The Daily Zeitgeist - Mega Donor Mega Boner, Newborns Are NOT Demons? 04.10.23

Episode Date: April 10, 2023

In episode 1459, Miles and guest co-host Jacquis Neal are joined by comedian, Jenny Zigrino, New Report Exposes Clarence Thomas’ Fancy Gifts From “Republican Megadonor”, Two Tennessee House Democrats Expelled For Gun Protest, Let’s Stop Normalizing Exorcisms – Russell Crowe... I’m Looking At You and more! New Report Exposes Clarence Thomas’ Fancy Gifts From “Republican Megadonor” Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire Two Tennessee House Democrats Expelled For Gun Protest Tennessee state rep calls vote to expel him and two others 'an assault on democracy' Democrat lawmaker suggests she avoided expulsion from Tennessee legislature because she is White First Thing: Two Democrats expelled from Tennessee house over gun control protest Let’s Stop Normalizing Exorcisms – Russell Crowe... I’m Looking At You Gabriele Amorth conducted over 60,000 exorcisms and believed Hitler was possessed. Meet the man who inspired The Pope’s Exorcist Exorcism can have a role to play in therapy Police chief says exorcism and prayer used to fight crime and cartels in Colombia: "The existence of the devil is certain" Colombian police responsible for ‘massacre’ of 11 people in 2020 protests, U.N.-backed investigators conclude   No criminal charges following 'exorcism' where boy allegedly suffered seizure: Sask. RCMP Relatives arrested after California three-year-old dies during ‘exorcism’ Parents plead not guilty to charges in Missouri girl's exorcism death Panama: Seven people found dead after suspected exorcism Judge Rules Exorcism Death Manslaughter Exorcism is something we can't quite quit WILL ‘CONJURING 3’ INFLUENCE REAL-LIFE EVENTS VIA THE ‘EXORCIST EFFECT’? Inspiration for the movie 'The Exorcist' has been identified as former NASA engineer LISTEN: 4EVA by Aminé & KaytranadaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I keep back to that fucking 32 episodes in a row now, where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Monday, April 10th, 2023, which is also National Farm Animals Day, National Cinnamon Crescent Day, like crescent rolls, National Siblings Day. Wouldn't know nothing about that because I'm an only child. And National Encourage a Young Writer Day. So if you got a young writer in your life.

What'd you say? You say fuck that? Fuck that. Hey, man, just give up, man. They're not developing shit like they used to out here. You know what I mean? Unless you got some IP that's really original. Anyway, enough about the industry and more about us.

It is me. It is I, Miles Gray, a.k.a. Andrew T. Can you synthesize something for me? Spend my blood in that centrifuge for me. Andrew T. Spend my blood, Andrew T. Spend my blood, Andrew T. Okay, shout out to Pato San, who, again, I'm still on this wave of trying to get Andrew T.

to synthesize people's dna at his own house because he said it's so easy i said well i i want to challenge you and please synthesize my dna and tell me what is going on with me and where am i from but you know what enough about me more about our guest host today he's back he's back but you know what we could not afford the voice today I'm just gonna warn you We could not afford the singing voice today But you know he's gonna come in on a 10 Like any great improv coach would ask

Please welcome comedian, producer, host, voice Fucking talent of the ages Mr. Jacques Steele You came for me today What up niggas we are back that's for Tory Glass I see you, I saw you

I saw you, what up Miles we back, we back in here you know it's always a joy when I do multiple episodes and again, look, we love Daddy Jack I hope I'm the only person that ever calls him that but it's just beautiful it's a beautiful thing i actually had to for the first year that i knew him you did that's that's where i got it from i'm like jack

he's like daddy jack to you son daddy jack please daddy jack he's been making me call that him call him that since 2018 so oh wow okay you got to stop yeah yeah it took a while took a while i i just said i started saying it in creepier and creepier ways that he eventually was like hey you know what you can you can just stop doing that i was like daddy jack and he's like oh shit i should try that i say mine is respectfully like daddy jack yeah no no no no be unner. That's how you get out of stuff. Anyway, we got to welcome our guest, Jaquis. Coming back to the show.

It's been a minute. But since then, a lot has happened, including they got a new stand-up hour. Okay. It's called Gen Z. And it is going to be released as an album this coming 14th of April. That's next or this coming Friday via Blonde Medicine. And wherever you get your comedy albums streamed or sold. And more more importantly if you want to see the visuals of it it is now available on the comedy central youtube channel please welcome to the microphone the brilliant

and talented jenny zagrino hello damn jay-z what's going on i i feel like earlier i did want to talk about the young writers, and I didn't get a chance to. But mostly what I just wanted to say was, stop, turn back. What are you doing? Don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do it.

It's a hard life. It's a hard life. Don't do it. Don't do it. Yeah, it's hard. It's not fun. What, are you going to write the Great American Novel? No one fucking reads. No one knows how to read. No. Yeah, make the hard. It's not fun. You're going to write the Great American Novel? No one fucking reads.

No one knows how to read. I've been trying to read one book for the last year. Which one? Chuck Klosterman's The 90s. Oh, okay. I'm like, I was there. I'm just reading. You're reading?

You're like, whatever. Oh, I remember that. Oh, now I'm not a child. I understand a little more. Okay, it's a good book. Oh, I remember that. Oh, now I'm not a child. I understand a little more. Okay. It's a good book. Everyone, go read it. Actually, just on that point, like, have any of you ever actually gotten good advice about writing?

I know all of us have probably dabbled in that. Have you ever gotten good advice on writing that wasn't just like, the one I got was just honesty. It was like, it's be ready. It was like, just be ready. It's very difficult. And that was enough to make me be like, you know what? I'm going to give up. I think the best, it's kind of about writing, but it's about character in a way.

And it was from Malcolm Gladwell's master class. During the pandemic, I had to do something. That's all you got to do. Improve yourself. I don't know. For whatever reason, I developed this do something. That's all you had to do, improve yourself. I don't know, for whatever reason, I developed this weird crush on Malcolm Gladwell. I'll never understand it.

It came out of a fog in 2021. He was like, oh, God. I was in love with a light-skinned ghost. Pretty much. I was in love with a skeleton with a tan. So the advice he gave is like, if you really want to get to know someone, another character, you will get more from what they have in their apartment than you will by asking them. Interesting.

I can know more about you by looking at your apartment and going in your room than I'll ever know from asking you. That's true. I mean, if you look in here, you see a Lakers jersey. There's weed. I know you're basic. Yeah. Basic as hell. Yeah, you know, I got, I'm into weed. You're into weed?

Yeah. And I have a bass guitar. It basically looks like somebody's dorm room that you would want a U-turn right out of. So exactly. He's basic. He's basic. He's immature. He smokes more weed than he's going to tell me.

