we need to make that thing a little bigger the the previous guy and then he came in and he was like all right i'm not going to live in like this gold encased mansion and i'm just gonna like eat dinner with normal people and not go with all the trappings

of living like i'm an 18th century monarch and uh and i don't know guys i miss the old pope straight from the go pop that's what i'm saying though this is the system breaking down because now that he like you know is around other human beings he starts seeing uh reality you know right now suddenly cage right now suddenly it's interesting though because that like that the pope would have something that spot on to say like he's he's so he lives in fucking the vatican like how would you expect expect someone who lives in the vatican to be to feel connected that much to be like fuck capitalism yeah right no if you can't yeah like it's it's

always interesting to see people like who we would look at as like they do not live like normal people have a grasp on what that might be and i'd imagine when you are like shocked and you know religious figure you are actually interacting more with people who are in need or whether that's guidance or spiritual guidance or physical shelter or whatever keeps you in touch. But it's always nice to be like, when you hear people who can't go outside without a bunch of bodyguards, like have like a somewhat human take is always refreshing

because most of the time these people are like, I don't know, I've never shook a hand of someone who didn't make a billion dollars in maybe 23 years, I would say. Right. And I also don't go to stores where there are other people inside. We usually, we clear it out.

Clear that out, yeah. My, like, baseline for people that are in that type of position is, like, Justin Bieber leaving a monkey in Germany. Like, you know what I mean? Like, that disconnected. Because I'm just, like, you don't have a, like, well, he didn't have a normal childhood,

but, like, a normal existence is not, like, it can't happen for you. You have no understanding no understanding of how like the world works so i'm just every time i go to it i'm like what would just how would justin bieber react oh they didn't react that way incredible amazing wow yeah or like that guy from bts who said he lost like 35 pairs of airpods in a couple months because he's just not doesn't give a fuck and he's just like always just like you know i'll get it wait those aren't disposable i would love to be his like cleaning lady oh yeah he's not gonna miss them i'm just gonna sell airpods on the side all my friends are getting hooked up you're like half the time i take one of the airpods out and hide him from him because then he'll leave it and get a new pair and then i just i'll sell it to you

bro bts is still the rich steal from them too i don't care how much money do they get though are they are they one of those things are they one of those groups though that's like owned by a parent company who like actually have they been were they kidnapped at 12 that's what i want to know because they like they have like some of those groups that were like trained from like 11 or 12, right? Right. To be giant stars. Yes. Raised in a bubble of being just handsome and unconnected to any starlet. Lest they, yeah, exactly.

Handsome and unconnected. They try to keep the Pope on the prowl. They don't want the Pope to get married. You have like a bachelor vibe. We can't let you be pinned down. The Pope fucks, that's for sure. Oh, yeah. He was talking about how he fell in love with a woman back in Argentina

when he was in the seminary. Yeah, you know he was fucking. Wow. Damn. I'm sorry, or he was edging. I would hate to bring the Pope into it i'm sorry or he was edging i would hate to you know bring the pope into but the pope was definitely edging you know because that's how he doesn't want to completely go there and and and invite the uh the anger of the lord but he gets his all right let's take a

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And it's time for our uh brain bleach rundown of what we watched over the weekend miles you watched the new adam sandler joint yep hubie halloween hubie halloween hubie was not a pre-existing character right like this no they They treat it like Hubie Halloween would be the title you gave to a Madea movie, like Madea Halloween, like a pre-existing character. What was that weird guy who'd be like- Ernest? Ernest, yeah. Ernest goes to camp.

It's like Hubie goes to camp. Hubie Halloween. Yeah. So tell us miles what what what is the latest uh facet of the adam sandler cinematic universe uh bringing they see ascu yeah are you are you dc or asc oh i'm asc fuck em fuck the marvel cinematic universe too yeah yeah you know as somebody who you know is a fucking kid who saw every movie in the 90s and like love 90s snl and the big part of that is adam sandler and adam sandler movies and i said this last time for better or worse i've i probably have ingested

every single you know happy madison film up until when he started doing like those cash grabs with Sony. But like, you know, the, the, the main ones, you know,

