The Daily Zeitgeist - Is Donald Glover The Messiah? Congresswoman Stacey Trash 2.27.18

Episode Date: February 27, 2018

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New episodes every Thursday. Oh, hello, the internet. Welcome to Season 20, Episode 2 of the Daily Zeitgeist. See, I'm going to say it regularly because we're doing things my way. It's February 27, 2018. My name is Miles Gray, a.k.a. Gray It Forward, starring Kevin Gracey and Graylee Joel Osment. Thank you, Barbecue Chicken Pizza, on Twitter for that, a.k.a.

I just love the forcing of gray into everything like that. And I'm joined by my special guest host, Mr. Edgar Monplaisir. Sac passe! Not boule, oingo, boingo. Also, a.k.a. Who put the momp in the edge? Ramon Plaisir. Shout out to Ad Jedi Chris for that one.

You got your own fire, a.k.a. I'm loving it. And in our wonderful third seat, our guest spot, a very wonderful man who's only been on once. He's back again because I really enjoyed having you the one time. Very hilarious comedian. And I think you're the mayor of Philadelphia. Yeah, that was a recent occurrence. Yes.

I was like, mayor of Philadelphia. Blake Weissler. How are you, sir? I'm doing great, man. Yeah. Thanks for having me. You feeling good about just Philadelphia sports in general? It is the best thing that ever happened to me.

And it's not close. Like any familial thing, like people surviving illnesses a distant second to the Eagles Super Bowl win. And it's not an exaggeration. It hurts me greatly because New York is so terrible right now. Oh, yeah. JaVale McGee hit a fadeaway jumper last night. I'm so sorry. You can see, like, everyone.

Jon Stewart was there, and he just, like, died inside. There's a video of it. Jon Stewart's just like, oh, this is how bad we are. Where were you when the Eagles won the Super Bowl? I was here, but I had bought a ticket back to Philly. To riot? Yeah, of course. Okay.

Yeah, I mean, what else am I going to To riot? Yeah, of course. Okay. Yeah. I mean, what else am I going to do there? Yeah. Riot and eat poorly. And then, but I bought that right after NFC championship game. Didn't tell anyone because they didn't want to jinx it. And then, yeah, I had to tell my girlfriend. She's like, oh my God, I'm so happy for you.

I'm like, yeah, I'm flying back to Philly for a week. In six hours. Also, I'm blackout drunk right now. I'll tell you that as well. But yeah, it was amazing. And I'm with Christine Nangle now. Right. Also, I'm blackout drunk right now. I'll tell you that as well. But yeah, it was amazing. And I'm with Christine Nangle now. Right, yeah, exactly. So guys, let's just start the show.

And what we like to do is we start off by asking our guests. Oh, actually, no, hold up. And we're going to leave this in. This is a call to the Zeitgang out there. I want to try something different this week. I know that the Zeitgang is worldwide, statewide canada wide canada dry uh and i'm really real oh the best ginger ale uh we can get into that i mean i was a schweppes guy for a long time oh okay i thought you're gonna say c grams don't bring that in my studio don't bring that

shit in my studio um but i digress uh guys out there i'm really curious to what you guys think is a really good story that's local to where you live that you feel we should talk about on the show. Because we're over here looking at things from like 300,000 feet at the earth. I want to know if there's drama at your city council in a small town over some dumb shit. Or if you just think it's something like a grave injustice is occurring and there's not enough attention on it. Please tweet at us. Please tweet at – you can just tweet at me because I don't want to – our social team is already very inundated with a lot of work.

So just tweet at me, at Miles of Gray, with your local story because I want to know more what's going on. I want to include the community into the show. So that will be something we'll kind of mess around with. And who knows? If I pick your story, maybe we'll hook you up with a prize or something. But you'll have to tune in. So start tweeting me your local stories.

Not real big shit, but like really local stuff that I can feel like, oh, you put me on to something. So moving on, let's actually start the show. My man, Blake, what is something from your search history that tells everybody what you're about? Oh, yeah. I mean, this does tell everybody what I'm about, and that kind of sucks um less blood in body more drunk um was my last was a tough one was that like a theory you had yeah uh it was yeah it was a hypothesis and you searched that drunk and i tested it um no i had gotten like you know just like a routine like blood test thing and then i was going out drinking that night and i'm like oh is, is this, like, an altitude

thing, where if you drink more in a high altitude, like, because, like, does, you have less blood. How much blood did they take out? Yeah. For a blood test? I asked for some of it back, actually. No, they, yeah, I don't know, like, a couple, like, vials. Yeah, a couple vials. Three, actually.

Yeah, how much is in a vial? Can somebody find that out real quick? At least a gallon. At the very least. Really? No, no, no, no. It was a couple ounces. It's find that out real quick? At least a gallon. At the very least. Really? No, no, no, no. It was a couple ounces. It's like, I almost put it in terms of shots.

It was like, oh, he's an alcoholic. Let's see. The BD Vacutainer blood collection tube. That's the industry standard, by the way. Three milliliter volume. Okay. That's not a lot. Is that right?

I don't know how much that is. I feel like when I see that thing, because when they put the thing in, it just starts filling up with blood. That's not a lot. Is that right? I don't know how much that is. I feel like when I see that thing, because when they put the thing in, it just starts filling up with blood. That's a good amount. The Sprite I'm drinking right now is 355 milliliters. Okay. Yeah, that's about how much that took. Look, I'm sure a nurse out there will tell us what is in your doctor, how much is in

the blood. But did you, so what was the conclusion? Do you get more drunk with less blood? I don't think the search went through, so I just assumed that you did. So, yeah, not a bad service. And were you super drunk that night? I was, but I probably would have been anyway. Like, I don't think it was.

Yeah, I think it was negligible. So, yeah, try it out there. Yeah, give it a shot. What do you think is something that's underrated? Underrated? Going on a vacation you can drive to. Oh. My girlfriend and I went up to Lake Arrowhead over the weekend

and an hour and a half drive from LA and it was just, you don't have to worry about putting your lotions and stuff in a separate container to take out. Is that a big concern for you? It is an enormous concern for me. Is lotion a big concern for you? Do white people have sensitive skin?

Oh, yeah. I have very dry hands, actually. But just my them? But just my hands. Oh, shit. Clearly lotion. Oh, my God. Yeah. Can somebody get a brush to mop that shit up? I guess not all white people are privileged, as I thought.

Yeah. No, we are. We are. I'm sorry. We are. I just said this to create common ground with y'all. I mean, that's obviously not true. You know how it is, brother?

Get your lotions, man. You know we don't be flying because of them lotions. Yeah. I'm just trying to connect really early. Yeah, that's obviously not true. You know how it is, brother? Get your lotions, man. You know we don't be flying because of them lotions. I'm just trying to connect really early. Yeah, that's why, man. Oh, my God. Okay, I'm sorry. I digress.

You notice how my eyebrows shot up when I said that and started nodding? I was like, what? You know? You're like Philly. Majority, minority, city. Right, right. Exactly. Yeah, I'm wearing like Atlanta sneakers. I don't even know.

