The Daily Zeitgeist - MASS DRUG FIRE SHOOTINGS! THAT IS ALL! 08.15.25

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

In episode 1915, Miles and guest co-host Pallavi Gunalan are joined by co-host of Secretly Incredibly Fascinating, Alex Schmidt, to discuss… DC Is So Unsafe! McDonald’s Latest Nostalgia Bait Meal Is A Rip Off In More Ways Than One and more! Benny Johnson on Washington, DC: “Entire neighborhoods, probably, need to be emptied, need to be bulldozed” Republican Senator Says He Doesn’t Wear Seatbelt in D.C. Because He Fears Being Carjacked: ‘I Don’t Buckle Up’ What are people doing with the Grimace shake? Here's the TikTok trend explained. Grimace Brought Big Sales Growth To McDonald's Fans Are Sharing Shocking Prices Of McDonald's New McDonaldland Meal In Their Towns I Tried the Mt. McDonaldland Shake to Figure Out the Mystery Flavor Step Inside McDonaldland VR: A Bold New Immersive World Featuring Grimace, Ronald McDonald, and Friends McDisney: The history of two unlikely forces Remembering The Forgotten Titans Of McDonaldland LISTEN: Riendo Con Cha Cha by La Playa SextetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I actually have a friend who has idetic memory and they, like, do remember everything. And it's crazy because they're, like, really good at predicting political, like, avenues. Because they've seen, like, they remember history. So they're like, well, this will have, yeah. The Matrix? They're like, they're like, Trump was going to be in the Epstein files. Apoc, download American history for me right now. Okay, let's go.

That's cool. You can do that with your... I can never do that with my eyes. I don't even know. That's sick. Kids in middle school would always do that. Freak me out. Act like a broken doll with the eyelids clicking.

Well, they... Showing the whites of your eyes, I can't... I don't know how to do that. This is actually an audition for... What about your eyelids? Can you flip your eyelids out? No, I never wanted to do that. Do you ever do that?

I never learned any of those skills. Yeah, I don't. I never did that. was like, I don't, my hands aren't sanitary. This is not appropriate at school. Yeah. No. You just look like you have a stye, Miles.

It doesn't go back and get stuck like that. That's how sly. Come over. Come over. I just smack the shit out of your face. I see, you live the closest. Come, come. Come.

My eyelid. The other one pops out. Like, when you can get this in. You're like, what? It's a cartoon. My eyelids start vulgar and shit. This is an I-Heart podcast. Hey guys, it's AZ Fudd.

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It's Friday. That's what one of the DJ used to do on Power 106 when it was Friday. I think shout out Yessie Ortiz when it was Friday. Shout out Rebecca Black. Shout out Rebecca Black also. Yes, also. But was not a DJ on Power 106. Anyway, and DJ charisma.

They would always be like, it's Friday. That's, I pick up a lot of habits from working in Rap Radio on LA. Anyway, Friday, August 15th. Shout out the homie, it's your birthday, bro. You're 40 now. You're washed, homie. Okay. See you at the old folks soccer game where you're still giving it.

Well, my friend is absolutely serving the elderly in this, like, senior citizens league because he's just now aged in. The highlight tapes are wild. Absolutely wild. I remember we went to your 40th, and you were serving just regular jello, not even shots. Not even, yeah, exactly. You were there. I had, I have porthos, potato balls, Dunkin' Donuts.

Yeah. And, yeah, it was just the shit I love. They were all blended together to make sure all of us could eat them. Put into an insure box for. everyone to drink. It was a form of venture. Anyway, it's Pride Day. Exactly.

August 15th, it's National Leathercraft Day. Okay? We were just talking about hobbies that make the ladies come to the yard and blacksmithing was up there. Is leather crafting up there? Okay, is it?

I don't know. It's also National Lemon Morang Pie Day and National Relaxation Day. Please relax, if you can. Okay. Nice to be reminded to unclench my jaw. Yeah, exactly. Hey, give your limbic system a break.

You know what I mean? Let that just Let that loosen up a little bit, okay? We'll do some exercises at the end of the episode. We'll do some deep breathing. Anyway, my name is Miles Gray, aka, why the fuck we fighting? Black folks just trying to do their job.

Aquaman is rising. Please move your steel boat or get this real smoke. The fading Montgomery. Okay, shut out. Randall Dixon art, we brought up chairteenth the other day with Fabricio Copano on the show. We're talking about chair history. Shout out to Randall Dixon Art for that wonderful, too close by next.

Just rendition of chair teeth. Lift every chair and swing. Exactly. I'm thrilled to be joined by my guest co-host today. One of the best to do it, folks. They say she's one of the smartest ever. They say she's one of the best arsonists in the city, potentially the cause of the house fire, the wildfire that took out Miles Bray's home.

Also, tonight, is it tonight? Facial recognition? Friday. No, it's tomorrow. Is it Friday? Wait, it's Friday. It's tonight. Tonight come through for facial recognition comedy at 8 p.m. 8 p.m.

Exactly. Look, I don't have to say anything else. You know her comedic stylings. You know her vocal stylings. You know her scientific stylings. Please welcome to the microphone. Palomiga, Holland. It's me, Jack O'Brien.

Oh, I like that. to do a jack imitation yeah what the fuck was that it's i don't know it's me hello it's me jack o'bride when the ghouls come out that's what he sounds like he sounds like the monster match to me miles your biggest mistake was telling me that you're moving your biggest mistake i'm going to burn that house down too buddy good luck good luck the fire it follows speaking of four movies i'm moving to the arctic actually where fires they cannot happen i'm going to stack up a bunch of penguins, and I'm kidding, that'd be so sad. I'm going to be a Trojan penguin. I'm going to come in like a wooden penguin and then come bust in the house. Anyway, that's

kind of a weird way to put that. Let's talk about our guests, okay? One of the best to do it. We know him from the days of cracked, the cracked podcast, maybe fucking Jeopardy, maybe their writing, maybe their wonderful podcast, secretly incredibly fascinating. You know them as Alex Schmidt. I know them as Alex Schmidt. Hey, it's great to be here. Great to have you, Alex. Yeah, I, I love a, like, tension of Will the Next House burned down. It's very excited. Yeah, yeah. That's a lot of lower. All of these, she's really good with narratives and narrative structure. She said, we could, let's keep this going. We might get in a few more seasons out of this. Yeah. I'm not going to argue. The checks can't stop coming in. We need the checks to keep coming in. So if at a certain point, it may. be revealed that we're working together, which may negate my lawsuit that I'm pursuing in Southern California Edison. So, who knows? Ooh. Yeah,

that is a good twist if, like, Paola V. is you when you're asleep, like a Jekylland Hyde thing. Like, you turn into the person with her own house down, you know? Tyler Byrne. Tyler Byrden. Yeah. I'm just like, burn this place down and also, like, can we get ice cream?

