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Episode Date: February 21, 2019

In episode 333, Miles and special guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian and scam queen Laci Mosley to discuss people trolling Captain Marvel, Emma Thompson leaving a project involving John Lasseter, Ariana Grande's zamboni past, a student selling drugs through a mobile gaming app, the Trump administration's plans to launch a global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality, Trump meddling with the DOJ's investigation, Trump's failed space force, Andy King of the Fyre Festival speaking out about his infamous storyline from the documentary, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. The morons are already out here trying to tank Captain Marvel on Rotten Tomatoes 2. Emma Thompson quits film after John Lasseter joins production3. Behold, 5-Year-Old Ariana Grande Enthusiastically Riding a Zamboni4. UC Santa Cruz Student Sold Drugs Through Mobile Gaming App, Feds Say5. Trump administration launches global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality6. First 100 Days: How President Trump Has Impacted LGBTQ Rights7. Trump’s transgender military service ban just got a big win from the Supreme Court8. Trump Praises Karen Pence For Teaching Job After LGBTQ Backlash9. Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him10. Bowing to Congress, Trump scales back proposed ‘space force’11. WATCH: Andy King from 'Fyre' Documentary Glad Oral Sex Story Wasn't Edited Out | TMZ12. WATCH: Mothers - "PINK" Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and welcome to Season 70, Episode 3 of The Daily Zeitgeist, the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Thursday, February 21st, 2019. My name is Miles Gray, okay? Now, let me tell you what i'm also known as but did you know with every show the zeit gang grows larger and the zeit that you guys can be seen baby i compare you to a podcast That's not sick and brave Ooh, the more you

I get commuted Look, I fucked that up. It's too much. All I need is that part. Thank you so much for the patronizing, the patronization. No, Miles, that was really good. Thank you for your patronage. That was actually really good.

Well, guys, this is a very special episode because I've united just all corners of the Mount Zeitmore to bring you, well, first, my guest co-host, Miss Jamie Loftus. I am Jamie Loftus on the Daily Zag. Ooh. Oh, Lord. Okay. That's from...

Oh, that's it? Okay. That's from YummyTummy101. I don't like saying that out loud. You don't have to. You don't have to say it again. Mine was from at Chris that. Christopher Lang is your display name, so thank you for that. Rose. Kiss him a rose.

I like that he kept it real. YummyTummy101. Yo, it's still yummy, though. And my goodness. The guest today, a lot of people were asking for it. They thought it couldn't happen, but it has. The triumvirate has been completed. Please welcome our guest, Lacey Mosley. Hey, it's Lacey Mosley.

How are you? I'm great. I'm sorry, did I interrupt AK? AK. One kind is all it takes. Falling in love with me. Broad possibilities Scam goddess is all you need

One, one, one Ooh. Love this. Dua Lipa. Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna go Dua Lipa. Shout out to Dua Lipa.

Did not know who she was until the... The Grammys? No, Champions League final, I think she sang, and I was like, who's this? Who's this Dua Lipa? All right. Anyway, wow. It's really nice to have y'all here.

It feels like something special. They said it couldn't happen, but here we are. Have y'all done a show together? I've done her show, Bechtelcast. But not Daily Zeitgeist like this. No, not DZ. Never DZ. Yes, yes.

We had to kill off Jack to do it. I mean, yeah, he's still lost in the wilderness with no cell phone, so he doesn't know what's happening, but hopefully he will find his way back. I heard there have been some flares coming up in the woods. I hope he's okay. And I keep telling him. He's going to in the wilderness with no cell phone, so he doesn't know what's happening. Yeah. But hopefully he will find his way back. I heard there have been some flares coming up in the woods. I hope he's okay. And I keep telling- He's going to cause a fire. I keep telling Search and Rescue, I'm like, don't worry about that.

I don't respond to the flares. I'm like, you went there to figure shit out. Yep. Figure it out. You stay there. Well, we are going to get to know you, Lacey, even better, but let's talk a little bit about what we are getting into today. We're going to look at just incels trying to trash Captain Marvel

on Rotten Tomatoes already. Some little Benghazi updates. You know, Jamie's going to hit us with a bit of an Ariana Grande update. Yeah. As well as, you know, some weird Trump stuff that's going on as usual. And, you know, a scam that is, I think,

worthy of the scam goddess herself. And we'll get into all that later. But first, Laci, please let us know, what is something from your search history? Ooh, okay. I'm going to try to make this as light as possible. Okay. Is it dark? My Google search history right now is filled with me searching for the cause of death of somebody that I don't know,

but is a friend of somebody else on my Facebook. Oh, wow. No, but I do this for everybody. Mutances on Facebook what do you mean if you find like if somebody's like oh my god um so-and-so had died and I'm sad like I need to I click on so-and-so if they tag them and then I just go on a deep dive trying to figure out how they died I do that too I need to know for some, the high school graduation year is always what I go for first. You search dead person's name alumni.

Wait, so you find them. That's where you do first. Wait, y'all have fucking protocol for how to search for the cause of death? I go mutual. So I go tag, tag, tag. If they make a little hashtag,

then I go in there. I see what's popping on that little death hashtag. What is it? Yeah. I once found somebody's cause of death because of the charity that the funeral home told everybody to send the money to. Wow. Yes.

And is that when you worked backwards? Yeah, I worked backwards. The charity was for anorexia, and that's how they died. Is this just a morbid fascination with death? Is it just because you always – because it's usually if it's a younger person, you're always curious like how people who might not die naturally

or something or at an age we expect people to pass away. Yeah, if it's like, it's younger people for sure because I'm like, man, oh man, I'm 27,

like how did I die? Yeah. And then also it's just like, I don't know, my weird like SVU. Right. It's ooh, ooh, when I get on a case.

No wonder you were throwing shade at Ted Bundy Because you're like You're bad at what you do Because you're out here On fucking Facebook You're like I'm gonna figure out

Who this person is If Ted Bundy was working In the internet age He would not last a week He wouldn't have killed One person He's definitely In like the same crew

As like Paul Manafort In terms of like Ability to understand technology Right Manafort was out here Sending emails like So about the crime Right

A white Google fucking demolished Telling the FBI, it's like, wait, you can see what's on iCloud? Right. I threw my phone away.

Wait, yeah, no, you saw my text messages? Oh, shit. Those go somewhere? Oh,

that's great. Lacey, what is something you think is underrated? Underrated horoscopes for dating. Underrated, wow. Underrated. Everyone's like

Oh you're such a weirdo For asking my zodiac sign Personally When I meet people I figure out their zodiac signs If they seem cool Like on that wave Like an LA person

You know I'm like Are you into crystals You like smoking magic You drink kombucha under the moonlight If they cool like that Then I'll hit them and be like What's your sign But if they seem like I might be the weirdo If I cool like that, then I'll hit them and be like, what's your sign? But if they seem like

I might be the weirdo if I do that, I go on their Instagram and I see their tagged photos and look till I see some birthday tags and then I look at the date of that birthday tag

and then I look it up. Do you like friendship? I do that before I go on a date with someone. I do, I like crunch the Zodiac. The CoStar app is dope. CoStar,

I was about to say, do you do CoStar? Yes. I love CoStar. And if you want to do CoStar with somebody who is not a willing participant yet, you just get your homie to change, do you do CoStar? Yes. I love CoStar. And if you want to do CoStar with somebody who is not a willing participant yet, you just get your homie to change their birthday and they CoStar and then you look.

