The Daily Zeitgeist - North Korea Predicted The Future? The Coming Vaping Wave 5.4.18

Episode Date: May 4, 2018

In episode 141, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Eric Lampaert to discuss Big Vape and tobacco companies, the current White House administration being a complete mess (Trump undercutting Giuliani, drama in the EPA and Department of Interior), the propaganda film in North Korea showing the meeting of the US and Kim Jong Un, a look at the Royal Wedding coming up, bloidwatch, & more! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Churning for that AK on Twitter Keep them coming y'all We are thrilled to be joined By yet another comedian Who appeared on the Cracked Live show with me You were on more than once Except you remember this guest

Except I remember this time He is the hilarious Eric Lampere. A.K. what? What's my A.K.A.? A.K.A. That's on you. The Storm in Norman. The Storm in Norman.

Yeah. I don't know. I'm just coming up with anything. Yours was great. Yeah, well, then let's, okay, well, Lampere, let's figure this out. Lampere. Maybe the listeners can tweet in on something, right? Oh, yeah, yeah.

Miles, not to embarrass you, but when he said yours was great, he was clearly talking to me. Oh, you're right. It's my ego. Eric, what is something from your search history that will tell our users, our listeners, something about yourself? I call them users because it's a drug. Yeah, that's right.

Straight to the vein. I watched a thing called The Pyramid Code on Netflix. Okay. What is that? It's incredible. It seems like a loose change type thing based on the titles. Yeah, it's all nonsense. I think it's nonsense.

But there's a lot of archaeologists that find evidence that the pyramids and stuff are way older than we think. And some of them thinking that the pyramids were actually electrical conductors to give Egyptians electricity. Oh, fuck yeah. I like that. Go on. Because it's coated with limestone, which is a good insulator.

Okay. And then granite in the middle is all like really good for conducting and ionizing. He called it granite. Granite? Oh yeah, granite. No, I'm joking. I'm fucking with you because that's what Americans do. I have to change my accent. Some people don't like it. No, No, I'm joking. I'm fucking with you because that's what Americans do. I have to change my accent.

Some people don't like it. No, no, I'm joking. I'm fucking around. No, but really, I have to change it. I can't say water because people are like, I'm sorry, what? And I'm like, can I just get a glass of water? And they're like, no, I have to say water. And they're like, oh, water.

Water? Are you talking about water? Yeah. I thought you said you want a child from a war-torn country or something. I don't know what you were saying. It's like, this is juice. So I had to, like, search whether this was nonsense or not. And?

And it is nonsense. But it's still super interesting. Yeah, I like, yeah. And it is still limestone, and it is still granite in the middle. Granite, yeah. And also there's, like, water, like, pathways underneath the pyramid, which means that when the Nile floods, the water goes

in and out under the pyramids which can actually create electric currents so there is some scientific you could say that it's public yeah but it's not not enough right right right not not enough to create a a whole power plant those are my favorite kinds of like old-timey sort of theories about like ancient technology always i was like how did they get those stone things so spherical yeah i just think in general that uh ancient cultures were way more advanced than we give them credit for right uh maybe not the egyptians because we've been obsessed with egypt and their stuff held up better than other stuff but like there were huge cities in mexico and in uh the the Americas that we just like built fucking parking

lots on top of because we were just like, you know. We're dicks. We're old guys. We're assholes. And also because there was all sorts of vegetation over them. But one thing I didn't know about the pyramids until writing for Cracked when I learned just all the annoying information that makes me terrible to have conversations with. The pyramids were like coated in, back when they were built, they were like really shiny.

So they were like blinding. It was like the most ostentatious thing you could do. Not only did you build these giant constructions to just basically dick extensions, but they were like blindingly bright during daytime. Did they have sunglasses back then? I don't think so. I don't know. I know they had transitions lenses. I know that the makeup that they put on helps to

reflect. Oh, it's like eye black? Yeah, it's like eye black from... That's why they did it. Oh, like that wild eyeliner that like when you watch like Stargate. Right. They were like really into fashion. Isn't that why American football players put like

black on their yeah yeah baseball too they're like ancient Egyptians yeah exactly we learn so much but take so much

for granted technology what is something you think is overrated Netflix and streaming services okay the thing you just saw the pyramid thing

yeah yeah no I love it but I end up just lounging on sofa like all day. Right. Because it just says, do you want to play the next episode? And do you want to play the next episode?

Yeah. It just makes me a hermit. Do you ever find when it says, hey, you still watching? You respond violently? Oh, yeah. I get really angry. And then I go, yes, I am still watching the 20th episode. You can't find the remote and you start to panic a little bit.

Exactly, because you've been rotting on a couch for however many hours. And who knows where the things are. I don't know, are you still watching Netflix? I literally do that shit when I watch. I'm like, yes, I am. I say that, and then I'll just hit okay. Jack, you made a good point as well. Netflix is watching us.

Yeah, exactly. They're watching how much content we're watching. And judging us through subtweets. Yeah, there's a guy on the other end of the screen just being like, this motherfucker's still watching. Yeah. They're like, this dude has... Are you paying attention?

This part's really good. This man has watched the Dundies episode of The Office 70 times this year. I like the part where he offends the Asian people. I just think it's funny. That's one way that Netflix's sort of corporate marketing wing has decided to be like fun and cheeky

is being like, hey, whoever is watching Beverly Hillbillies 80 times, get some help. And it's like, go fuck yourself, Netflix. Like, don't judge us. Why am I on trial? Right. Because I like Jed Clampett. That's right.

And also it's tight. They moved to Beverly Hills. They're figuring it out. You know what I mean? There's a lot of cool, you know, what's her face? The mom from Back to the Future. She plays a French teacher who doesn't have an accent. You know, I really fuck with the Beverly Hillbillies movie.

Maybe this is me. But also, another thing with Netflix is the fact that there's so much choice, it makes me sort of angry and lethargic. There's now so much choice. I spend about an hour just flicking through and then going fine i'll watch this right and it's something i should have just been outside right that's what i'm saying hanging out with real people i do that same shit when i eat yeah i'm trying to find a thing on netflix and by the time i've decided my food has already rotted away

because it's been seven days and me going through the infinite number of viewing choices yeah which now it's like that's why i try and find a show I can just binge on so I don't have to think and just be like, no, I'm continuing this path. Right. Because, yeah, it's like the menu at Cheesecake Factory. There's too much shit on there. For sure. Y'all hear me about the Cheesecake Factory.

Oh, yeah. No, the Cheesecake. Have you been to a Cheesecake Factory? Once, yeah. Yeah. Amazing. And it's like a textbook is the menu. It is a testament to, I think it is the peak of like Western appropriation.

Like the Cheesecake Factory menu. Because they do everything like in a way that is very delicious. It's not authentic in any way at all. But they have all types of food and they just fucking nail it every time. And yeah, I think people will look back like Once we're all gone, aliens will come down and the Cheesecake Factory menu will be one of our peak achievements. They will consider that our Hammurabi's code.

We just pulled everything from everywhere. They're like, this. Look upon this. Santa Fe spring rolls. Yeah. Avocado egg rolls. Chicken littles? What are these?