That's like me use an alter. I'm like, yeah. Yeah, go steal the soap and and sell it and then get ice cream and cookies. Hell yeah, exactly. We're going to do some light arson and then we go to Diddy Reese for an ice cream cookie witch, you know? What's the last thing we can call it light club? Because you light stuff. Oh, Ignite Club.

Yeah, one of them. We've got a few. We're workshopping this for our weird made-up gang where we do light arson and have cookie sandwiches at the end. I don't know. Maybe that's watch. Ice is going to start recruiting people with that shit. They already dropped the eight.

they increase the aid so now like the elderly can be ice agents and christie noams really loving that uh it's it's a mess over there anyway it's gonna be like that it's like elder abuse on both sides it's yeah yeah just like oh my god like even like the people are like damn bro your country should take care of you they're like it was this or walmart and you're like oh god um anyway thanks for being here alics thanks for being here paula v let's give the listeners just a quick quick taste off the old brick, just to make sure it's 100% pure of what we're going to be talking about in the episode. First, we're going to talk about, obviously, with every illegal military

occupation of an American city, comes the right-wing propaganda to try and manufacture consent for the nonsense. In this case, D.C. is so unsafe. No one can ever come to D.C. So we will talk about some of the bullshit. Yeah, because all those frigging statues staring at me, like, what are they thinking? You know what I mean? That's so wild. There's so many statues. Do they come to life at night? Someone just reveals how unwell they are by that's one of their threat vectors.

They're like, you know those, their statues in D.C. That's going to be the next conspiracy. They're not even Confederate. Like, what are they doing? You know, you know Abe Lincoln is that big, right? He's just being real still. Okay? He's being real still.

Just what he's waiting. He's rubbing his little. Have you heard of the national treasure? It's Abe Lincoln. Oh, no. Yeah, it's if he was big. We'll also talk about, oh, sorry, go on. I like the idea that if it's an Abe Lincoln statue coming to life,

he would just help people and make stuff better. It would only be good if he came to life. Or is the horror film version, like, if there was a giant statue version of Abe Lincoln that came to life, and like, maybe he just eats people and rips them from limb to limb. That's fun, too. I was going to say he finally, like, is able to come out as gay. But ripping limb from limb, that's also pretty gay.

He's like, he's trying to be low-key at like pride and shit. They're like, is that a rainbow top hat? Is that a 30-foot-tall marble Abe Lincoln with with a leather vest on? Okay. Get it in. What a great. Great. And then we'll check it with McDonald's because they are doing some shit that's really desperate.

They're trying to bring like the fucking. the vibes back from the grimace shake. You know what I mean? Like they're trying to do a Barbenheimer thing. Like remember that thing that happened organically? Can we force it to happen again? The answer will surprise you. And it is no.

But we will also talk about just everything around this thing is so fucking sad. It's cringy as fuck. And we may even get to those mutant bunnies that you have seen in Colorado that look fucking terrifying. But it's actually not that big of a deal. So I'm kind of bummed about that. I was hoping for a rabbit-based apocalypse, but we will have to wait. But first, Alex Schmidt.

This sounds anti-la-booboo, by the way, that last thing. I don't know. I don't know. Lebooboo are cute. They're nice. No, not in this house. No, no Jesus. Alex, you better rebuke the Labibu.

In this house, Labibu's are haunted dolls. The Labibu's are, they are nodes for a demonic network of energy that I will not have in this home. Okay. We are not compromising our salvation in the kingdom of Christ. I'm sorry, not today. Not today. But we will break every other commandment there is. But first, Alex, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are or what you're into right now?

Or we're into like five minutes ago. Yeah, I tend to be just searching stuff for the podcast, Sef, secretly incredibly fascinating. But the weird recent one is the flag of Jamaica. I've been learning about the flag of Jamaica because it turns out, as of now, it's the only national flag. the world with no red and no white and no blue. Wow. Okay, I'm digging that. Okay.

It's really cool. Black, green and yellow, right? It's green and yellow and black. Yeah. What is the X signify? I look at somebody who loved cool runnings as a child, consider me an expert on Jamaican history. Wait, what else?

I mean, I'm guessing this is for an episode, so I won't make you do the whole, this is part of what we do on the day that guys. We have podcasts on, and then we make them just do their show. We're like, do your show on our show. We'll turduck in the show. Showed to duck in, yeah. I know we, because we have one coming up about the color red, and so it was just thinking about like red and white are on most flags, one or the other.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's a very rare exception that Jamaica, the green symbolizes the land, the yellow, the sun, and the black, the people. Oh, that's so beautiful. After independence from Britain, they didn't do the corny union jack in the corner thing. They just made a flag, and it's great. But it's the only one in the world with no red and no white and no. blue right now. Right. Dang. Wow. Adele was really on to something when she was wearing those

colors. I mean, yeah, when we saw her at the when she was Jamaican, Adele was really on to something. Yeah, yeah. Those mixes were so good. I still want to hear them. Look, when it's time for the Notting Hill Carnival, the questionable attire comes out. Have you seen, you know that one white guy who's always rapping in Patois? He's like a British dude. He kind of looks like Tom York. Ted Hanks? No. he's like, you haven't seen this guy? No. I don't know.

Here, I'll just play a clip of him because he is wild, but he is out here. He was at the Notting Hill Carnival, and he also had his hair and some questionable braids. This guy, go on your fool it lock, how old he pussy, blood clah, you know it fool it all. You never seen this guy? Well, he looks like a landlord, but like, what? Why is my landlord rapping? Why is my landlord who inherited this building from his aunt in my business, saying it smells like weed?

You look like weed, sir. That's what is it, huh? But I heard, okay, I heard that like, I don't know. No, I heart radio. I heart radio. Yeah. But I've heard radio. And I've also seen tweets.

