The Daily Zeitgeist - RIP Chuck E. Cheese Band, Impeachment Party! 11.14.19

Episode Date: November 14, 2019

In episode 516, Miles and special guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian Allen Strickland Williams to discuss Jason Bigg's vulgar tweeting history, how the right is handling the impeachment inquiry, Hillary Clinton considering another presidential run, the war on thanksgiving, Disney +, Moby's new tattoo, Chuck E. Cheese getting rid of their animatronic band, and more!FOOTNOTES: 21 Important Questions About This Photo Of Jason Biggs And Mr. Mucus Jason Biggs' vulgar tweets Jason Biggs's Ugly Twitter Rant Reveals That He's Kind of a Sh*tty Guy Diplomats detail Ukraine pressure campaign at first open impeachment hearing — live updates GOP counsel’s defense of back channel to Ukraine: ‘Not as outlandish as it could be’ Fox Cuts To Commercial When Schiff Starts Asking Questions At Open Hearing Fox News cuts to commercial during the open impeachment hearing right when Adam Schiff begins asking questions GOP senator: Republicans don't have votes to dismiss impeachment articles Clinton says she is being urged by ‘many, many, many people’ to run in 2020 A History of the War on Christmas The Environmental Impact Of Your Thanksgiving Dinner Despite what conservative media say, liberals are not trying to “cancel” Thanksgiving ‘Fox’ illustrates ‘American’ holiday with Mexican take on Thanksgiving dinner Disney+ already has over 10 million users Moby Really Fuckin' Loves Animals, Man Chuck E. Cheese’s is breaking up the animatronic band WATCH: Another Chuck E. Day | Chuck E. Cheese Songs Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And luminary Frequent podcast guest And think tanker Jamie Loftus. Okay, let's see how I do today. I'm gonna come some scabs put the wet ones in my pocket I'm rubbing

beetle juices tugging my hot takes are disgusting. I'm gonna come some scabs. That was worth it thank you that was from at Daniel Woods thank you for that that was a Halloween one but I saved it

I mean I'm gonna come some scabs I'll get that tatted I like how the last well you're familiar with the whole debate yes wet scabs versus dry scabs. What kind of scabs does Beetlejuice cum? When he ejaculates, what comes out? Wet scabs or dry scabs?

I believe them to be wet. That's... Yeah, I say dry. You're dry, I know. Dry shuffling deck of cards. Oh, interesting. Like a bunch of poker chips? Yeah.

Those are some thick guys, yeah. I feel like it's just like the human male. It's like there's the dry scabs, but they're carried out through the wet scabs. Yeah, but it could be a very violent process. It's a very dry operation. It's very. A lot of friction. Very clinical, very dry.

And I don't think it feels good for him. Well, I'm glad that was the first words our guest uttered. I would like to formally introduce our guest. First time guest, someone who I've actually been a fan of, unbeknownst to him, from his sketch comedy days on YouTube. Please welcome the hilarious

Alan Strickland-Williams. Thank you so much. It's good to be here. It's just nice to really flex my cum scab expert muscles right away. I normally don't get to do that on podcasts. Yeah, well, you have a degree in hydrodynamics, so you're very concerned with the flow of – I wonder, is there – I went to dirtbag medical school, so I know about cum scabs. Cum scabs.

I actually used to teach the first class on cum scabs. Cum scabs 101. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I took cumumscabs 102. Wow. Okay, so you're out-educated. I love this already because it's like Cumscabs, Cumscabs. Anyway, impeachment.

Yeah, exactly. Well, that's the vibe of the show. This is kind of how America works. We're all over the place. We'll talk. It's true. Look, actually, before we even get to know you, we're going to tell people what we're talking about, okay?

Not just cum scabs. We're going to be talking Jason Biggs. He has a new role. Very interesting. Then we're going to check in with the impeachment testimony. Girl, I'm talking about preaching this cream. Because we had some bombshell testimony yesterday, as well as just some of what's kind of bubbling on the right in response to all of this damning testimony.

We will get to a very, very important story about the war that we are waging from the left on Thanksgiving because we have conservatives shook because we've, you know, I guess one, all it takes is one Huffington Post article and then the world comes falling down. I said comes. And then I have Huffington. Comes, and then the world comes falling down. I said comes. And then I have Huffington.

Comes, Gabs, comes. And also, talk about Disney+, Moby got a sick new tat and some other sick-ass shit, dude. Because it's the DZ. But before we do all that, Alan. What's up? What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are oh i the last thing i searched was donna rice who was the um woman that uh gary hart was having an extramarital affair with i forget why i was listening to something or watching something and she came up and i was like i wonder what she's up to these days yeah i checked i checked what's she up to

she she pretty quickly not pretty quickly but after after maybe like 10 years or so after she was proto-Lewinsky-like type. Because this was 84? This was 88. Eight, okay. Was the election year. This might have happened in 87. Got it, got it, got it. I think in like 94 or something like that, she became the head of this organization called Enough is Enough.

the head of this organization called Enough is Enough that basically is like you know standing as a stalwart against things like this happening and you know rehabilitating like what's the word your like reputation and things like that so and she's been pretty actively and continuously engaged

in that since then and she's still a babe what was your fascination are you big into politics? Yeah. I really can't remember what clued me in to look it up, but I think I was watching something or listening to an interview where they mentioned her.

Oh, right. And I was like, oh, wow, what happened to her? Where are they now? Because every once in a while Lewinsky will pop up and something. Right. And I was like, oh, I wonder. The fire tweet you know, every once in a while, like Lewinsky will pop up and something. Right. And I was like, oh, I wonder. The fire tweet. Why don't they talk?

Yeah. She drops a lot of takes. I mean, but is she like on the front lines of that stuff as well? I mean, it sounds like she is. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. She should be getting more press. She seemed very active.

Yeah. I read the, I mean, the movie kind of sucked, but I read the front runner last year and it's just like. That's what it was, Jamie. Someone, the front runner. sucked, but I read The Front Runner last year and it's just like- That's what it was, Jamie. The Front Runner. That's why I read it. I was on the Wikipedia page for that movie because Hugh Jackman was in it, right? Sorry to cut you off.

Yeah, and Alfred Molina. No, that was all I had to say. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The book is really good. I enjoyed the book a lot because it was actually good, solid reporting. And it just sounds like she just got, I mean,, it always is, but like the rawest deal. Right.

Absolutely. There, there is another, there's another book called what it takes. That's about it. Pretty much everyone that ran in 88, except for, um,

because he came in late to the race. So the reporter that wrote it didn't have enough time. At least that's what he said, uh, for Jesse Jackson, didn't get a fair shake in the book, but it like it goes into Dole

and H.W. and Dukakis and Dick Gephart and Gary Hart and like all these people it was a very interesting it's like a tome

but very good read nice if you're into campaign stuff well now I know something about you you like the campaign stuff I guess I do

a bit of a wonk over here what's something that you think is underrated? Underrated? I said Limeade. I feel like we're always doing lemonade in an Arnold Palmer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been experimenting with some Limeade and a Limeade and a black tea. Wow.

Sort of a fucked up Arnold Palmer situation. Yeah, no, no, that's not fucked up. That's not refined. And then also like just taking like a Modelo or Pacifico and throwing some limeade in there. Great. Whoa, so like a weird shandy? Like a lime shandy, yeah.