Or you're just like, oh, they're a Pisces. You're like, oh, if you're not participating in the Zodiac, that makes you a specific sign. You can't escape it. That's very true. And it works. Like, if you think, like, can I ask you, Miles? Yes. What's your sign?

I'm a Virgo. What's your girl's sign? Cancer. That's why that works. Okay. Compatible. Okay. Jamie, you're a Gemini?

No, I'm dating a Gemini. I'm a Leo. That works, too. Yeah. Those are both very compatible signs. Really? Yes. And Virgos and Leos gets along, like, we get along very well together.

I have a lot of Leo friends. Yeah. A lot of Leo friends, a lot of Libra friends, a lot of Scorpio friends. Oh, yeah. I got a lot of Scorp friends. A lot of Leo friends. A lot of Libra friends. A lot of Scorpio friends. I got a lot of Scorpios, too. Virgo works with Scorpio, too. It's one of the few signs Scorpio. I'm supposed to be with a Scorpio. You are?

Which is why I'm just hoping that Drake don't fuck up so that one day I can be with Drake. You can inherit all those handbags he's been buying and setting aside for you. Scorpios get a bad rap. They're not bad. They're crazy people. They're duplicitous as fuck, but they get a bad rap. They're not bad. I feel like they get- They're crazy people. They're duplicitous as fuck, but they're not bad people. They're not bad. They live to fuck up people's lives.

I know good Scorpios who are moral people who I see it more as they have boundaries, and when you cross into them, you will enter a different world of experience with them. We call those evolved Scorpios. The last time I was dating a Scorpio, we were at a bar together, and I made him download CoStar in front of me so we could read the profile in front of each other. And it literally was like, it ruined everything. When you put your birthdays in and you see the profile, there's like, okay, here's where you gel, here's where you don't.

And ours was like, we gelled on everything except basic identities. And he's like, this is why it except basic identities. And he's like, this is why it doesn't work. Wow. And there's, it's wild. Wait, now,

is this a hard and fast rule for you? Hard and fast. I went to a party. You only date by the stars. I do. I went to a party and I was like, talking to this dude

and he was at LA, you know, kombucha drinking, you know, avocado toasting type dude. Okay. So we really just set, he was like, what's your sign? I was like, I'm a cancer. And he was like, I'm a cancer. And we were like, okay, goodbye toasting type dude. Okay. So we really just set. He was like, what's your sign?

I was like, I'm a cancer. And he was like, I'm a cancer. And we were like, okay, goodbye. Oh, wow. Yeah, no. Why waste my time? Hell no. I had a long-term past girlfriend who was a cancer.

It like fell apart in a way that. Ain't that the one with the TV? She stole your TV or something? Yeah, stole my TV. Oh, yeah. I was still your TV. So you don't date cancers? Hell no. Okay. No, it's still my TV. Oh, yeah. I was still your TV. So you don't date cancers? Hell no.

Okay. No, it's too much. People don't know I'm a cancer because I'm aggressive and I don't come off as the sweetest person, but I'm very nice on the inside.

You're sensitive. Deep, deep down. Way deep. But yeah, so I don't date other cancers. So who are other signs that are a non-starter so people know

not to hop in your DMs? I keep finding Arieses and I'm like, we're not supposed to be together. Why do I keep meeting all of these Arieses? And Sagittarius. Oh, I just met this fine man with Killmonger hair and he's a Sag. And I'm like, this might just have to be a fling. See, you know what though? You never know.

I wouldn't be so rigid because you never know. Mr. Killmonger 2.0. No, it does not work out. Never? No. That's verymonger 2.0. No, it does not work out. Never? No. That's very limiting. Every good relationship that I know. Hey, tweet us if you have a relationship that's lasted over 10 years and you don't have compatible

zone. I guess in general, I don't believe in absolutes, except in math or whatever, but I just feel like there are certain things. You have to give some wiggle room for a human. I think the relationship could work if I die prematurely. You know what I mean? But then, or like, if we together until death and I just happen to get hit by a bus, it wouldn't last until we was old.

Right, okay. That's one way to look at it. So you got to ride that wave, guys. If y'all don't feel compatible, still date. Maybe one of y'all get hit by a bus. Aside from dating Aries with a nice Killmonger hair, what's something that is overrated? Ooh, overrated is using black outrage to sell fashion. I'm so tired of y'all.

I'm sick and I'm tired. As a bitch who loves labels, as a number one member of the Gucci gang, okay? The Gucci gang, okay. I was so upset because I'm like, okay, it's not even that. Gucci is cute. And eventually I'm going to have to rotate these pieces back in because they were expensive but right now I can't wear them to parties black people gonna be looking at me sideways don't like look I get it y'all are using black twitter to get you know fan the flames it's it's something that brands are doing on

purpose now but here's the issue I guess the latest one is Burberry who really just went on the nose and tied some fucking nooses to some outfits. I said, bitch, this ain't even fashion that y'all sewed together. It's not like you put some blackface on a sweater. This isn't even thoughtful. Y'all just went and got some nooses. Yo, who can tie a rope? Who's a sailor?

Make this a noose. Make this a noose so we can throw these on the runway so somebody will look at Burberry. Look, we haven't been wearing Burberry since we stopped listening to Chingy. Okay? One, two, okay? Yo. Right there. Straight up, though. Right there.

When I was in high school, I remember I bought these Burberry handkerchiefs because it was the only Burberry thing I could afford. Because they were like 10 bucks or something when I was in Japan. And I had my mom sew them on to my jeans. Yes. Because I had the fucking... You know how how remember in like there was a wave like 2001 2002 where you had the little bit of louis vuitton or some shit bleeding through the ribs had the burberry ones my mom did them for me and after a while i was like it's good enough my mom got so obsessed with

it she's like no it can't be better and i was like okay yo fucking hook it up ma that's very wholesome yeah it was great well it was just like I remember I wish how sweet there was a time I'm literally standing there

in my underwear with my mom at a sewing machine and I'm like watching I'm like yeah yeah okay cool and then she's like okay try

and I'm like yeah yeah this is good she's like no I can do more mom was over here making fashion yes

I was yo gotta get it your mom was like proto fashion nova get it how you live man your mom was your fashion nova you're like I know I was. Yo, gotta get it. Your mom's like proto-fashion Nova. Get it how you live, man. Your mom was your fashion Nova. You're like, get it. I know.

I was like, I need this. I need this thotty outfit to wear. I was like, come on. I saw Nelly in this in the video, Mom. Yeah. She's like, I saw this in the Philly's Most Wanted Please Don't Mind video produced by Neptunes. I'm like, wow, Philly's Most Wanted?

You've got, Mom. Shout out to your mom. Your mom sounds like a scammer. Oh, she's a scammer. She wanted to even prove the scam. She was like, no, no, no, I can do better. No, because then she was like, don't you want the logo? Because, you know, they would stitch in the little logo.

I'm weak. It wasn't just the pattern, right? Because they had the embroidered logo. She's like, no, that should be down here. And I'm like, yes, your mama started Googling, y'all. Yeah, Dapper Dan over here. I fucks with your mom. Finally, Lacey, what is a myth? What's a myth?

