The Daily Zeitgeist - Motorcycles > The Vaccine, Dolly Parton > EVERYTHING 8.9.21

Episode Date: August 9, 2021

In episode 965, Miles and guest co-host Joelle Monique are joined by comedian Lydia Popovich to discuss Sturgis coming back, California Governor recall, GOP lawsuits, LeVar Burton isn’t going to be the Jeopardy host, Dolly Parton being the GOAT, and more!FOOTNOTES: Sturgis is happening again… California Gov Recall Remember those GOP Congress members that were suing Pelosi for mask mandate? LeVar Burton isn’t going to be the Jeopardy host… Listen: Kiki Gyan “Disco Dancer” Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Episode one of the Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This podcast is, you know, it's the one where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Monday, August 9th, 2021. shared consciousness. It's Monday, August 9th, 2021. My name is Miles Gray, aka. Do you have the time to listen to Miles Pine about the golden age of hip hop? I am one of those elder millennials, G-Funk to the bone, no doubt about it. Okay, that's true. That is me. Shout out to Hank Gipio on the Discord for that basket case inspired AKA. I'm thrilled to be joined yet again by my guest co-host, somebody

that I don't, do I have to keep introducing her? We get it. She's brilliant. She's talented. She's vivacious. You've heard her on so many podcasts. You've seen her on so many things. She's giving her takes on movies, films, anime, music, anything. If I have a bad opinion, I go to her. I say, is this a good opinion on media?

And she goes, uh-uh. And I say, okay, never mind, never mind, never mind. I didn't think that anyway. I trust you. Please welcome my guest host, my ride or die, Joelle Moniz. I am back. Probably not going to defend Marvel today. We'll be getting into some epic Dolly Parton, not to steal your thunder for later, Miles,

but I'm really excited for this segment, particularly because of guest is i'm look i'm excited too let's we might as well just get right into it uh our next guest is somebody who you know i didn't realize i'm like i think we're we're meant to be friends okay somebody from the bay area san francisco so you know we got that cali love uh but she decided to make a sojourn away from the great state. And again, it's nothing to do with politics or anything like that. I mentioned this because she is the person who opened my eyes to the majesty that is Dolly Parton. I didn't realize until one of the first times our guest came on and opened me up to what it was to understand the majesty that is Dolly. And aside from that she's

not just a dolly parton advocate okay she's a motherfucking stand-up comedian who's hilarious as fuck and you need to be hearing her wherever she is wherever she's performing wherever she appears please welcome one of my favorite guests lydia popovich wow what what what an intro oh my god it's so rare that somebody introduces me and really gets it you know what i mean and really understands the crux of my personality which truly is guns dolly parton and weed like that i think as i'm 90 day fiance too and 90 day fancy oh don't get me started yeah i mean you know we're all intersecting today i need a family i need a family crest you know what i mean which is like a big wig a big blunt and like an ak and then like a television set and maybe like some fries like i think that's like just all the way we've just met

but uh maybe i'm in love with you i don't know it might be happening i might be falling right oh i get it it's a wig draped on top of a television set and underneath are like two crossed guns. Even better. Like that kind of thing. Even better. With like nachos and french fries just crowded around it. Oh my goodness. I'd love to see it.

What's new, Lydia? Man, you know, not a lot in that every day. You know how it works? Yeah. That's all we need to know. Since we last talked, I've been continuing my quest to be chill, my quest just to settle in, my quest to give as little fucks as possible about things that don't impact my life directly. Always, always prophesizing Miss Dolly Parton, trying to get the word out. That is one of my main purposes on this life, in addition to making people laugh, is making sure that everybody understands and realizes that dolly parton will change your life and that you need at least a

sliver of her magic in your world to shine on your face that you know that everything's going to be okay because she is a living breathing walking angel on this earth blessing us with gifts every day even when you don't know it dolly parton is doing something for you you You know what I mean? I got a new tattoo. Oh, wait, let's see it. Yes, titties. I love it. Wait, what does it say? It says, what would Dolly do? Oh, wow.

And then it's got like a cowboy rope with two stars, but it's titties. Evoking. It is. Evoking. Evoking the breasts. Oh, wonderful. How long did that take? How long did it take for that tattoo?

Actually, it was pretty quick. It was like maybe an hour, hour and 15. Gabe was cooking with gas. Yeah. Handsome Sweets out of Nashville. He's amazing. Check him out. Welcome Taste Nashville.

He's amazing. Great, great, great tattoo artist. Yeah. Well, before we get to know you a little bit better, Lydia, I want to tell y'all, like I said last time, we are having a live stream virtual show on the internets. Jack and I. Memories from Anna. You will see old pictures of us.

You will see our musings on the year 2000. Plus special guests, possibly. So come see the show that we were doing on the road, but with a few more tweaks. It's going to be a great time, and we would love to see y'all virtually in a safe way, because that's probably the best way we can get to all of you. So check out the tickets. You can get them at momenthouse.com slash the daily zeitgeist. Remember that's E before I in this situation. Okay. So check out that for tickets and we hope to see you there. Now, before we get to know you even better, Lydia, we're going to give people a little preview of what we're going to talk about today.

First up, the Sturgis bike rally is happening again. I don't know if you remember last year and it was also in a pandemic. They're doing it again this year. And just a couple of things to just sort of consider when we think about, you know, close to three quarters of a million people converging on a single place at one time. We'll talk about the California governor's recall, because if people sleep on this one, we might get a real weird governor for the next couple of years. So something to keep our eyes on. Although, you know, Gavin Newsom, you might have to come with it, though, to inspire people to keep you in office. The other thing is we're checking on the GOP.

Keep you in office, sir. The other thing is we're checking on the GOP. You know, they remember they were suing Nancy Pelosi from, you know, her mask mandate because so many of them are not vaccinated. We'll talk about them. We'll also talk about Mo Brooks, who we touched on, who, you know, he's being sued by fellow congressperson Eric Swalwell for inciting a riot on January 6th. He's representing himself in court. And we'll check on how that's going uh spoiler alert it's hilarious oh wow and then we're gonna talk about uh lavar burton turns out he's not getting it looks like he's not getting that jeopardy gig i'm i'm we'll talk about that because it feels like a bit of a bait and switch there and also again dolly parton she stays goaded okay we're we're again, like Lydia was saying, she might have done shit 70 years ago that we didn't know about that. We're now reaping the

benefits of today. I mean, she already helped pay for a vaccine to be developed. We have a little bit more just just light flexing from her where she just says offhandedly on watch what happens live and just like, oh, yeah, I did that. So we'll talk about her. But first, before we get to any of that, Lydia, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are, what you're up to? Well, it's a little embarrassing. I'm going to go ahead and tell you guys. It is frequent urination in kittens. I just got a pair of kittens. I haven't had kittens for a while And I've forgotten about them I had a cat for like 20 years

And got a brand new kitten Got a new house, got to get some new kittens Was very excited, found them, they were adorable But then I was like I forgot how rowdy they are But they are rowdy, they are fighting It's like WWE kitty time in here But then I can't think of this one cat that I have

That's just playing in the litter box or if he's just in there and I'm like, do you have a UTI? Do kittens get UTIs? But then it turns out that some cats just play in the litter box. And I think this little dirty fuck is literally just like a little trash dog. He just likes to get in there and he just like rolls around in it. He likes to get in there and he hides and then he attacks his sister. He pretends he's mean.

And then he jumps out of the box and goes savage on his sister i just realized doing like a no look just like no i'm doing my own pee and they got you like so it's not even it's okay fake peace and i was just like okay appreciate the gangster like that's very solid like i know my house is not going to have any pests because you are going to be hiding and getting them he's a little hunter but at the same time i was just like i have to wipe you off now every time i want to touch you because i know your little dirty ass has been rolling around on this cat litter yeah like that's so gross what do you do what can you do like just change up the litter to maybe something that isn't as fun and more functional i'm gonna get a litter box with a

lid on it so he can't see so it's's harder to like, you know what I mean? So it's more of a private time. So you can't be like in the box, like looking around, like keeping everything out. I think that'll help, but I'm not sure, man.

It's just embarrassing that I'm like, I've always been like a hands off, hands on cat mom where like, I love my animals, but I'm not a lady that like obsesses about it. But with these kittens, I found myself becoming very much like a helicopter cat mom where I'm like, are you okay?

