The Daily Zeitgeist - Influencers Fight COVID, A-Rod Bad At Thirst Trappin' 8.3.21

Episode Date: August 3, 2021

In episode 964, Miles and guest co-host Jacquis Neal are joined by comedian Blair Socci to discuss Ron Desantis and his evil ways, the eviction moratorium expiring, A-Rod trying way too hard, and more!FOOTNOTES: DeSantis is truly some kind of demon, will TikTok save us? The eviction moratorium expired and Dems just went on vacation… A-Rod is TRYING TOO HARD LISTEN: Khruangbin - Time (You and I) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. Please don't check the validity of that claim. Either way, it's Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021. My name is Myles Gray, aka Styles go in, styles go out, but I'll never let it go without a doubt Cause I'm an old choogy guy I'm an old choogy guy I'm an old choogy guy I was just singing that song the other day. Shout out to me and all the choogy people out there

who are just holding on to the styles that go in and out. But you know, it is what it is and without further ado allow me to introduce my guest co-host today someone who is a brilliant comedian improviser actor voice actor and you know he's actually a ambi nominated podcast host as well it is my pleasure to introduce one of the great, great, I would say just maestros of the AKA with a song and a voice of gold. Please welcome Jockeys Neal. I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every Jockeys shall be exalted. Every Jockeys and Neockey shall be exalted. Every jockey said kneel shall be made low. The rough places will be made plain. The crooked places will be made straight. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed. And all the zeitgangs shall see it together. And if America is to be great again, this must become true. So let freedom ring, Zeitgang, from the hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring, Zeitgang, from the mighty mountains of New York. And when this happens, we'll all join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual. Jockeys at last. Jockeys at last. Thank God almighty. We are Jockeys at last. What's up, Negroes? How we doing?

Bless up. You came with the I have a dream. You're getting Isaiah 40 verse 4. You're getting Isaiah 40, verse 4. You're getting them all right now. Wow. It's been a while since I've heard those words. Well, you know, had to switch it up from the song and dance a little bit. Had to give y'all some inspiration.

Had to give y'all a little audacity of hope right there. You know what I'm saying? I didn't realize we're going to church. We in church right now. We in church right now. So, you know, just call me Dr. Jack He's Neil uh how y'all doing what's up my awesome wonderful I'm good man I'm good I've been a lot of people don't know this I've been bothering you over text constantly because I know you love MTV's The Challenge oh yeah and I just started getting back into it and I realized I was like I stopped, I stopped watching. I told you, I'm like, you know, I realized, you know, I haven't been watching for a while.

Because when DM passed away, I really stopped watching the show. Because I was so like, this has become too real. Like, I followed her journey too long. And it's like, it really, there was like a pain point there. And then I got back into it. And I realized, Her Majesty's always like, are you watching the challenge again? And I'm like, yeah. And I realized realized it's because it's the choog olympics it's the olympics for old washed millennials that's what the challenge is and that's what I'm always looking at and I'm

like fuck could I get down like this too like where do I rank because it feels accessible there's something about it shout out the cho Chuuk Olympics, a.k.a. MTV's The Challenge. Miles, me and you should do a Tough Mudder, and that'll be our MTV The Challenge final. You just said you want to see if you can get down, Miles. Zeitgang, if a thousand of y'all say, Miles, do a Tough Mudder, he's holding up a paper right now saying, I will be contractually obligated to do it.

Obligated, yeah. If you do one of those petitions, online petitions, we'll see. We'll see. Maybe something will happen. Yes. Well, let's introduce our guest today. Someone who I just love having on. Someone who always brings just the most wonderful energy.

You might know her. If you don't know from this show well shit vulture knows about her because they called her the 20 comedians you should know in 2020 okay you still don't know who that is well well maybe you might know in the future because she's going to be in the upcoming animated series q force and rutherford falls okay q force on netflix rutherford falls on Peacock. She stays winning. Also, sure, she's a comedian, but she also got that breath work. You know what I mean? She will help you transcend to a new dimension by controlling your breathing, okay? Can we meditate on that?

Also, she is a Division I college athlete phenom. What? UCLA volleyball. OK, this motherfucker is digging it out like a minor. OK, and I mean, M-I-N-E-R digging it out because she's all over the fucking court as a defensive specialist or libero. I don't know. You also know she won the pasta eating contest in 1997 at the Los Angeles Feast of San Gennaro Italian Festival. Please welcome Blair Saki. What's up, Dyking?

It's your boy Blair, back for more action. Miles, oh my God. I slept out to sea by that fucking intro. Jesus Christ. I mean, beautiful. Let me reel you back in because we can't lose you. All those accolades. We can't lose you on this planet.

Also, that was like a gorgeous. I really was captivated. Thank you. Thank you. That was the goal. That was the goal. Jacky said last, everybody. What's up, Blair?

It's heaven. Heaven to be back with my fucking guys. Blair, I noticed when Jaquise was saying, hey, we should try a Tough Mudder event, you started breaking your neck, shaking your head like, no, you don't want to do that. You don't want to do that. Well, you know, I know this will shock you, Miles, but actually I was forced to do them as a family growing up. Oh.

Yeah. Are you for real? That sounds awful. I'm dead serious. Is your family the most fit family on earth or something? growing up. Oh, yeah. Are you for real? That sounds awful. I'm dead serious. Is your family the most fit family on earth or something? No, my parents are both in their late sixties and have abs.

It's hell. Wow. Wait, your parents are the people in their sixties with abs? Yeah. I see people like that, like out and about, you know,

wherever I'm at, the beaches, you always see people who are like really fit. And you're like, what the fuck? What kind of program are they on? They're doing Tough Mudders as families. Yeah, and they have the nerve to ask me how I became a comedian. Relief. That's how.