That doesn't even make any sense. Atlanta sneakers? Yeah. Go on. Let's move on. Still Pete Maravich though. There you go. But yeah, that was, I loved it.

Like just, you don't have to worry about it. You don't have to like take your shoes off, you know, like while going on the plane. Is that another minority thing? No, you don't have your shoes on. You have a very specific set of concerns for when you travel. I do. I'm not trying to put my lotions in little things. I'm not trying to take off my shoes.

How far was the drive though? Only like an hour and a half, hour 45. Okay, that's not bad. What time of day did you leave? Two-ish, noon, maybe. Yeah, a very open schedule. And what were your accommodations like? Pleasant, quaint.

It was a small cabin, not that much money. And you could walk into town. It was great. Yeah, highly recommend it. Because Merle and I try to do a staycation every month or something like that, like a little bit of a drive. But we went to SF Sketch Fest, and that was kind of a nightmare. That's a drive. It was like six hours.

Yeah. That's not – I think you have to cut it off at like two, two and a half. Yeah. I think that's good. When you start getting into like – leave that in. That's a schlep. You know what I mean? that that's a schlep you know what i mean like and yeah two and a half because i try and do like when i leave with my girl we'll go to like the furthest maybe it'll be like palm springs area

or joshua tree to get weird in the desert or like somewhere near the mountains near santa barbara uh let me uh after the show i'll show you guys a sick airbnb that i like to go to oh that would be great yeah uh no in santa barbara like you can look at the ocean and we'll take that's like a tease just have you heard of hicksville oh yeah hicksville trailer in joshua tree oh yeah my homegirl brianna who's probably listening a shout out to you rihanna uh she rented out the entire thing for her 30th birthday years ago i'm trying to do that i just ate i just dated you ma uh that was years ago when you turned 30 but they uh yeah we rented the whole thing have you been there. That was years ago when you turned 30. Yeah, we rented the whole thing.

Have you been there? Yeah, that was on a nice, like, I want to say first vacation together. Which one did you stay in? We stayed in the, it's named after that thing. Integratron? Yeah, that one. That one is dope. Is it trailers?

Yeah, so what they did is they took a bunch of old Airstreams and renovated them to be thematic on the inside. So one's like the 70s bachelor pad. One is like the Integratron, which is like that sound bath thing they have out there in the desert. They have another one that's like all horror movies. There's a saloon one, like an old western saloon. Then they have like a zombie shack that's outside the gate. So when they rented that, I was the man out who didn't have one. like yeah miles you can stay in that shack over there uh and then i did mushrooms and i was so paranoid oh my god that i had to like run back into camp be like hey can i hang out with you slept on someone's couch um it's like a community so like

it's like a pool there's a jacuzzi that everyone can do oh wow you can shoot like a pellet gun so you can play mini golf archery there's a little archery that has everyone can do. Oh, wow. You can shoot pellet guns. You can play mini golf. A little archery. There's a little archery. They have a teepee. That has a fire pit in it. We try to start a fire. It's a terrible idea. I smoked myself out in the worst way possible.

My eyes got so dry. I was like, am I doing it right? I don't know. Anyway. Okay, good. Staycations. Underrated. Yeah.

To the real meat of it. Of course. What's something that's overrated? Clearly, I just went on a vacation so um it was uh overrated packing light i think like don't because i feel like people who pack light it's just like well now you don't have the stuff that you want right you know what i mean so i think like just bring a bunch of goddamn bags like and don't have to like stress out about it oh yeah like if you're doing a staycation because you just leave them in your car.

Or you say in general, you bring a bunch of shit. Just in general, fly an airline where you can get free bags. Fucking bring two bags with you. You know what I mean? What airline does that? Southwest does it? Yeah, you can bring two bags on Southwest. I can vouch for that. Thank you for confirming that.

This guy has lied a lot, but he does his airline bag shit. The one time you tell the truth. Yeah, I just don't like bringing the – I always bring like two extra of each article of clothing. Wow. Yeah. I have to go on a trip with you. This sounds very interesting. You've got the separate lotions.

You don't have to take your shoes off. It's a blast. Nine bags. It's like I bring the N64 in case I'm in a goldmine mood. Then I bring the first PlayStation in case I want to play the launch title, the ESPN X Games game. I bring my table that I eat off of from home. I shit my table off. I like my table.

You got a table at home? No, I have a desk. I have a desk, yeah. Does anyone have a dining room? Like some classic shit? Like, oh, so you got a table at home? Yeah, you called me on my phone. I'm just trying to see how the other half lives.

Yeah, right. On our staycations with your table. Yeah. Sounds real good, Blake Westwood. All right. Well, let's get into the show. You know how we do. We're taking a sample of what people are talking about on Twitter, in the country, maybe sometimes outside of the country.

But we just want to see what's popping at the moment we record this show uh and you know how we kick things off blake we'd like to have our guest you know dispel a myth break a myth down tear it down uh that you just there's like someone out there that you know to be not true i will go uh with doing touristy shit it's all vacation based that's why you brought i'm the airbnb of comedy um yeah i would say that doing touristy shit's lame like on a vacation i would say that that's a myth because like every time i do it like if you go with the right person and like you can i mean not like being an asshole and being like this is dumb you know but like right go in and like really really go into it with like i'm gonna enjoy this like take it seriously i'm going to learn because often it's really fun like the only bad part are like you know the fucking assholes that you're

there you know like other people like right right but the actual tours that i've found that you do are like really fun like we went on a little like boat tour of like the lake there and they just pointed out rich people's houses and like how much they cost and i'm like i want to know that like that is the most interesting thing so So who lives on Lake Arrowhead? This is where I'm starting with. Shirley Temple did before Rest in Peace. Oh, wow.

The sun did not come out for her. And then, who else lived there? Brian Wilson lived there, who I think. The Beast Boys? Yes.

Yeah, he lived there. At first, I thought it was like the pitcher with the beard who pitched for the Giants. Yeah, I remember him. Yeah, but I'm like, why did he? Yeah, Fear the Beard. first I thought it was like the pitcher with the beard who pitched for the Giants. Oh, yeah, I remember him. Yeah, but I'm like, why did he?

Yeah, fear the beard. He had like tattoos and stuff. Also Schwarzenegger, Arnold. Schwarzenegger, Arnold. Yeah, I'm sorry, Schwarzenegger. Not Leroy Schwarzenegger. No, no, no, no, he could not afford that. He lives up there.

And then Michelle Kwan was a cool one. Oh. Yeah, she lives up there. She went to high school up there, by the way. I know about her from Arthur. Oh, really? Yeah, she used to be on Arthur all all the time she's the ice skater right yeah yeah the aardvark yeah that show the king literally all the like yo-yo mom michelle kwan all of mr rogers arthur they would all just roll through to his house wow man who books that who books

that's how you know you've made it like you've been on Arthur? Yeah. Who the fuck? You were just talking about Arthur. Who was that comedian? Dudley Moore? Is that who you're talking about? Oh, maybe. Is it Dudley Moore? Nick, I know you know. Yeah. Oh, really? When you said Arthur, I was thinking of, that's how fucking old I am in the weird 80s shit, Dudley Moore. Anyway, look at that.

