The Daily Zeitgeist - Make America Go Away! Triangle Of Death Face 08.14.25

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

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I'm always curious, like, anecdotally, everyone says Vegas is not, it's, look, it's, people are not going to Vegas as much anymore. Is that true? I feel like the tourism is down. People are broke, and a lot of the foreigners that normally become are not going to risk getting detained at the airport. That is so crazy. They're not coming. Like, the hotels are giving out discounts and free parking and local stuff. staycation, come stay here for $20.

I'm like, okay. Yeah. For real? Some of the rooms are like 30 bucks downtown. What, like Excalibur or something shit? That's literally what I was going to say. That's the one we used to go to when I was in. Yeah, that's the one I would like, if I needed to get fucked up for cheap, I was going

to excel or. It might still be there, but they used to, they're charging like parking fees and stuff, but some of those places are like, you can park for free here now, please come. Yeah, just park and enjoy the strip and just leave the car here. We don't care. Yeah, yeah, please. It's bad, which is kind of a bummer. because I like to get free drinks from tourists.

And if I'm not here, I got to pay you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Gross. Yeah, Victor, yeah. Zygang trip to Vegas? Maybe, man. Yeah, it'll be cheap. Yeah, exactly.

Come while it's still hot so we can get bottle service at the pool. There we go. Yeah. Oh, my God. And I can get some kind of terrible eye infection if I submerge my head in the water. Don't get in the water, Miles. You're going to get, like, baby bottle service for your baby. Right.

You have a baby? Oh, God. Yeah, yeah. He can't come. He's cool, though. He's cool, though. He can handle his own. I just leave him outside.

No, he good. Yeah. I just put him in a Waymo with an iPad. Hell yeah. I just said, hey, just spend the block a couple times. This is an I-Heart podcast. I'm Bob Crawford. offered host of American History Hotline, a different type of podcast.

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Whatever. Anyway, it's Thursday, August 14th, 2025. You say, hey, what day is that? Well, let me tell you. August 14th is National Navajo, Colorado. Code Talker's Day, although I'm sure President Trump will probably try and erase that from the history books. I know he's definitely tried. It's also National Creamsicle Day.

Two things that I enjoy thoroughly. Code talking, cream sickly eating. There it is. My name is Miles Gray, aka. Sweetie's jeans are not eugenic. She's just a girl of white blonde and blue-eyed one. She's also a Republican. No, no, no.

Okay, shout out to Snarkyla on the Discord. But yeah, she says it's not about eugenics, but tell that to the young people who say, I'm good on the American Eagle jeans. Like, sorry, also the outfit looked bad on her in the commercial. Did not do a great job selling the product, but that's okay because I am joined by my guest co-host. You already know. You know facial recognition comedy show, the monthly show? You should, okay?

Do you know their writing skills? Do you know their comedic stylings? Do you know their brain for science? Okay. Do you know them enlightening me on nudity? within a South Asian household, South Indian households, well, maybe if you heard the cold open,

maybe it made it in, maybe it didn't. Either way, please welcome to the microphone, Paula Vigandala! I think it's really great when you have to be like this ad is not about eugenics.

You know what I mean? You're like, McDonald's. Having your way, this is not about eugenics, guys. I'm loving it. Not race mixing. You're like, I know.

What was that underneath? What the fuck was that? I'm loving it. Racing. I'm marrying my own kind. Anyway, Pollybee, great to see you. Thank you for joining me again. I'm always glad, look, you know, I told you to the guest,

so he said, oh, I need to holler at my girl. And I was like, wait, you guys know each other? Oh, yeah. Of course you do because you're hilariously talented people and your stand-up comedians. And of course, your paths would intersect. Obviously, not surprising to me now at this point. But hey, we have our guests here today. We're welcoming her back.

We had such a good time with her the last time she was on. She's six foot three in the place to be, okay? She also has a new, or I guess her special came out in May, I believe, because that's when I watched it last, called Highly Intelligent. You've got to check out the special. It's fantastic. We only have fantastic comedians on. And this guest is no exception.

Please welcome to the microphone, the brilliant and talented. Shout to Christmas! Woo! Whoa! Whoa! There you are. Hey, you know what? Can I just complain?

for a second. It's my favorite thing. Yeah, please. My special's been out since May. It was really well. And then I released my album through a distributor. And when they released the album on the internet, it started copyrighting my video. What?

So now the views on my video have literally stalled because when I post something, it goes, this matches the album. And so I have to ask them for permission to play my own thing. That's so crazy. It's been a very sad state of affairs because I was getting over 1,000 views a day, and then just stopped at like 8,000 for two weeks.

It was just sitting there and sitting there. Oh, because the algorithms were snitching on your own material. YouTube was like, if it keeps getting copyrighted, something must be wrong with this video. We're going to stop recommending it to people. And it just dropped off a cliff. Damn. Well, Zygang, if you haven't. I mean, in that way, you've been Beyonceed yourself.

So that's kind of beautiful. You know, is it? You know, yeah. Is it the same thing? I'm like, I could probably be in like half a million views by now. Oh, okay. Do I have people foregoing rent payments to see me? Man, no.

No, not playing. I wish. They won't even come to my shows. They're like, $15. I'm like, if you don't get the out of my face. Two drink, minimum. Just show up drunk and get like a soda or something. We got to start doing outfit changes.

We got to get some twins to dance for us. Oh, God. I got to pay them people. Oh, yeah. That's true. That's true. I mean, listen, do you have any twins in your family that you could ask for a favor? No.

Yeah. You guys like little TikTok dances? Come on stage for your auntie. How you been, Shauna? How's, how's Vegas? How's the heat over there? It's fine. I think it's 114 the day.

Oh, okay. Normal, normal. That's not human. I can't. Why do we survive in those conditions? It's like special bacteria can live there. You know, it's funny. Like, we have mosquitoes now.

And I'm like, how? Oh, yeah. When did we start? California has, like, new mosquitoes, like a new strain of bad mosquitoes. But I thought it was too hot for mosquitoes. Wait, we have new mosquitoes? Yeah, we got new mosquitoes in last few years. I think, like, recently, we got new weird mosquitoes that spread shit around and bite our ankles and stuff.

No, wait, wait. You're talking about 80s Egypti? Wait, I don't know. Bless you. Because that's the one that came over, that's like many years, like, in the last 10, 15 years. And it's been fucking everybody up. Oh, I thought it was like the last four or five years. Whatever.

I mean. Didn't they say that Bill Gates was released in some during? COVID. There was like some 20, 21 ones that they got released to do something. I don't know. Bill Gates did it. Yeah, Bill, look, we can blame him for everything. We can blame him for creepy. And then drinks shit water. No, but there's 80s egypti. They're like, I'm pretty sure they're the ones that you're talking about. They bite you. They're like the ones you can't see because they're just hitting you on the ankles and not really like in your face. And they also, they're like year round. It's fucking, it's a nightmare. I get bit by mosquitoes all the time. That's why I'm like, what do you mean? There's a new one. And I'm

calling out like, I'm using, yeah, I'm using Bob? Bob, is that you? No, that's why I had to hit you with the binomial nomenclature right there. Like, he needs a gypti? Wow, big words. Hey, you know, I wasn't that high in biology and science in high school.

I remember that one. Do you guys, no, like, when people are like, oh, you get bit by mosquito, you got, you got sweet blood. You got sweet, your blood is sweet. I'm like, okay, fucking Dracula. What the fuck are you talking about? And I'm like, I'm also like one of the meanest people. So that's a lie.