And I saw a lot of tweets around the time that Adele was at the Notting Hill Festival. It was like, you guys don't understand, like, this is not about America and, like, appropriation. Like, people do this here. And then I was like, so I'm like, does everyone do that there? Like, every, like, white British person is like, it's dress up day. Right, right, right. I mean, I think she was even like, maybe the Bantu knots were not a good look. Protective hairstyles, maybe not.

She did, I remember right after she said, I didn't read the fucking room. Oh, that's so funny. I love her so much. Yeah. Her voice is very cute. Yeah. Except she's an totem supporter, so whatever. Anyway, Alex, what is something you think is underrated?

I think I've been reading recently about just what the American public knows. And I think if you know any basic facts about, like, which party controls Congress or like, what is a freedom in the first amendment. Like, anybody who knows an incredibly basic thing about the country. government, you're in the minority of Americans. What are we saying? How, like, what percentile are we hitting if I'm like, if I can tell you like three amendments? It's the main one I looked at it was just, do you know which party controls Congress? And apparently recent surveys, it's around 68 percent of Americans knew.

And then back in the 1960s, it was a little bit lower, which is amazing. I would have thought social media would have made us less smart about that. Wait, 68% of the country knows who's in control of Congress right now? yeah yeah like every election i feel like there's a lot of scuttle butt in the news of like now that this seat went to this party it'll change this perception of what kind of nobody actually knows any of that like the few people who do probably have a party picked out and everyone else is just vibing so so if you know anything great job you're underrated you've done a good job but i feel like part of that is everything is hell so like us like trying to pay our like people can't

memorize like numbers and amendments when they're trying to like pay their bills and survive, you know what I mean? But we, I mean, I know people know who kind of to be angry at, you know what I mean, in terms of directing their anger towards a party. So I guess in that sense, but maybe it doesn't go further than that. I feel like people are angry at everybody. Yeah, that's true. I mean, yeah, how many people are still just like fucking Biden?

You're like, yeah. People are saying that seriously still. Well, they, I mean, even the timeline of like COVID, they, they blame like Biden for all of COVID, even though Trump was president for the first party. Yeah, that was even happening when they were saying that Obama was in charge of the Epstein sweetheart deal and shit, too.

And people were like, no, it was George Bush, you fucking losers. Get a fucking get a calendar. You know what I mean? But really, like, Obama's behind all of this for the last time. I wish Obama. I wish it was that elegantly solvable. I wish it was. That was one person. Yeah,

yeah. You know what fuck is? Just go back to George Washington. Okay? Just Yeah, where do you get your teeth from, bitch? I know they're not wooden, okay? Okay, that's woke. Making me admit that they were slave teeth is woke. So we're going to keep saying these are made of wood. Gross, dude.

That's also really. You're just bullying George Washington? Like, bruging nasty ass palatosa's ass mouth. Go to Turkey. Go to Turkey, fool. How embarrassing. How embarrassing. We left Britain and then to solve the teeth problem.

You took them. From slaves. What's under this hat? Oh, that's a wig? Oh, my guy. Oh, what is that? When I move your hair, it's dusted up in here. You've had some ashy-ass hair, dude.

Bro, it's dandruff, my lady. Oh, shit, George Washington. Okay, I would not be a lady. I would probably be a slave back then, too. No, we'd be freaking them out because we'd be dressed like this and we could say and we'd be like, bro. Yeah. I feel like, is that a key and peel sketch or something?

Everything's a key and peel sketch. everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's just a good way to default. Eat shit, Chappelle. Everything's a key and peel sketch. Everything is key and peel or in living color. Who knows?

Alex Schmidt, what is something you think is overrated? They just released a new jersey for Manchester City, the soccer team. It's their new third jersey. Most of the Man City uniforms are great. This was one of the worst ones I've ever seen. It's a mess. It just looks like tense material. I don't know why they would wear it at all

Is this the gray one? The blue one? Oh, the gray? Oh, whoa. What the fuck? Yeah, it's just like gray with some green stripes. It looks like you for bringing my airport or something. Thank you for bringing my football tribal.

It literally like they're trying to do texture, but. Yeah. But it looks dirty. It looks like they just didn't wash a jersey. Oh, yeah. It looks like it kind of looks like the music video for put them on the glass. Oh, I haven't seen it, but... Oh, yeah, that's a Sir Makes-A-Law video.

It was very R-rated. I'm sorry, that's a deep cut, B-E-T, fucking description. But it looks like a window pane with water. Yeah, there's an artist I know who paints, like, very realistic paintings of, like, you, like, what you see through a window when you're driving, when it's raining, and it looks like that.

But from afar, it looks dirty as hell. Right, right, right. It just looks dirty. I mean, yeah, because, Alex, I know you're getting, you're a bit of a kit man now these days. I feel like you like to observe a kit now. Are you a city fan? No, I'm a Manchester United fan. So also I'm just hating on them.

Can you all speak American? What the fuck is a kit? Manchester United was one of the most powerful clubs in the Premier League. They've had a bit of a falling off. And now that Liverpool has won 20 league titles. A kit is a jersey. Oh, a jersey. Is the jersey.

Yes, yes. I mean, it is humiliating enough. to be wearing a man city uh kit so to on top of that to wear this that's a double triple wait what's the good what's the one that you you root for oh me arsenal football club mate oh god wait those are two the only two i've like heard of i think arsenal yeah yeah they're they're a north london team and the i don't know if you caught me i was shading adele because she supports our arch rivals toddum hotspur oh well obviously i'm in the know i'm all cut up now And also, just so you know, the Manchester City is a sports washing operation in terms of, like, their ownership, because they are owned by the Dubai, basically.

And so they're like, you know, it's like the same, Saudi Arabia owns Newcastle. Like, so there are, you know, we have these nation states who are sports washing. This is not how I wanted brown people to own white people. I was thinking reverse slavery. Yeah. But like, no, they're doing it subtly. They're like, if we can get people to go, yippee, and then subtly have that. associated with our country.

Maybe they'll look past the slavery. Yeah. That's also the same thing with like Dubai chocolate. And people are like, oh my God, Dubai chocolate. I'm like, they are treat washing their human rights violations right now. What is Dubai chocolate, though? I saw it at the store. It was like a million dollars.

And I was like, okay, I'm not going to steal this because I could get caught. This is a felony. This is a felony. Dubai chocolate is a felony to steal. And then I saw that Trader Joe's was like, Trader Joe's is Dubai chocolate. It's our own version. I was like, get the fuck out of here. But what, why is it so fancy?