Is this some kind of secret to their technology? What is something that you think is underrated? 23andMe. You know, all these DNA sites. Yeah. You know, a lot of people sort of poo poo it. And I think it's bloody great. Because aren't we all on this earth trying to figure out where we're from and where we're going? And I did the DNA test and it's amazing yeah like the the journey that you can just learn just from your blood and your dna is amazing and i've got like a really

weird skull and so i've i learned i'm like 3.6 neanderthal wow and that's a that's a thing that it will tell you it's like neander how much neander yeah yeah so i'm 3.6 i think most so pretty much all white people will definitely have neanderthal in them because when homo sapiens and and Homo Neanderthals live sort of side by side in Europe and Africa and stuff like that, they, you know, Montague and Capulet style would fuck each other. Fuck around, yeah. And so DNA is like alive in us. That's why sometimes you see men with like, you know, really low ridge eyebrows, you know. That's a Neanderthal trait.

Yeah. So I kind of like that. I like to discover where we all come from. Did you find any other new things about you, like ethnicity that you didn't know before? Well, like in the last 500 years, you know, I'm mainly French and British, obviously. But then the whole of Europe is just one big orgy. And then there's, you know, I was like 0.2% Indian. And, you know, that's only for the last 500 years.

Right, right, yeah. Obviously, homogenous has been around for millions of years but Travel to Europe All of Europe is a big word to you huh? Sorry I'm just taking You have two young children man I'll just check it out Check it out. I feel like

if everyone could just do the DNA test it would provide more answers They did some commercials too where there were people who sort of had these sort of racist beliefs about other groups and then they showed them their own DNA and they're like, you are actually part of that group. And their commercials were like, oh my God, I didn't even know. Yeah, there were like

TV shows. ABC had a TV show that was, I think, at least partially sponsored by one of these DNA testing houses, I guess, that where famous people would find out surprising stuff about their background. I have an aunt who just got her results and she had the most boring thing you could find

out. It's like, oh, we're all Irish. It's just 100% Irish. The Irish were left alone for quite a long time. There is a pure blood over there. You can claim, I'm a pure-blooded Irishman. And obviously the whole DNA thing can be used maliciously, I guess, but that is supposedly how they found the Golden State Killer.

Yeah, we were talking about that last week. And that's something that's really interesting, to have found him through his family members who did 23andMe. Yeah, exactly. It's kind of cool. No, totally. And that's why, for me, the one I'm going to is the african ancestry one because being african-american you don't know where in africa yeah you just know yeah georgia like fucking mississippi that's where

i know my fucking family is right right but yeah any any anything from there middle passage on i don't know where the i don't know and that's like a thing that to me that has the biggest appeal because that creates a whole other dimension of my identity that has been historically just obscured so for sure shout out to uh the dna test for sure although it was funny they were they were advertising that with like the world cup where it was like people taking the dna test is like well i guess i'm gonna support spain now in the world cup or like argentina because people saw they're like, I'm Brazilian, so Neymar is now my new favorite player. Oh, that's interesting.

Look, if you don't think this is at least partially sponsored by the CIA, bro, you're fucking crazy. This is all an FBI plot to get us all charted so they can solve all the crimes. Uh-huh, thank you. Yeah. But you have nothing to worry about, right? So moving on. Right, Zodiac killer?

Yeah, so that's an update on the Golden state killer thing that we talked about last week is that they apparently uh because the zodiac killer decided to be cute and send the newspapers all these notes like taunting them uh he had to lick envelopes and so they have uh they have dna samples that they're gonna try to track down of the zododiac. So exciting times. It's amazing that we can do that now. And you know you watch Minority Report where they can sort of just work out through time and space what someone was going to do before they do it. And that seems far-fetched now.

But I'm terrified of what life is going to be like in a thousand years. Like I've got some weird secrets that I've kept to myself. I've not murdered anyone. I've not done anything bad towards people, but there's some secrets. Why are you using air quotes? I've not murdered anyone. Mamed someone horribly. There's some secrets I want to keep to myself. And I'm terrified that there's going to be technology

one day, you know, that's going to be able to uncover that. Or Black Mirror style where they're like, let's go into your memories. Yeah, and they can already do that. There's an amazing series called Through the Wormhole narrated by Morgan Freeman. And the stuff that scientists can already do now that we don't know about is amazing. Yeah, right. Oh, God, it's so exciting.

Smoke weed and watch that. It's incredible. I was listening to the detective who was behind the whole Golden State killer sort of brainstorm of like creating the undercover profile of him on one of the DNA places. like the way that they were narrowing down suspects before they did the dna thing was like somebody coming in and being like look i had this abusive husband who like lived in this place and so you would just like have to cast this huge net right and so all they're doing is like narrowing down people and it's doing it in a way that is actually scientific as opposed to you know anybody who looked like this really vague sketch right we bring them in and fucking rough them up. That's not a good way to go either.

Yeah, because the other side is the amount of people who have had convictions overturned because of DNA evidence, too, who were innocent the whole time. Yeah, the Innocence Project is fucking crazy. So, yeah, I guess it's a mighty sword that cuts both ways. One thing I didn't know is that because we have become more scientific about crime solving and our standard has gone up, we used to clear 90% of murders like in the 80s and 70s, meaning they would at least arrest somebody, make an arrest.

And now it's down to like 60% because there was that 30% barrier where they were just like, well, nobody's going to check on this, right? So they- They're like, what are you going to science this? Yeah. Okay. In the car. But on Netflix, there's a show called Forensic Files and I got lost in there for a few seasons,

which is horrible because every episode is the same. Right, right, right. We didn't know who this guy was, but then 20 years later, they found some DNA. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every single time, it's just, the answer was DNA.

Right. Exactly. And sadly, this man was in jail for 30 years. Oops. All right. And then, finally,

what is a myth? Just a definition. What is a myth, Eric? No, what, can you tell us a myth, something that people think might be true that you know to be false?

Well, a couple of weeks ago, I bumped into this lovely lady who believes that the Earth is hollow. It's something I already knew about. A little bit like a coconut. Oh, so she believed that there is no core of the Earth? There's no core, and there's actually a society that lives inside the Earth. And in Antarctica, there's a tunnel where you can actually go in. To hang out with the mole people. You can go hang out with them.

And she was very sweet. And she was torn between wanting to go there and staying with her boyfriend. And I couldn't stop laughing, right? But the thing is, she was very sweet, so I was trying to understand her. But also, I was like, you're an idiot. But I desperately told her, I was like, look're an idiot. And, but I, I desperately told, I was like, look,

your boyfriend's not good enough. Just go. Yeah. I was like, just leave it. Like, if you really want to go live with them, like you should go live with them.

And I have a feeling that's where your actual boyfriend is. You're true. You're wasting your time above ground with us. You know what? If we did your DNA test, I bet you're related to them. Exactly. Soulmate. That would be fucking If we did your DNA test, I bet you're related to them. Exactly. Soulmate.

That would be fucking amazing to get your DNA test back. I'm a subterranean mole person. Yeah, subterranean mole person. I'm a 5% subterranean mole person. Isn't that awful when someone is really kind-hearted and they're saying something so wacky

and you're like, oh, okay. Because part of you just wants to be like, can I just riff on you real quick? Yeah, I really wanted her to come on the podcast, but essentially I would just bully her, which is not fair and not nice. You know what?

I admire people who are crazy in that way because we have lost the imagination from our craziness or our paranoia because in the past you had crazy shit like that and mole people and all sorts of stuff, the moon landing. and now I feel like all of our paranoia has just gone to

Obama pedophile sex rings or Obama's a Muslim basically that's just what everybody wasted their paranoia on

we lost our imagination as a people because of god damn science and the information that is that is convoluted I love that there's just watch next week i'm

hosting the show uh guys jack went to antarctica uh to go find the fucking mole people his real mole family i'm at least part hobbit so let's get into based on man that is not too far off from the truth uh all right let's talk about uh we going to take a sample of the global slash national shared consciousness, what people are thinking and talking about right now today at the moment we record. And this was something that came as a surprise to me. This is also, I'm just warning you guys, going to be our most controversial story to date. Full disclosure, Zygang, when Jack brought this up, I said, I don't know if we should take the show here. People expect us to have some modicum of decency.

