The Daily Zeitgeist - Lord Beer Our Prayer, Exoneration Nation 3.27.19

Episode Date: March 27, 2019

In episode 357, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and scam goddess Laci Mosley to discuss The Sun tabloids coming for A-Rod, Jussie Smollett's charges being dropped, Trump trying to kill Obamacare, a suburb in New York banning unvaccinated children from the public, when to expect the public version of the Mueller Report, Senator Mike Lee trying to take down the Green New Deal, The Craft remake, a man drinking only beer for lent, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Jennifer Lopez’s fiance Alex Rodriguez sexted British Playboy model and begged for threesomes just weeks before he proposed2. Prosecutors dismiss charges against Smollett, draw backlash3. Trump hands Democrats a gift with new effort to kill Obamacare4. New York Suburb to Declare Measles Emergency, Barring Unvaccinated Children From Public5. Amid a Measles Outbreak, an Ultra-Orthodox Nurse Fights Vaccination Fears in Her Community6. Mueller report details to be issued in 'weeks, not months': Justice Department7. If Mueller’s report is great news for Trump, why can’t we see it?8. Here is part of Sen. Mike Lee's floor speech on the #GreenNewDeal 9. There’s one serious proposal in Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-Utah) absurd remarks on climate change. Can you guess which?10. A Remake of The Craft Will Be Spawned 11. Ohio man pledges to subsist entirely on beer for Lent [UPDATED]12. WATCH: Wild Nothing - Through Windows Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 75, Episode 3 of The Daily Zeitgeist, the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Wednesday, March 27, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jack That Whip. It's courtesy of Taylor Fleming, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day, put the pieces back together.

Miles Gray, Miles Gray. Okay, that was so quick. But if you knew what that was, you knew that was Aesop Rock. Aesop Daylight. Okay, produced by Blockhead. With samples by Eric Gale. And thank you to Alex Waterfield at Waffle Blaster for that Aesop, a.k.a. I know people were feeling the other one when I did my show pass.

So I appreciate when people give me the Aesop Rock mentions. Also at Jacob Ibarra, Pickle Pinscher. No, I cannot grow a beard like Aesop Rock. You should see my facial hair. It is a tragedy. Waffle Blaster and Pickle Pinscher. Yeah, yeah. Alright, guys. Shout out the gang. Shout out.

We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the very faces on Mount Zeitborn, a hilarious comedian and performer, Lacey Mosley! Hey! Ew. Ew.

A.K.A. Scam Goddess. Hi, guys. I feel like it's been forever. I know. Too long. Well, last time you were here, I think AKA Scam Goddess Hi guys I feel like it's been forever I know Too long Well last time you were here I think it was when We melted the studio down

When it was you, me, and Jamie Oh lord Jesus Yeah we had The Reddit was lit The whole thing was lit Everything We had to change the locks People were trying to fight us

Over comments over Jack Jack you have loyal fans Yeah Yeah that's right They're like this ain't it I mean I like it But this ain't it. I mean, I like it, but this ain't it. Those are 10 different accounts that I operate on Reddit.

Oh, yeah. I knew something was up. Where's Jack, huh? Yeah, yeah. What's up with Jack? Cheap misspelling, Jack. Y'all, just to set the record straight, the coat that Jack has is the James Purse bonded drill coat. Oh, shit.

I didn't even know that was what it was called. Look at you. I was putting that on deck because we all just knew what it was. I was like, nah. It is the number one question that I get. Yes. Search James Purse. James Purse.

Bonded drill hooded coat. Bonded drill. There it is. It's unavailable at Nordstrom Rack, so y'all slept a little too long on that one. It's like four years old, so that's why I usually don't answer people. Ah, okay. It's probably not around anymore. Yeah, there were like over 100 retweets on that, so I guess they want to know.

They do want to know. I guess it builds up curiosity when I wear the same thing in every picture. All right, Lacey, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners just a couple of things we're talking about today. We're going to talk about the sex rat, A-Rod, which is what a British tabloid called him, sex rat A-Rod, because he was trying to cheat on J-Lo just weeks before their engagement. They have the receipts. We're going to talk about

Jussie Smollett's charges being dropped. We're going to talk about Trump fully trying to kill Obamacare again. The measles outbreak in New York right now that is leading to a ban on unvaccinated children in public. Not just at school,

but you can't leave your house. It goes into effect at midnight. And yeah, you just can at school, but like you can't leave your house. It like goes into effect at midnight. And yeah, you just can't be out in public. We're going to talk about when the actual full Mueller report is coming out and just how that story is being treated right now and all sorts of other things. But first, Lacey, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Something from my search history. I actually just looked into it,

and I can't believe how normal my search history is right now. Wow. Brag. I have a lot of stuff about heart attacks. Oh, no. What happened? Oh, no. I just recently found out that about heart attacks. Oh, no. What happened? Oh, no. I just recently found out that my mother has heart disease.

So then I was like, okay, it's time. I'm going to have a heart attack. Oh, wow. Oh, you just took that on as, okay, so my heart attack is now. Right. Like, it's lit for my heart. Does she have a heart attack? No.

Well, she had to have a stent put in her heart. Yes. So like a blockage. So I got a cardiologist immediately who I'm going to see. I think all of my doctors think that I'm a hypochondriac. I come in like way too informed about this. Right, right, right. I was like, yeah, my blood pressure was like 120 over 80 last time,

which I know is right on the mark, but is it a little too low? And they're like, is it too good? I don't want to just go ahead and diagnose myself with AFib, but I feel like that's what I have. Literally, they're like, get your ass out of here. They're like, oh, I'm sorry. What med school did you go to? I feel like that's why I always get prescribed Xanax. I'm in Florida, girls. Other people want Xanax really badly, but doctors give it to me. And you're the one being like, no, I don't need it. I'm like, no, no, no. I don't want to be on substances. They're like,

you need this. Please, just take it. Just take take it eat it right now in the office that's too i think that's too many doctors in la's solution to dealing with patients right man like growing up i knew so many people who are getting diagnosed are getting prescriptions for xanax for no reason aside from like not having the just ability to just sort of maintain not to say that people don't have like legitimate anxiety issues but i know people who are like, oh, yeah, and I got the Xanax prescription, so you know, like, blah, blah, blah. Right. And it was so easy.

It's crazy. I think it's harder now, I know. Maybe because, like, the little rappers started dying on it. Yeah. But, like, I found when I'm in Texas or I go to a doctor out of state, they prescribed it more freely. Oh, really? Like, more than, like, before I even talked about my anxiety

was, like, writing the script. Yeah, some news outlet made a heat map of like where the highest concentrations of like in terms of doctors were for xanax prescriptions written all the west side really like beverly hills like all along the you know like like sunset corridor yeah santa monica you need it with your pinot grigio yeah Yeah, exactly. That's the level of rich I'm trying to be. It's just like a white lady who drinks Pinot Grigio and has Xanax. And takes a full Z-bar.

On her balcony. Right, yeah. She doesn't want to remember this dinner. Yeah, exactly. You wake up, you've got that weird feeling in your mouth and throat, and then you're like looking at your text like, what happened last night? Right, I hope I didn't do anything bad. What is something you think is underrated?

Underrated, definitely Lupita Nyong'o. She won an Oscar years ago. What? And Us was the first movie that she was a lead in since she won that Oscar. Wow. Yeah, it's crazy. And I was like,

damn y'all, she's so lit. Us is so great. I hope that Dickies is prepared because I'm about to be buying my red jumpsuit for Halloween. I hope Staples is ready because I'm going to be in there getting my gold scissors. And I hope the hospital is ready because we're going to be running around drunk with scissors. Get yourself some childproof ones. Or like little tights ones.