Are you all right? Are you peeing fake i've never in my life thought i was going to be somebody who's like googling that and i was just like like googling like should i make a raw diet for my cats and i'm just like you get some other hobbies or some new friends because you are really talking about signing on doing like a raw food diet for your cats i had to go raw for one of my cats because they were just so sensitive to like the trash food i was giving them yeah and one of the listeners is like gang like a animal dietician and like hit me up and was like you might want to try something else because what sounds like is your cat is not coping with these bad foods yeah i mean i went i mean i went about like nice ass food like i went to the good pet store i bought all grain free shit like they're they're they're doing fine with it but because i want i'm kind of bougie and i'm just like i want my cats to be the prettiest so like maybe i need to oh man my cat

went on that raw diet her coat just like blew up right it was a whole glow up and i was like what the fuck and i was like man give me some of that shit maybe my hair will grow back see that's what i'm saying i don't know i thought i was doing good because i bought cat food with coconut oil in it i was like oh with coconut oil i was like lizzo told me that makes everything better like it's gotta work right you know what i mean she's they got it the marketing goddess my little black queen's gotta be gorgeous you know yeah wait what are your cat's names one doesn't have a name yet the boy his name is Bruce DeWayne. And that's because my partner wants to call him Batman.

And I was just like, I can't have a cat named Batman. I just can't. So I was like, Bruce. But then he's black. So we're like, he's DeWayne. Bruce DeWayne. Like, that's our little Bruce DeWayne. And then the girl, I'm currently-

I thought you were naming him after Dwayne Wayne. That would be great. From a different world. But that's how old I am. It's a nod to Wheezy too. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. It's a slight nod to Wheezy. Yeah. What's in the cup, Wheezy? Yeah.

And then the other one, she's sleeping in the funniest position right now. She's literally like this, like put her hands back up right now. I don't know what to call her yet. I want it to be an old lady name. So I've been cycling through, like my first idea was Judy because Dolly Parton's best friend's name is is julie oval and i was like judy and then there's also you know

my best judy also known as your best friend and she's gonna be my best friend so i was really considering calling her judy also bruce and judy sounds really cute together i love it but i'm not sure i've been yelling judy like you got to make sure that the pet name like yell it you know and i'm like judy like pet name, like yell it, you know? And I'm like, Judy, like it feels weird to yell it. So I'm not sure. Then I thought about Shirley.

I like Shirley. Shirley feels good. Cheryl, Shirley. And she's all white. She's a lilac point Siamese. So it was like, Ooh,

I'm an old white lady. Good. I like the name Mildred. Ooh, that's good. Super old sounding. I like that. We're going back in time

with these names. Petty Betty has been sticking because she's a little hissy. So we keep calling her Petty Betty White. Petty and Bruce and then you have you like Betty's the winning. I've been denying it just because I don't mean all respect to Betty White.

I think she's wonderful, but I don't really like it like that. She's not my white lady. It's Dolly Parton. I think she's wonderful, but I don't really like it like that. She's not my white lady. It's Dolly Parton. But, I don't know. Then I was like, another friend of mine was like, Truby? I was like, no, that's a little too obvious, which was Dolly Parton's character in Still Magnolias. But I don't know.

Petty Betty might win out. I might just fold and just... Petty Betty is fun to say. And she is petty. She's very petty. Aside from just Petty Betty is fun to say. And she is petty. She's very petty. So it's accurate. Aside from just real lame cat names, what is something you think is overrated? Overrated? Graceland.

I went to Graceland last Monday for the very first time. And I was really excited about it. You know what I mean? I'm not a huge Elvis fan, but I am a fan of kitschychy Furniture and Bad Taste, which that man had in spades. So I really thought Graceland was going to be the shit, that that was really going to be the situation. And it was the world's most boring tour. They hand you an iPad and some headphones. This huge iPad you're supposed to carry around and swipe through while you're walking. Like a Gen 1 iPad?

Yeah, dude. it's like this but it was huge and it had on one of those weird classic things like they give to babies so if you drop it and i had like a neck lanyard so i was just like i don't want to wear this not chain this i've had like sweat around my neck and then like veterinarians love this they're like i can see everything it's great exactly and they're like oh if you want to read extra material and it's just like so weird so everyone's standing there like sheep like trying to stare into this living room looking at their ipad and i'm like the room's right there you're looking at a picture of the room on your ipad the room's right there let's let's keep it moving let's use our eyes

yeah and they don't let you in the second like story of the of the house it's just the first it's like literally five rooms that you get to see and then just busted ass airplanes and then it's also full of lies like they don't acknowledge at any point in time that he died of drug overdose they don't mention it they're like on the plane they're like oh you know albus famously didn't like the taste of alcohol so he drank diet dr pepper and i was like yeah with cocaine like he only did that to get past the drip yeah so he mixed it with soda like that man was a walking pharmaceutical nightmare and they just had a really creepy they had like his suit that he got married in and with priscilla priscilla's they had priscilla's wedding dress and

it's on a child mannequin and i was like is nobody gonna mention that this is a child's mannequin like we're not gonna acknowledge that she was a fucking child when this happened right yeah so it was just it was really gross i just i ended up like leaving being like oof this is dumb i i can't believe i paid 70 for this. What was the version? $70 for five rooms? $70, dog! $70! And then they have all these auxiliary exhibits that's supposed to make you feel better about it, and it's basically like other people's clothes. Like, they had a dress of Dolly Parton's there in an exhibit called Elvis

Influence Style, and I was like, you get the fuck out of here. If you're trying to tell me that Elvis influenced Dolly Parton, I'm gonna fight somebody. Who's responsible? Who's responsible here? $70 for five rooms is absurd. So in your mind, Martin. I'm going to fight somebody. Who's responsible here? No, thank you. $70 for five rooms is absurd. So in your mind,

you would have been like, it's a perfectly preserved, wacky celebrity home that you can kind of just see and do that shit. But really, it's almost like someone's uptight grandparent's house where it's like, don't go in that room. And you can look at this room from there. Don't go in there. And don't sit on the fucking couch either. And you can look at this room from there. Correct. Don't go in there.

And don't sit on the fucking couch either. Correct. And I'm like, show me the bathroom. You know what I mean? Show me. I want to see where he died. Like, show me the bathroom. You should be able to take a picture on the fucking toilet that he died on.

Come on. I'm saying. I'm saying. Is it that flippant? Maybe that's disrespectful, but I don't know. If you're charging 70 bucks. For 70 bucks? Come on. What are you doing? All I know is the Dolly Parton's museum is free inside of her amusement park. respectful but i don't know if you're charging 70 bucks for 70 bucks come on what do you know

is the dolly parton's museum is free inside of her amusement park so she's a good person inside of her amusement park yeah she's smart she's like look if you're gonna pay for something you gonna get an amusement park for yeah then you can look at all this yeah you can come and ride my rides or you can come and look at all my stuff here's every dress i've ever worn here's all my handwriting here's everything you need i just i don't know like i'm just i'm a fan of fandom yeah and like i was trying to put myself in the shoes of like a hardcore elvis fan and i was like i think i'd still be disappointed like there's not enough there was not a there was not one you guys not one elvis suit not one original Elvis piece of clothing.

This is more museum curation. There was a whole museum of other people's clothing. There was no Elvis clothing. If anything, show me a beaded jumpsuit. That man had plethoras of beaded jumpsuits. He is known for basically being a monster. He got jeans and a tight ass. None of the little guys survived?

What's going on? None. Not one set of blue suede shoes. Not one jumpsuit. Nothing. They had all four outfits for Kiss. But they did not have an Elvis jumpsuit. Who curated this museum and why?

That's what I want to know. I have so many more questions after going to Graceland. Are we seeing sheet music? Guitars? No. Maybe like a guitar Guitars? No. Maybe like a guitar pick, probably. No?

I am flabbergasted. Memphis site gang, let us know. What happened? Did it used to be good and something went wrong? Did he owe some bills or something and they had to liquidate a bunch of shit? What's going on? I have no idea. I was just starting to be disrespectful at one point. I was like, can you show me the room where he kept the contracts for the people he

fucked over can you show me the room like yeah yeah i was i was i was not happy it was it was a waste of time i could have never read it again if i can save anybody from going to graceland don't go don't go unless you're like a super fan and you need to be disappointed don't go yeah right to see it for yourself and be like a super fan and you need to be disappointed. Don't go. Yeah. Right. To see it for yourself and be like,

but I had to do it, but I had to do it, but I had to do it. You know, uh, what's something that you think is underrated? You know what? And I've been struggling with this, but it's,

I keep on thinking about it every time I try to enjoy myself is great. Wait service, wonderful waiters. Like it sucks right now because all of these restaurants are trying to stay open. Right. And they're trying to kind of like make money and trying to like make the most of a bad situation. Like I know it's rough. It's hard to go out to eat. You know what I mean? And people aren't going to work.