I know we have hot takes from times, but again, Jack, I'm sorry, but I'm going to let you- You're divorcing yourself from this. You chose to do this. I have nothing to do with this story. So go burn up with this fire take. So based on my time at Cracked, I am unfortunately aware that talking about vaping is the most dangerous thing you can do on the internet because people are very passionate about their belief that vaping is not bad for you. And I just read a story about something called Juul, which is this slickly designed e-cigarette that looks like a USB drive, tastes like candy. And apparently it's taking over America's middle and high schools

right now, to the point that they actually spoke with a principal at a school who said that there's this like massive wave coming. and you can see it to the point that all the freshmen and sophomores are using this jewel thing in class basically. And, but juniors and seniors aren't. So it just like nailed this demographic of like middle school students. It's, it all tastes like candy. It tastes delicious. And is it nicotine too? Yes. So the way that they are selling this and getting away with this is they're claiming this is a smoking cessation product. This is just meant for people who currently smoke.

It's a safer way to do that. Just to get that feeling of blowing a cloud out. Right. However, some things that contradict that, it tastes like candy and the design makes it easy to disguise as a USB drive. So that's weird. One pod has twice the nicotine of a pack of cigarettes. And they don't have a system of nicotine tapering like you would in an actual smoking cessation program. Instead, you just start just nailing yourself with even more nicotine.

And then the fact that they have successfully marketed it to just such a specific demographic that you can actually like see the cliff where it falls off. I live by a middle school and I see spent Juul cartridges all over my neighborhood. Yeah. And it's like, it's weird. At first I was like, oh, I think somebody smoking like a Pax era. Like there's like a weed one that it looks like, which is like a very sleek stick. And you put the cannabis oil pot on the top and it's like the same thing. So when I saw I was like, oh, look at this. And then I sounds like, what the fuck is this jewel shit?

Yeah. And yeah, there's more and more. We've been seeing write ups about the new wave that the kids love vaping now. And so if you Google this, you'll see a lot of things that are like big tobacco doesn't want you to know how safe vaping now. And so if you Google this, you'll see a lot of things that are like, Big Tobacco doesn't want you to know how safe vaping is. But if you look at the URLs on those pages, they all have the word vape in them. It's like, Vapetruth.com

Vapetruth.com. Also, isn't the vaping stuff all owned by tobacco people? So that's the other thing, is that there's a lot of evidence that it is. I don't mind it when people say I like vaping. Vape's a lot of evidence that it is it's just uh i don't mind it when people say i like vaping vape away do what you want it's your life but it's just when cigarettes came out tobacco people were like it's safe and now it's proven that it's not right and it's so obvious that as soon as cigarettes went down tobacco people who are making millions

yeah they're not gonna go okay uh well we'll just i guess that's it we'll let this industry burn out they'll obviously just buy a new product vaping yeah right or possibly weed yeah i mean as somebody who uh was hooked on smoking cessation products longer than i smoked uh yeah i was a like i was doing the uh nicorette i was doing uh patch snooze which is not not a safe alternative but it's like a little patch. It's really powerful. I passed out the first time I did it. Oh, yeah. When I was 16, I did it with me and my homies.

It was like Chris and Ian and Alex. We were on our backs in my front yard. My mom was like, what the fuck is going on? I was like... Yeah, and none of that shit is good. The only way I quit was like a year and a half ago. I was finally like, all right, I'm just not going to do any of that of that shit and i was a wreck for 24 hours and then you're over it but yeah i mean all this shit about like you know a safe nicotine delivery system like you're still addicted to a poison essentially

well here come the wave of i know you're gonna be mad at me i'm just saying yes it looks so cool to vape. Yeah, I know. Y'all like to blow your robot dicks in public. Don't some of them explode in your face? I think I've heard stories like that. I mean, again, I get why people like to vape because I'm a huge smoker of weed. And for a while, I realized the sensation of just blowing out smoke, like there was more of an oral fixation than perhaps just that I wanted to smoke weed.

Then I realized, no, it's just part of who I am but yeah I can see the why people want to do it but it's interesting when people get so defensive about it's like you know if people don't think your vaping looks as tight as you think it looks there's no reason to come at them right just keep it rocking it's hard it's hard to admit that you're wrong though like anyone even me you know I'm sure everyone here but it's not even a right or wrong thing you know i mean it's like it's like a style thing it's like i like to smoke this vape and maybe if you vaped like he's very like you're you know for the last three years and someone goes you're wrong oh even in that sense like you shouldn't stop that right i've done it for three years and i love it right so if you're doing it instead of smoking cigarettes for the past three

years that's probably a better choice uh And yeah, more power to you. But I do think just we kind of lost sight of big tobacco. It was like a thing that we thought we had dealt with. Yeah, because the truth campaign was so brolic. I think the truth campaign really hurt our ability to hate big tobacco because the truth campaign was so whack. It was like, yeah, kids, get ready for a truth bomb. And they came through.

This guy kick-flipped over a pack of cigarettes. Right. It's just like super whack. And I think if the Truth campaign wasn't created by Big Tobacco, it might as well have been because it was like so whack and just like made being anti-smoking so whack. But all those commercials, they do pat themselves on the back about how youth smoking has gone down.

But I guess maybe because now they're just vaping. Yeah. Well, and also I think because every year kids get smarter. Like that's an actual IQ test fact that every year kids get smarter and also information has become much easier to find. See, I don't like that idea because I'm out here living like we're the smartest people on earth. Yeah. And I don't want to know that kids are getting smarter. No, totally.

I mean, up until us and then they start getting dumber for some reason okay good so we were the peak yeah okay oh definitely okay dignity maintained but yeah i think it's time to you know the food industry is using a lot of the big tobacco techniques to addict people and you know kill people and it's really bad for us. But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that big tobacco is still out here. Big vape, even though this Juul thing is not made by one of the big tobacco companies, it's made by two Stanford design grads who are just like two tech bros who were like, we just wanted to disrupt the industry. And one of them had a background at Apple Design.

And, you know, they're making billions of dollars off of addicting middle school students. So I don't know. It kind of makes sense. If you like money more than you like strangers far away from you, like you kind of don't care. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

Rock the jewel, y'all. Yeah. Do you think people care, though, that, like, if you tell someone that vaping's bad, do you think that it matters? Like, I know that riding a motorbike makes you more likely to, you know, die than riding a car.

Yeah. I still do it, because I love it. I don't think it's cool. Who cares? I don't think it's going to make anybody who's currently vaping be like, you know what?

Jack was right. I sold it. No. But I think it might make kids I think if you're around young kids, you could just look at it and be like, yo, knock that shit off and smoke this weed

because that jewel ain't doing shit. Right. That's my advice to the kids, man. Don't let me, you're going to look. It's because you sell. Yeah, exactly. Of course. At middle schools.

Yeah, because I'm like, yo, I'm like, oh, you need a Pax Aeropod? I'm like, the fuck is this jewel shit trying to creep on my market? All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months.

