The Daily Zeitgeist - Stop (Keep) Bullying Elon, TARIFF = PENIS? 04.09.25

Starting point is 00:00:00 My dog's already over here whining. I'm like, it's been 45 seconds, dude. You got to chill. What's your dog go sit about? That I'm all attention is not being paid to her. Right. They're not the center of the universe. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:00:19 The other dog is in the other room with the cat and she's in here and she's positioned herself even closer to me. Whenever I've decided to engage in an activity, essentially she feels like she should be doing something else, like going O-U-T. I can't say the word because then she'll be like, yes, you understand what I'm talking about. I know, I know. I can't even say treats and shit. They fucking lose their mind. I can't say squirrel. We call squirrels rats because he doesn't know rat, but he knows squirrel. I love that. So we sound like idiots. Yeah, when we...

Starting point is 00:00:47 People are like, yo, that couple doesn't know what a fucking squirrel is. Like, whoa, look at all the rats. They must be new to New Jersey. Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? Am I going and she's eating my lunch? Or if hypnotism is real? You will use this suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control. But what's inside a black hole? Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe.

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Starting point is 00:02:13 and then a photo of the person suspected of killing her. It was shocking. It was very shocking. Like that could have been my daughter. Like you never know. I'm Jen Swan. I'm the host of a new podcast called My Friend Daisy. It's the story of how and why a group of teenagers turn to social media to help track down their friend's killer. Listen to My Friend Daisy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Starting point is 00:03:02 Listen to Levertown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet. And welcome to season 383, episode three of the Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness.

Starting point is 00:03:22 It's Wednesday, April 9th, 2025. And And you say what day is that? What are we celebrating today? It's National Unicorn Day is National Library Outreach Day. It's National Education and Sharing Day is National Chinese Almond Cookie Day is National Name Yourself Day and National Cherish and Antique Day. And you know what, thank you for cherishing this antique of a podcast. My name is Miles Gray, aka I see the Dow has took a hit. When it dip you dip we dip the SMP took a hit. When it dip by dip we dip the fucking world just took a hit. When I dip you dip we dip.

Starting point is 00:03:59 Tariff shows there. Tariff mine. Then we can dip down low. No gram. Oh, no Lambo grind Okay, no more lambos y'all Lambo season is canceled because there is no economy anymore Shout out to locker room for that freak nasty inspired aka and look You may have saw the fucking back and forth in the discord server yesterday and the aka is Specific that channel on discord. You may have heard my guests asking for aka's I said he's not gonna be on today. he calls me here streaming down his face said please have me on I would look close in this part I said okay don't do that I said I love you and I will never let you look foolish in front of that game so we kicked off our today today's guest host was supposed to be Kamala Harris but I

Starting point is 00:04:39 said you know what we're gonna have this person said he's a fantastic comedian he's a fantastic fan of the birds He's a fantastic fan of plumper's Okay, please welcome one of my favorite guest hosts despite the animosity that you might hear on mic. Please welcome Blake Wexler I'm done crying and I apologize to miss Harris, but thank you so much for us seating your spot This is Blake Wexler aka Blake me out to the Wexler Blake Wexler on the pod buy me some merch from the Eagles please I don't care if it causes my divorce now my legs legs legs are called plumbers they're so big it's insane because it's Blake Blake Wexler today on the tdz thank you Paul Garaventa I I added in the Paul, the divorce part.

Starting point is 00:05:27 He didn't get that familiar. And that's why, but he could because Paul Garaventa is the best. Yeah, but thank you for having me. Thank you for letting me cry on your shoulder. Only PG we recognize and I apologize for Paul Garaventa. That is true.

Starting point is 00:05:39 PG-1 in my book. Oh yeah, especially for you as a Sixers fan. Is he on your team? Yeah. Who? Who? Yeah. Never heard of them. Anyway, we got our guest today. Fantastic person who look great. Made the made the move out from California down to the hollers of ten a key. You know what I mean? But she's still keeping it gutter. She still keeps a Cali she still keeps it fresh and she still holds it down for Dolly Parton. She's a hilarious stand up

Starting point is 00:06:04 comedian and one of our favorite guests. Please welcome back Lydia Popovich. Woo. Bow bow bow bow bow. What's up guys? What's up? Good to see you both. Lydia, good to see you.

Starting point is 00:06:16 Good to see you. Are you in Tennessee? Is that what Miles said? Yeah. Yes, yes. That is the rap vernacular for the state of Tennessee. Yeah. There's going to be a lot of follow up questions like that on this.

Starting point is 00:06:26 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. And they get it. I'm not always hit with you, Blake, but that's how we create a little tension on the show. You know what I mean? We're here, you know, unlike most of America, we are still trying to educate our white men. So we've got you. We've got you. Do you know what Tenakie is referencing?

Starting point is 00:06:41 Hmm? Do you know what Tenakie is referencing? Ten thousand kilograms of... Ten thousand pounds a kilo. Yeah. Hmm. Do you know what's any thousand kilograms? 10,000 a kilo. Yeah. Is that true? Yeah. Teniki. There you go. Really? Are you are you looking at me so silly?

Starting point is 00:06:56 Oh, wow. You did that thing. We're like, is am I going? Am I walking into a white guy? Is that right? About to get hit in the face by a chair. No, that's great. $10,000 per kilogram? This is probably the weird SNL sketch where it's like asking you like deep, deep rap lyrics and shit and trying to have them decipher it.

Starting point is 00:07:18 Anyway, Blake, good to have you. Lydia, Lydia, good to have you. Hey. We're going to do this thing where there's a lot of vitamins, a lot of vegetables you need to eat in terms of news headlines. So I'm going to take a deep breath and get through them. So then we can get to the funny shit because there's a lot of fun shit going on. And but look, like again, we got to stay informed. But again, if you want to dive

Starting point is 00:07:38 deeper into the sordid nature of these stories, you can click on the footnotes and that's where we will have articles but I don't want to leave people ignorant. So I will take a deep breath and here's some of the fuck shit going on. On Monday, Netanyahu visited the White House and rather than being asked questions about the continued killing of innocents, including paramedics, murdered in a Rafa or the cutting off of water to 70% of Gaza, Trump decided to talk about how he would have freed the hostages by wearing a MAGA hat and giving Hamas a strong handshake.

Starting point is 00:08:06 And then he went on a rant about the Nazis and how they were nice to Jewish people. This is a quote that he did literally say with Netanyahu in the room. He said he was talking to Hamas hostages. Quote, I said to the hostages, was there any sign of love? Did Hamas show any signs of like help or liking you?

Starting point is 00:08:22 Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Maybe a meal on the side, like what happened in Germany, show any signs of like help or liking you? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Maybe a meal on the side, like what happened in Germany, you know, during World War II. Some of the camps, they say people were treated not great, but some got soup. That's an actual quote that he just let them drink soup. The famous quote from everyone knows how soup just makes genocide so much easier to deal with. Yes, exactly. I got some soup.

Starting point is 00:08:47 RIP to grandma, you know? Campbell's soup original slogan was Campbell's soup. Mm-mm, genocide. Let's see, next up, Pete Hegseth said that anti-vax soldiers are now welcome back to the military. And also he had books about the Holocaust and slavery removed from the Naval Academy's library. I just want to say the anti-vax thing is not significant. And also he had books about the Holocaust and slavery removed from the Naval Academies Library. Just want to say the anti-vax thing is not significant and this is mostly optics because the vaccine mandate was lifted two years ago.