Okay, so my myth is going to come from snobbery. Because I went to college and I rarely get to use things that I learned from there. This is how you smoke weed in a dorm room without anybody knowing. Right. I'm so tired of people saying that they're antisocial.

You're not antisocial. You're asocial. And I want you to know the difference that they're antisocial. You're not antisocial. You're asocial. And I want you to know the difference so that you stop doing this. Okay. Antisocial means that in social situations, you become aggressive. Right. Just want y'all to know. Right. Like, that's what you're telling people.

That you're telling people that you get aggravated and that you become aggressive in social situations. Like, in the UK, police actually use that word properly. Like, when people are fighting, they're like, that's antisocial behavior. Exactly. That's how it's supposed to be used. And the word that you're looking for is asocial. If you like don't really enjoy being around people or you need breaks from people to recharge, but it's passive, then you're asocial.

And that's the correct term. And the reason I'm saying that is because I feel like there's a wave right now. And I love this wave because it feels like the more I'm still saying, I'm going to make woke cool again. I'm taking it back, Sarah. Sarah, I'm taking woke back from you. It's mine again. But as people become more woke,

we start to be more comfortable talking about mental health and we start to be more comfortable with using terminology that describes how we feel as people. But then I feel like there is this branch into like what I call Starbucks, Ugg boot legging territory where we just gentrify and basify every word. I hear your dog whistle. Every single word. It's like you're not OCD unless you clinically have OCD disorder.

Like just because you like to OCD disorder like just because you like to organize your pins or just because you you can't I like my desk a certain way I have right just because you vacuum every week bitch they don't make you OCD like trendy mental health is fucking pisses me off depression let's call that Trental health Trental health yeah Trental bullshit right yeah like yeah and then like I think also like that, the clothing antisocial social club. People are like, yeah, like, I fuck with it. Yeah, I get it. Like, antisocial.

I'm awkward. Right. Come on now. Like, come on now. You're asocial. And thank you for that lesson. Yeah, I didn't know that. The more you know.

Shout out to the University of Pittsburgh. That was. Yeah, oh yeah. In the building. I was like, damn. I was like, I need to think of one thing I learned in college. I don't have anything. I'm just in debt until I die.

I studied public radio. Holy shit. I think you're doing it every day. Yeah, you do public. You actually said the one thing that is, you do that. You are on a radio right now. I went to Emerson. Okay.

Yeah. And I will never pay it off. You said I have nothing that I've used, and then you said my degree is in public radio. Into a mic with headphones on. I just don't know what to say. I've actually never used it. All right, well, let's get into the news, you know, just to keep up with the times. You know, the Captain Marvel film is about to come out.

The reviews are great for people who have seen it. Oh, are they? Yeah, people really like it. Yeah, yeah. It's got very positive reviews. But of course, when you have a film that's set in the Marvel

comic universe or whatever, the expanded universe, anyway, you know when comics come out and there's a female lead, there's always going to be some hater bullshit.

But this time isn't just merely because Brie Larson is the star of it they're pushing back because they think she's just dude she's just doing too much SJWing because she had the gall to point out that a lot of the press interactions

she was having around the film were of the how do I say white male variety no kidding and she took action and tried to help some diversity within the film journalism world because she was like, you know, maybe you can send

other people too and not just like older white guys to talk to me about this film that has a lot more to deal with than just sort of

a very myopic perspective of the comic book. And that was it. So, of course, there was like a huge campaign on Rotten Tomatoes of people saying

really just like the dumbest shit like just not even good things one person said brie larson has already said this isn't for me i'll spend my money elsewhere from kevin or no kevin come back give her a chance kevin i somehow feel that skull are not the enemy but that i am since Brie Larson has been careful to state she doesn't want the press tour to include types like me. So, again, you got people who love to. Stop oppressing Kevin. Just trying to misconstrue and conflate what is going on with, you know, what her point is with being like the time honored, the attack on white men.

I've got, yeah, I've got one here. Quote, as a white male, I don't think Brie would want me watching this movie. Since when do white men listen to anybody about what they want? I was like, oh, now we're listening to women again? This is, I mean, at least. She said don't, so. They're like, well, I believe women, and so I will not go see this movie. I believe women.

So, I like, I mean, Brie Larson is like one of the few Hollywood like woke people who generally seems to like actually practice what she preaches. I like her. Well, again, you know. I think it's tough with her demographic for this movie, though. Yeah. Because this movie is like for the worst. Sorry. I mean, yeah, we all enjoy Marvel.

Yes. But comic book heads, especially the ones who stick to it like it's biblical doctrine, you know, they are the worst types of people, and they're definitely not going to stand for this. Yeah, well, Toxic Comic Twitter is very active, to say the least. Well, let's move on to some Mengazi updates, because what's going on here, Jamie? Well, we got some good Benghazi news. It started off bad, but here's some good stuff. Emma Thompson was slated to do a voice in an animated movie called Luck,

just produced by Skydance Animation, but she announced this morning she is not going to do the film because Skydance hired John Lasseter to head its animation division. There you go. I thought that was good. I mean, just for those who aren't familiar.

So John Lasseter was the head of Pixar forever. And there were a lot of allegations that came out against him in the first wave of Me Too in late 2017. That were all pretty much proven. And he was kind of forced out of his own company as a result. And then he was hired by this company skydance and uh emma thompson's not having it which is good i mean i i'm i always like when uh someone who can afford to not work right does it to make a point because sometimes when they're like hey that like first time actress had to do and it's like yeah but like she you have to right right right so shit in the door. Right. Right. Right.

So shit, that, I was like, you know, good use of Nanny McPhee. Go Nanny McPhee. Go do your thing. Yes. You know what I mean? Yeah. I was stoked about that. Because there's so many, you know, like, prominent actresses who will denounce this stuff publicly,

but not really follow up behind it, behind the scenes. Right. Yeah, look at, I mean, just look at Dave Becky's client list and you'll see. Oh, people still rock with him? Woo! Yeah, Jameela still rocks with him. Jameela? Shit like that, I just am.

That's like way too close to me. I know a lot of people on his roster. Okay. Yeah, me too. Well, let's not make it hot for anybody else, but. Check it out. Listen, I ain't gonna make it hot for them because a scammer never snitches. Yeah, there you go.

A scammer never tells their secrets. But yeah, some people can't afford to make those moves too. Three Guys is a big company. You can have your principles and you can also be at home poor. That's that Steve Harvey and Monique debate. It's hard, man, especially as a black actor. I play the slave. It's not the integrity game. It's the money game.

You gotta make money. You can find a way to do both. You can, of course. But it's tough. You have to reach a certain point before that's possible. Before you have the power to actually affect the change that you want to. People kind of forget that. But at the same time, it is very slimy to have to like,

you know, we all do it it i've laughed at very racist things that people were saying to me i've had networks do racist shit to me that i'm like quietly like hey guys right i had a i had a network once send me photo approvals that weren't me no no bunch. I will never tell who. But they sent a bunch of photo approvals to me that were not me, and I was the only black person involved. This is Viola Davis. My God. I just emailed back like, hey, guys, love y'all so much. Tee hee hee hee.

This ain't me. Oh, cur. Skrt skrt. All the black things that I need to say in this email. Yo, yo, yo. That's not me. But I love y'all. Wakanda forever. Lacey Mosley.