And so they're overworked. So these restaurants, you know, these people aren't even having the chance to like be good waiters. Like I forgot how nice it is to go out, but it's not nice to go out unless you have good wait service. And it's not these people's fault. know what i mean like they're stretched so thin they're across four or five tables they're trying to do stuff it's like i ate out several times this past week because i was going to graceland and spending some time with some friends and every time we went to go out to eat it was just a nightmare and i was like it was never it

didn't used to be like this like you used to go in and like get great service. And now these people are just like exhausted. And they're also terrified for their lives, right? Because they're in places with people and it's just difficult. So like I'm really just being a good waiter and working at a place that values you and being able to provide great service and to have those interactions and a dining service. It's just like, I think something that we all take for granted and we all all really really need to appreciate people that are out there that are working they're doing a good job and trying their best to get that food and then i think some of these restaurants just need to like close down or reduce their service and like have quality service instead of just

shit time also hey federal government like let's get rid of this wage salary just this two four dollars whatever it is don't live off that you're not making enough in tips so many people just choose not to tip some people three dollars i had in my purse i guess you could have that the reason we started that was because we ended slavery and then we had to figure out a way to not pay these people but pay them and and then for some reason we just kind of kept doing it i don't know what the heck happened there yeah it's terrible and yeah like you really feel for like just all people who again were considered essential right and had all this praise and be like these selfless people and no fucking financial acknowledgement of that yeah and so yeah it's it's it's tough

times and it's really true like wherever you go especially like in the hospitality industry like a business you will see them they are plastering all of the benefits like on the door like to be like yeah we're looking for this this is what it costs we'll hook your teeth up we'll hook your your eyes up whatever you need your your body. We're good. But the one thing you see is like the wages never really go above like 14, 15. And then like, I mean, I get, especially if you're running a small business, that might not be feasible. But for places that are doing high volume and making millions in revenue, God, like you do better.

Yeah. And in a way, it's like, I don't know. I don't know how we expect people who's like whole reason for living in terms of like the people who run these companies to suddenly be like you know what if we made less money yeah so unless the government mandates something it'll be very interesting or you know more maybe a general strike maybe october 15th maybe maybe maybe that maybe that might happen i don't know 2021 look at it october 15th strike yeah so yeah i look forward to having a great meal that is with a great waiter who is happy and

or they are happy i should say i don't want to gender a waiter but you know what i mean anybody who's working in that position just feels comfortable and safe enough to provide wonderful service that doesn't like is requiring them to you know risk their life and their livelihood right because i mean i feel like unless you're working at like a super high-end restaurant like the tips might not always be kind of at that level that'll keep a smile on your face and it's funny when you go to when you go to countries where there's a robust social safety net motherfuckers are happy at every job you know what i mean because most people like half of the battle of going clocking in is like i hate this motherfucking place i don't pay right

shit the fucking people you're fucking bullshit what the fuck am i doing here hi how are you you know yeah happy to be here i'm glad you have free time to spend and order this sandwich right and we don't consider the like really the humanity past all of it you know that we're just seeing like in this sort of service context and yeah man shout out to everybody who's in any kind of service oriented role at the moment because it's fucking bad and just like we've seen on airplanes people are using y'all to just be the lightning rod for their own stress and shit and taking it out on y'all that's super fucked up and it's so crazy i didn't last i didn't last long in retail uh that's for sure me neither me neither i couldn't i flash on people too quick i was yo i was just like stressed out man you're gonna yell at me

because i didn't i'm we're out of a handbag i'm like i'm at the motherfucking coat store you act like the fuck i'm sorry we don't have the ergo bag right now but i had a guy call me a stupid bitch because i couldn't guess what movie he was trying to think of oh my god which is a lot of fun and when i told him i was like i'm just gonna get my manager for you sir just just hold on please and he was like yeah go cry to your mommy and i was like wow i was 18 or 19 years old wait this is when you were like what working at the ticket booth or something? Yeah, I was working at AMC. So I was working at the customer service desk.

So someone's like, hey, what movie am I thinking of? It's a funny movie. It's coming out this week. How could you not know? I'm like, sir, I'm a film student. And I'm also looking at a screen of available tickets. And there are no fight movies currently available for you to purchase tickets for. So I'm just not sure what he's like.

Everyone's talking about it. I'm i'm so excited it's funny now well then maybe you should remember the name of the dog like what the hell you might need to see a doctor bro your memory might be you smell post dog because you're not working right what is it what am i thinking of what's my name where? Where am I? Oh, shit. Okay. Yeah, I knew I wasn't fit for that world when I was like 18. I was like 17, actually. And I was an assistant manager of a Playland in San Jose, California. And I was in charge of kids' birthday parties, which is probably the worst job you could have put me in. Oh, yeah, I used to do that, too, when I worked at a laser tag place. Right?

And you had those little pizza rooms and people stuff. And I just had like... You had to cut cake and all that shit. Oh, yeah. Just like the cuntiest mother just trying to like overdo it with me and i was like lady you chose playland you don't love him that much like this is this is what we do like this cake was not baked here okay like it right i don't know but like long story short but like she sent like the husband over to come give me a talking to and i remember telling him you're not my dad i'm 17 frankly i don't give a fuck

and then when i came back i accidentally spilled cake whoops onto him and uh yeah i ended up like retiring or not retired residing uh a week later because my manager was like did you tell someone that you don't give a fuck and i was like yeah i did i did actually well i wasn't lying did you want me to lie to the customer i thought we don't lie to the customer he's like did you tell someone that you don't give a fuck? And I was like, yeah, I did. I did. Well, I wasn't lying. Did you want me to lie to the customer? I thought we don't lie to the customer. Did you break a cake or did you like, you like dropped a cake? And I was like,

yeah, I was just stumbled. Wow. Wow. How that happened to that asshole. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like,

maybe I shouldn't work here. I don't think I have what it takes to diffuse this problem because I don't give a fuck. Don't care. Well, shout out to everybody who has to clock in and face the fucking ugliness of the world in their own way, because we all do on some level. So particularly to those who have to fucking have keep their composure in the face of screaming. All right, let's take a break. We'll pay some bills and we'll be right back after this. I've been thinking about you.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Sturgis. The bike rally. Everyone loves it. It's like if you're biking and you're going to... Yeah, look, this is me just doing my version of what the governor, Kristi Noem, would say in South Dakota. It's a great opportunity for all lovers of the open road to converge on our state. Last year, the Sturgis Bike Rally took place in the middle of the pandemic. And, you know, the funny thing is, we saw something happen there. It seemed like that was a bit of a super spreader event. I mean, there's definitely different takes on how just how many people were infected. The conservative numbers are like 700

ish and then up upwards of maybe in the tens of thousands, if depending on what you look at it. One German sort of economic think tank analyzed like what the spike of infections after surges did, and they said it cost about 12 billion billion in healthcare costs. So when you look at this year, we're looking at something that is going on that they project will be possibly 750,000 attendees this year. That's so many people. Yeah. Yeah. And the other part of it is when you look at it, I mean, the culture that you see with a lot of bikers tends to be on the anti-vax side. So a lot of health experts are like, oh, and the Delta variant, you know, is really is even more contagious than the one last year. Plus, you have a lot of unvaccinated folks. So a lot of people are praising themselves.

Some like local like nurses are like, it's all good. Like we'll deal with it. Whatever has to happen, because it seems like residents of Sturgis are sort of like, we like it because it's like an annual tradition. It brings money into the town. And for that, we like it while there are others who are like, it's like the bane of my existence. And also like, like all kinds of reckless stuff happens you know last year only four people died normally about 10 people like around 10 people will die at Sturgis from like various accidents like on motorcycles and things like that or just other accident related injuries and not only that like this year dude these people came to party because the drug bus yo they caught these people with 72 pounds of meth 10 pounds of cocaine

six pounds of heroin no 6 000 counterfeit fentanyl pills and like a bunch of cash and guns 13 guns this was on one bus like right before the whole thing kicked off that's wild like i mean i'm not surprised by the amount of pounds of methamphetamine like that that tracks you know what i mean like 750 000 people 72 pounds of methamphetamine whatever if i was good at math i could break that down whatever that's like you know seven grams seven ounces per person or something like that like you know what you need for a weekend you know everyone needs a quarter ounce of fucking rock you know i, it'd be a little bit more. I mean, my friends came from Hollywood and I was like, bring weed and bring more weed and then bring more weed.