Wow. That sounds nice. Underrated, very underrated. Yeah, like a shandy Mexicano. Wow. I like it. That's, man, I really like that. Not enough people come in here talking that lime age shit.

Yeah. Where do you, what kind of lime age are you buying? I usually get the stuff at Trader Joe's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like, well, now they've updated the packaging for it. But yeah, it's just like, it'll last you like maybe a week or a week and some change. What do you mean? Why will it last you a week?

Depending on your drinking habit. I mean, I, you know, I like to like, you know. You're cutting it with other things. You're not drinking straight limeade. Yeah, exactly. To the dome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're not wild.

Because it can be a lot just to drink the limeade straight. It's pretty powerful stuff. There was some company who was making a cherry limeade for a while that I was drinking regularly. Oh, Spindrift. I like that. Well, Spindrift has raspberry lime. No, this is a straight up sugary as fuck juice. Oh, okay.

Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. I think it was maybe like, you know, Calafia Farms type shit or one of those places, but I loved it. What is something you think is overrated? This is classic go-to for me, cucumber. Wow. Yeah. I think cucumbers are like the most overrated thing.

Go on. Why? Why? Why? Why, sir? They do nothing. They do overrated thing. Go on. Why? Why? Why, sir? They do nothing. They do nothing for me. Their goggles.

The goggles, they do nothing. That's fine. I'm fine with that. For a spa treatment, cucumbers, exactly what they should be used for. Oh, but as goggles, they do something. But the cucumbers, they do nothing. But not like in water or like cucumber sandwiches. We just don't need that.

Is it just because of the flavor is a little bit, because it's not very intense or pronounced? The flavor, the mealiness of the texture. Wow. Yeah. That is an extremely high. I love cucumbers. Me too, but I think it's because I used to say

my favorite food was cucumbers when I was little, but it's because my favorite food was salad dressing, and you can't say that. And just eat the— Would you drink straight out of the bottle? I would. Oh, absolutely. Soup? Catalina dressing right out of the bottle.

Damn. It's incredible. It's very sweet. So glad you moved on to other beverages. When I was a kid, I used to take like the, the like lettuce that like the Italian or the ranch was on and which is,

now I, I could not look at ranch. I hate ranch now. I don't like ranch. But apparently as a, as a kid, I like used to take it and just lick it off

and then put the lettuce back in the bowl. Like you're eating like an artichoke? Yeah. Like, it's garnish. Yeah.

We don't eat that. It's a spoon for ranch. You eat a spoon, you lick the goodness off the spoon. I can't do ranch. I don't know that. It's a spoon for ranch. You eat a spoon. You lick the goodness off the spoon. I can't do ranch. I don't know what it is. I will. So I did a podcast recently where they're like, pick a food you hate.

We're going to make a ton of food. I did that one. Yeah. What's that podcast? It's called Try It, You'll Like It. Try It, You'll Like It. Yeah. And I pick cucumber.

And the one thing that I had that was really good was called, I think it was called cucumber miso, which is a- Oh, miso cutie in Japan. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And so it's like you, it's literally just using a two dip in salad dressing, but it's like this miso paste stuff. Yeah. And I was like, oh yeah, this is great.

I like this. I was going to say like for me, I'm half Japanese. My introduction to cucumbers is like that where you're just having miso on there or like Chinese cucumbers too where you just just having miso on there or like chinese cucumbers too where you just use like a bunch of garlic and chili oil okay they're sort of a half marinated a little bit so when you eat it they're the fucking flavor it's almost like a pickle or something yeah in a way but the flavor it's i think it you overcome the blandness gotcha if you want to say it but i think think the Persian cucumber and the Japanese cucumber are our greatest offerings

to the kingdom of cucumber, Cucumberland. Finally, Alan, what is a myth? What is something that people get wrong or you know the truth behind something that people get wrong or you know that you may have had something wrong and find out what the truth was.

It's a very convoluted way of saying. My myth is that vaping kills. Hell yeah, bro. Because I don't think it does. Yeah, well, certain kinds of chemicals in vaping products kill. Because I vape and I'm not dead. Yeah, well, it seems like. I mean, that's all the people you need.

And there you go, science. Meet me wherever you need to. Check me out because you're wrong. See you in the funny papers. No, I think, yeah, a lot of it people, you know, it was that vitamin E oil acetate. Vitamin E acetate, yeah. That was the thing because it was a lot of black market THC things. And then they wanted to just sort of extend that into vaping.

Obviously, there's still some research that maybe has to be done there. But what's interesting about that whole thing is like, there's a group of really avid nicotine vapers who are like ready to revolt against the president, who are like Trump supporters, who are like, do not come for our vape juice. Well, what's his name? You could see video of him, the guy that got in trouble for like his wife.

Duncan Hunter. Duncan Hunter. There's video of him in guy that got in trouble for like his wife duncan hunter duncan hunter there there's video of him in in congress vaping yeah it's just like i'm like wow that is that's the dream really yeah to like utterly disrespect not that it's just i mean i guess i mean and he was like he was blowing clouds yeah like he was not just vaping he was was like, yeah, dude. Alan's a discerning vape judge. I look to be recognized. I yield my time. I yield the remainder of my hit. Yeah, the remainder of this cloud.

I'm like overly cautious. I don't know. When I found out about all this stuff that was being published, I was trying to make my boyfriend stop, but he just stopped in front of me. There you go. That's how it starts. But as Alan pointed out,

he is not dead. Yeah. See, important. See, you got to look at the facts. So really. I do think that like, I kind of low key was actually looking at it because I was like,

I really do vape a lot. Just for, just for weed. Like nicotine? No, just for weed. Like a Pax Aeropod? Use a little oil cartridge? I just, I go to the,

I go to the, the dispensary and I get like, whatever, there's like, Stizzy's? I use, what do I,

Lune, Lune, I believe is what it's called? L-E-U-N-E, I use that a lot. And then I use one called Dompen a lot. Oh yeah, I know Dompen.

Is that disposable? Yeah, they both are. Disposable. Bro, you gotta get on that. Is that disposable? Yeah, they both are. Yeah, disposable. You gotta get on that reusable battery life, man. A lot of waste. You guys, stop vaping. Dude, we're fucking... Guys, please stop. We're vaped out of our heads on this

weed shit, you know what I mean? You guys know too many facts about vaping. Well, for me, vaping, it's good for like... It's good for like... You're like the concerned aunt at the dinner, like, I didn't know they vaped so much. I really don't think you should be vaping that's gonna be fine auntie

like let's go vape in the garage yeah well yeah look I actually don't vape too much because it just

doesn't get me there like I need it like I need it to not like flour does the reason why I like vaping is because I can do it

at my office job right and do it at my desk and stay there and just work. And like, and it doesn't get me as like whacked out high. So I'm just sort of low level, like not losing my mind, not being mean to anybody for no reason, just getting my work done. Oh, normally you're just a monster?

I just, I get stressed out, especially when I'm like at work and I have shit to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's like, it's nice to have that sort of low level, you seem so even keeled right now are you unless you're you've been vaping out of my mind I actually am the I'm a ghost of vape cloud yeah like the black smoke and lost like dude I don't know if that's Alan or the souls of the faint. Okay, let's move into the news. Jamie, you have the huge responsibility of co-hosting with me, a totally disorganized person with a lot of distractions and hyperactivity.