Do you get bit up too? Wait, Shauna, you get bit also? Oh, God. I get it. And then I swell. Oh, that's the worst. It's like this big. And they like, yeah, it's horrible. I don't have a great time at all. So I don't like that we have mosquitoes here.

I thought I was safe. The times I've had to use like the shit that works, it'll be like military grade deep. That's like corrosive to plastic, I noticed. Yeah, it's like, this shit'll make you infertile, but you won't need to worry about mosquito. I remember I remember I was like 14 or something. I had an iPod and I met,

Like, I was spraying it on my arms, and a little bit of the mist got onto, like, the screen of my iPod. And this shit was, like, eating the fucking, like, it was permanently damaged from getting this deed on it. Anyway, enough about me and my trials and tribulations. Let's get to, let's get to us. It's unfortunate, because Diet is a great name. They call me Billy Deet Williams. Anyway, we are going to, let's first let's preview some of the stories we're going to talk about. First of all, shut up about Jeffrey Epstein.

okay, except on this show where we will talk about it because Trump is really doing everything from invading D.C. and going after Chocolate City and trying to do more anti-Black racist stuff to get people to be so outraged they stop talking about his affiliation with known sexual

predator Jeffrey Epstein and Galane Maxwell. We'll just see how that's going along with the fact that there are people in Congress who are not letting up on the Epstein thing rightly because it's fucking disgusting and we need actual fucking justice here. And then he's even talking about, I said at one point, I'm like, if he gets desperate enough for the Epstein thing, he's going to legalize weed. Okay, because he needs something to do something. He's now talking about reclassifying it to a schedule three controlled substance. That doesn't mean legalization. But again, it's causing problems with the racists. I was like the racists in MAGA. I'm sorry, it's causing a problem with MAGA because they love to use like weed smell as like a dog whistle for people of color being nearby.

So we'll talk about that. Also, look, he said that he, Mr. Donald, saying that the crime is so out of control. Obviously, the crime is down. But I just do want to talk about Luboo Bribu crimes. That is on the rise. Lubu Bribu crimes are on the rise. And I just want to warn everybody. The Stanley Cups of summer 2025.

Yeah, right? I tell me why I'm about to, I lost a cup I had, a Stanley Cup that someone gave to me after the fire. I lost it. And now I kind of won a new one. one, but part of me is saying, just leave that shit alone. You can drink water out of another cup, yeah, but I don't know. If it brings you joy, that's fine.

I don't know if it does. I just Marie Condo. Stanley Cup, I think, would be a great name for a boy, and Laboubu would be a great name for a girl. No. No. No. And reverse it. This is my son, Labubu. Oh, wait. That's my daughter, Stanley Cup. That rips. That's cool.

Exactly. This is 2025. What does the Stanley Cubs do? What is so special about them? It's just more like it'll, it's, what happened was that this lady had an ice drink in her car that burned down, the car completely burned down, except for her Stanley cup, and when she opened it, the ice was still fucking, like, solid in there. So that kind of became the beginning of people like, this cup is super effective, and then all the influencers started using it. Which makes me think that the guy who invented Stanley Cups burned her fucking

car down. Oh, shit. Right. Like, I don't need the water to be that damn cold, to be honest. Like, just put no ice in there. I think it's somebody who loves, I love drinking ice cold water. in the middle of the night, like when I wake up. Look, these are the small. It slows down your digestive track. It makes your poo-poo harder to poo-poo. Oh. Wait, that makes so much sense because, like, Asians, we don't like cold drinks.

We drink, like, hot drinks and stuff all the time. That's my mom. All the time as a kid, she'd be like, you need to stop using ice. I know. First of my mom, I like methamphetamines. Okay. I will smoke ice whenever I want her. She's like, no, stop calling ice on us.

Oh, God. That's very different than CPS. That is like the kind of shit that would feel like some 2025 scoundrel kid shit, I'm gonna call ice on you. And they're like, yo, you better shut the fuck up full before you get left. Guess what we're all going if you call ice.

Yeah, exactly. Which, what my parents would I say, like, oh, you want to call the city? You know you will live, you will not live here anymore. And you will live in a foster home. Is that what you want? I'm like, no. That's what I thought.

Stop pump faking like you're going to call. call CPS to shut the fuck up. Okay, anyway, we'll also talk about J.D. Vance. He's in the UK bothering people. And we'll just talk about the general reaction of the English to the invasion of J.D. Vance. This is going to be so funny. Yeah. But also check in on Ellen DeGeneres, who also moved to the UK and bothered everybody.

So we'll check in with two American invasive species of Americans. Be kind. You're right. You're right. Yeah, you're right. I should be kind to the woman who hides toothpicks around her house to scold her her housekeeping staff for not being on top of their shit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every day I learned some new shit about Ellen DeGeneres. She pulls that shit. It was a matchsticks or toothpicks by hiding under couch cushions and shit. You're like, oh, interesting, because I thought y'all were really flipping the place,

but how come I found my little traps everywhere? You're fired. She's booby trapping her place. Ellen DeGeneres, I'm a booby trapping everywhere. And we might even talk about that there is a triangle of death on your face. which I did not know what that meant, like a region of your face

that if you get an infection in from popping your zits or some shit like that, you could die. What the fuck? Yeah, we'll get to that. Maybe not. I don't know. It's really not that important.

Anyway, Sean, Christmas, great having you here. Can you tell us something from your search history that's revealing about who you are or what you were into right now? I recently searched Las Vegas ayahuasca. Okay. Okay.

And? And, I mean, there's some of that. sword out of that rock in Excalibur. Do they have that at Excalibur? Yeah. That was the gimmick when it first opened. Yeah, you have to, we went to that place when it first opened as kids. That was 1990, I think.

Yeah. And we were like, take us to Excalibur, Camelot. There was a whole thing. We couldn't get it out. We suck. Yeah. They're like, what? Ayahuasca, maybe.

So you're looking, are there people doing guided experiences with Iwasca? A lot of white people. They have cornered the space on. feeling. Yeah, of course. Look what I discovered on a trip to the, you discovered this. Native white people have found all the things.

They call themselves a tribe now. They do monthly sessions. You can do like a divine feminine session where it's just the ladies tripping out together in a safe space. Ladies, I can't hear you. You're vomiting from the fucking trip. Sweatting and shit.

Yeah. Are you interested? Is that why you... Yeah. Okay. What are you, what are you hoping to find on your psychedelic journey? Honestly, I think I'd like to stop, give it a fuck about what people think. Yeah, yeah.

Break the ego. Yeah, that's probably my biggest problem because I talk a lot of shit. Then I'm like, huh, that was bad. Like, oh, no, regret. Yeah, yeah, yeah. stand 10 toes down and my delusions like everybody else does. I know. I want that confidence, too. Yeah. I like to overthink everything and I'm loud as hell.

Yeah. It's like a hindrance. I just wanted to be like, this is where it's at and you can, don't have to like me. Please like me. Like that's what I'm at right. I'm like, I'm tired of caring if people like me or not. When I feel like most people don't anyway, so. Fuck it. Well, we love you. Yeah. Everyone says that, but no one calls. Aw.

Did you imagine Low-key, I'm texting Paula, I'm like, I hate that Sean is back on this show. I can't stand her ass. Why do I keep calling her back? The most engagement on my Instagram stories is like, I'm sad today.

People are like, oh my God, you have so many people who love you. I'm like, well, hello. Where's my life? Here's the thing. I'm feeling lonely too with like friends and shit. And I was just telling Miles, we need to do like a sleepover friend trip,

something. Like I miss the informality of like college when you just would hang out with people and everybody who's being silly and fun. I think it's hard in L.A. I think about like, in Vegas. Truly,

like when I was at my brokest, living at my mom's, I'm like 26, and I would just hit up my friend. I'm like, what you doing? They're like, nothing.