And they only brought more weed and they ran out. I was like, I told you. You know what I mean? Not planning. You know, so I give them, you know, a pound for realizing that they needed 72 pounds. But wow. Right. Yeah.

And heroin and cocaine and fentanyl. They didn't even give you weed numbers. Yeah. Right. I. And heroin and cocaine and fentanyl. They didn't even give you weed numbers. Yeah. Right? At this point in the cost of life, who cares about weed? We got federal stuff. Let's go. Yeah.

Oh, my God. And, you know, it just sort of, like, really, when you look at all this stuff, like, it really makes all the, like, reopening fanfare that occurred, like, in June feel real fucking dumb now. it's like we were really on that shit you know all the cities were like you know like de blasio's like new york is back baby uh we're back mandating vaccines and wearing masks indoors because the delta variant is just spreading too quickly la very much people were like ah let's go and then suddenly like most people were like oh no

actually because when you look at you know transmission rates being low but vaccination rates even lower my empathy alarm is going off and I think I mentioned a couple weeks ago on this show how like my ideally I would be empathetic in all situations right I'm not

I'm not an evolved person but ideally I want to be and if i'm trying really hard to step into that ideology of just constantly leading with empathy then i understand missing traditions right those things you do annually i love the toronto international film festival all my gals are up there it is fun toronto is a bomb-ass city i would give anything to go there i want to go to new york i have new york levels of money now i can like actually spend and like hell yeah right right right i can go to new york people got new york money but can you stay in new york for like seven dollars i cannot say i can visit okay i'm the

cousin from out of town show me a good time i'm ready so i get i get being like no man this was this was supposed to be our summer we stayed inside i mean probably not all the people attending this but like some portion some percentage of these people did stay inside all year we're good okay some of them got in fact i just want to see my friends god damn it uh it's so hot I want to be outside. But at the same time, I don't understand officials who could just be like, shoulder shrug. I can't do anything about it. I just don't understand how, like, they must be able to view it as these deaths are not my responsibility.

And I can't. I can't understand that. I can't understand that. Oh, I mean, that's exactly. Kristi Noem,ome i mean she's remember her her own grandmother passed away in a like a convalescent home and like it was real murky because there was a covet outbreak there but they never really said what happened and she acted like nothing it was all good on your grandma grandmother okay well she's just a not shit person because i

go to war for my grandma 100 100 for my grandma 100%. We'll be on the streets for my grandma. What? Oh, no. So, yeah, it's alarming. And, yeah, the one thing that a lot of the people, locals say is like, look, this shit's going to happen either way. Like, so whether you cancel it,

these people are going to come and they'll just fucking figure some shit out on their own. And the fact is, if it's not officially held, then there's a lot of local resources that aren't there in case when if and when someone injures themselves that means less ems that means less any kind of care that might be needed or whatever in an official capacity so it's a really fucked up situation and i mean you even look at like when the milwaukee bucks when the nba finals they were wilding out and like, you know, all together watching the game that led to about 500 infections. And I'm sure there

was a decent amount of people who were vaccinated in those crowds too. But we're talking about possibly 750,000 people. And it's it just kicked off over the weekend. So we shall see. But that's the kind of things that are going on. But listen, I mean, these people have been inside, unable to wear leather clothing in public. Right. You know what I mean? Like wearing a leather vest with fringe, with no shirt and like exposed, like just like exaggerated old 20 year old nipple piercing,

just like doesn't hit the same. Yeah. Like you need to be able to get on that bike. You know what I mean? You need to be able to feel that fringe, hit the rest of your back. You know what I mean? You need to get that beard, that beard just like that you gotta get flies and stuff in there like you can't get flies in your beard just hanging out of the crib and home you know there's

a layer of gross clean enough yeah well i mean not the same as the open road though miles you know those don't hit the same yeah those are not the same know? Speaking of governors and what they can do or can't do, I want to quickly just touch on the California governor recall. Gavin Newsom, he is sweating right now because the polls are in. And my darling, it looks like more people are interested in having you not be governor than people who want to keep you in office by about six points. than people who want to keep you in office by about six points. Now, look, a lot can be said of what Gavin Newsom's done and some of the better things that have happened during the pandemic. But I think progressives would also like a lot more from Gavin Newsom. Just in general, I think there's a lot of work that can be done. So right now, there's set to be a recall election in September. OK, like we're very close to this recall election happening. And the way the ballot works is first, the first question is just like,

Hey, you think Gavin Newsom should be recalled? Yes or no. And if that first question reaches over 50% saying, yes, he should be removed. Then they go to the second part of the ballot where people have to choose from 46 candidates and said, okay, if not him, then who? And no matter what, the second that thing goes over 50%, whoever has the most votes out of those 46 candidates, that's who the fucking governor is. Oh, hell no. How is this? Like what? Like, I don't understand. This is how Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor. This is democracy, huh? Yeah.

This is what we're doing? that's what we're doing that's what we do exactly this is that big d energy big democracy energy and so if you just look this is where it gets interesting right because if he's recalled these candidates like these are people like who are running caitlin jenner conservative radio host larry elder or even this dude john cox who lost to gavin newsom in the first election he this dude went he did a publicity stunt where he toured the state with a fucking 1 000 pound kodiak bear i remember that just for why just because california you know it's masculine there's a bear behind me and we have a mascot people like mascots i feel like this was the logic of the team, you know? It's a beautiful bear.

It's a symbol of the state. It's good. We're going to talk about it, especially animal rights activists who are like, what the fuck are you doing? And we don't like them, and our people don't like them, so it works.

I mean, did they have a little hat? Did they do a dance? Because I do like a dancing bear. No, he just stood there chained up on a very short chain, and it was sad. Yeah. Everyone was like, this is fucked up.

Like, I don't know like this is fucked up like i don't know what this is supposed to be but the stunt worked or you know if you go down the list i mean there's motherfucking youtubers and shit this isn't this could be fucking bad i mean whether or not you like gavin newsom is one thing but i just this these are the stakes right because regardless of your stance on gavin newsom let's let's just let's just play out what happens a republican wins and let's say it's Caitlyn Jenner. OK, and we have Governor Caitlyn Jenner making history. For example, now, Democrats have a veto proof majority in the state legislature.

So there's not much that the governor can do like to fuck around with legislative stuff. However, the governor can absolutely do stuff like, you know, take out department heads or other executive appointees to essentially skull fuck programs that he doesn't like. Much in the same way Trump did is like, well, I don't like this, so I'll put a fucking, Diane Feinstein, who may retire, become ill and no longer be able to carry out the, you know, the duties of the office. The governor is the person who picks the fucking replacement. So that could be a could be some interesting congressional math going down. So, yeah, it's a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation at the moment for California. I mean, this is kind of the problems I have with sort of like official government, right? It's because there's fear mongering, right?

And then people get all worked up. Oh, I hate this. I hate this guy. He shouldn't be here. I should be here. But the follow through of that thought, like, like cool you don't like it but have a solid backup plan like you can't just start like pushing to change something without really understanding what the fallout is going to be like how can people get so worked up and like the media

just gets you so worked up on the fact that like gavin's not doing his job he's not doing his job he's not doing his job you gotta get him out you gotta get him out of here i mean even with trump it was the same problem not that i want either of these, you know, I have a stance on it, but it's like, know where you're going. Make, make a, understand the fallout of what you're doing here. Like, you can't just complain. It's like going to the movies. I want to go

to the movies, but then what? You get mad at Joel because you can't figure out which fucking movie you want to watch. That's basically what's happening. Like, you know that movie, you know, you know that governor, you know that one that does everything right, that's perfect in its galaxy. I want that movie you know you know that governor you know that one that does everything right that's perfect in this galaxy i want that guy do you know who he is no do you know who he is do you know where she is do you know where they are like i feel like it's not necessarily the media's job to point us in the right direction for oh no no no highlight folks but i yeah i'm just saying the democratic party would be like all

right here's something like these we have to go back a ways but just the basics of it is this we should not have a two-party system and the fact that we do and neither party is in a position to adequately like support its base is bonkers to me they can't support their base the uh wealthy people yes for both sides they're doing fucking great i mean the people people the actual the actual people people just try to make a date when those people used to matter or at least at least in rhetoric they mattered yeah yeah we don't vote so they don't give a fuck about us well this is what's and this is what stands to happen because

in these elections people like the the people who have the momentum are all of these angry republicans who are hell-bent on getting some kind of electoral vengeance this go-round they are fired the fuck up so yeah i don't know it's a little bit different though this time too because when gray davis was recalled and arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected, there was another prominent Democrat running like, like as a possible option. So that did kind of split sort of the votes, whether or not to recall, because I think it was Cruz Bustamante or someone who was running at the time. And so this is a little bit different since it's only like, it's pretty much like there's no prominent Democrats that would potentially take any of Newsom's thunder.

