The Daily Zeitgeist - Insane In The Endgame, Playboy Game Over 4.24.19

Episode Date: April 24, 2019

In episode 377, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and What's Your Sign podcast co-host Lisa Chanoux to discuss Avengers: Endgame anticipation, the Supreme Court taking on anti-LGBTQ cases, Biden announcing his presidency run, the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, former Laker's coach Luke Walton being sued for sexual harassment, Wisconsin killing the frozen pizza game, New York's Playboy Club firing half the staff over poor service, Kanye's expensive Sunday service merch, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Sparks Pre-Sale Bonanza (4,000 Sold-Out Showtimes) And A ‘Captain Marvel’ Resurgence2. The absolute worst case scenario in the Supreme Court’s new anti-LGBTQ cases3. Poll: Biden tops Sanders nationally4. Sri Lanka Was Warned of Possible Attacks. Why Didn’t It Stop Them?5. Former Lakers coach Luke Walton accused of sexual assault in lawsuit6. Wisconsin is No. 1 state for frozen pizza consumption7. Half of Playboy Club’s ‘bunny’ staff fired over poor service8. My Goodness, Is Kanye’s Church-Themed Sunday Service Merch Pricey9. WATCH: Kikagaku Moyo - Nazo Nazo Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 79, Episode 3 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist! Yeah. A podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially, off the top, fuck coke industries and fuck Fox News. Fuck that. It's Wednesday, April 24th, 2019. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Smooth Jack O'Brien.

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Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian Lisa Chanu, aka, if you don't know, now Chanu. Oh, good one. I love that. I just love that. Drop the bomb on that one. All right.K.A. If You Don't Know, Now Chanu. Oh, good one. I love that. I did love that. You can drop the bomb on that one. All right. Wow.

Hitting them off. I love your last name. What is it? Is it the Frenchness of it? The O-U-X? I don't know. Chanu. Yeah.

Are you a LSU fan? You can say Go Tigers? No. Oh, you don't want to say T-A-U-X? Yeah, yeah, yeah. T-A-U-X? Saints. Tigers. Yeah. Oh, you don't want to say T-A-U-X? Yeah, yeah, yeah. T-A-U-X? Saints. Tigers.

Yeah. Yeah. Just very limited to a love of your French last name. Are you French? My dad was half French. Okay. Got it. Yeah.

Well, that's French enough for me. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome. You're a first-time guest. We're thrilled to have you. You fit right in to the conversation the second you walked into the studio. And 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 today. We're just going to look forward to the Avengers endgame. The anticipation is building. We're going to talk about an NBA Benghazi update. Benghazi. We're going to check in with the SCOTUS as we wait for their probably completely fucked decision on LGBTQ discrimination. We're going to talk about Biden, when he's going to announce. Apparently, it is tomorrow, Thursday.

Herman Cain is out as your Fed nominee, but not just because he'd be really bad at the job. It's because he's too lit. We're going to talk about Sri Lanka. We're going to talk about Wisconsin being the number one state for frozen pizza consumption and the Playboy Club. All of that and more. But first, Lisa, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I was looking at my search history and I was like, this is so embarrassing because everything I Google is, can I give my dog this human food?

Pretty much everything. So what were the last few uh offerings bacon pineapple uh strawberry yes he can i think those are the last few i remember yes you had some leftover pineapple well if i'm like cutting it i'll like oh yeah hook it up yeah he's he he is accustomed to kind of coming up and begging for scraps. Oh, all the time. Yeah, our dog is. Just a beggar?

Oh, yeah. Thinks he's a chooser? Yes. Yeah. Non-stop. I mean, I feel like with meat, I don't think twice if it's like a meat thing. I'm like, yeah, I'm sure you can eat this whopper with cheese. But then it's fruits that I always look up because I'm like,

you never know what is not good for a dog. What's the fruit? Is blueberries not all right? Blueberries is fine. Avocados, no. Avocados, no? Yeah. Really?

Yeah. Oh, no. Our dog likes every food except bananas. Really? We'll not fuck with bananas. My dog's so picky. Like, I give him an apple slice and then he'll just leave the skin.

Oh, shit. That takes skill. Would you please cut the crusts off this thing? Just looks at it like, wow, somebody's getting lazy. Yeah. Our dog is so about the scraps that I will just find

a dried noodle, like in his fur somewhere. Cause he just like knows when my son is going to like drop some piece of food. So he's just always, it's like falling on his head constantly. Like manna from heaven. Yeah,

exactly. Uh, what is something you think is overrated? Overrated. Overrated. Uh, I'm going to say food trucks. I feel like they're overrated.

I feel like they're done. I feel like it's enough. Okay. Let's talk some shit. Okay. Did you go to one recently and you're like, you know what? This ain't it anymore. It's not that because I do feel like the taco trucks are like fine, but only because the

price point is good. Taco trucks are great because yeah, it's right. It's affordable and it's like for the people. It's of the people and it's delicious but like when you go to on the way to work today i got cut off by the dr deli fucking truck motherfucker cut me off so hard and i'm trying to practice zen some zen shit i'm going through some shit right now i'm really trying to get a hold of myself excuse me but when the dr deli cut me off and i just saw like the hokiness of it and they're like charging all this money for pastrami grilled cheese that

is not interesting to me do you know if he was on his way to a deli related medical emergency what that's the whole thing that's the thing i don't like about some of these trucks is how like uh kitschy or like gimmicky they are with their menus. Because on that thing, it literally was a prescription for a grilled cheese pastrami sandwich with Parmesan fries. Okay, thank you, 2007. Yeah, I agree. I've seen that menu combination before. Also, it's like $18.

Right. It's not like- Dr. Delia's? I don't know about Dr. Delia. If their prices are fair, then I don't know about Dr. Delia if their prices are fair then I don't want to bring you into this but you did cut me off motherfucker

any of those where it's like a specialty waffle truck you're like fuck this it's gonna be so expensive and it's not even gonna be a good waffle right just no

I'm against you're like can you get me a lengua taco for less than one dollar yeah because if you can't I'm all for it and I'm here

exactly now I will say the good thing is that it allows different people to get into the restaurant game without having to pay the overhead for a spot. I'm not saying they're evil. And where Cracked was located back in the day in Santa Monica, we just had like a mobile. Yeah, there was just a like mobile food court that was always showing up. But it's also tricky because, man, there are some like the difference between a bad food truck and a good food truck is just wild, wide. I do want to shout out Vito's, the Salvadoran food truck with the pupusas.

I have that's like a modern food truck that I'm like'm like, yes, I'm here for that too. Papooses. Yeah, I love papooses, man. What is underrated besides papooses? Monogamy. Monogamy is underrated. Controversial. You're telling me.

Not a lot of great- Serial womanizers in here. Not a lot of great movies made about just really great monogamous relationships. I mean. Was the notebook like that? Could you consider the notebook about monogamy? I'd never seen it. Yeah, I think it probably is kind of about that, but it's also about mental illness, I think.