I'm like, I'm going to come through. They're like, all right. And that was it. That was it. And then being in the same space with somebody is also just fine. You don't have to even go anywhere.

No. It's like, we're commuting. They're like, you're on the subway. They're like, I'll hit you back. Bring me a,

bring me a meatball sub. I'm like, fine, fine, fine. But you have to pay the meatball subs tax to hang out with your friends? No, but then I'd be like, all right, well, then roll up a blunder. Like, there would be some kind of even exchange or something. I, like, I think now, like, so many people are like married, having kids, whatever. And then I feel like if I ask, it'll be weird. It'll be like FaceTiming without texting first. You know what I mean?

Like that's, I'm like, if I were to just be like, hey, Miles, do you want to, like, can I come over and hang out? You'd be like, well, no. Yeah. Because we don't have that relationship, right? And everybody's like, needs their space, you know? So I always feel weird. Like, and then I'll, and then I'll, like, ask friends to, like, coffee and stuff. But one time I had a friend that was like, you seem depressed at coffee, so I stopped wanting to go to coffee.

Oh, shit. Dang. That's why I'm depressed, you jerk. You're supposed to help me get out of it, you jukeball. So now I'm self-conscious about that, where I'm like, am I, are people being weird with me? I have a home girl, too, like, where a lot of people in our friend groups are getting booed up or married or having kids and stuff. So, like, the vibe, obviously the vibes change drastically now. People have so many more, like, existential things that they have to address.

But it got to a point, I'm like, just hit us up. Like, honestly, at a certain point, we're just kicking it at the house. So if you want to come through and you want to play with the kid or whatever, like, we're here. I really don't mind. Like, let's just do that. Because it's not like I've, at that point, when you're like parenting and stuff, you kind of want people in the house and, you know, having more fun. When I travel for comedy, it's kind of easier because I have friends from like

undergrad, grad school of kids and then I can crash with them. And then I get to like help with the kid in the morning, you know, like being auntie. But it's hard. Like in the city where you live is hard. Sorry, Shana. It's, I hear what everybody's saying, but it's all like, if you like people to come to your house, you should be like, hey, come over. I feel like a lot of times the single person with no responsibility has to always reach out

to everybody else because our lives aren't as busy. And it's like, I don't have anything to do today. It's kind of a bummer. So if you'd like to hang out, you just say, hey, you want to come hang out? You're like, you know what I do. There's also that with like family stuff too. Like if you're like this single more flexible person, you have to go wherever the babies are. You have to like, you're just always like you have to go.

Everything is deferred to like whoever has the baby. The youngest kid. She has a child. It's more expensive for her to travel and you have more flexibility. But then you have to. travel like eight times and like you're fucking, you don't have a support system in the same way. Right. I'm broke and alone. That's more money for me to spend. Shana, what is something you think is underrated?

Now, last time I did this show, I said, underrated, you said or overrated? Under. Underrated, I think I want to keep going with my same theme of crashing out on people and cussing people out. Yeah. I try to think of something else and I was like, nope, people still don't get it. You just need to start smacking people outside their head. People's talking crazy. You need to start checking people because they get it out of pocket and I think they feel

like it's safe. And I want them to feel unsafe again. So I'm like really bad at like standing up for myself. Like I'm good at standing up for other people, you know what I mean? But I freeze when it comes to myself because I'm like, I don't know how the other person is going to react and if they're going to be volatile and make my life hell for the next like however many years. You know what I mean?

So like I'm bad at being like, get the fuck away from me, you know? Because I just, I like freeze and disappear. How do you get people, how do you break out of that shell? Or how do you have success stories that will encourage me? Well, even like a minor crash out to me is like, I actually lost a few friends doing this, but I had an argument with a friend. It was something dumb. Like, I was like, I feel fat.

She's like, I think you look great. I'm like, that's what you think. I'm telling you I feel fat and let me just have my moment where I feel fat, like whatever. She's like, are like, are we fighting. I'm like, no. But like, don't tell me how to feel about my body. Like my pants are tight. This is where I'm at.

Yeah, yeah. I didn't ask you to talk me out of it. Yeah. You should probably understand sometimes your clothes don't fit well. It doesn't mean I have some kind of complex about my body. It's to say, I feel fat today. I want to unbutton my pants and eat this cheeseburger. But let me just have my little moment.

And then she just stopped talking to me. Like, because I told her, I would talk to me like that. Oh, so like the small confrontation even. People need to get, people need to be more comfortable with it. And even when people speak their mind. At work, I had a patient called me the hard R. and I crashed out on her, too. And that's where I'm at, where I'm like,

you don't get to talk to people like that. Oh, she has dementia. So she'll forget that I cut around there. She was about to get real demented in here in a second. Yeah, that's crazy. I was walking out of the room and she said, can I say the hard hour on this crash? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You can say whatever you want. She said, get out of here, you nigger. And I was walking out. So I turned around and I got right in her face, and I was like, what did you say? And she wouldn't repeat it. Yeah, of course. care. I was like, no, say it again.

You get out of here. I was like, get out of here. What? What? What? What? What? You don't say it? I was I was completely out of my mind with rage on this night. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I did not care. I was like, you can fire me. You don't get to talk to me like that. I don't care if you... That is, I'm like...

Yeah. That is so great. Like, I got called the hard art. I got called a sand hard art in my neighborhood by people I know. Um, and I, like, stood my... Yeah, this was like, cat rest. you drama but I stood my ground and I like they I just let them go off on me but I didn't really say anything I just like stood there so I was like in shock and then the person like the

husband I was like are you proud of your wife and he turned around came back took off his hoodie and he was like I use that language too and I was like okay but I didn't like I didn't curse them out or anything because I was like these people were crazy like I don't want to engage with them you got to crash out extra hard yeah is that what you're saying again yeah you got to I'm live. We're live right now on Instagram. See that shit again. You know, like, Jack, he's walks with me. He's like, is that them?

And I'm like, it's fine. It's fine. We could just go. Because he's ready to fire off. He's ready to fight. He's still mad about it. He's good at standing up for like himself and other people. You know what?

We should make a map. Why don't you drop a pin on a Google map we can share with everybody. And you know, we can just, everybody just, if you have time, if you have time, if you have time. Yeah, well, meet us at my neighborhood and Sean is nursing home. Yeah. Or any nursing home, honestly. There's one in there. It doesn't matter where you're at.

There's always one in there calling somebody. And I think it's worse now. Like, patients are saying stupid stuff about everybody now, like, because Donald Trump is the president. That's happened to us, too. Like, people aren't picking us up in Uber's and shit. Like, it's crazy. See, you've got to cuss motherfuckers out. Yeah.

Yeah, I pick their cars. What's, I always hear anecdotally about, like, the, like, Medicare and, like, nursing homes and how much that makes for people that are actually, like, residing in nursing homes. Is that, is that like a wave that you see coming, like, in terms of those cuts and how that's going to affect, like, elderly people in those kind of facilities? Well, they won't hit until next year because the midterms. But most of the places that are like that are only open because of Medicare dollars. A lot of those people are poor. Right. A lot of homeless people, a lot of people on fixed incomes that don't have enough money to,

you know, supplement all the other health expenses. So, yeah, if most of your facility is Medicare patients, you're not going to be able to stay open. So, and that means you guys take care of your mom. All these white people are going to get so mad that they have to take care of all these broke-ass white people who think they're going to blame like Obama or whatever, but they're going to be like, I have to take care of my freaking, because of Obamacare. And it's part of me, it's kind of excited.