Trying to find relief from your fucking abs. You know what, Larry? Listen, I'm going to go ahead and take the side of the parent on this. You know, I know Will Smith said parents just don't understand. But I think, you know, your parents get it and uh when me and miles do this tough mother when the zeit gang go ahead and sign a petition uh if we get 2 000 signatures you're holding up a paper right now that says you're contractually obligated to join us yeah oh shit blair yeah you gotta come too you gotta come so many you're a d1 athlete we need that it was like

while i was in college and then i would i'd be so pissed that i had to do it that i would just get fucking blasted the night before and then roll up like wildly i'd walk across the finish line oh yeah just so just disrespecting the event like that yeah meanwhile they're like people in their mid-40s who are like i do i got a divorce because i neglected my relationship getting ready for this midlife crisis marathon yeah my dad's like in the mud pit like going under the barbed wire like you know and um wait so when was the last time you did one i was like early 20s and the shit was hard like i mean whenever i see the things I'm like bro I

don't want to fucking do it no I'm just like I'm just like why am I why am I climbing a rope as an adult that's just what I remember like going through my mind all right well let's uh before we get to know you even better let's just give people a quick preview what's happening this episode we're going to check in with Ron De desantis and just the general state of covid what the white house is trying to do to maybe get people to get more vaccinations uh we'll talk about the eviction moratorium expiring and how sometimes just went on vacation despite 11 million people being at risk for eviction uh we'll also talk about Rudy Giuliani. He is, he got no friends.

He's got no friends and he's got no money. And it's starting to look really, I don't know. Things are constantly looking bad for him, but there's just an interesting soundbite that I want to play from him. Then I think we'll talk about A-Rod because I think he's doing this trying to make your ex jealous or make your ex think that you've moved on spectacular thing he's kind of fucking it up like it's I think we could collectively between our three genius minds give him some advice on how to do that properly uh we'll talk about Simone Biles she's back today competing uh just to touch on that and maybe we'll talk about some new Doritos

flavors that I'm a little bit confused about. But first, Blair, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are or what you're up to or what you're into? Okay, I know I am, you know, a classified stoner, but I like to keep it honest. So I did pull up my Google history. And the first thing it said was the opposite of truth. Yeah. Oh, my God. Mm-hmm. Damn.

I get that. I feel that. I feel that. Because sometimes, you know, what is truth? You know, is it fact? Is it opinion? Is it your truth? Is it real truth?

And until you know that, you can't know what the opposite of it is. I feel you, Blair. Wait, how did you? Just walk me through this. What did you go through? And then you go, fuck, man, I need to, Blair. Wait, how did you? Just walk me through this. Like, what did you go through? And then you go, fuck, man, I need to Google. I mean, you should see my fucking notes app.

Because, you know, I usually, after the sun goes down, if I'm not driving, I pop like a gummy usually, mostly. And so I have a lot of things could pass through here and so i don't have an explanation for that really sinister google search you know like i don't know where i was i don't know who i was when i typed that in i mean you know but i was searching i was fucking digging you know you were seeking enlightenment yeah honestly you were just trying to see all the dimensions honestly i'm i'm interested what the answer was answer was because I feel like it can't just be lies. I feel like you got something for us here. I mean, when you Google it, though, what's funny is when you can just search the opposite of truth, the first thing that comes up is just truth, opposite, dishonesty, falsity.

It's just like when you search it. Falsity. Yeah. Falsity. I remember being like, oh, fuck, it's falsity. That's what like one of like when you started yeah i remember being like oh fuck it's falsity that's what the opposite of truth is and then what did and then did that open another door like is this is this is this did you figure out a rabbit hole i honestly i don't remember and it was just one of those things like you know a lot of times I'll type what I perceive in my mind as a genius premise for I'm like, oh, this is going to be the bit that changes my life.

And then I go back and read it and I'm like, what the fuck does elephant arms mean? You know, like it never makes any sense most of the time. I won't be rude with you, Blair. You know, like opposite the truth. It's kind of so philosophical that it's not a high thought. You need to be on shrooms when you look up the opposite of truth. Yeah, because then, you know, you start getting enlightened when you find out the opposite of truth.

Because when you're not on shrooms, if you just hear, what's the opposite of truth? You'd be like, well, that's a lie. That's deception. That's what the opposite of truth is. What is not real, falsehoods, that is the opposite of truth. But to your point, Jacquees,ys if you then but then you go but what's really the opposite of truth then we're talking some real shit that's the mind frame i was in right i was like oh there is no

simple answer to this shit i gotta keep searching probably till the day I die. And then if you do begin to understand what, for you personally, what philosophically the opposite of the truth is for you, what potential do you see that having in terms of opening other doors? Well, Miles, I feel if I get closer to alignment, then the whole universe just opens up its arms to me, and I walk through gracefully, and I transcend everything into the night. Wow, alignment. Okay, I've heard that.

I've heard that somewhere. I call that going super saiyan. Yeah. We just call that going dumb in North Hollywood. Or in the Bay Area. What's up? Okay, Blair, what's something you think is overrated just before this podcast i became violently ill thinking about how i once ran through a train of philip roth books

for a man when i was 23 and you know just sickened like that's just a wild thing like you know this man his whole thing is like uh women, women are fucking devils. And I was like, yeah, God, this shit is sick. I love it. You know, incredible depth and perspective. Um, but yeah, I, I just had this reflective moment and I was like, thank God for aging. You know, you never see an old bitch reading, um, Philip Roth. Okay. What was sort of this relationship like where you're like all right i guess i'm gonna ingest some philip roth was it that you sincerely like this person and you want to be able to have some common ground or was this dude just a fucking weirdo and he was like

read this book are we no no okay so you know um timothy chalamet's character in ladybird where you sometimes when you're very young in your early 20s you encounter a man that is like a try hard intellectual like those dudes that carry david foster wallace on the train like just so that it's visible you know and so i was from orange county and i was yet to meet a man who had read a book before and so i accidentally became entranced and then i was fucking next thing you know i'm three philip roth books deep and yeah and um yeah i'm just grateful to be alive and to have um i'm grateful i'm grateful listen i'm gonna be real i don't i don't read much i don't read books i you know i i'm one of those people to be like i'll read the script you know what i'm saying i'll read the stage play but you know we all do weird shit and i'll do uh like on the plane