Yeah, there's a lot of other things going on. They have Alzheimer's, one of them. Yeah, at least one of them. I don't know. It's been a while. Oh, spoiler alert. It's been a while. One of them. Yeah, at least one of them. I don't know. It's been a while. Oh, spoiler alert. It's been a while. Well, now.

Yeah. I think literally 15 years. Didn't that come out in 2004 or something? Yeah. Probably. Monogamy. Tell me more. I just think that, well, I'm a stand-up comedian, and I feel like I hear all this talk about

how cool it is to be open. And that's great. If that's your thing, that's cool. But I think monogamy is cool too. What's the advantage for you, the value that you feel people aren't seeing in monogamy? I guess with the openness, people are like, well, you can try whatever you want. You can be a little more free. And if that's your vibe, that's your vibe.

But some people need consistency, I guess. I think a lot of times that for me, the parts of relationships that are hard are what makes it more valuable to me. Oh, we've been through this together. We've gone through this thing. To me, that provides me with a lot of comfort and security. And maybe for other people, it doesn't. Sure. But that's why I think that monogamy is underrated.

Yeah. Easy to take for granted. But, yeah, I think that monogamy is underrated. Yeah. Easy to take for granted, but yeah, it can be an amazing thing. Yeah, I mean, if I didn't have Her Majesty, my partner, by my side, when I found out Taco Bell wasn't serving Mexi-Melt anymore. Fuck. Would you be here? I just found out right now. Yeah.

But luckily, our listeners are so fucking about that life. They taught me the menu hack. You know, get a cheesy roll up, add beef, add pico, blood out, hacked Maximo with actually even more beef. Wow. So, you know, the Lord taketh and the Lord giveth back. Okay. That's how I see it.

But yeah, that's true. Like there is something to the hard parts of life that do add a dimension, like a depth or quality to a relationship. But I guess I wonder if that's a thing, like if that's just the nourishment we need in our relationships, that someone who is more, has like an open relationship, isn't as interested in that because maybe it's about literally the actual being able to love as many different people as possible.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to shit on people who are in open relationships. I just think monogamy is underrated. Yeah, the only people we're shitting on are the people at Taco Bell for taking the Mexican out for me. Yeah, that's fucked up. And making me sound wild

when I'm trying to reverse engineer that shit at the drive-thru. And I think just in general, like in the same way that certain crimes are over-reported because they're just more interesting and get better ratings, monogamy just doesn interesting and get better ratings. Monogamy just doesn't really get talked about because it's somewhat boring,

but it is a thing that probably gets culturally underrated. People think it's not cool, and it's actually really hard. Welcome to the new show called, yeah, I guess our single friends are having fun, but there's also something pretty tight to being in a loving relationship too. That's right. And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? That buffets are good. That buffets are good.

Yeah. Wow. Okay. All buffets. All buffets? All buffets? I mean, yeah. Okay.

I guess there are exceptions to every rule. But yeah, generally they all suck. What do you think? In your mind, the kind of buffet you're being like, that's a bullshit buffet. What are we talking about? Like Vegas buffet. Oh, shit. Like any, I don't know, anywhere, soup plantation, any, like anything of what?

Those mini ice creams. Yo, fuck soup plantation. I mean, I don't really care what fuck, but. Yeah, but you could get ice cream somewhere else. That's very true. Yeah, totally. I didn't know that, though. After the show, if you could tell me some other places to get ice cream.

I thought it was only a soup plantation. I just, you know what? The only reason I recoiled was because I love a breakfast buffet. Yeah. And that's where I think it's a little bit different. Like a hotel in the morning yeah like on a cruise ship okay like i'm nasty i like a fuck i just want to blow the plate up which is i'm a nasty breakfast eating motherfucker and i just want to have like because on a cruise ship

they're like international breakfast so you get they'll have bangers too you know right then also have like a little uh eggs benny you know if you want if that's your jam and then asian stuff too i was like what miso soup yeah yeah and eggs benedict with bacon damn i gotta go on your cruise sounds gross i'm not gonna lie yeah no i know that's what i'm saying and i am a self-proclaimed nasty buffet dude okay um but i know that they're also but when you get into like the actual like a dinner buffet that's when the quality is just like shit. I think just breakfast, it's easier for me to lower my bar for quality. The quality is gross. Also, I mean, it's so much easier to get sick because people are just touching stuff with their hands and doing the most.

It's so bad. Yeah. Well, breakfast buffets. Breakfast buffets. That's the only one I'll defend. Well, breakfast buffets. Breakfast buffets. That's the only one I'll defend. And then, yeah, but even like in Vegas too, there's like the ones that are like good.

Prime rib. Are like 65 bucks. And even then you're like, I'll just go to a fucking restaurant. But it's all you can eat. Yeah, but you expect it to be good. And it's not. And also like the service is usually okay. Right.

Like they come and fill your drinks up or, you know, however often is, like, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I bet those people probably don't even get, like, tipped or anything because people are just like, oh, I didn't get served. Well, you're supposed to. Yeah, I know. But, yeah. Oh, right. That people would be like, it's a buff.

I actually did all the work. Right, yeah. Even though you cleaned up my nasty-ass mess. Right. Like, in between me getting new plates and shit. Yeah. Yeah. Again,

always tip. Don't be a, always tip real quick. We wanted to bring up the fact, uh, this has been an ongoing survey ever since yesterday when we talked about the stomach pump rumor, uh,

we've gotten some wild ass answers on, uh, who, who people heard that rumor about. And Lisa, you said that you didn't really have the stomach pump rumor. You had heard the Marilyn Manson- Removing a rib. Removing a rib. For autofillatio.

That seems to be the number one rumor everybody heard in high school. I don't think there's anybody who was alive between the years of 1997 and 1999 who did not hear something to that effect. Right. I had actually also heard it about Prince, I think, at one point. Oh, you did? Yeah. I'll leave him alone. In the 70s or early 80s.

In the 70s, you know, when I was in elementary school. When I was in high school. But, yeah, we heard Alanis Morissette, Britney Spears. So it's basically any woman that made men slightly uncomfortable or made young men slightly uncomfortable, and then any dude who was a little bit fluid when it comes to it. There was Elton John. There was a UK rock star who I wasn't familiar with, but I think Sanctaind Love was the U.K. version of that rumor.

That's when you know you've made it. Yeah, seriously. If you get the wild homophobic myth about you. Dude, I can't wait to get my stomach pumped. You're like, see, told y'all. Would people please start that rumor about me? Because I came by to oblige. Maybe not.

Miles is looking at me like maybe that's not a good idea. I mean, it's better that they start organic. You don't want to look thirsty, pun intended. Right, that's true. You don't want to be too thirsty because then you might have to get your stomach pumped. Yeah, exactly. Just to let it happen. Let the,

let the controversial shit just come to you organically. And who knows? It could organically happen. We were also talking about new kids on the block. Had a bunch of hits. Had a bunch of hits. Chinese food. Makes me sick.