Oh, no, no. I already know your character right off the bat. Pretty accurate. I would very accurately tell you how much weed I smoked. But yeah, for sure. That is true. Like, I mean, of course, there's so much more to glean from than if I was just like, yeah, I'm kind of a cerebral guy who's just like really into like art and stuff like that. I look at like my weird Star Wars poster.

What can you tell from my little box? Yeah, what can you tell from Jacques's mini Zoom screen? From his box? Well, I can tell already you have a makeshift sound booth. So you're poor. Okay. It's makeshift sure get out of here i'm balling is that a furniture blanket it's a fernie pad yes fernie pad yeah they're great for creative sound control and you like right you like thrifted art based on what i can tell from your zoom screen oh and my my naked lady my naked 1970s lady oh where's that

did you thrift now you'd be like she's a lesbian here's the thing not at all not at all other women's vaginas so much just like boobies so what you're telling us is your assessment like that you can tell people from their apartment is inaccurate well just for me i have so many traps in my apartment to make you think one thing. To throw you off. So many traps. Yeah. They're like, you have a Gadsden flag of like, don't tread on me. You're like, yeah, yeah. What do you think of that? You're like, you idiot. It's a trap. Yep. Anyway, Jenny, we're going to get to know you even better than what we can glean from your apartment walls. But first,

before we do any of that, we got to tell people what we are going to be talking about today. First up, we got to catch up with Clarence Thomas. We were just talking about him the last episode when we were talking about Candace Owens and some other really conflicted black people, to put it very charitably. And the amount of fucking just cool bribes and shit he's been getting from this GOP mega donor

that he has not been disclosing. Oh, no. I'm clutching my pearls so tightly because i can't believe it i can somehow we'll also just talk about just some of the trips this dude has gone on it's like oh it's it's egregious then we'll just check in in tennessee because yeah they've gone full fascist over there as they expelled two black democrats. But the white woman who's a Democrat that was also protesting, she got by just by one vote. And she said, I suspect it has something to do with my skin color. And yeah, that's facts. I'm just kind of looking at the state of, you know, this new form of governance, a.k.a. silence your critics to the

and expel them if you don't like what they're saying and by that i mean pointing out that you're doing very little to protect the people you represent uh and then finally we'll catch up with russell crowe uh briefly because he's got a fucking exorcism movie coming out and yeah we just got to talk like exorcisms are we got to stop like normalizing exorcisms because we'll talk about how fucking how much shit goes haywire there's so much like i've never heard anyone normalize exorcisms you'll be surprised you'll be surprised you know you're not a knees you're not a knees neck of the woods jenny did you know i had i had no idea that like the exorcist like brought the catholic church back from the brink

basically and ever since then they're like oh that's so unfortunate they fuck with that like we gotta lean into that that's what i'm talking about like they they got a sniff of that and suddenly like people like these rituals were going all in anyway we'll talk about how many kids could have been saved if we just didn't have the exorcist yeah exactly right if we just someone didn't make it uh and there's even a funny story about the kid who was uh like sort of the basis for that film. We're going to get to that and more. But first, Jenny, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

OK, well, recently when I had to search for a project I was doing, I had to search the Star Wars characters because I don't know any of them. And I'm so happy for you. There's so many. Yeah, that's good Which ones? I'm so happy for you. There's so many. That's good for you. I'm so happy for you. I know them all. I don't know. There's Han Solo, Adam Driver.

Are they the same? I like naming the characters. There's Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Adam Driver, Princess Leia. There's Billy Williams. There's Terry Fisher. There's James Earl Jones. There's a stuffed bear, I think, at one point. A stuffed bear, yeah.

I did. I'm doing this project, and I had to research them because I'd never seen the new Star Wars. I maybe saw the one old one, but never saw the new ones. Except one time, I saw the first 10 minutes because i was on a lot of mushrooms and we went to go see the first one with adam driver and i couldn't stop laughing in the theater because i was like he was in girls and then i had to leave and then i just walked into cats it was a much better time on mushrooms and were people laughing in that theater or there was like two people in there and i walked in just as they were doing the jenny song and it's like rebel wilson and like a you know the jenny the fat cat and she there's roaches everywhere and i was

like whoa this is a way different time this is kind of more my speed right now a little more my speed yeah i should have did that i I should have saw Cat's High as shit. Oh, yeah. Mushrooms make, like, to Jenny's point, anything can be a comedy on mushrooms. Oh, yeah. Instantly. An Adam Driver movie is great.

Yeah. Schindler's List, funny as fuck on mushrooms. Somehow, it tripped me out. In that one part, you saw the girl's coat was red. I didn't know what the fuck that was about. I thought I was tripping again. But yeah, any film can be a comedy somehow. Or you'll just laugh from it.

But I also like that you were just, were you just sort of like, okay, I am laughing way too much that I'm just disrupting the film. I used myself. I could tell people were upset. Like, was it just any random thing? You're like. First of all, I was on mushrooms, so i had no idea what was happening in the story and then anim drivers pulsating face don't show up morphing and i just be like that's the guy from girls oh my god it makes me so happy what it makes me so happy to know how much i know you pissed off star wars fans especially the first

one back they was mad as fuck and i love it excuse me yeah i was like and then two the trailer before that had that one dude it's like this one guy who i forget who he is but he's an actor it was like a spy like me or something and he's like hanging out this little girl and he's like this one guy who I forget who he is, but he's an actor. It was like a spy like me or something. And he's like hanging out this little girl and he's like a big, tough spy. But I was really peaking on the mushrooms. And I was like, I thought he was a robot. And I was like, they're letting robots make movies now. This is so messed up. I think it's Oscar Isaac, maybe.

I may. He looks real. real even in real life this dude looks weird okay so i don't think i'm that far off oh i know who you're talking about dominic he was like pasty white no no he's like he's just a lot of weird looking people in star wars okay no this wasn't this was the part of the trailer before Star Wars came out. I don't remember. There was like some planet. I couldn't understand what they were saying. I just know.

It's all good. Yeah. You know, it was just hilarious as shit. You know, Snape showed up on the screen. You're like, oh my God, is this a crossover episode? I was like, oh my God, Snape. Alan Rickson, I love you. He's back.

Thank you. Jenny, what's something you think is overrated? Oh, In-N-Out Burger, for sure. Go on. Overrated. Super overrated. It's fine. The french fries are garbage.

They're trash. Guess what? I love them. Oh, just look at your jerseys, okay? You simpleton. I know. Look at me. I wear my sports jerseys and i go give me soft fries

please buy the fucking garbage bag gum the fries fries not good those fries not good like mashed potatoes fries are the epitome of everything don't need to be fresh yeah we can just we just have you know frozen with a bunch of salt you you know, like, let's just give us what we want. Like, I will say this. I am from Chicago, so I am not, Miles, you're from here, so you have a more vested interest in the In-N-Out. I don't have a vested

interest. I don't give a fuck if people don't like In-N-Out. Like, what the fuck? No, you're crying right now. Don't dance. Nah, man. I told you, this is Courage Water. This is Courage Water coming up out my eyes right now. No, man. You're crying right now. It's okay, man.