or something when i'm listening to a dope ass playlist and i'll just kind of like throw my phone to the edge of the table so when people walk past they can probably see you know the song i'm listening to me like that nigga got some taste that nigga got some taste that's that's my so like i don't carry the books but i will have my i will have my spotify playlist they're like that man's been listening to outstanding by the gap and the 12 inch mix on the loop this whole night that boy got some taste girl you'll lock me up yes yeah yeah yep so that's what i'll do so i won't i won't i won't get anybody you know to to read any books for me but i will probably get somebody to start listening to erica badu or some shit right right right like oh next lifetime okay i see him he

might have some regrets i mean i could I could listen to that and be like, he's been listening to Next Lifetime on loop this whole time. I'd be like, this man's going through something. He's going through something. Yeah, for me, I don't read a lot of fiction. I read a lot of nonfiction because that's just like, that's the weird habit I got into with book reading was just to be like, I know facts, so I can be annoying. You love facts, Miles.

And you know a lot of facts one of my favorite things about you love facts especially when they come off of a popsicle stick but i digress um blair what is something you think is underrated okay one thing that i think is underrated is getting drunk on 1.3 white claws um Literally just one large sip of alcohol. I'm telling all my secrets, replying to everyone's Instagram stories, talking about how female surfers are really the bravest people on earth because they go into the water to their job once a month

with a literal shark food dispensary coming out of their vagina, and they still make less money than men despite being infinitely braver and tougher. And anyways, 10 out of 10, recommend 1.3 white cloths. I tripped over my feet yesterday on the beach in Malibu after three sips, and then I ate a hot dog in a bikini over a trash can. There you go. Honestly, it sounds like you're living.

Now, when you say, I need clarification, Blair. Is 1.3 one whole white cloth and then 0.3 of another or is 1.3 okay so you got to get the one whole white claw in and then the additional three sips and then you then you on another plane i have negative zero alcohol tolerance somehow out of nowhere like in my age i don't know how it came about were you did you drink a lot in college oh yes i was doing fucking gargoyles on kegs in the back of a just disgusting nasty nasty nasty nasty yeah yeah yeah oh my god and then so even then you said with that low tolerance does that mean you just got smashed just very rapidly very quickly or did you find a way to sort of last?

Because I know college binge drinking is like a sport. You know what I mean? Oh, no. You would have thought I was a fucking 6'8 tight end. Like, I could drink so much in college. And I could hold my shit, too, so easily. Oh, so the shit just flipped on you. And now you're immortal.

I would just do, like, yeah, beer chugging contests. Like, just sick, sick, disgusting, nasty. And now it's just one sip and I'm, like, on Saturn. Wow. I mean, you know, honestly, that's happening with me, too, where I'm, like, I came to the realization last week that, oh, I'm in my mid-30s now. I think we on a two-dr lifestyle right now yeah because your boy be hurting and i don't love it and then i also get a little faded you know i'm saying so i need to stop yeah the thing with me is i've just learned to respect my hangovers more which has had an

effect on how much i drink because it used to be like fuck it right man he just i think of and i'm sure we all have these moments like you think back at how we used to drink and i could get i could drink a whole big jug of carlo rossi wine okay like the sangria joint that you could buy at a rite aid you know what i mean and fucking face that thing or buy a livingston wine at a 7-eleven real quick because you know that's the that's the one thing you can get at 7-eleven that you can really put down and then feel good about and then i would go sell cars the next day like waking up at 7 a.m and then like interacting with people like trying to get and i and i think about that now like i have nightmares being like what what was my body doing and it's you but now it's just like

i'll if i get a little bit drunk i'm like piercing headache the whole day and like and that has made me just be like i don't even know if i need this shit anymore yeah also for everybody out there you know next time you go buy yourself a car before you start talking to anybody just start scoping everybody out and look for the most hungover person yeah that person will give you some deals because he want to stop talking to your ass. Yeah, that was me. They want to stop talking to you. And I was like, you know what, man? Whatever, man.

You can have it. You can have the car. Are you interested, man? All right, here. Let me just get you my manager real quick. He's going to sit down, and then you guys talk financing. And then I'm like, my head is on the hood of a Dodge Ram Cummins turbo diesel, and I'm like, huh?

Huh? Nah, Scott. Nah, I think he's asleep in his van yeah yeah yeah yeah he's taking his break in his van there's one guy who used to work with Scott he used to he had his van and he always took his breaks in his van that boy was he was chiefing in that van he was he was he was like reading he was like reading like he was reading like he was reading philip no he would read like online like fan brewed like star wars fan fiction i remember because everybody's like yo he weird he weird and then i was just straight up i'm like what like what's going on the van you got something cool in there like we don't know about he's like no i just like to read some stuff in there it's just quiet and it's easier for me and then the dudes don't have like apparently guys would make fun of him for reading

these weird printed out manuscripts of fan fiction. I was like, man, let Scott live. Then he was like, you guys know your Star Wars names? You were doing shit on the line? And he would say that to customers. Whereas the first three of your last name, the first

two of your first name is your first part. Then the first three of your middle name, the first two of your first name is your first part, then the first three of your middle name and the first two of the city you were born in. I'm lost. I don't do math. You would be like Sock Bull.

Sock Bull? What's your middle name, Blair? Alexandra. What city were you born in? Mission Viejo. Okay, so you'd be Sock Bowl Alemi. Wow. Alemi. Okay. That sounds hard.

I would be Nija. And what is it? The first three of your middle? Middle, and then the first two of the city you were born in. So, Amachi. There you go. Nija Amachi. That's cool. I'm Grimey Knocklow. You know what Scott's name was?

Roscoe Pfeiffer. Cool. I didn't know we was going to be revealing our porn names. That's not our Star Wars name. That's our porn names. Yeah, whatever it is. There's all construction. And who knows?