What a great job. Rest in peace, Dudley Moore. I think he passed away. think he passed away okay but anyway Arthur was a great comedy yeah uh anyway so let's just talk a little bit about you know what's going on right I've only seen the Russell Brand version oh no no that's yeah see that was the reboot Nick has cut me off Nick is turning off my microphone right uh so I wanted to start off by talking a little bit about the future, right? Of course. It's on its way. It's scary.

And it's happening right now. But apparently over the weekend, there was an air warfare symposium, which sounds really, really inviting. Oh, my God. Where the chief of staff of the Air Force basically said that it was only a matter of years before we would be fighting in space uh which is very very cool to me i don't know what it was i mean not that it's cool but right it's interesting now that like we're actually having now like people in the air force saying like hey we need to start talking about these space wars okay because that's the next frontier because apparently i think china had a satellite that they were testing that could just disintegrate space trash but also had the capability of disabling and destroying satellites that were also up there.

So I guess when you think about it, so much of our military operations, we're reliant on satellites. They tell us everything. There are eyes in the sky. Thank you so much. In the celestial body, that is. In the sky. In the sky. Thank you so much. In the celestial body, that is.

And yeah, it's pretty easy to see a scenario where like in a space war that the first step is like blinding your enemy by disabling their satellites. So they're like completely confused. They have no way to communicate. It was just a very interesting way to think about this because also I think earlier last year, Mike Rogers, his congressman, proposed like a new branch of the military called the Space Corps. And like the Pentagon was like, corps and like the pentagon was like nah like we're not we don't want that why not well the reason is if you create a new branch of the military that means your your military funding is now going to get siphoned off into another baby bird asking for food so that's why this guy in the air force was basically saying

like you know the air force is probably the most qualified to like fight in the space wars or whatever which is basically saying don't create a new one give the air force the money to start to start developing the space toys or whatever the fuck but yeah they're asking for like i think over the next 10 years i want to be spending something like 40 billion dollars and i'm okay with this i want i want to say why i've always wanted to be a pilot in space you know what i'm saying and like if we get this program up, I think I will start being like a vegan so I can stay healthy enough to do it later in life when it's up and going. So in your mind, the key to being a space pilot is just to be vegan? No.

Obviously, the programs I can start today will probably start 20, 30 years from now. You have time. The way that I'm eating right now, 30 years from now, I can't be in any military. How many sprites have you had just in the time we've started recording? I mean, I have one, but I got one on deck. Yeah. time the way that i'm eating right now 30 years from now i can't be in any military how many sprites have you had just in the time we started i mean i have one but i got one on deck yeah and if anybody uh from the coca-cola company is listening uh eckerman plazier is one of the greatest advocates for sprite use i think he's the most prolific sprite user absolutely on the internet right now absolutely so you guys are missing a very big opportunity come at me vince

staples you ain't got shit on me oh is he a big sprite guy it's kind of sarcastic but he always like tweets like sprite ads in like on his twitter because like everyone's like you sold out he's like i didn't sell out i'm just having a refreshing sprite i didn't sell out i'm just obeying my thirst yeah like that but you're treating it seriously like you're giving oh yeah no i really do love sprite right but like i'm i mean i'm for like, this space thing does sound kind of dope. Like, I don't know. War is bad. Yes.

Yes. Sure. War is bad. It's bad. It does bad things. It separates families. But, yo, I mean, if they came back home and said, your son died in the space war. Fighting an asteroid.

Which front? Yeah, which front did he tie up? Jupiter. Jupiter. Yeah. Well, look, we're not going that far out. This is not fucking Star Trek. Where is Jupiter?

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I.O.? West? I.O. West? I.O. West, man. I got my new show. It's going to be premiering next week. Very nice. You guys are going to love it. Y'all are all invited. I can't wait to come. I think it's. Oh, yeah. West? Iowa West? Iowa West, man. I got my new show. It's going to be premiering next week. Very nice. You guys are going to love it.

Y'all are all invited. I can't wait to come. I think it's – oh, wait. It's closed. That's a deep cut. Come, Joe, for people in LA. So Delta basically, like many other companies last week, we talked about a lot of companies that were offering discounts to the NRA and how a lot of people are putting pressure on them.

FedEx is still fucking with the nra like they were kind of like well we don't agree with assault weapons but like we're not going to turn down their business uh anyway that's a whole other thing that's a whole other thing delta basically recently just came out i think yesterday the day before saying that they're ending their discount with the nra because they're like oh look we don't want to be in bed with you guys anymore uh and before they were basically offering all their uh gun humping members discounts to their annual gun fucking bonanza which is the nra annual convention uh and that was like the discount they're getting but no more henceforth you will have to pay full price and let me tell you the gop in georgia

because delta is based there uh they are not having it. They are basically like acting like it is their God given right to have a discounted flight to their convention. And it's it's a very interesting, I don't know, very interesting way of going about things, because the lieutenant governor of Georgia who runs like the state Senate, Casey Cagle, I believe he tweeted out. I will kill any tax legislation that benefits Delta unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with NRA. Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back. Now, I don't know what he's so outraged about. Like, it's very interesting to think of how they are even looking at this discount or just the optics of, I guess, companies distancing themselves from the NRA. But the reason that he's saying that he'll kill any tax legislation is because there

was a bill like for the tax bill in the house, the state house and Senate of Georgia that gave Delta like a huge jet fuel tax cut that would have saved him like $50 million. So now they're saying like, and it was flying through the house and Senate because, you know, they're like the largest private employer in the state of Georgia. So they were like, oh, yeah, of course, this makes sense. You guys are like putting your hub here. Like, of course, it's a no brainer. And now they're like, no, you don't get that cut anymore because you don't love that. All right.

This is what gets me so hot about this shit is the gop loves it when corporations take a stand on their issues you know what i mean like when chick-fil-a was just like yo if you gay we don't fuck right they lined up like i remember being in texas and the chick-fil-a was popping the next day i was like everyone was like hell yeah get all the chicken you can i don't give a fuck about bird flu like everyone was so hyped about. But now corporations are starting to do takes in the opposite direction. Like, you know, like, I remember when Mike and Ike did the whole, like, Mike and Ike are actually gay. Do you guys remember that ad campaign that they did? Like, Mike and Ike were like, we're actually gay.

And, like, GOP was like, how dare you? How can a corporation, corporations shouldn't be political and all this shit. But it's like y'all get so hard for fucking Hobby Lobby or Chick-fil-A for anything that fits your agenda. But now you're going to essentially just attack people's jobs because that jet fuel tax cut could probably help out with like – I mean if you look at it, right, after that tax scam of a bill that was passed in december they saved 150 million dollars like instantly oh yeah so i don't think 50 million dollars is going to really hurt them that's why they're like we don't give a fuck right we'll pay full price for that jeff you because they were i think also too delta may have suggested i think earlier on they're like we're fine paying that just put it towards the roads in georgia like you use that tax money and then

they're like okay fine then don't give us a tax cut like we still don't fuck with the nra um what is that discount also like the discount that they're getting can't be more than 10 you know what i mean like there's no way delta's giving like oh yeah it's 45 off yeah or fucking symposium i'll sign up for the nra right now go visit my cousins right yeah and it's it's not like these members, if they're flying Delta, are going to get there anyway. And that's a flight joke. Thank you. You fly a lot. I do. I know you. Didn't you have a really spicy

tweet about Spirit Airlines? Oh, I for sure did. I think so. They're always fire tweets where you said, I think someone was begging you for change or something. I probably did say that. I think I also said that airline is named after the thing that it breaks for its customers. Yeah, I hate that airline.