But I love when girls stop by. Fuck you. Fuck you. No, we were talking about this rumor that the New Kids on the Block, like, I think the rumor I heard was that New Kids on the Block,

like, a doctor found other members of New Kids on the Block semen in the butt of like, one of the other members. And Miles was like, yeah, because of that always common medical practice

where you go in for a checkup and they check your butt to see if there's semen. And they cross-reference that with people you know. And there's thousands of untested rape cases in the police department. But we gotta find out. But we gotta check out these new kids. What was Donnie up to?

Maybe that's why that one didn't spread too far. Oh, because of Donnie? Was Donnie a new kid? Yeah, Donnie's a new kid. Donnie's a new kid, and I'm pretty sure- Oh, Marky Mark wasn't the one that was a new kid. No. He had his own lane.

Yeah. Oh, wow. The Wahlberg family. Don't slander Jordan, though. Right. He didn't deserve anything. Jordan Knight? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. That's all I'm going to say. Classic front man. Classic front man. Classic front man. All right, guys. Let's talk about Avengers Endgame. What's that?

The Anticipation Building. Miles, you said you've never seen an Avengers movie. Nah. Never seen an Avengers movie. Man, you were going to. I got, look. Woo! I saw, I think, what was one of the first big Marvel movies to come out of the Disney

side of things? Iron Man. Iron Man, right? Yeah. I was there for Iron Man. I was there for Iron Man 2. I was there for Iron Man 3-Man. Real good.

Iron Man 3-Man. I was there for Ohita Iron Man. I was there. And then Thor came out. I wasn't a big Thor fan because I was just like, dude, he's just got a hammer. Right. And just as a comic, I never really read Thor. I read X-Men, so I's just got a hammer. Right. And just as a comic, I never really read Thor. I read X-Men.

So I've seen every X-Men film. And then Marvel just came out with new shit like every couple months that I just got overwhelmed. And I just kind of gave up. I was like, yo, I can't keep up. And I'm not good at watching movies. You said you refused to see Black Panther too, right? Yeah, I've been lying about that too. No, I was like saying, that's the one Marvel film that I have seen and had seen repeatedly.

But I got overwhelmed. It hit me too hard and fast. That's the one Marvel film that I have seen and had seen repeatedly. But I got overwhelmed. It hit me too hard and fast. And then I'm such a person who likes to read everything and know about everything that at that point when the Avengers film came out, I had people telling me, oh, they all connect. It's really cool how they connect with the other films. And I was like, then this is probably wasted on me because I have not seen any of the other ones. And that built on itself, snowball effect, and here I am. I'm the ignorant one during this huge cultural moment.

Yeah. Speaking of the stomach pump rumor. Yeah. Snowball effect. Snowball effect. Lisa, you're an Avengers fan. Jacked. Can't wait to see it.

Yeah. I'm sure it's going to be great. Yeah. I do feel like every time you watch one, you do feel like you want to watch all the other ones over again. So I totally get being overwhelmed. Like when Infinity War came out, my boyfriend and I were like, let's see which ones are on Netflix. And of course, there's like none. But we were like, oh, we'll see if we can find a way to watch them.

And now there's a ton on Netflix. I feel like I don't even have excuses anymore because most of them are accessible. Yeah, you can find them. I did have a similar issue with Thor too, though. But Ragnarok is actually really funny. Ragnarok is so fucking good. Yeah. Okay. You too though But Ragnarok is Ragnarok is so fucking good Okay I started watching it And I was too high

And when I woke up the credits were happening But it seemed pretty tight Yeah No that's my experience too But that was awesome I blanked out during the whole thing It makes sense because it is Also when I see it i get it for what it is like you're seeing all of this great concentration of superhero stuff in one contained thing and you can see them interact

just like you did in the comic books um and you know when you look at the the fervor across the globe yeah man you know i guess i'm the odd one out I mean this seems like it happens every time a new Avengers movie comes out right you know all my friends are texting like where they're gonna see it when they're gonna see it like if they got tickets or whatever that doesn't happen with really any other movie or franchise AMC theaters have announced they're going to stay open for 72 hours in a row to make room for all the people who want to see it and also the fact that it is as long as The Godfather. It is three hours long.

What? It's three hours long? Yeah. Dang. Yo, can you imagine? Bring an extra edible. I feel bad for people. Yo, good luck keeping your eyes open.

Man, I saw Fast and Furious 8 off of Edible. Fell asleep through the whole zombie car sequence damn um i just have a problem sleeping movie theater because you know what you're very tired no it's the seats are too fucking comfortable now especially those the shits that like fully recline yeah in a bed at a certain point anyway to the amc thing yeah 72 hours can you imagine like you're already in like a two let's say you're at a one o'clock showing right and you got to stay all the way up through four too old for that yeah the first i think i went and saw a movie uh a midnight showing of uh terminator 2 when i was

very young and that's the only time i've seen a movie that late that's that's you saw bridge to terabithia midnight show oh yeah yeah yeah that's true i love I've seen a movie that late. You saw Bridge to Terabithia, a midnight show. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's true. I love going to a midnight movie. Really? Yeah, I don't sleep well anyway. Oh, so that's perfect.

It's pretty cool. Yeah. Well, are you looking for any specific outcome in this film? Nah, I just like when there's an ending. China has pre-sold $ million dollars worth of midnight showing tickets alone um that is that's good for you i mean could you even do that in america like i feel like that china's just so big that i mean i don't know how i'm sure that that has to compare to the u.s right and on some level even though there though there are way more customers out there.

People don't think it's going to be a billion-dollar opening, but that idea of a billion-dollar opening, the possibility of a billion-dollar week at the box office has been raised. Wait, for real? Yeah, like worldwide. Right, with the global might that this- It's going to be huge in the United States,

and it might be even Bigger in China so But yeah for a bunch Of actors This is the end This is My only friend For our DJ

As Iron Man I think Is what people Are expecting And Chris Evans I know for Like has Has tweeted about

The fact that this is it So yeah man Ruffalo I think he's gone I think he's gone After this think he's gone after this. No. Also, he's just been taking a lot of internet breaks. I think he wants out the game.

What do you mean he's taking a lot of internet breaks? He'll go off Twitter. I'm a big fan. Oh. He'll not be online at all. Oh, so he's taking care of himself right now. I think he does those environmentalist things too. Right.

So I think he's really maybe taking a step out. You a fan of You Can Count on Me? Haven't seen it. What? And you're a Mark Ruffalo fan? Yeah. You should check out You Can Count on Me. My favorite Mark Ruffalo performance.

I like Mark Ruffalo a lot. Okay, I can't wait. You look sincerely into it. I'm so excited. Okay. Yeah. I'll watch anything with him. You'll have a new Marky Mark movie.