Oh, and then just spray paint them. I was trying to get the full effect. But yeah, you're right. I'd be dead. I mean, if you ran with... I'm getting anxiety thinking of anyone. Can I twerk with scissors? Go ahead.

I just feel like I would stab somebody. I have a feeling there will be a rash of videos come this Halloween season where people are somehow injuring themselves with the Us costume. Yes. And it's so simple. It's just a red jumpsuit. But those scissors, though. When you're partying, you're drunk.

Oh, no. Oh. This is our PSA to you guys. Do you know anybody who ever ran with scissors and, like, fucked themselves up? No. Oh, man. Maybe we all got warned about it enough. Because I feel like that was, like, the number one top warning was, like, don't run with scissors.

Right. Don't eat before you eat in a pool. I had an older cousin who claimed they had a scar from running with scissors, but I don't know if that was that or whatever the fuck we wanted. That was definitely one of the things I feared a proper amount or maybe a little bit too much. Yeah, like swimming, eating before you swim and shit like that. Running with scissors.

Right. I had a pretty good life. Right. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated. What is something I'm tired of hearing about? I actually thought that the Lorena Bobbitt docuseries was overrated. Damn.

I haven't seen it. So Jordan Peele. I love Jordan Peele. So I just, I praised him and I slammed him. I know, exactly. Oh, is that his? Yeah. He produced it, I think.

He produced it. It's like too long for what the story is. She chopped his dick off. We know. I thought everyone knew. Right, but I think most people didn't realize the amount of abuse she was experiencing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I still thought that it was so many parts.

Right, right. For us, very simple, like an episode of Snapped. Or maybe it was just that they interviewed people, and it wasn't like the Fyre Fest where everyone who was interviewed in the documentary was like funny as hell or like ironically stupid it was like they interviewed

a bunch of people who just were so happy to be there and really didn't have nothing to say oh really you know like what I mean by that

is like I don't know they were like the most boring people it was like like they went to the paint store and just

I don't even know how to like describe it's like watching they went to the paint store and just i don't i don't even know how to like describe it's like watching one note yeah because they were all just like it was a penis and then i didn't want to touch the penis so it was like people who like were like emergency services people oh it wasn't like people who like had a view into their life like all these people have swear jars like for sure. Just so dry. We had never even said words like that before on the broadcast. The overall point is that the way the story went down is she was a crazy lady. A lady who just chopped a dude off. What a maniac.

It turns out three years ago. He was abusive and awful. He was abusive and awful. He was abusive and awful. And, like, after she got divorced from him, he, like, tried to kill his next girlfriend. Like, it's just a human monster. And, like, it's still free. Right. Yeah, and then it turned to, yeah, our narrative changed, too.

It was a guy who deserved to have his penis cut off. Right. We were like, more guys should have their penis cut off. Whoa, shit. Yeah. I mean, I think that part, that was interesting. I guess it was just like

the way that they carried it out. It was too long. So you just wanted to be messy. It sounds like, for what you, about like, what the subject matter was, you're like,

I think it could be a little bit messier, a little more dramatic. Right. And it was too, like people were just like, mm-hmm. Yes.

Very matter of fact about it. And because it was like, why are we going to interview six men named John and they all going to tell us the same story? Like, what is this? Too many Johns.

I just think it could have been just a little tastier. Speaking of tastier, I heard his disembodied penis was smaller than people would have expected. Oh, really? Because it wasn't like a big, like I think. A big what? A big what? because it wasn't like a big, like I think.

A big what? A big what? Well, so like, I think I was picturing a dildo in my mind when people were talking about like, and then his dick got cut off and they threw it out the window. But no,

it was like a shriveled up little dick. Jack, you look like a huge dick. You're a homie, yeah. I don't know why I pictured that. The guy's like, Campbell,

Johnson, come over here. I need to handle this. I guess you just never, like, see... We saw the dick from the freeway! It was glow-in-the-dark. Yeah, you just don't ever see a disembodied dick that is, like, small. Flaccid.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Flaccid disembodied dick. Yeah. I don't think I've ever seen... How many disembodied dicks have you seen? Well, just dildos. Oh, right, right, right, right, right. If we were to call dildos disembodied dicks have you seen well just dildos oh right right right right if we were to call dildos disembodied dicks wait what do you guys call them you don't call them

honey get the disembodied dick hi ladies i'm selling disembodied dicks that's what i think that's what they should be called rebrand rebrand ladies vibrating disembodied dicks by lacy uh What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Okay, so there's a new Cleopatra movie that got a lot of buzz on deadline recently, because obviously another white woman will be playing Cleopatra. Cleopatra wasn't black, guys. She wasn't black?

She wasn't. No. And it's something that black people get mad about every time someone does a Cleopatra movie. But like origin wise, like it's like her family was Syrian and Palestinian. Hold on. I like have it. Cleopatra Jones was black. Cleopatra Jones was very black.

Now if they ever do redo Cleopatra Jones, we'll take that. No, so. They redo Cleopatra Jones and cast like Kristen Dunst. Yeah, so it's like Macedonian Greek. Because her family had like moved to Egypt. So she wasn't Egyptian. But every single time that a new Cleopatra movie comes out, like, why would you get mad like Cleopatra was black?

They're like, no. Yeah, she wasn't, guys. Wait, who is, what's the new, I didn't even know there was a new Cleopatra movie black. They're like, no. Yeah, she wasn't, guys. Wait, who was, what's the new, I didn't even know there was a new Cleopatra movie getting buzzed. Yes, sir. And as a historical figure, Cleopatra was famous for, I know this, but I want our audience to be told why she was famous. It was mainly for, why don't you guys explain it to them

No, Jack, you love Egyptian history If I remember correctly Well, of course I mean, she was Cleopatra VII Philopator Uh-huh, go on Now close your eyes when you She's the last active ruler of the

I think I have the wrong one. Of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt? Yeah, that's the one. Note four? Nominally survived as pharaoh by her son. Caesarian? Note five? I mean, I'm saying note five because that's what I believe.

I'm not reading every word I see on Wikipedia right now. This is interesting that the sculptures of her and the drawings of her from the time, she's not a particularly beautiful woman. No, we've made her so much sexier than what she... She looks real plain. Real plain. We have to, yeah, we always have to sexy up our historical figures.

Oh, but it was Angelina Jolie or Lady Gaga that they were throwing around to play Cleopatra. Oh. And Lady Gaga kind of looks like Cleopatra, which I feel like is shady. Just let Lady Gaga run with it. But I think when I picture Cleopatra, I am picturing Elizabeth Taylor with a lot of eye makeup on. That's what I think, yeah. That's the new rebrand.

That's who Cleopatra is now. Elizabeth Taylor. There's so many historical figures that I don't immediately think of the actual person anymore. Like Malcolm X, I immediately think Denzel Washington. And then I'm like, wait, no! No, no, no. That's not him? Yeah. Alright. Let's talk about A-Rod, you guys.

Oh. He was trying to cheat on J-Lo weeks before he proposed to her. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. But, I mean, they have the text messages. That's what they say.