I have a question. What is the news? Very great question. Can you answer that, Jamie? I think, well, we got to with the heavy-hitting stuff. Okay, first. Yeah, we'll guide us through this. So, okay. I said, what's something going on? So, yeah, you said

find some light fare of what's going on. I've got a story that I think is criminally underreported. Okay. Mucinex threw a press conference this week and announced Jason Biggs as their new guy. What do you mean, as their new guy?

Their new spokesman. So he came to, I mean, it's Jason Biggs. He's not that famous. So he's just promoting Mucinex Night Shift. He's not the whole brand. Got it. They don't need Biggs for everything. They just need him to take the night shift.

But if you see this picture. Oh, my God. There's a picture of the Mucinex guy. Mr. Mucus. Mr. Mucus. Just in respect. They also rebranded Mr. Mucus, much like we're going to talk about Chuck E. Cheese later. But Mr. Mucus used to be that, like, I'm walking here, New York guy.

Yeah, with overalls on. And a wife beater. And you're like, he was maybe toxic. So now we've rebranded Mr. Mucus, and now he's wearing a flannel. And he looks like an alt-right meme. It looks like a fucked up version of Pepe the Frog mixed with Slimer from Ghostbusters and an off-brand Ninja Turtle. Looking like an airless, badly rendered Shrek. I mean, it looks like a booger or some shit that will come out your body if you had a sinus infection. It's great that Jason Biggs now is associated with multiple fluids that come out of your body.

He's got the cum and mucus thing. If it's viscous and gooey, Biggs is your man. Well, I'm curious. How do you guys feel about Biggs being the guy? Is he the voice? Because I have my bracket going. Will he be the voice? We don't know.

It seems like they're maybe taking the temp by throwing this press conference. Just a weather balloon seeing what it does? It was reported on page six. Jason Biggs has an extreme plan to avoid getting sick this year. He says, and I think he's trying to prove that he could be a spokesman, quote, as much as I take precautions when cold and flu season approaches, as much as I like to think that I really strengthen my immune system, I always end up getting sick. And so he told this to Page Six while promoting at the Musin Express conference. Is he that hard up for money?

That's a weird – I'm trying to really look at like career, what we're doing here. Well, so I think that this opens an interesting discussion that I hope will continue in future episodes. I'm here to really set up some food for thought. So as Alan was saying upstairs, the former Mucinex spokesman was T.J. Miller, who is no longer working very much. So I think Mucinex, he got canceled. What was T.J. Miller in trouble for? Rape and assault. Oh, fuck, that's right.

He was in trouble for some really, really, really bad stuff, and it makes sense that Mucinex would sever this tie. Yes. It's interesting to me that they would then go to Jason Biggs, who also has not that level of bad. But do you remember when Jason Biggs was on Orange is the New Black, and then he was phased out because he was such a misogynist asshole? There's all these stories from 2013, 14, back when that show was getting started, where I guess he's just like a fucking dick. Wow, what'd he say?

Receipts, loftist. All right, we've got some shit. There's a Salon article from 2012, because of course there is. There was a lot of Salon articles that year. But basically he went on like a misogynist tirade on Twitter and then doubled down, refused to apologize, homogenous tirade on Twitter and then doubled down, refused to apologize. And then Orange is the New Black was just like, well, you can't be on Orange is the New Black. It's like one of those weird conflict of interests.

I don't know. So do you think this is the extent to which the work has dried up? I would wager. It seems like not a lot of people want to work with him. And so he's like, he's musinexing. But he fucked a pie. I mean, in his defense, he fucked a pie. Yeah. But I think, I don't know.

I mean, is it an indication? What does this say about Biggs? What does this say about mucinexing? Yeah, what does this say about their campaign? Hashtag wake up human. Interesting hashtag for this campaign. I will say maybe it is the perfect marriage because no one wants to be the Mucinex person, right? Right. I mean, speak for yourself.

TJ Miller was just the voice, right? He wasn't outwardly chumming it up with a person in a suit that looked like Green Cum. Not that I know of, but he was definitely the voice of the Green Cum. He was the voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For some time. Yeah. I know of, but he was definitely the voice of the green tongue.

He was the voice, yeah. For some time. Yeah. Well. It's one of those things where it's like a lot of guys don't want, or a lot of actors don't want to do stuff about Viagra or whatever because they don't want to be associated with it. I'm only associated with erectile dysfunction at this point. But Biggs might be-

And you're a millionaire. Biggs might be just perp. This might be his autumn of his career. Or this is like the dream collaboration for him. He's like, I really love the product. Which is wild because he's like in his late 30s. He's not that, but I mean he's- He's not in his 40s yet?

I feel like he might be, yeah. Maybe he is. He's 41. He's 41, okay. He's got a bunch of sons. He's got a- Really? Yeah, he's got a small harem of sons at this point.

And so Musenix is going to put food on the table for his many sons. I guess so. Oh, he didn't work at all in 2018. No, I think that he is kind of like low-key blacklisted, like terrible to work with. Interesting. Yeah. Oh, the plot thickens. So that's the Biggs update.

Well, thank you so much for that. Yeah. And let's just marinate on that and take update. Well, thank you so much for that. Yeah. And let's just marinate on that and take a quick break, and we'll be right back. 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. Come up here and document my project.

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Girl, I'm talking about impeaching this creep. Impeach that creep. So, yeah, George Kent, Bill Taylor went to the Hill. And, boy, it was not good for the president. I think there isn't really anything new. They were both beyond credible. Uh, they were just very calm, no matter what kind of, uh, you know, sort of frantic questioning was coming from the right. Um, when you look at it, like Kent is like a third generation in his

family to serve the country, like in some form or another, Bill Taylor is basically fucking like captain America. Um, and they both said like the shitty parts out loud that trump was pressuring the ukrainians into announcing investigations into the bidens in the 2016 election um in exchange for military aid to fight russia as well as a oval office meeting uh which is a great optic, you know, one up for a newly elected president such as Zelensky. End of story. Boom.

That's it. Any further questions? Yeah, it was also I mean, the one thing that was new is Taylor also said that there was like a new little thing that he had known that he had learned after his first round of testimony that was behind closed doors is that he found out through one of his staffers that in Kiev, Gordon Sondland called President Trump directly on his cell phone to discuss basically like where the pressure campaign was and how it was going.

And then afterwards, Taylor's aide asked Gordon Sondland, he goes, how's Trump feeling about Ukraine? And his answer was basically like, all he cares about are these investigations. Well, I mean, that certainly seems to be the way. Sounds like Trump. Direct line. And, you know, it was a little odd too. I mean, I'm sure some of you saw a little bit of the back and forth, but the Republicans, like when they had their sort of swipe at it, it was just a lot of lame questions and distractions whether it was like trying to put like obama's policy on trial or if it was trying to say like yeah but the money flowed ultimately

my question do you know i would assume that kent and taylor are republicans right i think they probably can't one or two of them are they probably can't be like open with it but it seemed to me like that was the interesting part. Just watching a little bit of it. It was like, Oh, the, the,

the Republican like congressmen are going or Congress people are going after Kenton Taylor. But it's like, dude, they're, you guys are all the same. Yeah. That's why they couldn't really go after their character or anything else.