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and they have confirmed that the stomach pump rumor did not persist, which just goes with the Flynn effect that each generation is smarter than the last. Yeah. I think they're just like, yeah, that doesn't make any sense. Well, because back in our day, the only way we could fact check something was to ask someone's older brother or sister who was probably the origin of the myth. They're like, yeah, dude, it's fucking true.

Yeah. It's a fact. Oh, all right. Thanks, Marky. Yeah, yeah. I don't know why I keep saying Mark. Mark Ruffalo. He's on the brain.

Yeah, yeah. Maybe he's the one who told us this rumor. Better Mark. Wahlberg. Ruffalo. Ruffalo. I don't know. Now I answered too quick.

I mean, better in what way? Like, as a human being. I don't know. As a human being, Mark Ruffalo. Ruffalo. I don't know. I answered too quick. Better in what way? Like as a human being. I don't know. As a human being, Mark Ruffalo. Come on, dude. Wahlberg gets up at two in the morning to work out. I don't know how many racist attacks Mark Ruffalo has done on people. Have you seen the Wahlberg's television show, reality show?

Wahlberg's? Yes. No. It's excellent. Is it? Really? It's excellent. In what sense?

I don't know. I love trash TV. I love trash TV too. It's excellent. Is it? Really? It's excellent. Well, I love trash TV. I love trash TV too. I love reality. Because they're just, they're insane. Are they just angry at each other all the time? They're just yelling and like talking about restaurants and stuff. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. That's great. Let's talk about the Supreme Court of the United States. It's the only subject that can follow that conversation. Yeah. From the Wahlbergers to the Supreme Court. From the Wahlbergers and stomach pump.

I mean, this whole thing, right? The Supreme Court has a very, very busy schedule coming up. First, they're going to be based. Who knows whether they're going to come down on the census case on whether or not to include a citizenship question that will probably, you know, the census people have said they need to know by prior, there should be some kind of decision around June when they need to begin printing census materials. But that would be the one that would add a question about citizenship, which most people on the left, they're saying that's going to have a chilling

effect on people. Answering the census. Yeah, exactly. And then, but you know, the argument on the right is like, well, we need a holistic holistic answer we need to know what we have to keep track of everything but the census is so important like in terms of how funding is moved around and things like that subsidies subsidies and the like that to have this question that they know could prevent people from answering honestly they're like this could this could potentially hurt states that have more illegal uh have more illegal immigrant populations or people who are not citizens. Yeah, I mean, on its... Sorry, go ahead. What's the point of a census if we're not going to have people answering it?

Or you know what I mean? Yeah. Like, it doesn't make any sense to have it if you're going to... I think on its surface, it's hard to argue with, well, just ask them the question. Like, why wouldn't they answer it but there's like this huge long history of people being scared to take the census and the sense is being used to kind of pry and just like dark shit like there's a whole oral history of the census being like a conspiracy by the government so like from a practical perspective adding this question is basically designed to make the country seem whiter and less diverse than it actually is.

And it shifts congressional representation, too. It has that effect, too, of how things are represented in Congress. And if you do something that is meant to keep some people from answering, then you're like, ha-ha. Right. Yeah, I mean, I'm American and I definitely check white, so I don't know. Maybe that's the problem. Well, I think it's just, I think at the very sense, it's, you know, I think a lot of people, the question is like, like you're saying, like, will it affect the accuracy?

Because people who are undocumented could avoid it altogether or deliberately misreport themselves as legal. So there's no way to really, that's's that's why it's like even if you ask you don't know how the person is going to answer truthfully so like why don't we just get a number of how many just fucking people are here yeah let's we don't need to know how many people are citizens because if you want to you can use that information for aims that are less uh compassionate yeah i And more about, you know, maintaining power. We don't ask sexual orientation or anything on there, right? Right. I don't know.

I think that the more detailed and specific it gets, the scarier it gets a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's. I think the just sort of shitty defense that they're using from the Trump administration is like, oh, of course not. We're not trying to like do anything evil. Yeah.

We just have to know. Right. So we can. Do evil stuff. We're not trying to do anything evil. We just have to know so we can move in that direction. Yeah. And then in addition to that, they're also hearing three very important cases having to do with discrimination against LGBTQ people. That's Altitude Express versus Zarda, Bostock versus Clayton County, RG and GR Harris Funeral Homes versus EEOC. So they aren't just on the surface. It's about people who have been fired or their employment terminated because of their sexual orientation or gender identification. And Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the way it's written, it prohibits employers

from discriminating, quote, against any individual with respect to his compensation terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because of such individuals' race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Sex meaning gender here. When you use the term because of sex, that would actually forbid anti-LGBTQ discrimination. Right. Because it's the same way, you know, like if you're looking at someone's orientation as a function of their gender or whatever, their sex. And if it doesn't abide by what the employer thinks is right, then they're using that to discriminate against someone. But then you have people on the right on the Trump administration who are arguing that, you know, the Civil Rights Act wasn't intending to cover those rights back in 1964. So they're not actually protected. They're using a very narrow view of it.

And that's where – so all of these decisions are going to have a knock-on effect because it might not just be about these specific cases, but also how the Supreme Court is viewing the Civil Rights Act, which could lead to just bizarre interpretations of what even sexual harassment is. I also think that if we want to talk about what the intention of that Civil Rights Act was, maybe they would have wanted to cover it, right?

Yeah, and I think... Maybe they didn't include it in the verbiage, but maybe they would have wanted to cover sexual orientation. Well, and that's what even Antonin Scalia had to sort of face that in a case about male on male sexual harassment. Right. And, you know, they use this thing of like the principal evil that the Congress had identified when they passed it. But they're saying, but the language in it does, you know, sometimes it's not about what the people were specifically talking about then, but the language of the law then covers things beyond that. Right.

And it's whether or not they're going to take that view of it or, oh, well, what did they say when they did this? Right. So it's a very, it's, you know, it'll, we'll see what happens. But these are three cases to keep our eyes on. Well, four with the census case, just because it could have very bad repercussions in terms of discrimination. Yeah. And with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the team now, it's hard to think of how the Supreme Court would decide this that isn't in favor of the Trump administration. Yeah.

I mean, they have surprised some people with regards to, you know, some of their rulings on, I think, abortion rights. But this seems like that more gray area where they're going to side with the Trump administration. Yeah. Not even gray area. Just like, I don't know, I just get the vibe that they're going to be fucking assholes about this. Well, yeah. And it's going to take a very distorted view of the law from the Supreme Court to try and arrive at this conclusion, too. Right. Like a potentially upending decades worth of anti-discrimination law.

Right. Let's talk about Joe Biden, shall we? For a moment. Yeah. One of my favorite people to discuss in the context. Sounds like he might announce his candidacy tomorrow, Thursday. But then there are also rumors that maybe it won't be Thursday because his aides are being so specific and tactical of like, well, when do we want it? What messaging do we want to send?