But at the end of the day, I mean, it's yeah. Like to your point, it's so empty or short sighted. We're just like, I don't like that. I have to wear masks. OK, so have you thought about what you want and also how that's all going to work? Are you just hell bent on saying I don't like masks? Correct. That thinking that has there's so much other shit that goes down that

way it's like well what the fuck happened to my uh like medicaid instead of medical well the reason well you voted for that recall and they put somebody in who's all maggot out and they don't want any kind of public benefits for people so did you think about that part too so it's very frustrating but anyway keep your eye on that, especially California voters. Moving on, just to talk with the GOP, checking in really quick. We talked a little bit about how Representatives Norman, majorly tainted gangrene, and Thomas Massey were suing Nancy Pelosi because they were getting fines for not wearing masks on the House floor because Nancy Pelosi, like there's a thing called the Delta variant and there's many unvaccinated people in here. They had appealed these fines.

They ultimately lost. So they were suing Pelosi to be like, this is a statement of my First Amendment rights. And also it's my body and my choice. I have body autonomy. And you're like, fuck out of here, y'all. What are you saying? So you do know what my body

my choice means in this instance in this instance yeah a popular phrase in order and then like also not acknowledge the truth of it in a broader scope like that is wild yeah they're gonna switch my body my choice to your body your fucking problem pretty soon we just found out that representative norman has contracted a breakthrough case of covid and wouldn't you believe it he's like well luckily i'm vaccinated so the symptoms are mild you're like what the fuck are y'all doing you're teamed up with mtg who's so anti like what are anyway that's where they're at and i think this is just a lot of the the weird shit that's going around with COVID. Like, especially, Joelle, you're saying in Texas schools, too.

It's getting very bizarro over there. T, which is the Texas Education Agency, just released last night its new COVID guidelines for schools. Here we go. Schools don't have to inform parents of a positive case. Schools don't have to conduct contact tracing. And if they do do it, parents can still choose to send their children to school, even if they are in close contact with an infected person. So basically, we have no intention or drive to stop the spread amongst children, many of whom cannot be vaccinated and or are immunocompromised. Yeah.

Children literally die from this. What the fuck? I don't understand. Do they think they're like fullyed from any legal viability? Because this is the thing we would hate to see. If someone loses their child because of these kinds of reckless fucking policies, and then what is that parent left to do? Right.

You know what I mean? What is their recourse? And recourse isn't even a wild word to use, right? Because your child is gone. Yeah right right like you can't do anything you know how can you respond to it yeah where can you find any sort of sense of being made i mean you'll never be made whole losing a child but how can you approach something that feels like restitution or right whatever because clearly these guidelines are, it's like,

it's just so weird to like articulate those points on paper like that. Cause it's, they might as well just say, look, we don't give a fuck, bro. Yeah. Whatever's going to happen is going to happen.

That's on y'all to fucking send your kids to these schools. Cause we're telling you this is on y'all. We aren't going to do a fucking thing to help with this. Well, and it goes back to what we were talking about earlier, just about people not having jobs. Like this is also like very much designed to impact people who are not doing well. Some people do not have the option of not sending their children to school because they can't afford to stay home. You know what I mean?

Like we've had a whole year where people have been staying home. People need to go out and make money. People need to go get that $14 an hour. People are throwing them, you know, into doing it. And now it's like, so great.

So now we're going to have all of these lower income people that don't have the resources that don't have an option to take care of their kids out into an alternate situation. And they have to, and then imagine being that person. I have to go to this job. I am risking my life. And now I have to send my child

to risk their life. And then hopefully nobody comes home and nobody dies. Right. Exactly. Or you say, oh, fuck it. I can't afford to have my kids get sick. And I also can't afford to put them somewhere else. You say, y'all aren't going to school because I just wanted to happen. And then you have CPS or something coming through because they're saying you're being negligent and not putting your kid in school or they're truant or something it's yeah you can totally see that all the angles in which they're trying to squeeze people to completely get through the most horrific pandemic we've seen in our in our lifetimes or our small lifetimes and not do anything to create more of a public benefit for people. Like that's the,

they're like, fuck man, if we can get through this pandemic and not give people more fucking insurance and not give people more like a real living wage, we've done it. Y'all we've done it. That's how a lot of these greedy motherfuckers are thinking. And that's what they want.

Cause the last thing they want is to be like, fuck man, what are we going to cancel rent? Uh, yes, you're going to have to, because there's millions of people who were not even ideating i mean there are definitely people in the legislature in congress that are trying to but for the most

part it's not a big ticket item for the fucking president who can just indiscriminately start wars and shit but can't figure out how to cancel people's rent. Yes. It's insane. Yeah. The cruelty of the world, especially this country, comes into bigger focus. OK, just in some slightly lighter news, even though it's still about the January 6th insurrection. I want to talk about Mo Brooks, who is that representative who was screaming at the Capitol rally before the insurrection. And he was saying, like, it's time to kick ass and take names. And then talking about people like making the ultimate sacrifice and shit like, whoa, easy, easy.

And he's like, are you guys ready? Also, he had a body armor on when he was giving that speech. Side note. Well, he got sued by fellow Congressman Eric Swalwell. Man had been ducking the process servers. We talked about this and like was just really trying to be like, nope, can't get me. Can't get me. Can't get me. He finally got served. And now he's in court because he also failed to prove that the department of justice should represent him in the case because he was saying like, well,

I'm a Congress person and that's my official duties as a Congress person. If there's like a tort suit going on for like some kind of personal injury, like then the DOJ has to represent me. Typically, that is true. However, his defense, because he said, I wasn't trying to get people all, you know, turnt up to go storm the Capitol. I was talking about the midterm elections and the next presidential in 2024. That technically made it campaigningigning which completely takes away his argument that the doj could represent him so he could have pressed it more a lot of people a lot of legal people are saying like he might have been able to press it more and actually figured

out a way to do it but he just went and said fine i'm gonna do it on my own so he's his own fucking lawyer right now and i I just want to say. Which never goes well. Ever. No, ever. In the history of anybody who is wanting to represent themselves. That's it. It's never, it's like never.

I mean, I'm sure maybe it's worked out somewhere. We've never heard. In a movie. In a movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Never. In a movie. It happens.

Not in real life. First of all, Brooks hasn't practiced law in many years and he's rusty as shit because you can tell by the stuff that he's filing in court he doesn't know what court is or how federal courts work first of all he's like i want to throw out all the lies that the plaintiff is trying to accuse me of of of any kind of wrongdoing they're all lies i would like them struck from the record they They're like, huh? That's not emotion. You could,

okay. He still tried to file it. Then he submitted this list of basically saying like, since all Eric Swalwell saying lies, allow me to tell you some truths about me. Number one, and this is written in, you know,

as legally. So it's in the third person. One Brooks is 67 years. Okay. Two Brooks has never smoked tobacco. Brooks does not consume alcohol. Brooks has never experimented with or taken illegal drugs. Three, Brooks has never been arrested for or convicted of any felonies or misdemeanors. Four, Brooks has never had a money judgment rendered against him in any civil court or anything.

He said for anything. Similarly, Brooks has never settled any litigation against him by payment of any funds to any plaintiff. Five, Brooks has never had a DUI or reckless driving ticket or even a speeding ticket. Six, Brooks has never had a motor vehicle wreck in which anyone claimed Brooks was at fault. Seven, this is the best one. Brooks has been married 45 years. Brooks has always been faithful to his wife. Together, they have raised four children, all of whom are married, none of whom have raised four children all of whom are married none of whom have been divorced all of whom are law-abiding none of whom have ever been arrested for anything all of whom have college degrees and jobs brooks's children have blessed him with 10 grandchildren with two twins and another granddaughter on the way i duress my case your honor brooks is not only you know boring yeah clearly yeah brooks don't know how to have no fun. Right.

But he also is nonsensical. Why would you need to denote that you've never gotten a DUI if you don't drink or have never tried illegal substances? Yeah. You want to make that list hit. You want to list as many ways that your shit's clean.