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And we are back. Jamie, I think it's time for an Ariana Grande update because this is a story that intersects directly with your brand. This is, yeah, this one, this story was sent to me approximately 900 fucking times last week. So I figure I'll just, you know, everyone thinks it's their fucking idea. Anyways, there's Ariana Grande Zamboni news, technically a few news cycles ago,

but someone unearthed this sports column from 1998 in Boca Raton. Is that how you say that? That is a five-year-old Ariana Grande. Wait, hold on. How else would you have said it? You really put me on the spot. I said

Baca Raton. Okay. Baca right on. I was like, Boca Raton sounds so sophisticated. Yeah, you guessed right. Baccaratone. Baccaratone. I was like, Baccaratone sounds so sophisticated. I just like that you were like, that's it, right?

I love that. Yeah. I just like to know what's in people's minds. Okay, so they found this old news clip. So the Baccaratone, the Macarena.

I'm so happy, Baccaratone. Baccaratone. Basically, it's a story about Ariana Grande when she's five years old. She's on a Zamboni. It's a spectacular picture. But the story attached to it is interesting where it basically says that Ariana Grande,

she used to go to a lot of hockey games with her parents when she was young. And she got hit by two hockey pucks in a year. Like this five-year-old girl. She's just a little puck magnet. Where was she sitting that a puck hit her? She grew up rich. I'm sure they had great seats. But they're still glass even on the boards.

You gotta get good seats to get hit by a puck that much. That's puck privilege. Didn't an announcer have a puck fly by his face recently? Yeah. So she was in announcer seats. She was in good seats so that's but she did she did get like hit by hockey pucks twice in a year which is a rough start i mean you think 2018 was rough for her she got hit by hockey pucks in 1997 right uh but there's a cute yeah the

her there's like a quote from her dad that's like what are the odds of this happening? It's so crazy that my daughter keeps getting hit by hockey pucks. Is that him like trying to he's signaling that there may be a lawsuit? He's just, no, I guess they were bought off pretty easy. They were just like, yeah, throw her in the Zamboni and we're cool, which is a great problem

solving thing, I think. Oh, so because she was a two-time puck victim. They were like, okay, let's get you on the ice. Right, before your parents get litigious. Wow. It's great, yeah. I think that they were just like, let's not upset the rich parents. Let's put the cute kid on the Zamboni and hope for the best. And it

worked. And she's a star. You know, maybe getting hit by hockey pucks means that, you know, you got that anointment from God. I've been shit on by a lot of birds. I want to know what that means. Yes. When was the last time you were shit on by a bird?

I've been hit by a baseball. Oh, no. Oh, no. Anyways, guys. That's what reminded me of Simon Birch. Did you just take a frozen rope straight to the dome or what? No, there was a minor, minor league team. It was the team that you would go to before the minor leagues.

It was called the Brockton Rocks. Okay. And it cost like $2 to go. The Brockton Rocks called the Brockton Rocks. Okay. And it cost like $2 to go. The Brockton Rocks? The Brockton Rocks. Yeah, the Boca Ratox. The Boca Rocks. But we would go because it cost $2 to go.

And no matter where I sat, I'd get fucking hit by a baseball by the minor, minor league guys. Wow. Saul Bustos. It's because they're special. Wait, you remember the player who hit you? Yeah, Saul Bustos. Saul Bustos. I'll put him on wait you remember the player who yeah Saul Bustos I'll put him on blast I'm snitching on everyone today

I'm like Saul Bustos fucking beamed me in the head with a but I was fine okay well good I'm glad to know you've healed I hope Saul's doing well

well let's move on to something that Lacey can get to really sink her teeth into yeah because I just read a headline that basically let me just read this headline

from Daily Beast cause it explains it all right there UC Santa Cruz student sold drugs through mobile gaming app fed say now you you wonder what what are we talking about here well colin howard who's 18 year old freshman at uc santa cruz he was he's been indicted by a federal grand jury for quote distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine and the way it happened was that the uh investigators the prosecutors alleged that last fall he had developed a game a mobile gaming app called banana plug and if you know anything about uc santa cruz sammy the banana slug is a school's mascot or if you remember pulp fiction

i think it was uh John Travolta's character was wearing a UC Santa Cruz banana slug sweater. Anyway, that's how I first remember. Anyway, that's not necessary. It's not here now. It's good context. On the app, the way it worked is it would prompt users to change all the tiles,

basically to like move around like one of those puzzle tile games where you had to rearrange it to make the thing. And when you put them all into like electrical plugs, you could win a game and it advertised things like Molly and Shrooms or whatever and it invited the users to make special requests. So he was slapping posters all around campus

of use this app and it was a way for basically, I think, people to communicate with him on what they wanted in a very clever way. Let me just say. What is this man's name? His name is Colin Howard. Colin Howard.

Shout out to a king. Shout out to a king. Let me tell you something about Colin that I really fuck with. Colin cornered his market. He said, I'm selling uppers. I'm selling psychedelics. People who love video games, they love to be up all night. Yeah.

They love a sensation. You know, they do. And so he made something. First of all, use such ingenuity. He should be in Silicon Valley because where else is apps and drugs going to make such a beautiful marriage other than Silicon Valley? Well, the problem is if he's convicted on these charges, he is looking at multiple decades in prison. Free my man's college. And up to $10 million in fines.

Let's get his GoFundMe started for his legal representation. I mean, look, it's so funny because it's one of those things where it's like, of course, younger people now are getting even cleverer, more clever about how they're trying to go about their shadiness. And they're like, dude, I designed a fucking game. It's still, I think as of like Tuesday or Wednesday, it was still in the app store for people to use. It was in the app store. He got it on the Apple, not even fucking Android. His drug dealing app was.

Now let me just say this. Now, remember that Stanford swimmer that they let off the fucking hook after being a grisly gross nasty motherfucker this is who you should let off the hook because colin has gifts he's thinking for the world oh should be put in an mba program free of charge free of charge and let him develop his skills so that he can bless us all with his talents and you put these other nasty motherfuckers away. Can we at least use whiteness right? Okay? I'm assuming Colin's white. I'm hoping.

Because then he may get off. If there's anybody who I want to get privileged, it's Colin. Please. I mean, look, shout out to the banana app. The banana app? Banana plug. Yeah, he's a white teenager. And we know that plug

is another term for drug. The plug is the person who gets the drug. Yes, thank you. Please tell people, if you're not familiar with the plug. Yeah, so the word the plug is actually who is connected, see plugged in, to the drug. Right. So whoever your plug is, is whoever

gets you. Who sorts you out. Yeah. And it can be for clothes. Supplies you. So whoever your plug is is whoever gets you your... Who sorts you out. Yeah. And it can be for clothes. Supplies you. Yeah, the plug can be anything. The plug can be shoes, clothes.

Good mortgage refi. Okay, Colin got a Cro-Magnum forehead and that's making me worry about him a little bit. He might be a murderer. He does have a resting murderer face.

Can I see? He has a resting murderer face. He does. Do He has a resting murderer face. Do you have a LaCroix sticker on your laptop? Wow, God bless you. And some prayer hands. Yes, Jerry. I really leveled up.

I'm just going to Google and search Colin Howard drugs. There he is. Okay. Oh. Yeah. I take it all back. Everybody, everything I just said. He's got highlights.

I thought he would have kinder eyes. I retract all my back. Everybody, everything I just said. He's got highlights. I thought he would have kinder eyes. I retract all my statements. I delete everything I just said. He has a very sinister motion. He needs to go to jail. Yeah, well, you know. Damn. I was hoping he was going to go to jail.