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Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and uh so we wanted to talk about just the messiest group of middle to uh late stage old white men that you've ever encountered. They're just like such a bitchy sewing circle. But so Trump came out today on talking about Giuliani and, you know, he and Giuliani had come together and talked about the strategy where they

were going to, you know, together and talked about this strategy where they were going to say that Trump gave the money to his lawyer, Cohen, and that was going to save them from getting in trouble for campaign finance. And now it turns out that's not true. And in fact, they are still in trouble. And now Trump is totally throwing Giuliani out of the bus. I love Giuliani now. He went on Sean Hannity's show, which is basically Trump's wet dream. And he basically just went, oh, oh, Trump knows.

Oh, he totally knows. And even Hannity had that moment where he's like, oh, he did? I don't even know if he tried to act surprised as if he didn't't know the whole time that Sean Handy's been lying to the American people. Right. Oh, Sean knows. Yeah, but it was funny, his reaction when he said that, when he goes, oh, he reimbursed, he goes, oh. I don't think he was supposed to say this.

He did. Right. This is Fox and Friends. Yeah, exactly. I think it was a situation because Sarah Huckabee Sanders obviously knows she's lying to people, but she didn't know that they had decided to tell that lie. So she was hurt when she went up in front of the White House. She was like, I didn't know until – I didn't know we were talking about that until he went on.

And then her battle with April Ryan was extended because, look, April Ryan – shout out to April Ryan because you don't fuck around. You will call Sarah Sanders out all the time. But Sarah Sanders reacted pretty crazily to her because April Ryan was like, oh, but it seemed like you were blindsided. Are you hurt by that? And she goes, look, you don't know me. Like basically is what Sarah Sanders said to her.

You don't know me. You don't know anything about my feelings. You don't know how I feel or whatever. Sanders always looks hurt though. Yeah, I know. And that's the kind of thing you say when you're a hurt teenager. I hope she's okay.

She's supposedly a really sweet woman. I'm sure she is. people who've worked with her like she keeps in touch with everybody she's ever worked with and is just like the nicest person yeah i don't think i don't think she has i mean clearly she might not be the most scrupulous person no but i definitely not the most scrupulous but like yeah i don't know ah god it almost hurts to know that she would be like hey miles how have you been i'm like we worked that one job together when I worked at the coat store at the mall. Yeah, everybody who's ever worked with her loves her. Granted, they all might be weird fucking Republicans, but she's supposedly a very kind-hearted person. I just read a profile of her where you get the sense that she, like a lot of people, just kind of got swept into this thing and

you know. Get off Sarah. Had a sense that this guy had like was on to something with his political instincts and you know just let that blind her to the fact that she was going to have to be lying to America for a living. But again it's the same thing. It's going back to

it's hard to admit that you're wrong. Once you're in, you're in. Yeah. No, because you'll look like a chump if you just go, oh, that was bad. It's like the pyramid code people. You know, there's enough evidence, plenty of evidence to prove that that's not what it was. You know, the pyramids being electrical conductors. But if you spent 30 years of your life working on this theory.

It was all for naught. And someone goes, it's not. Yeah. You're like, oh, no no it is all right well uh it passed me that jewel i guess yeah it's it's you know it is very hard and i think that's why also too a lot of republicans would rather retire than either stand up and be honest and say this this president is basically her harming my chance of staying in congress and rather than say i was wrong to embrace this person those are like fucking i'm gonna get off and just make it look like i retired which is weird because actually if they stood up and and just sort of told the

greater chance for re-election yeah if they stood up and went look i kind of fucked up yeah but like i really intended to do the right thing but i think i fucked up people would have gone okay oh because people make mistakes. Yeah, exactly. And I think that would be the crazy, I mean, if the GOP really wanted to roll the dice, because I mean, it's looking bad either way. Just test out a couple Republicans going, you know what? I'm a Republican, but I'm not a Trump agenda Republican. Like if that's someone who is up against, you know, like a challenger, I might, I could

see how- It would be popular with us. No, but you would be able to get, would draw independence, though, is the thing. You know what I mean? He'll clearly get the base they may abandon or whatever. But if you're fighting activating that 30% of Americans, because you need to bring some people over to maintain. Yeah, yeah.

And also doing stand-up around America, you perform to both red and blue. And I meet plenty of red people who are like, I'm a Republican, but this is kind of not representing me. No, right. And it makes people who are actually conservatives who aren't like sort of about the ideological platform of the GOP right now. Those people are definitely kind of in a weird spot and being like, that's why there were so many pieces like mourning the Republican Party in like the last year because of the wild ride it's gone on and like the loss of identity. Now, as for the people who are too close to the administration to, you know, get away,

it just gets real messy. It gets chaotic because he changes how he's feeling at any given time. And so it's just this clusterfuck of backstabbing. Yeah. It's amazing though. Yeah. So what is this Scott Pruitt thing? OK, so Scott Pruitt, who is the head of the EPA, we talk about him enough. He is he's just the most corrupt, just kleptocrat ever. Again, let me just run a quick list down to get you up to speed. He rented a condo from a lobbyist's wife and then also allowed that lobbyist to submit committees or submit posts that he needed to fill

for a science committee. He took a trip to Morocco that was planned by a lobbyist. He was like announced like this smart sectors program that allowed regulated industries to have a greater say in how they're regulated. He used his siren and flashing lights to get to a dinner that he was late for, just like a personal dinner that he was late for just like a personal dinner that he was late for and then when the person who was like on a security detail was like yo that's actually not what that's for he had him demoted and like sent elsewhere because he's just like an evil fucking shit and there's a rumor that he's never even touched a tree it's the state of things so anyway suffice it to, he's in a lot of hot water. And also, like, he built, like, another spy-proof office in Oklahoma that they're like, you don't need a fucking skiff and, like, a soundproof booth to talk in in Oklahoma. And he also has, he travels first class everywhere because he says, if I fly coach, the regular plebs will put their hands all over me and tell me how evil I am.

So fuck that. So anyway, he has a lot of shit going on. So one of his administrators basically tried to get him out of hot water. One of like, I think it was a press staffer at the EPA. This guy, Michael Abood, he went around trying to shop a negative story about Ryan Zinke,

who's the secretary of the interior, about how Ryan Zinke was actually coordinating to plot against one of Pruitt's ex-staffers to make Pruitt look bad. So basically, the EPA was trying to plant stories about another department to get the heat off of Scott Pruitt. It really does feel like a reality TV show, the whole thing. I mean, the EPA denies it up and down, but the journalists are doing like, we have the emails where you're going to a journalist being like, hey, so this is what's going on.

OK, and you might want to write about this. And it's just so sloppy. And the other thing that I don't know if we actually mentioned this is that when the whole Scott Pruitt shit started to come out, we're like, God, this is a fucking crazy story. Like, why is all this shit coming out? It was like a fucking flood of Scott Pruitt stories of just like all the shit that he did wrong. We just listed off like maybe 10% of them. Yeah. And then so we come to find out, according to one of like these trade industry trade magazines, it was actually the work of disgraced White House domestic abuser Rob

Porter. Right. So now walk with me here. Rob Porter is the dude who was Hope Hicks boyfriend and also had some exes and he couldn't get FBI clearance because he was abusive to some exes of his. That was why Rob Porter was ousted. Had to leave the scene. Had to leave. And it was a big, huge thing. And everybody, John Kelly and Trump were like, oh, he's a good guy, which means he's a bad guy. Prior to that, though, I mean, he had the hottest female associate of Trump, Hope Hicks. They were dating. He was being rumored to replace John Kelly as chief of staff. Like he was on a fast track. And only problem was he couldn't get FBI clearance because he was a serial domestic abuser. So when he got in hot water, because someone told

legal White House counsel Don McGahn about this, we come to find out that that person was one of Scott Pruitt's aides named Samantha Dravis, who has since left the EPA. But how did she know about all these Rob Porter allegations? Because she was also a fucking ex of Rob Porter. So not this guy is dating everybody, I guess, in the administration. And so basically, Porter, at that point, when he found out that it was his ex that got him in all this trouble, that's when he started leaking all this shit to the press about Pruitt to get back at her. So this is the kind of like it's just a soap opera shit that's going on.