He's like, listen, I fought my wife and that's it right i feel like you didn't even like it from a writing standpoint you didn't even list those things in order of like oh wow like great guy you know what i mean you're all over the place brooks get it together yeah sorry brooks uh it's just it's a very weird defense like it re-smacks of someone who has not actually figured or understands like the weight of the accusation oh and also like how to actually properly defend against that if you're just being like but i'm boring and never did anything bad why would i start now what why would you not hire a lawyer? I'm just because they're

fucking expensive and if Donald Trump is not going to help you then I don't know. Brooks also doesn't have a lot of money to hire a lawyer. Brooks does not enjoy ketchup. Brooks likes snacks. This is such a weird

Brooks thinks Fresca is an abomination. Brooks thinks squirt is the superior grapefruit soda. Like, what the fuck? It could never be for the Yankees. Brooks has never ingested NutraSweet. Brooks doesn't care who has the best fried chicken sandwich because he prefers cheeseburgers. Brooks is an All-American.

Like, whoa. Unless it's Chick-fil-A because brooks believes chick-fil-a is defending the christian rights of identity like okay thank you brooks we're gonna convict you now yeah yeah yeah all right exactly all right let's uh let's go pay some bills real quick we'll be right back after this i've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you.

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It was December 2019 when the story blew up. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, former Packers star Kabir Bajabiamila caught up in a bizarre situation. KGB explaining what he believes led to the arrest of his friends at a children's Christmas play. A family man, former NFL player, devout Christian, now cut off from his family and connected to a strange arrest. I am going to share my journey of how I went from Christianity to now a Hebrew Israelite. I got swept up in Kabir's journey, but this was only the beginning. In a story about faith and football, the search for meaning away from the gridiron and the consequences for everyone involved. You mix homesteading with guns and church

and a little bit of the spice of conspiracy theories that we liked. Voila! You got straight away. I felt like I was living in North Korea, but worse, if that's possible. Listen to Spiraled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts

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This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Let's touch on LeVar Burton. A lot of people thought he was supposed to be the, a lot of people wanted him to be the Jeopardy host, myself included. Yep.

And I will say, since Alex Trebek's passing, there was a lot of diverse hosts that were sort of paraded in front of the audience. Sure was. Like, look, we're trying all kinds like men, women, people of color. Like we're trying everything. Former winners. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, exactly.

Ken Jennings did great. So a lot of people saw like, you know, LeVar Burton. Like, dude, LeVar Burton, he's nailed on. This guy's great. The reigning rainbow. He's got the great energy. Yeah. Yes.

He taught us to love books and shit. Yeah. He taught us what, you know, the power of wearing cool like uni goggles as geordie laforge i mean we know what's up but it turns out after all this we find out that mike richards who is one of the show's executive producer is is the one now in advanced talks with the show to be the the new host okay so let's dive into why this is god-awful decision-making. One, LeVar Burton's smile is radiant. Like, his energy, positive and glowing. You want to learn from him.

And he would make it, like, in the way that Alex made everyone feel welcomed and okay, even if you lost. That's the same spiritual energy, right? Yeah, LeVar made you feel welcomed if you were illiterate. He didn't care. He didn't care. He didn't care because he loved you and he loved knowledge and he wanted to bring those two things together. That is a beautiful person who deserves to be a... But we could also have Ken Jennings

who's the most winningest Jeopardy person ever and it would have made sense. Instead, they brought in a producer who hasn't even been there for a year and on top of that, like it's not a legacy. It's not like, oh man, he's been with alex judebuck in the dirt this guy understands the show everyone loves him like there's a lot that could be said about an executive producer coming from behind to lead i get that and i wouldn't have had a problem

with it except for the fact that he's only been there for a year and multiple multiple people have claimed that he's been discriminatory at work, mostly to women, many of whom were pregnant. He formerly worked on The Price is Right and would just kick models off when they got pregnant. I mean, unemployed future mothers. Horrible combination of things. It's like Donald Trump type shit. Yes. Get them out.

They're pregnant. They got to go. Here's some things. So, Kautrin, who's one of the models, alleged that she put off trying to have a baby because she'd witnessed producers harassing two fellow models who had become pregnant while making the show. Richards, the producer, decided that models' skirts should be shorter and said that he liked models to look as if they were going out on a date.

And at his suggestion, models wore bikinis on the show more frequently one time he burst into a model's dressing room despite there being a please not sign hanging on the door she's half naked and began berating her about like just literally nothing it's just it's crazy there's like i think there are four full suits against him about these kinds of elegance is this the kind of person we want on jeopardopardy? My grandma spends time with Jeopardy every day. I don't want her subject to this white man. Get him out of here. Not at all. Goodbye.

He's the executive producer. He hosted Beauty and the Geek in 2005. Let's not forget that. Remember that fucking show? What was the appeal here? I really have to ask. What was the appeal here i really want i really have to ask like what was the appeal like as somebody who doesn't make sense hires and looks at hosts all

the time as somebody who's constantly works with a ton of different types of hosts who were you appealing to in your jeopardy genre i did you did they not check social media and see who was trending and what was going we don't have the nielsen reports yet for lavar burton's shows but listen when that happens it's going to be great and i really hope that the numbers who was trending and what was going. We don't have the Nielsen reports yet for LeVar Burton's shows. But listen, when that happens, it's going to be great. And I really hope that the numbers prove that they need to move in a different direction. Salon TV critic Melanie McFarlane

did a great Twitter thread about this the other day. Since Richard's selection represents a smooth transition strategy in which the show's calm and comforting familiarity isn't entirely upended. In other words, white folks who watch Jeopardy are going to be comforted by this new white man.'t entirely upended in other words white folks who watch jeopardy are going to be comforted by this new white man yeah richard was selected despite the

many cases made for jeopardy to display some commitment to diversity by selecting a woman or a person of color because the job was always his in other words they did what every corporation does like here's a bunch of brown faces exactly Exactly. Had enough? Had enough? Alright. We gave it to you. Why are you complaining? We'll bring them back to guest host, but we're not going to give them that sweet cheddar to run the damn thing. It's insulting. It's a problem. And I hope Jeopardy fixes it because this

is, it's demoralizing. Boom. I'm done. There it is. I'm now officially outraged. You just got me like super fired up. Like I'm ready to start a letter writing campaign. Like I didn't really have feelings on this, but now I'm worked officially outraged. You just got me super fired up. I'm ready to start a letter-writing campaign. I didn't really have feelings on this, but now I'm worked the fuck up. They have to know about these lawsuits. Which means you're putting women contestants

in jeopardy. That was not on purpose. I put them in the line of fire. Yeah. The other part is just how cynical it is, too, to your point, that they knew they had him waiting on this they said don't worry we got don't just let's just get through this real

quick and then the performative diversity shit is just like i'm kind of over it like just don't don't be gay for the month right like don't like how many corporations going on that like don't be like oh it's black history month it's black music month it's asian and pacific outlander month it's oh it's latin month like do not give me a ethnic rainbow for a month like just commit into letting somebody do a good job yeah maybe you know who's at home during the day i don't know cleaning staff who's cleaning staff people of color you think one may want to see a white man no they want to see lavar burton give me those reruns also like they're old on like look the audience that's going to be shocked by it, they'll probably just die right

when they see LeVar anyway, so don't worry about it. They're not going to complain after that. And then, good. You've called the audience. You've called the week from the audience, and now you can move on for the youthful people to say, oh, this is tight. LeVar Burton is hosting Jeopardy. I love this. Or just

fucking anyone except for this. It's just, again, the idea that they knew it was Mike Richards the whole time is the thing that's really fucking upsetting. Let's talk about something that's not upsetting. Please, can we? And that's Dolly Parton.

Come on. Yes. Why is she? I mean, somebody check her feet because she might have cloven hooves like a goat because she's the bad goat. Okay. The greatest of all time. Yes. And she's the goat. OK, the greatest of all time.

And she's not quitting. I just want to bring this up. OK, so, Lydia, I was sitting on this story because anytime I see some Dolly Parton, I'm like, OK, Lydia, come on. OK, let's talk about this. I will say that this is all having to do with the story about Whitney Houston's performance of I Will Always Love You. It's probably one of the most iconic songs of the 90s for a lot of young people. They think it's actually a Whitney song, but it was actually written by Dolly back in 1973.

And because of that, Dolly Parton made around $10 million from that. Just off the strength of writing that song and then just where Whitney took it. Here's the great thing though. She was like, she's like, what do I do with all this money? I just got very passively. I mean, I wrote the song and Whitney made it a hit. What shall I do with it?