Starting point is 00:09:12 And around that time of the 8,000ish soldiers that you left because they weren't willing to get immunized, as Aaron Rodgers would say, only 43 soldiers came back. So I like that he's trying to claim victory on something that is like a two year old story. But hey, go ahead, greasy. And then finally, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, they continue to do horrible things and gave Trump a win by lifting a court order that had temporarily blocked the summary deportations under Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, essentially while litigation in the case continued. And this is also while the borders are in human ass mole, Tom Homan declared that ice decides who is in a gang, not evidence or facts. It's us and our racist little brains, we decide who's in a gang and who is not. So anyway, fuckery abouts, but so does the hilarity. And with with that we'd like to ask another real quick another hip-hop question What yes another hip-hop question an ass mole now is that like a blemish or is that like a rodent that lives in?

Starting point is 00:10:14 Oh me this is this is called the Blake Wexler rap quiz and I like Asmol is not a rap lyric, but I like that. It does feel like maybe something that would have been Wu Tang What do you think an ass mole is? I would love if it was a well actually a rodent would almost be like leave the rodent alone. It's just trying to find someplace to live. You know, so I think it's I think it's a blumish. Yeah, I think he's a blumish on an ass.

Starting point is 00:10:37 Well, but he's a he's a fuckboy. I mean, not to get super deep into the ass mole thing. But like when we say rodent, are we saying that this is a rodent, like a gerbil who maybe lives in an ass? Or are we saying it's a literal mole who is shaped like an ass? That's very interesting. Oh, is it a snitch? Right.

Starting point is 00:11:00 Is it embedded? What's a snitch? Like a mole. We have a mole. Oh, I didn't even think about that. I was thinking the rap term snitch for me. I thought we were talking about that. I don't know. No, I only know that because the snitch in Harry Potter.

Starting point is 00:11:12 Bro, I'm a big law enforcement guy. So that's how I know snitch. Why? How do you use it? I call them. He's on a snitch waiting list. Yeah. Snitch waiting. He's just the snitch waiting list. Yeah. He's like just waiting for something to go down. He's like, call me please. That is some wild ass Karen. She'd be like, you

Starting point is 00:11:33 know, I'm actually on a snitch waiting list for the police. I've been waiting. Yeah. It's like, what is like the the nest like the home like those home networks where they're like, you know, on their reporting, like just on there just waiting for some shit to go down. He's like, I'm number three on the snitch list. I keep getting skipped. Come on. You know, I'm ready. Hell yeah. Dave over there in the blue house has an ass mold. No one's asked. No one asked him. And nobody asked what it means. Is it a mold that looked like an ass? Is it a mole on his ass? Is the mole that buries inside someone's ass? Is it a mole that look like ass? It could be anything. And that's why we use obscure insults on this show before

Starting point is 00:12:12 they get dragged up in some kind of AI content net where they start throwing people in jail for calling people ass moles. Anyway, Liddy Popovich, what's something from your search history that's really about who you are? Oh, gosh, I'm gonna be real, real vulnerable here. And I'm going to be honest. And it's quite literally Bad Bunny CK ads. I think about it a lot. I didn't know that I was attracted to Bad Bunny in that way until I saw him naked on a big billboard. And then things started happening. And so, you know, a couple of times a week, I'm just, just, let's, let's see what those look like.

Starting point is 00:12:49 Am I still checking in? Am I still attracted to Bad Bunny? And evidently I am. Like I get it. Like I think he should, whatever he ate, like he's thickened up a bit. I like it. He's not overly muscular. His hair is back and showing those curls again.

Starting point is 00:13:06 I like the mustache. I like the mischievous look in his eye. It's really doing it for me. I can't hear it in your voice, Lydia. No, I'm telling you. I'm replaying it in my head right now. I mean, I'm looking at it. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I look like that, except without the hair. But his tattoo game is wild.

Starting point is 00:13:25 But he got it like it's a random ass horse on his chest. Okay. Honestly, that's how much I'm not even looking at the tattoos. I'm like, who cares what he has tattoos where I've no one showed me those. I'm always just like, it's always interesting to me, like when people really cover themselves in tattoos, like what that vibe is like, because it's, it's funny because you can start, you're like, oh, that's cool. And then you start looking closer. And I'm like, what that vibe is like because it's it's funny because you can start you're like oh that's cool and then you start looking closer and like what the fuck is that oh i know i love looking at shitty tattoos on people when like they have good work and then

Starting point is 00:13:51 bad work and you're like he got a rainbow with clouds above his navel but like it's like the opposite of tupac's thug life tattoo he had over his belly button it's like this rainbow he's like like this rainbow. He's like Care Bear Stair. Yeah. But yeah, no, I'm a yeah, just over here thinking about bad money. At random, like you wake up in a cold sweat. You're like Benito, the CK hat. Kind of. Yeah. And I also live in a state where like you can't look at Pornhub anymore or anywhere of like the big reputable porn sites. Like a big car just comes up and says, Hey, we can't verify your age. So you can't look at this stuff anymore. So like I'm back. I mean, sure I could, but that seems like a lot to go through porn. I'll just bad. Like I'll just Google bad money and think about it. I'm so good. I can get it into a Google

Starting point is 00:14:40 search. I'm good. Yeah. I'm going all the way back to old school. Like I found a fucking JC Penney's catalog under a lady in bras. Like I'm trying to get back to like some wholesome, wholesome masturbation material in his underwear. Just get right this kid Ryan at my school got he got he was on his way to getting thrown out one of the straws that broke the Campbell's back as he brought in a shredded up newspaper ad with with bikini ladies like underwear ladies. And this was so I mean this this was 1991. Okay. And so he was like, like, preying out of his pocket like look what I brought from home

Starting point is 00:15:17 and we're like, Oh, and this Lutheran school I went to they snatched that shit up like he was trying to slavery or something. The Civil war. I remember dudes showing up with like a Fredericks of Hollywood catalogs that like accidentally got delivered to their house and it's like, no, accidentally what? Your mom's a hoe. She has, she is turning tricks for your dad.

Starting point is 00:15:35 Be happy. You have to live in a happy home. Yeah. I'm trying to tell you, I don't know how this got here. You know how it got there, Karen. You ordered that teal set. Come on. Exactly. The teal set. The crackle candy.

Starting point is 00:15:46 You know, you white. Was there so much porn in the woods? You know, because I feel like you couldn't go into the woods without stumbling on porn. And it's just like, like, so, OK, porn in the woods, you look at it, and then you put it, like, hide it in the woods. Is it a good hiding spot? Honestly, I've always wondered that myself.

Starting point is 00:16:02 That's a question I've had for men for at least 29 years. I think it was like, why? It's like, well, cause like it was the same thing. Like here would be the LA river, like certain parts, like the Tonga Wash, we will hide shit in the overpasses and be like, yo bro, there's weed over there. There's a fucking porn magazine over there.

Starting point is 00:16:20 Cause we didn't have woods out here in California. No, we don't have a river either really. No, but you do have a cement block area. You would still, anytime you did, like you go on a hike, you go anywhere. Like there are some hills, some woodhills, some what, you know, I grew up in San Jose and like you stumble across that shit in the trusses. I feel like maybe that's like the underground railroad for like men where they're like, you got to leave things behind for the next visit.

Starting point is 00:16:42 Oh, on their, On their journey of masculinity, so they may look at the same crusty-ass porno in the woods with four other fucking adolescent kids or some shit. What is this saying? I'm not a super outdoorsy person, but there's some phrase about like, leave it as better than you left it

Starting point is 00:17:00 or something like that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What better way to do that than with magazine magazine pornography, biodegrades at a setting like fast rate. Let me just tuck this old jugs right here in this burrowed willow tree. Exhausted traveler. Something to energize you. Lydia, what's something you think is underrated? Underrated? Truly, I've got three. I'll keep them quick.