What's the deal with it? It has like a pistachio filling in it. Pistachios, yeah. Yeah, which is what people are like. Is that what makes it expensive? I mean, are pistachios the new gold? It must be the importing of it. I don't know.

I have no idea. Yeah, it's confusing. I agree. We're like, everything is so, like, amazing and trending because of the tariffs. Like, it's so, it's everything is a delicacy now because of the tariff. It's actually $35 because. dollars because it's made with a hundred dollars you can taste grape we live in we live in a fancy ass country you can taste the fucking sorrow in this chocolate bar it's fucking vibey i can taste my

child's college fund dwindling away as i buy this erwan strawberry oh my god oh you remember that's it the $20 strawberry yeah i have friends who work at erwan and i was like did you eat the strawberry and they were like yeah you know friends who work at aruan shout out the shout out the I have a homie who works at Arawan, the people watching the frustrated text, the stream of consciousness text I get from my one friend who works at Arawan constantly like, oh my gosh, like, if I have to see another motherfucker come in here asking for this reusable, like, there's always some shit going on having to deal with the Aeroon customer. Put me in that group chat. I love shit talking, even if I don't know the people. Oh, yeah, yeah. You got a shit talk. You got a shit talk. Yeah. And it's like a hotline of like mental people watching. you know? I just get the text and then I put it together. I'm the absolute, you know? Absolutely. It's always, he's always texting some form of what do these people fucking do for a living?

He's like, it's always some shit like that. He's like, who the fuck are you? Like, basically he's like, you're pulling up at 1145 a.m. looking like casual shit and you're buying $700 in like fucking produce casually. And it's all, it's been. in two bags. I love that Arawan employees are the opposite of Trader Joe's employees where like the Trader Joe's people

be like, how is your day like overly friendly? And then Arowat was like, what the fuck are you? What are you doing? I don't know.

You want you to pause it back for the glass. I don't even know why we give this shit out in glass containers, bro. Just give it back, man. Are you swimming in the Haley

Beber's shake? Is that what you're doing? The smoothie? Are you filling a bathtub with it? Why do you need so much? It's wild. I have like relatives like cousins in Japan who would be like, oh, can you bring me like an Arawan shopping bag? I'm like, oh my God. I could smack the shit out of you when I see you though. A lot of things are like trendy. Like I remember bringing stuff back. Trader Joe's bags are huge. Reusable Trader Joe bags are fucking huge in Europe and Asia. Or like the, wasn't there like a Trader Joe's like mini bag that they had or something like that? And then everybody was like obsessed with them. I don't know. Like people latch on to like.

consumerist weird trends or whatever and then like need to have them because american culture is like so exported they're like this is incredible we have to have this just write a manifesto and learn how to make your own home brew explosives you know what i mean that's american god fucking get it together be loud in public and you're buying fucking dubai chocolate no no i'm downloading the anarchist cookbook in pdf form all right we will see See, y'all. In a little bit, we're going to take a quick break. Word from our sponsor. Oh, we have no sponsors anymore.

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My favorite line was what Neil Armstrong said. It would have been harder to fake it. than to do it. Listen to American History Hotline on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Dr. Joy Hardin Bradford, and in session 421 of Therapy for Black Girls,

I sit down with Dr. Athea and Billie Shaka to explore how our hair connects to our identity, mental health, and the ways we heal. Because I think hair is a complex language system, right? In terms of it can tell how, old you are, your marital status, where you're from, you're a spiritual belief. But I think with social media, there's like a hyperfixation and observation of our hair, right? That this is sometimes the first thing someone sees when we make a post or a reel is how our hair is styled.

You talk about the important role hairstylists play in our community, the pressure to always look put together, and how breaking up with perfection can actually free us. Plus, if you're someone who gets anxious about flying, don't miss Session 418 with Dr. Angela Neil Barnett, where we dive into managing flight anxiety. Listen to therapy for black girls on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. Like I was saying up top, we saw this in L.A. when Los Angeles was deemed a war zone with roving gangs. And we had fucking, there was, remember that raid that happened in MacArthur Park where they were like, you can't drop a boat into the fucking fake ass pond in MacArthur Park.

No boats and tactical assault teams must keep it to limit it. No boats. More like showboats. Thank you. But like, we have this thing. That's my time, folks, honestly. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.

I just start like sliding my hands across. soundboard, just every possible noise. Yeah. Oh, just all of them at once like this. Yeah. Here we go. Okay. Oh, there's another one. Hold on. Oh, my God.

That was so loud. I said off so many. I really enjoyed that. Yeah. That was good. And if you were curious, that was Joby Jobob by the Gypsy Kings. Okay. That's a goaded track.

Shout out to the K-1s, who also was in a date of that guy. So anyway, right now, the playbook of we must make this peaceful city, I guess, appear to be some kind of hellhole in order to justify, you know, light martial law across the land. That's happening now in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, like with L.A., it was like, it's a war zone. And here is the two pictures of the Waymo cars on fire to prove it. And then you have people. And I do it again. Right? And you have people, you have pundits going on TV to make up stories about how they saw a fucking MS-13 fentanyl baptism take place of Universal Studios so I can't go there anymore. It was inside the minion.

It was crazy. We can't go. Nintendo World? They just got fiends bent over like folding chairs. I saw Luigi and Nintendo World. He had a gun. He had a gun. Luigi Mangione was radicalized in Nintendo World.

we sighed we saw we know we know that's why we must federalize universal studios Hollywood what's that dusting on the churros that's fentany that's fentany let me try it okay it's cinnamon and sugar I was wrong I was wrong about that I will try every single other one but let me get a taste of that one yeah that's such a weird that's like such a weird that's me as a cop trying to just get dough that's yeah no that's someone's dad who's a DEA agent who goes let me just test that really quick let me see if this is What are these drugs? Dirty cops?

Diabetes cop. Let me try another one. There's like, you have two. Good cop, bad cop. Yeah. So anyway, D.C. is now in the same, in the midst of their smear campaign. Just before I start, we've all been to D.C. I fucking love Washington, D.C.

Shout out to the spy museum that taught me about the pigeon that saved 200 people during World War II and also keeps getting misgender. she's a queen. Oh, okay. Yeah. We love pigeons. We love pigeons. Shout out to sporty thieves, the rap group with us on no pigeons as a misogynist reply to TLCs, no scrubs.