You can be true. Shut the fuck up, man. In-N-Out is, I do like In-N-Out burgers. I will start with that. And here's why I like them. Because to me, burger prices have gotten ridiculous. Like, you go to a restaurant and a burger costs 15 fucking dollars meat patty so i'm like if your burger is gonna cost more than an in-and-out burger it better

be fucking it has to be good so yes there are better burgers but for how much burgers are yeah every burger should be three to five dollars burgers $0.99. Let's get back to the fucking double. You want to eat $0.99 meat? All right. Yeah. Yeah. You're just breaking my point. You eat $0.99 meat. You got to purchase a blanket.

Come on, man. I will eat $10 meat. I'll eat $10 meat. It just got to taste better than a $0.99 meat. That's what I'm saying. You're saying there's levels to it that it has to arrive at? There's levels. Fair.

Fair. Yeah. Or, in an albergue, McDonald's fries. But I'm going to say that what is underrated in the fast food world is Carl's Jr. Because their burgers are great. Their burgers are good. But you get one meal and it costs $27. I'm sorry. It costs $13.45.

That is very good. What's that second one to was very good. Thank you. What burger do you get, though? Oh, well, this is why I like it, is I get the vegan one and a lettuce wrap. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, wow. I feel so Californian. Are you vegan?

I'm trying to be vegetarian. Oh, okay. Okay. I respect that yeah look we got it we have to transition to a meatless world in the way we know how you know what i mean like that's we can't just go i can't just flip the switch off you know what i mean i i've been i mean i was eating meatless like the last three days and then i i had some was i had to put some mozzarella up in like a pasta thing i made it just helped sometimes you

need that hit of creamy creaminess. I must know. I must know, Jenny. What is a fry that you do love? What's a fry that you say? A French fry that I do love? Yeah, if it's Pokemon and I'm being like, in and out, I choose you. And you're like, man, watch me fucking dust you with these fries.

What are you coming from? You know what? I'm going to go for a Burger King French fry. Interesting. Whoa. I think they're a Burger King french fry. Interesting. I think they're good. Go, J.A.! Interesting. All right, everybody.

Thanks for coming to the podcast today. Yeah. Wow. Got to be easy. No, look. I just love when polar opposites, we all arrange on this show like this. When you get a really good hot one, it's great. Okay?

McDonald's are fine. McDonald's is fine. It's whatever. It's fine. Right. But again, Carl's Jr. does have waffle fries. And if we're going to go, let's get some Arby's. Oh, I'm back.

I will say to five guys, Guys has some pretty damn good fries. I love Five Guys fries. Okay, I'll agree with that. Those boardwalk fries in the greasy bag? Yes, please. You know what I mean? That's good value, too. Put that Laurie's on there.

Yeah. That is really good. Love a floppy fry. Everyone boycott In-N-Out Burger, a California staple. Yeah, you might as well. I mean, they're like big Christians and stuff. You see all the Bible verses on the bottom of the cup. You know what I recently had actually in Chicago? It was Red Ranch.

Have you been there? I had that. It's pretty damn good. Wait, what's Red Ranch? It's a local place. Oh. It's almost like a smash burger. And, you know, they're very salty. Like personality-wise in there.

Oh. Eat your burger and leave. Oh, is it a chain, or is it that spot where they just flame you when you ask for something? It's a spot. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a spot, but there's been multiple of those in Chicago. Of the rude service is our thing kind of thing? Yeah.

Yeah. I just love any place that treats me like shit. You know what I mean? No one's eating Burger King fries. Maybe that's why you don't like In-N-Out. The customer service is fantastic. It's the Christianity that we're allergic to. It's the Christianity.

Hell, here's your fries. And did you know that God loved you so much that he gave his only begotten son? Anyway, John 316, have a great day, Jenny. All right. We're going, have a great day, Jenny. All right. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk about some hard hitting news rather than soft floppy fries right after this. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together,

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about my new podcast rebel spirit where i head back to my hometown in kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot the rebels into something everyone in the south loves the biscuits i was a lady rebel like what does that even mean i mean the boone county rebels will stay the boone county rebels with the image it's right here in black and white in the prints. A lion. An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team?

I'd just take all the other stuff out of it. On segregation academies, when civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that. than a flag or mascot you have to be ready for serious backlash listen to rebel spirit on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back um and so is pro publica with a fucking groundbreaking report uh that they revealed last thursday we learned that justice clarence thomas has been accepting quote secret luxury trips from republican mega donor harlan crowe for more than two decades uh and this has included things like jet rides like using his like p-jet his like bombardier 500 or whatever the fuck it's called and going on his 162 foot super yacht yeah okay they're lovers i don't know i mean lovers of the end of democracy for sure

right now 20 years this is 20 years a lot of gifts um what was that movie about the mountains brokeback mountain very brokeback mountain oh where jenny thomas is she's like you're not going up there to fish yeah what was that movie about yeah you're not going there the mountains y'all that's so funny because there is a picture of them fishing. Harlan Crow, you mean Harlan Nasty. That was a wonderful line delivered by Michelle Williams in that film. Anyway, so just like put these things into perspective, right? The cost of a trip to go on a jet and then 162-foot superyacht for like nine days, people would be like on the conservative side,

could have gotten to around half a million dollars for that but fortunately i guess like you know he didn't have to fully disclose some things because the way you have to disclose things are like if you go to someone's private home you don't have to disclose it but the second transportation is involved you have to fucking disclose shit and apparently it wasn't even just to do stuff with harlan crowe like it's it sounds like based on like certain flight logs clarence thomas like You have to fucking disclose shit. And apparently it wasn't even just to do stuff with Harlan Crow. Like it's, it sounds like based on like certain flight logs, Clarence Thomas like used his jet for like a three hour trip to go to New Haven, Connecticut from like DC a few years ago.

And again, it's a problem because if you aren't disclosing all these gifts, especially if they're worth more than $415, it's hard to tell how the fuck you're being influenced. Although these people swear up and down, it has nothing to do with anything. I've never had any case in front of him. I'm just a connective tissue to other plutocrats and the Supreme Court justice, as well as, you know, people like Leonard Leo

of the Federalist Society. So there's only one time. I wish people would stop lying. I wish people would stop lying, though. I know. I mean, just be real. Because, look, I'm going to be real. If you let me ride on your 162-foot yacht,

next decision I make, that's your decision, bruh. It's true. It's like, here's the thing is you hear it and you're like, wow, that's crazy. And then you also are like, nothing will happen. Right, exactly. Nothing will happen. Right. Exactly. Nothing will happen. That's the thing.