Starting point is 00:17:30 Nice. Okay. Number one, making your own tortillas. It's super easy. Just do it. Just do it. Like literally there's a million videos on YouTube, corn or flour. It's not that hard. It tastes so much better even if you make them shitty. It's like literally like buy a bag of cornmeal, put some salt in it, put some water in it, roll them up, smash them fucking beat them down. Oh, yo, like it's very easy. Flip it up, flip it up, rub it down. Yep. Yeah. Flour is a little bit more complicated, but like not even you got to let them rest

Starting point is 00:18:00 for 30 minutes and then you just got to roll them out and cook them up. And like, I don't care what you do. Like even if you make a terrible tortilla at home It's going to taste better than whatever you're buying in the store Yeah, a bag of mission tortillas is not a real like get your tortillas You're telling on yourself. Yo, look at all those ingredients and that is just terrible So, I don't know just we're the people are baking sourdough bread through the pandemic. You can handle a tortilla Like the good recession tip. Make your own tortilla.

Starting point is 00:18:28 Exactly. As we get brother. There's no recession. Yeah, there's no, there's no recession. It doesn't exist. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. There's no fucking recession.

Starting point is 00:18:37 We talked about this before we started this recording. Don't fucking bring that shit up. Okay. God damn it. Not in a fucking recession. Don't tell me what else. The second one is a great haircut. A great haircut can change your whole life. People walk around this world with terrible hair. And I don't understand or people just are like, I don't want to spend more than $20. And it's like, yeah, it shows. Like, go spend a little extra bucks. Like, and honestly, if you

Starting point is 00:19:03 can't spend too much, find a great hairdresser that's cheap and in your range. Just get a good haircut. Consult someone, go in with a plan. Don't just show up and tell her to do whatever. You know what I mean? And I'm talking to you men primarily, but ladies also, like don't stop trimming your own bangs. Everyone, TikTok's got everyone thinking

Starting point is 00:19:20 they can cut their own hair. Like, unless they're shipping out flowbees from the government, like you can afford it. Like go out, get a good haircut. I saw a clip of someone trying to cut their own hair. Like, unless they're shipping out flow bees from the government, like you can afford it. Like go out, get a good haircut. I saw a clip of someone trying to cut their own curtain bangs and it came out so fucked up because like the logic, like it was like a, like a stitched video where like a hairdresser was like, like doing that as they were doing. Oh, no, no.

Starting point is 00:19:40 Okay. So she's about to find out. And then it was like, I mean, not to be crass about it, but also to be crass, like, please, it's really difficult to cut hair on places that you can't really see 360, which is why you shouldn't be shaving your own cooch and you shouldn't be cutting your own hair. Go get that shit done. Okay, you're gonna end up with chapped lips, cut lips, right, something going on. And now you got a big old

Starting point is 00:20:02 slice down the middle of your sack. If you're a man, like, just stop cutting the hair on your genitals yourself. You can't see it. I don't care how much you think you can see it. You can't. And the same goes for the top of your head. You can't see the crown in your head. Before y'all don't know this, I used to be cutting my pubic hair with a deli meat slicer. And then Lydia said, I remember don't do that.

Starting point is 00:20:20 Don't do that. Exactly. I was always warning to think when you would do that. But God, the thin, the thin slice. Nevermind. Um, what was the third thing? And the third thing was what I've been doing, which is complaining. Complaining is great. As I get older, I like to complain more than I even like to spread positivity. And I know we're supposed to be positive and like, hey, keep things light. But like, honestly, have you ever just complained for a whole day? Yes. You hear that sweet sigh Blake let go? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:20:53 Yeah. Cause it's great. It's fucking great. The way you sighed Blake, it felt like that Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette outside me where he's like, oh, just that. That was your whole vibe.

Starting point is 00:21:03 I was smoking, just bitching about everything going on in the world. I see my dad do it. I think it's the only thing keeping him alive. I think it's just complaining. He's, yeah, it's oxygen. It's great. It is fantastic.

Starting point is 00:21:16 And I think it's important for us to remember this as we go into this next period of chaos. Just choose a day. You know what I mean? You don't have to complain every day. Pick one day. That's why my handle is hater Tuesdays. Tuesday has always been my day to complain. And I just complain and I don't apologize for it. And then I wake up the next day and I feel fantastic. It's like a shot of B12. Start complaining. Get into

Starting point is 00:21:36 it. Start complaining. You know what I mean? Because we have to get in our bag like European people do and turn those complaints into, you know, like real fucking some shit. You know what I mean? Because right now we're getting there. I now, we're getting better than the Parisians, right? Oh, God, every time. I mean, even in Spain right now, there's thousands of people. Um, Lydia, what's the main thing is overrated? Oh, this is easy. Uh, this is easy for me. Um, protein desserts, the concept of a protein dessert. What the fuck is that? Thank you. I don't know what side of TikTok or Instagram you're on, but there's, as a woman,

Starting point is 00:22:07 I get fed all kinds of things about weight loss and how I should be eating 400 milligrams of protein and putting magnesium on my legs at night. And all these things I need to do to like, go into my 50s gracefully, right? But protein desserts are basically a concept that, if you are eliminating sugar or mediating sugar in your diet, like, you know, you still want a little sweet treat, like

Starting point is 00:22:28 just take a little bucket of Greek yogurt and mix in some sugar-free jello and then put in some vanilla and then put in a scoop of protein powder and then, you know, put in a handful of strawberries and a scoop full of, you know, protein pancake mix and just put that in your microwave and just microwave it up and it tastes just like a cake. No bitch, it doesn't. It tastes like powder mixed with yogurt mixed with vanilla Which also doesn't have sugar in it stirred around in a bowl and then made hot it's hot slock. I don't want it All right, that sounds I'd rather have nothing. You know what? I really want I want fucking banana pudding Oh, yeah, three bites of banana pudding over a tub of Greek yogurt bullshit with nilla wafers in it

Starting point is 00:23:05 Just have a couple bites. You don't have to eat the whole tub. You don't have to eat four inches into the pot. Blake, you can see me going like this with the Nilla wafers. Dude, I fucking love Nilla wafers and banana pudding. They're so good. Fuck.

Starting point is 00:23:17 I just, I'm of the school of moderation over replacement. I will go without. I'm sorry, but I just can't do it. I can't have one more skinny bitch tell me about how good her protein dessert is. Fucking get out of here. I don't want abstinence. No, that's some Jesus shit. I'm on some Satan shit straight indulgence, baby. You know what I mean? With moderation, with moderation, with moderation. We all know soaking doesn't work. All right.

Starting point is 00:23:39 I know. Soaking doesn't work. Just fuck. Protein dessert is the soaking. Okay. Just don't do it. What are we doing? Yeah. I think we found the name of this podcast episode. The soaking. The soaking LP.

Starting point is 00:23:54 All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll come back to talk about. Oh man. Elon's bro. We got this video is real good at him. Just getting trashed while he was live streaming video games. Very fun, we'll be right back.

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Starting point is 00:25:15 I've got you. I've got you. Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? I go in and she's eating my lunch. Or if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? And I go in and she's eating my lunch. Or if hypnotism is real? You will use this suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control. But what's inside a black hole? Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe.

Starting point is 00:25:37 Well, we have answers for you in the new iHeart Original Podcast, Science Stuff. Join me, Jorge Cham, as we tackle questions you've always wanted to know the answer to about animals, space, our brains, and our bodies. Questions like, can you survive being cryogenically frozen? This is experimental. This means never work for you. What's a quantum computer? It's not just a faster computer. It performs in a fundamentally different way. Do you really have to wait 30 minutes after eating before you can go swimming? It's not really a safety issue. It's more of a comfort issue. We'll talk to experts, break it down, and give you easy to understand explanations to fascinating scientific questions. So give yourself permission to be a science geek,

Starting point is 00:26:15 and listen to science stuff on the iHeartVideo app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Imagine you're scrolling through TikTok. You come across a video of a teenage girl, and then a photo of the person suspected of killing her. And I was like, what? Like it was him? I was like, oh my God. It was shocking. It was very shocking.