I mean, look, if they're locking up kids of color for that shit, I mean, look. Yeah, he got to go under the jail. I take it all back. See, and like that, we 180'd. All right, well, let's get into something, another kind of 180, because the president has announced a campaign that is so odd on its surface that I'm just so confused. Okay. So, like I think on Tuesday, the administration announced that it was starting a global campaign

to end the criminalization of homosexuality. And they're going to be working with groups like the EU, United Nations, and activists to try and decriminalize homosexualities in countries that outlaw it. I'm sorry, what? Gay icon Donald Trump? He is a queer icon, so we do have to give him a pass for pretty much everything. So, you know, I think everyone's initial reaction is like, what the fuck are you talking about? Because from the get-go, his campaign or his administration has been so just overtly anti-LGBTQ that suddenly you're like, wait, now you're caping for the decriminalization?

Global decriminalization? So, I mean, just to start off, right? It's almost like he wants something. Right. On the first day of his presidency, if mean, just to start off, right. It's almost like he wants something. Right. On the first day of his presidency, if you remember the white house, uh, and state department websites,

they wiped away all LGBTQ references from those websites. Yeah. Like another, like, nope, erase that. And then got rid of trans rights, trans military.

Yeah, exactly. The trans ban in, uh, the military, then praising Karen Pence for teaching at an, like anti LGBTQ school. I mean, employing Mike Pence for teaching at an anti-LGBTQ school. I mean, employing Mike Pence at all

is anti-LGBTQ. Is it or is it positive since we're hiring a gay man? I don't know. We'll see. Allegedly. Listen. Let me pull you out of that. i'm just saying when he became vice

president i'm not gonna say it uh i'm not gonna say those because he went to hamlet i'm saying he went to hamilton he he used his vice presidential flex to go to hamilton to go that was his first vice presidential flex was to go to hamilton and then he was shocked that people booed him and i was like what bro like he was shocked that people booed him. And I was like, what, bruh? He was like, no, y'all are my people. He was like, no, Mike, those conversion camps, we don't fuck with you. Anyway. He's a real torn soul.

And then at the end of January, Trump even met with this group, Groundswell, that is a very right-wing group headed by Clarence Thomas' wife, Jenny Thomas, where they denounced transgender people and women from serving in the military and said that the Marriage Equality Act

was, quote, harming the fabric of the United States. So I don't know how you can reconcile all this shit and then be like, but you know what? I'm fighting for everybody's right to be... Maybe he's senile. Maybe this whole time he just hasn't let this cook a little bit by hate and maybe somebody convinced him i'm convinced that if you give trump compliments you might be able to get whatever the fuck you want oh yeah well he needs that conservative base especially

right now like those only people he has like consistently in his base but it's weird because in in the beginning very early on trump was a very early donor to AIDS research and Mar-a-Lago was apparently one of the few private clubs in Palm Beach that would quote, accept gay couples. It's truly one of the only things he's ever done right, was his

views on gay marriage 30 years ago. Yeah, in 92, he hosted at the Trump Taj Mahal a quote, Clash of the Legends event featuring basketball players Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Julius Irving, where a portion of the proceeds went to AIDS research. Can you imagine him doing an all-star basketball game

where the proceeds could go to AIDS research right now? Not now. No. But I think that's because he already knows that he's alienated all of the celebrities, which tend to be the people who lean the furthest left. So now he has to be on the hate wagon because that's his squad now right on the hate squad and there's a few times uh when he was in 99 he was out here adamantly just being like yo i really think that gay people should be able to serve openly in the military and they need

to and gays and lesbians need to be protected under the Civil Rights Act. Trump is the biggest argument for the body snatchers and for the Illuminati that we've ever heard. And then after he summed his whole position up by saying, it's very simple. Like, wow, okay. And then get a little of this. The only thing he ever got right. On The Apprentice, he loves hiring gay people

because he says they're more, quote, trustworthy around women. Then he compared sexual preference to preferring steak or spaghetti. So in a 2005 episode, he says, I love gay people working for me. They're the most trustworthy people, especially around women. And then he asked a contestant, are you a homosexual, Clay? And when this contestant said yes uh trump seemed welcoming and said i like steak someone else someone else likes spaghetti that's why we have menus in restaurants well i don't know steak and spaghetti whoa and i was already and i was already on steak

between steak and spaghetti where do you fall right yeah wow that's an interesting way to think about it and super producer nick stuff justubbs just points out, too, that in 2016, he was saying, I think trans people should be able to use whatever bathroom they want. So- 45 seconds later. No, yeah. He just goes with the wind or the support, and you never know where this guy is actually landing.

So when you think about it, everyone's like, okay, hold on. What the fuck is going on? landing. So when you think about it, everyone's like, okay, hold on. What the fuck is going on? This man is all over the map in terms of where he stands for LGBTQ people's rights. And now people look into it a little bit more and realizing that this campaign was reportedly cobbled together in a response to Iran. So this is his way, possibly now if that's really the case, because I don't see any other way to cut this thing, is that he's trying to gain sympathy for some kind of conflict with Iran by posing it as a homosexuality is a crime thing. And we got to we got to cave for these homosexual people who are being oppressed in Iran because it is a crime that's punishable by death. But at the same time, he's putting his Iran is crosshairs.

Yet in Saudi Arabia also considers homosexuality a crime that's punishable by death. But at the same time, he's putting his Iran in his crosshairs, yet in Saudi Arabia, also considers homosexuality a crime. Yeah. So do you think he's going to be consistent with that? No. No, I mean, well, I mean, if everything we just talked about is any indication, he'll never be consistent. Consistent with anything.

With anything, right. He'll just abandon it. He'll be like, yeah, fuck it, whatever. That didn't work. Because even then, he even used the Pulse nightclub shooting to justify his travel ban. Because he was like a radical Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub

and then wove in that he was targeting gay people as well to try and gain more sympathy again. Right. Even though terrorists came out, which terrorists, shout out to terrorists for having the most access to us in terms of like press releases and information. But we can't find where the fuck they at.

But terrorists came out and said, nah, we ain't fucking with the post nightclub shooter. He's not a part of the Taliban. He's not with us. He's not an ISIS. I was like, how do we have so much information from terrorists that we're trying to find? It's crazy how quickly, yeah, like how quickly terrorist organizations have shit ready to send. Well, yeah, because they have

like full-on PR departments. They have a PR department. Because it's the modern, you know, information war. Everybody's got to have a wing to do their press. You can't operate out of

a cave with a handheld anymore. No, you gotta have your, well, a cave with a hotspot. Yeah, you gotta do, you have to do junkets. As long as you can send, you know, you don't have to fight the press.

Liam Neeson style junkets. It's so fucking dark. Yeah, so, you know, just junkets. As long as you can send... You don't invite the press. Liam Neeson style junkets. It's so fucking dark. Yeah, so just keep your eye on this one because it's a lot of people. This whole week or last week, even Mike Pence was out in Poland being like, a second Holocaust could happen because of Iran. So they're really trying to get people's opinions to shift. Mike Pence is on the stump to legalize gay. What do you mean?