Whoa. Yeah, yeah. I was on the wrong side of history on that one. Miles! I was thinking no scrubs on the playground. I was on those like, you know those metal bars where you could just, they just had them in the playground and you just spint around them? I was just like, I don't want no, no, it's just spinning. The way starts off is

A pigeon is a girl who'd be walking by My rim, the blue brand new spark with five Her feet hurt so she knows she won't ride But she fronted like she can't say hi What? Uh-oh, look, that's not Wait, that actually does sound fun though That's what it was uh-oh, y'all chicks ain't getting out Uh-oh, and then it starts getting really problematic

After that part. Yeah, yeah I want the Kids Bob version so I can still enjoy it Uh-oh, your downstairs ain't worth a Ramada. Uh-oh. I think that would be the kids. Look, again, it was 1999. I didn't know. I was 14 years old. And I was, I was, I hated women. I was 14 years old. I thought women were bad. I still do. That's why I had a son. First of all, that's exactly, because you know, these females, what they do out here. No. These females. Females. So anyway, D.C. now has to be the focus of,

of a total smear campaign. Pundits are doing shit like the weed smell. There's so much weeds. We talked about this yesterday. It's fucking weed smell, which is like, there's people of color around. Is it bad that I feel safer when I smell weed?

I'm like, oh, okay. I'm like, these people aren't calling the cops for nothing over here. They're not calling them at all because they don't trust. We don't trust them. That's why. Yeah. I think it feels more like home.

Pop-fated lurchiness, so I hate cops. There you go. That's the only reason, though. they're always trying to catch me. I love everything else they're doing. If they would just focus on something other than, like, serial arsonists. As Usher said, let it burn, you know?

Jesus Christ. It's Friday, y'all. It's Friday. And we've lost our minds. But again, this is just like they're trying to act like this is a city that no one in their right mind would visit. And, you know, to be fair, sure, all crimes, all cities have crime. but like the way the most effective ways to address crime that you know experts talk about all the time which is like you know maybe less police presence more investment in social services better wages affordable housing yeah free child care shit like that living anyway that's always ignored in favor of we need more goon squad on the street what's their record with crime bad but let's keep doing it oh i think it's pretty good because they do create a lot of it so that's like pretty cool they have like a high crime can we stop with the humble brags about your phelonious record like okay first of all

first of all thank you call me felonius i saw a clip yesterday of some of those guys walking through georgetown like the militarized wait they're going through georgetown yeah which is like townhouses that are made a brick cupcake shops that's about it like they're so fucking bored and you know i'm sure even those racists they want to be hassling like people of color not people in Patagonia fleece vests with boat shoes on. That's all you're going to get in Georgetown. That could be people of color. We need to start dressing like white people, okay?

We need to start. I thought about that the other day. We need to start for them, buy them. Okay. Fit bit. Start fit bidding. We need camo. I mean, if you wore a fit bit, they'd be like,

yeah, that person's, they're white. You're trying to count your steps and you're not running. That's how I appear safe. Yeah, I put a Fitbit on with a fleece. Good old Apple Watch. Yep, and I smile real big for him. So anyway, some of the worst offenders this week for, in terms of like making stuff up about how unsafe DC is,

first up is Benny Johnson, just one of these fucking clowns on the red. No need to really get into his, you can assume all the worst about this guy. um here's him just making shit up about a crime i've never even fucking hurt just try and follow this this is where he's talking about like he he goes on this sort of like monologue about ranting about how like they're like dc is a hellhole and this is why because of just like the western civilization is at stake and he's like and don't believe the bullshit you hear from people saying that oh like it's actually not that bad this is this is how he quantifies this by giving you an anecdote about how his own family was at risk in Washington, D.C.

Don't believe the bullshit that you hear online from some reporters. Oh, crimes down in D.C. Well, my infant nearly died in a drug fire after mass shootings. So no, D.C. is not safe. And I can tell you this, as a matter of fact, it is one of the worst, most racist narco-states and welfare states imaginable. In that neighborhood that I would walk every single day, racial epithets were screamed at us,

rocks were thrown at us because we were white people. This is a, this city. Shut the fuck up, babe. Did you hear? If I heard somebody going, get these crackers out of here, I'd be like, this is like a nice place to settle down. Also, yeah, we're, but also, I did, I just want to say I didn't start the infant fire,

but also like, why do these Republicans kids? admitting their bad parents. Why did you say my infant almost died? Did you leave it alone? Hold on. Did you leave the child alone here? Let me just, let me just run this back again. From some reporters. Oh, crimes down. No. Okay. This is. No. Crime's not down. No. This is, again, I'm, I'm not a sociologist or legal scholar. So I don't know what exactly he's saying here. But what? I'm just have to run this back in D.C. Well, My infant nearly died

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I'm sorry I didn't mean I laughed every time he said He said drug fire And I didn't mean to Because I know Drug Fires are real

but the way he said it, it's like, I. It sounds like, bullshit. My infant. I'm sorry, this is going to be my favorite piece of the media at the end of the show. Nearly died in a drug fire after mass shooting. Did somebody, like, shoot at, what is, were they shooting at cocaine or something?

Okay. In a club? What is that? So he lives in a, does he live in a, Does he live in a trap house with a meth lab in it? So someone came to to rob the trap house and then the mass shooting caused a fire in the drug lab somewhere, but that's where you live? Right. I'm like, I'm trying to be.

What is the area code of DC or the zip code? Oh, I don't know. The area code is 202. I was trying to do a 1738. Whatever. Yeah, so anyway, you heard it. He's in love with the cocoa, you guys. I'm in love with the cocoa.

My infant nearly died in a drug fire after mass shooting, Spentanyl. It does. He can't stop laughing about it. The way he describes it, it sounds like he threw his infant over his shoulder as he fled without taking care of the kids. Yeah, why was the child alone? Like, why didn't he almost died too? I don't know. Oh, my God.

Unbelievable. Was your kid doing the, was your kid cutting the drugs in the trap house? I don't know. Was it a drug prodigy? That's why we were butt naked, because when we're bagging up, they don't trust us. That's why we have to be butt naked when we're bagging up. So that way we can't steal anything. Okay?