And it had to just be like really lame stuff. It's like, did you know this political article came out and like the ukrainians like didn't like trump so they were meddling right because kent was wearing a bow tie i'm like that guy is a republican yeah and he wants you to know yeah like he dares tucker carlson to say something spicy about him tonight he's like i'm dressed like dressed like you. I mean, it was kind of comforting to see that the blowback from the Republicans was that weak. I mean, there truly was nothing there where they had to go 10 years back to try to dig up something that even appeared relevant.

They have no fact witnesses to rebut what the testimony of these witnesses are. All they can do is be like, yeah, but you didn't talk to Trump directly. Did you? He's like, no, but I talked to the ambassador. Like I talked to the guy who just talked to him. And also it's like,

that's what everyone's trying to do is talk to him directly. So what? And also it's really weird that, uh, Sondland had a direct line to the president. Cause a lot of other former ambassadors, like, first of all,

that's very odd that you would know that. Secondly, Trump was trying to act like, I don't know her, uh, about Gordon Sondland. Oh, and when Peter Lee said that he was a great American. Yeah, it's like, dude,

you were on the phone with him being like, give me a status update. One of the Congressmen was like, isn't it true that Obama was born in Kenya? They're just bringing it back to that. Yeah, right. Essentially, yeah. He's like, was Obama Muslim? It's like, I'm sorry, I don't, I'm here to answer about what the president's actions were.

I think, you know, again, there was just it's it's it's going to be tough for them. And every witness who goes up there makes it painfully clear what the situation was. And no matter how much the right tries to obfuscate and sort of distract us by being like, well, again, the thing, it seems like they were really trying to hammer home was, but the money and the aid actually flowed eventually. So like, it was only like attempted extortion. Yeah. Essentially. I mean, they're not going that far.

Like it was attempted, but they're saying, well, what's the problem? There were no investigations and the money flowed without really pointing out the fact that I believe the aid was released on September 11th, which is like one or two days after the White House found out that there was a whistleblower. Also, they're still trying to make the investigation happen through this. They're trying to bring in Biden and Hunter to it. Right.

Through like acting as if it would be inappropriate to pursue the president for trying to carry on an illegal or initiate an illegal investigation by legalizing and normalizing it and bringing them into the process it makes no fucking sense it's tough man it's just like the when the facts are that much against you it's like we're just gonna scream well listen it's like a very wise man once told me facts they don't care about your feelings wow who was that there was some guy I dated

he got me into podcasts he was really he really he really encouraged me to start a podcast did he say that in between vaping yeah exactly

yeah and then he it was like babe would it be hot if I vaped in your mouth could you imagine like stop kissing me and vaping Yeah, and then he was like, babe, would it be hot if I vaped in your mouth? Could you imagine?

Stop kissing me and vaping. What? I was like, can I blow a ring in your mouth? No. Yeah. This is relevant to the discussion. Hold on. You dated somebody who thought it was hot to blow a vape ring into your mouth? Yeah.

But it wasn't long. Okay, that's fine. Look, I'm not trying to yuck nobody did they have a curly mustache they had fingerless leather gloves yeah just like the freaking biker gloves oh someone would that's like well is it shocking that that person has the same first name as my father no of course not and let's not dig too much into that one um just sort of like the gop lawyer didn't dig too much into uh the facts and we're back there we go brought it right back around um the guy who like obviously after the the questioning from uh the chairman and the uh

ranking member which is devin nunez and adam schiff um they basically then had time to have like lawyers ask questions to do something a little more focused. Much better, I will say, than the Mueller when Mueller went out publicly. This like this looked and sounded as damaging as it had to and was effective, I think. But one of the you could tell, again, the facts just are not on their side, because when he was talking to Bill Taylor, Bill Taylor was saying like there was an irregular channel of diplomacy and he was referring to rudy giuliani um and rick perry etc just like the fucking three amigos gang that was going around doing their own shadow foreign policy um the fucking but the argument to like that about being like well it's rudy and

rick perry started like rattling off their qualifications. This is what the GOP side lawyer said to Bill Taylor and said, you know, in later questioning, quote, cashier outlined the qualifications of some of those Taylor had named as being part of the back channel negotiations, including including serving and former diplomats.

And then this is what the lawyer asked, quote, this irregular channel of diplomacy, it's not as outlandish as it could be. Is that correct? And then he like choked back a laugh and he was like, I guess it could potentially be more outlandish.

Could you name three ways in which? Like what? But it could have been like worse, right? Like at least these guys kind of know about government. It sounds like they're in a punch-up room. They're like, can we make this? How do we bring this to an 11? Yeah, yeah.

At least Rudy wasn't distorting his voice using a machine and wearing a mask, right? Yeah. That's better, right? Almost. At least he did it as himself, right? Yeah, he could have. He didn't do it in character. He could have been like Goody Ruliani and like made up a fake name and stuff.

But like he didn't like he's a good guy. He's a good guy. And like it could have been worse. He could have been wearing blackface the whole time. That would have been really outlandish. Right. So really, like, what's this all about? And then again, as this was going on, you know, Trump through, I think, Stephanie Grisham, the, you know, whatever you want to call her, the spokesperson, press secretary, said, you know, the president's just too busy to watch.

Even though he watches everything, even though he was like retweeting in real time a bunch of shit like that people were doing during it. Donald Jr. was like, it's it's so boring. This is so boring. Maybe that's the plan is to like put so much shit on TV that Trump feels like he has to watch that he just his brain explodes or something. He just says he can't process all the different streams of information. I'm pretty sure, though, they're going to just like end up being like, dude, the truth is for nerds. Really? Like if you think about it, like really weak people rely on the truth and like strong people just fucking deceive and fucking take.

Well, that seems like what this has all been heading towards, right? It's just like bamboozling people so much. They're like, well, it doesn't even matter anymore. Like what the truth was because it's like this is more interesting. Well, that's the only way they can try and fight. I mean, it's not even an argument, but it's like they're running out of shit. Pretty soon it's going to be like, yeah, but did Jesus really die for our sins? It's like, what? I'm sorry, what? And again, just to sort of see how the right was operating during all of this. If you were watching the Fox

news coverage this morning, as Bill Taylor was reading his opening statement, which was very damaging, especially to see how calm, credible he was reading. So right after his opening statement, Adam Schiff would then begin his questioning to fully draw out more details. This is how, if you're watching Fox News, this is how it would have sounded to you if you're watching one of the more important impeachment inquiries that's happening in our lifetime.

And I'm now looking forward to your questions. I thank you both for your testimony, and I now recognize myself and the majority council forward to your questions. I thank you both for your testimony, and I now recognize myself. 60-second break. Back with questions in one minute. Pastor Taylor, I would like to begin. At Humana, we believe. At Humana.

Wow. Couldn't even. I mean, really? So if you're wondering why your aunt and uncle can't hold discourse with you at Thanksgiving this year, that's because they're hitting it with another one. Yeah. And then again, you know, just to sort of like kind of get a temperature around not just this inquiry, but what's happening in the Senate. Because eventually, if the House does impeach the president and it goes to the Senate, there would be a trial there. And a lot of people like, well, what are the Republicans going to do? Because they have the majority there. And a lot of people like, well, what are the Republicans going to do? Because they have the majority there.

And a lot of people think that they would just outright be like, nah, we're good. Not guilty. Let's keep it moving. But however, John Cornyn from Texas, he says he's not sure they have the votes to even do that quote. There's some people talking about trying to stop the bill, dismiss charges basically as soon as they get over here. I think that's not going to happen.