She invested in a black neighborhood in Tennessee by purchasing a property. Okay. She said this on Watch What Happens Live. She said, quote, it was a whole strip mall. And I thought this is the perfect place for me to be considering it was Whitney. So I just thought, this is great. I'm just going to be down here with her people who are my people as well. I love the fact that I spent the money on a complex. And I think this is the house that Whitney built. She did this in 1997 on the low. Didn't say shit about it. Yeah. Didn't say shit about it until now. That's non-performative activism when you are consciously thinking about how you are reinvesting your money how you are reinvesting your time this woman has dedicated her life to reinvesting into the state of tennessee as a whole and now in her later years

she's doing it for the world people have no idea how like revered dolly parton is here in tennessee i didn't i thought i knew until I moved here. And then I really realized, you cannot say a bad thing about Dolly Parton in this state. Someone will jump out of a bush and cut you. Wait, give me an example of how you went from, well, I'm sure they fuck with Dolly in Tennessee to then you being here and you're like,

oh, it's different here. Like literally every single person. So in the state of Tennessee, you can do several different license plates. And unlike California, when you go to register your car, they literally hand you your plate like in that instance. So I went to go register my car and I was so excited because they came out with a Dolly Parton plate about six years ago. And then when they came out with that plate, I was like, I'm going to buy a car registered in Tennessee just so that when I'm in Tennessee, I can drive in a car with a Dolly Parton license plate because that is gangster.

So when I moved here, I was like, hell yeah, I want my Dolly Parton license plate. So I walked up and I went in there and she's like, oh, well, I only have one left. I'm so excited. She's like, they've been really popular. She's like, we've got a lot of people moving here from California. And she's like, everybody loves Dolly Parton. That's like our great universe. She's like, Dolly Parton's the great. She started telling me her Dolly Parton story. When my sister had cancer, when my sister had cancer, you know, we wrote letters to Dolly and told her how much she loved her. And Dolly wrote us a letter back and told us that she wished that she could come and sing her a song,

but she couldn't, but she hoped that she got better soon. And I was like, what? Like, when was this? She's like, it was 1987.

Like this lady is returning letters to cancer patients of people who work in the DMV in the 1980s at the height of her startup. Like, literally, you could be in a gas station. You could be in a Kroger. If a person is five years old or they are 455 years old, if you say the word Dolly Parton, people perk up and they go, I love Dolly Parton. She's amazing. It's incredible.

So you think it's smoke if you had a shirt that said, fuck Dolly Parton. Oh, 100%. You are going gonna get it be i mean not that i even want to see that happen but it's good to know that's like somebody wearing like a you know like when people said i remember there's like young rappers like tupac and whack and he said that in la and like all these teenagers came for him and he's like okay i'm sorry i never said anything like that yeah i mean it does not matter what color you are everybody is like oh that woman is an angel she is great she is perfect and it's just incredible and like to your point of like how it's non like she had to she had the intent to invest this money in this part of tennessee because a lot of people like from some realtors that were talked to like

interviewed or like gave a comment to this Washington Post story about it they said in 97 like no commercial realtor would have shown her that property at all they wouldn't have shown it to her at all I mean now unfortunately those neighborhoods and I know which neighborhood she's talking about East Nashville for the primarily for the most part and also out south are neighborhoods that are becoming extremely gentrified. Germantown, East Tennessee, 12 South, out South, all those are traditionally Black neighborhoods. And to see the juxtaposition of cultures right now

reminds me a lot of what was happening to Oakland in the early 2000s. It's really interesting. And it's really sad because you see these Black communities that are holding on. A lot of these people are the first homeowners. this is the first time their family owned a home and they are being priced out and pushed out of their neighborhoods and in some cases it's working for them where they're able to like sell their house for 500 600 700 000 but for the most part those people don't some of them don't own their homes so the people who own them are selling them right underneath them they could have been renting for the last 27 years and they're being put out in the street because some asshole like me from

california wants to come and move here and buy that house i mean i didn't buy a house in nashville i bought it out in six but it's a real problem right now so the fact that she decided to invest in by by bringing money into by doing business there and she has her basically she's has her management firm her label her song publishing kind of company she has a whole like creative complex that she creates things at and the fact that she does it there and she did it so long ago is like dude she's an icon like people aren't thinking about that and another thing it's also it's like she said no to elvis on i will always love you elvis wanted to buy that song from her before dolly parton he wanted to

record that song and she told him no because he and colonel whatever the fuck colonel sanders whatever his manager's name was uh refused didn't want her to have publishing they wanted her to give up her publishing part and so that's why she said no to elvis the greatest songwriter of a generation and y'all want to deny her actual pay y'all are out your she wrote Jolene and that's what she said and honestly most women were not in a position to be selling catalog or to be selling

songs at that period and the fact that she wrote that song when you also think about that song in its totality she wrote that song as a breakup letter to get out of her situation where she was being oppressed by a man like she needed to get out of there to get out of her situation where she was being oppressed by a man. She needed to get out of there to get out of her relationship with Porter Wagner.

So she wrote this song. That's how she convinced him to let her go and to live her life and not just be a girl singer in his band. She wrote the song, she gave it to him, and he said, okay, I'll break your contract and let you go, but only if you let me produce this song. Because it was that fucking good. And she wrote it on the same day as Jolene by the way yes she did which is

bonkers to me and then to have that song side to that album right having such longevity to say no to Elvis and then to write wait for that person and then I don't know if either of you have ever heard or read Dolly Parton talk about what it was like for her when she heard Whitney's version the first time it's like oh tell me this heard Whitney's version the first time. It's like, Oh, tell me beautiful story where she basically, she knew who Whitney Houston was. She thought she had a beautiful voice.

The deal was right. She said, go ahead and record the song, but she never heard any of the cuts. So the first time she heard Whitney's version of it was on the radio. She said she was driving in her car and then she heard it and she was like, is this my song? Is this my song? And then she said she didn't recognize like is this my song is this my song and then she said she

didn't recognize it because what whitney had done to it was more beautiful than she could ever imagine that she had to pull her car over because whitney's voice was so strong and so perfect and she felt like well i'm not going to be able to sing this song again because i this is a whole new song it's whitney's song now i have heard her say that. A whole new soul into this song. And so she sat in her car and she listened to the whole thing on the radio and then went home and like wrote her a letter and told her how beautiful she thought it was. Because Dolly's also famous for, she doesn't email, she faxes. To this day, she faxes. Or she types up.

She has her own stationery. And so she will write it all up and she will type it up and then she will sign it with her big girly handwriting and she will give it to someone and say fax this to so-and-so and they will fax it or they will scan it and then email it to someone because nobody got faxed no more but dolly do you have a fax machine just so you in case if she's like oh can i fax you like you bet i got a motherfucking i do have a fax machine i have a fax copier scanner. You better believe that shit. Yeah. I got to work on a project actually last year that was really special for work. And she was involved with the project.

So she had sent one of those letters to somebody on the project. And so I got to see the letter and I was just like, Oh my God. That's like my, my whole goal here is to like, to, I will infiltrate. Like i'm going to work for dolly parton it's going to happen i'm putting it into the universe manifest that shit yes i will

work for dolly parton in some capacity it is going to happen i'm like hands down it's going to happen i will be a part of her production team in some way or another working behind the scenes doing something in either her tv her film her music her video projects like i i it's gonna happen i'm hands down 100 we're calling it here we're calling it here yeah i'm gonna be a part of that legacy i i know too much i've dedicated too much of my life to this woman there's no way that i'm somebody's not gonna hire me for my knowledge of dolly parton hit you up for stampede tickets yeah oh my god they were kind of in some controversy did you see like because they were doing weird stuff with like the mask mandate in there they're like hey nobody we're all good here and people listen i went i went there on sunday this past

sunday for the first time i will never do it again it was not for me it was it's it's a horse farm it's a horse show yeah so like it smells like horses and like i was just like oh yeah like real had a civil war theme before they had to alter oh it still kind of has a civil war theme but it's like light like they've definitely cleaned it up like there's now it just makes no sense they also now have like an appropriate like an appropriate thing about like native american culture that i was like oh guys no this is it's going to be a matter of months before they come for you on this like you've got to stop this portion of the show oh no they've got trained buffaloes that was depressing um the only thing that was bad

buffalo feels so violent like oh my god they're like little baby buffaloes that like come and run out and do it like a circle and come back oh no the only thing that i will say that was badass is that they have three black cowgirls that are like on the teams and they are the best riders the strongest horse riders this one woman was incredible she was riding two horses at once she was riding them upside down she jumped through a freaking flaming circle like she was badass so gotta find your own media accounts oh they do have a diverse you know cast of people that are doing things but the whole concept is just like so wild like they have synchronized service everybody gets a whole chicken and pork loin and it was like so much food wait you get a whole chicken i'm going oh i'm going that's what i said what because everyone said it's like hillbilly medieval times and i'm like okay well then what's

the food because it fully is you get everybody gets a full chicken and it's kind of amazing they're like they have a dinner time song and basically like the doors open from the top and all the servers like come down in a synchronized way and they all these big trays of chicken and they literally just go down it's like you get a chicken you get a chicken you get a chicken you get a chicken i took this like epic video of it because we had somebody with us that was a vegetarian so it was like chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken and then his vegetarian plate was basically a plate of broccoli and cauliflower like a mountain of cauliflower so take me to hill chicken chicken chicken chicken cauliflower like they give you a soup with no spoon but like the bowl has a handle so everyone has to like

pick up this like bucket of soup yes it. And all the while, while inhaling ammoniated, urany horse barn smells. It sounds like an experience everyone has to have at least once. I'm glad I did it for once, but I was very glad when it was over. And they don't have alcohol, which I thought was

a travesty. I was like, are you kidding me? I can't get a moonshine and coke? Please. You think they had some problems in there in the past? a travesty. I was like, are you kidding me? I can't get a moonshine and coke? Please. You think they had some problems in there in the past? We have to stop serving alcohol. We can't do this anymore. You give people a whole chicken, they start throwing it and shit.