Starting point is 00:26:36 I'm Jen Swan. I'm a journalist in Los Angeles, and I've spent the past few years investigating the story behind the viral posts and the extraordinary events that followed. I started investing my time to get her justice. They put out something on social media so I get calls in the middle of the night all the time. It's like how do you think you're gonna get away with something like this? Like you killed somebody. It's the story of how and why a group of teenagers turn to social media to help track

Starting point is 00:27:06 down their friend's killer. This is their story. This is my friend Daisy. Listen to My Friend Daisy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2020, a group of young women in a tidy suburb of New York City found themselves in an AI-fuelled nightmare. Someone was posting photos.

Starting point is 00:27:32 It was just me naked. Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts on my body parts that looked exactly like my own. I wanted to throw up. I wanted to scream. It happened in Levittown, New York. But reporting this series took us through the darkest corners of the internet

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Starting point is 00:28:18 Find it on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Um, guys, please stop being mean to Elon. It's making me horny. Okay. Sorry. Uh, Elon Musk, that's all I have to say. I would probably normally give a preamble as to why he sucks, but that

Starting point is 00:28:44 feels redundant at this point Anyway, the virgin with 14 children was LARPing as a gamer over the weekend and it did not go well He was fucking live streaming this game path of exile 2 on his private jet being like who have you know starling gonna do some live streaming and He's playing this game and two things became very clear very quickly. One, he fucking sucks at this game and has no idea what he's doing. And I watched other people who play this game specifically, they were like, he was just like referencing things. He's like, what the fuck did he just call

Starting point is 00:29:17 there's like, there's no way this guy has this level character and is this fucking inept, which many people we already seen this like he was lying about playing Diablo. And now people are saying like he's using a boosted account for this. Anyway, he sucks at gaming. He pretends to be a gamer. The second thing, the troll comments in the chat had him shook to the point where he didn't even know how to turn the chat off and was trying to like

Starting point is 00:29:40 manually ignore individual people that were spamming the chat with like, fuck you, you die kind of shit. So I'm going to display this clip. I will. It is a video clip. That's why you check out this video episode when it drops on YouTube, but I will describe some of the things that are showing up in the chat so you can understand what exactly

Starting point is 00:29:58 Elon Musk is trying to pretend he's not bothered by and becomes very clear eventually that he is quite bothered by it so here he is playing path of exile to while live streaming on Twitter and Here just you can just tell some of the things people just saying go. Yeah, it's Look, it's he's using he's using a laptop, baby. Here we go So all those sounds you're hearing like those Like those swords crossing it's a person spamming it says you ruined the country just like you ruined all your marriages.

Starting point is 00:30:31 So he sent he banished someone. Another one person is it possible to look this dumb? And what does it say? How is it possible to look this dumb and ugly? Why what happened, buddy? Yeah, the meanest part of that. Why is your company falling apart? What happened, buddy? Okay.

Starting point is 00:31:02 Again, he's clear. You can tell because his eyes are darting to the corner of the screen where the chat is and he's just like, see he's clicking ignore. Uh huh. Now he's playing music from rhymes to try and drown it out. Elon, it's me Ashley St. Clair. I have no way to contact you. He says, please pay your child support. This is one of the women who recently was saying,

Starting point is 00:31:34 hey, you're trying to bounce on this child. His face is like, No else taken. This is elite trolling. This is elite. It keeps fucking going, okay? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

Starting point is 00:31:57 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, over and over as long as with some anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about JFK. But it says you have no real friends and will die alone. It's funny because his face is just kind of like now just kind of like trying to process what's happening, but clearly in still in a frown state. And now he's going to actually just rage quit the whole stream right now. You have no real friends will die alone now Just die die die die trans rights trans rights trans rights die die die This is all coming from a guy called Elon is a

Starting point is 00:32:34 By Elon is a pedophile Yeah, I just said Oh lost connection while he's still live streaming and then okay That's weird. How did you figure that out before the connection actually huh uh he runs starlink hello he has insider knowledge about how the internet works that maybe you're not aware of miles yeah i guess so i didn't i didn't know i mean i have rage quit a game before but usually i presume that the people on the other side know also how online gaming works and i have to make up another excuse be like damn my fucking dog. Just like fucking I wasn't cuz I was taking such an L

Starting point is 00:33:10 But a lot of people notice too that he lives like he rage quit at a point where he was playing like a tutorial Boss like a boss that's meant to teach you in game how to play it and he couldn't beat that It's iconic and they're like, yeah, he's like, fuck this connections lost. So It is I think there's something really I think we all yearn for the opportunity to look an oligarch in the face and say some shit like nobody fucking likes you and you're gonna die so unhappy and alone and I wish nothing but the worst for the And seeing that play out in a chat, I think was just slight, slightly, slightly warming to my spirit. It is like watching, uh, like a rich kid who like lived in this bubble for so long.

Starting point is 00:33:56 And then, you know, like would play basketball against his rich kid friends and like compared to them was really good at basketball and then he comes into the real world and no one's taking it easy on him anymore. And everyone is just so mean if that rich kid was also the biggest asshole of her time. But even then this rich kid is playing his paying his other friends to take an L why he plays against them in basketball so he can boost his own ego. Then he pulls up to any recreational basketball court in a major city and then gets absolutely washed because they're like, well, what the fuck is this? That's a carryover.

Starting point is 00:34:29 That's a travel. Do you know how to play basketball? Yeah. And televised it and, and voluntarily televised it like also. Yeah. And gets all his haters to spectate the crowd. I mean, you guys are, are just haters. He's obviously showing that he has a jet.

Starting point is 00:34:43 He's obviously showing, he knows how the internet is worked and controlled. He knows how to quiet a haters. He's obviously showing that he has a jet. He's obviously showing he knows how the internet is worked and controlled. He knows how to quiet a room. He's unbothered, like, I'm ready to sign up and have one of his babies right now. You know what I mean? Number 15. I am sobbing over here.

Starting point is 00:34:55 It's another weight loss one. I know what I'm gonna be Googling now and it's not Bad Bunny and CK anywhere. It ain't gonna be Benito, CK ad, it's Elon. Elon failing online. The vulnerability there is just so precious. Do you think he has like a humiliation kink because he always ends up in these things

Starting point is 00:35:12 or is it kind of like a sideshow Bob thing where he's always stepping on rakes, smashing himself in the face and he's just like, what the fuck is happening? Cause I think it's humiliation kink. It happens a lot. I think lightweight, that's exactly what it is. I think he's placing the rakes. I think it's humiliation, Kink. It happens a lot, bro. I think lightweight, that's exactly what it is. I think he's placing the rakes.

Starting point is 00:35:26 I think it's also supreme delusion. So yeah, he's got a rake. He's got a thing for rakes. He's got a rake thing. It's not even humiliating. He has a thing for rakes. Just, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, that thoroughly humiliated would be completely off it and will not allow themselves to be exposed or humiliated like that again. But maybe that's also what having billions and billions of dollars does to

Starting point is 00:35:53 your mind is you just think like, I don't know, man, there's something about not being a billionaire that I think is kind of chill y'all, but that might just be me. I will not be, if I suck at a game, I will suck at a game. Like that's just how it is. In obscurity. Yeah. Oh yeah. Exactly. I'll be like Blake Weckham. I changed my account handle to Blake Wexler. I'm like, yeah, dude, this Blake Wexler guy, what a fucking clown, man. This guy sucks at everything.

Starting point is 00:36:19 Yeah, he's just a fucking sociopath that I literally, I think he like, I can imagine like his press people are like, that was a super vulnerable moment. I think it's so great that you just show how vulnerable you are. I think just you know, putting yourself into a place where you can really connect with people is so important. Like so brave, Elon, so brave, so brave, you're so brave, so brave to do it any other normal gamer does, which is to pay someone else to level up your account. So then you can

Starting point is 00:36:46 show other people that you're quote unquote good at the game. That's like so normal. And those are just 12 year olds. They're just 12 year olds. They don't know what they're saying. They don't know what they're saying. They don't think one of those I'm pretty sure was my ex wife. Well, maybe it was. I don't know. Damn, if that's the case. What is that was humiliating?