And my, that's why I couldn't change his die beat. Yeah. That's why he's not potty trained. What's that powder in your butt? Huh? Wait, so what are you doing? Well, me and my child are constantly bagging up cocaine. like what do you

anyway so you almost died in a fucking drug fire mass shootings I guess this is so stupid but this is how dumb their fucking audiences because it's nonsensical it sounds like some shit like even a comedic writer would have trouble coming up with something so absurd that it rises to this level

yeah that phrase definitely sounds like something on Twitter that would go viral like yeah like I don't know Nothing is coming to mind, but you know how, like, the therapist was like, I'm doing, or the lady was like, I'm doing emotional labor for my son or like the disabled hijabby woman or whatever, like that thing that went by, like, all of those random things put together. Farrell hogs, yeah, it feels like something like that, but it caught me so off guard to hear

him say it so seriously. Well, you know, you guys on the left are so heartless. You just, I can't believe you're laughing after hearing that Benny Johnson's infant almost died in a drug fire after mass shootings. Okay. So let's move on. On my birthday, can you just text me that instead of happy birthday?

I don't bring me so much more joy. I feel like I just need to make that like a drop on the fucking keyboard. Oh my God. Yeah, yeah. Wait, one more time. In a drug fire. After mass shootings. You have to add the in the infant.

Is it almost like, it almost sounds like, He's at, like, a tapas restaurant of, like, urban crime. And it's like, we're going to start off. We'll have a drug shooting. Your infant will almost die from a drug fire, but we'll do that after the mass shootings. If that works. Do you want that to come at the same time as the drug fire?

Or do you want, we'll have it after the mass shooting. My infant nearly died. Uh-huh. In a drug fire. Uh-huh. After mass shootings. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Because. Because of the WNBA. Right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I haven't laughed like this in a really long time. It feels good. It feels good. I got the giggles.

I get it. When I saw it too, I was like, this is going in the show. Because this is so, I feel, and it's grim. I'm going to make it my ringer. We can only. laugh on the other side of it being so fucked up that this is being used as a justification for militarized police and just federalized police in D.C., but holy shit, guys. People throwing rocks at him and calling him because he's white.

You're describing what happened to black people, okay, during the, like, that's what you're, you're just trying to do a uno reverse, race reversal and be like, and that's me. How come we've never heard of this happening to you before? That's wild because I see so many videos on the internet of that happen to people of color. But I can't even... I know. And I love, a white victimhood is such a hot commodity in this country.

I can't believe I haven't seen that video. If he ran into a group of teens of color, and they just, like, he went roasting him. Yeah, they're cooking his outfit. Yeah, they're literally just like, why did you leave your infant in that fire, bitch? Damn. They're they like, oh my God, you're such a terrible, terrible father. Why did you? After a mass shooting, just let your baby in that drug fire?

I can't believe. They're like, they're saying racial slurs to me. That's so crazy. Anyway, so. Oh, thank you for that. I feel really good right now. The other person is, Victor just said, he was a guy eating beans during cars, too. Ooh, the famous sweet.

Yeah, he might be. No, but just that. He's like the bean, dad. Yeah, yeah. So, anyway, there, Mark Wayne Mullen, if we remember, he's the fake tough guy. who will pretend fight a union boss, but actually not really. He's actually a shook man. Oklahoma Senator?

Yeah, yeah. He says the weed smell. Also, the weed smell is out of control in Washington, D.C. Fun fact, Oklahoma has the most weed stores per capita in the United States. More than over out here in weed a fornia. Y'all got more weed stores per 100,000 people in Oklahoma than any fucking place in the country. So tell me more about the. We'd smell million.

Well, the children got to work somewhere, you know? Exactly. Yeah. We need all these kids to have jobs. Someone's got to trim this flower and make sure it's cured. Come on now. But anyway. It's to Benny Johnson's infant again. He's like, fuck, I got caught again.

Yeah, why? Could you imagine? I play the cliff of Mark, Mark Wayne Mullen, and goes, my infant nearly died. Yeah. In a drug fire after a mass baptism, or mass shooting. after a Sooner's football game where they hop-boxed that covered wagon that's part of the entry thingy.

And they almost crashed it into my infant who I left right there on the 50-yard line. Nobody's talking about these mass batches in the U.S. They need to be. They need to be. Terrifying.

So here's, oh, God, this clip just pales in fucking comparison after Benham's side. Benny Johnson was so, that was so absurd. You've got some bangers, Betty Johnson. on me, I should have, I should have closed with that. But here's, this is Mark Wayne Mullen just lying straight up about the state of safety in, uh, in D.C. and that carjack, just again, putting out just false information about carjackings, but then say, and that's why I don't wear a seatbelt, because that's how tough I am. I'm very scared in D.C. to wear my seatbelt

because of the carjackings. And by the way, I'm not joking when I say this. I drive around in Washington, D.C. in my Jeep. And yes, I do drive myself. And I don't, um, and I don't buckle up. And the reason why I don't buckle up and people can say whatever they want to. They can raise their eyebrows at me again is because of carjacking. I don't want to be stuck in my vehicle when I need to exit in a hurry because I got a seatbelt around me. And that, and I wear my seatbelt all the time. But in Washington, D.C., I do not because it is so prevalent of carjacking. And, and I don't want the same thing happen to me. What's happened to a lot of people that work Uh huh. Um, first of, can we just, can we just sort of, this is something my therapist says to do is to reality test your fears, you know, like, oh, that, that seems like something you think about this. Can you, can we really reality test this? So in this, he says he doesn't wear a seatbelt because a carjacking could happen. So in this instance, is he just leaving his family the fuck in the car, the sex is like, no, he says he drives himself. He says he drives himself, not his family. His infant is driving.

his own Subaru in the back. No, I think he was juxtaposing that with someone. I think he was mentioning Chuck Schumer, someone, how they have drivers. Somebody else drivers, yeah. And he's like, I drive my own self. I just love the idea of going 75 on a highway and just being like, they can get me at any moment. I got to be, you know what? I think political Republican commentators, I think, you know what, they should be safe and not wear their seat belts.

I think it's fine. I believe Charles Darwin, do your thing, baby. Do your thing, okay? Hand these awards out, honey. Do your thing. I know. I'm like, Charles Darwin, do your thing. Do your thing, girly pop.