It's like a fucking barn. But yeah. So with the NRA, it's interesting because, yeah, I thought corporations had First Amendment rights under Citizens United. You know what I mean? But now suddenly it's like because it's a part of the culture war, they really want to boohoo their way. So this is the other thing that the same lieutenant governor said. He said, I'm tired of conservatives being kicked around on our values. It's time we stand up and fight and show corporations that conservative values are important, not just to Georgia but to the entire nation.

We can fight for jobs. We can also fight for values. I'm sorry. What are the values you're fighting for? Yeah, you're talking about a discount. What the fuck? also guns yeah well i mean this is what's crazy is that it's so clear right that this guy because i he's going to be possibly running for governor which is i think why he's puffing his chest out right now because he wants to let

everybody know he's like hey where's my base set i'm right here uh i mean i'm rob basin i came to get down uh he is just shouting this shit out, not believing it. It's just an empty talking point. I don't think there's nothing about your values that are being threatened. If they're simply saying we don't like the idea that they're constantly advocating for, like, putting assault rifles in regular people's hands. He's trying to impress everybody in the club. He's trying to sound very intelligible and like about this point and try to be like hey look how cool i am but he doesn't believe anything he's saying like you

said exactly right and it's yeah and it's a shame now because like it's it's so clear like who these guys are who are being bought by the nra because they come out and just say this stuff there's again uh people of the earth you aren't entitled to things like a discount on a flight and i'm sorry that you used to get that. And I'm sure, you know, there's money saved and not everybody's balling out of control and pay a full price airplane ticket. But guess what? It's not your right.

So, you know, if you really feel that companies shouldn't be able to have a say and meddle around and have a voice in politics, maybe we need to do something about campaign finance laws. I don't know. That's a side thing. Right. Or maybe if you're worried about how much your flight costs, maybe just buy one less fucking gun and then you could make up that money. Just a suggestion.

I don't know what I'm talking about, though. Who knows? Who knows? Yeah. All right. You're right. You're right. That was ridiculous.

Philadelphia libtard. I apologize. Yeah. No, you should. And I'm sorry to our listeners who had to hear that offensive take. Can we edit that out, though? No, we're going to leave that in and we'll let everybody know where to find you on Twitter. What if we did a Bullets for Mileage program?

Oh, all right. Every bullet you hand in is a mile. That's good. Yo, airlines, I'm telling you right now, hop on this idea. This is a hot one from Edgar Mopes here. I'm not kidding. That's a great idea. That's just a good idea.

You hand in a bullet, we'll give you a mile. Yeah. Okay. Okay, Bullets for Miles. Thank you so much. bullet, we'll give you a mile. Yeah. Okay. Okay, bullets for miles. Thank you so much. I think I'm going to brand that for me. You can just give them to me. What are you going to do with all those bullets?

Oh, I'll probably just throw them away. Jewelry. Yeah, jewelry. Yeah, exactly. Thank you so much. Of course, anytime. I need ideas like that. I know a smelter that you could use.

I think it would be dangerous to smelt down bullets with all the gunpowder inside because my grandfather's brother, back in like the 30s, somebody threw a bullet into a fireplace and the shit went off and hit my grandfather's brother. He can only talk in rhyme now. Oh, my God. Hit him in the head. Like he's not right. Hold on. Hold on. He can only talk in rhyme.

Yeah, like something happened to him. Hold on. He can only talk and rhyme. Yeah, like something happened to him. Yo, this is a family legend that I've been living with, and please don't try and tear it down with science. Because my grandfather's brother was hit with an Aaron Bullitt that was thrown in a fireplace, and now he can only talk and rhyme. He's Bubba Sparks, by the way. Oh, my God. All right, well, let's move on to – I guess speaking of Georgia, Atlanta is coming back.

And I think part of the press tour, Donald Glover has been doing some press. And recently the New Yorker pulled out – did a profile on him. Edgar, I know you read it. I've seen some highlights. But, Edgar, do you want to tell us a little bit about what you thought of this profile piece on Donald Glover, the man that is is i mean i guess the self-proclaimed jesus of the black community well okay before i get into it and it sounds like i'm clowning him or trashing him know that whoever's listening to this right now you're not a bigger donald glover fan than me i have his words tattooed to my chest yes you do like i have a lyric from one of his songs i'm here for a good not a long. It's from the last on the cul-de-sac mixtape. So I love

Childish Gambino. I love Donald Glover. He did. He did, but Drake steals everything. So that's not like a surprise to me. Donald Glover said that in like 2010. And Drake, that's one of his songs. And you have that inner lip tattoo that says 3005. Yeah, I do. I have an inner lip tattoo that says 3005.

I also have Abed and Troy tattooed to my butt. And so when you make a clap, they high five. They high five each other. That's a cool feature. And then my farts go Troy and Abed in the morning. So suffice it to say, you're a big Donald Glover stan. A huge Donald Glover stan.

But this article is ridiculous. Okay. And I i want to say i probably blame the writer i don't know who the writer is i don't know who writes on the new yorker i assume a white jewish man but that is you can look up who wrote the article and make that make that assumption i'd continue to make my assumption that's fine welcome to wildly speculating with edgar but it is insane how they try to paint him, like you said, like Jesus, kind of like this. I do believe that he is an artistic genius. I've long said that Donald Glover had a bigger come up than Drake. To go from being a sketch comedian making videos like bro rape on YouTube to now being very close to E. Godding.

I think he's 100% a very, very talented artist. But like it kind of like kind of made him this weird, like sacrificial figure. So, yeah. So what are what are some of the takes that rubbed you the wrong way? So like he kind of lines, he kind of talks about how he sleeps on the couch, like how he refuses to sleep in a bed. And like he was like talking to Ryan Coogler. Ryan Coogler is like, man, maybe sleeping on that couch because you're not ready to get off that couch yet. I'm just like, what? No, he's sleeping on that couch

because he's choosing to sleep on that couch. He can sleep on a bed, but he's picking to sleep on a couch in this like, I'm so tired, I can't even find a bed. Oh, that's what he was trying to say. I'm working so hard, I don't even know what a bed looks like.

What is a bed? What are sheets? What's a fitted sheet? I have back issues from carrying the entertainment business on my back. It's like, no, you don't sleep on a mattress. That's your issue. He's like, how many nights have you slept in a Herman Miller Aeron chair? Probably not many.

That's a struggle, my man. He sleeps across three different apartments in three completely different places. I believe there's one in Atlanta, one in Silver Lake, and one in Kauai. And he doesn't spend more than a week in each one. And he just keeps it moving constantly? That's what this article said. Okay.