Starting point is 00:37:01 Well, maybe it was. I don't know, man. Who knows? Damn, if that's the case, bro, that was humiliating. Yeah. Yeah. Moving on. So the tariffs continue to, as I've seen on social media, this phrase be used, make America Great Depression again. And the White House and their flunkies are still having trouble convincing people that all of the money they lost from their retirement and other accounts is

Starting point is 00:37:25 Good actually that is good You you want to want you want to have to toil for four extra years? In the hopes that maybe your retirement fund recovers Trump said one day people realize that they are beautiful tariffs Okay, and well that hasn't stabilized the market and other countries continue to say, oh, you want to fuck around? Okay. Then you can find the fuck out as they announce their own tariffs on US goods. We are just kind of the spiral continues.

Starting point is 00:37:55 And it's clear to everyone except the people in the White House that Trump is utterly fucking things up economically. And since there is no coherent answer that makes sense to someone as to why Trump would on purpose fuck up people's livelihoods and their money, the next best strategy that we're seeing on Fox and things like that is to spin this Travis travesty to make it about masculinity. I guess. Yes. And that these things are something I can speak on, I'm sorry, go ahead. And these tariffs are actually bringing masculinity back. Obviously, this is as Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Waters made clear when they were on the five. Let me just play a couple clips from them. The Greg Gutfeld starts off with a clip just referencing another person,

Starting point is 00:38:42 another backwards ass pundit who's trying to frame these things is like, basically, tariffs are bringing like factory jobs back, therefore factory equal man, man not in factory, then man not equal man. Okay. We follow that logic? Okay, good. Yeah, that's cool. We took a break from being so funny to say something so smart, you know. being so funny to say something so smart, you know? Well, Greg Gutfeld is so dumb. Hey, Greg Gutfeld is so dumb. He just throws to another woman talking about how factory make man good. Uh, but then we will get to Jesse Waterschnick, uh, after this part. Could Trump's tariffs be the ultimate testosterone boost to

Starting point is 00:39:18 self-proclaim Magaluf? He says, yes. First of all, he said, great throw to that clip, Greg, the chiron here says Trump's manly tariffs, pundit believes it could reverse crisis in masculinity. Okay, oh, shit, those are the stakes. These are the stakes. We shipped jobs that gave men who work with their hands for a living

Starting point is 00:39:41 and rely on brawn and physicality off to other countries to build up their middle class. And then we imported millions and millions of illegals. Okay. Still doesn't make sense. And if you are one of these boomers in the villages that pulled up to that fucking protest, have you seen all these, the boomers that are fucking screaming

Starting point is 00:40:03 about their retirement as they should because their 401ks took a shit. A lot of people are like, what the fuck? What the fuck am I going to do? I voted for you six times. This is not right, Mr. Trump. This is just continuing, like trying to stem, like trying to basically stop the bleeding here. And they're just back to their old habits, aka, this is about man crisis. Jesse Waters, while he's joking, he's not because we hear this all the time on Fox, they always fire up the masculinity crisis machine to like deflect and make people be like, Oh, well, if it's a crisis of masculinity, then yeah, I think we should put children in cages. But in this instance, it's it's okay,

Starting point is 00:40:44 the economy is fucked because you will be a man again. That is, I'm just gonna start with this first part where he's like, I don't even I don't call them flight attendants. They're stewardesses. Okay. And with the first male flight attendant, you elaborate. It's stewardess, Greg. They will always be stewardess. Even if it's a male flight attendant, I still, I say stewardess, they don't respond usually. That's an artificial stance.

Starting point is 00:41:11 It's also artificial stance. Hopefully. When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman. Studies have shown this. Studies have shown this. And if you're out working, like building robots like Harold, you are around other guys. You're not around HR ladies and lawyers. What do you do?

Starting point is 00:41:27 That gives you estrogen. What do you do? Let me finish, Judge. You sit behind the screen. Yeah, Dana. I just want one serious thing. I like how she goes, you sit behind the screen all day. You sit behind and in front of a screen, my guy.

Starting point is 00:41:42 Where's your skirt? What's up? Where do you get your heels from? That is like, again, this is obviously part of Waters' like troll schtick. But at this point, like the masculinity in crisis is the like such a tried and true, like rhetorical strategy they deploy to be like, we have to appeal to some guys' backward sense of masculinity to make it seem like this is a real issue. But everything like this is just so fucking lazy to just

Starting point is 00:42:11 be like, I don't know, the tariffs are fucking people up. But the thing is, guys, if you stand behind a commuter, you will become woman. So tariff, okay. Also, thank God, let's make more women. Thank God, let's get these men off like, let's get screens in front of every single one of you motherfuckers All right, that easy start spending more time in front of screens because then maybe we can have a sensible conversation It's maybe we can interject some emotion I wonder like what Jesse waters would do if I go broke

Starting point is 00:42:37 Are you that like are you that malleable or is something going on with you that merely sitting in front of a screen has? Completely changed who you are as a person Are you okay? Are you? 100% has on ladies panties right now And looks like shit in them. Yeah, by the way, he has an asshole in ladies panties That's an asshole for sure for sure that is such Deep-seated self-hate. Like, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. I just don't.

Starting point is 00:43:08 The use of gender, too, where it's like, what they want, this is also denigrating, obviously, but like, say, like, oh, cry babies. Like, oh, you're being cry babies, and that also accomplishes their masculinity shit of being like, oh, okay, if you don't like something and you're a little baby, but then they have to disrespect, A, they have to make binary gender and denigrate,

Starting point is 00:43:30 you know, like it's so fucking sick. And yeah, it's just so hard to watch. It makes him look so stupid. But he, at this point, he has reached the absolute bottom pit level of stupidity and like continues to redefine stupid. But I don't know, like there's something interesting just to see that level of stupidity and like continues to redefine stupid. But I don't know, like there's something interesting just to see that level of flailing because

Starting point is 00:43:50 you watch so many other Fox shows, like they don't know what how to fucking talk about the economy and ruins right now. And they're saying stuff like it's Peter Navarro, like one person on Fox, like he's using girl math. And even then you're like, then Alyssa, a woman, like a pundit on Fox business saying this and you're like, y'all cannot get off of this misogyny shit like it's so hardwired into your brain that then even as someone like this is a woman who's an expert, you know, financial pundit is even like and I know what's going on, but he's using tricky girl math to even figure out these tariffs

Starting point is 00:44:24 and it's nonsense. They're, they don't know where to point the finger when it should be at themselves. Just yourself. Just yourself. Maybe that's who it is. Self-inflicted. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you hate to see it. You hate to see it. Kiss those 401Ks. It's been a minute since I'm like literally shocked into like, I can't like, my brain is not computing what I just watched. Like, I don't watch Fox News, obviously. Um, I do. Wow.

Starting point is 00:44:48 I had no idea that this whole rhetoric was going on. Like, that's crazy. It's all the time. It's all the fucking time. It's crazy. It's like, even with like Bud Light too, like when they get in their transport, everything has to appeal to some sense of masculinity. And I think that's how they're, I mean, it clearly there's, uh,

Starting point is 00:45:07 Parker Malloy wrote this thing in media matters because they posted it on blue sky just about this thing about like all this, you think the social sciences talking about this sort of phenomenon about masculinity and crisis and that they're like, they've just glommed onto it to be like, this is it, dude, we fucking, we hit this button every fucking time. And maybe some people will be convinced and other people fucking will be I don't know, it they're trying they're trying because reality is again, they're one of those situations where it's really bad. And all they can say is, well, you're not a man.