They got the receipts. So he was apparently courting British playmate and glamour model Zoe Gregory, basically to try and get a threesome going, and also sent a little d-pic to her as well and they say this was just weeks before that image where you saw a rod on one knee handing j-lo a three and one half million dollar diamond engagement ring uh now when you look i mean already a rod come on you are with j-lo what the fuck is wrong with honestly why do you Why do you have to go looking anywhere else? I mean, J-Lo loves a philanderer. Yeah. You know what I mean?

That's her type. Really? Yeah. Is that Mark Antony? Speaking of Cleopatra. Cleopatra. Thank you. Bring it back.

Oh, bring it back. Full circle. No, she loves a man who's, I was working late is like their favorite. Yeah. That gets her going. Ooh. She's got a tattoo. She sees this and she's like their favorite. That gets her going. Ooh, she's got a tattoo. And she sees this and she's like,

I was working late and now I have to take a shower before I get in bed. Right. Why? I thought you were just at the office. And I have to put my phone. Yeah, but I was sweating and I'm going to put some cologne on,

so don't worry about it. Literally like J-Lo exclusively dates men who shower with their phones. Right. He's like, and something happened, a whole truck of Clinique Happy spilled in front of me and I think that's why I smell like that.

But when you look at the thing, so he was asking this glamour model, like, yo, do you have any, you know, like, give shorty that can come through? He put, are you still thinking of your three names of fun girls for us? That's what made me think that it's true is that it's just like such a very specific, like, type of wording that like is just like a just like creepy excited schoolboy yeah excited middle-aged bad game guy right and then she hot fun how many times have you been with her you owe me

two things no number one your old 90 videos and number two dates you can fly out maybe next week to SF and then also these screenshots are you using Android mom come on no this is probably like a whatsapp or something you know when you a cheater you never texted from your real phone you use like signal like encrypted messaging exactly you know what i mean uh and then also so then he also sent a what they say a his penis and his muscly thigh photo at least they

called it muscly i know if i ever get the door scandal, I hope they're still giving me compliments. And she sent her sexy titties. On CNN. Beautiful, beautiful sexy titties. Picture of his muscular thigh and beautiful cock. And shriveled dismembered penis. Looks like a weird thumb. And then also Zoe said this of A-Rod.

He said, he was being like a dirty dog. He seemed like a needy, horny bloke. Oh, God. I love British people. A needy, horny bloke. He's proper needy and horny. Yeah, this is, I know old men, like circa 50-year-old, still trying to be a freak text messages. Don't ask me why.

No, I won't. Because you collect them from other people's phones. Yeah, no, for real. My friends be dating all the little old men. That's not a joke. Let me why. No, I won't. Because you collect them from other people's phones. No, for real. My friends be dating all the little old men. That's not a joke. Let me stop. But yeah, so this is the language of that. She hot.

Fun. Fun? What does that mean? Fun is important. He does not want the girl not to be fun. He's just looking for some good clean fun. I would think this was fabricated if it wasn't so corny. Oh, you know what it is? No, actually, I was going to say, maybe he's trying to remove explicit words, so there's

some deniability. But when you say, she hot fun, how many times have you been with her? Right. You can't really cut that up. I don't know. Fuckboy lingo, he could be like, what? We were going to the club. And I was asking how many times has she been out with her, because you know i ain't trying to have no sloppy chicks in the section and that

wasn't about cheating like you could flip this whole okay now tell me this part hold on a rod what about this yeah you owe me two things your old 90 videos and dates you can fly out what about that a rod okay see when i had said dates i was talking about the fruit. You know I like my dates flowing out. Dates you can fly out. Yeah. But also the fact that he's saying dates that's like escort talk

like A-Rod are you out here? Yeah scheduling. Yeah. Purchasing. Also when he's like you're naughty he's like oh naughty

she was a background dancer in Naughty by Nature music videos. That's what I meant by naughty videos. That's right. You know old naughty videos. Old naughty videos. Yeah she was on uh you know jamboree i don't remember that they're in the house very old yeah so yeah we could get out of this we could for sure get out of this

a-rod call us but you know also like the number one uh fuck boy redemption when you're dating like a real bad bitch is like you get caught cheating and then you propose. You know what I mean? So you think she already caught him and that's why he proposed. Yes. We're only hearing about it now because A-Rod's like whatever. That's what happened with Cardi B. They got married after Offset was cheating on her.

They went and got married. The first time. Yeah. That's the fun relationship. Where it's just like up and down crazy up and down twists and turns yeah

when you're just flying blind through the skies you don't even know where this thing's gonna go broken up and then you're married the next day and you're rich too

so this is decadent you know they're probably making out and then burning each other's cars you know it's like a cheat code though when you have all that money because you can fuck up

and then just be like watch me just fucking send a Rolls Royce over to the house like as a I'm sorry kind of thing I guess he does have

Rolls Royce money though I mean he signed that one deal oh yeah that baseball listen yeah he baseball's where it's at they have the longest careers

they don't get injured listen up ladies so yeah A-Rod look if you need help translating those texts hit up the at scam goddess yeah we got you

although in terms of a long term investment I feel like baseball is not going to be popular in like 10 years you think like enough to be a sport

well statistics show that like the viewers aren't like they're not really gaining as many young viewers as other sports are and also like

the amount of African American viewers is dropping off pretty significantly. It has been, like, since the 90s. Right. So they're dealing with, like, a little bit of, like— Since Jordan left? Well, no, I think, yeah. Since Jordan left.

The minors. And, yeah, and I think there's, you know, when you look at other leagues, they're a little more, like, they get who the fan base is and allow the players, like the NBA. They let the players sort of interact in a way where people go, yes, I like this. I'm just saying if you had to date a player from one of the major sports, I feel like baseball, even though Mary, I guess, less injury risk in baseball and they have the big contracts,

but I don't know about for long term if baseball is going to still be a big enough deal. So your forecast on baseball is going to still be a big enough deal. So your forecast on baseball is going low. Because football, we all know, no guarantee CTE might be a murderer. NBA, then Major League Baseball, then NFL. Whereas NFL, their contracts

aren't even guaranteed. NHL, I just don't know enough about. Are they making money? Yeah, if you're doing well, you can make money, yeah. I mean, but it's not the wild money you see in major league baseball. There's no Mike Trout contract type things going on. Right, right.

Because what did he just sign for? Like three, whatever? 400. 400? Yeah, 400 million. And then Manny Machado had another wacky deal in San Diego. What about golf? Golf?

Yeah. I guess you do have to be- But then you get pilled out Tiger Woods. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And also, your career can just completely fall off. Like, with baseball, you sign a contract and you're good for, like, 10 years. True.

With golf, you're gigging. With golf, yeah, you're gigging the whole time. What you won't love is a footballer, you know, to be honest. So, check it out. I don't know what that means. Oh, yeah, we have soccer out. Well, think about, like, Well, think about what Ronaldo's making

at something like 300K a week. Doesn't he have the most Instagram followers on Instagram, period? He does, more than 2K. Oh wait, but Kim K's not even in the top. Yeah, that's true. Ariana Grande has more than Selena Gomez now, and I believe Christian Ronaldo

is the number one on Instagram. Oh yeah, it's Instagram with 269, then Christian Ronaldo, 148, Selena Gomez, 144, Ariana, 138. Wait, Instagram? This is as of January 7th. That's a cheat.

We all follow Instagram because they force us to. Mark Zuckerberg, get your ass out of here. Still had to put him at the top. How many users they have? How many followers? Like, the Instagram account has the most followers on Instagram.