That's the that's the wonderful sort of ebb and flow of being an American in this country and being half tuned into what's happening. You're like, how the fuck can this happen? And then you immediately then modulate to, well, what the fuck? Yeah. What's going to what's going to. Oh, is he really going to see justice? Yeah. Well, you know, who knows? He is justice. Yeah, I know. His, oh, is he really going to see Justice? Yeah, well, you know, who knows?

He is Justice. Yeah, I know. His name is literally Justice Thomas. But, like, so, again, we also found out, like, back in, he only disclosed one trip back in 1997. And, you know, apparently this isn't just, this is just the tip of the iceberg. He, like, Crow also just made it rain on Clarence Thomas with all kinds of fun gifts, like giving him a $19,000 Bible that he wanted an auction that belonged to Frederick Douglass. Wow. You know what?

I mean, that's actually kind of a sweet gift in a weird way. Your theory starts to hold up because Harlan Crow's quote about it was like, I was at this auction and i saw the item come up and i knew how much clarence was a fan of frederick douglas so i figured he had to have it and i'm like what a thought this is so fucking thoughtful yeah i'm telling you they're lovers man they're lovers he also bought a fifth got him a fifteen thousand dollar bust of abe lincoln yeah lovers okay i only let me tell you something. If I gave you half a million dollars, I could just be like, yeah, man, I just believe

in your cause. But if I give you a $19,000 Bible and a bust of Abraham Lincoln, my dick has been inside of you. Oh, yeah. Definitely. 100%. 100%. There's no middle ground. Yeah, when the gifts Are that thoughtful

There's like That's a thoughtful gift Now you guys You guys have something good Going on And here's the other thing Like he was flown out To like this like

Other retreat he has Where he would Like apparently This guy Harlan Crowe Would host like Clarence Thomas Along with other like Government officials

And like business magnates And be like Hey man They're just kicking it together You know I have no clue what they're talking about. I mean, yes, Leonard Leo, who runs the fucking Federalist Society, who's the architect of all of our current judicial fuckery

that's going on in this country. They just kick it all the time together on their little bro hangs. And it's, you know, all to the good. It turns out though, like in the LA Times about 20 years ago, they busted Clarence Thomas for not reporting shit. And ever since like that happened, Clarence Thomas has just stopped reporting or disclosing things altogether.

Like ever since he got burned, he's like, yeah, well, not going to do that shit anymore. And not only that, Crowe regularly has Thomas stay at his invite only resort where, again, again, it's like an all-men's retreat. Come on! Here's the thing. This place has a clay tennis court, a batting cage, a replica of Hagrid's Hut from Harry Potter, bronze statues of gnomes, and a 1950s-style soda fountain

where they make bespoke milkshakes. This just sounds great, man. Wait, wait, wait. And a 1950s style soda fountain where they make like bespoke milkshakes. This just sounds great, man. Wait, wait, wait. Can we please go back to the Hagrid's house? Okay. I don't, I'm not. What?

I'm not a Harry Potter like person. So I don't know what Hagrid's, I know, I know what, I know what, who Hagrid is, but I don't know what the significance of how I'm like, is that like a pizza shop for Harry Potter fans? I think they're all... It's whimsical. Maybe they go there, that's where they talk about all their anti-trans stuff. Yeah, exactly. They're like, in this tribute to J.K. Rowling, the Hagrid's Hut, where we enter and come up with new ways to vilify and dehumanize trans people through legislation. I mean, this sounds so... I feel like if we want them to turn around we have to say like oh no you guys

are lovers and just be like no it's fine you know what actually these just sound like really great gifts let's celebrate your guys's love and then he'll be like i'm not no i'm trying to influence him for judicial decisions oh good we used homophobia to bring the truth out fantastic also all this shit like is so influenceable like i'm listening to everything you've been listing off and i'm like i would give you whatever you want if you let me come to this shit like it's like whatever you want you're just a milkshake sways you oreo milkshake is pretty good. We're simple.

We're basic motherfuckers. You know what I mean? And he gave me a Hagrid. I thought it was a real milkshake. No, you have to fuck Hagrid. You have to fuck Hagrid just to enjoy this Oreo milkshake. Yeah.

If you get so chummy with people and you know, you're all on the same page, that's really all it takes truly, you know, just to be like, yeah, of course we get it. Like without even saying, you know, you all on the same page that's really all it takes truly you know just to be like yeah of course we get it like without even saying you know you don't really have to but to be in proximity to these people is really again it's like one of those things you're like of course they are and then you're like of course nothing can happen and not to mention okay this guy he isn't just giving money to the gop he also he's loves making it rain on people like joe

mansion and kirsten cinema two senators who've gotten in the way of a lot of shit recently so you're like okay so this motherfucker knows what he's doing yeah he knows exactly what he's taking to hagrid town they're all going to hagrid's hut you know what i mean uh in terms of like what democrats are talking about like democrats on the senate judiciary committee have said that they're going to address this. Oh, sure. But like probably in the same way they're addressing police reform. You know what I mean?

And gun violence. Yeah, sure. I'll address it by saying I'll address that. I will say out loud this is a problem. But another member of Congress was saying like, you know, it may not be worth the fight since it would destroy people's faith in the court. Sir? Sir? you know it may not be worth the fight uh since it would destroy people's faith in the court um sir sir oh my money what do you think the the sequence of events here is that we're on the precipice of losing faith in this bot like people do not give a people have already lost faith in that shit unless you're one of these like monster bastard donors that use it as like your fascism accelerator tool then in which case you fucking love it yeah so it's very it's you know it's it's it gets you feeling a little bit like ah well maybe they'll address it out loud and that's the

most we can get yeah i i also wonder too if because they're all such awful horrible people is it really influencing or is it just terrible people coming together talking about terrible shit right like the like uh yeah the donors just like hey maybe we should stop women from having from having abortions and clarence was like i was gonna do that anyways let's just party like right right right i feel like they're all so bad it's going beyond influence and it's really just demons hanging out with each other yeah and hank red's hut you know what's wild though too there was a there was like a district judge that was confirmed by trump like when he was in office they swore this guy in at harlan crowe's fucking house

like the swearing-in was just in this guy's like fucking library i do there is this one clip that's just kind of fun to hear because you know like apparently fucking clarence thomas like loves to portray himself as this like folksy guy who's like really not into like he's just really into rvs and shit but we're hearing about all these like how he's yachting it up and taking pjets i just want you to hear this like he would, how helpful a shit this guy is when he's describing himself like in this documentary. You know, I don't have any problem with going to Europe, but I prefer the United States. And I prefer seeing the regular parts of the United States. I prefer going across the rural areas.