Starting point is 00:45:39 But these tariffs will bring your pee pee back, okay? That's probably next what they're gonna say. Is like actually like the Kairos like, tariffs make your pee pee big? I don't know. Yeah, but maybe. And they're so like unaware of making themselves looking like so embarrassed. They're gonna be like, my dick is small as hell

Starting point is 00:46:02 and I need to bring it back. I need to bring this tiny to make my tiny bring this, I need to make my tiny ass dick that I have bigger. Jesse Waters will be like. Before it's too late. Guys, I wanna actually admit something to you. I had a micro penis and I said had until Trump's tariffs. Now I'm a solid inch and a half baby.

Starting point is 00:46:18 Okay, that's right. Thank you so much. I was able to afford a USA made dildos extension for my own. USA grade silicone. Okay. Made in America. We don't have, we don't have proper silicone manufacturing here in the U S. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:46:33 It's a wild how all these tariffs, the way you hear from the people who like make, who have businesses making stuff for babies where they make stuff that's like all out all that kind of rubber shit, whatever they're like, bro, I can't, I can only get that in China. There's no other place to get that. So if there are these tariffs, I don't have shit. So many things are going to be affected. And this is just like we're in the period of the announcing

Starting point is 00:46:56 of it. Like we haven't hit the period when people have to replenish stocks and actually begin buying with rebuying these things at inordinate fucking tax prices. And then all of this other stuff. So yeah, we'll see what Jesse water says when he's like, wanting fruit wanting coffee is not masculine, because it comes from not America. Okay, you're a girl. You're a girl. If you need caffeine, men just smoke fucking crank. Okay, that's the fucking crank. Okay? That's the new thing, bike or coffee. That's for me.

Starting point is 00:47:27 Good old Coca-Cola, come on. Men get 16 hours of sleep. Yeah, right? Fellas, do you guys sleep 20 hours a day? I do. To avoid the hell of my every waking moment. All right, Jesse Waters out. Let's take a quick break.

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Starting point is 00:52:05 Find it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we are back. And I don't know. Do you, do you, do you all play games? Am I the, am I like, am I the sole gamer here? Not video. Okay. Based on that, based on how slow? Yeah, I already know. That's okay. That's okay. I get it It's me with my little computer games cuz look how much I'm a child of the 80s and I love me some video games But I just want to point out this thing. Well, what are you laughing at? Like I

Starting point is 00:52:46 Have the giggles now of like what's the rights opinion on everything of just like gamers are women. Just everything is just a woman. Yeah, we don't know. Yeah. It's like, dude, if you play Nintendo, you're actually a female void. Yeah. Okay. What? That's it. That's all it is.

Starting point is 00:53:01 The most boss shit is to fucking scream into a pillowcase. OK, no pillow in it, just in the pillowcase. But anyway, Trump basically has proudly shit on so many groups of people. We can't even keep track. And we were talking on yesterday's show, Ryan Broderick and we were in Francesco. We were talking about the gamers. Now, what happens when Nintendo Switch 2 that was announced the same day of the tariffs goes up exponentially in price

Starting point is 00:53:26 because people are already like, why is this shit so much more expensive? And now Nintendo has basically canceled that. Not basically. They have canceled US pre orders in order to, quote, assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. That's not good. Again, they were already jacking the price up on the switch to in anticipation of the tariffs. And

Starting point is 00:53:48 they even in 2019, we're just like, I don't know where this is gonna go. They moved the production from China to Vietnam to avoid us tariffs on China. But they weren't expecting the tariffs to be so high in Vietnam, because right now it's 46%. So we'll see, we'll see how that shakes out. And now experts have pointed out that this won't be limited to Nintendo, the tariffs are going to have a huge impact on the video game industry as a

Starting point is 00:54:15 whole. And you look around on social media, Reddit, etc. People are not taking the news well, obviously, I don't know if how much of a political force this will turn into or manifest into but just considering the fact that I get 76% of adults in the US played video games on at least one platform that was from last year. And it's also the one of the big if not the biggest form of mass entertainment in 2022. Global consumer spending on video games was more than the music and movie industries

Starting point is 00:54:46 combined. And we saw political candidates try and get in good with gamers. The Harris Walls campaign had a fucking this whole thing called Freedom Town USA and Fortnite, which was like, tell me you don't know what how video game players think without without saying it. This is from the description of a quote, players can take advantage of small business tax breaks, collect construction supplies and build new homes to lowering housing costs. They can also shoot exploding footballs

Starting point is 00:55:19 at opponents are reference to waltz his time as a high school coach. Wow. Yeah, it's just not this. This is not, no one wants to go in there and be like, yeah, man, I can't wait to get off for a home. You want to get, you want to hop off fortnight so we can get those small business tax breaks, take your real life that you're trying to get away from and bring it into the game. Right. Guys, we've got to go to that thing where I'm, I'm, I got to fight through a bunch

Starting point is 00:55:42 of people to get to the small business administration, try and get a home loan after a fire. I can't wait This is my favorite level and even Trump right he streamed with this guy Aiden Ross I don't know if you have heard of Aiden Ross. He's like one of the biggest streamers on kick He's he was like friends with Kanye at peak problematic Kanye, although he continues to be peaker. But just to give you an idea of this guy's intellect, you know, this guy, he went to Mar-a-Lago and did a live stream at Mar-a-Lago

Starting point is 00:56:14 and a lot of people were like, oh shit. Like this was part of a lot of people pointing to Trump's campaign strategy and being like, he's going after these like younger streamer podcast type people who have huge audiences. Yeah. This guy gifted him a cyber truck that had the assassination attempt picture wrapped on the graphic on it. It was very fucking sad. Whoa.

Starting point is 00:56:37 I just want to point to this man's intellect because it is very, very impressive. At one point, I'm pretty sure on one of his streams, someone was asking like why he supports a fascist in Trump. And this is the process of him trying to figure out what a fascist is. What does a fascist mean? Fascist. What does a fascist mean? Um, it means you are a far right authorization on you on ultra

Starting point is 00:57:11 ultra ultra ultra null it's it. Oh my God. Ultra and a lot is analyst political ideology. Drives by dictator leadership, centralized autocracity, militarism, forcible suppression, suppression of opposition. Yo, he can't read. He bro Floyd Mayweather has better reading skills than this kid.

Starting point is 00:57:35 Oh my God. Far. What was that? I'm just going to read the real thing again out loud. Like a like a person with just who is literate fascism he pulls up the google definite fascism is a far-right authoritarian ultra nationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader centralized autocracy militarism forcible suppression of opposition now let's let's give it to me one more time for the topic.

Starting point is 00:58:05 Far right authorization on you on ultra, ultra ultra ultra null it's it. Oh my God. Ultra and a lot of this analyst algae movement characterized by dictator leadership, centralized autocracity, militarism, for autocracy, suppression, suppression of opposition. So I don't know what that means, but I swear to God, I don't know what the

Starting point is 00:58:28 fuck a fascism is. I don't know what the fuck it is. Okay. It's an ultra-natal autist. It's an ultra-natal autist. You know what I mean? It's an ultra-natal autist. Oh yeah.

Starting point is 00:58:37 I'm all about fascists. You know what I mean? Because that's the authorization of ultra-natal autists. You know, also not like us. They're not like us. Okay. That's the authorization of ultra-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah like he is America dog. Yeah. There's a huge, there is a huge chunk of very manly men who cannot read with sleigh on games. For real, for real. And I'm re considering my relationship, all the choices I've made, like maybe I just need to find an ultra nautilus. authorized. Authorization, dictation, dictation. Do you authorize this charge? Yeah, of course.

Starting point is 00:59:28 Okay, good. Autocrat. Yeah. You know, that's my favorite. Autocrat. Wait, what are you recording right now? What, what, what audio program do you guys record on? Are you using audacity or autocrat?