Dude, it was funny to see how they had sanitized it. There's still elements of Civil War, but they make sure that it's a tie at the end. There's a message about how everyone is equal and you know it doesn't matter if you're from the north or the south that you know everyone is beautiful we make one great nation yeah it was it was a lot i was just like oof i don't know i don't know about this one dolly like i see what you did here i i appreciate it but hey look look we're all

growing we're all growing and the stampedeede is going through its own evolution as well. You know, but I did enjoy eating a whole chicken. I did. My own whole chicken. Yeah, I mean. That was pretty solid. I don't have any qualms about. I mean, I was sold the second you said you get a whole chicken.

I'm like, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. I love. I just, yep. It's my favorite challenge. It was pretty great. Well, Lydia, thank you so much for joining us today on the Daily Zach, guys. You've been an absolute blessing. Where can people find you and follow you, listen to you, hear you, you know, just keep up with you.

On the social medias, I'm at Hater Tuesday on both Instagram and Twitter. I am doing shows around the Tennessee area. I have been doing shows in Nashville, kind of here and there. I mean, that was three weeks ago. You know what I mean? I'm not sure what things are looking forward moving forward. So just kind of check that. My website is liapopwich.com.

I put shows up on there too. But if you are in and around Tennessee, I'm going to be around here. And then hopefully as things get better or continue to be safe, I'll be in California soon doing some shows out there as well. But I'm just trying to be very realistic about what's safe and what's not. And I'm not trying to put myself or other people in a compromising situation. So just trying to be very realistic about what's safe and what's not. And I'm not trying to put myself or other people in compromising situations. So just trying to be smart about it. But yeah, follow me online. Say hi.

Don't say hi. Whatever. That's cool too, man. Live your life. Live your life. What's a tweet that you like? Is there something on social media that you thought was funny? Gave you a little ha ha?

You know what? I have not been spending a lot of time on Twitter. I'm not going to lie. I've been loving it. I've kind of been great like i kind of look at it in the morning and that's it i i don't really have one that i can say that like i saw that i what's the recipe you've uh been fucking with recently i will tell you about something that i had recently that i was very proud of myself for making uh because

i'm not a big fan of tomatoes but i was like i'm gonna i'm gonna embrace this i got tomatoes in my in my my farm box because i have a farm box that i get from local farmers a bunch of tomatoes i made a lamb and beef early airman tomato ragu sauce it was fantastic and it's super easy and you can do it if anything you want all you got to do is you need about six big fatty ripe tomatoes you need a green bell pepper you need an onion get a sweet onion a vidalia if you can find one put all that shit in the oven cover it with oil salt and pepper don't peel it wash it you know what i mean roast that shit until the skin starts falling off let it cool blend it up and then take a pot and then just brown off your meats with garlic and

a shit ton of basil and then pour in that mixture of the peppers the onions and the tomatoes and then just cook it up and you can kind of season it to taste i suggest like a hearty handful of some like italian seasoning i like to crush up some fresh fennel put that in there and then just cook that shit down and you can put it on just about everything like i put it on a bagel and it was great i put it on pasta it was great i put it on a bagel and it was great. I put it on pasta. It was great. I put it on a spaghetti squash. It was great. Like, and you can put it in the freezer and it freezes beautifully. So roast yourself. We don't need tweets.

Make yourself something good. We need recipes. Yeah, man. No tweets. We need more recipes. That's good. Joelle, thank you so much again for helping guest host today. What's, you know, where can people find you, follow you, encounter you?

And what is a tweet that you like? Yeah, unlike Lydia, I don't like myself. And so I live on Twitter. You can find me there at Joelle Monique. It's J-O-E-L-L-E-M-O-N-I-Q-U-E. A tweet I've been cackling at for a long time. Serena, makeup underscore Serena says, all I know is if I'm wealthy, so are my children. And my children would never be homeless or without any at any age.

She was responding to the report that Dr. Dre's oldest daughter is homeless and living in her car. And he is a billionaire. I don't care if your kids are assholes. Don't let them be homeless. It seems just like logic to me. Hey, he has $900 million. He has $900 million. While you separate with $2,000 and help her get an apartment.

It seems like not that much to do. Oh, fuck out of here. Who was it like fucking Shannon Sharp was like, at that age, like, you don't need it. You don't need a parent at that point. And you're like, what the fuck are y'all doing? What is wrong with people? Just help your kids get on their feet. Love your child.

For all this talk of like generational wealth with black people too, like, why are we be like oh but not for them what you gotta do it on your own work hard or this this whole mentality of survive or die is so toxic and ridiculous big time particularly when you have more than anyone could ever spend in their entire lifetime i'll never understand it ever well and that and that mentality is particularly damaging in communities where like the resources are already low yeah then like rationalize the situation took him in when his parents could not take care of him what are you talking about you hypocrite get out of here yeah i mean hey people like to revise their own history to be like right they should go both ways too with that same thing like take care of your parents yeah like your parents took care

of you like like so you're not going to help your parents yeah like your 72 year old grandma is going to be a door dasher because you won't send her a thousand dollars get your life together like help out our elderly people too that's the other part of this that's making me sad is we have that are just out in the wind but like no longer have transportation to health appointments because of covid that are not getting regular health care that are at extremely high risk that don't have any food like help out your children help out your elders help each other out period yeah uh well what's the tweet i like okay uh actually just from the onion really simple one it's a tweet I like? Okay.

Actually, it's just from the Onion. Really simple one. It's a guy in like a Hawaiian print shirt with like a Gatsby, like, you know, cabbie hat on. It says, man in splashy floral print wastes everyone's time by not having any drugs on him. That's the advertisement to say you're trippy you're wavy straight up and i feel like there's times when you're like yo what's up you smoke and they're like oh no no no you're like oh what are you doing dressed like you are tripping on acid right now okay do you you can find me at miles of gray on twitter and instagram uh you can also find me on the other show 420 day fiance with sophie alexandra and yeah i know i've been talking shit lydia that you we gotta have you on just this Instagram. You can also find me on the other show, 420 Day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra.

I know I've been talking shit, Lydia, that we've got to have you on. This is going to happen because this has got to happen. Yeah, I mean, there's a whole new series that are popping off. I haven't watched Love in Paradise yet, but I heard that one's wicked. It's wild.

I'm just like, oh, so we're just, okay, cool. This is what we're doing oh we're doing this this is just this is just like sex tourism this is like if this show if that show does not go if i don't see people fucking on that show i don't want to watch it like they've already showed us nipples like it's basically like i'm a sex tourist oh yeah oh i didn't know that wow okay the first i didn't know that you see four sets of nipples great oh yeah i'm here for it i'm here for it great but it's it's it's basically about sex tourism that people are trying to like pretend as relationships i'm like no you want to go to the caribbean and fuck a pool boy i get it get at it you know what i mean yeah he wants to fuck you

too no i'm looking for love yeah yeah sure you are you can find us uh at daily zeitgeist on twitter at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website where we post our episodes and our footnotes footnotes there you go thank you very much and that's where i also post uh the song we write out on but before i tell you that gotta remind you this show is a production of i heart radio so for more podcasts check out that app or apple podcast wherever you get your podcast and for the song that we will be riding out on this is a track by kiki john k-i-k-i-g-y-a-n he is a ghanaian disco uh musician from like the 70s and i just love a little bit of ghanaian disco

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