I mean, I don't fault him for that. That's insane. That's his money. Unnecessary, at the very least. Well, imagine if you had a money to... A money. Yeah. I'd love a money.

Yeah, I mean, who wouldn't? I mean, I only have two money right now. I'm trying had a money to – a money. Yeah. I'd love a money. Yeah. I mean, who wouldn't? I mean, I only have two money right now. I'm trying to get three money. Not bad. Yeah, thank you. I'm still at one and a half. Okay.

Well, yeah, but if you had that kind of cash, like, I would do that. Yeah, you would do it. I would spend a lot of time in Tokyo for sure to hang with my family, and I would probably stay here. And probably – what would be my third one? Alaska? Yeah. Nope. No. I'm just joking. I can't even think of a – Alaska no i'm just joking but yeah i don't know i the i okay so that's a little weird he's that's weird to me but he's a creative genius so we can't fault him for that yeah and then again it's like all right one i'm pretty sure i know anna was already on this podcast and she trashed me for my takes like i get i like i'm bruno mars and stuff

like that i give out their takes i can be pretentious at times but this nigga says some wild shit like uh at least i know how it's written in the article so at one point he's with his co-star zazie beats who plays a van on the show his uh i guess not his girlfriend his baby mama and like that she's talking about how she doesn't like trap music and she feels it can be really repetitive at times. And it doesn't sound like anything new to her. And Donald Glover gets upset and starts telling this story about this rapper named Tay-K, who was 16 and on the run for murder when he made this song. It's a real Jesse James story.

And he pulls up a picture of Tay-K and shows it to her. And it's like, look at this kid. He's a baby. He never had a chance. Y'all are forgetting what rap is. Rap is is i don't care what you think in society we're egging your finger at me for calling women bitches when for you to have two cars i have to live in the projects and then he stares off into the like the distance and goes young black kid in texas with a murder on him he's definitely going to die and it's sad wow and it's like what all this girl said is that she doesn't like trap music

and you turn it into this like weird like i don't know it's hip-hop definitely has changed you know in the beginning it was like an entry point for people to understand like basically how black people were living yeah and there's still elements of that yeah but now it's just like i'm on molly and i take just 900 z bars all day and i think that's what zazzy was saying she was just like i don't like this commercial stuff and donald glover's like no here's what's the point right well that's an exception yeah and it's like bro one everyone already knows that and two you just sound so full of yourself right now i don't know it kind of reminds me of that video that came out i think it was last year where it's like

donald glover isa ray uh john favreau and uh lin-manuel miranda and they're all talking about art and donald glover talked the most on that whole thing and i was kind of like yo i kind of want to hear what lin-manuel miranda has to say yeah but he had like a mustache he had like a mustache on and he had that turtleneck and he was just sitting like this the whole time like talking about art and i was like man yeah i miss that nerdy don i was looking at like another one they asked him is there anything you're bad at oh yeah and he's like to be honest no probably just people people don't like to be studied or bested so does that mean that he is studying and besting people like when he says like i'm bad at people because i'm constantly studying or i don't know okay then

he says he shrugged i'm fine with it i don't really like people that much people accept me now because i have power but they still think oh he thinks he's a golden flower of the black community or thinks he's so different but i am though i feel like jesus i do feel chosen my struggle is to use my humanity to create a classic work but i don't know if humanity is worth it or if we're even gonna make it i don't know like chill you're so good. Chill. You don't need this. I feel like he's like a metaphor. He's like alone on a basketball court and he's right underneath one of the hoops that he's supposed to score on.

Like his approach to interviews. And he could easily just hit the layup. But then he puts on like a weird cape and throws it like under his leg across the court and hits it on the wrong hoop. And it's like, yeah, that was amazing. But you didn't need to do that. I just have a curry of interviews. it's like yeah that was amazing but you didn't need to do that right you have that curry of interviews yeah like make that simple trespass right it's like no here i'm gonna do this weird fucking thing it's like i'm gonna stunt yeah cool but weird you know yeah i mean there's this other one in here where uh zazzy was talking about how she

her and her boyfriend are looking at engagement rings and all this stuff and then he just goes yeah i'm not the marrying kind. I'm okay with some rituals. If you grow up knowing there was a bear in your future because your dad kept telling you when you're 13 you're going to have to kill a bear, when you turn 13, then you would kill the bear. Yeah, I'm just trying. I'm in love. So I'm just trying to get married, actually. Yeah, it's like, one, what the fuck are you talking about?

What does that have to do with, like... I guess he's just trying to say, yeah, the society sort of inundates and inoculates the children to believe, you know, like, this is the pattern for your life. That's a terrible thing to say to someone who's shopping for engagement rings. Yeah, no, absolutely. It's like, why did we bring him? We know he's going to do this shit. He's like, you know, most marriages were basically financial transactions back in the day. That was really just for the benefit of one family anyway. Do I get a plus one to the wedding and again i think he does say some really dope things uh in

the interview like i did want to end on one quote that i thought was like really really cool so he was kind of talking about the show atlanta and like why he thought it was like really dope to make and how he felt about white people watching the show right and uh he did say i don't even want them laughing if they're laughing at the caged animal in the zoo i want them to really experience racism to really feel what it's like to be black in america people come to atlanta for the strip clubs and the music and the cool talking but the eat your vegetable parts is that the characters aren't smoking weed all the time because it's cool but because they have ptsd every black person does it's scary to be at the bottom, yelling up out of the hole,

and all they shout down is, keep digging, we'll reach God soon. So he says some dope shit, and I don't want to completely... No, of course. I think to distill this all down, no one is taking the fact that Donald Glover is an immensely talented and gifted comedian, musician, and just auteur in general. He's prolific. But yeah, I think it's one of those things where his talk is, I don't know,

it's sort of tinging my perception of him a bit. Yeah. That, you know, I get it. Like, maybe you're feeling yourself and that's how you feel, but that's not always the best way to go about it. But that's his prerogative, I guess, as a creator. So I guess do you, Donald. And be real.

If you ask anyone, like, you know, I'm a writer. And if you ask anybody right now, like, oh, what are you working on? They're all like, you know, I'm trying to make a show like Atlanta. Like, that's what everyone is saying about their pilot samples right now. Like, everyone wants to do that. So he is fucking with, like, everybody. Like, everyone is trying to be on his shit. But it's like, just do your work.

Right. Oh, I was just going to say that quote that you just said that Donald Glover just said. Chappelle said, I mean, like not to get into his fucking recent specials, but like when Chappelle left Chappelle show, like that was his main reason where he's like, I don't think white people are like laughing for the right reasons. Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, I would imagine that's like a huge concern for him. Right. Yeah. Right.

For black people, it's like, oh, this is this is relevant and makes sense. We're like white people are like, oh, it's that stereotype. It's like, oh, this is relevant and makes sense, where white people are like, oh, it's that stereotype. It's like, oh, a black guy's struggling. It's like, oh, no, that's not the funny part. The other thing that was interesting was the use of the white translator when they were like, you can't say nigga on FX.