That would require 51 votes. They have 53. So to keep that in mind, he said, I think it would be hard to find 51 votes to cut the case off before the evidence is presented. So that's, I think, a bit of an indication that there are a few people who aren't willing to fully fuck around. But we still need a lot more if we're going to remove the president. but we still need a lot more if we're going to remove the president and then also just in swing states just sort of looking at the support for impeachment

and removal there was a survey of voters in Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania then we're going to the White House then we're going to Washington D.C. then we're going to the White House so these are all states that went for Trump and found that basically like a majority of voters in those states supported impeachment and removal.

So it's definitely these. And this was before the public hearings. So I think things might shift a little bit more. That's encouraging. Let's move on to something that someone actually has been being encouraged a lot recently. And that is Hillary Clinton. She went on BBC Radio 5 and was half teasing another run, as she said on the podcast or radio show she was on. Quote, I, as I say, never, never, never say never.

never, never, never say never. I will certainly tell you I'm under enormous pressure from many, many, many people to think about it. But as of this moment, sitting here in this studio talking to you, that is absolutely not in my plans.

It's so sad because it's like her language has even become Trumpified. She's like her language has even become Trumpified. She's like, people are saying they want me to. Many, many people. Mostly my ego. He's taking on the hyperbole. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, hard no. We're all socialists now. You missed it. We've all. You had your shot. You got swindled. Yeah. I mean, I think it's weird because a lot of the takes around this sort of little nugget

is like, you know, with Bloomberg basically about to hop in, it's showing that like the electorate's really unsettled and like not really liking the candidates they have to pick from. Like, I don't think that's true at all. That's just the billionaires. I think the Wall Street crowd who have been really able to rely on Democratic presidential candidates to be like, I got your back. Those people, the one guy who is, is slowly rotting before our eyes.

Oh, yeah. And someone should just put him on timeout. I mean, please, someone put Joe Biden on timeout. And then the next two people in line, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, want nothing to do with that. They're salivating like the cartoons. They want to fucking eat they got, they're salivating like the cartoons, you know, like they want to fucking eat the rich basically. And I think that's a big

These fuckers want to eat the fucking rich? Not on my watch, Hillary. I don't fucking understand. I mean, yeah, it could be Hillary and the Mucinex guy running for president together. Clinton Biggs. Go Biggs or go home. Go Biggs.

Go Biggs 2020. Could be good. I mean, who knows? That's a funny looking ticket. As a star of American pie. He's like, you know what I do with threats from Eastern Europe? Put my dick in. I surreptitiously videotaped them and livestream it.

I colluded with Natasha or Natalia. Natalia? Natasha. We did a Bechtel cast on that episode, and it was, you won't imagine, it didn't do too well. It didn't do too well. When did, did we talk about American,

oh wait, didn't we talk about it at our live did we talk about American Pie? Oh, wait. Didn't we talk about it at our live show a little bit too? Yeah, we did. Yeah, because we did The Matrix and a bit of American Pie. Wow. What a time to be alive. What a time to be alive. You've got to come to the live shows.

So I just do want to, again, as promised, reveal our plans fully, transparently for the war on Thanksgiving. Because that is apparently what the right believes is what's happening right now. Oh, this is like really, it's really shaking me to my

core to even think about. So last year, Trump said, there were fundraising emails that are saying like, he's the man who brought Christmas back to America. It's like this whole theme of like war on Christmas, uh, which is, goes all the way back to the twenties, uh, when Henry Ford was accusing Jews of having a conspiracy to abolish Christmas. We love those optics.

Yeah, exactly. That's sort of the, that's the, that's the fuel tank that this war on our holidays is sort of running from. That's what Ford versus Ferrari is about, right? Ferrari was a big... Yeah, war on Christmas guy. Yeah, there's like

a lot of shitty things. I bet he's a Jew. And you're like, what? He's Italian. Henry Ford, please. Ford versus Ferrari could be about anything. Are they playing cars? Is it cars? Dude, it's about Le Mans, man. Ford vs. Ferrari should be about anything. Are they playing cars?

Is it cars? Dude, it's about Le Mans, man. You know what I mean? I don't have a driver's license. I don't know what the fuck this is about. Yeah, you don't need to. I'm pretty sure if you don't have a driver's license, they won't allow you into Ford vs. Ferrari.

I heard you have to see it at a drive-in movie theater. In an old-timey car. So what happened was is there was a Huffington Post article that was just a very, you know, pretty objective take on like what the environmental impacts

are actually of Halloween. If you really look at like what it means to engage. Oh, thanks. Thanks. Oh, whoopsie. I'm already trying to erase the holidays. See, just show my bias.

Even in the fucking article, the author says up front, no one should be discouraged from enjoying the holiday or celebrating with family and friends. Okay. And then sort of saying, this is what I just want people

to sort of think about. Not even that, like you just canceled Thanksgiving, but this is sort of what it means. Meat and meat byproducts, cheese, butter, heavy cream, for example, have a larger environmental footprint than plant-based ingredients.

According to research done by Carnegie Mellon university, the carbon footprint of a 16 pound Turkey creates a total of 34.2 pounds of CO2. The same amount produced by Turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce, roasted Brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes, rolled biscuits, and apple pie combined. Okay. So that, then they were like, you know, if you, if you, this really matters to you, you could try sourcing your ingredients locally.

Like whether it's like the wine you're getting or herbs or vegetables and maybe a smaller Turkey, but they're just saying, Hey, there is a connection. Right. But not even to be like, it's canceled. However,

because the way I think conservative thinkers move is, Hey, they're like trying to make me aware of something. No, they're trying to cancel it. They're attacking it. Awareness is cancellation, basically. And that's the fucking take they went on. Sick.

First up, like Fox and Friends, they were just sort of like, you know, they're trying to cancel Thanksgiving is the word, the phrase they were using. Thanksgiving? Yeah. Canceled. They're saying, yeah. And it's urging people not to travel to see family, don't eat meat, eat veggies.

It's, I don't know what to do. It makes me sick. And then Diamond of Diamond and Silk fame said, I get tired of people

that has lived their life and have ate meat telling others not to eat meat. Don't tell us what we can and cannot eat. If you have a problem with climate change, stop driving cars. Ride on your horse to work. You do everything you can And to eat meat. Don't tell us what we can and cannot eat. If you have a problem with climate change, stop driving cars.

Ride on your horse to work. You do everything you can to fix the climate, but don't infringe upon my right to have Thanksgiving with my family. No one even fucking mentioned it, but this is how this whole media operation runs. It's like, okay, how do we sort of make ourselves diametrically opposed to

our friends and neighbors i mean to play into their narrative if there was one holiday that should go that's the one i'm voting for thanksgiving yeah for so many reasons yeah sure sure so i mean but i mean even strictly scheduling wise no one wants to go home twice in a month yeah oh yeah it's fucking terrible you just get in an argument and then finish it on, you know, in December. We could always just have a new holiday

that's called Eat Food Day. Yeah. Right. And just do that. That isn't, like, disrespectful to millions of people who were murdered.

Like, you know? And then also isn't just like- Wait. I thought the Pilgrims were- Oh, sorry. They were friends. Yeah. Weren't the Pilgrims

friends with those people? Did you see- They were good guys. there was there were those paintings of them shaking hands yeah right that was really nice yeah it's weird because that mural the other side shows the genocide that happens after but uh that didn't make it into the capitol building um so even as they go on on fox with all this tucker carlson even during his hour said you know they're demanding that you cancel Thanksgiving dinner. OK, and cancel culture has now turned on this holiday. And then on one of the other Fox shows, they did it.