I prefer the RV parks. I prefer the Walmart parking lots to the beaches and things like that oh really i go what a walmart parking lot well if that's part of rv that's rv culture because you could you could take your rv to like the walmart that's like a thing i didn't know if you rv prefers putting his pubes on people's coats. Yeah, exactly. All over them. I mean, there is so much pubic hair everywhere. I love it. I mean, I like to go wherever the pubic hair blows and that's where I end up, you know, just setting down with Jenny and she comes up with her, you know, fantasies about overturning elections. And I just put pubes on Coke cans and laugh at Anita Hill's terrible misfortune. But yeah, we'll see. I mean, right now he has put out a statement finally, because like Harlan Crowe's like, I don't know. This guy's my friend, man. What do you want me to do?

Like, I just, I never did anything untoward and it's just hospitality. Justice Thomas has said, Harlan and Kathy Crowe are among our de friends, and we have been friends for over 25 years. As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during more than a quarter century. We have known them early in my tenure in the court. I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends who did not have business before the court was not reportable. And he was just like basically doing the I didn't know I couldn't do that defense, which will hold up when you're influential

in this country. I mean, if you didn't know you could do that, then you shouldn't be on the court. Simple as that. And also, it's just like, all right, look, like, we're poor. So comparatively to these. I mean, you are. Okay. So, I mean, I know are okay so i mean i know titties on my wall

yeah i need titties on my wall i should get some titties on my wall to class this place up it will it will it doubles your income someone's gonna see they're like oh shit okay mr 0.. 0.5, 0.5%. Oh, shit. That man got some double Ds on this wall. I'm sorry, you're not poor. It's me. You're not poor. I'm not classist. No, but no. Comparatively, we are poor compared to these motherfuckers.

So when we hear all this shit, when we hear all this shit, it's like, God damn, all this, all this. But it's not that. I mean, yeah, yeah man you rich and you inviting people like you said to do rich shit with you like why why not to close why not disclose that like unless you was on some shit like going on a yacht and going to somebody's house and somebody giving you a gift isn't bad unless you know all this shit is swaying your decision making as a judge of the highest court of the land so you just look guilty yeah that's that's why men are bad that's why men are bad liars and bad cheaters because like you you do the dumbest shit like if you if you know you

want some shit don't not disclose it disclose everything you'll be like what i disclose all that shit because it's like nothing's gonna happen to them nothing will happen to you yeah like the shit with my man they're like so what do you got what do you know it's like the thing let's like with trump everyone's like he's going he's not going to fucking jail he's not over this shit get He will get away scot-free. Nothing will happen to these people. They're above the law. Just get on TV and be like, hey, everybody, I'm super above the law, so don't even worry about it.

Just go back to your jobs. They're just wasting my time right now. It's all good. Don't worry. Your boy will be free after this. And I would love so badly to fucking eat these words. But again, like i've said in past episodes history shows me the data set i'm looking at it won't fucking happen because it

didn't they had their chance with nixon and they didn't do it and then that emboldened reagan and they didn't do shit and now here here we go but yeah we shall see what goes on in those parts but again i think to your point jackie's is like it the reason he can't even talk about it is because it reveals just how politicized that body is rather than being like oh my god we are completely objective i'm like in a fucking hyperbaric chamber where people can't even fucking talk to me when i'm unless i'm like on the bench here and you realize no they're chumming it up and from there they hear people's designs on what they think American can be. And if they agree, then, you know, they kind of know which which which direction to move in. OK, let's move on to another fucking big story, too, in the Tennessee Statehouse. So two Democrats were expelled from the

Tennessee House after they joined in a protest the week before on the House floor, which only happened. The only reason that they engaged in this protest for just so you realize is because the Republicans during the session, they fucking turned off their microphones during the debate because they're like, they're, they're, they're just spitting too many facts and they're trying to make us feel bad. We got to cut the microphone off. So they used a bullhorn and apparently they're like, oh no, no, no. They called it a disruption.

And a lot of people were likening it to like January 6th on Fox. They were like, this is why we can't have people just invading these political buildings and things like that. And you're like, whatever. I don't have time to pick all that shit apart. It's so insane. It's so insane. But despite that, there were no arrests and the protesters were entirely peaceful. So really not like January 6th at all.

These were like students and activists who were like, we are dying. You are doing fuck all. What is going on? And now here's where the racist, racist bit comes in. Only two of the three were expelled. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. of the three were expelled. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. You know, again, Jones said for, you know, basically said, we called for you all to ban assault weapons and you responded with an assault on democracy. So the third member of this protest was a woman named Gloria Johnson, who,

she was one vote shy of being expelled. I don't know, I don't know which person suddenly had a change of heart to flip the math when the votes seemed the exact same for these two Black members of the statehouse. But when it came to her, as she said,

my survival was probably due to the color of my skin. I think it was done on purpose, for sure. Oh, of course. They were just like, hey, Jeff, why don't you keep her in?

Let's see these libs explode. 100 were just like, hey, Jeff, why don't you keep her in? Just see. Let's see. Let's see these libs explode. One hundred percent. And they like, you know, again, we've there's been like blanket condemnation. But when you look at Tennessee, actually, that's there. They're kind of ahead of the curve when it comes to going full fash. Like you're doing a great job. Yeah. In 2018, this political science professor created like a scorecard as like a way to like analyze and assess like sort of the healthy, like the level of healthy democratic norms that existed in a state. Tennessee was dead fucking last on that list. You know, this is another state that has been gerrymandered so bad that there isn't a single state Senate seat that is competitive, which essentially guarantees they have this like super duper fucking majority to basically be like, man, we do whatever the fuck we want, including expelling people who are merely voicing like concern over what is happening. Not to mention we can dilute black political power by expelling these two black politicians. And, you know, this is also just disenfranchising the many black residents that these two people represent and and it's still possible they could run again but we're still we don't know yet what these fucking creeps in the state house might do to try and find a way to prevent that as well but

they definitely they'll definitely find a way and it's just it's if you listen to the the way stuff was said it was so disgusting and like you need to behave you're lucky to be here all that fucking bullshit that they throw it was so yeah awful to watch really and i think a lot of people are like this is the the heart like what people fear is is like a lot of copycat shit like this happening in these other red states where they have these majorities where they are going to disenfranchise voters not by trying to overturn an election by merely just expelling like rightfully elected people just to kind of keep the momentum going for whatever i'm not gonna lie i i did not really know that this was a possibility um i you know just had never heard of it yeah until this so i was like it's it's that easy to

to get niggas out of the fucking and and now that like one group has done it the fear is yeah around the country i'll be like oh we can get the negros out this easy let's do it i know we need is if we have a two thirds majority and we have super majorities, we can do fucking anything. And usually you'd hope that there's some kind of balance. But again, the way these,

especially after the 2020 census, the way these maps have been carved up, it's fucking very, very fucked up and scary. So we'll see. But I mean, like it's good to see. I mean,

I don't know if it's good to see, but rightfully all the people that were in the state Capitol were like, scary so we'll see but i mean like it's good good to see i mean i don't know if it's good to see but rightfully all the people that were in the state capitol were like this is an absolute fucking disgrace what the fuck are you doing and it's so wild to see how like how cowardly these fucking people are because the second they interact with like people in the public they're like what are you trying to do they're like okay get me to my fucking suburban so I can fucking peel out of here with my security. It's just. Yeah.