Yeah, part of me is excited for that to happen too, just so people can see. Because that's why I'm like, oh, did something else happen that. people are like, oh, I didn't vote for this. Yes, you did. Yeah, keep going. Let's keep going to go. Do you know how bad this is going to get? It's going to get so much worse.

You know, it's so crazy when Andrew Shulks was like, I didn't vote for like more wars and blah, blah, blah. He was like, I mean, but when he made that concession, he was like, I mean, I knew that they were going to, you know, deal with immigration. Yeah. But I didn't vote for this other stuff. He's like, so I was, I was being racist, but I didn't vote for this other stuff. Him and Akash, dude, they're such fucking losers.

And I remember right when they were coping over that whole fallout with Trump becoming president, you're like, oh, because like we did that, right? Because he was doing so poorly in the fucking polls before we had them on. If you were, I saw a clip, somebody clipped out the show right after the election and they were taking a victory lap. Oh, of course. That's the power of this show. Look what happened before. And now you're like, I don't know.

Man, fuck all of y'all. People are so weak. They need to be slapped in their face, too. See, that's what I'm talking about. And Andrew Schultz, especially. And he was beefing with Kendrick. How dare you? That's insane.

That's insane to me. Who do you think you are, sir? You're beefing with Kendrick Lamar, and you think you're on the right side of history? You just saw what happened to Drake. What are you doing? Oh, my God. It gets worse by the minute with that guy.

I mean, this is the thing with Andrew Schultz, man. Somebody should have smacked it when he pulled up looking like this. No! Oh, no! Okay. Yeah. Okay. Sorry, had to do it to them.

That's, for people who, this is obviously, this is an audio medium, but I pulled up a photo, a young Andrew Schultz with the fucking, he had cornrows. He had fucking braids, okay? Who did those cornrows, Andrew? I don't know. Which black girl in your classroom

gave you the privilege to have your head touched by her hands for you to sit around all these years later and be like, we don't want a black lady in charge. These are the, this is what I said too. Do you remember, what was her name? a buck wild was that was the white girl in um flavor of love flavor of love yes wasn't it wasn't she was she was she was the one that was with the wild black scent wasn't she maybe there were a few on there that had some i thought buck while was the blonde but maybe that was somebody her name was

her literal name was Becky johnston and she was the one talking like she was from the trenches and i remember i'm like see when we didn't handle that lady who was so out there with it this This is when we started. That was the beginning. I'm just saying to Shana's point, we have to, we have to be checking people. Unfortunately, we have to be checking people are doing with Aquafina where she's like, I grew up in New York. It's like, you grew up in Astoria.

Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't sound like that now. That's weird. I know, and now she's, yeah, and it's like the Ariana thing. Have you seen the Ariana cuts between previous interviews and now? Yeah, she's not as proud anymore. That shit is crazy.

Uh, yeah. She's like. Yeah. wild Although the most base thing she ever did was say America's bad or whatever When she looked that donut That was pretty cool

Look a broken clock and all that Shana what's something you think that is overrated Again Being nice to bad people Fuck them Yeah Somebody made a Facebook post today And they were like

As the Trump supporters are learning that they made a mistake We should welcome them back and not shame them I was like bitch fuck you No. Where's the lesson? Why do I have to learn a lesson? Oh, I feel bad about it. Okay, now what are you going to do?

If you're just going to say, I'm sorry, and we just let you come back in, that's stupid. You need to be like, and now your actions are what? Right, exactly. But I think, like, I totally get that because I personally am like, I don't want to be in a room with these people. But I also, like, understand, like, people trying to, like, rehab people politically, so they vote the right way.

But I'm like, that doesn't, like, that only. Yeah, that only happens for, like, fringe people, I think. Well, and I just think it's useless to be like, well, we should welcome them. Because this is what, again, fucking Andrew Schultz, he's like, shouldn't people be like welcoming us? No. If we're like, no, for, and I think this is the issue. I think we don't like who you are. That's why you're not being worse.

Because you're mean, nasty, racist people. Why would I want to be around you regardless of how you vote? More than that. You're upset that, like, you couldn't kick immigrants out yourself. It's the other. part of it, though, too, is I think when that conversation happens, it's still happening in the binary of Republican and Democrat, rather than rotting out. I'm like, no, this is about class, first of all. So fuck all the Republican Democrats. It's these wealthy motherfuckers who are taking

everything. That's where the anger needs to be directed. Now, do I rock with you because you're racist? Fuck, no. But if you want, first step one is actually waking the fuck up to realize, like, don't come at me because you think I'm a liberal or whatever. You need to be angry at the people that are actually absconding with the wealth in this country and your fucking future. And then maybe

then maybe we can have a conversation but until then. Let me tell you some. Don't talk to me. Yeah, right, exactly. You can talk to these two over here may seem more welcoming. I mean like not me as much.

I'm not, no, no, I'm not here. I just know that there are other people who are like political commentators or whatever who can engage in that way. And I'm like, that's, I see the value of that. But I, I'm, I'm, The only thing that would make me feel satisfied

if they're like sobbing, they're like, I'm so stupid, why was that racist? And I'm like, go on, keep going. That's what I'm saying. If you're going to say you regret what you did, I want to know why. And I want to know, yes, what were you thinking when you did it? And for real, not like he's going to fix the economy.

You know damn well he wasn't going to do that. Shut up. You had a fear of a black planet. Why do you want immigrants to leave? Right. And also, like, maybe promise to not vote the next time. It's so stupid ass home. Maybe do some research.

Yeah. Like, I think you should be DQed from from voting next time if you fuck up that badly. These people are not people that should be nice to because they're not nice to me either.

In fact, they're celebrating the downfall of our cultures. Yeah. I definitely think, like, if you're civil but evil, like you should, people should yell at you.

Yes, for sure. You got to get yelled at. I'm not being nice to none of y'all motherfuckers. Don't come over here. You're not welcome. Don't come to my shows either. I don't want you a little $15. I'll be like this.

You know, I'll believe it when I see the voting data, okay? Right, let me show me some action. Go into different communities and do some outreach, do some volunteering. Literally. Yeah.

Get on the ground. Get off like your fucking flagrant couch. Yeah, go do some door knocking and that kind of shit. Then I'll be like, oh, this person. Put in the grunt work. It's just like if somebody cheats on you, it's like, I'm sorry. Uh-huh. And now what do you do?

Right. I'll never do it again. I'm like, you better drag your ass through the mud. Like this is a Drew Hill music video. Literally. Literally, bare ass in the mud, scrape it. Like a puppy. Just scoge it along.

Just played out. Make us think you got worms. Yeah, exactly. You are grinding on that rug. I'm not grinding. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back to talk about the Epstein files and some other distractions right after this.

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Shut up about Jeffrey Epstein is what I feel like the White House is continually, continually trying to do. I mean, to be fair, the search traffic for Epstein files is down quite a bit since it was maybe a few weeks ago. and not as front of mind as it was, but the story definitely continues to bubble up and there's still plenty of people on every side who's like, what the fuck is going on with the cabal of the elite who abused people? Y'all doing something about this shit?

That sentiment is not going away as quickly. And obviously, Trump and his lackeys are doing everything they can to continue to cover it up, like moving Galane Maxwell to a cushy prison with the potential for work release. Uh-uh. What the fuck? Yes.

No. It was, okay, now, there was one journalist over at Mueller, she wrote, who claims that she's seen the documents that says, like, you know, all, like her status within this facility and that she has, she's potentially eligible for work release, meaning she can leave the prison for work-related things like Jeffrey Epstein did six days a week when he got that sweetheart deal. But as of right now. What's her job when she's out?