When do we do it? But it seems like Thursday is the day. Yeah. And he's leading in the polls. It excites me because I think, and I obviously live in the liberal bubble here, but a lot of my friends have been kind of bickering about who and what and how. And I think a lot of them would be excited to see Joe Biden. I think a lot of people are excited because of the familiarity of Joe Biden. And then for me personally, his politics aren't progressive enough for me to be excited because I feel like we need a lot of radical change.

But when you look at the polling, a lot of the establishment money, the polling data is like the money's on Biden. Yeah. But Bernie Sanders is very close. I think it's 27% is Biden, 20% is Sanders. And then there's nobody else with double digits. Not even Pete Buttigieg. Yeah. There was a poll that just came out that had Sanders five points ahead of Biden, which

I think might- It's always changing, man. Yeah. I think that might be what kind of put a fire under his ass a little bit, maybe, because it seemed like it's easy to sit out of the race when you're the front runner and you haven't even announced right once you start losing some of that edge to to somebody who's picking up momentum and you see you know other other candidates picking up momentum and the only thing that you're making headlines about is uh you know, kissing people on the back of the head and mashing

your foreheads together, then, yeah, it makes sense that he wants to announce now. I was just going to say he's one of my favorite people to discuss when it comes to in the context of conservative Supreme Court nominees, just because he was so helpful on Clarence Thomas. Oh, yeah. He was Team Thomas on that one. Team Thomas, baby. I mean, yeah, so we'll see.

But at least now, you know, we're starting to move into that phase of the campaign where candidates are actually, like, saying things out loud of substance. And, you know, Elizabeth Warren, she's... Candidate is saying things. Well, I guess two candidates, Bernie and Elizabeth Warren.

Well, and, yeah. And everyone kind of has their way of kind of being vague enough that they don't have to get real fully define their positions in case things swing the other way they don't have to change their position suddenly right but like with even elizabeth warren's announcement of like forgiving student debt and then she even gave a really good answer and at a town hall where this young college student was saying, like, you know, I'm an aspiring police officer. What kind of legislation will you put forth to protect police? And she was like, I hear you.

Fuck the pigs. And then she was just sort of like, I'm going to be real with you. The criminal justice system is fucked up because of racism. Right. And then, like, she's like, there's your answer. Right. She's like, there's your answer, essentially. But I think her whole idea is the way you would even begin to protect police is to create some sense of trust within the community that the criminal justice system is actually working. And she did this very – she's got that school teacher energy where she was just like, here's some stats. African-Americans are more likely to be arrested for the same crimes than a white person doing the exact same crime, go to trial and just, you know, boiled it down very easily. And I was like, and I think we have

to just confront these kinds of things head on to just make the criminal justice system fairer and leaner and more balanced. And I was like, oh, okay. I like it when people answer the question that they weren't asking, you know what I mean? That they wanted to say. Right. And I think someone else might just be like the real politician's answer could have been something like, you know, that's a really great question, and I think we all need to ask ourselves, when we live in a community such as this one, who are the people we want to protect,

and are those ones that are protecting us, are we doing enough to protect them? And that's something I want to look into. Miles, I didn't know you were running this year. Yeah, you know, I'm full of shit. I'm full of shit, but I use it for good, not evil. I mean, I could use it for evil, but you'll see when my line of homeopathic remedies products come out.

Yeah. I mean, Elizabeth Warren is blowing everyone out when it comes to actually putting forward policy and policy ideas. But that is not a thing that people typically do this early or even at all in a presidential campaign and i mean hillary did it she did she put out a ton of white papers yeah and then because she was like well here's all my here are my positions here are my positions but it kind of got lost it got lost in the in the mess and i that's what i was going to say is i think there's a reason political uh analysts and you know all the fucking terrible

people who ruin politics uh tell you not to do this is because it doesn't get that big of a hit uh i'm going to actually read a tweet by mike drucker he tweeted elizabeth warren and that is why i've created a sustainable plant-based fuel that will allow us to colonize Mars and prevent any future wars over media bursts in media. Hey, everyone quick. There's a dog on a skateboard running for president. Everyone runs out. Uh, I do feel like that is sort of how Elizabeth Warren's being treated a little bit. People like she's putting out all these policies. People are like, Oh, that's dope. Anyway,

Pete Buttigieg though, man, he's, he, I like the way he talks. It's like, no, she just gave up.

She just said she was going to cancel student debt for 75% of the country. Yeah. Okay. Whatever. Anyways, but I want, you know what?

You can add me if you're listening on this. One of my favorite things are those surveys where you fill out what you believe. And then it tells you which candidate, when those start coming out, send me those. I love those. Yeah.

It makes it very easy. It gives you like the percentages. Cause then I'm like, Oh, I didn't know I was so closely aligned with Jill Stein or whatever. Well, you know, and I think just to your point about a candidate's not articulating their

positions early on, I prefer if they do, because that's somebody who's saying they already have a vision for what they want to do rather than like, let me just do what's going to actually be the popular thing. And I can just wiggle my way into that position. If you come off the rip saying, these are the things I want, then I'm saying, oh, this is a person who at the very least has a well-defined idea of what principles or values they have as a president. Right. Not to say that someone who doesn't, doesn't have values, but I just, there's something

to that. If you're confident in what your platform is. Yeah. And I mean, Bernie like has had a lot of success just, just being a policy guy, just being like, these are the things that I stand for. These are like the five to 10 policies that I will always say I stand for. And like, that's it. He doesn't have a lot of other like charismatic shit. It's just, he's the, he's the guy who has these policies that are fairly easy to understand and very popular. Um, and I think, you know, Elizabeth

Warren has really, you know know policies that make sense on a okay i just sat down and read a paragraph and it makes sense to me type policies which is something that i do think in comparing it to uh hillary clinton in 2016 that hillary clinton never really had that like coherent okay she's like this is where she stands on everything type thing. Like I feel like it was more like nuanced with her and more, yes, but at the same time, this and that, like it was a little bit harder to figure out exactly where she was. Yeah, or I don't know, or just not paying attention because most of us are like, yeah, yeah, whatever, you. Yeah, yeah, more on that later. Not Trump. Like, yeah, yeah, fine, good, good, whatever. You. Yeah, yeah. More on that later.

Not Trump. Like, yeah, yeah. Fine. Good. Good. Good. Just not this other guy. Yeah, that's true.

And then cut to you're like, oh, okay. Yeah. Well, I'm just explaining why I didn't vote for her. Yeah, right. Because I just couldn't. No, I'm just joking. Well, yeah. I mean, look, the Russian Bureau of Tourism treated you very well on that junket trip you went on.

That's true. And Putin is a charismatic leader. I mean, what can I say? Hey, and a hell of a judo practitioner. Oh, dude. And attractive. Have you seen him play hockey? I mean, as if you couldn't.

He scored 20 goals in that game. Because people let him. I thought he couldn't get more handsome. And then I saw him play hockey. And I was like, what? I saw him nail a slap shot from mid-ice with his dick. Mid-ice, huh? Yeah, yeah.