Billy Madison, happy Gilmore, a big daddy, little Nikki, all that shit. Mr. D wedding singer, the wedding singer,

you know, it goes on and on. So this is like kind of interesting because it brings everything into this film. Like all the people who have been in sandler films have like bit parts or are like you know cameos i don't even like the first cameo is like a really strong one for a sandler flick uh like not even for a sandler flick but like when you when you see this person as the character they are you're like oh wow like we're really we're really going down like memory

lane with a lot of adam sandler characters. The main character, Hubie, is like canteen boy. Yeah. And he has a little thermos that's magical. So there's a lot of winks and nods to past films, whether that's the main love interest being Veronica Valentine, the same thing as Veronica Vaughn or Vicky Valancourt in The Waterboy. Wait, the main love interest name is veronica valentine it's like something it's a it's like a double v name yeah right wow with homegirl

from uh modern family who was in uh happy gilmore uh wow julie bowen julie bowen right all right yeah so like violet valentine violet valentine that's what it was hello valentine yeah and it's like so it's got a lot of there's fucking uh will from stranger things is in it looking like he's fucking 28 already it's that was probably the most jarring thing is will from stranger things is in it and her majesty was like yo that's the boy from stranger things and i was like no that's a 28 year old man i don't know who the fuck that is that ain't that boy with the haunted face that's how quarantine aged him we all worked in different ways you know well yeah you realize like how we're we're used to seeing them in like increments of three years now or something like that so they're and they're at that phase now

where they're rapidly becoming like young adults um but it was like overall really really fucking enjoyable it was really pleasant it's just fucking i'm so happy to hear that it's hard to say like i didn't like it there's like tim meadows is in it and him and maya rudolph have scenes together they're so fucking funny in it um fucking ray leota is in it There's just a lot of weird, you know, shout out the God, friend of the pod, Blake Clark. My boy,

my friend Nick's dad, who was Farmer Fran in The Waterboy and like in many other, like, yeah, you know, talking like this guy. He's in there too.

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. From 50 First Dates as well. I mean, it's got like, so like when you watch it,

no matter what, you're like, it's the, oh, and they're in it too. And it feels like, you know, a great time. It would be a dream to be in an Adam Sandler movie, not for the final project, but just to be on set.

Cause like everybody's rolling through and it's like, it just, I just feel like crafty would be really good. Everybody's chilling. It's probably in Hawaii. Like, it's like David Sp spade and chris rocker probably there like just like every all of his friends he's built his career to like be a good time basically his career his movies the ones that he makes are like him and his friends on vacation in hawaii getting paid for by the movie and it's like that would be it would be great to be that one of

his friends right and he seems seems to do right by them. When he gets all these massive residual checks, he's like, all right, I got everyone Teslas, and here's fucking some land. I'm a huge Adam Sandler fan. I don't necessarily think all of his movies are masterpieces or whatever, but I'm a huge Adam Sandler fan because he seems like a really sweet, good guy. He beat the curse of stand-ups being bad at acting in like in spanglish and uncut gems all that shit like he's proved himself as an actor i think and then also his like most

recent stand-up special it just reminded us like oh fuck like he's a stand-up this is what got him got us adam sandler we for like people give him shit for his movies but he's a stand-up. This is what got him, got us Adam Sandler. We, for, like, people give him shit for his movies, but he's a fucking bomb-ass stand-up. Like, his last special, I watched three times in a row. Like, I was, I was like, oh, yeah. There's even a reference to the stand-up where there's a part where he goes, yes! He does the fucking salute from, like, the song bit that he does

about flying a plane or the train going off the tracks like well i'm like yes from the stand-up special so there's a great a ton if like your mind is jam-packed with memories from sandler like everything you'll i don't know like that's what was really fun about it was it was an easy watch it was a complete utter distraction from the hellscape of our modern world and uh a really, really solid movie to just, you know, regress to and feel like a kid. And I will say like, there's a couple, Jack, I've, some of these cameos, I want to tell you about on mic right now, but I know way,

I just want you to see them. Cause there's moments where I was, I was like, Oh, this fool is in the movie. then i'm like this they're not they're not comedians and then you watch you're like damn that was pretty good though all right i'm not gonna lie that was that was that was done well so um yeah it's i i will say if you if unlike the other trash fires i've had to watch um over the course of of this uh experiment we've been doing on the show i'm like i was really like i would watch it again it's just it's just it's easy yeah so i mean my there's one thing that

i don't usually get down with with adam sandler movies and it's when he's doing a voice the whole time uh like little nicky water boy were not my favorite Sandler movies. And it seems like he's doing a voice this time. But it also seems like it's less. I don't know. Like Little Nicky and the Waterboy both seem like they were designed to be annoying. Whereas the trailer for this one, it just seemed like him doing kind of his silly voice. I will say. That's so funny.