You know what I mean? We don't know if the character should talk like that. And he basically was like, why? He's like, this is how black people talk. Not all black he's like this is how black people talk not all black people but this is authentic yeah uh and like he he had uh this guy paul sims uh who's like a white executive producer one of the greatest writers of all time yeah uh who did like fight of the concourse what else did he do he did girls he uh he's written like a lot of great television yeah that he was basically like after like the calls, like he would explain to the FX people. It's like, no, no, you want this?

And like they're like, oh, OK. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, definitely wasn't all easy for him to get the show made in the way that he wanted. He tricked them. He tricked them. He talks about it where he's like in the pilot. I had to like write in a dad character who's going to be like the voice of reason.

I had to add in this whole idea of like the show is going to be about Paperboy trying to make it in the market and trying to be his manager but he's like the whole time i was like we ain't following any of this yeah we're gonna drop it immediately but he's a genius yeah he's a genius he is a genius i guess it's like hard because the real geniuses never talk like man i'm like jesus you know i mean like and kanye does that but that's the thing with kanye too is like people love that about him that he's like so delusional absolutely but his work doesn't lie yeah that's what it's like that dude

who plays basketball and like he's like talking shit and you want to get mad but you can't stop him he is scoring wet wet and it is wet

it's like god damn it but it still makes you mad but you're just like it's wet fucking asshole hasn't missed he hasn't missed but alright well

I guess shout out to our lord and savior black Jesus aka Donald Glover is where we arrived with that hasn't missed yeah but all right well i guess shout out to our lord and savior black jesus aka donald glover is where we arrived with that um because yeah again i think even to that quote like i don't it could be in the way that it's written right that when you just take those quotes and you read them as they are and whatever however the writer is dressing it around the description of the scene can definitely be read one way or be perceived one way but i also see like what he's trying to say if i don't know he needs like a messianic

message about it but like yeah he has a he does have a very uh incredible opportunity to actually contribute something very great so i guess if he has to see that in terms of jesus uh so be it uh but i don't know i don't whatever again, maybe, like, you know, this could be the Donald Glover Stan part of me, but maybe this journalist is writing it in that way because he or she felt those vibes from him and was just like, I'm going to put it in this way because I know it'll get a lot of fervor on the internet or whatever.

I mean, maybe I'll just blame the journalist because I love Donald Glover so much. Well, I don't think any of the takes I've read about this interview have been, look at this pretentious asshole. i'm gonna hear it here first that's what the culture king's thread was this morning oh was it absolutely jakees and carl were roasting the shit out of oh really yeah what what got what got them uh the most bad like him calling himself jesus like you know they just think i think a lot of black people for a long time have had an issue with donald glover because he kind of is a black man in a white space kind of thing because he's like a nyu kid who like yeah god got in that 30 rock writers

room real early he had to cross over backwards yeah which is a very weird thing for a black man to have to do yeah like you know he was hella popular with white kids from the jump white kids were on child's game before black people were right except for like black nerds and stuff like that so like i think that he still this interview probably won't help him with that struggle i don't think right well you know we still love the music of course and we love the show uh but remember yeah i don't even know what to say i've never heard maybe i'm just an idiot i've never heard crossover backwards before that's such an interesting like oh yeah a lot of black comics and a lot of black writers and stuff right i kind of had struggle with that i think think Hannibal was someone who also –

I was going to bring him up. Yeah, yeah, he talks about that where it's just like, yeah, there's just like – I mean, I struggle with it. But it's just like this idea that you're like – maybe you got to have access to white spaces or you talk a certain way. Donald talks about it in the article a little bit where a lot of people perceive you as like this white acting black person and you kind of have to like earn your street cred back yeah interesting as a black person who does improv it's uh very difficult but but i will say though when you do go to those black spaces and when you do like kind of like remove the pretentiousness from it and kind of just like i mean some of arcade currency that's my all black team some of our best shows have been all black shows right because when you do like kind of like remove the pretentiousness from it and kind of just like, I mean, some of Arcade Currency, that's my all black team. Some of our best shows have been all black shows.

Right. Because when you open and be like, anyone can do this. We're just showing you all that we do it. Yeah. Like it blows up. So maybe that's kind of what's rubbing me the wrong way is that Donald Glover isn't as much saying like anyone can be in this spot. He's saying I am the one for this. I am the golden child.

Yeah. Yeah. That's true because i mean man you look at just so much it's true that like if you can't see an example of somebody doing what you're doing it's very hard for you to think of that as a possibility you just turn it off you just turn yourself off to it it's like man fuck that right that's why i don't like like ice skating and stuff like that like i was always just like i can't do that shit so it's stupid now see i i played hockey for many years. And when I saw just all these kids with all the equipment on, I was like, yo, I want to wear all that equipment.

Right. And that's how I got into it. I want to stink. Yeah, exactly. And I did my thing. Well, then let's move on to another really, you know, a genius woman of color. Someone who has stood for the community from time immemorial. You might know her as Stacey Dash.

If you are someone who's really out of touch with popular culture, Stacey Dash played Dion on Clueless. She was Alicia Silverstone's best friend, named after Dionne Warwick. Best friends with Cher Horowitz. One of my favorite movies. Now, yes, she's an actress. She's been on there. I think she was even on the Clueless TV show, like one of the few people to even be on the TV show. But if you saw her, oh, she was in Mo Money with Damon Wayans.

She's had a pretty long career. And I think if you looked her up, you know who I'm talking about. Well, guess what, y'all? She lost her job at Fox News because she said Obama doesn't give a shit about terrorism or something like that. She said shit live on air. So they're like, oh, look, we still follow some rules here. So she lost that job and you know now she's actually found a new opportunity uh that's her running for congress

thank god as a republican in california's 44th congressional district which is a solidly democratic district it that's like the communities of like compton, North Long Beach, Watts, San Pedro. It's solidly Democratic. But for whatever reason, she thinks she is going to win there because, I don't know, because she's like, I actually live in the district. I don't know where that would be. I don't know if like, I'm still trying to figure out where Stacey Dash lives in those areas. Is that where Black Beverly Hills is? Oh, no. She's not even close.

Okay. Huntington Park, Compton, Paramount, Carson. You know, she's not even close Huntington Park Compton, Paramount, Carson you know she's not even fucking close well here's what I know about what Stacey Dash did is she basically just sold black people up the river like in the terms of like every

Republican white person has like that thing where like you know they're just like well my black friend doesn't feel that way and Stacey Dash put herself in that for the entire fox news network where like anytime they're just like i mean black people can just be calm with the police right stacy and stacy's like absolutely yes yes yes so i think that's kind of like what's so wild is that she is going for these votes in this predominantly black community that's just just like, yo, what? Yeah. I mean, cause her takes are crazy.

Like, especially during the, she really got canceled by black people during that. Uh, like probably before, but especially during the election when she was just caping for like Republicans, it was insane.