I just remember being like, his name is Roscoe Pfeiffer. That's not even sad. It sounds like some dude who works here. Anyway. Shoutott how was that hot dog blair that's what that's the question i want to know the hot dog over the garbage can was it good dude there is nothing better than a beach hot dog it's like uh yeah it's transcendent it felt it was so good it was incredible it was yeah what'd you put on it um you know i go all everything i don't hold back anything no my friend amy miller got it for me and she said what do you want on it i said mustard relish ketchup everything anything else i forget and um yeah she brought it to me and i i was peak happiness ever love me amy's the bringer of happiness all right well let's take a quick break

and uh you know pay some bills right after this i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours.

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on in the country is the delta variant of covid this has not stopped florida is currently home to about one-fifth of all covid cases in the country and they have like less than i think eight percent of the population i think something closer 7 or 6. And if you look at what Governor Ron DeSantis is doing, it almost looks like he thinks he can end the pandemic by making the numbers go up so high that he just breaks the charts or something like that. Doctors are also saying the worst cases they see are no longer people in their 70s and 80s. It's gotten a lot younger now. It's people from their 40s to their 60s and even younger than that. He's preventing businesses from requiring proof of vaccination

and even preventing schools from having students wear masks. And it's a similar situation in a lot of red states where like local authorities, for whatever reason, think it's some kind of statement of pure freedom

to embrace premature preventable death, but they continue down this path. And vaccinations have gone slightly up over the last month because I think some of the news is connecting with people that if you're not vaccinated, this Delta variant is highly transmissible and will probably, you could be infected at a much higher rate than the previous variant or the ancestral strain and the other thing is young people are really really not fucking with getting vaccinations like the vaccination rates are really low so the white house has had to now switch their tactics and they have basically recruited an army of influencers from tiktok to fucking whatever the kids are using, Instagram and the space book and all that to get kids to, you know, get more into vaccinations.

We saw it with Olivia Rodrigo, basically less than half of people 18 to 39 are fully vaccinated. Then you compare that with over two thirds for people over 50. And then really about 58 percent of people 12 to 17 have yet to receive a shot at all. Now, I know that it gets a little bit more complicated when you're a minor because your parents are the ones who are probably going to dictate what happens. But they've truly just been like, we just need these influencers now. That's the one way I think we got to make it cool for kids. You know, I very rarely pine for days of the past.

You know what I'm saying? Very rarely. The past wasn't too good for black folks, you know? So I look forward to the future more times than not. But there's one thing that I do miss about the past, and that's when we used to buy and sell states. You know, it feels like we've passed that era in our young country. And I'm interested in getting back to that because Mexico, y'all want Florida?

It literally makes me feel daunting in a way that I don't see how this is going to change. When the vaccines came out, even last year, our whole mindset was, we'll wait for the vaccines. Things will get better, blah, blah, blah. And now more than ever, I'm just like, what the fuck are we going to do? Ain't shit going to get better? Ain't shit going to get better. Especially when you have people who are on a mission to act like it's all good but then we talked about this last week or maybe yesterday's episode how the

signals are all mixed depending on what state you're in you might have a governor who's a republican who'd be like hey y'all need to get vaccinated like i'm not fucking around like arkansas can't handle it please but then you'll have places like texas or florida where they're like it's all good like we're not going to make anybody do anything. It's freedom. While also saying vaccinations save lives. And my biggest fear in all of it is like, because of the transmissibility of the Delta variant and a lot of these epidemiologists are like, the way of a breakthrough, truly

breakthrough version of COVID comes up, one that is resistant even to vaccines is by having a large group of people being vaccinated in an environment where there's transmission rates are still very high and then my you know sort of doomsday thinking ass like my god like i don't want to have to worry about my parents again if there's like another version where they're like that vaccine you got it doesn't work because we let the you know part of the country just be a petri dish accelerator for you know evolving this virus those are all the things i worry about and yeah like you're hard pressed to think what happens and i think i think the first thing is that they're just hoping that mandating vaccines will help make things normal and be like well there's a lot of shit i can't do unless i'm vaccinated maybe i will but it's still it's tough all these people grew up in the era like a lot of

these people that are you know propagating the anti-vax as a political stance for freedom like you guys were all taking the fucking polio vaccine you were taking all the other vaccines you were very pro vaccine until now which is just a symptom of like political division versus actual a scientific necessity um yeah i mean it's just like this weird thing about how um people flip their stances on things because of political ideologies like i know all these people that got vaxxed when they were younger with all the other shit you know they just decided now that they're not you know yeah and i think yeah because of how quickly the country has sort of like fractured into like these

sort of ideologies without any real consideration for like even personal stakes because now even there is a prominent uh republican politician i believe i forget which southeast state it was but started up very anti-vax then got covet and it like revealed that this guy was going through a month's long covet battle he's like i can't like this thing is bad y'all this is bad if you have a really bad case it is going to feel like you're on death's doorstep and this is i implore you and it's and it's funny because it's so much like how our country operates which is fuck around and find out essentially like we always have to get to the find out phase some people don't want to

fuck around because they will take the experimentation and the know-how of experts say i don't need to find out about that and i'm not gonna fuck around but unfortunately there are a lot of people who are now like i found out and it's terrible i i just don't understand too like i i get you know i get on the base level what it's about and we are everything is politicized right now right and you know like i'm only 34 so i can't i don't know what it was like uh and i fell asleep during most history classes so i don't know what it was like politically when polio was around and they were getting vaccines they people it felt like people were getting it there were there

were smaller anti-vaxxers but like the it there was just wasn't the information wasn't able to move as quickly so so it was minimal. That's the problem, unfortunately. You brought up the White House is bringing in influencers and things like that to try and get younger people vaccinated. And I fear that, unfortunately, and this isn't a compliment, but unfortunately, we're too smart for that. And, like, I don't mean that in a compliment. I mean that in, like, I think I know what you're doing. That shit ain't going to work.