You have like a Batman opinion. You're like, I just don't like the second voice. I don't like, but for Sandler, it's the ASCU, man. Yeah. Yeah.

Which interpretation of Sandler do you like? His voice, this, this accent, the affect he's got in this one is a little bit hard to understand. I'm not going to lie. Like there were moments like, I am going to put the,

he's always like Joe Bynum. Joe Bynum is going toum it doesn't have the back of the police and joe bynum is gonna set your cities down the one thing i really did love which made me realize how much of like a west coast like you know concrete jungle rat i am is is that it takes place in salem massachusetts like in the fall and I straight up did not believe it was a real place. Like I was like, I was watching with her. Imagine like, yo, what the fuck is this, man? This ain't real.

Where's this? Some fucking set looking all fucking whimsical and shit. She's like, that's that's Salem, Massachusetts. You've never. I'm like, I don't know about Salem, Massachusetts, but this looks very calm. Have you ever seen Hocus Pocus? I know Hocus Pocus. Oh, bro.

Dude. I mean, that's our next rewatch. I'm sorry. Well, you know, it's against my religion, you know, to deal with any kind of magic in that, you know, way. It's against my religion to deal with any virgins lighting a black flame candle. No, you know.

I don't deal with virgins, okay? Sluts only. That's like Pope Francisis he's like fucking yeah you know they gotta know he's down with magdalene you know what i mean they gotta be yeah they gotta be they gotta be versed in the pentateuch if you know what i mean uh but the whole thing with i don't know about is so clue i'm guessing salem that's the first five books of the bible uh and i don't know why you know i just thought it was a weird joke to make but in Hocus Pocus that also takes place in Salem yeah yeah and it looks like the Salem witch trials like the witches so it starts from the premise what if the Salem

witch trials were really about witches like what what if those were actual witches? Clearly written by a man. Right. Clearly. Right. They're like, my power is to take your life in the form of alimony payments. Yeah. Anyways, that stars Sarah Jessica Parker in Underrated Performance. Beth Midler.

And Beth Midler. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Beth Midler and Kathar Midler. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Kathie and Jamie, yeah. It was so good. That brings me to, you know, SJP always reminds everyone of Sex and the City, and Emily in Paris is a Darren Star joint, a Darren Star creator of 90210, Melrose Place on Sex and the City.

I did not realize that going in um and he's done it again baby he is uh what does that mean so like those shows were compulsively watchable sex in the city was i don't know like i i really love sex in the city but it's kind of trash like it's like uh yeah definitely like lowbrow funny fun uh garbage tv that was like none of those shows are realistic portrayals of what life is like while living in those situations right like sex in the city she is a blogger who lives in like... Who's really fucking rich. Really rich. And like her outfits, her wardrobe, her apartment, like she is just living that best life in New York City. It's not realistic. It is a fantasy and it's a lot of fun to live.

That's what this dude does. And yeah, like the complaints I'm seeing. So Emily in Paris has taken over like the Twitterverse, a lot of social media this week because people who are French really hate it. People who are like cultural elites really hate it. You mean the people who are doing those RIP Notre Dame posts on Instagram, probably?

Those people are like, I can't believe what... Have they been there? I was there for a semester. Nothing like that. People are mad that she just waltzes in there and everything works out for her magically. And it's like, yeah, that's kind of what we're doing.

Is she a white girl? Yeah. She's a white girl. She's a pretty white girl. It seems realistic. This was a documentary. Yeah. Hard hitting.