Not even the blue line or something? Yeah, yeah, no, mid-ice. Mid-ice. Like mid-court in basketball? Yeah, he did a wrist shot from the other side. Yep. In the penalty box. Anyways, he hit it in with his dick was what I was trying to say.

It's the fourth quarter. They're on the three-yard line. I know. Miles was a hockey player, and so this is all driving him crazy. Yeah. From someone who would regularly score wrist shots from the blue line. Yeah. That's how nasty my wrist shot game was.

Yeah. Real quick, we should talk about Sri Lanka. Information keeps coming out after those horrifying terror attacks. It now seems like this was specifically a response to the Christchurch terror attacks. That's what security officials from inside Sri Lanka are saying.

It's a big fucking mess. But they also had to close down social media because of just all the anti-Islamic sentiment that's going to be, that they knew was going to be coming in the immediate aftermath and probably still will be. I mean, there was anti-Islamic sentiment when Notre Dame had a fire because people wanted to be like, ah, probably ISIS. That's got to be arson. It's got to be ISIS. So, I mean, this is like wish fulfillment to a certain type of right-wing European nationalist. Right. And I think a lot of people in the counterterrorism sphere of like the intelligence communities around the world were bracing for some kind of response. Yeah. When you have someone terrorizing mosques and killing people as they worship that they're saying, okay, well, we know how this plays out.

These things tend to be eye for an eye kind of thing. And yeah, like 300 people, right? Over 300 people lost their lives. Yeah. Including like the owner of ASOS. Yeah, the richest dude in Denmark. Him and his wife have four kids and they lost three of them in the attacks. It's fucking just the worst thing I've ever heard.

So yeah, I mean, it's a horrifying story, but it is something that is going to be, I think we're going to be dealing with probably for a long time coming. I like the idea of shutting down social media, and I want to see how that plays out, because I feel like it's a good call, kind of, to bring people more into their community and find that kind of support and close-knittedness that you need during destructive and tragedy times.

Hopefully it builds something. I absolutely agree. I think it needs to be, it should be a mandatory thing in the aftermath of an event like this because there's just so much toxic, dangerous shit that happens. And I mean, dangerous shit that happens. Organic, multi-billion dollar companies have just completely just shit on the social construct of the social contract of like, you know, don't do harm to the society that you're making money off of.

They just like don't give a fuck. Yeah. Well, in Sri Lanka, though, too, I think last year, the year before, they were having a lot of Facebook based problems because a lot of fake news was spreading that was leading to violence against Muslim people there. Yeah, absolutely. And Facebook, they were like people were begging Facebook to do something about it. because a lot of fake news was spreading that was leading to violence against Muslim people there. Yeah, absolutely. And people were begging Facebook to do something about it. They're like, yo, because a lot of people, Facebook is their portal to the internet. Yeah.

Especially in that country. So despite people asking Facebook to monitor this, they're like, yo, your inaction is actually causing a lot of problems in this country. I think that was another reason that led to this because they're like this time and again, this social media thing has been the source of a lot of conflict. And yeah, for like reasons to whether people can just sort of find support with each other and also just to keep, like you're saying, just the nasty shit from spreading and exacerbating the problem is a good call call but also i think an indictment on social media yes when the government is like oh what's the first thing to do yo shut that shit down because we don't want people to get you know further energized in the wrong

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and we're back uh and a quick mengazi update uh luke walton from who you was last year the coach of the los angeles lakers and was just hired as the coach of the sacramento kings is being sued for sexual assault on a woman who was a reporter reported on the Lakers. Luke Walton was supposedly going to write a foreword to a book that she was releasing. He met her at a hotel, asked her up to his room to, I don't know, see a book or something. The specific details of the things he said it just like paints such a clear picture of like an entitled douchebag who's like just right thinks he's when also that your response after assaulting somebody is being flippant yes saying like nice to see you yes she reported that since the incident when he saw her he would hug and kiss her and say stuff like, you're killing me with that dress. So, yeah, just a.

Is he being, so it's not a police matter? It's like a civil lawsuit? I think it's a civil lawsuit. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's a statute of limitations thing. I'm not sure. Got it. But, yeah, if true, which I tend to think it is,

what a disaster of a human being. Well, I just appreciate you for telling me who Luke Walton was. I had no idea. He's one of the shittiest coaches of the Lakers and one of the shittiest players who got a contract he should have never got. And a shitty human being, too. Yeah. Just shit all around.

Well, Wisconsin, guys, let's get back. Let's get to some brass tacks here. Brass tacks. Important, important news. Wisconsin, it has been announced as the number one state for frozen pizza consumption. That is a sick title to have. That is awesome. I thought they had just legalized weed or something.

Right. But it turns out this was like just some insider information that was being shared. They need to put that on their license plates, on all of the signs when you're entering Wisconsin. Welcome to... Everybody's blood type is DiGiorno. Right. Apparently, there are people, like a lot of people are interested. It's like, what is it about Wisconsin?

What the fuck is going on? Like you think that would be, like I thought would be a state where people are smoking wild weed all the time and just eating frozen pizza. But someone that was asked for a comment that the state's appetite for frozen pizza lies in its populations ties to Norwegian immigrants. So noting that Norway is the only country that eats more frozen pizza per person than America. Wow. And I'm like, wait, what what and this this is kind of a trend throughout the rest of the midwest also uh which they say eats about twice the rate of frozen pizza as the rest of the country but also wisconsin is the home to di giorno and tombstone and jack's so there's that's i think there's a thing they love cheese there right yeah yeah i mean that is the one thing

is the pizza in restaurants they're good i i mean that is the one thing is the pizza in restaurants they're good i feel like this is the only thing that they have like milwaukee style i mean they have their own style of pizza i don't know that's where zeitgang look if you're wisconsin pizza head what's good what am i supposed to know yeah tell people what they should be getting instead of that but i mean it's also like i when i lived in missouri for a couple years i definitely saw my consumption of frozen pizza go up just because it's like money saving easy to do at home you don't go out as much at least when i was living there i didn't go out as much so it was just like yeah this will do i like that nor Norway has this insatiable appetite for frozen pizza.

That's what's interesting to me, too. Yeah, I love that. I wonder if it's because of the cold and just not wanting to open the door when a delivery person comes. Or you could just store your frozen pizzas outside your door. Yeah, that's true. You don't have to put them in your fucking freezer. You're just like, hey, yo, go out back and grab a pizza off the pile. Right. Just toss pizza off the pile. Right.

Just toss it in the oven. Do you guys fuck with any frozen pizza in particular? The grosser, the better. Yeah. You know, like when it's trying to be like a respectable pizza, I'm like, you don't know how to do all that. Like, we know what this is. It's a frozen pizza.

My boyfriend makes fun of me because I dress it up. Oh. And he's like, why do you got to fix it? Like, why? Wait, so me because i dress it up oh and he's like why do you gotta fix it like why wait so what do you how do you like hack it up i'll put like italian seasoning on it or like sliced garlic oh shit if we have any meat in the house i'll throw it on extra cheese okay and is it uh it's i'm sure it actually does improve it or does it feel like you're... It cooks the same. I mean, yeah, but if you... I don't know.