Yeah, it is like. It's the messiest fucking group ever. Royal court, like the craziest backstabbing royal court shit that you would ever read from history. But it's happening. Does Parliament ever get this messy? Yeah, I'm sure. But it's just that the British are dead inside. Yeah, exactly., but it's happening. Does Parliament ever get this messy? Yeah, I'm sure. But it's just that the British are dead inside. Yeah, exactly.

It's not as animated. It's not as animated, no. Yeah, because this is clearly like, oh, that fuck, I can't believe she said that shit. I'm going to get her now. But the crazy thing is, no one even in this administration or in the government right now

is even like, they're not cunning enough to even pull off these deceptions in a way that people are like wow i wonder what happened there it's always like oh no a equals b equals c this is why it's very clear it's very transparent why everyone is behaving the way well i do think it also has to do with the fact that there are just non-stop leaks because the president on the first week of his administration just completely alienated the intelligence and all of the people who work for him so like they just get non-stop leaks like this is a shit you

might get away with if it weren't this white house where you know everybody hates them and so they are just being everything they do is being leaked to the media. But not everyone hates them. Everyone, a lot of the people inside the- I think Kim Jong-un likes Donald Trump. Yeah, man. Based on how they're warming up. Yeah, so- Are they warming up? Yeah, they're warming up.

I mean, clearly they did say that they're possibly going to be releasing all U.S. state detainees that are in North Korea, which is a huge thing, which is not normal at all. Three of them, right? Yeah, three of them. So that's an interesting step. And now they're going to be meeting. That handshake and that step that he did with the South Korean

Prime Minister. That was, or President, I don't know. It's cool. It's like suggesting, he's not his dad. Right. And that's kind of

potentially a good step forward. Yeah, he's a millennial, man. You know what I mean? Yeah. So he's just got to get on and give him some jewels and shit. Show him,

let's bring that technology over. Hopefully Donald Trump will be like, and these are the jewels. You're going to love these. Right. Better than cigarettes. But yeah,

they will be meeting soon and things, it looks like for the amount of people that are saying that Trump should get the Nobel Prize, you'd think that

clearly people think this meeting will go very well. Right. So the one thing that people have been reporting on this North Korean movie that we haven't had a chance to watch, but it's like their most famous movie. Oh, The Interview. No, not that one. Not the official most famous movie in North Korea.

I hate it because of the anus. But it is a five-part work of propaganda, as all of their movies in that country are. Isn't every movie a propaganda? Yeah, every movie in that country is propaganda. There is definitely no indie film scene in North Korea. Let's be honest, even here. 100%. I grew up watching American films.

And it taught you how to be a violent man. Oh, my God. Well, every Michael Bay film probably pays for the American flag companies. Oh, yeah. And the military, too, to be like, yo oh my god well every michael bay film probably pays for the american flag companies oh yeah and the military too to be like yo look how cool our weapons are and it works though yeah like top gun wasn't top gun made for navy recruitment yeah yeah that's how they got access to all of the weaponry and you know the one thing that you really can't get it without the sign off of the military is aircraft carriers because you just can't build one of those there's no like eccentric collector who's like yeah a fucking city and that's floating in the middle of the ocean so uh they were able to get the sign off by basically

letting the air force write a movie for them uh and oh but they had a script and what the the dod just had like notes basically i think top gun Top Gun, it was like the most- Full on underwritten by the DOD. Yeah, the most interwoven that it's ever been. I wonder how many films NASA is paying for at the moment. They don't have money. They have no money, Eric. They have no money.

Oh, really? They can't even pay for fucking hoodies for the gift store to be stocked. Yeah, the funding for NASA has been really, really terrible really terrible yeah but they're still working on plenty of projects oh yeah they are but i think if you asked anyone at nasa could they use more funding they would say we are dying we're starving for more funding yeah yeah that's also uh going back to the smoking thing like the fda and all of the things that are supposed to regulate food and drugs and all that shit are the most starved government bureaucracies. Yeah, exactly. All right. Our writer, Jay McNabb, posted a story about this movie that's very popular within North Korea, where basically

it's a Japanese reporter thinks that North Korea is bad, travels to North Korea, and in a twist, it's actually the most super awesome country you've ever been. It's the tightest country on Earth. Is it like a Charlie and Chocolate Factory style? It is. You know, where they go in and, welcome to North Korea. But so the entire climax of this five-part piece of work of propaganda is that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, meets with Bill Clinton. So the idea is that Obama is too scared to go himself, and so he sends Bill Clinton.

And that meeting is played with triumphant music because – so this is the thing that I think, you know, when Trump just immediately was like, yes, I'll meet with them. Let's meet. Everyone was like, no, no. So there was like brief moments of that,

but then people just kind of moved on from it. Right. And that was kind of what was brilliant about him and probably not intentionally. So, but that's what worked out so well with him just saying yes, immediately is there was no like questioning and not a lot of articles pointing out that America has been withholding this meeting for like generations, for, you know, decades and decades. He would be the first sitting president to meet with North Korea.

All other presidents have turned it down. Like Clinton was the closest we ever came. He sent Madeleine Albright over to, you know, scope it out. And they were like, no, they're not. They not fammed it. Yeah, they're not ready for us. And we aren't close enough. And basically this is giving him

a huge sort of chip in his hat. Yeah, legitimizes. To completely mix it up. Yeah, because I think that's the thing is an official state visit from the president of the United States. It lends legitimacy to whoever they're meeting with.

And they've always been very careful to not do that because they're like, no, you're a rogue state that we are having to monitor. We're not going to have diplomatic relations because you're doing things that are obstructing us from getting to that point. So, yeah, this is a huge win because in all the propaganda, it's like the moment that the president meets, it means like, and you see, we are the real deal. We are here. We here now. And that's like the thing that some people were just like, oh, were the nuclear weapons always just to get a meeting? Was it really? Because before everyone was like, well, he doesn't want to lose power. And why would he give up his nuclear weapons? But it seems like he's opening up to that and maybe is just trying to do the thing that his father and his grandfather could never do. Right. And the way that the movie portrays it as happening uh them getting this huge concession from the united states is

through their nuclear program and through like getting all these weapons and sure enough that seems that like if you live in north korea it looks like wow this work of propaganda just came true like all of this is happening but also like you know you look at a map of North Korea, you know, at night, and there's no, like, electricity, and there's no, like, internet and stuff. And I just think this new Kim, he's cool. He wants the internet, you know? He wants the crack podcast and Daily Zeit guys. He wants the Netflix.