They had a graphic that said war on Thanksgiving that had like a turkey on it. And what looks like tomatillos and some other stuff. It turns out it's a fucking stock image of a Mexican dish called tinga de pavo. And that's what they used as their representation for the war on Thanksgiving was a Mexican cuisine dish. Because the lazy fucking graphics person just was like, turkey roasted there, that. That's because Trump promised that Mexico would fight the war on Thanksgiving. Oh, probably. Yep.

And this is where it starts. Be aware if you suddenly see spices on your turkey or something like that. We've been infiltrated. It seems like this whole war on Thanksgiving thing, maybe this is the newest round. It comes in and out, but there have been

past headlines. Opinion, the war on Thanksgiving before the war on Christmas. Nothing is sacred anymore with the odious, joyless outlook of some on the left. They have targeted a beloved holiday when family members travel together and be with one another. A day to take stock and be thankful for what you have. A day to commemorate a day when there was a peaceful friendship between pilgrims and Indians. Oh, no. Oh, boy.

By marking it as a reminder of genocide. Well, let's be real here. Who stole whose land? Yeah. This is my mom's first year. She's a second grade teacher and she's going off book for Thanksgiving lessons and not...

Oh, really? Obscuring history? She's like, everyone, we're reading a people's history of the United States. Well, she's not being like, here's what a genocide is, but just not teaching the fake stuff. Right, right, right. And she's like, what if someone gave you blankets that had smallpox on it?

You'd be pretty pissed off. Would that be nice? Would you be happy about that? That would be mean. The whole reason they're protecting it, too, is not for family or anything or feeling thankful. They're definitely not. They don't give a shit about being thankful it's all because thanksgiving is the foreplay to capitalism's fuck fest of the year of black friday right right that's the that's the whole reason why like you need all these people you need the families to be together so that the next day after they just like

gorge themselves mom can drag like can we just go to the fucking wall and like soothe ourselves with buying shit yeah i think also too like thanksgiving is like the kickoff dinner to like manifest destiny just roll up the fucking continent basically and steal everything too it's like i mean this was like this was sort of like the scent like the ribbon cutting you know for the rest of it um and then just another one that said activists wage war on thanksgiving the newest target of liberal academic activists, Thanksgiving. Here are the details on the activities of the University of Virginia's progressive warriors.

And then they go on to just do all this shit. Anti-Thanksgiving potluck will be a chance to discuss Thanksgiving from a Native American perspective. Unbelievable. Oh, God. Who would ever? Yeah, anyway. So, you know, sorry to the conservatives but

thanksgiving's canceled sorry um but i will still eat it devastating yeah i'm still hungry yeah well this made me feel really good because i was like i'm not going home this year for thanksgiving or christmas and i was like i'm doing my part in the war. Yeah, there you go. I'm a soldier by remaining very still. I think we need to make more merch. Veteran of the war on Christmas. Veteran of the war on Thanksgiving. War on Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving war veteran.

Semper Fry. Semper Fry. Well, because we are talking about Christmas, I do need to mention that last night I started working on the new Santa University script. Oh, when can we? Well, then, I mean. Well, I mean, it's an annual tradition. We will be ready for your offering this year.

Just get ready. I mean, you're Dan Santa as always. I can't read and I look like shit. Yeah, that's the only two characters. The only thing is about Dan Santa. I love him. He doesn't grow. He doesn't change. Yeah, I'm very method two characters. The only thing about Dan Santa, I love him. He doesn't grow, he doesn't change.

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And Disney Plus has already announced that they have hit 10 million subscribers already. Okay, listen. They were supposed to hit eight by the end of year i hate big business but uh some of you know the and i tweeted this too but the the animals from zootopia are sexy yeah i think you said make you horny i said make me horny i went i went off script yeah i'm sexy. I want your words to be true. The rabbit is sexy. The rabbit is... Wait, so you like Disney. You are like doing stuff with your hands. I can feel your...

I'm wringing my hands. I'm pulling at my skin. You are... Something is active within you. The animals from Zootopia are sexy. What is it about Zootopia? I don't know. I've only...

I know that there's a social message in there, but I'm just there for the cute animals. I remember it was... are you a furry maybe yeah maybe the one for me was a lady or Maid Marian from the

oh the one the fox Robin Hood I like that she was a fox but she was chased she wore a veil she wore a little veil

was she a fox also she was also a fox yeah did she have breasts sort of there was implied cleavage there was oh like underneath her gown little veil. Was she a fox also? She was also a fox, yeah. Did she have breasts? Sort of. There was implied cleavage. There was? Oh, like underneath her gown?

She was clearly wearing a bra for foxes. A heaving bosom? Yeah. Ah, interesting. Well, what was the news again? Oh, yeah, sorry. We got a hornier Disney animal. All right, horniest Disney animal.

Let me think for me. Oh, Lola Bunny. No, that's not Disney no that's Warner Brothers no that doesn't work alright that's the only one

I have love for yeah so apparently the projections were 8 million by the end of the year but I think those could change because I'm sure there are plenty of people who are just on that

7 day free trial to see The Mandalorian and then they'll figure out if they want to stay I don't know what The Mandalorian is and I don't care to find out

it's for Star Wars heads it's about a bounty hunter yeah exactly that's fun Werner Herzog is in it yeah he's in it? Werner Herzog is in and I don't care to find out. It's for Star Wars heads. It's about a bounty hunter. Yeah, exactly. That's fun. Werner Herzog is in it. Yeah. He's in it? Werner Herzog is in it.

It's like, yeah. The simulation is really fucking itself in new and exciting ways. Yeah. And he was throwing shade at like Jon Favreau being like, he's like, I'm not familiar with the films he's made. Then you're like, okay, asshole.

Just put on this fucking suit and fucking shoot a laser. I like that he was like, I'm not familiar with the films he's made. Then you're like, okay, asshole. Just put on this fucking suit and fucking shoot a laser. I like that he's like, I know I'm playing ball with the biggest conglomerate in the world, but I'm still punk rock. Yeah, hell yeah. Fuck John Fiverr. Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely going to binge. Shout out to my boy Chris, who let me use his login. I will see how it works.

I'm a little, we talked about this the other day, but The Simpsons being cropped in 69 rubs me the wrong way a little bit. Sure. But I'll have to see for myself. My cat's scared of Homer Simpson. Your cat is scared of Homer Simpson? Also, breaking news, you have a new kitten. I have a cat. I'm all scratched up. Yes, you have Sonny the, what

do you call him? Like an alt-right troll dog? Sonny, yeah, well, I mean, he's got a lot. Red-pilled. He's red-pilled. He's definitely red-pilled. He's going for men's rights forever. Oh, right, because it started with you just showing him YouTube videos of other dogs, but the algorithm, you come home and he's like a QAnon truther. Knee deep in my ex Ben Shapiro's videos.

Yeah, right. Right. So Sonny, I feel like I learned a lot of things with my oldest because he's pretty much, I've pretty much discounted him of like. Oh, why you wrote him off? There's no, I mean, he's not going to, I leave the blue pill out every morning. He never takes it. Yeah. Right.