I know what you're doing. Just because Kendall Jenner say, come get your vaccine, she's been saying that for months. It ain't going to change nothing for me now. You know, it's like I feel like we've gone. Everybody knows everything now. Everybody knows everything now. So, like, we can see through the facades and we could you know look if it reaches one person that's better than reaching no people so i i get that 100 but yeah i get it

you're cynical i think a lot of people are and i'm cynical sorry well i've been seeing a lot of those stories and i do think they're helpful as sad as they are. And I'm not someone where it's like, I didn't get the vaccine and I wish I did. And it's like a picture of them on their deathbed before they died. You know, like I keep seeing posts like that and or like Republican didn't get a vaccine. And it's almost and like people are like, oh, fuck those people. They're so selfish and i'm like no it's still sad that someone was under the impression that it was more important for them

to like make some political sense in their own life you know like it's still i'm not i i don't everyone's like celebrating those people it's like sick people it's yeah it's yeah like at the end of the day it's infinitely tragic for someone to lose their life when their their death could have been prevented yeah and i think when you see people who are like ha ha like you know you you're now you're getting it bad because you were being you know a science denier or whatever we completely lose track of like the humanity of it all and that's only exacerbating any kind of division because if you can't even look at someone like that and say that this this poor person just got duped so bad

that they decided to act against their own self-interest and put themselves at risk and then are leaving a family behind because, unfortunately, that's just because that's what's on the TV around them or whatever their subculture that they're part of is sort of communicating this to them. And that's like, yeah. And dying a painful death, too.

Right. It's a painful death. Luckily, the worst thing I got swept up in was thinking that g unit was gonna last forever and 50 cent and and lloyd banks and tony ayo were gonna be around forever like that man g unit g unit broke up yeah i mean that was like kind of you know like we all have these little things that we get carried away when now like the stakes are getting so high. Where people are now like, oh, now my ideology isn't like, I like this band or whatever.

It's like, I'm going to completely just say that this group of people is not human. And that's sort of the momentum that I think we'd hope to blunt on some level. In general, we're just doing a terrible job of acknowledging the humanity of people in this country. I don't think I could ever be the president. One one because i've done too much shit in my life so i don't think although now you know trump could be president i can definitely be president i mean if blair's doing gargoyles on kegs dude yeah we can we actually blair can i be your vice president uh i don't need to be the president I would never want to be president are you kidding me I'm sort of like I like to just like lurk in the back I'm not trying to um be the decision maker because if I was if I was a decision maker like this is I I would be

what I wouldn't want a president to be where I would be like you know what I'm the president we about to change some shit up. All right. Oh, I can't mandate vaccines? Well, here's what I can do. Every five minutes on every piece of screen you have, TV, phone, tablet, I'm going to show you a five-minute death of somebody dying by COVID.

So you can see it. Like how they have it on cigarettes in Europe where they're like, this is a lung from smoking then you're like oh shit jakeez haven't only known you for 39 minutes i do believe that you could become president like i think you're that captivating of a speaker it's actually alarming sort of when you meet someone like that you're like this is how um entire nations get slept up you know what i'm i'm coming for a nation near you

everybody yeah um and you know alongside that you know again like with this inability to just be like we need to look at just in generally like the humanity of people not to say like oh they're right for having the beliefs they had but i'm not gonna i'm not gonna celebrate the death of somebody because of they were they fell victim to misinformation and their own that's what i've been saying it's sad as hell like i i hate that in general with our country just in all aspects it's like you it's just celebrating the death it's like become just two sides and then just always celebrating and it's like they are you you yeah that could have been you that damn well could have been you.

You just were born in a different place. Depending on where you were raised. Literally. It's really hard to celebrate death when one thing has killed over 600,000 people in a shorter amount of time it took for an Avengers movie to be made. Like, it's really hard to celebrate death of anyone like i mean it's hard to celebrate death in general but like this is it's hard and i tried trust me and i've tried trust me i've tried it's hard to celebrate just can't it's hard to it's hard to like i like you're we're numb to it right now man we're numb to it exactly and i just want people to stop dying i don't care who is. I would love people to stop fucking dying from COVID.

Because the other thing is, like, the trauma that reverberates from one person's death, that's something we're probably not going to be able to measure for some time. Yeah. And death don't care if I'm a liberal? Shit. No. Definitely not. Yeah.

So I got to sit here and still listen to the story of how painful your death is. And it's not going to be like, well, yeah, I voted for Bernie. I'm good. No, still come kick my ass too.

If it decides to, it's scary, man. So along those lines, right. COVID has done just a ton. We've, we don't even,

we haven't even improved our healthcare laws, despite it to your point, 600,000 people dying. And on top of it, also seeing the financial or economic fallout from the pandemic continue. Like right now, one in six renters in this country is behind on their rent payments. And the CDC, you know, had a moratorium on evictions. But the Supreme Court recently ruled that the agency was, you know, going out of bounds in terms of what they were able to do as an agency and could no longer do that unilaterally. So that meant it was really up to Congress to sign into law some kind of moratorium on evictions. Clearly, they have the

numbers based on majorities in the House. The Senate is a different story. And that's another reason why this country has a very hard time just focusing on the humanity of it all rather than like the financials of it all. But the moratorium expired on Sunday. They had a chance to vote Friday, but a lot of them was like, I got to go. I'm going on vacation. I'm out of here. Like they refused to vote on it because some some like moderate Democrats are just don't like the idea of like, you know what? They see this as just like a handout.