Oh, my God. He wants it. He wants it. Yeah. I think that's what it is. Well, you know, if you're listening on young uh to you kim jong-un uh shout shout out to you uh let's talk about dennis rodman and the 90s bulls because i know it's your favorite basketball team uh but yeah the other details of this like propaganda phil

actually are so amazing to me because there's like you know the relationship between korea in general in japan has been tumultuous to say the least. But there's like one character in it who is like when it's announced that the U.S. will meet with North Korea, there is a quote, a pro-U.S. Japanese politician who suffers a stroke upon hearing the news that the character becomes paralyzed from the waist down, unable to speak, and has become impotent and mute. So that they go as far as going like this shit is so powerful the japanese dude dick stop working like just taking shots like okay i don't know if that really underlines the fact of how monumental that is but you know what propaganda just hearing it

my erection went down yeah exactly i mean i and i'm half japanese so i don't know what i'm gonna do after this i'm gonna have to watch some other kind of propaganda but i also like the idea of like obama's so shook by kim jong-un he got us so he got us in bill clinton right presumably because they could get a bill clinton look-alike to like play the role or something because i don't yeah well there is that it's a weird detail isn't there like that one guy there is like their token white guy who defected to north korea and was like their white guy in so many films. There's a documentary on Netflix. There was this dude who, yeah,

he was like their token white guy. But that's smart. As an actor, that is incredibly smart. Just go over there, get all the roles. Exactly. For all the white men out here who are struggling to get roles right now because we're trying to diversify, yo, just kick it over to North Korea and be like, bruh, I'll play whatever part you need.

You know what I mean? I do accents. The IMDB over there, he must be like number one. He has the market cornered. Yeah, yeah. And like he has elevated status in North Korea, at least at the time of the, when the documentary was being shown.

Right. Like he lived in like one of the nicer buildings where like higher up administration officials were living. Wow. So he really had a little spot out there. I might tell my wife that we're moving there. I am looking for constant. I'm sorry.

If I go up Guseg on another pilot season, we're going to Pyongyang. I'm sorry. But just to kind of put in perspective how big a step up this is for North Korea, like the reason that they would have the climax of their movie about themselves be just meeting with the president. So their GDP, North Korea's GDP, is $12.38 billion. And America's smallest state's GDP, Vermont, like not smallest, but the smallest GDP is Vermont, and it's $32 billion. Wait, what's Rhode Island?

Rhode Island? Rhode Island is cranking out more shit than... I have a soft spot for Vermont. Shout out Burlington. Shout out Essex Junction. St. Michael's College. You know what I mean? Burlington.

Yeah, what's up, homie? Get that maple syrup. Yeah, anyway. Lake Champagne. We're out here. So, yes. For a second, it struck a chord in me. I was like, no.

Vermont cannot be at the bottom of this. I like doing a little brrp. Yeah, in Vermont. In the UK, it's okay because there's no guns. So it's kind of endearing. But here, I forget. Oh, that's actually a noise that people can hear. That's why Jack and Anna duck to the ground.

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How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited 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 rebelsbels, into something everyone in the South loves, the Biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County Rebels with the image of the Biscuits. It's right here in black and white in print. 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 just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies. When civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot. You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio

app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back, and it is Friday, so that means it is time for Bloid Watch. Bloid Watch. There you go. Alright, so we almost

have the Bloid trifecta today. The bloidfecta, yes. The coveted bloidfecta. Because the royal wedding is coming up. We have the royal wedding on almost every cover. I love that Americans are more excited by the royal wedding than British people. I don't get it either. And I have the same birthday as Prince Harry.

Oh. Yeah. And I'll say that again. Coincidence. I don't know. I mean, look, that same birthday as Prince Harry. Ooh. Yeah. And I'll say that again. Coincidence. I don't know. I mean, look, that's what my mom always says. She's like, you're a prince. That's very sweet your mom didn't lie to you.

But then she's like, stop smoking that weed in here. Right. My prince. But yeah, there's many things. I'm surprised, though, too, that even on the garbage, things like the Enquirer and the Examiner, that they're even talking about the royal wedding. Because usually that's Trump's defense block mechanism. Right.

Where they let OK and like Us Weekly handle the puff piece stories. For any new listeners, most of these tabloids are published by American Media Inc., which is run by one of Trump's best friends. He keeps all negative stories off the front page about Donald Trump. Unless they're about Melania. friends. He keeps all negative stories off the front page about Donald Trump. Unless they're about Melania. A lot of the stories that we see in the tabloids appear to have been like dictated by Donald Trump, like even they're written in his voice. But this week, after like five straight weeks of nonstop, just like Trump talking points, it looks like maybe their sales have hit a new low because they have just come back strong with all royal talk.

And it is some intriguing shit. On the cover of the National Enquirer, we have a report. Harry has been rocked on the eve of his wedding. Found. Maneater Meghan's secret first hubby. Whoa. Hush, hush, a moment. She hid her past from her second husband, who we already knew about,

but she had a previous husband who she divorced. This guy she got her an old. Oh, no. Oh, what a bitch. And our, I know, right? I mean, what is she doing to the royal family? How dare she love someone before him? Right.

She doesn't get it. She just doesn't get it. But when you go on the inside of the magazine, there is no identification for the person. They say if it's confirmed, so they haven't confirmed it. They're just putting this out there. And basically the entire substance of the article is that they called Buckingham Palace for confirmation. And then there was a photo shoot that afternoon with the two of them, and they looked strained.

Their body language expert said that it looked like they were in a fight. So they're like, we asked about it. Now they look angry at each other. It's definitely true. And the person that we were just saying is a body language expert said, Mm-hmm. Yes. Strained.

She yawned at one point, and I couldn't believe it. I mean, they have a fortnight. His jaw was tensed, and her posture was upright. So that's how you can tell. He may have been chewing something, and she has good posture. Doomed. What do you got over there? I have the In Touch magazine.

Anne tells all Matt's a monster. So it's got nothing to do with Matt Lauer. But there is a little bit on the side. There is Harry's wild night with a stripper oh oh shit still got a little bit of a royalty now i've my interaction with uh people who have come to la from the uk when i've visited a strip club with them they're always like we don't really have this in the uk or at least not in the style that the u.s has it's just not it's not as accepted as it is here. Like, you know, we do have them. Right.

But it's not like... Oh, it's more taboo, like just you don't want to be seen coming out of a strip club. Yeah, and also you kind of only go if you're on a bachelor party. A stag do? Well, yeah, a stag do is a bachelor party and a bachelorette is a hen do. A hen do, yep. And, you know, I remember when I first came here, someone was like, let's go get a drink.

And we went to get a drink at a strip place. Was it Jumbo's? And it was weird. I can't remember what it was. But it was just weird. Because we were all a little bit like Hugh Grant in Notting Hill. My goodness, your breasts are out. But where do I look?

In fact, my bachelor party in America, everyone went to the strip club. I just went home. Oh, wow. It's weird. It's just weird. Because you're Hugh Grant. I can't be a part of this. The thing is, the women in the strip clubs are smart.

They're taking our money. If anything, good for you. But I just don't know where to look. Because I'm trying to be a polite. If anything, that's how I got my wife. Right. By being polite and respectful of her body and stuff. Yeah.

Yeah. The club is a very odd place where suddenly you are in a bizarro dimension where it's just toxic masculinity is the name of the game. But weirdly as well, I remember when I went

to one in the UK, I kind of worked as a pimp a little bit because there was this lovely lady who's a stripper and I told her from the very beginning,

I was like, just so you know, I'm not going to spend money on dancers so I don't want you to waste your time with me she's like it's all right we'll just have a chat and i ended up talking to her and every single time i saw a guy just sort of wandering around looking a bit lost i went hey what about him it's that guy over there go check him out and so she would do that he has money i mean give him a little dance and she'd come back and buy me a drink and i was like that's right you buy me a drink well pimp sounds

cool but it sounds like you were more of a wingman at that point. What do you think about him? Should I go talk to him? You go up to, excuse me, sir. What do you think of my friend over there? Okay, so presumably Harry went to a strip club in the United Kingdom. In 2012 though.