Let me go unfollow Instagram. Do we all follow Instagram? Like Tom from MySpace? Are you opting in? It probably defaults. I don't think I am. That's weird. Did Mark Zuckerberg Tom from MySpace us?

Maybe. His Instagram, all of our first friends. I can't think of somebody I would least like or less want to follow on Instagram than Mark Zuckerberg. Oh shit, they're at 289 right now when I look at Instagrams again. Damn. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist

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So it's interesting. He is treating it as though he has been exonerated. Oh, he's no delusion. No delusion. Just theist for Justice Smollett. He's acting like he's been vindicated by this decision. Right. But the state's attorney is talking about it like

he is not a violent threat and his record of service in the community made it such that we didn't feel like we needed to charge him. And then when you look at the details, so the Illinois state's attorney, Kim Fox, I think is her name, was trying to get the case transferred to the FBI instead of the Chicago PD as a favor, according to sources, to Michelle Obama's former chief of staff, who is a family friend of Jussie Smollett's family. And so then when people found out that the state's attorney was trying to get the case transferred to the FBI. She had to recuse herself. And it went to Joe Magat, who is the assistant state's attorney of Illinois. And he's the one who dropped all the charges.

But it seems like it might still be a situation where he is getting preferential treatment because his family had friends in the right places, it sounds like. But because when it stuck out to me, I was like, my first thing was like, wait, so he did not do this? Right. But I thought the evidence was pointing to that he did, those two Nigerian brothers were people... Yeah, they have like photos

of them at the store buying the hate crime kits. So the facts remain, but I also read a thing where they're saying, well, you know, it's just not worth it to, like, even if he was convicted, it would probably end up being something like community service. Yeah, because it was 16 counts, each one carrying a sentence of maybe two to five years. So they were throwing, like, 64 years at him, and that was egregious. But to completely drop it all, I'm proud of Jesse, honestly.

This is a scam completed. I thought, I didn't think this scam was going to hold up. He had terrible casting. You're doing a hate crime and you got black guys involved. What's this about? Too many hate crime coincidence things. The only thing he didn't have was a burning cross happening. Yeah, MAGA hat with a noose.

The police showed up. He still had the noose on. He also did not calculate the camera angles in front of his house correctly. So there's some shoddy camera work there. None of it was actually captured on film. So, you know, I thought the scam was going to fall apart for sure. And then Jesse came through. He should have used your consulting.

Wow. He really should have. Scam guy was consulting. LLC. Look at him. Yeah. Okay. All right, Jesse.

Well, his family has influence. And the Smolletts, they've been around for a while. And also, he lives in Chicago on a huge television show that's making so much money for that city. So I'm not shocked. The chief of police called it a whitewashing of justice. And I was like, ooh. Yeah. The Chicago. Is the police a whitewashing of justice. And I was like, ooh. Yeah. The Chicago.

Is the police chief white? Yes. Okay. Which is crazy. If it was a black man, though, I'm like, are you throwing light skin shade now? So Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago police superintendent, who I don't think is white, basically called a press conference and were just so upset about this whole thing. That's who it was. He said, whitewash of justice. Oh, Eddie T.

Johnson, who looks like fucking Carl Winslow. Yeah, like Carl Winslow except 30 years on. Yeah. Got that old grizzled police captain look. He's got that Carl Winslow vibe. Yeah. Original Val Johnson. Yeah, yeah. Okay, well

yeah, now just see me now you don't I mean look Chicago PD is terrible especially when it comes to people of color and this might be

our OJ moment yeah we're like yeah he did that shit we all know he did that shit right but we'll take the W but it's

wow it's very difficult because of what it meant for the communities that he was affecting, too. Yeah, and I was really confused because his lawyers were really saying, like, he's always maintained his innocence or whatever. But the word from the attorneys isn't that it actually turns out he's innocent, right? They're just saying we're dropping the charges because we've taken these other things. So basically saying, like, mulligan for you yes

wow okay and he's using this which must be obnoxious for the people who dropped the charges for him to be like yes i told you i was innocent like i said right from the start uh you know and that's not really what the point they were making. It's basically like Trump. Right. Yeah, it's very Trump-y. It's like, he also, they're comparing him to Annalise Keating walking into court. And how to get away with murder. Yep. I mean, God, this was just such a childish, poorly executed job. Yeah.

I know, you're really upset about the scam aspect of it all. It really- Because it was just like, definitely done by an actor and somebody who was like, hmm, what would this look like out of a movie? Like he went and got a magazine and I guess only got one magazine and cut together that threatening letter from

MAGA. Right. And also it had postage on it. So I'm like, someone actually did stamp this and was like, oh, I guess it's returned to MAGA. It's just like a bad message too because I because I think what we at least what I was upset about with him doing that is like you're doing a disservice to people who are actual victims of, you know, real racist attacks. But hey, man, you know, people, if you're if you're connected with Michelle Obama's

former chief of staff, I guess you can get shit done. I've also learned that people who will find any excuse not to believe someone who's a victim are people who were never going to believe anybody anyway because they're just horrible like you know what i mean like people because there's been grisly assaults you know like uh with that stanford swimmer where he was basically in an svu style behind a dumpster assault and people still you know let him walk free so i think that there's just certain people who don't care if people are monsters. And I don't think Jussie's attack is going to change their minds.

And they're the people that we're all concerned about anyway. You know what I mean? Yeah. Let's talk about Obamacare. Because Trump is trying to kill it once again. Oh, God. What the fuck?

Yeah. It's really... So, I mean, I remember... I think this was back around the time of the election, that a Texas judge, like super conservative judge, basically said that it was unconstitutional. Yeah. Well, so, you know, one of the things, you know, the GOP has been hell-bent on just erasing anything that has to do with Obama's legacy when it comes to any kind of legislation.

Is that still what it's about? They're still just like, fuck Obama? What the fuck else? It's nothing else. People like the ACA. You know what I mean? There's no thing. And I see no other reason aside from people being ultra conservative and like thinking of because the pushback even when obamacare was being introduced was they were clearly they just didn't like it

because it was obama and using this thing of like oh it's overreach and like they're trying to tax people although he was trying to take a real sincere attempt at solving a huge issue so last year a group of uh state attorneys general they grouped up and sued texas to basically argue that the aA is totally invalid because it mandates, you know, that there has to be mandatory coverage of pre-existing conditions. And for them, like you said, they luckily got this judge to hear the case, which is like beyond ultra conservative, like a sentient MAGA hat as a judge was the person hearing this case and went for their argument because what

they were trying to argue was because this one aspect of the mandatory coverage for pre-existing conditions, if that is deemed unconstitutional or if that is unconstitutional, then we should be able to negate the entire law of the Affordable Care Act and then completely invalidate it without a replacement at all. And so what is the new development? So now the Department of Justice is basically saying that the DOJ is taking this position like if and when it gets to the Supreme Court. So it's still making its way up to the Supreme Court, but now they're just getting ahead of it and saying, yep, we back this position. That's DOJ's thing. But the people who signed it aren't like any of the career DOJ people. It's a

lot of political appointees at the Justice Department who are signed to this this notice that they are going to be uh caping for this ruling and it's just and I don't know it just blows my fucking mind they get a little bit of a bump from uh William Barr's the Mueller report right and now they're like all right let's get right back into. Let's just fucking gut Obamacare with no replacement because that went really well in the midterms. Right. And still out here trying to say that they are the party that's actually trying to look after people's preexisting conditions. So you think this is them using the political capital, like the political win that they

got? I don't know. But I don't, I feel like this doesn't have any capital though. It's like Jussie Smollett. No one is saying that he's exonerated. No one believes that Trump, from him. I don't know. But I feel like this doesn't have any capital, though. It's like Jussie Smollett. No one is saying that he's exonerated. No one believes that Trump, you know, didn't do anything illegal. Well, I mean, on his side,

they're really taking this to think like, well, we have this little piece of paper that says that that should be enough. Right. But I don't know if they're, I mean, I'm sure having, like, you know, feeling that the Mueller cloud has been lifted, if that's, if you're taking a very narrow view

of the William Barr summary. Right. That they're just trying to move on to new business and whatever their talking points are. And again, they're fucking with people's livelihoods. And the only argument they have is like, oh, you know, the government. Oh, government overreach. Right. It's crazy that Trump is such an egomaniac, but he's spending his entire presidential career

trying to tear down something that someone else did. Like, where's Trump's policy? Yeah. It's all just anti-Obama. The wall. The wall. Right. That's what's incredible about it is that it's just...