Trafficking? Yeah, I don't know. Exactly. Yeah. But for the American government. Right. I'm here to be just basically a propagandist for Donald Trump. That's my job. But what's interesting is people have pointed out that like at this prison facility in Texas, they do have like a one work program where people can help train puppies for service animals. But this Texas facility actually has rules and she can't do that because child sex offenders are not allowed to work on these kinds of things. So it's weird how they'll bend the rules in some ways and then like, hey, yeah, welcome. But also, you know, you can't work with the puppies. Okay, that's for the shit that you've done.

Can I say something like super dark? It might be cut out. But like there have been rescues where like animals have been abused by people sexually. Like I've seen like multiple cases recently. And I'm talking like kittens and stuff. Like it is messed up. So like that there's definitely like a connection between like human cruelty and stuff. I'd imagine.

Yes. White owners? I mean, I don't know. You never know. I have no idea. I'd imagine that, yeah, if you are any kind of predator like that when it comes to children or human beings, like, yeah, just all life forms across the board, just leave that alone. Anyone who jokes about putting peanut butter on their balls and having the dog do stuff to it. I'm sorry, that's not funny. You probably have done it.

Yeah, that's gross. Yeah. Oh, God. Also, Jesus, how we can clean that. Bathing. No. Just stop. Just stop. Now, now Trump is continually acting like, you know, there's nothing going on. It's still a hoax yet it's becoming clear and clear that they are pushing for some kind of quid pro quo deal with Galane Maxwell to just kind of, you know, have her come out and say, like, Donald Trump has, like, do a Mariah Carey.

Like, I don't know her, actually. I've never seen. I don't know anything about him. He's fine. But again, we will see what happens there. Meanwhile, Thomas Massey from Kentucky, who's been like one of the few like sort of like people on the right that kind of goes against Trump, but then we'll cave most of the time. And California Democrat Roe Kana have announced that they will be having a press conference with Epstein victims at the beginning of September with some people speaking publicly for the very first time. They'll also be discussing their Epstein Files Transparency Act, which if passed would require Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all. the documents related to this case in a quote searchable and downloadable format. So we'll see what happens there if they get the votes for that. And, you know, maybe draw another line in the sand to say, okay, are you, who are you out here to protect? And now while all this is happening, Trump has done as much as he can to kill this Epstein story and also normalized fascism in the U.S.,

like kind of two birds with one stone here, because he's now having again the National Guard patrol the streets of D.C. and harassed people that aren't doing shit. I saw a clip of these people were just smoking a cigarette on their stoop and these cops like, hey, what are you guys doing out here? They're like, we live here. Like, you guys, when do you guys smoke it? He's like a cigarette. And he's like, oh, you know, it smells like burnt marijuana.

So I had to ask, you know, just, I don't know if you heard Donald Trump has us coming out here, just checking with people, blah, blah, blah. So the continual sort of extra legal harassment of citizens continues. But, you know, as it stands, it's really not doing much in terms of arrest. It's really just there to get people sort of used to the site of having, you know, militarized police walking the streets and having Humvees on the streets. And again, this is all the talk has been around cities that are either led by Democrats or specifically, specifically black mayors because that's what Trump, that's sort of his default.

The crime. Yeah. Yeah. And every time, and it's an easy reflex to be like, well, damn, maybe I can remind the base that they hate black people and maybe they'll get off my case. Well, that's what they were joking about on the daily show. There was a friend of Jessica Williams, I think. She chimed in and was like, he just keeps attacking black people to distract.

There was Obama and Beyonce and Kamala and now it's the MLK files. Yeah, we're going to release MLK files. Ah, like, who else? Yeah, which is wild. When he was trying to like imply that it's like, I don't know, he was up to some stuff. Did you see those files? And it's like, you don't think the FBI would have been doing that shit when he was alive if there was any merit to that kind of thing. Yeah.

This is just bullshit. And nobody even looked at them. I was like, did anybody even read the files? Were people like, ooh? I didn't even hear about them. Yeah, he released those instead. Yeah, exactly. He's like, oh, I got some files for you.

They're like, on who? MLK? They're like, what? The guy that the government murdered? Oh, yeah. Okay. So, again, things are looking desperate. He's trying to figure something out.

What is a fascist to do? Well, there's been more and more talk publicly from him that he's considering reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 3 substance. So Schedule 1 meaning like LSD, heroin, ecstasy to Schedule 3, which is stuff like ketamine, certain prescription meds, anabolic steroids. Again, reclassifying does not mean legalization. It just means that there's less federal restrictions, regulations, and more medical research. But the thing now is that you think, like, he would get some praise for,

from his base, but you have to remember most of their base is just rabidly racist. So you have, there's basically two sort of factions now within MAGA on the news of Trump talking about reclassifying. There's one, which is somehow the reasonable take where they're like, medical marijuana has helped countless people with like chronic pain, veterans with like PTSD. There's, there's many, there's many positive aspects for people using cannabis to treat sort of their conditions. Then you have the people who are just straight up being like, it's the fucking downfall when there's any place that smells like weed is the worst place ever on earth. So Matt Walsh, who's on the daily wire said, this is so stupid. Quote, Matt Walsh is such a piece of shit. Our society thrived when

everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey. We became the most powerful nation in the world with liquor and nicotine. No country of potheads has ever thrived or ever achieved anything at all. Every city that legalized it became an even bigger shithole, basically overnight. The entire history of Western civilization tells us that marijuana is far, far worse for society. I'm sorry. Do we not know how many deaths are caused by alcohol and cigarettes? Just put them on a chart here. Let's compare the facts and figures.

Yeah. I'm not going to listen to anyone who doesn't want no-fault divorce to exist. Okay, bitch. Like, why are you trying to trap a woman? Get the fuck out of. You want to be drunk and on cigarettes and then keep his wife in a cage. and slap her around and say, make my dinner. This is, this, when America was great, when it was so powerful.

Yeah. Huh. Huh. And back when we had lung cancer. Right. Exactly. When, when men were men. Back when we used to smoking babies' faces on airplanes.

Right. Back when. Well, they were hiding from the ceiling. Back when a server would just catch stray lung cancer merely for being in a restaurant that allowed cigarette smoke. Yeah, yeah. We were great back then. We were great.

we had segregated food and I couldn't taste what seasoning was. Before I learned what Lowry's seasoning salt was. So another fucking creep, Jack Posobiac, this is what they're really after, right? He talks about how, you know, people smoking weed outside is, quote, a huge factor in violent crime in Washington, D.C. And this is, again, another quote, states with legal weed, you can just smell it all over in public. You can't take kids anywhere.

And this is, again, this is always coded for there are people of color around. It smells like weed. Everything smells like weed here. It smells like weed and rhythm here. What is going on? What the fuck is going on? Yeah, so a lot of these people are like really trying to implore the president to be like, don't do it.

But again, Matt Walsh clearly doesn't have a stake in the marijuana business because there are plenty of people on the right that are rubbing their mitts to profit off of a substance that was used as the basis to harassing jail, countless people of color. They're like, I don't know, man. There's a fucking lot of people love weed. And maybe, you know, we can get in on that. Just kind of, you know, line our pockets. I feel like this is anti-California as well.