So they're insulating themselves. Meanwhile, like people are dying needlessly. So, you know, this is why this to make one more point. This is like one reason why I want people to understand that even though we're seeing like, you know, Republicans lose like in Wisconsin or progress, more progressives getting elected or things like that. The damage that. We don't see is shit like this and the power that like these conservative and Republican Congress members have, like the shit they're doing or the shit they can do under our noses is so much more scarier than the shit that we see on the news. Like, so if this, if this story came to the news, like imagine the shit that's going on that, like, that we don't

fucking know in the power that don't have and like the way they accumulate their power yeah that's why i think yeah that's why it's so that's why it's so important to actually be engaged with what's happening in your state it's not just about federal politics it's at the most local like the shit that you're gonna feel first is at the local level the federal shit you know makes its way to you but if you're not aware of what's happening i mean it's like the same thing like ohio is also in terrible shape because it is so that map is also carved up they've got wild majorities and you know when we're just seeing like a curtailing of rights at a really rapid rate so you know just something to exhale about in a exasperated way. Yeah, it's just, again, it just feels like, well, like, they were so good at, like, they had the,

the Republican Party had the patience game where they just played long-term, got in all these, got basically under the skin and are now like a sore, bubbling up and just pus all over the skin of america just like right gross and it's too late for topical creams yeah yeah it's like we gotta we gotta cut it out

gotta excise it the thing is yeah you know like to your point about like just like the long game they could they saw the writings on they saw the writing on the wall they're like okay we're dealing with decreased religious like religiosity is on a downward trend people are becoming more into like politics that appeal to people on the left and further left what the fuck we do it's they're basically just like okay then we have to rig the game until they don't know it's like okay they're gonna beat us in basketball but what we're gonna do is we're gonna sneak into the locker room and put a bunch of lead weights in their shoes and also put little needles in their uniforms that distract them,

and then the ball will be 10 times heavier. The rim will also be about five times smaller, and they won't get a fucking shot in. And then we'll go on the other side and do what we do. So keep an eye out. But yeah, the fuckery continues. All right, let's take another quick break, and we'll be back to talk about

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of the time. And we're back. And so is fucking Russell Crowe with another banger character acting performance. You know, unless you intentionally went to go see this movie. I mean, I don't know that many people did or will. But, you know, it is an Easter weekend. So maybe you wanted to do something in line with your beliefs.

What a time to bring the movie out. Yeah. You know what we should bring out on the weekend of Jesus's death or rising, whatever the fuck it was? Yeah. A movie about the devil. Yeah you know what it turns out it's gonna come out the 14th so yeah it comes out the 14th but i bet there's a sneak preview for the believers if you really know you know what was the real gift for easter was all those um allegations of the catholic Church such kids came out again. Yeah, another one, right?

Now that's an Easter gift. Now that is something that all people can ignore to preserve their cognitive dissonance about what the real threats are in our society. But yeah, this movie that's coming out, it's called The Pope's Exorcist, starring Russell Crowe.

And his accent, which is so good that it's bad actually or maybe it's so bad it's good if the movie italians do you know uh does mario no for mario brothers yeah all right who's chris pratt now oh yeah chris pratt right exactly hey it's me mario yeah hey what's up dude it's me mario dude it's me mario bro sick dude where's my brother luigi hey luigi dude let's go let's let's let's make some shrooms dude and go see fucking star wars but the movie is apparently allegedly based on a true story about the real life catholic priest, Father Gabriel Amorth, who claimed to have performed over 50,000 exorcisms.

50,000? Fuck off. 50,000. He's the Wilt Chamberlain of exorcisms. Okay? That's what he's claiming out here. He's putting up fucking numbers, which is apparently

what fascinated Crow, quote-unquote. Wait, is Crow producing? I don't know. He, I mean, it must have, when they came up to him, he was like, hold on, 50,000? Okay, I might be in for this. He said when he began reading the

history of the real life priest, he said he was intrigued. Quote, he left behind a whole bunch of his first person experiences to read through. I think there are like a dozen books or something like that, you know? So it was just his journey that really fascinated me to start with. Okay. this journey that really fascinated me to start with. Okay. Hold on a second. I just did some quick math. Maybe I'm wrong. 50,000 divided by 365 days is 136. A day. If you did 50,000 in one year. Yeah. That would be a wild pace. I mean, who knows? It's too many. I mean, one is too many. This guy though, we've talked about him before than on the show because he formerly like came to we're not prominence we like first noticed him when he was like warning everyone of like the dangers of harry potter and yoga and he's like

it's though it's a gateway to the demonic yeah you might have a point with harry potter yoga yeah like downward dog downward? Downward to hell. Did either of you, like, exist in any, like, religious community? I went to, like, a Lutheran school as a kid. Yeah. I'm Jewish, but not really. Okay, good. I'm Jewish, but I'm not at all.

You avoided this crap. I never went to Hebrew to school and we don't really believe in the devil so of course yeah or hell which is a great great great thing to have in your religion i grew up in a very christian household went to christian school and all that bullshit but my mom wouldn't let my not my mom my grandma wouldn't let me watch power rangers anymore because she said it was demonic yeah Yeah. I remember having to talk to my grandparents when they were alive. They had their church friends over, and I had to explain to them that Jay-Z and Beyonce were not consorting with the devil.

Wow. Because that was a big church-going thing where they're like, I don't know. That's what I heard. My dad is very Catholic religious to the point where he thinks that chakras are demons. Okay. So this, okay. So like,

okay. So you, you are aware where people do have, I am aware. Don't go there. That shit is demonic. I remember what an elementary school, they told us like Ouija boards are bad basically because they're against the

second commandment. I woke up with a Ouija board. That's like, because you don't want to fuck with the second commandment. No, no, because I do believe I will not have any other gods before him. I believe in spirits and ghosts and.

Well, I was in LA. Go on now. What happened? What happened? What did you, did you have a thoroughly good experience with a Ouija board? They're like,

I don't need to fucking touch that shit ever again. I had one that said my dad was going to die. Oh no, I didn't. I didn't need to, but then it also said that i was gonna meet ringo star when i was 23 and that never happened okay okay yeah then it's bullshit that's like the way i became like an atheist was like being in school so much and they're like like my parents themselves

weren't religious but they just i just went to this school and they're telling me about prayer and when i did not get a fucking nintendo for christmas that they told me i prayer brought you things i was like i'm off this shit fucking bullshit you should try manifesting huh oh yeah you should see my vision board yeah the new wave stuff isn't religious at all brought me i and i have you know what despite it being on my board i have zero lambos so i don't know what's going on with that either but you're're not dead yet, Miles. Exactly. Those rainbows. That rainbow could happen. This movie, I went to WrestleMania in Los Angeles last weekend.