But this cat, you know, I'm going to do better. Okay. I have a little cat named Flea. But I turned on The Simpsons yesterday when I signed up for Disney Plus and he kept like going out and then like looking at the animation and then running away oh no I know he was scared of it is it just Homer

or is it it's probably the aspect it's the aspect ratio it's the aspect ratio I think that he's gonna be like a different kind of horrible person in the

from Sunday he's gonna be like really into stuff like that he's gonna be on Letterboxd yeah he's like an SC film school bro. Yeah. He's like,

you got the steelbook version of this? He's going to be like, yeah, the story wasn't good, but the cinematography fucking ruled. Like, he's going to go see Gemini Man. Oh,

right. It's going to be bad. He's like, really, if you think, I mean, every shot should be like in and of itself, a breathtaking image.

Every frame is a painting. Exactly. Yeah. And you're like, oh, please. And he vapes. So moving on just to some pop culture stuff.

I just wanted to point out Moby was celebrated his 32 years of being a vegan with sick ass tattoos. Oh, my God. From Kat Von D. He got animal rights just down his arms like in a really lame, everything is lame about this. I mean, he's already got that vegan for life neck tattoo. It's just, it reminds me of like a middle schooler. That's just like this one thing about me is everything. You think he did this to like embarrass himself with these tattoos? Because previously when he searched his name, it was weird shit with Natalie Portman.

I think that what I didn't know about Moby when that stuff came out was that he was a terrible addict back in the day. He was a terrible drunk and hardcore drugs and stuff, but I think mainly alcohol. But this is totally that person. This is the person that is sober and is like, needs to do something, needs to do something. And so they, they go for the,

I mean, and also the thing about it is that like, it just looks, it doesn't look, it looks bad. It looks like he found the stencil letters that you get at like Michael. He stick poked an entire phrase. Like how, the stencil letters that you get at like Michael's. Yeah, he just did it himself. He stick-poked an entire phrase.

It doesn't look good. And also the Kat Von D, why would Kat Von D want credit for that, you know? It's funny when you go by her tattoo shop and there's always people gawking in there like, oh man. I remember 2007. I remember LA Ink. Yeah, like, wow, okay. It's a remember 2007. I remember LA Inc. Yeah, like, wow.

Okay. It's a whole thing. Her makeup's okay. And, you know, I do want to talk, Jamie, a little bit about a story that is very relevant to you. The animatronic, the band of Chuck E. Cheese. I'm sorry for getting their name wrong. So, yeah, it's Mr. Munchy's Make Believe Band. Mr. Munchy's Make Believe Band. Not Munchy's, Munchez. Thank you. Sorry, Mr. Munchies Make-Believe Band. Mr. Munchies Make-Believe Band.

Not Munchies, Munches. Thank you. Sorry, Mr. Munches. They've been together for 40 years. You've had plenty of time to learn their names. Right. And this is the animatronic band that is inside many Chuck E. Cheese, but has been being phased out. For a couple of years.

Okay, so this is terrible news. This is the worst news of the day. And the impeachment period just happened. So what is happening? Okay, so in 2017, Chuck E. Cheese announced that they were going to slowly start phasing out the animatronics, which launched me into a long investigation of the history of them, which if you haven't educated yourself on what the history of the animatronic band is, it's pretty wild.

There were these wild 80s wars between the two pizza places, Showbiz Pizza and Chuck E. Cheese. There are so many. I'm like, I can't wait for the movie of this. Yeah, that you're writing. I'd hope you would write that film. Desperately. Right after Santa University comes out,

this is going to really take first position for me. But Chuck E. Cheese was founded by the founder of Atari, and then he creates this restaurant. Oh, I had no idea. Oh, it's a whole thing. Yeah. Okay. So Chuck E. Cheese was invented to have a restaurant to promote Atari games, basically.

Oh, like the arcade games would be within it. Yeah. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Yeah. And then their main competition, Showbiz Pizza, had these amazing animatronics that were made by this young inventor genius named Aaron Fector, who was one of those classic good inventor, terrible businessman, where he invented whack-a-mole and then got swindled by a carny and ended

up losing the rights to whack-a-mole, so he didn't have any money. Then he invented these restaurant animatronics and then ended... I mean, it's just... That would haunt children forever. Yeah. And he still lives and works in Orlando and is still making stuff. But it's like there's this crazy legacy, and they're finally taking him out. If anyone in Zeitgang knows how I can get one, I will travel.

I will spend every cent to my name. I'll start a Kickstarter. I don't give a fuck. I want to get one of these things. Do you want the whole band or just any one of the band members? I don't have the infrastructure for a whole band. I could house one. If you can get the whole thing, we could put them in the office.

You have to be really careful. That would be wild. What if you walked in and that was the first thing you see? Look, we have a gigantic 20-foot version of the note from Jersey Shore. That's true. I think we can respect popular culture and bring in the whole, was it Mr. Munch's? Mr. Munch's make-believe band. Make-believe band.

And who are the members? So you have Mr. Cheese. And he goes by Mr. Cheese? No. Well, Chuck E. Cheese, that's a whole thing. Because much like Mr. Mucus, Chuck E. Cheese, he used to be a cigar-smoking rat, and now he's a mouse who skateboards. Oh, great. It's a whole thing.

He found Christ. He found God. He's a skateboarding. And he changed species. He's a skateboarding youth pastor. He vapes now. He vapes now, and he's voiced by the lead singer of Bowling for Soup. I did not know that.

Yeah. Okay, so there's Mr. Cheese. There's Mr. Cheese. There's my personal favorite, and I would prioritize this over all the others, Pasquale. Pasquale is the Italian pizza chef. He plays the drums, and he does stand-up comedy at the Laffaroni. They show videos of it at Chuck E. Cheese. Wait, is he like a racist caricature of an Italian chef?

Yes. Like a big mustache with curly hair coming out the sides or something? Wait, hold on. I got something. Wait. What is this? Oh, this is the stand-up set. This is why I do what I do.

Alan, is this why you do what you do? I like his intro. What do you get when you put a radio in the refrigerator? What do you get? What do you get? I give up. Yes. Cool music.

So this is amazing. Okay. Get this shit off. This is trash. That was pretty good. This is why I fucking do what I do, Miles. That was pretty good. Okay, I'll give him what I do, Miles. That was pretty good. Okay, I'll give him that.

Okay, so there's Pasquale. Who else? Cool music. Then there's Helen. She's the girl, right? The token representation. Helen Henney. She's a bird, right?

Helen Henney, she's a bird. Yeah, I remember her. It kind of invokes the birdie from McDonald's land, but predates birdie. Birdie's a ripoff of hell and make no mistake okay and then there's jasper jowls uh who's uh the dog who the cowboy dog uh and that's and that's your band okay that's your band baby so now but it has been announced right because 2017 i remember you first went on a journey because they announced that they're like we're gonna start phasing this whole shit out and then they kind of didn't do that or like at least in this area everything sort of remained the same where if in your area if your chucky cheese opened

before 2005 you probably still have most of the band and now where are we at now it's it's been announced this week i guess that they're like okay we're actually taking them out but where are they going like what i don't know right but the characters aren't going away they have like they have this whole thing and uh i think they're like based out of austin where they make all these videos but they're with puppets now they're not with animatronics they release a lot of curse content on youtube i highly recommend there's a there's a there's a lot of curse content on YouTube I highly recommend. There's a parody of Ice Cube's Good Day from Chuck E. Cheese called Another Chuck E. Day. So there's a lot. May I?