I couldn't believe it. Uh, and you know, she has some very hot takes, especially on things like, like the NAACP image awards or BT. Uh, I think we have a clip. Let's just hear

one of the takes and then we hear Sunny hosting from the view to sort of clap back on her. Not directly, but commentary on this clip. We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration. If we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET

and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black. If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms. It's a double standard. So you say there shouldn't be a BET channel? No, I don't think so. No. Just like there shouldn't be a black history month. You know, we're Americans, period. That's it. You know, I think it's the height of hypocrisy that Stacey Dash would say that there should be no BET when she had a recurring role on the BET show, The Game. For one, she was a presenter at the NAACP Theater Awards. Yes, I am talking to you, Miss Dash. She's graced the cover of jet pride, heart and soul smooth.

All right. Like really, Stacey Dash. I mean, I just think it's incredible that she would give up whatever value she had in the first place to pander to an audience that is sort of angry and scared of people that don't look like them. And she is giving them reason to continue to be angry. Angry and scared. But she needs the job, maybe. That's why she's doing it. For the dollar. When you compromise your values

for money, you know who you are. Oh, shit. Is Sunny white? Nah. Okay. Nah. She looks like she's licensed. Okay. I was like, she said jet with a kind of like a... No.

Jet? It was underlining, you know, because that's... Essence. Jet, like, that's for the culture. That is a black ass magazine. Oh, my grandmother was a jet back in the 70s. That's a credit. That is.

Jet Beauty of the Week. Oh, wow. Yeah. There you go. This Stacey Dash character sounds real clueless, if you ask me. Oh's a credit. That is. Jet Beauty of the Week. Oh, wow. There you go. This Stacey Dash character sounds real clueless if you ask me. Oh, thank you. What do you think about that, Nick? Thank you.

I thought you were looking for a sound sting. Did you send him an audio clip? Yeah. I think these just might be my own politics, but I think a big issue with people is that when they react to to like be it like affirmative action or like a BET or like a specific network, they don't see that it's a reaction to like the norm. Right. And that it's like a correction. So like why do we have this? Like we shouldn't have this.

It's like, well, because there needs to – like society created a hole where that didn't exist. So that's like why this is occurring. And then – No, but see, then she would have to take into account like institutional racism and things like that. Oh, yeah. created a hole where that didn't exist so that's like why this is occurring well and then no but see then she would have to take into account like you know institutional racism and things like that oh yeah and we can't do that no no no no that's too crazy for her mind it's a lot it's really a lot to unpack of that i think with the thing with her running for congress or it is a congress see right uh i think that's this is a big trend with uh there might fucking be a name for this, but like GOP people right now where they set some sort of non-can't-win goal and they go after it with obviously an ulterior goal.

Like she's not running for Congress. She's running to have her own show, you know, like in – like after the run. Like how Trump thought the president of the election was going to go. He's like, man, I'm going to launch Trump News Network, TNN. It's going to be lit. And he's like, oh, fuck it. Oh, no. Oh, the Russians really came through?

That's a good point. That's a very good point. She's running for TV show. It's what she's running for. And then when she loses, like, oh, well, you know, come up with some fucking excuse. And then, yeah, she has her own show now. So that's what she's running for. I just cannot believe that she lives anywhere near Compton or San Pedro.

It's Watts. She lives in Watts. I feel like – or she bought an apartment there just to scam in and be like, oh, I actually have a – I actually live there. Well, this was the point that I kind of wanted to make is like I was asking if those neighborhoods were there because like older black people live there. You know what I mean? Right. And older black people don't know what the word canceled means. No.

They don't know what canceled means. Did she have a TV show? Those are the ones. And it got canceled? Yeah. And I think, like, that's what I was, like, saying earlier when we were talking about it is, I can see my mom, who doesn't live in those neighborhoods. She lives in McAllen, Texas.

But if she lived in those neighborhoods, I could see her being a upper middle class black woman, being like, I'd vote for this nice-looking, respectable black woman. I could see her doing that. What if she's not talking that shit though about like empowering black people or disenfranchised people and she's pushing some shit like well bt bro older black people were down for ben carson like like let's not forget that like older black people are just like like i think we forget that a lot of older black people are hella into respectability politics like you know what i mean? Especially the NAACP type shit.

But voting Republican's a stretch, though. It'd be one thing if she ran as a Democrat. That's true. They have to flip parties, like, in this climate. That's true. That's true. But I don't know. But I know what you mean.

But Ben Carson was a black man from the streets who turned into a doctor and was, like, the greatest neurosurgeon of all time. So, like, I don't know. I can see them being like, well, she's respectable. She dresses clean. I mean,acy has a uh a solid chance it's just uh it's just heartbreaking because i had the biggest crush on her as a kid yeah uh imagine she run against a white boy like you know what i mean like this young white boy blue eyes no she's she's running against uh i think latina oh never mind it's a wrap it's over yeah no she has no chance she's running against, I think, Latina. Oh, never mind. It's a wrap. It's over. No, she has no chance of winning. She's running against the incumbent right now is Nanette Barragan.

Oh, she lost. So she lost that one. You might win some, but you just lost one. Stacey, I remember, yeah, my dad used to take pictures for, remember YSB Magazine? Mm-hmm. Young Sisters and Brothers. Of course. He did a photo shoot with Stacey Dash.

I'm like, let me go, Dad. I want to meet Stacey Dash. He said I had to go to school. So shout out to him. All right, guys. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now.

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but Anna, super producer Anna Hosnier does, and it was the only reason I bring this up is because there's a new book by an LA Times writer named Amy Kaufman called Bachelor Nation Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure. And one of the – the thing that everyone is talking about today is that how basically so many people on The Bachelor have herpes. And not that so many people have herpes, but when you go on The Bachelor, you have to get your STD screenings correct. And the most common thing that disqualifies a person from getting on the show is that they have STDs and particularly herpes

is that correct? Thank you for having me Miles to talk about herpes. Thank you so much for coming. So yeah according to the book by Amy Kaufman when you are going through the audition process to get onto The Bachelor you have to submit all this stuff you have to submit like 15 photos of yourself you have to submit a well lit

video of yourself talking about all this stuff. Yeah. That's one of the things that has to be well-lit. Submit a well-lit video. You submit up to 15 photos of yourself from different angles. They want to like see what you look like. To make sure you're not catfishing. Yeah, exactly.

So it's not just you Photoshop looking better. Right. And then they ask you 150 personality questions that are crazy. Like do you have out-of-body experiences? Do you think you can control things with your mind? Then they ask them in different ways so they can, like, kind of fuck with you. This is, look, this is life. This is how they make reality TV, right?

Right. And then once you get through all of that, you come to LA. They make you take a medical exam, which includes testing you for STDs. And if you have an STD, you're clearly not going to get on this show because they don't want you spreading it. But in this book, it reveals that most of these people don't even realize they have the STD. Oh, shit. Oh, no. So this producer will call you like, hey, yeah, you didn't make it, but call a doctor.

And they're like what and then it's like weird because this whole like production crew like knows you have herpes or whatever std you have and they're just kind of like okay oh so they don't really tell them they're just like hi uh unfortunately we're gonna pass but you should call your doctor yes i don't think that's scarier than naming the thing yeah they should just name what's wrong. You should call your – what is wrong with me? What's wrong with me? I don't think they want to embarrass them to be like, I know you have herpes. I think it's just more like, hey, you know, just FYI.