Wait, what? It's not even topical. Basically, the woman he's getting married with, Meghan Markle, she's American, right? It's not even topical. Basically, the woman he's getting married with, Megan, Megan Markle, she's American, right? Yes. She found out about this and she was furious, which is kind of believable. Sometimes my wife gets annoyed about something I did when I was 12. I can't go back in the past.

But yes, it happened in 2012. Maybe that's why the Aztecs were so unhappy about this. They knew this would be the end of the world. But this is what the stripper said. His hands were everywhere. His mouth was everywhere. It was a Cinderella moment. Which I don't think she's seen the cartoon Cinderella.

He didn't just grope her and lick her all over. He was like, hey, how's his shoe fit? But also, he had a stripper when he was single. Six years ago. In Las Vegas as well. How's his shoe fit? Right. But also, like, he had a stripper when he was single. Yeah. You know, he's a- Six years ago. What if- In Las Vegas as well.

This is what I love about the way these magazines operate, is that you can just put whatever the fuck you want, and then use the lamest way to tie it all together inside the magazine to avoid, like, actually slandering anyone or whatever. So basically, his bodyguard went to get, like, some girls around the pool area in his hotel. And she walked in.

Harry was naked playing a game of strip billiards. And I was like, naked already? How bad is he at this? You put the eight ball in right off top. And then she said,

he definitely had a royal body. And I went, yeah, now he does. But royal bodies are a long time. Do you not remember Henry VIII? He was a big fat fucker. What the fuck does royal body mean? Does it mean good?

Well, now it means good. He's military trained and he looks good. But he's like the exception. Right. Royal body would seem like somebody who's spent their life sitting down. Yeah, right. That doesn't seem like it. Her story should have been, you know,

I went up to him and I kissed him and then he cut my head off. A royal date. That's a real royal story. And then it ended like this. So first, this is the thing as well. She went up to him and she said, I'm from England as well. And he said, we could be

related. Which I was like, that's weird. What a weird thing to say. That's his pickup line is like, you might be royal blood, but also like in a sexual way, which I guess royals are down with, right? They like would kind of sleep with their cousins. If they did 23 and me, it'd be a very smoldering.

Yeah, it would be like. I mean, that could also be a sense of humor. Like if you're Prince Harry and someone goes, I'm from England too. And you go, yeah, maybe we're related... I mean, that could also be a sense of humor. Like if your Prince Harry and someone goes, I'm from England too. And you go, yeah, maybe we're related. I don't know. If he's being a dick, I respect it more. So supposedly Meghan was very unhappy

about the fact that he did that. And then her mum talked some sense into her. I'm guessing she said, he's a prince. Shut the fuck up now. I want to be on a commemorative plate My wife is a queen But she's not an actual queen If I met an actual queen

And she was interested in me My wife is gone Oh for sure Oh for sure And welcome to Queen Talk Where three dudes talk about the queens That they wish would hit on them So they can free them from their hells

What was your favorite queen, may I ask? My favorite queen? God, I would probably say Shangela. Shangela? Yeah, she's a drag queen. I think you'd like Queen Victoria. I love Queen Victoria. Because she used to smoke weed for her period cramps.

Yes. Good for her. Yes. You know what? I change it. Detox. My other favorite drag queen. Anyway, moving along along should i open these

books and see what secrets i mean i have a bunch of stuff from like cnn and time because they're getting messy with the royal wedding they are too yeah what i mean they're theirs is actually pretty intriguing so they're talking about how both of her parents are coming uh and it just sounds like a living romantic comedy so they split up when she was young, but they're both attending. They will fly into the UK to spend time with the British royal family, including Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. And first of all, we saw Thomas Markle, Meghan's father, a photograph of him in one of these tabloids. He was reading a picture book that said England on it. And it was just a picture book of things in England, like studying up.

Oh, well, I've got a picture of Megan's father actually working out. You know, it says here, is Megan father's shedding for the wedding? Oh, does he want to look good? I just love the idea. No, it's true. This is actually the greatest rom-com script ever written with Diane Keaton and whoever else is going to play the dad. Where they haven't seen each other in years. It was a little messy.

Do they find love again while they're also trying to navigate all the prim and properness of meeting the queen? Yeah. God. You pointed out that the dad would be played by Louis Anderson. Yeah, but cosplaying as Kelsey Grammer. That's what he looks like to me. He really does. But the other thing, too, is in Us, their story about Meghan Markle, she's breaking all the royal rules.

Oh, my God. And when you open it up, what could it fucking be? I knew she couldn't be trusted. Well, you've got to be careful because Diana broke the royal rules, and then she ended up getting assassinated. Yeah, she ended up getting fucking dieted. So who knows? So the problem here is that the first rule she's breaking is that she is asking for a lemon elderflower cake. What? Yes.

Not in England. I'm sorry. No. Oh, my God. No. Don't hold me back. I'm not having it. What a bitch.

No. Is this a normal thing in America? Fuck both of you. I'm not having it. What a bitch. No. Is this a normal thing in America? Fuck both of you. I'm sick of this. How did you already have a broken bottle in your pocket? Put that down. I don't want to get glassed in here. And you're an elderflower.

Yes, I know. What are you, Americans? This will be the first time. This is the deviation from the multi-tiered fruitcake, which is standard. Oh, I'm not sure. The quote just says, in doing so, they broke an age-old tradition honored by Prince William, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, and more.

So, at least Queen Victoria. Can't they just have two cakes? I think they can afford it. Yeah, but you know, bridezillas, man, guess what? Royal family, now you're dealing with a bridezilla, y'all. All I'm saying is the fact that Queen Elizabeth has even survived this long through this process means she's a hero.

She is a hero. I think she's an artificial intelligent robot now. She's not the real queen. She's a brain that they're keeping alive, a consciousness. Mate, if my great-grandma's 100 years old now and still alive, if my great-grandma who lives in a poor village in France can survive this long, the queen is going to be like a thousand years old. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah, for not having done too much. Although I love watching her drive. So, the other thing that she's doing,

and if you're listening, please take your pearls off and put them in a safe because prepare to clutch them so hard they will shatter. And again, Eric, please forgive how crass my people are. Don't make me angry! I know. But I have to just as another half African-American woman is making her way to your country. Rather than having a chief bridesmaid, she's having a maid of honor.

No! Dammit! What is happening to this? I'm sorry. My beautiful country! I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Eric. If I could, I will try to use the proper channels to talk to her.

He's got a knife to Miles' throat. I don't have a knife, man. Change the rules now, Miles. Oh, God. Change them. And then, God, do I even dare open the other one? I mean, I already have just the tear on my hand. You know what?

A lot of your countrymen have asked me to go back to my country in the last year since I've been here. But, Miles, you may have succeeded. I'm going to go back and tell them about, do you know what Americans like? Yeah. It's like the elderflower. They said made of honor. And then the other thing in OK Magazine is they were saying, uh-oh, she could be cursed because she might wear Diana's ring. Yeah, no, that's a scientific fact for sure.

Yeah. That's how that works. Can I just say, it's actually very smart of these magazines to all have different storylines. Right. Because then I want to hear about all of them. I'm putting them all together.

And that's why you let us waste the $50 every week to buy all of these tabloids because that's what it costs to buy every tabloid. This is what we do for you guys. This is what we do for y'all. And they're just rotting. I'd love to write for this magazine. That's our entire budget.