Starting point is 00:59:39 Autocrat. I'm using autocrat. Oh, that's the, oh, that's the paid version. Okay. Yes. Okay. Okay. Yes. Yeah. I mean, like this, to point, like, Lydia, this really does speak to, like, a lot of people were laughing at him in the chat. But a lot of people who watch him also have no idea what fascism is also have no idea like what rights are. And this is a huge reason why people are like, I can't believe they voted for him. It's like these people don't fucking know. Some of these people have no idea. No fucking concept of basic civics.

Starting point is 01:00:07 And they just go to well, what is Aidan Ross think? Was Joe Jogan say, oh, OK, and off you go. And now cut to Aidan Ross this weekend after the fucking stock market took a huge shit. This guy is invested in all kinds of crypto. You know, he has obviously owns a ton of stock. This is him, I guess, reaping what he sows because he's sitting at his life, like at his desk,

Starting point is 01:00:36 watching his stocks go to shit in front of his eyes. And here's his reaction about what I mean, this is what fascism do to you. Be honest with you, the I don't know of you guys are investing in crypto or stocks. What the fuck is going on with our country? Um, guys, why am I poor? Like what is going on in the world? Why the fuck is this going on? Can somebody please explain what's going on?

Starting point is 01:00:59 Why are we all losing? Why are we all negative right now? Like, does anybody know why? Yeah. I love, I love that. I think we know what you're not a lot of yeah, you should blame a ultra not a lot of Mm-hmm. That's just turned into a woman right in front of our eyes. Just watch that right in front of the screen He's gonna understand money in front of a computer screen. Mm-hmm. Can't do it. Why are we negative? That's girl man Yeah, yeah, it's really it's really really tough he was later on the live stream with DJ academics and

Starting point is 01:01:29 They were talking about like he was like I'm getting killed BJ academics said that like he was price spitting like tequila all over himself as he said that and Aiden Ross is like, yeah, like he looks so I should probably pull up a clip. He looks so distraught. He's just like Yeah, dude. Um, it's not it's not good. It's not good. Well, it's just so funny to see people who fundamentally don't understand investing like stocks are a volatile environment, right? Like that is the nature. It is not real money. You are represented the idea of how much money you could possibly be held responsible with, right?

Starting point is 01:02:04 Like that's what debt is. It's so funny. So like, dog, you've been for the whole time, you've just been playing this weird game where you're gold starred and people think that your worth of whatever bullshit you're spewing gives you the right to have access to certain amount of dollars, which aren't even really being exchanged. You're just exchanging promissory notes of more and more debt. So, dog, you've been broke the whole time, my guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're playing a game more debt. Right? You've been broke the whole time my guy

Starting point is 01:02:25 Yeah, yeah, you're playing a game bro. They do you into the whole fucking the thing? He know what he's you know, how much he said he lost? eight figures So we're talking a minimum of ten million dollars He's saying was he reading that number or was that's what I did someone I wanted to ask Cuz like how are you diversified? Are you fully poured into just like fucking crypto one, two, three? I mean, I don't know how crypto works because I also don't think that's real.

Starting point is 01:02:52 Um, but like in terms of stocks, like you're supposed to have a diverse portfolio so that if you take a hit, it kind of spreads itself out. Not to say that you're not going to get a hit, like obviously your overall portfolio is going to reduce. But this kid is not smart. So I'd imagine he is probably so over leveraged in like two things. You know what I mean? And he probably was like, he probably saw what like a lot of people saw the crypto spike that happened after the election. And it was like, oh, baby up is good. I'm for more Sign me the fuck

Starting point is 01:03:37 Yeah, they say he there's like when you look for like what's his net worth people say around 16 and 24 million Maybe not anymore, bro This tip here Costco sells gold bars. You can buy one ounce gold from Costco. At the current price of gold, sometimes a little bit under. All I'm saying is this gold is the standard, right? So like if you're a small time investor and you don't really understand the Stark mark, go buy some gold, put it in a safe gold will always be gold. Okay. That's why I wear it on my teeth.

Starting point is 01:04:01 The price will go up, the price will go down, but like don't get on fucking redrobin.com or whatever these little sites are and buy like a slice of a stock. That shit makes me so angry. I own 12 slices. You, what? That's like saying you own a half of a pizza, dog. What are you doing?

Starting point is 01:04:15 Yeah. There's better ways to invest your money. Grow up. I own half of the tire that's on that Lambo. Okay. Right? That's like owning a jacket with a friend. We bought this Dolce coat together. I get

Starting point is 01:04:26 it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I remember I did that with a throwback jersey when I was in high school. Who was it? It was a Willis Reed and New York Knicks throwback jersey. I was like, yo bro, look, let's go half on it because you can wear, like when I'm not wearing it, you can wear it and vice versa because I can't afford a whole ass Mitchell and Ness throwback NBA jersey. I did that at 12. We had a guest skirt that me and two other girls shared and none of us was the right size.

Starting point is 01:04:50 In that example, Lydia, that's actually useful. I mean, like you could be like, I got the coat, now you got the coat. You're not going to do shit with like your fractional ownership of some other weird thing just to try and bring more people into your fucking Ponzi scheme. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 0.723 of a single Johnson and Johnson stock. Congratulations on your 0.72 cents. Congratulations.

Starting point is 01:05:12 You've played yourself. So congratulations, Aiden Ross. You have played yourself. I hope maybe Trump will give you back that Cybertruck, man, because maybe you can get some money for that. I don't know, but good luck to you. And by that, I mean bad luck to you. Okay.

Starting point is 01:05:28 Lydia Popovich, thank you so much for joining us on the Daily Zeitgeist today. Where are the people? Thank you for having me. I know you obviously evoked at Hater Tuesday, but again, officially, where do the people find you, follow you and watch you perform, all that good stuff. Of course.

Starting point is 01:05:42 So you can follow me on the internet, at Hater Tuesday, spelled the normal way that good stuff. Of course. So you can follow me on the internet at hater Tuesday, spelt the normal way, uh, that you would spell all words, uh, even though Aiden probably still couldn't read them, uh, my website is Lydia popovich.com. I got two things I'm promoting right now. First and foremost, I have shows coming up in Toronto with my dear friend and the hilarious and also a friend of the pod, Ms. Marcella Arguello.

Starting point is 01:06:03 She is doing a special Toronto, Canada version of Women Crush Wednesdays. We're gonna have two shows on Saturday, June 14th. Those are also special Good Night Drake editions where we are going to be wholeheartedly shitting on Drake the night after Kendrick performs in Toronto because those are the kind of country bitches we are. Y'all are fucking wild.

Starting point is 01:06:22 The lineup is gonna be fire. Please, if you're in Toronto. Toronto no. Zyking is in fucking Toronto. We have one of our best fucking live shows in Toronto. Toronto Zyking. Please pull up fam. Yes, it is going to go off. We are so excited. I'm thrilled to go and to join Marcella. And like I said, there'll be other awesome ladies on it. Two shows. June 14th. Okay, we'll definitely have to have you and Marcelo back. I know Marcelo's gonna be back soon

Starting point is 01:06:48 and we'll definitely, we gotta keep, I definitely want Zikey to pull up because that is gonna be a fantastic event. Yeah, it's gonna be a fire show. We're very excited about it. Although I did, I did, I posted it on Blue Sky. I said, America is this year's Drake, unfortunately. Yeah, man.