I do think though, like I will, I haven't seen any of this. I haven't seen Sex and the City and I haven't seen Emily in Paris. Sex and the City, I almost lost a friendship over it because somebody was like,

it's feminist. You love it. And I'm like, I don't know these rich bitches. Like, I can relate i might watch it i don't know we'll see but uh but uh emily in uh parrot like i i do think that like there is this obvious like hyper fixation in tv and movies to like have this like fantasy of like everything works out or like it's like like they're just beyond like anybody who knows rich you know what i mean like it's it's all these like really fucking rich people interacting and we like love watching that because we're like that's gonna be

may someday for sure definitely gonna happen yes but also what parasite taught us is that this shit could be so entertaining when you like have the other actually acknowledge society yeah if you acknowledge class it can be like so good and like i just i don't know i'm also one of those people that sometimes when i'm scrolling through netflix and i just see like the the the poster like the the images that they have on netflix it's like rich white people rich white people rich white people and i'm just like i'm tired my eyes cannot handle the man has spotless white linen pants i'm not watching based on the fucking cover if you're if you can afford wearing fucking white pants in a movie i can't relate to you that means you're not driving you're not cooking you're probably not even sitting somehow like it's right for you

somebody's carrying you like ariana granderied by hummingbirds from place to place. One time I was eating at an Italian restaurant and I was sitting there and I watched this woman walk in with this like fancy fucking white wool dress. And I was like, she and I will never connect about anything. You want an Italian restaurant in white in white bitch what do you have in your life that's wrong like there's no way and she ordered the lasagna and said no utensils oh my god crazy she just drank a bucket of sauce she was eating meatballs like they were apples okay now i can now i can relate to her um but yeah, I mean, her stylist, the main character, Emily's stylist is the star of the show.

Like whoever is dressing that character does it. Yeah, she looks great. Everything looks great. Like the character is a little bit simplistic in her interaction with French culture. Like people are like, the French hate it. And for good reason, like she acts like she's never had a croissant before or even heard of a

croissant. Like there's this moment where she takes a bite of a croissant and then is like, whoa. And then like, uh, posts on social media, butter plus chocolate equals heart.

And it's like, yeah, that like people who travel to Paris as brand like managers probably have heard of croissants. And like, she tells her boyfriend, like, what are you talking about?

You can come visit me and just go to the Louvre during the day. And it's like, all right. So like, Beyonce's like, we've got that shut down for filming. Right. Also whose version of Paris is this?

Like, this is just like the, somebody who took a tour of Paris via a postcard stand. this was like me when I was like 11 and my parents, like we, we got to go to Paris and my parents were like, let's see everything touristy possible, but in the least romantic way as an Indian family fighting atop the Eiffel Tower. like the French the Parisian characters hate her just as much as you would expect them to based on like going how clueless she is and the fact that she's going to France and doesn't speak French they're like that's arrogant and it is and like she is an arrogant American and I don't know I

saw an article lamenting that people are like hate watching this terrible show instead of watching good TV. This is some one-off Hallmark movie that we're all just watching to hate it. This is the Tiger King of the third trimester of quarantine. Right. But first of all, you don't get to police what type of culture people enjoy just based on your bougie liberal arts sensibility. people enjoy just based on your like bougie liberal arts sensibility but also like this is this is the sort of shit that has been succeeding on tv for ever like for 30 years by this exact same writer and producer uh and also like i don't think everyone is hate watching it i think a lot of people are enjoying it's escapism i'm sure yeah it's escapism and

it's silly and light and but that's how you know that's the genius of this is like you have some dude who's probably just rich beyond most people's comprehension uh writing a show about a normal person and like creating weird class solidarity or like the idea like solidarity with this ideal lifestyle or something but right to polyv your point is like it doesn't like when you see that it's like this genre in a way may also begin to like hollow itself out because as the reality of what our possibilities are seem a little more bleak seeing shit like this is like almost like yo get this shit off my fucking screen like yeah i just get tired of it i just get

like i wouldn't get tired of it if we had more parasites you know what i mean right i was like if this was like yeah if there was some balance i i want to see like people are like you don't want to see like sad shit and it's like we're this is sad to me because this just reminds me of everything else so like why not just get straight to the point what if this was you what if this was you what if i was white keep watching this what if this was you what if this was you i don't know i don't know what i do but it's kind of like bollywood movies too like the reason that they cut to like the alps or whatever and are dancing in it is for escapism it's like for the little amount that like people in india like would pay to go to the movies and like rural areas or whatever.