It's a Darwin summer, y'all. But again, like, what the fuck is in this instance, he's, I don't know, like, I feel like a tough guy. He'd be like, I ain't letting anybody take my fucking car. But in this instance, I mean, usually car jacker. He's like, no one getting you up readily. I need to get out of him. A car jacker is going to be like, no, bro, I need you out of the fucking car. They're not going to be like, hurry up.

man, your seatbelt is taking too long. They just want the fucking car. So I don't understand the logic of like, I can't even have my seat belt on. That's why I also don't wear a booster seat. Okay, normally I would. I don't. I also like the idea of like whatever Republicans are like,

you don't like this country, get out. And then they're like, we need to take D.C. back. I'm like, bitch, leave. Leave if there's an infant fire mask carjacking. Leave. please please if you're scared leave if you don't like it there leave that's what i'm saying go back to your oklahoma weed shops or whatever get out with your fucking booty weed i don't know where you i don't know what y'all are

doing to it over at oklahoma anyway but again dc a beautiful city we got free museums it's chocolate city it's such a black beautiful black city we love it exactly just waiting to pop out and show people um but yeah again I think, again, if you are a person who is constantly in a state of fight or flight around people of color, then, yeah, maybe it is terrifying. But for me, they're like, yes, exactly. You get it. Yeah. Well, because that's always the coded language when they talk about Democrat-run cities. It's like that there's people of color there. Yeah, because it sounds like Chicago's next from what Trump's been saying. And that's just another city with black people and a Democratic mayor. But all these right-wing leader type guys, they seem really excited to tell people how afraid they are of everyone.

because they can't say they're afraid of black people so then they just have to say they're afraid of everyone in the city and it almost feels like a kink thing or something like they need everyone to know how terrified they are for some reason I can't understand I'm so scared of you guys Mark Wayne Mullen I saw those pictures of you on January 6

hiding behind the chair like you're like okay you're not a tough guy you're not a tough guy and that's okay and that's okay that shit's frightening you know what I mean but don't don't do your selective shook boy act just to malign good cities like D.C. or Chicago.

And yeah, I think specifically, he really has it out for cities with black mares. No, I say let's go further. Let's go further. Let's go further. Let's do reverse sundown towns. Yeah. Let's say white people are not allowed in D.C. You know what I mean?

We got the sundown towns in the south. Let's do a reversal. Let's switch it up. Everybody's talking about race wars. And the race wars are just like white people. Uno reverse and the race wars are just like white people being like

I'm scared of black people and now I'm going to terrorize them and that's like the extent of that like nobody is picking up arms against you or is that community in Arkansas where they're like it's a whites only community and they've got they've turned it into their own little like M-Ni-Shamelon movie where they're like and it's just

us oh my god they're going to be so inbred oh yeah already And also with like white congressman especially being like DC's terrible, DC's terrible, it's a cell phone. Like Congress runs DC. Right. Like you are doing a bad job, apparently.

Did you think you were going to work hybrid remote? Like what did you think was going to happen? You ran for the fucking position. You're like maybe when I get there, they'll like change it. It's all bullshit. It's like, I don't know, man. Like the thing that's most terrifying to me about DC is how much people jog there. I can't believe how, like, are people are so into fitness in D.C.

I'm like, who do you think you are just jogging and shit everywhere? Maybe that's what they meant, like throwing stones. Like, they're trying to get fit and it hurts my feelings. Maybe that's why, metaphorical stones, you know. Could be, could be. All right. God, just, you know, we got a lot of mileage out of that Benny Johnson. Play the kid up again, play it again.

It's going to be like I need it. She does that shoot directly into my veins. One more time. Putting his baby through such a Rube Goldberg machine of a drug fire from a mass shooting. It's fantastic. He's like a fucking Looney Tunes video and shit. Like the baby's in the drug fire after the mass shooting. Here we go.

One more time for the people in the back. My infant nearly died. In a drug fire. After mass shooting. I can't. Every beat of that, it's perfect. It's so good. That's going to be my wedding vows. That's going to be my wedding vows. Do you take this man? My infant. Nearly died. I believe the bride has prepared her vows. Yes. Thank you. Babe. My infant. My infant. Hold my hands. Hold my hands. Look me in line. My infant. I nearly died. drug fire. Oh, my God. After mass shootings. That was beautiful, babe. Kiss me. Are you going to say I love you or anything? No, that's it. That's it. That's it. If he doesn't understand why those

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And we're back. And just before we go, I want to check in with just this new thing McDonald's is trying to pull on their customers, aside from the terribly fucking high prices that are just absurd at this point. They're trying to get the fucking vibes back from the grimace shake.

Okay, the thing that we canonically said was grimace has come that was making people turn into Zon. And they were losing their minds on TikTok. They're like, what if we can get like some kind of new viral fun thing going for kids? And they've got a new milkshake out with an adult happy meal around this thing called McDonald land, a magical fantasy world of clowns and talking burgers and fucking grimace and whatever the fuck he is. Again, so this was like, this was something that was part of like the like McDonald's company history. but they said, it's been gone for 20 years and now it's back.

Here's a thing, though. Bring back the fucking playplaces like kids get sick again. Yeah, exactly. Can you imagine in this era of like bacterial infections? Like what a fucking McDonald's. Everyone's getting COVID at McDonald's. That's part of the happy meal. Everyone's going to get hand, foot, and plastic balm.

A chew a chew, bitch. Hand foot and mouth. So now they've got this thing, the McDonald's Land Milkshake, which looks like absolute shit. Have you seen? Are you guys looking at this picture here? Of it. Check it out right here.

It's like this fucking unicorn-esque thing with like a blue thing with pink whipped topping on top. That's in the advertising. And then in practice, people are bringing home this shit that looks like the inside of a zombie's asshole. That was like a Laboubu took a shit. Yeah, exactly. That looked like a Laboubu took a shit on shit. Like a Labu-Boo Boo Boo.

You know what I mean? Uh-huh. La-dudu. La-dudu. And the other thing is, in some places, they're charging people for, like, it's like a 10-piece McNugget meal with a quarter or a quarter-pounder kind of meal with this fucking shake. $24. I...

They did have to murder a unicorn to make that shake. And around the average, because there's people on Reddit, they're like, they're, like, reporting what the prices are in their places. The highest so far has been 24. Others are saying it's around $19.15. for this monstrosity. And on top of it, they're promoting it with a fucking VR, like, McDonaldland Metaverse thing for people to just like fuck around it.

It looks like shit. And I'm like, how the fuck are these people so late to the game that they have no idea that the Metaverse is like beyond fucked garbage nonsense. In 10 years, they're going to be like, McDonald's crypto. Get your crypto coins with each meal. Get your Borday Papi meal here. You're going to fucking love it. And FTs and Mickey D's.