And so do many conservatives, while others are a little more practical. And they're like, we, we set aside like 45 billion. Like, where the fuck is that money? Oh, what the fuck? What the fuck's going on? You want us to do this again? What is happening? And because of this, we've had a lot of progressive Democrats like Cori Bush, who was unhoused herself for some time, they're sleeping on the steps of the Capitol to really bring awareness to just how bad this situation can get. And unfortunately, the biggest thing is that the distribution has been so slow. Only about $3 billion out of $45 billion has been distributed for this kind of rental aid. So we're also seeing a situation where there are landlords

who are clearly working with their tenants being like, okay, let's apply for this money because I know it's there and I'm not trying to evict you, but let's try and figure out how to get this government money that they set aside for situations like this. They're not able to get it. Then you also have landlords who want nothing. It would be Christmas for them to begin evicting people because it's been months since they've received any kind of rent payments. And all of this sort of goes along with the fact that this is another just sick, sad part of our culture

is that we don't even look at housing as a fundamental human right. You know, that on some level, you have to be able to go to sleep somewhere. That's just because we're not robots. We don't just power down in a garage or some shit. Like we have homes and that's how we regenerate our rest or whatever. And Cori Bush, she recently, which is, I think it's just, it's wild to think that this is sort of a bill of a first of its kind, but it's an unhoused bill of rights to help legislate against our housing

crisis. This is, quote, the first ever federal legislation to declare the civil and human rights of unhoused individuals, particularly the right to sit, stand, sleep, or eat in public without fear of harassment or criminalization. I see this a lot in LA where it's like, well, you can't be here. It's like, well, then where can these people go? Because if you're unhoused, your options are limited. And also, if you look at the housing markets in most cities, there's no such thing as affordable housing anymore. And we haven't built it because we're not looking at this as something that people need to be able to have access to.

So as it stands, Congress is trying to figure out what they can do to at least delay this. Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, is set to give an update today on how the funds can be given out quicker. But, you know, it's still just sort of in this bureaucratic sort of gridlock at the moment. The unhoused issue is something we can spend for a whole episode talking about. You could do a whole series but let's talk about the people who have struggled during what is the largest pandemic we've gone through and the most loss of life we've gone through since fucking the early 1900s right

from a single event. And in general, I don't know if I know anyone personally who if I said to you, yeah, man, nobody should deserve to lose their home and sleep on the street. And your response would be, yeah, but.

Right. Like, I don't know anybody personally who would say that. In normal terms. Now throw a pandemic on top of that and your response is still, yeah, but? Like, that is what Congress is. That's what some people of Congress are saying, right? Yeah, yeah, people shouldn't lose their house, but.

Like, there's no but. How long can they expect to get help here? Yeah, like, as long as they fucking need. Like, what's the alternative? That's like having a life preserver that dissolves in water after 40 minutes. They're like, what the fuck is the point of that? They're like, well, you don't want to get too used to it. Yeah, you got to learn how to swim eventually.

Like what the fuck are we talking about? And that's like sort of the lack of, I think, acknowledgement of humanity that I just see and we see constantly, whether it relates to health care, mental health care, housing. It's just that this is all seen as like, well, I don't I don't know what else to say. We just can't keep spending money. It's like, well, you're actually a legislator and this is a problem in the country. So it's actually incumbent on you to figure out how to address this because the answer isn't we'll just let all these people sleep in the streets because it's in the anyway it's very frustrating um and it's it's just again we'd hope that there is an update you know some states are pretty quick with

uh getting these um rental assistance checks out while many others aren't some are being like can we give it back because they want to you know brutalize people who are in need of help even more um but yeah that such is the state of things at i feel like that shit is just so sad and so frustrating and it and it always feels like there's never any answers being had it's like right it really is just sad right and i think that's where there's a lot of landlords too who are like i honestly can't just evict these people like there are some people who you know there are landlords who are looking at it with a humane eye and being like there absolutely are yeah i can't do that and i think most smaller people who are

you know landlords and you know that's there's the morality of that is you know debatable or whatever but the idea of um you know many of these smaller landlords i think have more of a connection to the people now when you have these massive companies that own like hundreds of properties where they're just like my checks aren't coming in and then well the answer to that is to evict people these are the places where i worry the most um for what you know what comes long term um but at the moment it seems like people are trying to work on that it's really remarkable how our current times this pandemic has shown at least me and a lot of people how how close we are if not already to being what we consider a

third world country already you know just by the sheer fact that the people we put in charge of us don't care about us yeah um it like we're we just have an ego that's it like we have an ego that other places don't have. Yeah, we just keep spraying perfume on the stink. Yeah. And thinking like, oh, no, it's all good. It's all good. It's all good.

We smell good, man. No, we still are pieces of shit. And I can't imagine other developed places just letting people lose their homes for an event that's out of their control right i can't i can't imagine like if somebody and and it's so funny because it seems like sometimes the only things we understand is outright war like if somebody dropped a bomb on united states right now and a bunch of people lost their homes would we it was like we to get them their homes. Yeah.

Rebuild those homes. Rebuild those homes, right? Well, how is this different? Oh, it's because we would make less money. You see, if we build affordable housing, the profit margins aren't as high, and that's a public good and not a profit-making scheme. Therefore, it's off the table. Well, there's so much bureaucratic shit.

Even when there are creative solutions the way the system is set up like none of that stuff can innovate or get through you know and yeah then at the local level too like i have friends who work in local government and people like you know when you're at a job and like things are always done a certain way like let's say a report is always filled out a certain way at a company yeah that's what i think rigid thinking also extends to these local bureaucracies, too, where people are like, well, we can't put money there for this and the thing, because then if we put that in our reporting,

that might trigger an audit for the budget for next year. And then it's like, but if we don't, then we're not helping people. And people are like, well, I just don't want to go through an audit. You're like, what the fuck is happening? And you hear stuff like that all the time. So again, the money's there. So we'll see what Janet Yellen says in terms of getting this money out

as quickly as possible because we don't need to have, we're already facing a crisis of many levels simultaneously. So we shall see. All right, let's pay some more bills and we'll be right back. Bills.

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And we're back. And let's talk about some lighter fare, shall we? Please, I'm depressed, man. Yeah, me too. Cheer me up. Cheer me up. Me too. Cheer me up.

Cheer me up. Alex Rodriguez, the man who Nike paid many, many dollars to hide photos of him when he was using performance enhancing drugs. He is out here just really trying to live his best life to let Jennifer Lopez know that even though she traded him in for a South Boston legend with a full Phoenix back tat that he's doing well too. He posted this thing over the weekend. Okay. Like, I don't know if you've been following this.