Why are you so obsessed with... He doesn't have a plan that he's trying to replace it with. He's just trying to tear it apart. I mean, I guess at some point they'll have to roll out whatever pro-insurance industry plan he has, but I'm not sure what will happen. So a big story that also has to do with health care is a place called Rocklandland county in new york has just announced a ban on unvaccinated children in public like you are not allowed in anywhere like in the grocery store in anywhere in anywhere at the library like they will make you go home if your child is seen out in public uh and you are known to be unvaccinated.

Well, so here's where it gets weird. So apparently like the anti-vaxxer thing has gotten huge in the ultra-Orthodox communities. And so this is one of those situations like that's where a lot of the unvaccinated children are found is in the ultra-Orthodox communities in this town and in Brooklyn. Now, is that like Jewish Orthodox? Yes. Oh, okay. And then those people already dress a certain way. So this is just going to increase profiling on the community.

Yeah. So I could definitely see there being a profiling issue. Wait, yeah. So again, there is no way to actually... Unless they're checking papers on everybody. The only way that they're going to do this is like, oh, you have on stockings and you have curly sideburns. We know you aren't vaccinated. That's crazy.

They're literally going to do papers, please, for your vaccinations? Yeah, exactly. Ooh, this is going to fit well. So I wanted to do research for why it strikes ultra-Orthodox communities in particular. There's this New Yorker article where they interviewed a nurse who is from an ultra-Orthodox community. And she kind of spoke about having to fight the anti-vaxxer movement in the community. And she had a couple of points as to why it strikes her community. She was saying that there's multi-generational trauma from having been experimented on the Holocaust and having

gotten either no medical care or poor medical care when they lived in Eastern European countries back in the Staddle times. And then there's a lot of suspicion of government and whether they care about them as people. And then the other thing she said is that the average number of children per family in America is 1.8. And in ultra-Orthodox communities, it's 8 per family. And so you are just seeing a lot more children. And so you see a lot more of everything. You see more autism. You see more illness and things like that.

And so because you have more incidences of these things that people claim are being caused by vaccinations, it's easier for them to take off. Confirmation bias. Right, confirmation bias. Yeah, and then then you reach a critical mass of unvaccinated people and then your herd immunity is out the window and then boom yeah there's another measles outbreak in 2019 in the united states of america yikes i mean i am so strongly against anti-vaxxers um because this is just like good that's your that's your stance

okay we just have so many problems like why are we so many problems. Like, why are we going to get on some old ones? But in my head, I think of the anti-vaxxer. I think of Oliver Twist with a little cane. Like a little kid with a cane. Tiny Tim or something. Or Tiny Tim. Like a little kid with a cane. That's what I think of.

But I just think that this is very... It mirrors the... I don't like it. Wait, what? The profiling that they're doing against these people. I don't know how... It feels a little anti-Semitic and I don't like it. Wait, what? The profiling that they're doing against these people. I don't know how. It feels a little anti-Semitic and I don't like it.

Yeah, I guess it's unfortunate because this is the community that it's happening. But how can you tell? I don't even know how you would do it even in a city like L.A. Right. How could you know a person who's unvaccinated versus one that is? Right. We would have to just start carrying paperwork and then people could forge that. I'm sure.

But as a concerned parent, if you do know your child is not vaccinated and there is a fucking measles outbreak where you live, you're probably going to be like, we don't need to fuck around and find out. Yeah, exactly. So I guess in that sense, it'll happen. But yeah, just get vaccinated. I mean, it's everything so easy. Yeah. And yeah. And also for parents who have their kids vaccinated, they're like, this is fucking me up. You have your right to do what you want as a parent, but you don't have the right to make my child sick because you don't want to vaccinate your child either. And especially, oh my God, can you imagine dying of an old-timey disease? Like getting polio or some shit? They would roast you at the funeral. Right.

The funeral can't even be somber. Right, right. It's just got gotta be a rose fest got a typhoid like fucking oregon trail it's just miles who shows up to your funeral and roasts your anyway i don't know if you saw you have died of dysentery oh sorry lacy you have died of broken leg like i gotta be buried in a pine box then like i want to keep it old school theme at that point. They're like hammering the lid onto it. Yeah, like, my husband got to die with me.

Oh, shit. And then just in terms of, I think everybody's waiting to kind of find out what the details are on the Mueller report that we didn't get from Barr's summary of it. William Barr's The Mueller Report. Right. And, you know, I think Mitch McConnell recently blocked a motion for Congress to agree that we should get the whole thing released at some point. And now the Department of Justice is saying that a version of the report will be released in weeks, not months.

So that's promising. Okay. Yeah, I mean, there's all kinds of rumors swirling around. I think there was a report that the FBI is going to actually brief the Gang of Eight about what Robert Mueller actually found in terms of his counterintelligence investigation. So yeah, that'll be interesting. I'm sure those people will learn a lot.

And I'm sure Democrats will look at their colleagues on the right and be like, did you just hear that? Did you hear what Robert Mueller found? Did you hear that? That's not a lie. But I don't know. Again, we don't know. That's the thing.

And I just have to say, despite all of this, we just don't know what's in that report. Right. So how can we even speculate? I've just won. I will speculate wildly. I just want an explanation for why they made Russia-friendly changes

to the GOP platform during the- Jack, we just don't know. RNC. You know? There's a lot we just don't know. Just give me a good, innocent explanation for that. Yeah.

And I mean, look, I think there's a lot. And why everybody was lying so much. There's a lot of valid points. I mean, when you look at sort of the details of the movement of Russian oligarchs who are deeply tied to the Kremlin and Russian intelligence, their movements in and out of the United States coinciding with certain policy platform changes and discussions about sanctions. I mean, I think there's a lot there to look and just basically say that we just don't know what happened. We still don't know. Yeah. And again, you know, I joke like we don't know, but I have a feeling that the GOP knows something because like you're saying, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, who tried to basically get a non-binding measure

voted on, basically saying that Congress as a whole says, please make the report public. Like you said, McConnell's batting that down and saying like, no, no, no, we don't need that. Then you have a lot of other people who are just real iffy about finding out what's in the real report. They're just all like, no, this is fine. Our best friend who reviewed our improv show.

We love their review. And that's the only review you need to know. You don't see the show. Just trust my friend who was there. Totally non-biased actual assessment of what the show was like. So it's not going to get better for them than Barr's summary of the report. No. And it's just weird.