Like, that's our whole vibe, dude. So, like, stop fucking being weird about it. What's interesting because, like, when he, when Trump sort of hinted at potentially reclassifying it, like one of the largest CEOs of like, like a cannabis CEO was in the room there. And you're like, well, I'm sure. At the end of the day, it's about money for him. for Trump, you know what I mean? He's just like, I don't know. I mean, I guess I could do some racist shit, but it sounds like there's a lot of money here too. I feel like if you can't say

that it's a good thing because of medical research when you're also bribing some of the institutions that do medical research. Does the research matter now if you're going to shut down all the places they actually do the work? Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, we'll see what kind of quote unquote research that is. Right. I feel like my mom when she's like, do my own research. I'm like, mom, get off the computer. Get off Google. That's not real. You better be in a lab. That's an AI video, mom. Get out of here. That's the control group for my experiment. Okay. The AI is your control. Okay. Do you see this trending line? That's the trending topics on Twitter, Mom. Get on. But this is wild though, too, because

Americans right now, this Gallup poll just came out. Americans are way less into alcohol than ever before. So Matt Walsh for the talk of like when America was great, whatever, Americans right now, the number of Americans adults who say they consume alcohol is now down to 54%. And this is the lowest. Wait, we're raw dogging the hell that is America right now. It says they're broke. And think of the tariffs, too. Like, if you want some shit from not Kentucky, you know what I mean? Or if you're not drinking that ever clear. Do you think the articles about how millennials killed the wine industry worked or do you think that's

real? Apparently, the biggest thing. I don't know, they're blaming us for everything. Well, yeah, around 2008, I wonder what happened around then. They're like, millennials are ruining everything. It's like, you mean, millennials are broke as fuck because of the fucking economy crashing? What are you talking about? Right. From

1997 to 2020, 23, at least 60% of Americans reported drinking alcohol. Then that went down up to 62%. And then 58% in 2024. And now it's 54%. And so it is continuing to trend downward. Now, I'm pretty sure also marijuana usage has gone up because some people are like,

yeah, you know, like this. I'm less fucked up the next day from like smoking or taking an edible or some shit like that. They're also like can't afford health care. I know so many people who are smoking weed instead of getting antidepressants because they can't get fucking health care. So that's like part of the, like pain meds. Like, like, you know, like anything that they need, like, weed is kind of like what they have access to. The other thing that, like, the belief, like, also in this poll is that Americans are like, yeah, like, alcohol consumption is, like, bad for your health. Which is now, like, you know, a majority held opinion in the country for the first time because they're like, yeah, this, no, I don't, I'm not fucking with it that much that it's, no, this is not good for my health.

People don't want to know this, but it also, like, can be correlated. to, like, cancer and stuff, but we can't, like, talk about it. Girl, what, don't get you cancer at this point? I mean, but it's like very, like, you're going to get cancer from everything at this point. And the government, they,

they shutting down all the places that's going to help you anyways. You got to move from America. Right. If you go to a different country. I can't because the microplastics from America are reaching the other countries in the ocean. Our forever chemicals are everywhere.

Yeah, you can't escape that shit. You can't escape it. Remember when the ocean was on fire and we were like, so this is fun. People were like, oh, that's cool. I never thought I'd see that. Thick, water on fire, sick, sick, six, six.

What's really interesting is that one of the sharpest drops in an alcohol consumption along partisan lines has come from Republicans. They've dropped 19 points to 46%. Wait, we don't want, we don't want them functioning at full capacity. Like, how do we get your neighborhood Republican drunk? I think it's good, actually, because that means they're thinking clearly. they'll make better decisions. Yeah, other people are like speculating. You think so?

It could be the age cohort that a lot of Republicans are. Could be older people who are like, there's a lot of complications with my meds or things like that. But again, I think they're not going to have nursing homes to be taken care of it. Because they still love their, they still love their bud light. They're like, I want to say the hard art clearly.

I want people to know. Yeah, when I slur up. I don't want to slur my slurs. Exactly. They probably would never have said that if they weren't drunk. That's their excuse. And then until they say it again, they're like, oh, shit, it wasn't alcohol. Suddenly, I'm not racist anymore, guys.

I'm like, oh, wait, I wasn't drunk, but I did not have my coffee in the morning. It was the boon's farm the whole time. Don't talk to me before I have my coffee. Don't ask me to do racial slurs until I've had my coffee. You should know this about me. You should know this about me. It's hilarious. Live last slur.

Yeah, that's how he is. We know that about him. It's fine. No, no, punch him in the face, guys. Back to my earlier point. For real. All right, let's take another quick break. Let's come back.

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that I'm pretty sure he absolutely fucking despises his own kids. Basically, like, I told him to fucking. Well, they are brown. I was going to say they're brown. That'll do it. I know. There were reports. Somebody was putting posting on social media.

just about how like they're like oh like you can just tell that fucking ucia hates this fucking guy and just trying to figure what's happening i'm like i mean i don't know sometimes you see these people together i'm like they she she may not care that much we don't know we don't know more she likes the money but the other thing is like no because someone i think there was someone who was at a dc restaurant that they were saying like they overheard them fighting in a restaurant and that sort of anecdote sort of took off where people like look at clips of them and jd vans obviously, objectively, an insufferable fuck. And he says stuff who's like...

And also says shit like... I'm glad that you said that's like, and gay. That's why he's insufferable because he's closeted and he just needs to just come out and hump a couch and put his eyeliner on and have a nice time. It's natural. It's a natural eyeliner. It's a natural eyeliner.

Oh. I know Gadul when I see it. Okay. That's Indian. I'm not. You've been in Ushes. No, thank you. see um so right now but i also think like i feel like they're the type of people i don't ever see

them like laughing together you know what i mean like i think that fighting is their communication style you know their love language so i'm like if they're fighting in a restaurant i'm like yeah all's good with them they're gonna bone right after this this is just a prelude i don't even know if they will but like that is normal for them can you imagine though like she's like was like for all intents and purposes a high power like a powerful lawyer and then now just does shit like appearances like at like a fucking confederate library opening and being like yeah she sold her fucking sold the kids are the future way man you made your bed so or you made your couch now watch your husband have his way with it um now so they're in the cotswolds in the south of england just very picturesque just you know

nice villages quiet hills and things like that um and now he's brought his arms Army of Secret Service agents, and immediately the locals are like, what the fuck is going on? So the people living near this 18th century manner that he's renting had agents, quote, knocking on doors to verify their identities, the people who are residing there, and also interrogated about their social media profiles. That's fucking what you think you're TSA in a village in England, dude? Get the fuck out of here. I would be so...

You can't recolonize the British. They'd be so... Yeah. I'm like, what the fuck are you doing here? I'm like, who the fuck are you? That's what, I mean, anyway, you would get a door slammed in your face very quickly. So right now, there are like all these clips going around of the motorcade, right, that J.D. Vance rolls around with by all accounts, anywhere between 22 and 27 fucking vehicles. I was going to play this clip of like, it's just a very quaint little town. And this guy's filming nonstop just fucking. parade of Suburban's and fucking Range Rover just like security vehicles and he does a very English thing. He's saying, oh, bloody hell. Non-stop.

Non-stop. Look at these cars. Bloody hell. Just Look at that thing. You fucking endless amount of fucking black SUVs.

Well, four and tough. What's that one? It's got the vice presidential couch in it, okay? It also must be protected at all costs. At all costs. Yeah. The second. Yeah, thank you.

It's the second couch. But, yeah, unsurprisingly, the presence of J.D. Vance has also launched a bunch of protest. There's, like, people going around in, like, those ad cars that have just his, like, baby, man baby face, me or head rolling around. That's so funny. I love the Internet sometimes. I just, like, also love how polite, though, the Brits are.