That may be less – yeah. I mean that's unfortunate that people don't – Oh, yeah. If you want to – You got to say what it is. Cryptic medical test results are terrible because I already go on WebMD on the daily and convince myself I have some exotic form of cancer. Yeah, but Miles, how would you feel if I was like, hey, Miles, you're going to have to take an exam. And then I'm like, oh, you really can't be on the daily psych guys anymore because your dick has bumps on it, dude.

You'd be like, Anna, first of all, why would you say that to my face? I'd be like, first of all, this is a podcast. What's my dick got to do with it? Well, I'm just saying. Can you not call me dude in a medical report, please? Dude, my bro. My man. You're sick, bro.

They have to – they always have the STD test because they – what? It's always like in the later rounds when they're like, oh, you're going to take – you're going to spend the night with me. Well, that's – I'm glad you asked, Miles. Thank you so much. Last night was the Fantasy Suites episode. What does that mean? That's the fucking episode? Yeah.

So three contestants make it to this round which means it's right after hometown so he takes them home meets their families hometown they go and meet the women's or the men's the contestants families oh got you oh because it's getting serious now like you got to meet the family and the dads are all all aggro and all that or their moms are all a little too attached it's always it's always a very interesting i would never let my family on such a show right it's just like way to like just i wouldn't love to see you on the bachelor within the meet the family episode the hometown of anyway so they did that so now it's a fantasy fantasy suite which means that the woman or the guy the

contestant gets to choose if they will spend a night with the Bachelor or Bachelorette. So last night that happened, which means the Bachelor, Ari Leyendijk Jr. For the listeners, there was a series of blinks and eye rolls that cannot be. You were triggered by his own name. His name deeply hurt you. I have my feelings towards him.

He got to sleep with basically three different women in three consecutive nights, basically. Exhausting. Power rules only. towards him um he got to sleep with basically three different women in three consecutive nights basically exhausting power moves only and and luckily at this point the women don't actually have to see each other for the most part they all like room up until it's about like uh hometown so now they're not dicks they don't make them all have to hang out like right right oh so they're all just like cordoned off by themselves. Yes, because at this point, you're so deep in that you don't want to hang out with your

boyfriend's other girlfriend. Right, right. Like, it would just be absurd and mentally. Yeah, and have him come back. How would you do that? Ooh, we fucked. Yeah, exactly. Oh, same.

Yeah. You know? So, yeah. And so you don't want someone who has STDs to just be. Yeah, that's true. Giving it out to your bachelor and bachelor and in this show um compared to like there are other kinds of shows that they have in this series like bachelor in paradise they really protect the producers protect their main person their

bachelor or bachelorette so you don't want them to look like a fool you know you don't want them to get you know stds st you don't get herpes from a contestant. So, yeah, it's... Guys, your sexual health is very important. So please get tested because you don't want to have a producer calling you saying, oh, you should call your doctor. That's the worst nightmare. That's the worst nightmare. Speaking of Miles, we should talk afterwards.

Okay, sounds good. Okay, well, with that, it's been a blast. Blake, thank you so much for coming on the show. It's been a pleasure and an honor, sir. Likewise. I would love for you to tell people where they can interact with you, where they can find you. Let them know. BlakeWexler.com, at Blake Wexler.

And then I have an album out where I saved all the voicemails Todd Glass has left me for 12 years when I met him when I was a kid. So they're very, very funny. And it's also like a chronology of our friendship. So that's called 12 Years of Voicemails from Todd Glass to Blake Wexler. And that's out. Dope. I saw like a write-up about that. That was really crazy.

You met him when you were like 16 or something? Yeah, I started stand-up like really, really young. And then when I was 16, I met him. And he's so cool to like young comics. And then I saved him because I'm like, oh, this is like one of – he's from Last Comic Standing. Like such so cool that he left me a voicemail. And then he ends up like leaving really funny ones. And then like 10 years later, he's like giving me like breakup advice and stuff, like really sweet voicemail.

And, yeah, it's pretty cool. I'm going to listen to that album. Oh, thanks, man. Thank you. Edgar, what about you? Well, you know where you guys can find me at awful grandma instagram at edgar mobis here on twitter i'm currently in a twitter battle with my girlfriend at bad comics by anna about this device that i use called cum shorts uh which is i wear a pair

of gym shorts when i masturbate it makes sense to me it makes sense to me my girlfriend does not think it makes sense and she is using twitter right now to attack me for this so please come to my defense is it hashtag she just she just keeps tweeting about my oh my god and getting people to shame me so please come and fight for me go cape for this man he's a disciplined masturbator he even has a uniform he wears that's great great. See, all heroes wear uniforms. Well, I just think tissues are wasteful. I have these shorts.

Oh, no. Come on. Miles, you were just with me. Stand by me. You can just wash them. I mean, I don't wash them. Come on, man. Don't take her side, Miles.

I don't know if we can even... Yeah, if you want that, go find him on Twitter. You try to fold and they just snap in a half. Oh, my God. Oh, Edgar, you are going to definitely get some ats on Twitter. And that is E-D-G-A-R-M-O-M-P-L-A-I-S-I-R. Come fight for me. Fight on my side.

Yes, come fight for him, please. And, yeah, if you want to find out more about me, just sort of my adventures on the internet, just go on Twitter or Instagram at MilesOfGrey. Anna Hosnier, what about you? You can find me on Twitter at Anna Hosnier, A-N-N-A-H-O-S-S-N-I-E-H. I am currently tweeting about how they want to put 4G on the moon. So you can come find me on Twitter and we can talk about it. You don't want to talk about what Edgar's battle? I'm not really going to acknowledge that. And you can listen to my podcast, Ethnically Ambiguous, which is also on the HowStuffWorks network.

Oh, yeah, Edgar, too. Remember? Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm also on Call of Duty. So tune in for that. It's a very wonderful podcast. Guys, if you want to find us on Twitter, we are at Daily Zeitgeist. I'm also on call. So tune in for that. It's a very wonderful podcast. Uh, guys, if you want to find us on Twitter, we are at daily zeitgeist, uh,

on Instagram. We are at the daily zeitgeist. Uh, if you're on Facebook, uh, cause you're old. Yeah. I said it again.

Uh, you can find us, uh, daily zeitgeist. Just search that. And we have a website. Uh, it's daily zeitgeist.com where you can find all of our episodes.

Uh, and you know, some footnotes. Oh, there you go. Thank you so much. So they left can find all of our episodes and, you know, some footnotes. Footnotes. Oh, there you go. Thank you so much. They left me out hanging yesterday. Except for the thank you to the people on Twitter that are like, I say it along with you, Mom.

So we are brothers in arms. Yes, you can find that, all kinds of stuff. You can find some links to the articles because, you know, we're not lying. We actually, you know, these takes come from somewhere. They typically are drawn to the fact. And, you know, to play us out, I i just want to play we're talking about herpes uh you know a great cover of the song fire starter uh by a prodigy this is by i think a dutch artist named tore florum uh it's like a real vibey down tempo version of fire starter so we're gonna go out on that and we will see y'all tomorrow I'm the trouble star

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