Wait a minute. I thought you said WrestleMania like a Russell Crowe fan event. Is that not what you heard? That's what I said. Yeah, WrestleMania. I went to WrestleMania. I went to WrestleMania. I was dressed as Maximus.

It was every accent he's ever done in a movie. Right. It was one section. But I went to WrestleMania. And right before a match that was called Hell in a Cell cell which is like a crazy fucking violent match they the pope's exorcist was the sponsor for the second night of wrestlemania and like for hell in the cell they that's where they like dropped the trailer and like they like you know tricked the audience to make us think somebody was coming out and it was just music for the pope's exorcist and then russell crowe gave like a speech to like hype the crowd up and then they played a

little bit of the trailer and when i tell you 84 000 people inside that stadium was booing the fuck out of this movie i was like they were booing the shit out of this shit. Like the entire time. I was like, you did. They paid money to be sponsoring like WrestleMania. Right. And you just lost 85,000 people in one night. They should have sponsored fucking WrestleMania.

And it was the funniest shit. Wow. Seriously. Did they think like Undertaker or something was going to come out because like the mood shift and like oh is something gonna pop off like a fucking commercial the two the two characters that were coming out are like uh not to get too deep into wrestling lore was this dude finn baller and edge and they were playing more like oh i got demons inside of me and it can only be squashed and hell in a cell. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, they thought, like, what a perfect match to promote our movie.

And the audience was like, fuck this movie. Get to the match, bro. Damn. And Russell Crowe gave, like, a speech. And, like, WrestleMania, are you ready? And people was like, fuck you. It was great. It was so funny.

You should have gone to WrestleMania. Exactly. You should have gone to WrestleMania. Exactly. You should have gone to WrestleMania. People love that shit at WrestleMania. Wait, Edge is still fucking wrestling? Yeah, he did retire for like nine years because he broke his neck. But like, it was in 2011. So what a quitter.

Wait, wasn't he with like Christian or something? Wasn't he? He was Christian. Yeah, I remember that. Whatever happened to Christian? I hate to see it. Also still wrestles. Oh, really?

Damn. I mean, it really does turn into the wrestler where it's like, this is all on fucking God. Honestly, they're truly the only, from back then, because we're around the same age, they're the only two from that era that's still going. But they're good still. from that era that's still going but they're good still well again like it just reminded me that at my school they like warned everybody they could do not fuck with the ouija board and this was also around the time the craft came out because like all the girls in my class were doing like slumber parties they have it doing light as a feather stiff as a board and then like like back in school they'd be like we did it this weekend and a Ariel went like 19 inches off the ground. And they're like, y'all are consorting with demons.

But anyway, in addition to the fact that the world is actually not in short supply of shitty Russell Crowe films, a big problem is that this movie is like perpetuates this idea that quote, the Catholic church's effectiveness against demonic incursion, which is something that people like will point to. It's like, oh, you know, like we take take we're not exactly take treating exorcisms as bullshit like in this country because like legally people will say like oh it's a valid form of therapy you know oh god and there are a ton of stories out there about how like terribly damaging like real life exorcisms are like last month the chief of police of columbia he was like he revealed that his police force quote used exorcism are like last month the chief of police of colombia he was like he revealed that his

police force quote used exorcism and prayer to tackle crime for decades and it shouldn't be too surprising when you see the fucking magazine cover of this like the article that he was in he's like like if he's posed in front of a gigantic depiction of Jesus being crucified. And it says, El General contra el Diablo. The fucking general versus the devil is the fucking headline. Oh my God. And he also claimed that this was because, quote, criminals use witchcraft. I know culturally people be fucking with that. I get that.

And, you know, he's saying his police are able to kill by praying while shooting. That's a quote. They pray while they shoot, which sounds like one of the most horrifying sentences I've ever fucking heard from a police officer. And just for some context, this is the same police force that was like also in the headlines in 2020 for massacring 11 people during protests against police brutality. Oh, my God. I don't know if god was in the building then and it's not just like this one story there are a number of stories where there's institutions like weirdly accepting exorcisms even when they like harm people like last summer in canada there's like a bible camp they tried to exercise a boy who quote exhibited seizure-like symptoms instead of like calling the a doctor or going to a fucking

hospital. And the cops concluded there was no criminality. And the staff member that did the exorcism was like, I did it once and I'll do it again. I'll free any of these kids by the power of Jesus. And you're like, oh, holy shit. I'm convinced that all these exorcists were just

like sick people, like motherfuckers who just had a really bad, like, sore throat and they was like, yeah. Get out, man. And it was like, that's the devil. That's the devil. I mean, when you have no context or you just want to look at everything

through your, like, the demons are everywhere confirmation bias, then yeah, I guess they are. Like, another example of these like amateur exorcisms that go wrong. There was a toddler who passed away tragically last year due to a botched exorcism because they thought she was possessed because she would quote, this toddler would, this is her demonic behavior was quote, she would wake up and scream or cry periodically. Oh my God. Then I got a damn demon in my house right now

in the form of my newborn son. I didn't realize that this motherfucker was taken by demons. So again, you're like seeing- Actually, that makes sense. What the fuck is this? The baby's being possessed by demons. That makes sense.

Much easier thing to wrap your head around than like colic yeah you're like yeah gassy or something nah shit's demons man shit is fucking demons yeah and there's and 2020 there was a real uptick in a lot of this shit and while people were like arrested and charged in a lot of these examples sometimes the quote exorcism component of the story like lets people off the hook for more serious crimes so like in 1997 which you know a case found two missionaries they were cleared of murder charges they were downgraded to manslaughter because they said they were trying to heal not harm the person that they killed and like just taking that as like oh well they they thought it was a demon. Like, no.

You never hear a lot of Buddhists doing this stuff, is all I'm saying. Nah, not really. Although there was the Myanmar massacre by a bunch of Buddhists. Well, yeah, that's a little different version. But yeah. It's a little rough, but no. Not quite saying it's demons. You know, like there's a line.

It'd just be more like ethnic tensions. Yeah. Like ideas of demonic shit going on. Hey, can I say one thing? Yeah. To all the writers we were talking to earlier. Mm-hmm. This is a great thing.