Oh, you mean this? No. No, he hasn't spoken on that. Okay, he hasn't spoken on that, right? Because I was like, he made conversion camps. Well, right. He was on one hand very much for conversion camps. But it would be hilarious to see if someone presses them,

be like, I'm sorry, in the past, you seem that you don't actually advocate for any kind of equality for LGBTQ people. Why the sudden change? And Mike Pence will just be like, I saw Hamilton. Or he's just going to say, I'm an ally. Before they kicked me out. Don't know how it ends. Don't know if he lived or not.

But I wish them luck. What if he thinks Alexander Hamilton's still alive because he didn't see the end of Hamilton? And he's like, and he lived happily ever after. It's kind of crazy. And I hear he's an F1 race car driver. Oh, that's a Lewis Hamilton. And just a little more Trump news. A part of many news things we have to talk about is the New York Times dropped a bombshell report, as many people are calling it.

I don't even know what the fuck bombshell means anymore because shit doesn't happen after. It's no Ariana Grande on the Zamboni. Yeah, exactly. Talk about a bombshell report. That's a bombshell. But this one is now they have just cataloged the myriad of ways in which Donald Trump and his administration and his cronies have tried to hamstring the different DOJ investigations about him and people in his circle.

So I think one of the more recent things that is kind of interesting is that he tried to get acting Attorney General Dick Toilet, Matt Whitaker, to put a, quote, ally in charge of the Michael Cohen case that was happening in the Southern District of New York. district of New York. And that ally that they wanted to put in there was a prosecutor that had already recused himself because he was like, nah, there's no way I could fucking, like, it looks so bad if I'm involved in this. There's no way I'm handling it. But Trump was like, get that guy on there. And even Dick Toilet was like, look, there's already a new career prosecutor on it who's very respected. Plus, this dude already recused himself. So I can't just bring him like it's going to Dick Toilet's coming in as the voice of reason. You've got trouble. Well, what's funny is, too, is there's also reports, right, that people from the White House called Dick Toilet and were so pissed about the investigations or that they're like, do you have a handle?

What's going on over there? Like, this looks terrible, blah, blah, blah. And when he was giving testimony to Congress last week or the week week before he just outright denied that any of that stuff happened and they're like did anyone call you to contact you to you know express their outrage and he's took like eight seconds and thought about he's like contact me they're like yes to express their outrage displeasure about it and he just took another eight seconds and just went um no could you define contact i'm mr dick toilet i'm mr richard poopoo have you ever i need i'm just gonna go with different ways to say dick toilet oh i mean dt is the only way to go

yeah but he had that like he tried to collect himself in that way that you knew if you if you know anybody who's like you can tell they're lying. Yeah. And they are really trying to sort their face out and their delivery out. So what they say sounds truthful. He just, he communicated that outright very clearly to everybody. Yeah. Because he just did that. Hmm. No, that, no, that didn't happen.

And I was like, hmm. Contact. What is contact? Anyway. Did they touch me? Is that what you mean by contact? So then the Times report goes on. Did they dance together?

No. Is that how we define contact? Did a mysterious billionaire build a time machine for me to drop through to see my father in some space sci-fi fantasy? Where I'm Jodie Foster? One movie? One 800? Contact? 1-800? Contact? It's like, gonna need more clarity.

Impossible to know what you're asking. Right, exactly. And there's more. So the Times goes on to report that Whitaker had claimed in private conversations with associates that his role as acting dick toilet at DOJ was to quote jump on a grenade and quote for the president that would be sick if he did that just literally jumped on a grenade for the president he's so dumb he's like oh I don't know that could hurt me he doesn't know what contact means so he might not understand what like exaggeration well that's just

fucking dark you know like if he is telling people he's like oh yeah like it's exactly what a lot of people just presumed just by looking at his track record and what he was saying it's like oh you hired the guy to just try and blow the thing up yeah but now they got they got bar coming in uh so we'll see what happens there like there's also reports that the muller report will be filed in the next week now that Barr is in office. So I don't know. Some people cynically look at that and be like, is Mueller like caving to William Barr? Is William Barr fucking around?

Or you could read it as like maybe Mueller realizes he couldn't release it with Dick Toilet as acting attorney general. I don't know. There's a million ways to cut that one, too. But we'll look into that more as more reports come out. What did Trump think of this bombshell report? Did he love it? It's all fake news. They didn't give me any time to respond to this, which the New York Times completely refuted. They're like, we gave him five fucking days. We told him five days in advance it was coming out. He had nothing to say. And then as per usual, exactly said the New York Times, Nothing to say.

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It's really quickly because he had to take, officially, he took an L on the Space Force. Okay. So I'll just read this quote straight out of LA Times. Bowing to bipartisan concerns in Congress, President Trump retreated Tuesday from his plan to create an independent Space Force in the Pentagon, proposing instead to consolidate the military space operations and personnel in the Air Force. The scaled down plan would still establish a new military service focused on warfighting in outer space, the first new brand since 1947, blah, blah, blah. Essentially, what he's saying is he's letting the Air Force do what it already does with Space Command. Yeah.

And he's just being like, but I think we're going to add a couple people. I love that he's like, okay, fine. Space Force was something I made up while I was taking a shit. Yeah. Okay? I was like, what if I made Star a shit. Yeah. Okay. I was like, what if I made Star Trek real? Yeah.

How do I get, what do you mean Patrick Stewart isn't available? I need Captain Jean-Luc Picard. And then someone was like, it's on Hulu, you can just watch it. You don't have to do it in real life.

He's like, oh, I didn't realize that. Also, I just hate that we live in a country where children are starving and we're worried about outer space war.

Right. Right. And also, when you perfectly have a branch of the military whose business it is to just already pay attention. We have the Air Force. They literally get in the air. That's their thing. And within there is Space Command where their business

is space. I know you've seen Top Gun. And Space Command sounds better than Space Force. Is Space Command with Buzz Lightyear? No, that's Star Command. Ah, shit. Come on. And truth better than Space Force Is Space Command with Buzz Lightyear? No that's Star Command Ah shit Come on I'm old And truthfully Space Force is my own organization

Where I'm raising money Okay For space war There you go That's how legitimate Space Force is Also not transferred to you Yeah Got it

I'm building a space wall Honestly I mean of all of his terrible ideas This was one of the safer ones Oh for sure It was just a complete waste of time Of Of course, it's the, yeah. And it had all the military brass just rolling their eyes. They're like. Yeah, it was just the military industrial complex.

Like, whatever. Yeah, whatever. Just don't kill anyone, please. Right. This is, our bar is on the floor for Trump. Yeah. Like, is he killing people today? I was like, if you're wasting time and taxpayers' money, fine.

Fine. Just don't hurt anyone. It's the least of our troubles. Remember when lame duck used to be a term that was thrown around a lot, like in the Bush administration? And I mean, not that we're even at that point in his presidential career,

but I just feel like we're not going to get that from Trump. You just take the assault rifle away from the duck. He's going to keep working up until the very end. Yeah, I think all the damage he's doing and will continue to do, I mean, hopefully it will cease. But I don't know. RIP Space Force. RIP Space Force.

Guys, yeah, please pour one out for the Space Force if you can. Now let's get into some no shit news. This is my favorite story today. Now, I don't know if you remember a documentary about a music festival that a lot of millennials were going crazy about. Promised young affluent millennials the party of a lifetime on a Bahamian island, one that used to be owned by Pablo Escobar. Yes, Lord. Lacey, are you pro this scam? Are you pro fire?