It makes me feel better about eating it. I ain't no regular ass one. I put one basil leaf on here. Exactly. There was a type that I used to always eat that was like $2 per pizza and I can't remember what it was. It had like an Italian grandma on it and it was like $2 per pizza, and I can't remember what it was. It had like an Italian grandma on it, and it was like smoke.

Oh, Mama. Yeah, Mama Celeste. Mama Celeste, right? Yeah, that shit was. You guys ever leave the cardboard on? The worst. Oh, like in the oven? Throw it in the oven, yeah.

Oh, hell. I mean, I probably did that once once and then it was smoking up my house and I didn't know what the fuck was going on and I quickly knocked that off It's not Mama Celeste

unfortunately Or just Celeste And I'm not gonna Yeah it's not Celeste either What is it? Because I just I can't find it I'll update

It was like a generic Kroger brand Yeah it might be It might be But it had real crispy crust A lot of them do. Yeah, especially when you just burn it. Or was the, yeah, Red Baron.

I think they would have that at my school cafeteria in high school. But anyway, get your Celeste on. Okay, and DJ Daniel is pointing furiously at his notepad that says, Tony's. Tony's. Maybe that's it. Yeah, see, that one one that's kind of that's that's the kind of garbage

I'm talking about when I look at it yeah you don't want it to really look like pizza it's like I just want a round disc of cheese and bread yeah

it's like cafeteria like school cafeteria level pizza is what you're kind of working with and let us know Zyking what the best

frozen pizza is yeah if it is in fact DiGiorno I prefer Boboli. Oh, for real? No. I just remember the 80s, they would always say that in a commercial.

And I always wanted to get the fully baked pizza dough that they would have at the store. And my mom never obliged. To this day, I've not had it. I grew up in an Italian restaurant. Oh, you did? Yeah. My mom, I would make a lot of pizzas can you toss the dough yeah not that well okay oh so you that maybe maybe that's a secret

oh of course yeah because to you it feels like fucking blasphemy to just have you like yo we gotta put something on here it feels like home yeah uh what's the name of the restaurant sorrento and is this in texas okay sorrento. Is this in Texas? Okay. Sorrento's. I bet some listeners know about that restaurant. Hey. Have you ever had Rao's homemade marinara sauce? Oh, Rao's? No.

Rao's? I call it Rao's, but no. Rao's is probably right. You haven't had it? No, I've eaten there. It's more expensive, but it's fucking good, man. Well, the restaurant is very good. Did you know?

My favorite. They solved pasta sauce as far as I'm concerned. Did you know Bon Jovi has a pasta sauce? Yeah. That's insane to me. Have you had it? No. Have you? It is, no.

It is dog shit. It is slippery when wet. No, it's gross. It's just gross that he has one. Jean Bon Jovi. That was offensive, and I apologize to our Italian listeners. All right, guys, let's talk about Playboy Club, where I grew up inside of Playboy Club.

Apparently not doing so hot. They are not doing well. Yeah. You know, as someone who used to work at Playboy. You're an alum. Yeah, just like Jamie Loftus. Mm-hmm. Things aren't going well over there.

And Hugh Hefner's son, I believe, is the driving force behind bringing nudity back to the magazine and also going, like, just pedal to the metal with opening up this Playboy club, which, you know, if you recall, we had an opportunity to hear from Gloria Steinem recently, and she famously went into, worked at a Playboy Club undercover to write about it.

And when she heard that it opened, she's like, how is this even opening now? Right. Because most people were like, who is this for? And apparently one of their biggest problems, it seems to be the service, because page six, they're getting very messy. And they have a service like, yo, it's hell in there, apparently. But essentially, the managers are just, they say, are more worried about how the prospective hires looked in a corset and fluffy tail than their relevant experience in the service industry.

Service has been so bad that new management had to be brought in and they fired half of the bunny staff. Now the club has hired real waiters and called the bunnies, although it has kept some of the floppy eared friends on with adjusted job descriptions and slashed paychecks. So now they're basically just having the bunnies just take the drinks from the bar to the tables rather than like actually doing any of the waiting and things like that. And they've like slashed their pay from $40 an hour to $25 an hour. The thing's just kind of in free fall. And when you look at the Yelp reviews, I was like, what's Yelp got to say? It's a mix between like people who are like Wall Street bros who are like, oh, it's fucking sick, dude.

It's the tightest fucking place. Feel like a fucking king. Then there are people who are like the food is shit. Then there are other people saying it's not toxic enough for them. They're like, dude, they're not even hot in there. One star for that. People are like one star because it's so aggressively like out of touch. So, you know, it's being pulled in many directions, but there's also a lot of five-star reviews that I suspect are maybe friends of the people who run it. Cause they're like the vague ones. Like, you know, the homie five-star. You were like, oh, great time.

Five stars, no detail. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really loved it. Awesome place. Food was sick. I mean, I got sick from the food. That's right. So I've never been to one of these.

I actually didn't know they existed prior to this story. It sounds like it's like a mix between a strip club and a theme restaurant, like a Jekyll and Hyde. Yeah, it's like a Hooters if it went to college or something. It's like this weird fake air of sophistication, but it's still the same Ogle the server staff type vibe but like also made you know that's trying to create that playboy shit that they're chasing of like the dude who walks in and is like you know fawned over by beautiful women

and blah blah blah so I think actually they should lean into the strip club model a little bit more and have the bunnies be the entertainment they don't have to dance or anything but they can talk to the patrons and like then have real good servers yeah they just don't know that's the problem with this

company is like they just don't know they had a club in la that was on the sunset strip that was like this little tiny bar and it was just like another business that wasn't ran well where you know the the thing that like the battle cry in that company is that like the Playboy Bunny is like, I think the second or first most recognized logo on earth, like without context. People know what it is. Behind Jordan, what did you think? Behind the swoosh, I think. Oh, yeah. Or maybe Adidas.

But like those are like people just no matter where continent like internationally know that that logo. And they just sort of coasting off the strength of that thing and without realizing like it's a dying brand that's left over from a bygone era. Yeah. And they've not really been able to figure out how to evolve with the time. So I think they've just resorted to their old ways and just hope like, well, we'll just catch the people who still think this is like a thing they want. Yeah. It's a little bit too late for sure. I don't know.

I feel like they can make it work. Yeah. Right. If they like did it right. If you're going to be like a brand that's about objectifying women, they're half assing it. And that's why people are like confused. If you're just going to be a disgusting brand that's going to just like full on just be like, yeah, come in. Like you can just talk wild to these bunnies and do whatever the fuck you like just yeah some gross dude

it is what it is yeah but i think trying to thread the needle of being like it's fine dining plus like women in corsets and like it's just like people are like i don't know what to make sense of this place yeah i mean hooters for sophisticated people seems to be like by definition, like an error, like does not compute. Those two things don't really overlap in a way that. Oh, sophisticated people can't like the sight of a beautiful woman, Jack? Oh, God. I remember like when you were talking about the Playboy Club, I thought we were talking about the 2011 TV show where they were trying to make the Playboy Club.