You know what we'll do as merch? You know, if we do a live tour, maybe we'll just sign copies of Bloids we've used, and we can sell them to people. Anyway, so again, yeah, they're cursed diamonds. But what's funny is on one side, it's Harry is mad about the fact that Meghan loved a person before, and then the other magazine, how dare Harry even cast his eyes upon a woman before her. So, you know, there upon a woman before her.

So, you know, there's a little parallel there. But yeah, ultimately. Weirdly, it's kind of relatable. Yeah. Isn't it? Oh, of course. I mean, all the time. Like, I think that's a thing in a relationship.

You'll hear about an ex or something. You're like, what? Who? And then the thing we always say is, you know, I did date people before I met you, right? But what's really difficult is that, you know, now, you know, if I have a little argument with my wife, I can't turn around and go, I'm a prince. Right, exactly. Yeah. So bow down to me.

Or take your emerald jewels off now. And stop giving me lemon elderflower cake. I can command this butler to self-immolate if I wanted to, and he would listen to me. But my favorite headline, by the way, has nothing to do with the royal wedding. It is, I beat subway perv Jared to a pulp. It is a guy who was in prison with Jared, and they have a picture of Jared just with his eyes black and blue. Oh, my God. How did they get that photo?

What did Jared do again? I can't remember. Child porn. Ah, right. That's way worse than what I remembered. Yeah. I remembered AIDS because of South Park. The actual thing was, yes, the child pornography.

And that's bad, obviously. Oh, yeah. Wait, so they're saying that they got an interview with a dude who just claimed to a tabloid that already regularly deceives people that he's the guy who beat up Jared and Jill? They photoshopped the picture to prove it. It looks awful. It is not a very good photoshop. It's the equivalent of someone just drawing with a black pen on a newspaper.

Like, oh, look at that black eye and a missing tooth. Yep. Wait, so he just called from prison and said, yeah, I beat up Jared. Yeah, gave the details. You get one call. Beat him to a pulp. It's Mother's Day and you get one call. All right, hello, National Enquirer.

Yeah, I beat the shit out of Jared Fogle. Isn't he in protective custody? I gotta go. Is he in protective custody? I'd imagine. I mean, I know people with certain kinds of crimes, you know, like, are definitely treated more violently by inmates

when they say, like, if you're, like, a rapist or child molester. And it kind of makes sense. Yeah. Oddly enough, you'll find another form of justice. I try and be a respectful person to like all 8 billion people on this planet. You know, we've all got weird things. But if you like child porn, you deserve a bloody slap in the face, mate.

Exactly. No elderflower cake for them. Actually, I would say all of it. Oh, God. Nothing but elderflower. Your punishment is to eat this elderflower cake. Eric, it's been a pleasure having you, man. Where can people find you?

Just on all the social medias. I do a podcast where I live on an island with animals that are sentient and smoke weed and stuff, so it's quite weird. And then I do a show called Comedian Cinema Club where we recreate movies live on stage. And for the next two months,

it's already sold out for some reason. I don't know how, but it's doing really well in LA. Must be a good show. It's pretty fun. Man, I would go, it's already sold out for some reason. I don't know how, but it's doing really well in LA. Must be a good show. It's pretty fun. Man, I would go, but it's sold out. Hey, I'll get you a ticket. Oh, shit.

Okay. I'll get you. Let's talk. How do people find you on social media? It's just my name. Eric. And then you're spelling Lampere. L-A-M-P-E-R-T.

H-A-I-R. Lampere. What a dick. What a dick move. You just added that. French do it, right? Lampere. All right, Lampere. Lamp hair. What a dick. What a dick move. You just added that. French do it, right? Lamp hair. All right, lamp hair.

Lamp and then art, except with an E in between. Oh, if you type in ugly man, I'm on page two of Google. Are you really? Yeah. That's what's in there. It's a long story. Why'd they got to do you like that? Damn.

Was it a Reddit move? Was it an effort by Reddit to do that? Because I know sometimes they'll do shit on Reddit. I did a really annoying commercial back in 2009 in the UK and my face was on the fucking screen

for like 20 seconds and because I've got quite a weird face people went on Facebook and they created groups like let's find him and kill him. This is one of the groups.

Let's rip his gums out and run over them continuously and I think 100,000 people liked it. Oh, my God. Yeah. I mean, you know, even my mother liked it. Oh, goodness.

But you're still here. You're a warrior. Thanks, man. Is it on there? No, I cannot find it. Oh, okay. Maybe it's not American Google. Oh, fuck.

You just looked at my actual face. Yeah, no, I was just looking at him. Yeah. I've been looking down the whole time because I was very puffed. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at MilesOfGrey. You can find me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter. We are at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter.

We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on, Miles. What is that going to be today? Because we were just doing some, you know, grime, you know, UK stuff,

let's throw it to my boys, Corrupt FM from the Netflix and BBC show, People Just Do Nothing. This track is called Heart Monitor Rhythm, and I'm about to give y'all bang, that lyrical blow to the jaw. So, you know, embrace this little garage hit. And, you know... Wait, so is this a joke

or is this... It is an actual track. Okay. But because of the show, they are these, like, garage MCs and DJs. They've been putting out albums and shit, too, that are on Spotify. shout out to the Corrupt FM Lost Tapes also on Spotify but yeah

this is a track from theirs what is this some kind of fucking joke no oh god don't worry too aggressive no

I apologize and your fruitcake has arrived we've done away with the multi layered elderflower cake goodbye alright guys

that's gonna do it for this week we'll be back next week have a good weekend. Bye. Who's ready? I'm ready. I'm ready.

Who's ready? I'm ready. Ladies, open up your ears. Man them too. We are about to drop the new instant classic. Decoy, run that. Run that. Play it, Decoy.

Rush. There's a dead MC on the floor. Subtle. Who's that standing above him? Can you not hear the hospital down? That was from my trip to Russia. This bit's me as well. Yeah, this bit. This bit coming up.

The heart monitor stuff. MC Grinder. BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Basin Grinder killed an MC Someone take him to A&E And perform some lyrical surgery I'm kicking man like Van Damme Oozing a mic with a rough slide Flying kicks all up for Jet Li With a triple backflip up for Jeska

Boss of the Technica ninjas sir Lyrical karate mix of copper What you gonna say now, what you gonna do When Basin Grinder are coming for you? With bandaged knuckles I dip them in glass Leaving every MC up on their arse Lyrical drag upon soda boss Leave your head spinning from all of my bars Basin Grinder up on their arse Living called Dragon Punch so that I'm boss Leave your hair spinning from all of my bars We should grind them up on the track Guess you could call that normal impact Why are we so lyrically weak?

Cause we've been training parts of the tree for a week Yeah, I invented that. Midpoint Reload. It's cool. It's a great little reference to the garage sound. Exactly. Also it saves the DJ from reloading. Yeah. Plus we didn't have much time to finish it, we went from studio so yeah it's only a minute and a half long so that's three minutes so a totally wrapped track. Hear the hospital sound though. Yeah that's quite good but also my lyrics are called Gipsy. And then you hear it again, whole track again. MC Grr.

Love that. Bang! Lyrical blow to the jaw! Bang! Lyrical blow to the jaw! Bang! Lyrical blow to the jaw! Even if you get a C down off the floor! Bang! Lyrical blow to the jaw! Bang! Lyrical blow to the jaw! Bang! Lyrical blow to the jaw! Even if you get a C down off the floor! Bang! Bang! Bang! It's an emergency! Mason Grindr killed an MC! Someone take him to A&E and perform some miracle surgery you've just witnessed

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