Like, again, if you're out here see walking all over the grave of the Mueller report acting like, oh, fully exonerated. Well, then let's see that. Right. Because wouldn't you want to just rub your enemy's face in the fucking receipts all fucking day? All those innocent details. It's like just get good. They're trying to get that file sealed up. Yeah.

But then what? Exactly. And then what are they going to do then? And that's why I'm like, ooh. And that's how you know they know something is a little shitty about it right because if you're if really the truth is on your side that's the first thing you want i mean that is exactly like the jesse thing and that's what the police superintendent in chicago was saying because jesse smallett his lawyers had all the details sealed and right and the police superintendent was like yo if you if you're innocent, why are you

getting it? Why can't we see? Interesting. It's weird. You won't pull up with that same energy. And everyone's response to it is just kind of like the Mueller report where it's like, okay, well. Right. What is this supposed to mean? Like, you still

did it. We all know you did it. Like when the shade room posted on Instagram and was like, oh, no collusion, no collusion, no collusion in the comments. I was like, y'all be shit. Oh, my goodness. But where there's smoke, there's fire. And we all know. Yeah. And where there's smoke, there's miles.

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issue very seriously uh mike lee came to uh the floor of congress to just troll the fuck out of anybody who was paying even a little bit of attention. I mean, Mike Lee is actually the, like the antithesis of Spike Lee. Right. Just think of that. When I heard Mike Lee, I was like, Mike Lee from Utah,

Spike Lee from Brooklyn. I think, you know, they were going to basically take a vote on the green new deal. And so there was a lot of debate going on and Mike Lee, it's just, the Republicans have been doing this like weird shit of like really lame ass like not even trolling like y'all are politicians in the fucking capital

and you're doing weird slideshow shit so i mean just to set these clips up he ran the gamut of trying to take down the new deal with memes and shit. And I think basically his idea was, I mean, the Green New Deal is so absurd. I'm just like, what use is it for me to actually use real arguments? I'm just going to use my own absurd arguments to just counter this absurd thing. I mean, I guess that's what he was doing. It was very confusing. It just seemed like he was trying to be funny. Yeah.

Well, that too, of course. I mean, they're all comedians. Look, they're trying to get some clout, okay? Ocasio-Cortez got everybody shook. They're like, she's famous. They're like, we want to be famous too. Yeah, I bet that is partially it. They're jealous of all the...

All the attention. They're like, all right, I'm going to put these memes out and then the young kids are going to... With her, right. Well, that's what kids are doing, right? They're memeing, right? They're like, oh, call her out on your mixtape. Right, yeah, exactly.

So how to respond, but you already have that response preloadloaded so he was he went to the floor and had like these it would remind you of like a trial like exhibit a yeah he would have like a you know poster board with like a big photograph on it that uh put up behind him yeah and the poor intern like is switching like the posters out on the easel, like, okay, here's the one of the Tauntaun from Empire Strikes Back. So here's a quick highlight tape of just some of the things

that he said out loud on the Senate floor. This is, of course, a picture of former President Ronald Reagan naturally firing a machine gun while riding on the back of a dinosaur. Tauntauns, Mr. President. Huh.

This is a beloved species of reptile mammals, native to the ice planet of Hoth. And a massive fleet of giant, highly trained seahorses would be cool. It would be really, really awesome. And sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads. Every cow I spoke to said the same thing. Freaking lasers. Boom.

Okay. Oh, my God. So he actually had, like, that weird-ass poster of, like, ripped Reagan riding a Velociraptor, like, squeezing a Uzi off with a rocket launcher on his back. Luke Skywalker in Empire Strikes Back. Yeah, we're gobsmacked. I don't know how, but they were all kind of coming back

to some weird, lame climate change trope of sort of like, yeah, and it could get cold, like Hoth. We're this, like, mm-hmm, thanks. Then he really brings it home, though, when he makes it very real for us and the people of Utah. Utah's Ike gang, my heart goes out to you because this tragedy that he actually calls out, I'm just, please listen.

And then he offers a solution. What this whole meandering thing was about, he tells us what the solution is. For it was only in 2016, as viewers of the SyFy network will well remember, when climate change hit home in Utah, when our own state was struck, not simply by a tornado

Mr. President but by a tornado with sharks in it cool timely, these images are from the indisputable Yeah, sharknado for documentary solution to climate change won't be found in political posturing or virtue signaling like this It won't be found in the federal government at all. They just, like, don't know how comedy works. You know where the solution can be found, Mr. President? In churches, in wedding chapels, in maternity wards across the country and around the world.

For climate change? Mr. President, this is the real solution to climate change. It's like an Anne Getty's babies photo. It's like a bunch of multicultural babies. What? This is the solution, a bunch of young-ass little babies. And the idea is? Is that if the human race can flourish and proliferate and cause more consumption,

his whole thing is more people, more ideas, more solutions. Right. So not the ones that people are offering right now? That's definitely true. The more liberal societies have become and the more they've accepted ideas from not just white men, the better our ideas and access to science has gotten. But that doesn't seem like that's what he's getting at.

It seems like he's just saying we should's what he's getting at. No. It seems like he's just saying we should fuck more and go to church. Right. And there's even a statistic that even actually takes down his claim of like, oh, but more kids equals more solutions. Well, there are actual statistics that show if people even have one less children, that is more friendly to the earth or helps carbon emissions, the climate, more than if 684 teenagers committed to recycling every bit of recyclable material 100% for the rest of their life. Wow.

Hold that, Mike Lee. But if we don't have kids, then only assholes like that are going to have kids. Yeah, I'm not. Our country is going to all be the worst. Shout out to all my kids in the world. John's competitively having children just to balance everything out.

Seriously. But the other thing is, though, like, this is, they're not even trying anymore. Yeah, this is insane. Like, at least act like

this is a real discussion because if you're, if you're going to be taken seriously, I mean, not that Republicans can be really taken seriously as a party anymore,

but like, if you're going to do that, offer something up that, what is your solution then? If you don't like the Green New Deal, then tell us something. What's your vision of the future where you can actually fight climate change or do right by the environment? Because all of the evidence is in front of us. Yeah, and that's starting to be a thread within the Republican Party is this destruction, like this destructive nature of like, well, we don't believe your ideas are good but we have no ideas so we're going to base everything that we do on anti and on hate and there's no solutions from their side and it's like this is like wildly unprofessional we are

paying him wildly unprofessional bro he just gave me i you know i was always kind of like i love politics and i was class president. Shit, that's enough. I'm ready for office. There you go. After I get my money and the TVs and the films, bitch, I'm going to be all up and through. There you go. And now I understand those black interns at the Republican Party. Y'all probably ain't got to do shit, huh?

Y'all over there just eating hot Cheetos. And they're like, what's the most litty meme right now? Right. That was your job. That was some intern's job. Because you know he probably didn't even find those memes. He probably thought, I'll give him credit, I think he thought up the Tauntaun one. Right.

From Hoth. I think Empire Strikes Back is in his lane. The really annoying thing about this is that when people object to this, he's going to be like, they just don't get it. Or like, we're outraging the libs. Yeah. He's just a fucking meme lord. Because they're just like too real for us. But the problem is, you know, they're treating climate change like a fucking game.

Right. Where it's like, ah, they want to fucking freak out. And then we'll be like, doing the fucking weird SpongeBob meme. Like, oh, climate change is a fucking concern, dabs. But please, just, you know, I'm sorry, conservatives. This shit is going to come to your doorstep, too. Yeah. That's why, literally, just get people to register right now.