I think it was basically Mad Men came out. They saw that that was a hit and they were like, Playboy was like, how do we get in on this? Oh, they had a show? They had a show. Let's see here. First episode date, September 19th, 2011. Final episode date, October 3rd, 2011

They aired three episodes Whoa What network was it on? NBC It was like a big A big bet Oh shit Yeah

A lot of dudes walking around in suits Being like The Playboy Club is gonna change everything Right But it had the bunny The bunny logo in the title So it was like an official Playboy joint Right they were like, our brand is going to explode. Yeah, well, because the people who owned it up until recently were just like a licensing company.

Right. They were getting their money out of owning Playboy by just slapping the logo on anything and selling it. Right. And then a dude who has no experience running restaurants or clubs was like, I'm going to take this over and has no experience doing anything except being Hugh Hefner's son. Working in that place is a time warp. I couldn't believe the shit I would hear working in there.

Even from the playmates, man. Some of those playmates had some racist-ass fucking takes on shit. Jesus Christ. Because I was there in the midst of the election heating up. So for 2016, like going into 2016 and like, there were just times not even having to do with the election itself, but like,

you know, when I was doing video there, um, we would be like, make content, like, look, let's do a profile on this playmate or whatever.

And asking about like people they would date. Regularly, I would have to cut shit out. I'm like, that was racist. They're like, no thugs. Like, I don't like thugs. Like, I'm not about thug life. Or like saying shit like that. And you're like, oh, I'm like, you'll cut all this shit out.

But yeah, look, shout out to y'all. Got some healthcare from y'all. Good on ya. Good on you. Good on you then. Yeah. And Kanye had Sunday service on Easter. It was, I thought it was cool. Uh, the, the part that I watched of it, for some reason they shot it through a fish eye lens. through a fish eye lens. Yeah, because that's how myopic his eyesight is and his vision for the future. It was like, would you want to watch this live? Now, would you want to watch this live if you had a detached retina? Right, and glaucoma, and you were a fish.

That was the vibe. But the music was good, and I think they were selling crew neck sweatshirts for like $300. So, you know, spiritual, spiritual. You know,

that's cause he's, he's still preaching that Jesus shit. You know what I mean? Cause he's, he's disrupting the whole business and he's selling fucking merchandise for $225, $300. He didn't really even rap like more than a couple of verses,

but it was just like a cool band playing live gospel and Kanye tracks with the gospel choir. Yeah. But I mean, it doesn't like hit what an ego, huh? What, Kanye? Yeah, right. I'm recontextualizing a church service,

so the choir is singing my songs, and I'm just going to hop around and do all that. It was very surreal because there was a small group in the middle of this giant field, and then the crowd was held back from them. Yeah. It was weird, man. Look, wake me up when he wakes up. Right. How about that?

I'll take a free sweatshirt if anyone has one. Yeah, shit. Sell it for a grand. If anybody's got a free $225 $300 sweatshirt. Wait, Miles, didn't you know he has a Risen? The Easter. Kanye? Yeah. Oh, shit, didn't you know he has a Risen? The Easter.

Kanye? Yeah. Oh, shit. That's what Easter's about? Sometimes I lose track of Easter. That's why it's called Good Friday. Yeah, it's Good Friday and then Jesus. Maybe I'm... Did I get that wrong? I did go to church on Easter. What church did you go to? Yeah, it was the church of

YouTube livestream from Coachella. Okay. All right. Well, Lisa, it's been a pleasure having you. Thank you so much for having me. Where can people find you and follow you online? You can find me on the internet at A-S-I-L-N-O-U-X or find my comedy dates at lisachanou.com.

All right. How are you spelling Chanu there? C-H-A-N-O-U-X. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yeah, I really like this one from atlersman. Knowing how to roll joints is the new knowing how to drive stick. Hey. Miles, where can people find you?

You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray some tweets I like were actually from other listeners who responded with their regional versions of the stomach pump myth so let me just very

quickly I want to shout y'all out shout out to Anna Claire Hodge for saying that who has been online dating she has come across George Zimmerman's profile as well. Sorry that you had to see that. Wow. Sense North Sensibility, at Sense North Sensibility. Shout out to you for saying the myth in your region was Alanis Morissette and Britney Spears.

Also, Sam Z said in Virginia in the 90s, it was also Alanis Morissette. So it seems like the big anti-Alanis sentiment out there. That song, going down on somebody in the theater must have really fucked them up. David Coulier. That's who it was in the theater.

You are the first person I've heard refer to him as David Coulier. Well, they're very close. You go way back with him to when he was a child. You know, David's so funny. He only goes by Dave to people he doesn't know. I don't think his name is David, actually. It's Dave. Just Dave.

Oh, you mean like legally? His legal name is Dave? Yeah, I feel like he's just Dave. His parents were like, this guy's going to be a prop comedian. Cut it out with the formalities. Cut the ID out and just go with Dave. Rob Delaney tweeted, just saw the new Avengers and the audience went nuts when Shrek showed up and saved the day. And I also like that Mike Drucker, Elizabeth Warren tweet.

You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. Where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on.

Miles, what's the song we're going to ride out on today? I'm feeling so psychedelic right now. Whoa. And so Japanese. So let's take it to a Japanese psychedelic rock band that I really like called Kikagaku Moyo, which means geometric patterns. But I saw them years ago, and people were like, these dudes are trippy. And they played one of the trippiest psych sets I had ever heard or witnessed.

Here in LA? Yeah. Out in the desert, actually. Whoa. At this thing called Desert Days. And they've just been slowly, slowly getting their shine on, and people are starting to come around to them more. So this is a song by them called Nazo Nazo.

And if you like psychedelic shit, they have all kinds of little other genre influences in the band. Check out their music. Really dark. And that's spelled K-I-K-A-G-A-K-U-M-O-Y-O. Kikagaku Moyo. Yeah, everybody knew that. Why?

How did you think we thought you'd spell it? Yeah, American people would say Kikagaku Moyo. You know what I mean? Not me. I got to honor the language. Never that. All right. Unless it's Marie Kondo. I got to honor the language. Never that. All right. Unless it's Marie Kondo.

Then I say it like how American people do. Also, check out our merch store, Zeitgeist. Where are we? Tee Public? Tee Public. Yeah. The Zeitgeist store with the Zeitgeist mouth, which is the fifth most recognizable logo in the world.

Yeah. Behind Jordan Brand, the Apple, and the Red Cross. Anyways, that's going to do it for today. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast, and we will talk to you then. Bye!本当に光がないの真ん中の人 現れる時 何にもなくて 挟まれていく

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