It's like, well, we're going to have a not welcome party. Like, where they're still, they're enjoying, like, pastries that they've made where they've just put his meme face, like, on a cupcake. And so there's still like, oh, would you like, a treat? They're like, oh, pardon me. Sorry. You ahead. One person, they asked, like, a local and they're like, I don't know anybody who feels

positively about it at all. Like, yeah, sure, you've got this dickhead coming through, trying to, this guy's been on like six. He's on a vacation, I think, at least once a month. Oh, wow. Well, that's, that's the funny thing about J.D. Vance as a VP because everybody was trying to knock Kamal Harris. Like, well, she was a bad VP. It's like, what's their job exactly? Yeah. What are they supposed to be doing? Nothing. They don't do anything. That's the job. At least J.D. Vance fucks couches internationally. Yeah. So there's that. I only know who Dick Cheney is because he shot somebody in the face. Not because he was a good VP. I don't know what he was doing.

I only know Dick Cheney because he was the president at one point. Exactly. Yeah, right. If anything, he was calling a lot of the shots, too. Yeah. It's like, so we don't, his job is, I guess, cold vacation and spread the words of Donald Trump shit. I don't know. It's very ceremonial. I think what I think FDR's vice president had a quote about somebody like the vice presidency is like worth less than a bucket of piss or something is what he said. And that's FDR's vice president back then. We don't do shit. Yeah, he's like, bro, man, whatever. Like I'm, I guess. I guess, you know, I'm taking care of, but I kind of had a year vacation until you run for president. Exactly. So now even like conservative residents of the area are also upset, again, because they said,

our grandparents fought against fascism. And also because Vance disrespected the UK by forgetting that they stupidly supported the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan. You shouldn't have done it. You should have just. Wow. Oh, my God. We did not need a coalition of the willing then for destroying part of the world there. But again, J.D. Vance isn't the only one out there in the Cotswolds.

If you remember, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia to Rossi, they moved to the Cotswolds after the election because they're like, well, fuck this, we're out of here. And guess what, we have the money to do it. And also to fuck up the property we're on. Apparently, they were remodeling a house there that would, quote, increase flood risk and disturb Roman ruins. And I think they got so tired of people pointing out how reckless they are. They just moved to a different town and they live out. That is so funny that they have to skip down because they're being bitches. Yeah.

They are now in a new place where apparently is the site of a grisly murder. So the place they moved to, quote, in 2021. Where Ellen killed her intern. Oh, it's a future crime. It's a future murder. It's in trouble. Whoever cleans that house. The place they moved to.

quote, in 2021 social worker Linda Ricard was sentenced to jail for forging the will of her millionaire landlord, Anthony Sutheran, and then depriving him of food and medical help in order to inherit part of his estate. So, you know. Sonma, can you do that in nursing homes to racists? Is that a lot? I want to look into it. Okay, good. I'll get the petition started. Yeah, let me see what, let me see what kind of things we can pull here. So again, yeah, look, just wealthy Americans just kind of leave them alone.

You know what I mean? There's not always. I'm like, leave those people in the Cotswolds alone. But Jesus Christ. I never thought I'd defend the British, but these fucking Americans are making me do it. It's really sad, right? Like, we're anti-American because we're so embarrassing right now. Oh, you know what?

It was so funny. When I was in Denmark, there was a MAGA hat that said, make America go away. And I was like, damn, that's some shit you can't think of within. in the United States. You know what I mean? But you have to be outside of it. And you see it and you're like, no, that's a bar right there. It's hard actually.

Damn, excuse me, you were in Denmark? Okay. Make America go away. Yeah, I was doing research. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, flex, all right. Yeah, you know what's crazy? I was talking to a dad who would remain nameless.

And he was talking about like the World Federation of Engineers is like having elections. And people are like, I'm not sure. if an American should be president of the engineers. Yeah, facts. I don't think, why? Unless the American is actually like Indian or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No white American.

I don't even know, man. Who know? No white Americans for sure. They fucked up the brand for everybody to the point where I'm telling people I'm Japanese a lot of the time. And I'm like, I just speak English very well. Yeah, sometimes. I mean, see, I can't do that. At one point I had interaction.

I can't do that. Yeah, you know, that's kind of the thing when I'm biracial, speaking two languages. They're like, hey, hey, hey, hey, fellow are you from? He gets called the N-word. He's like, I'm Japanese. How dare you? How dare you? Now, change my diapers, immediately on the double.

Yeah, I was saying the other day, like, how people are just more apologetic now, like, when they see you're an American, like, in public. They're like, oh, damn, damn. Like, they look at you, like, you got shit all over you. They're like, we do. It's true. So sorry. So sorry. You have to be that, be there. Like they look at us like we stink and we are covered in shit so they feel bad for us, but they also are like get the fuck away from me. It's like, yeah. Yeah. And that's harsh from people that really don't know how to bathe that well. Yeah, exactly. Because you don't know what it is. What, I don't know what is it. That's harsh from people with halitosis. Yeah. And finally, I do just want to touch on this just because this is something I had no idea. Did you know there is a triangle of death on your face?

where is it the triangle of death is from above the bridge of your nose to the corners of your mouth I was going to say that I was going to say that make sense the orifices so there's a video that was popping on TikTok where this woman was like

I'm at an urgent care because I popped a zit near my nose and in the video her face is like swollen like near the corner of her nostril and she tries to smile and she had like partial facial paralysis And when she went there, they're like, thank God you came in because you need to be on antibiotics. You have an infection in this area that in very rare instances can be fucking deadly. They gave, she was on four prescription drugs. She gave an update.

She's like, I'm on the men, but the people at the urgent care was like, you did the right thing for after your zip popping and your face hurting and being like unable to move that you came in because it is in the triangle of death. Now, this is because the blood vessels in this little triangle drain directly into your sinus cavity behind your eye sockets, which has a direct line to your brain. And so because of that short distance between the surface of like your body to the brain, an infection can cause a clot known as a cavernous sinus thrombosis to rapidly travel to your brain, which could kill you, although actually. say that is incredibly rare. However, as somebody who is a parent, I will be scaring the fuck out of my kid when the time comes. Stop picking at your damn face

before you get that thrombosis in your cavernous, whatever. Oh, so we're just picking at the triangle of death now, huh? Okay, so you got health insurance? You pay for the health insurance? Okay, just let me know because you can die from that.

Do you want me to show you a TikTok video from 17 years ago? I will. I know. I'm sorry, the news. Oh, the news. Yes, yes. I meant the news, the newspaper, the presidential newspaper,

where we get our presidential updates via TikTok. On that thing, there was a lady who got, this feels like the kind of story that, like, you know how like your parents scare the shit out of you as a kid with something? 30 spiders grew in her ear because she used a cute tip. Oh, is that the one you guys heard? No, I'm just like combining different stories. But it's like, you know, like bugs in your ear stories.

Yeah, yeah. I heard if you sit too close to the TV, you'll go blind. That was one thing that, wow, my mom would I say. She's like, you will go blind. Don't do that. And I was like, I don't want that. You know what I mean? And it's just some shit parents say to just be like, obviously me reasoning with you

isn't going to work. So now I have to create some kind of weird ass lie to scare the shit out of you. Except this one has some scientific backing. So I will not be going after the triangle of death. And although. Good thing I don't get zits on most of my face. Hey, just on our butt, right? I'm like, what?

That's like exactly where zits are. I know, right? It's also exactly where the zits that you're going to be like, I need to get, I need to handle this shit. I have somewhere to be right now. But I mean, it is what it is. I guess the one thing is that because it's rare that maybe we can keep it rocking, but I just felt that as a PSA.

No, that's scary shit. People should know that. Yeah. And that's a good thing. Are you thinking in Zygang is acne prone? Is that what you're trying to say? No, I'm just saying this is some shit that you hear. This is the kind of shit you would.

listen to a podcast for so when you go to annoy somebody with some random fact you're like, I don't know if you heard there's a per triangle of death on your face. Would you learn

that from podcast news? Yeah. I want to sit on that triangle on your face, daddy. Oh, wow. The triangle of death.