Listen, I'm actually trying to bring back fire too. It's lit. Okay. This time it's lit that's the phrase because that shit looks sexy i want it to go i think everyone wanted to go yeah uh now if you remember in the netflix version of this documentary there are two competing documentaries about fire festival there's a hulu one and then the uh netflix one both are wildly unethical but it doesn't matter yeah love it watch, though, because the whole thing is a mess.

And particularly, there was one man who stood out of all the subjects in the documentary. The real star. Not even Billy McFarlane, the guy who put it together. Fuck Billy. Fuck Billy. Fuck Ja. This is the guy. There was the man who was willing to do anything to keep the festival alive, and his name is

Andy King, the guy who was willing to give head for some Evian water for, I think, eight tractor trailer, like eight trailers full of Evian water. Yeah. So a lot of people. That was the most compelling sequence in all of documentaries. It was earth shattering. Eat my ass bowling for Columbine. The dick sucking water bottle sequence is. It's something else.

Yeah. Chef's kiss. And a lot of people like so he caught up with TMZ and they're asking like, yo, like, you know, what's. The dick-sucking water bottle sequence is iconic. It's something else. Chef's kiss. It's incredible. And a lot of people, like, so he caught up with TMZ, and they're asking, like, yo, like, you know, what's it like right now? And, of course, he was like, you know, to be honest, when they were editing the film, I did not want any of this to be in it. At all.

And you wonder why. I mean, why? Why did you say it? Yeah, he didn't want it to come out of any of us. Question, in that soundbite, is it the part where the director's telling him, he's like, we got to have it in? I love his voice, too. So, of course, yeah, he was uncomfortable. He was uncomfortable with, you know, the world knowing that he was prepared

to S the D for some bottled water. If he wanted it cut, he shouldn't have given such a terrific performance. Yeah. Because it was so easy. I was prepared to S the D for some bottled water. If he wanted it cut, he shouldn't have given such a terrific performance. Yeah. Because it was so easy. I was prepared. Well, the amazing part is the director just turns to him and says, Andy, you don't understand. Without that scene, there isn't a documentary. I agree.

It's true. I agree. I agree. Because it speaks to the heart of it of the lengths people were going for Billy McFarland to just keep his, like, you know, snowball, disaster snowball. Just keep it gaining momentum to its glorious crash. Now, on TMZ, he kind of has a good attitude about it because they're like, well, you know, it's out now. So how are you feeling? So this is him, you know, talking about, you know, life after the Netflix documentary.

I wish it would have been taken out. I probably wouldn't be where I am today if it had been taken out. I mean, how have I become this social media hero over a situation like that? I'm in total shock. But I'm rotting with it. It's a lot of fun. I mean, TV offers to cameos in movies. I'm doing a cameo tomorrow night for Spirit Awards.

I'm shooting a little movie first week of March. We're working on a few different TV show concepts right now. I've got three offers for those. It's incredible. I love Tony Nike. Whoa. Wait, I didn't even hear the last. I didn't realize.

He's going to be at the Spirit Awards? He's getting a award okay Andy Andy listen to me Andy listen to me Mr. King come on out with that water brand

yeah come on out with that water brand the water that we would all suck dick for okay triple filtered mountain spring

reverse osmosis yes come on out with that water baby and throw a crystal in it and I'm gonna buy it I And I'm going to buy it. I mean, he deserves all the money he can make off of this story. Yeah.

I'm also curious. Like, cameo at the Spirit Awards? I'm curious how he's deployed in that. Is it just like a reveal where they're like, and you know, some of our guests tonight would do anything to win a Spirit Award. We mean anything. And then just cut to him. And then they just leave a water bottle out on stage.

Anything. He's like the Antoine Dobson of our time. Right. Oh, yeah. Wait, but did he ever get like a show? I don't know if he got a show, but he's still very lit on Instagram. He was at the BET Awards.

He was everywhere. He came out on a bunch of stuff. After Hydra Kids, I had your wife, you know. He was lit. They were raping everybody out here. He told everybody what we know now. He was lit. They were raping everybody out there. He told everybody what we know now. It was pre the big Me Too explosion.

Antoine told us that they was raping everybody out there. Antoine, thank you. Antoine walks so Me Too can fly. Oh, God. Antoine walks so Me Too can fly. That's maybe my worst take.

Question. Back to Andy King. Do you think he already had some pitches in his back pocket ready? Or did all this stuff come together and people were like, we need a show from you? But I don't know what kind of shows he's done. He seems kind of passive. I mean, I hope he went into these meetings and they're like, so, here are five ideas of you vaguely

almost sucking dick, but not quite. Also, water's there. And Andy's like, yeah, okay, cool. I don't know. My senses are tingling just because one, this is a story that he didn't have to volunteer. Two, he really gassed this story up. I truly

think Billy McFarlane was just on molly and was just like being like dude you got to do whatever you can to get us water like suck a dick and andy was over here like this is my moment um the way he tells the story the sheer delight in his eyes the the glow to his cheek tells me that you know he's probably somebody who never got a lot of attention right and this was his moment. Wow. He did seem like a shy man. Yeah. I told y'all he put the mouthwash in before he went to suck the dick.

That's telling to me. That's true. Yes. Well, maybe he didn't want the penis to think he had bad breath. I don't know. The chap. I don't know. Also, was he trying to brag about his skills?

I don't know. He was about to go crazy, sloppy toppy. Okay. Superhead is dead. Now we have Andy King. Andy King. Give us the Andy King. What was your favorite meme

of Andy King after that Fyre Fest documentary? Oh, man. I don't know. I think mine was the payment options one when it was like, how would you like to pay?

It was like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and then his face. Ja Rule already has commented on this story because Ja Rule is addicted to commenting on things related to this story. But Ja Rule already has commented on this story because Ja Rule is addicted to commenting on things related to this story

but Ja Rule was like yeah good for him I'm glad he's like out there getting his and I don't know I hope Andy King becomes bigger than Ja Rule that's not hard I hope that Andy King and J-Lo come out with a collab song any day

I just saw one I just looked up Andy King and J-Lo come out with a collab song any day now. K-I-N-G. I just saw one. I just looked up Andy King memes. Uh-huh, and? They gotta be good. How do we get all this water to the residents of Flint? And then it's a picture of Andy King. Oh. I really hope he really has these development deals

because I would hate to think that he's actually the opposite of what he's saying in these interviews and is just sort of like despondent about the whole thing and then has to put on a good face like no actually this has changed my life for the better and he's just like oh god I'm so embarrassed but I don't know it's it's on for us as someone who would love to make a tv show this is a like I would watch this shitty tv show 500 times before I would what is the show best friend did. But pitch me the show.

Because I still don't understand as a concept a show that Andy King pitches and is like, yo, actually, that is a great idea as a show. It's about people who don't go above and beyond for the job. It's like Nathan for you. And he's like, okay, describe a situation where you went above and beyond. Andy King's got the best story. So he goes, he finds employees that a situation where you went above and beyond. Andy King's got the best story. So he goes, he finds employees that aren't willing to go above and beyond and he coaches them.

Yes, it's like restaurant rescue, but for like, are you willing to suck dick to keep your job? Yeah, exactly. That was wildly problematic already. And it'll reach the point too, like what these viral stars do, it'll reach the point where five years from now we're still watching

this Andy King show where he's like going to various places being like, why aren't you doing your job hard enough? And then we'll be like, wait, how did he get famous again?