We've kind of, I've kind of had my eye on it because it's just a fun sort of saga between JLo and A-Rod. Like he went to San Tropez. He was like trying to be like, I'm doing my thing too. Ha ha ha. He's like, I'm posting with, I'm with my ex-wife also. And we're exercising isn't that cute like really being transparent about the idea that he's like i'm fine and actually i'm thriving

so don't worry about me even though she's with ben affleck then he posted this picture over the weekend it's him wearing a very normal suit and he says stepping out with the big d energy determined darling and dapper af oh yeah come on bro you you're a former professional athlete in america and in america one of our big four is the nba where people know how to dress you can't look at yourself and be like yeah i'm doing it bro like you look like you just stepped out of Men's Warehouse. And no shade to the Men's Warehouse. No, not at all. But you can't have Big D energy with just some normal ass shit on, bro. Oh, that's so embarrassing.

If he was really, like, doing well, if he was really feeling great and doing well, he would be in fucking Bali with a gaggle of bitches not on screen. This is what I'm saying this is what i'm dicaprio in it you know dicaprio in it because and let the paparazzi take the fucking shot dude don't post it yourself honey exactly you want to be like you want to have that moment where they're like oh are you are you worried that uh jennifer lopez might be upset at these pictures and you'll be like i don't know her no no i think the move is being like when asked about your ex just like oh i am so happy for them they look like they're doing so

well and then just you know right right right sip your mai tai with like your girl's butt next to your head that's the thing also because of again i don't know what he thinks the d and big d energy is but that's fine and that's true jakees the suit is definitely like it looks like some wealthy kid who just got out of like avoiding any kind of accountability after like a fatal drunk driving accident that's like the swagger he has it's like i got off a drunk driving charge it's and that's not big d energy just it looks a little bit weird you know listen i will say this for for a rod man because i i don't know what it's like to you know it's like to be one of the most wealthy athletes on earth i don't know what it's like to be wealthy uh or athlete or on earth but i also don't know i also don't know what it's like to know my ex is knee deep and

ben's affleck you know like i don't know what that's like i don't know how that feels and i'm sure he feels some type of way but bruh you alex roger eagles like you you was a yankee you was rich like come on dude like your team can at least help you out you embarrassing yourself right yeah well that's the thing is to blair's point like if you really if you're really trying to broadcast that you're doing well you kind of need to lean you need to lean into being a villain in this instance like you kind because i think the whole thing is if you're being if the whole thing is i'm being transparent about the because I want my ex to see that I am okay. And I hope she thinks about it.

You actually need to be getting reactions. And these posts are not going to get reactions. I don't think it's being a villain. I just think it's actually living a good life. That's true. I'm actually pursuing my own happiness. And just consequentially, you happen to notice when I had no idea you were

even looking and you say you're the hero in this story right you're like in in reality I realized in a way I too wasn't living to my full potential and I didn't know what happiness was because it certainly wasn't that and I and and I have a lot of great memories of our time together. But that wasn't happiness. Look, I've gone the other way. Where I have gone the other way. Donnie Darko? No, where, like, someone asked me about, like, my ex and, like, them and their, like, you know, new girlfriend. This specific situation where it happened quite close. this a specific situation where it happened quite close and i was you know i said a lot of inappropriate things that i now wish i could take back when like a really just being chill as hell

is the move oh yeah oh my god i love them i wish them the best i really do and then you know exactly that tea exactly i think that's what makes me, breaks my heart because I'm like, he doesn't have to post anything. He doesn't have to wage this like war of optics with J-Lo. It's like, that's why I think part of me is like, look, if you're going to do it, do it right. Otherwise, just take a seat. You know what I mean?

Also, there is a war of optics with J-Lo. That's a winless battle. Also, how do you win an optics war when ben affleck has a full phoenix back piece i put the image in the in the dark so you can see it's wild and still getting the poontang pie like he is still with a back piece my man is still out there clapping cheeks yeah his life women love when men look like shit it's hell they love i swear to god they have a tattoo that looks like one of those rayon button-up shirts that they sell at a mall kiosk they have a dragon on it but that has a back tattoo being like why why do i want this guy

so bad he has this disgusting back tattoo so what you're telling me blair is and i appreciate this this sage advice is i i need to i need to go ahead and bring it down a couple notches. That's what you're telling me. Because I need to bring it down a couple. Thank you so much. Thank you. I just think of, like, when I did it, it was, like, on Facebook, right? And, like, that was sort of, like, the earliest form of picture warfare you could engage in with somebody who broke up with you.

Is you go on Facebook and you're like, hey, you're my homegirl but uh do you mind like posing with me in this picture she doesn't know that you're my homegirl because i need i need to look like a viable option to to dating people can i tell you some petty shit that i'm not saying i did but that i know that i heard about has happened okay is you You know how Instagram has the close friends little thing, right? For your stories, yes. So you know what I'm saying? If you want to make somebody jealous

but you don't want the world to see somebody is, you know, you're trying to make somebody jealous, you go ahead and alter your close friends list real quick and then post a few things on there that you only know a few people gonna see. Oh, you're sadistic! Whisper network.

Whisper network. And then you get the little, you know what I'm saying? But the whole world don't know, but just a little handful of selected people that you selected. That's a laser-guided strike right there. Whoa, you're a war general! Yeah. I'm not saying I've heard this.

Of relationship beef. I'm just saying I've heard this. Oh, you've heard that. You've heard that. That's incredible. Yeah. You know, my stance in my old age is it's more mysterious and fucking shady. And you wonder what someone's doing if they just don't post at all and then you you end up in a few friends stories yeah just like somehow accidentally like looking like you're

having the time of your life but it's like very sporadic and in between and everyone's like whoa what's that shady bitch up to right you know i remember posting some shit like me looking out at the ocean being like it's time for a new era and then your dick was dry for about 18 months you know i was 22 not knowing shit i was like yeah wait till they see this shit i'm on my new shit like barely any likes i'm like fuck all right maybe that was an l if you have one breakup where you don't handle it badly you hope you learn like i had one i or when you don't handle it well i had one where i said so it was like sort of a public situation it was embarrassing to me and i did a

set on stage that to this day i cannot believe i said i said horrific shit that i'm so embarrassed by and that'll really teach you i mean it was funny but it was so fucking mean it was so mean and i and i'm not a mean person and now any breakup i have i will just be what even if i'm fucking burning houses down in private in public i will just be like oh no i wish i I wish I love them. I wish them the best. Right. It's all about growth. We've moved on. And now we know the wise ones, they keep it silent.