Starting point is 01:07:02 Because nobody's fucking with it anymore and we're about to have a weird ass crash out. Um, anyway, but Hey, we get, they'll both, I think the, the celebrations go both ways. We'll be like Drake is vanquished and Loki and Canadians be like, y'all are also fucking cooked. I would say the other thing that I wanted to promote is I started, I don't know if I talked about this last time I was on, but I started a little petition with a friend

Starting point is 01:07:29 of mine called Dan Dion. Dion, pardon me, I pronounced his last name wrong, Dan Dion. But we started a petition to propose a name change to the Nashville airport here in Nashville to the Dolly Parton International Airport. Uh, and it was around the same time that Trump's bill went up, Trump's bill got denied, but there are entertaining the names of changing airports, so why not change it to Ms. Dolly Parton's? So our, uh, petition is on change.org.

Starting point is 01:07:56 We are like literally about to cross the 50,000 signature mark, which is huge. There's been a ton of press that's kind of picking up steam. And so we're really trying to get the attention of Tennessee lawmakers to take this as a real consideration and try to find out, you know, how much this would cost, what would be the implementations? How do we kind of go through it? So if you are down with the cause, if you live in Nashville specifically, if you lived in Tennessee specifically, I'm very much interested in getting support for

Starting point is 01:08:21 folks in Tennessee, but check it out. It's on change.org. If you put in Dolly Parton, our petition will come up. Been lots of cool articles on around. So I appreciate everyone who's supported this far and we look forward to pushing this through if we can. So trying to make a little little change in our own hometown. That's the first domino to fall.

Starting point is 01:08:37 You get the Dolly Dolly Parton airport name change. It's over. It's over. It's over. I'm saying big time. It would be great. But yeah, so that's me, man. Come see me in Toronto.

Starting point is 01:08:49 Follow me online. Come see me in real life. I put all my shows online. I'm performing all over the country and locally in Nashville. So plenty of opportunities to check me out. Where is, or what is the work of media, social media or otherwise that you're enjoying?

Starting point is 01:09:03 Oh, I've actually been enjoying two things. One is super ratchet and one is very wholesome. Um, the super ratchet thing is, uh, I don't even know how to say his handle, right. And I'm sure everyone has seen it, but it is a homosexual man who basically just twerks everywhere he's at and he just plays that like baddies pose for me, uh, slip, you know, as fat, slim waist, no tummy. And it's just him just like twerking in like an Arowan or twerking at a mall, twerking in front of people doing taekwondo.

Starting point is 01:09:33 Like it's the goofiest most ratchet thing ever. And I don't know why it entertains me, but it does. And then the wholesome thing is a Twitter account called blue.grassthreads. And it is a college student who embroidered iconic Dolly Parton pictures. And they're amazing embroiderers. It's really cool to watch. Like it's just such a great talent. So he'll just take an iconic picture and he embroider it.

Starting point is 01:09:58 And then he sells them. So if you are into embroidery, if you're into crafting, please check out blue.grassth grass threads and buy something from them. I was thinking the other day when, when Carl passed away, you know, I was wondering, was that that, that, I mean, cause they were, they're tight. Right? I mean, yeah. 60, 60 plus years is pretty tight, man.

Starting point is 01:10:20 That's, you know, that's solid. That's a solid, solid, you know, he was a man, he was an asphalt, you know, that's solid. They've met solid, solid, you know, they there. He was a manly man. He was an asphalt. You know, yeah, he used his hands. He didn't sit in front of a computer like a girl. Exactly. You know, he was out here. One of the last good men, Jolene, almost, almost, almost, almost almost till Dolly stepped up and said, hey, hey, hey, hey, get the fuck back.

Starting point is 01:10:42 I'm not sure. That's what I learned for her. Yeah, yeah. I saw her a couple that's what I learned. You know, it's devastating for her. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I saw her a couple of weeks after, uh, she, she came down to Dollywood for the 40th anniversary and was there. So, and she was in good spirits and really happy and I didn't think she would show up. If my husband of six year died, I'd be like, you can, everybody can suck it. I am not going anywhere.

Starting point is 01:10:59 I'm crying. I am smoking a blunt till I die. Yeah. I'm smoking the longest blunt you've ever seen. Now leave me alone with my butterflies. Blake, so good having you, man. Where do the people find you, follow you? Where are you performing?

Starting point is 01:11:12 What's it treat you like? All of that, give it to us. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm gonna be at, closing out the punchline in Philly, April 9th, so on Wednesday, and then also thank you. I just finished a little spring spring tour. So many, I think I may have met 40, 30 to 40, Zeitgang people during it.

Starting point is 01:11:36 The best. So they'll, they'll be there at, at Lydia's shows and, um, in Toronto. So they're, and they're the best. They're the best audience members. I, they're, and they're the best. They're the best audience members. So blessed. They're so good. And also, can I tell a brief story about one that I met in Minneapolis? No, you should keep it moving. No, I'm joking.

Starting point is 01:11:55 So when I was doing, I was in Minneapolis over the weekend and there was this dude there who was heckling the opening, one of the opening acts and got kicked out during the first like four minutes into the show. So that's how drunk this person was. His friend didn't yell out. I see him, the friend stayed, which is the biggest compliment as a comedian, where if their buddy gets kicked out and they don't go hang with their animal buddy, it's like, that's great. So friend stays, but the friend goes to the bar and he walks back with three beers for himself before I went on.

Starting point is 01:12:26 I'm like, this is either insulting or this guy's going to be a problem. Right. Couldn't have been more respectful. Just was hanging there with his beer. Just enjoyed himself laughing afterwards comes up to me on his way out. He goes, Zeit Gang. This is the best dude ever. Shout out to three beer night, man. Shout out to Three Beer Night, man.

Starting point is 01:12:45 Shout out to that guy. Yeah. And then also final plug, each year I do this charity bike ride that the Philadelphia Eagles do and it raises money for autism awareness. So we just did a whole episode on how bad the economy is right now.

Starting point is 01:12:59 So if you don't have anything to give, totally get it. If you can spare anything, I've got a link up in my bio for donations. Bio, link in bio, link in bio. Link in the bio. So that's up there. So yeah, it's called the Eagles Autism Challenge. So yeah, if you have anything, donate.

Starting point is 01:13:16 If not, I get it. If not, just cheer Blake on with your spirit. Cheer me on from afar. Although you don't need to be cheering on with them fucking plumbers. Or share the link. Maybe your friends have something that you don't. Sharing is also huge, right?

Starting point is 01:13:28 Even if you can't give it to yourself, share the link. You never know who's in your feed that might be just waiting and dying to donate some money somewhere, but doesn't know how. That's true. Get your word out. Get the word out. Is there a tweet or post some kind of work of media that you are liking? Yeah. So I looked up like about pepperoni cups, you know, like the good pepperoni on pizza.

Starting point is 01:13:49 And when it cups up, I was wondering what's going on with those. And someone wrote a great article in like 2003, sorry, 2023, 2023. It's by someone named J Ken J. J Kenji Lopez. Come on, bro. You don't know J Kenji Lopez. Is that is that a known person? Hell yeah, man. Like if you're a foodie and shit like his good

Starting point is 01:14:12 eats like he was he's just part of like that internet cook culture. Bro, Tommy taught me so much about cooking through his videos on YouTube. Shout out. Interesting. Okay, well, Japanese that checks out because he wrote a great article. Why does pepperoni curl? That's the title of things that I read. But it's on there and it's great. And if you ever were wondering, it's Yeah, I was I was enjoying that last night. Yeah, yeah. Fantastic. We love a pepperoni cup. I love it too. Especially that grease pulls in there people are scared of that. Not me. No, no, not me. That's all gold

Starting point is 01:14:45 That's also called stay away from that according to my physician As I get older, but hey, I'm gonna do what I do. Let's see a work of social media I like it's from at drill that beast guy dot social Posted yes, son. The dog is in heaven and he's a Pokemon now The dog became a Pokemon as that's what he desired most within his magic heart when he died Got me got me you can find me at miles of gray pretty much fucking Everywhere you can find us on Twitter and blue sky at daily zeitgeist read the daily like us on Instagram

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