And we'll forget that he was the dick-sucking water bottle fire fist. He'll be syndicated on TLC. He'll just be a part of our lives. I mean, it's been Saturday afternoon, back him in your living room.

I could more so see him giving like a TED Talk on going the extra mile. Going the extra mile. Yeah, I think he could speak to children. Like five years from now, he could do a tour of elementary schools and be like, guys, you got to work hard. But he won't give any context at that point. He'll just be like, I was known. I'm notorious for working hard.

I'm the for working hard. I'm the hardest working man in show business. Ask anyone, but don't ask adults. And finally, I just want to bring everyone's attention to just a bit of audio that has been going around on the internet. Because there is a new star. So one of the newest little trends we saw going around on Twitter was this auto-tuned cat. And it all started with a Disney artist named Joaquin Baldwin. Baldwin. Sorry, not Baldwin.

Baldwin. When his cat Elton was just kept meowing and meowing and meowing. So he just started recording it and just started auto-tuning the cat's meows. Now, just listen to this if this makes a cat's meow more pleasant to you. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow.

Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. So, the video is 40 seconds long of just, like, different clips where every meow has been auto-tuned.

Oh my God. And you know, people, because it's the internet, if it's a fucking cat, like you already know the rules of virality on the internet. If it involves a cat, you've already exponentially increased your chances. All of a sudden you like own a building. Yeah. This is taking T-Pain to a whole nother level. Oh yeah.

Well, people are starting, so people took that as the base sample to flip it and make their own remixes. Kanye, where you at? Oh, please, no. This one. So in the thread, people started making their own remixes. This one is a little zany, I guess. I don't know. This is moody.

Are you supposed to have sex in this? It sounds like 80s porn music. Yeah. The weekend needs to be singing over this. This is Andy King. Dude. I don't think that's what the cat is saying. The cat is there for support, but, you know.

The cat's just there for support. Yeah, for support. This is actually one of the better ones. Someone who makes beats actually produced a little beat, a little trap beat with the cat meow samples. Okay. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kibbles and bits for my bitch, hey. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. You know.

Oh, that's good. That's good. You know, I think he should have played the 808 drums live, you know, instead of quantizing. But that's just a note from me. Notes for improvement. Notes for improvement on that cat. From the guy who tried to figure out how many beats. Where are you now?

At a pizza place. Off mic, I really showed how sad I am when I was bragging about how I could tell the song Where Are You Now by Jack Yu with Justin Bieber. We were at a restaurant, Nick and I, and it was five beats too fast. And I was like, no, that's five BPM too fast. And I pulled out a BPM counter and just showed my ass. Yeah, from my phone. That he already had downloaded. I have this app, yeah.

The lunch topics that you guys land on, I just, I don't know. I just sit back and watch. Because the boys at lunch, it's a whole different vibe. Were you at lunch with us? I've been at lunch, it's a whole different vibe. Were you at lunch with us? I've been at lunch with you guys. Oh, yeah, yeah. And yeah, it always comes down to something like that. What, like weird music shit?

Yeah, or like a question that no one can answer exactly, but it doesn't matter either way, but someone has to be right before we can go back to work. Oh, yeah. No, that's- That's my favorite. Lunch with the boys. It's called Fragile Egos. It's called, yeah, Fragile Egos with my boys.

Also, Jamie and I off mic decided that this is because Miles is petty and Miles has apps on his phone just to be petty. Right. It's like a whole category on your phone. I'm just like petty apps. It's a folder called Um, Actually. Um, Actually. This is actually the wrong key also.

I have a tuner in here. All right. Well, thank you so much, y'all, for joining me. Lacey, thank you for being here for this very special episode. Tell people where they can find you and follow you and support you. Guys, you know you can find me on all the internets as Scam Goddess. My Instagram and my Twitter handle, as well as all my handles for payments, are the same, D-I-V-A-L-A-C-I, Diva Lacey on all platforms.

And guys, if you watch Single Parents, I'm on Single Parents this week playing a very fun, dumb character who steals somebody's man. And we're in the LA Times, so watch Single Parents. There you go. Yes. Okay, you have a tweet you like? Yes, I do have a recent tweet that I like.

Okay, while I find the tweet that I like, I'm going to give you one of my own tweets, which is, am I having a panic attack or is my bra too tight?

I got tagged in that tweet. Jamie, is that your brand? There it is. They're like wow this is a real crossover look it's very real and then also

this one is very specific for New Yorkers so shout out to the New Yorkers but typical bar name in America Kelly's Pub typical bar name in Bushwick come on everyone

including your lovers and accomplices and if you live in Bushwick you'll get the specificity of that. Why? Are their names just super long? Yo, bars in Bushwick are fucking weird. There's a bar in Bushwick that I could never go into that was like lovers, friends, something

else. And it smelled like body odor. It smelled like body odor in there. I think it is called Lovers and Friends. Yeah. Yeah. And they don't perform there, unfortunately. Really?

Yeah. It smells like B.O. in there. It smells like nobody showering and they're making kombucha just out in the open. But not the kind of kombucha you're attracted to. No, no, no. Not my L.A. kombucha made under the moonlight. New York venues are mostly full sentences, yeah. Yeah.

Right. It was like all the short, kitschy names were gone. It's like the feeling you get. Yeah. Right. Oh, my God. Thank you. One Tuesday afternoon, just warm enough to wear

a tank top. Like, what? It can happen here. Seriously. And then LA restaurants are like, we're dropping the vowels. It's just a pile of confidence. Hey, have you been to RVRXT? They all sound like internet bands now. I don't know. The only bar

in the entire city I have a hookup at is literally the Whole Foods downtown. There you go. That's it. That's a fancy ass bar. I need to cruise for men there. Are there men at the Whole Foods bar? Oh, yes. Go to the one in Burbank.

Oh. That's funny. So, yes, Jamie Loftus. Where can people find you, follow you? Thank you for being here. Hey, thanks. I'll be here all week. Oh, great.

I'm on Twitter at Jamie Loftus help instagram at jamie christ superstar i should probably make them the same at some point but i don't it's too late it's fine uh you can and listen to the bechdel cast comes out every thursday uh and i want to share an apartheid tweet i love every apartheid tweet but this one got me good uh it says love a restaurant with a hotmail address. You know they're focused on the food. Definitely. Yeah. You can find me and follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

We've got a Facebook page. We've got a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post the shows in our footnotes. Footnotes. Thank you so much. And also, the songs you write on it. But we could do that in a second. First, I want to talk about a couple tweets I like. First is from Reductress from a while back.

And when you brought up Jameela Jamil, I was like, oh, interesting. But this one is from Reductress says, help, I said I hate my thighs. And now Jameela Jamil is hunting me. Help, I said I hate my thighs And now Jamila Jamil is hunting me And then one more Comes from Content McNett At Connor McNutt

Oh yeah It says Actually a group of two or more white men Is called my freaking boys So shout out to you for that one Yeah, so anyway Follow me on those places And the song we are going to ride out

On today Is from a band Called Mothers And the song is called Pink Has kind of like A war paint vibe If you know what I mean Love war paint

And this kind of Reminded me of them So this is Mothers Pink Good rock Keep that in your boot Let it tap your toe The weekend's almost here

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