If you don't believe in climate change, so we have everybody on record. So when it comes, y'all can fight the climate change. Listen. You can live on the fucking doorstep of that shit. When Miami's underwater, y'all got it. Y'all getting them gondolas. Turn up. You can be Mr. 305 worldwide underwater.

Yo, that's a good idea. We just get people to sign it. On what? Has anybody done that? And then you're signing your lineage? That's what I'm saying. Oh, wait. Because if you're that confident, then put your life on it.

Pull up. At worst, then I look stupid. Right. At best, my family's safe. While you can meme it up with all the fucking terrible storms and shit. Right. I mean, yeah. It would be like actual scientific survivalism.

Instead of thinking that Jesus was coming down to kill us all. Well, Jesus knows who's on his side when he comes back. Right. But when climate change comes, we're going to have to let the earth know. down to kill us all. Well, Jesus knows who's on his side when he comes back. Right. But when climate change comes, we're going to have to let the earth know. I hope Jesus comes back in my lifetime. Oh, okay. I'm not trying to die and then everybody else be a laugh.

Oh, if I'm going, everybody's going. Everybody got to go. Because your FOMO is that bad? It is. Well, they are rebooting The Craft. Yeah. If you want to lighten it up a little bit. Please, let's lighten it up. Let's lighten it up. Did you like rebooting The Craft. Yeah. Lighten it up a little bit. Please, let's lighten it up. Let's lighten it up.

Did you like the movie The Craft? I love Rachel True. Yeah. I love the movie The Craft. Rachel True actually was on, I follow her on Twitter, and you know she hasn't aged a day. I know. She's young as hell. Molly Lambert just posted a picture with her, and I was like, it's Rachel?

I think she figured out some real rich crap when they did that movie. And she was like, yeah, she still looks like half baked Rachel, but she was talking about how when they do conventions and stuff, like they would invite all the other girls and they wouldn't invite her. Are you serious? Yes.

No. Yes. So I just hope if they're going to reboot the craft that they like do it right. And they don't disregard my black. So it's really like when, uh, when Christine Taylor's like, I don't like negroids. Remember when she says that to Rachel? That fucked me up as a kid.

I was like, you fucking asshole. And then her hair came out. I was like, yeah, fucking right. Yeah, I was like, it's lit. It's lit. I don't know what to do with my hair. That's right. You shouldn't have been racist.

Got hit with that black magic. Right. Everybody else's magic was regular, but Rachel's was black. Rachel, yeah, because she came for your wig. She did. She sensed your wig, sis. But okay, so they're rebooting the craft. I'm not against this.

The craft is like so hot. I love the movie. Yo, and Farooza Balk, I love. She freaked the shit out of me in that movie. I just don't know how you make that movie without Farooza Balk. Yeah, right? If she need, who is this generation's Farooza Balk? Natasha Lyonne?

Oh. No. No, Natasha Lyonne's kind of like, you know. Oh, she's like, yeah, you're right. She's like a Brooklyn uncle. Farooza Balk looks like a spell. Right. She looks like, you know, her eyes look,

she looks hella evil. Piercing blue eyes. Anyway, so what they, originally they were saying there was going to be a reboot where the shit took place like 20 years from,

I think, the original film. And they scrapped that. Now they're just calling it a full-on remake. That's, it's about, now read this snippet.

Tell me if it sounds familiar. When starting at a new school, Hannah befriends Tabby, Lourdes, and Frankie and quickly becomes the fourth member of their clique, capital C. Hannah soon learns that she somehow brings great power to the quartet.

Okay. So it sounds like the craft. Again, which it should. Was the original one the one with stiff as a feather? Letters of Feather, Stiff as a Board. Yeah, Letters of Feather, Stiff as a Board. And man, so many people in my school were doing that shit. I don't know if you ever, this wasiff as a Board. And man, so many people in my school were doing that shit.

I don't know if you ever, this was like one of those rumors that you heard when you were in middle school where there would be a sleepover where the girls would have a sleepover and then on Monday, we did it at Amanda's house

and Ariel came off the fucking floor. She floated. Yeah. And I was like, okay. No dude, that legit happened. Yeah,

and then everyone was saying it and I was like, what the fuck? We used to do the Ouija board and I would would always lead it, and I would just be saying whatever I want with it. Oh, wow. And you were like, did you go in there with an agenda? Be like, I'm going to fuck your whole mind up.

Why don't you ask something? Pay. Pay Lacey her goddamn money. That's what your grandma had said. Your dead granny told me to run me my checks. Empty your fucking wallet now. Oh my God, guys. Just put all your money in the middle of the room.

I know. Your grandma's freaking me out. She's freaking me out. I'm not fucking with the underworld. Everyone do it. No, it also kind of sounds like Mean Girls. That description that she just gave. Yeah.

But did she did? She didn't bring power to that group. She didn't have actual powers, but she was popular. She had the power of popularity. I guess, Yeah. But did she, she didn't bring power to that girl. She didn't have like actual powers, but she was popular. She had the power of popularity. I guess, yeah, she did.

And I guess his mean girl is just a weird craft. I don't know. And his craft's just a weird blah, blah, blah. I mean, we can go back in time. Seriously. I don't know though.

If they're remaking it, are they remaking it in the 90s? Because I was so sexy about the craft is that it was like, you know, everyone's in those

schoolgirls outfits. I think it's going to be modernized. Because you want to bring it about the craft is that it was like you know everyone's in those school girls outfits. I think it's going to be modernized because you want to bring it to the you know the craft for the new generation. Then we got to do light as a feather on the app. Yeah right nah they're going to have to kick it old school right and then it's going to be like

the woman who was like in the magic shop from the first film will probably just be someone like our age where they're like oh that person was 30 well conservatives were like very freaked out about witchcraft fairly recently. I think there were some stories about a witch coven

casting spells against Brett Kavanaugh. Yeah, putting a hex on him. People were worried about that for real. Yeah, you should worry about that. Yeah, it's still out here. These women are still out here doing their dark magic. And they will summon Manon. Shout out to the brew house.

Please take my scars. Take my scars, Manon. Remember Nev Campbell? Her back was all jacked up. She always had clothes on, so you never even saw her back. I thought her problem was less important than everyone else. But not when everyone's not doing the pool.

You know what I mean? Okay, okay. So that was her struggle, okay? I think she was burned or whatever. Yeah. All right, guys. And finally, do you guys ever give anything up for Lent? Not since I was in elementary school.

Okay. When I was going to like Lutheran school and they were like, everyone's got to give something up for Lent. And I'm like, but I don't know if I'm Christian. They're like, everyone's got to give something up for Lent. I'm like, but I don't know if I'm Christian. They're like, everybody's got to give something up for Lent. What are you giving up? Put this ash on your head and give something up. No, I mean, I used to. Actually, you know, I did

in high school too because I wanted to get into college. I was like, God, I'll give up weed for Lent. I know I'm coming back in my time of need. I'm doing it very conveniently. But please show me you're real. Right.

Yeah, because the way I grew up with religion, I thought prayer was just asking stuff for free. Right. Asking for stuff for free. Yeah. I think everyone knows what prayer is. Isn't that? Yeah. I mean, I was like, I'm sure I've told this story before.

I really wanted a video game system and I didn't get one. So I was like, I think I'm good on this. But yeah, I do not. You were just praying for a console. Yeah, I was like, give me Super Nintendo with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Turtles in Time. Amen. And I got Mario Paint later on. Do you give anything up?