Or you really wage asymmetrical warfare. In the case of Jackie, start tweaking your inner circle ring, start getting the buzz going and then fuck with somebody. Well, Blair, thank you so much for guesting with us today. Where can people find you and follow you and what's a work of social media that you've been liking oh okay um well the tweet that i like is from my friend jason at network n-e-e-t-w-3-r-k um and it's it's a niche tweet that probably will not translate at all verbally right now but

basically it was pictures of Chris Chow and Jason Oppenheim from the legendary series Selling Sunset which many if you've been following me for a while know that I've wanted to fuck those twins oh really?

yes a lot of people give me shit about this but i am who i am and so anyways i wait like as a duo like what was hot because i'm sorry i just want okay i'm just curious okay let me in let me in i want to know your world why have one time when you can have and the twins anyways what happened was chrishell went through a horrific breakup at the helm of um her ex uh husband jason hartley who cruelly notified her of her divorce via text message after he moved on with his soap opera co-star and so she was heartbroken we followed her journey and then she you know she dated this one guy from dancing with the stars and then this past week there was a reveal that she's now dating her boss and so they've been posting all these really sick nasty pics of them and like bikinis and then jason tweeted and this is also a crossover with

white lotus if you guys are watching white lotus got you so anyways it's a picture of chrishell styles on jason oppenheim's back in reference to last night and the tweet says white lotus season one episode four and it says um you know it's in in reference to the boss eating ass everyone's been talking about that show and now that i know i gotta watch that's a dimension i'm like huh because anna was like white you should check out white lotus i'm like i don don't know. Mike White's outstanding. It's so much tension in every character. Talk about humanity. Every character, you see all of their flaws, blind spots, lack of self-awareness in every single character.

It's pretty interesting. I like it. Anyways, it was an incredible crossover tweet that no one will understand. I like that Venn diagram, Selling Sunset and White Lotus. I watched Selling Sunset, so I knew who you're talking about. Well, what's crazy is I was at the MTV Movie Awards like six weeks ago, and I gave Chrishell a tampon in the bathroom, and I had no idea what she was going to do.

She was going to double-cross me and take my man. Wow. See, it really do be your own like that and i hosted the mtv movie awards after show and i wish i would have had that to talk about and i was high uh in a garage during that but hey equally as glamorous oh anyways um the thing i would want to tell you, Zygang, about is I'm headlining the Bell House in Brooklyn, September 16th. Oh. Yeah, and I really want to sell it out.

I'm going to have Conor O'Malley, Joe Pera, some fun people. So get tickets in my Instagram and Twitter bio, at Blair Saki, B-L-A-I-R-S-O-C-C-I. And, yeah, I love you all. New York Zygang, you must go to that show. Not only Blair, you're getting Joe Pera and Conor O'Malley. That's a fucking, that's a lineup. Also, shout out to Conor O'Malley's old Vine videos.

I love those. Okay. Jaquese, thank you so much for guest hosting, man. Thank you for holding it down in the guest seat or the guest host seat. Where can people find you and follow you? and what is a tweet that you like? Ooh, you know what I'm gonna say, Zyke Gang. You can find me in the streets!

And at Jocky's Kneel on everything. So here's the thing. Couple things before I let you know what the tweet is. Last time I was on, I told you, you know, look, I'm finally getting on my social media thing. So and I'm finally, you know, doing all the posts and shit. So I'm trying to get the followers.

We were going to get up to 10,000. Y'all got me to about 8,900. OK. And I was going to post. I was going to release some unaired podcast that I recorded and decided not to release one with Jamie Loftus. I'm going to do it anyway. I won't do it anyway. I'm going to do it. I'm just going to take my sweet ass time doing it now because y'all didn't do y'all jobs. So I'm going to take my time. I'm doing it on my own time, but it's going to happen.

So you'll get it. But, you know, the offer is still out there. If y'all do y'all thing, we'll get that out to you ASAP. And if not, 2022, here we come. There we go. But that Jackie's kneeling on everything. That's where you can find all the stuff I'm doing. All right, here's a tweet. This is funny.

So y'all know the tweets where it always is like, so-and-so thinks I'm out here cheating on them, but what I'm really doing is this, right? Right, right, right. So there is this, it's a retweet. So there's this tweet where it's like, I know you be talking to other niggas. And then there is a picture that says me,

and it's a picture of Marge Simpson. I don't know if y'all can see this. Just sleeping, knocked out, which is very funny. That's funny in itself. But then the retweet comes from Conley Fan Club. His retweet is simply, who took the photo then? Genius, genius. That shit cracked me up, boy.

That shit cracked me up. And it's even funnier because people in the tweet actually, like, trying to defend it, like, well, women take their own photos. And people are like, sleep. Sleep. Just say you called. Just say you called. You called. Really?

I like just really taking it outside of the bounds of the, well. I know. Somebody calls self-timers. If you have an Apple Watch, you can also trigger the shutter from your watch remotely yeah so you don't have to use yourself okay okay so that's the tweet that's the tweet i'm loving conley whatever your name was shout out for good getting a good tweet out there uh let's see a tweet i like is from sahana srinivasan at sahana underscore srini s-r-i-n-i uh tweeted dating is so easy you just ask someone out and they say no i saw that that was funny i was like yeah i love that shout out to uh uh 22 year old

miles who was also then who would after that be like hey you want to go and they're like oh actually no i'm really not interested then i will post my picture by the seat. It's time for a new era. They say you fall seven times, but you get up eight. Yeah, I think I posted like taking back Sunday lyrics or something. Right, right, right. You can find me at milesofgray on Twitter and Instagram. Also, the other pod, 420dayfiancé. If you like 90 Day Fiancé, check us out. Go twitch.tv slash 420 Day Fiance.

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