With the Isley Brothers sample too? Well, may I? Yeah. They don't got that kind of money, but it's clear what they're doing. And it's parodying the music video too. Well, it's a brand new day and the sun is out shining. Birds are chirping, everything is fine. And as I open up my eyes, I just gotta say,

got the feeling that it's gonna be another Chuck E. Day. Yeah, okay, I like this. This is great. So, you know, the legacy lives on through Chris' videos. They gotta play Coachella. Oh my, yeah, I can see them in the Gobi tent. You know, the legacy lives on through curse videos. They got to play Coachella. Oh, my. Yeah, I can see them in the Gobi tent. Wait, why doesn't Chuck E. Cheese just move into the hologram thing that's happening now?

Isn't everything now turning into, like, hologram performances? I wish. Like, I feel like that would work. Because the thing with the animatronics, I guess that they were scaring kids. Yeah, for decades. For decades. But I don't know. I'm going to miss the animatronics. I guess that they were scaring kids. Yeah, for decades. For decades. But I don't know. I'm going to miss the animatronics.

I'm very sad. So if you live near a full band, go pour one out. You can have up to two blue moons before they cut you off there. Oh, wow, really? Yeah. I mean, you see a lot of videos of parents fighting at Chuck E. Cheese. Oh, it's one of the best places to get into a fight with someone. Yeah, with another adult who's stressed out about their financial situation

as their kids demand presents. I get it. And, like, don't believe the Shane Dawson stuff. Wait, what? Shane Dawson made a whole video spreading lies about the food at Chuck E. Cheese. Are you trying to come for Shane Dawson right now?

Yes. Oh, wow. Brave, brave. He said that they reheat pizza that people leave on the tables. Oh, yeah. I remember that. Oh, come on. It's pandering for views. Pathetic, if you ask me.

Wow. Yeah. You should go into his restaurant. Yeah. Whoa, what do you do with your pizza, Shane Dawson? I think he was living in North Hollywood for a while, because I remember someone I knew was like, some YouTuber named Shane Dawson lives near my mom. Really? One of the first jobs I ever had in Los Angeles was writing jokes for Shane Dawson.

Really? What? This is like a long, long, long ass time ago. How thick was that NDA you had to sign? This is like 2010 or something, I don't know if I did. Are you putting everything at risk right now, talking about this? I don't give a fuck, long, long ass time ago. How thick was that NDA you had to sign? This is like 2010 or something. I don't know if I did. Are you putting everything at risk right now talking about this? I should give a fucking.

Great. It was, but no, he does, he, he lives in the Valley. He lived, or at least at the time. Yeah. With his mom, they had like seven little fucking dogs. It was insane. Oh, wow. And I remember his mom was just watching Nancy Grace like on full blast.

She's like, you hear about this Jodi Arias? Literally, no, it was about Casey. It was about the top mom. Oh, wow. You do love to see it. I've been watching a lot of Dateline recently. And I just watched a real in-depth thing about Jodi Arias. I didn't really realize

what was going on there. Complicated woman. She was very smart. She was like very cool in those interviews. I was Oh, well, there you go. That it was a thing. Complicated woman. Yeah. Yeah, she was very smart. She was very cool in those interviews. I was like, man, this motherfucker trying to get it.

Anyway, that's about that for us. Alan, thank you so much for coming by. Yeah, where can people find you, follow you, watch you? You have a special coming up?

Yeah, watch me on November 15th or I guess this will come special coming up. Yeah, watch me on November 15th. I guess this will come out by then. Yeah, tomorrow. Tomorrow, November 15th 11.30pm on Comedy Central. 10.30 Central. Yeah, watch me there. I'm at Totally Alan on everything. A-L-L-E-N.

Find me. Cool. Jemay? Yes. How about yourself? Well, I'm on twitter.com at Jamie Loftus Help. I'm on Instagram at Jamie Cry Superstar. And I'm releasing my podcast about my year in Mensa that's called My Year in Mensa around Thanksgiving time. It should be available for pre-subscribing as soon as iTunes emails me back. Nice.

Oh, Alan, I forgot to ask you, is there a tweet that you're liking that you want to shout out? Okay, just because you shouted out or shouted against the Koch brothers earlier, but Megan Beth Keister has one, and it's just, I'd like to buy the world, but that's a quotation attributed to a Koch.

Right. Oh, boy. They did a pretty good job. And Jamie, tweets you like? Again, I'm going to shout out my girl, Corey Johnson. At Corey T. Johnson, here's a tweet. Hulu, $13. Netflix, $12. HBO Max, $15.

Disney Plus, $7. Amazon Prime, $9. Casey Anthony, OnlyF12, HBO Max $15, Disney Plus $7, Amazon Prime $9, Casey Anthony OnlyFans $450, CBS All Access $6, total $512 a month for streaming and entertainment services. Explain how this was supposed to save us money over cable. I retweeted that this morning or whatever, and then a guy was like, you're not supposed to waste your whole life watching TV you're supposed to go out and do something in the world and I was just like dude you thank you so much

do you have a book I can buy? so she's innocent right? when's your book unsolicited fucking advice nobody asked you for asshole come out um I'm Miles Gray you can find me at Miles of Gray on Twitter and Instagram. A tweet I like is from Matt

Binder at Matt Binder. Stephen Miller via leaked email. I am a white supremacist. The right. It is impossible to decipher this message. Dem via leaked email. Let's order pizza. The right. There's a secret pedo ring being run in the basement of a DC

pizza place and I've decoded what each topping means and then another one from at lame ravioli gay chill it says if straight girls can have girl crushes lesbians can have boy crushes I choose mr. bean shout out to you sir what's his name Rowan Atkinson

right oh hell yeah and also I know y'all have been waiting and you thought I was lying, but the trailer for my new podcast, 420 Day Fiance, with my co-host Sophia Alexandra, that trailer is dropping today at 10 a.m. Eastern, so maybe if you listen in early, look forward to that. It's the new show where Sophia and I, you know, we have an elevated discussion about our favorite trash reality show, 90 Day Fiancé.

I'm very excited to share this with you all. And I hope you like it. I hope you like 90 Day Fiancé. I hope you will support. If not, you know, check out the trailer. Decide for yourself. But please help me out. Yeah, you can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, at TheDailyZeitgeist on Instagram.

We got a website, DailyZeitgeist.com. We have a Facebook fan page. And then on the website, you can check out our episodes and our footnotes. Thank you so much. Yeah, and we also post that. We also post the songs that we write out on. And today will be a song by Floating

Points called King Bromeliad. And, you know, it's just like a little dance tune. I'm sure it's good, but I have my fingers crossed for another Chucky day. You know what? You want to go out on a Chucky song? Of course I do. You know what? I actually will cede my time.

I will yield my time to the gentle lady from Zambonia. Always I am growing more powerful. Okay, let's do it. Let's do it. Well, just tell us what it is. That's what we're going to write out on. Okay, this is another Chucky Day by, you know, they don't write. Dr. Cheese.

They just want to keep up the illusion it's Dr. Cheese produced. Snoop Dio double cheese. Yeah. Okay, so we'll actually play that after when we're fully done. Okay. That's the show. I was like, I need to start. Okay, so we'll actually play that after when we're fully done. Okay. That's the show. I was like, I need to start. No, they will get their cheese on.

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