Hey. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You call it the triangle. We're back to the acne on the ass. It's all. That's how you see it.

There it is. You get pregnant from a toilet seat. Leave it there. The Triangle of Little Deaths is what we're going to call that. Well, Shauna, thank you so much for joining us on The Daily Zikeyes. It's been a pleasure having you back. We should kick it soon.

We should. Everybody come over. Yeah, we're going to come over to. All the same people come over. Yeah, yeah. We'll eat. We'll drink. You can take care of my kid.

Oh, no. Hell yeah. I love kids. Yeah. I'll get your kids something to drink. That's how I'll take care of it. You want some diamond tap? Diamond Tats.

I haven't heard that in so long. It takes like a lay. It does. It tastes great. I forgot about that shit. Shana, where do the people find you, follow you,

enjoy your special in every capacity? And what's a work of social media that you're enjoying? Firstly, I'll say the social media thing that I'm really tripping off of is the SeaWorld concert series.

Do you guys know this? No. No. The World has a concert series. that's been happening since June, I think. Yin-yang twins. Trina. I'm sorry.

Waka Flame. Trina. Oh, wait. I think I've heard about that. Yes. The baddest bitch at SeaWorld? You know Nan, Trina? Yes, at Sea World.

In the middle of water. That's crazy. Hell yeah. Okay. Oh, wait. How many whales did they kill that they're trying to. It's San Diego. I was like, this has to be a Florida thing.

If you got Trina. Wow. No. Gen Yon is doing it next. The Ying-Ging twins. If you find the footage, the Ying-Ging twins doing Whistlewhite twins, I think I heard, I saw that, yeah. That was at SeaWorld. Okay, wow.

So they had Trina, whoa, Trina was August 9th, Waka-Flocka, you know, keep voting for Trump. Fat Joe, July 19th, Soldier Boy and Bow Wow was July 12. Baby Bash! Baby Bash was due 21st. Okay. What? Look at, look, look, they're fucking with Baby Bash. able to see right now.

Like, look all these black and brown people y'all and banquished to the sea. Is that where you put all the qualified people in government? Wow. Genuine is going to be on the 16th. Y'all Saturday. Drive down. Wow. Get wet and then get wet.

Ow, my whole life has changed. Wait, and then the following is going to be the turnt-up tour is making a stop at fucking C-World. That's fucking P.D. Pablo, Paul, wall, J-Quan and Bubba-Fuckus Sparks? What? You got to go.

Somebody's got to go on the ground. Come on. Do some research. Please. Wait, I need to know how the whales are feeling. I'm like, are they getting down? No, they're doing that thing. Well, started twerking.

No, they're just ramming themselves into the wall. That thing is trying to hurt themselves. They're like, stop. I'm still a fucking whale. I'm in captivity. They're like, okay. Please don't distract from my captivity. I did fuck with ugly by Bubba sparks.

That was a fucking banger when I came out. I would not mind seeing the Bubba Sparks right now. I guess what, I mean, like, you'll see what, the main Bubba Sparks. I mean, yeah, I want to see ugly. Booty, booty, booty, working everywhere. That's Miss New Booty. Deliverance. Wait, deliverance was the album.

That's kind of a wacky one. Then there was, oh, that's right. Hideaway or Run Away. That one, was that one song? Oh. What the fuck is it called? Whatever. That's what I'm obsessed with.

That's what I'm obsessed with. Just that one that had Timberlin saying, with my fishing pole and my bottle to shine. And I was like, what the fuck is? I mean, whatever, you're from Virginia. I get it. It hits differently. But I was like, what kind of song is this? Fine.

I like it. Damn. Now I really, God. San Diego Zite gang, have y'all been? Let me know. Yes. Somebody go report. I'm jealous.

I heard Trina was there. And I was like, where? I know. And I didn't are, so people are, is that like, does it come with your ticket? Or people are like, I'm going to go see Trina and C. I think I'm just buying tickets to go see the concert. It's like 50 bucks or something. Probably like C-World's open during the day and then they perform at night or something.

No, it's daytime. Oh, day time. It was a daytime thing. Yeah. I want to see. I have a stage built out in like the middle of the water somehow. Like a walkway and the stage is in the water. And everybody's kind of sitting around in like the stadium seats looking at.

Right. Now I want to see them have Lumi D. Smiles and South Star. Who else? Just the super, super washed acts from like the odds. This is like very 2000. Little flip. Yeah, get little flip up there.

Who else? Chingy. Yeah. Although, you know, Chingy, he was blackballed from LA radio. People don't know that. That's a little thing I learned when I worked in rap radio in L.A. Like he sort of disrespected a concert out here in L.A. And all the programming directors in RAP radio were like,

bro, you will never hear a Chingy track in L.A. Oh, my God. Yeah. and there was like some real shit where they conspired against our boy Chingy. And he was just trying to get his check right there. And what did he do? Did he ever become an ambassador for Holiday Inn? I feel like he really did a great job for bringing Holiday Inn back into the consciousness.

So what's you doing? Anyway, Shana, anything? Oh, you're a special, everything else. Yes, you can find me online under Shana Christmas. It's under, it's on everything. S-H-A-N-A Christmas. It's my website. It's my special.

It's my YouTube channel. It's my Instagram. It's my tiki talk whenever I remember to use it. It's all the things. Same name on everything. Fantastic. Paula Viginalin, pleasure having you. Give us the details.

Where do they find you, follow you? What's a work of media you're enjoying? My handle is at Paula Viginalin. P-A-L-A-V-I-G-U-N-A-L-N everywhere. I have facial recognition comedy at the Comedy Store this Friday, 8 p.m. Earlier show come through. We have a great lineup.

And I have been, I was just scrolling through my Twitter and seeing which ones I liked. And there's the discussing film account has first look at an anemone, starring Daniel Day Lewis in his first role after retiring eight years ago, directed by his son, Ronan Day Lewis. And then there's a quote tweet by Bailey-like movie, getting Daniel Day Lewis in your debut feature because he's your dad, maybe the most powerful use of nepotism we've ever seen. He got him out of retirement. He's like, Dad, wake up. Get out of the nursing home. Dad, we got to go make a movie. He's method acting his ass off right now.

Yeah, there's so many. I feel like there's a couple kids on TikTok that are also doing that because like their grandfather's like Martin Scorsese or some shit. Yeah, Adam Scott's daughter is popping off. Yeah. That would be so funny. I think that's your requirement. Like if you had to leave a lot because you were filming or whatever as a kid when your kid was

a child, you have to do tick. TikTok's with them now. That just must be, you have to make their movie. I wonder if it's like humiliating. They're like, damn, man, my kid didn't give a fuck about anything I did.

They realized I was in that background in one of their TikTok videos. I'm like, Dad, I think actually, yeah, let's have a relationship now. Now it's the reverse. You are actually,

you're getting my fucking TikTok. I feel like, though, if Daniel Day Lewis was like method all throughout this kid's childhood, that's like the least he could do. Yeah, that's true. Can you imagine coming home and he's like,

you go out with your dad? And he's like, you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room. All the way and I drink and he's like, oh, milk, he's like, Dad, we're at a birthday party. Can you please calm the fuck down? We're at Johnny Rockets, man. Stop drinking my literally from my fucking milkshake. Everybody's staring. Stop, stop waxing your mustache right now.

This is my dad. No, he's just a bastard from a basket. They're like, oh, shit. Dad, please. You can find me at Miles of Gray. fucking everywhere. You can also find me talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé. Work in media, like, it's from the onion.

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