Here's the fun part, though. This whole McDonald's thing, as our writer jam points out and found like this really great video on the food theorists' YouTube channel, McDonald's is just like this bullshit thing that McDonald's came up with in a pretty shady way. So it goes back to back when Ray Kroc was trying to get a McDonald's into Disneyland when it first opened. He's like, we need to get into motherfucking Disneyland. He even wrote a letter to Walt D. Disney being like, hey, man, we served in the KKK together. I'm sorry, no, he said, we served in World War I as ambulance drivers together.

And apparently Walt Disney was just like, sorry, fam, that, but this, I'm, I've got bigger things going on. So Croc was thinking of starting his own theme park out of spite called McDonald land and realized there was no way he could compete with Walt Disney. So it started to try. Because the grimace wasn't allowed to be around kids. Because he had that incident. Exactly, exactly.

And then he had to change his name and move out of state and do all that. And now, I guess now it's fine. But, yeah, it turned into more of an effort to just sort of like franchise like little tiny parks around the country. So the funny thing, too, is like the McDonald-Lang characters were actually just straight up stolen from the HR Puffin' Stuff universe, the very famous puppet show from the 70s. God. So, like, if you look at these two pictures of, like, the McDonald's Land characters and then H.R. Puffin' stuff, you're like, hold on. These motherfuckers look kind of similar. And that's because the ad agency that created McDonald's had worked. First, they sort of, like, felt out the creators of H.R. Puff and stuff, Sid and Marty Croft. And like, hey, man, we got this thing going on with, like, McDonald's thing could be a really cool campaign and maybe we collaborate.

And then suddenly, the ad agency told the Crofts, they're like, actually the campaign has been canceled. we need no further contact with you. But in actuality, the agency had already won the bid from McDonald's for McDonald's and then they just hired a bunch of former Croft employees behind their backs to basically create a copy of HR Puff and stuff for McDonald's. Obviously, that didn't do well in court and the Croft sued or the Croft sued McDonald's and they won over a million dollars in 1977, which I feel like with inflation, it's probably like $3 trillion in today's money.

Yeah. That sounds about right. It has to be. Is the whole history of McDonald's just idea theft? Like Ray Kroc stealing McDonald's from the McDonald's and out of that. Like I feel like next year McDonald's is going to put out a whopper. And then they'll just act like it's a thing. And then they'll put out a frosty.

Like it's just like, we have the meats. Yeah. Ving Rames. He's like, sorry, the check cleared for McDonald's. They've been had the meats. Oh, they've been had the meats. Okay.

So anyway, this is where they are at now. And yeah, I think it really does, it does track that I feel like with every great American company, every great American brand is just a series of intellectual thefts over and over. Yeah, exactly. Shout out that band, Thievery Corporation. Great band. Every time I say a word, you're like, shout out to this band. Yeah. I'm just info dumping.

And you're like, shout out to us. They were great in the 70s. Shout out the rap jazz fusion group, Us Three. If you remember, Tijuana, Luke, that was such a great track from 1992. Anyway, that's going to do it for us. Alex Schmidt, thank you so much for joining us on this, honestly, legendary chaotic event episode where we talked again. What happened to your infant son, Alex, before you go?

Can you just tell me what happened? So it's hard to explain. First, a drug fire, then bullets. Then, rock throwing. Then, I just had kind of a panic attack, probably a brown person's fault. Then DC, smells like weed. My psychiatrist diagnosed me with generalized P.O.C. disorder. Is that?

Alex, where do the people find you, follow you, listen to you, and what's a work of media that you've been enjoying? Please check out secretly incredibly fascinating. It's me and my co-host the wonderful Katie Golden and check out Creature Feature her amazing podcast. That's my friend. Yeah.

And I picked out a TikTok at someone doing an incredibly specific impression of the band Big Thief if they were watching the 2004 American League Championship series in baseball. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

What is this? I just stuck it on the email thread, but I don't know if you can cue it out or something. Yeah, let me put this in here because I know. 10 seconds, yeah. It's the band Big Thief if they're watching Game 6 of the 2004 American League Championship. That's the Yankees's not winning.

It's a bloody sock. Good show. Pretty good. Very stupid sports show. Shout out Johnny Gerson on TikTok who I don't know or anything. Man, great, great pipes on him. Great. He's very good.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pauli. Where do the people find you? Yeah. Oh, me? Is it, is it my turn?

Oh my God. Yeah, it's your turn. Oh, my God, wow. If you can peel yourself away from your infant. It's on fire right now. That meme of the person sitting at the desk and their child's on the floor. That's Benny Johnson. I'm at Pallivig and A-L-A-V-I-V-I-G-U-N-A-L-N everywhere, except for Blue Sky where I got Pellity.

So that was cool. And facial recognition comedy, tonight, 8 p.m. Comedy store. I'm going to tell you it's 7.30 because we are brown people and people always think we start late. Yep. We don't. Come through. It's a really fun hang. It's a really great lineup.

Good vibes. And the piece of media that I have been enjoying has been, let me find it. There was. Oh, wait. I have it right here. My infant nearly died. in a drug fire. Can that be the outro music?

Okay, there it is. Oh, sorry. I jumped the gun on there. What was yours? I have two. One is a video of a billionaire's yacht exploding near Ibiza, which is fun. It's just from App Pamplets Y, and I'm just watching it, and I'm like, this is cool. Like, yeah, I really dig this type of media.

And then the other one is pop-based posted Leonardo DiCaprio reveals he feels emotionally 35, despite turning 50 last year. and Evan Love's Worth, S. Jess, J, says he has a problematic age gap with himself. Leonardo DiCaprio is like so, like, I'm like, this must be the most fucked up man in terms of like how he's like been shaped by Hollywood. Seriously? I'm fascinated. I'm fascinated with this environmentalist. Oh, man.

Let's see You can Work in media I like Honestly, I need to go See weapons this weekend Yeah, you got to I'm pretty empty

saying that's what I'm going to do Although Her Majesty is not going to go with me Because she's going to be like I don't want to watch that scary shit So I'm not going to go get scared by myself And somebody come meet me At the cinema or regal maybe I don't know

I'll let people know Also I think this is probably my work in media That I love My infant nearly died In a drug fire uh-huh after mass shootings okay okay okay put me in a room with this clip in mudang and i will never leave you just lay this audio over the yacht explosion and muddand you're like this is elysium i have arrived i have arrived i'm partying this is my silent microphone find me at miles of gray

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