If you want a good story, let me give you something. Go ahead and start writing it. A bunch of yogis who are possessed by demons in yoga class. Oh, yeah. That's a comedy waiting to happen yeah that's a comedy yoga is actually the work of the comedy waiting to happen comedy waiting to happen i hope in five years that's the that's a demon all right i have no sign because i'm an invertebrate serpent man who's come from the demonic depths of hell but yeah i would watch the shit out

of that and the thing is these were amateur exorcisms i guess not official catholic church ones but like implicitly the church's promotion of exorcism as a legit practice is a huge part of the problem because from the church like yeah man you got to exercise these motherfuckers and according to one of the church's exorcism divisions, requests for exorcisms have only increased in recent years. Like in one letter from the church said, quote, more people of goodwill have been experiencing various forms of spiritual attack since the onset of the pandemic. Did y'all experience a form of a spiritual attack during the onset of the pandemic? Or did you just feel a growing sense of alienation and, you know,

desperation and cynicism brought to you by our actual hellscape called capitalism? I felt a bunch of horniness. Okay. I think it was capitalism, but, but it would be nicer if it was a demon because it seems easier to escape. I know.

Yeah. I mean, next thing you know, Democrats will probably lean into that to avoid like grappling with any serious issues and like it could be demons actually like and that's what's going on with the supreme court and police brutality there's a demon white supremacy is a demon worth fighting but it's a demon first and foremost let's just let's get that straight oh it's slippery slippery yeah and like i was saying's get that straight. It's slippery. Slippery guy.

And like I was saying, The Exorcist, right? The film that came out, what was that, in the 70s? 70s, yeah. Yeah, that basically kickstarted, like, the exorcism boom in America was brought on by that film. Apparently, right before The Exorcist came out, the Catholic Church was trying to, quote, downplay the more supernatural elements of the Catholic tradition. Because they're like, I think we're maybe losing people with this like ghost in a cave who then came out and like we're eating his blood and shit. Maybe, you know, let's find something a little more easy to fucking tap into.

Then the movie came out and created, quote, a demand for the ritual that was unprecedented in American history. And they're like, we got something now. So anyway, clearly this explosion of demons was related more to mental health and the power of suggestion, even though the story that The Exorcist was based on was also total bullshit. Oh, yeah. Two years ago, we learned that the real identity of this kid, like Ronald Doe, the kid who was like, you know, whose exorcism inspired the film. And according to his partner, he later admitted that he wasn't really possessed he was just faking it because he was a quote i was a quote bad boy such a bad little boy yeah exactly but anyway it's just it good luck to russell crowe and and your terrible accent but yeah it's just so it's just good luck to Russell Crowe and your terrible accent.

But yeah, it's just so wild. They love an exorcism. But then when you see people try and do that shit in real life, you're like, that is not it. You just shook that person to death or suffocated them or something. But hey. Well, I know 85,000 people who are not going to go see that shit. Right? I bet there was one person who was like

i'm trying to hear oh this is really good oh this is my hero the guy wants to fight russell crow the demon does satan yeah wow for that writer when you write when you start the movie you gotta start it with in 1972 there was a priest the chief exorcist who said yoga is demonic turns out he was right and then fast forward to present day uh the guy who also wrote this oh he also wrote a film called the unholy okay and wrote Wanted 2, if you remember that. Oh, Wanted. I love that movie. The one with Angelina Jolie?

Yeah. I don't know what the first movie is, but... James McAvoy. These guys sound terrible. These sound like terrible movies. Yeah. And, dude, this is what the guy looks like. Evan Spiliotopoulos.

This is the picture that comes up when you look him up. Wow. Oh, man. This guy has, like... He looks like he believes in demons. Oh yeah. This guy has nepotism written all over him. I know. Right.

Like you look at him up. It's like, Oh, he's like a rich son of a rich Greek oil Baron or something. Right. Right. Right. Uh,

anyway, we'll see what happens. Maybe, you know, there'll be some kind of a spiritual miracle that this film does numbers at the box office. But I have a feeling this one's going to be for the grandparents who want to freak you out. Be like, have you seen the new Russell Crowe film? Anyway, Jenny, thank you so much for joining us on The Daily Zeitgeist.

It's a pleasure to have you. Where can people find you and follow you and see you and listen to you? All that. Jenny Zagrino on Instagram, Twitter hate twitter but whatever go there tiktok is jenny zagrino comedy check out my album on april 14th gen z and if you want to see the sexy hot visuals go to comedy central youtube and watch this special fantastic is there a work of social media or a tweet that you've been liking that's giving you the giggles at all let me think oh there is a meme that i really love that makes me laugh thinking about it perhaps you know it but it is a sunflower in the

wind and someone put a face a face over it and it's just singing Creed One Last Breath. See, you don't even need to say words. And you guys know what I'm talking about. Not when you're yarling. That's the beauty of it. Oh, shit. Now y'all can think about Creed. Good night, everybody. We don't ride whole pound. You just can't.

There's no way. My sacrifice. Can you take me higher? Oh, love that. Let me tell you something. In 2001, Creed was popping, bro. Oh, yeah. Creed was popping.

Creed was popping. They had us on the south side of Chicago and be like, my sacrifice. We're like, damn, I feel this shit, white boy. I feel it. Oh, my God. Oh, Jaquise, of course. Thank you so much for joining me the last few episodes.

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Support the show. support the show support the beautiful time uh yeah at instant or at jockey's neil so i got some i got some i got a couple yeah yeah i mean these are just true you know pandemic or not why do motherfuckers stand so close behind you while you're waiting in line like yeah man give me three feet bruh you ain't gotta be on my ass i ain't gotta feel your breath on my neck man like you gonna you gonna put your groceries down in due time man like get the fuck off my back bruh it's like i think people would like smelling people man i think that's what it is people just like they get a sniff they get a quick little sniff fucking creep on out yeah it's terrible creep creep behavior another Then they go on out. Yeah. It's terrible. Creep, creep behavior. Another one.

Me in 1960. There's a meme of a black dude looking fucking just fly as hell, drinking out of the whites only water fountain. And then somebody saying me in 1963 because they would have had me fucked up. So funny. so funny uh i love i love i love the bravado of black people in 2023 being like man in slavery i would have fucked them niggas up and i'm like man you would have got murked like just like all the mother oh yeah i would have fucked that overseer up watch i would have caught that whip fucking ripped him off the fucking horse body slammed his ass boy they would have killed your ass so quick dude they would have killed you so quick yeah in the holocaust i would have run sure yeah yeah i would have been like yeah i hear you nazi you silly little leave me the fuck alone

they would have been like oh really not like the fuck the shit that makes me laugh is when black people say man they would have had to kill me. I was like, and they would have, motherfucker. It would have killed you. It was that easy. Yeah. You tweet out like first one at the USA. Singers tweeted Republicans hate when critical race theory is taught, but they love it when it's applied.

Couldn't be fucking truer. And just like on a good Friday last week, this tweet, I just saw it from, at Drake Gadsby tweeted, Jesus, today will forever be remembered as the day I was nailed to a cross and murdered. We should have a name for it. Like terrible Friday, maybe.

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