Have you given anything up? I mean, it's a great excuse to diet. You know, give up bread, give up, you know, and then it's like a fun way to tell people

that you're doing it. Like if you fast from alcohol, like everyone's always like, oh, you have a problem. But if it's lit, you can be like, oh,

I'm fasting from alcohol. Gave it up for lit. I did that two years in a row before I actually gave it up. I'm giving it up for salvation actually. That's why I'm doing it. For life. this dude is doing the opposite of that it seems like the complete opposite yeah a man in ohio dell hall yeah dell hall shout out your dude you're getting a dell

uh he is basically saying i'm giving up all food and i'm just drinking beer for lent and look he's saying like look I'm going to a doctor. I'm very active. I've done a lot of my life. I'm like ready to do this. I will be drinking water. I'm ready to do this. He's like, it's going to be a challenge.

Well, his inspiration apparently was like there were German monks who would drink like a box style beer for what they viewed as a liquid bread during Lent. Bruh, this is taking alcoholism to just the highest level. No, and like these monks, I think we're looking for loopholes to try and figure out like, how do I like still, you know, turn it up? Turn it up. Right, right. Like we're not really talking.

We're wearing these orange robes. Hey, look, we're monks. We devoted our lives to God. Monks are just always drunk. Right. But even then, you know, I don't know if the monks were just straight up drinking nothing but beer. I think they were just being like,

hi, we found an argument to drink beer. But he is doing it the whole way in. And that was so what? It's been a few days now. Update, as of March 25th, he has lost over 25 pounds.

Bro, what? I thought beer was making people fat. Well, if you don't eat anything else. Yo, ladies, let's get on this beer. No, that's dangerous. Guys, this is my new diet plan.

Yeah, this started by Lacey. Diet's by Lacey. Get on my Instagram, y'all, and buy my cases of beers. I'm just imagining, you should definitely look at a picture of him before you decide to follow that diet because I'm sure he looks like the dude who the

bugs take over in Men in Black. Edgar? That was his name, Vincent D'Onofrio's character, not Edgar Montpelier. He lost over 25 pounds and probably has a big goiter on his neck. This is wild. And he's getting with a

health professional to do this. What kind of beer is he drinking? This is a box style beer. Is it like a home brewed type thing? He works for a brewery. Got it. Which one? Who's sponsoring this? Whatever brewery he works for, because that's who's basically behind this.

Okay. Saying that, you know, look, that's what we do. Right. We do the beer. But don't you need nutritious things? It's nutritious up in beers. It's taps. Aren't you going to-

Body? Yeah, like where are your fucking vitamins going to fall out? This is like what sailors used to do is you would cross the ocean and only have beer and then your teeth would fall out and you'd get scurvy, but then you'd start eating your shoes and shit. Yeah. What is he doing? It's funny because in the article I was reading, the person who wrote the article was even

like on the takeout was, they're like, as I read this, I started Googling how long for scurvy. Yeah. Because that was their first thing too. And if you look on Google, how long for scurvy, it takes a while. It can be four weeks. It all depends, I think, but it can hit you in four weeks. Is he allowing himself like some orange wedges with his like blue moon?

Right. you in four weeks. Is he allowing himself some orange wedges with his blue moon? Then I hope someone catches him because that's not what you agreed to, Del Hall. Come on, Del. It's bullshit, man. I do love when people get real scientific about their alcoholism though. Like, no, see, I'm connecting this to a historical research project I'm doing

where I get to drink and just be drunk the whole time. Also for God. Aren't you just fucked up the whole day? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, unless he's really just being like, I need calories. So he drinks like two beers, but then it's still on an empty stomach. Right.

Drinking two beers on the emptiest of stomachs, like I'm sure is not great. The acid reflux. Is he vlogging? Yeah. Can he go live on Instagram? I just want to see him for like five minutes. I just want to see what he looks like. You know, dude, it's all fucking good because it's day 25, dog. And fucking Jesus, he visited me.

And he's just like, dude, Del, you're doing the right thing. And I'm doing the right thing. And it's going to be fine, dude. And the doctor's like, oh, you're too far out. It's not falling out. You know? Falling in. Del Ismael.

Yeah. This is his alias. Doctor's like, you know, you should really think about your health. You get scrimmed. I'm like, oh, fuck you, doc. Oh, fuck you, man. I fuck you. Lacey, it's been a pleasure having you, as always.

Where can people find you? Ooh, people can find me on the internets, on Al Gore's internet. Big fan. I'm a big fan of Al Gore. You keep preaching that climate change, Al. You can find me at Diva Laci, D-I-V-A-L-A-C-I, on all platforms. And guys, the first episode of my podcast, Scam Goddess, will be out April 8th on Earwolf Presents. So follow me and I will tweet it out to you guys. All right.

All right. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yes. There's several tweets that I've been enjoying. I'm locked and loaded. Okay. One is, my old high school classmates are so fucking pathetic and stupid. Can you imagine being so boring that you drive your car home from your job to make tacos with the love of your life on marble countertops in a home you own?

I have an improv show at 1 a.m. It really hurt me. It was just like a little too personal. And then this one's fun, too. A huge red flag for me is when a date doesn't find me funny. It demonstrates that there is perhaps a cultural gap that is simply too far to bridge. I am the funniest person I have ever met. I regularly walk into traffic because I'm overcome with laughter thinking of me.

That's amazing. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. A tweet I like is from Zach Dunn at zach b dunn and so it says in parentheses person visiting la hey i'm in la would love to meet up my hotel is about an hour south of san diego so it should be convenient for you to pick me up i got us reservations at this restaurant in portland people are so man i just suppose la shit people just have no idea how big this fucking city is and they're People are so Man I just The most LA shit People just have no idea

How big this fucking city is And they're like Oh I'm in LA man I'm like where you at They're like Seal Beach I'm like The fuck you are

Like nah bro I'm like I'm sorry man I won't be seeing you Hey if you wanna hop in A $70 Uber I'm willing to meet you Halfway Alright

A couple tweets I've been enjoying Rob Delaney tweeted I hate people who are like so and so got me sick what are you fucking Columbo the epidemiologist the world's a toilet you got yourself sick fuck off and stop blaming others for your filth damn and then Joe Kasabian responded to a picture of Joe Rogan on InfoWars, and he wrote, Have you ever wanted to impose fascism on DMT, bro? Shit.

Yeah. And then there's an amazing video of Pope Francis. People keep coming up and trying to kiss his ring, which is a thing I guess people do to popes, but he doesn't want them to, and so he's like... Oh, pulling the ring back? Yeah, pulling the ring back. Super cut? Yeah, he's like... Oh, pulling the ring back? Yeah, pulling the ring back.

Super cut? Yeah, it's amazing. Oh, dude, Pope Savage Moans? Sav Moans from the Pope. Yeah, dude, Pope Sav Moans. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what's that going to be today? Oh, wow. Let's do a track from Wild Nothing again

because it seems like some of y'all like Wild Nothing that I want to play another track. This one is called Through Windows. Because that's what we do in LA. Just looking at life through windows. In the car windows. Just cut off from everyone else. On our way down to an hour south of San Diego

to pick somebody up who came to visit. So enjoy this one. Alright, we're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to you then. Bye-bye. Bye. Bye.

Bye. Simple life. A flag in the ground. Taking this home. And making it ours. Life through windows The highway sings goodnight It's selfishly I

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