They'd have like these giant like projectors or whatever of movies and stuff and like not in the cities. And they would show like the Alps. And that's how like people would see the Alps. Right. So it's like that. But it's like like knowing like just fucking knowing that that money could go elsewhere during a pandemic. You know what I mean? Like like I'm just like I obviously there's this escapism that we all need and we all want and

that's why we watch all these things and you know like people watched gossip girl and we're like fully into it and i'm like none of like my friends were fully into it and i was like you would be friends with none of these people but it's like we love seeing that shit but also simultaneously it's like sometimes i'm just like just inject the poverty into my veins because i just want to see what the fuck the other people are dealing with while these people are in parents you know right i don't know um just a couple like things that should probably be pointed out darren star is 59 the character emily is like a social media coordinator and like not yeah

that it's about what you would expect. It's like this is how like they ran Quibi. Yes. Yeah, it's got some Quibi going on there. Is our memes part of the plot at all? Yes. Oh, yes. Got some boomerangs.

You got some memes. She gets retweeted by Macron's wife at one point. That's a big key plot point. Mary-Kate Olsen? No, I'm kidding. That's Sarkozy's brother. It's fun.

They also didn't get the real social media brands. They got the other brands, but they didn't. Twatter and First Book. When she Googles something it's just search in Google lettering. Oh yeah. Yeah. Overall.

That's funny. They can afford that plot but they can't afford those brands. I think he heard the whole Sarah Jessica Parker's character in Sex and the City had too nice an apartment because her apartment in this is always having problems. And it's like a sixth floor walk up and it's not like the nicest thing. And also she's like working for a high end brand firm. a high end brand firm, but then like her outfit would require generational wealth and her, like the fact that she has,

that does not come up at all. Really? Anyways, five stars. Like it would be, wouldn't it be fun if like now from any, from any movie or like show at the beginning, we're just like,

show us your tax returns. Right. Exactly. And then, and then we're like, okay, we'll get into the character after this okay yeah right i need to know like what's the struggle like i want to see the tax credits at

the beginning and the regular credits at the end you know uh palavi it's been a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist as always where can people uh find you and follow you? I'm at PaulaViganalan, P-A-L-L-A-V-I-G-U-N-A-L-A-N. That's on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, and my website. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying?

Yeah, I have a couple. One of them is my friend Andrew at the Andrew Nadauau n-a-d-e-a-u and he had one from september 15th and it was uh time traveler i love your volcano pompeian are what time traveler your mountain your normal mountain and then i had another one my friend at dynoman underscore j does these really like sweet comics and they're like

they're sweet and they're funny and I don't know they're just like very real and he did one and he put my name in it and it made me almost cry because I never see my name in anything and I was like this is better than finding one of those keychains with my name on it at a gas station I was like getting emotional but it's uh he does like dino comics and they're very cute and this one it's called the comment section and it's like the dinosaur is looking at the the

their laptop and it's like tom great comic polyvi love it john 10 out of 10 joe excellent again peter 7 6 4 3 6 five three meh and then the next panel is why does everyone hate me uh miles where can people find you what's tweet you've been enjoying uh i got uh let's see twitter instagram on occasion not all the time but i am there you can find me there sometimes i will post stories about me making a soft boiled egg you never know what kind of content you will find there at miles of gray also other podcast for 20 day fiance if you like 90 day fiance check that one out that's what that's right that's where i escape um and let's see uh let's see ccccccc uh tweet that i like i'm just gonna see the first one i like oh here's one it says. It says, it is from Jamie Loftus,

at Jamie Loftus Help. Just got three Monster Energy drinks at Vons, and my cashier said, hey-o, finals coming up. Anyways, just letting everyone know, I'm drinking name Brand Monster now. Name Brand Monster. Wow, flex.

You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'brien a couple tweets i've been enjoying dana gould just a good suggestion said stop asking candidates if they believe in climate change and start asking if they understand it it's science not santa claus i think that was valerie clark he was quoting oh Oh, and then Meredith K tweeted, Mike Pence's real name is Mechanical Pencil. Oh, I saw that one. That was good.

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riding into this week on? Oh, man. You know, because I'm old. You know, I remember that band, Outkast. And there was this one song called Prot prototype that i really like maybe your kids heard it's got a great guitar in it but what if what if we brought it up to speed

for the year of our devil 2020 uh this is a remix of prototype uh the boogie down mix from d don't care and it's only on soundcloud uh But it's, look, if you like that song, this just, like, it's sped up a little bit, and so it gives you a little more energy. So why not kick your week off with that one? So enjoy this Outkast prototype boogie down mix.

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