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Episode Date: July 3, 2026

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When I was driving Rasta Bus, I had one time I was in Silver Lake, I was in Silver Lake, but I was in Silver Lake. Do you know Rasta buses? I don't. Okay, Rostovus. It was like a tour company and a party bus. Yeah. But sometimes we would do private tours. And so the people had to go.

Did you see some funny shit? Like some crazy stuff. There was an orgy on my bus once. No. When I was driving a party bus. Yeah. Not the tour. Did they try to get you involved?

Earlier in that day. The girl. Earlier in the day. Earlier in the day. the girl who was the leader because I took them to Temecula so they were doing like winery tours and shit and like one of the girls came back

like her group was in the winery they were already faded one of the girls came back to be like I just need a rest and like put the full court press on and basically it was just like if you want to have sex right now we can and I was in a relationship at the time so she was fine too

She looked like Anna Kendrick. I was like, this happened three years earlier. But like, so I turned her down. Come to find out her boyfriend was on that too. I was like, you was about to try to fuck me with your boyfriend.

And like, and I got to drive this nigga back. Like two hours to Los Angeles with Matt if he catches us. And then they had an orgy. So it was probably actually above board. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like crazy. The boyfriend gets on the bus. She's like, how can you don't want to fuck my girlfriend, bro? And you're like, what? She offers you.

She offers you sex. What's wrong with you, bro? I mean, it's cool if that's not your thing. That's cool. I'm not trying to press you, but like, what you're trying to say, man. I think she's beautiful. This could have been you. That's what they were saying the whole time in the back.

This could have been you. This is crazy, man. Man, all right. I got one little one here. It's disgusting. But I was at, I was like 19 at, and don't judge me, at some like Burning Man offshoot. It wasn't burning man.

It was like some like a dollar store version. And my tent flooded. I had to sleep in the chill dome, which is just like a barn filled with pillows. And the loudest fucking techno all night that you can imagine. So chill, exactly. So chill. An orgy breaks out across the room, right,

of people probably like 40s, 50s. And they're just doing the like the orgy while looking at me and my friend, kind of like, hey, come on over to. the orgy. And I just watched like this man just walk across the room, take off his shirt, and in one motion, just fall into the orgy. I like can see it so vividly because it's like the smoothest motion and just one fell swoop. He was in the orgy. And no, I did not, I did not join. I giggled under the blanket with my friend. You're like, this is so not chill. No, this is not the chill. This is not a chill thing to happen in the chill though. This is the Gen X Orgy Hut.

Dude, it's fucking weird. All right. Justin, you got something for a cold open there? I got a few options. Great, great, great. Some might say an orgy of options. An embarrassment of riches. This is an I-Heart podcast.

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I can't rhyme that. Oh, no. That was beautiful. Oh, that be grotes. I felt that. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. We are here.

We are back. We are back. It's Fourth of July minus one today. Oh. You know what I mean? I think that's how I like to describe it. I'm so glad. because I got to get on the plane and get to America 250 in D.C.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got to get there, baby. I got to be one of five people there. You got, look, you got to inhale the heavy metals from the 850,000 fireworks that are about to go off. You know what I mean? Uh-huh. Well, guess what? We are joined today, Jakees, by a wonderful person, a wonderful talent.

Somebody, you know, is a poet, and don't they know it? But really, the podcasting is next level, host of the show American. Nisteria, please welcome back one of our favorite guests and one of your favorite guests. Chelsea, Chelsea, Wester Smith! You know, I'm always happy to be here. Oh, it's great to have you.

Great to have you. Great to have you. Hello. So, uh, Fourth of July coming on, are you from Seattle, Chelsea? I am from Seattle. That's right. For whatever reason, the fireworks here are fucked up. It is, it is a war zone here.

Oh, really? It gets like, yeah, it's like all night long. And it just, I think it's because we have, I think we have more. relax laws in Washington than other places. Oh, you do? I was going to say, like, blue states typically don't always have the best firework. I mean, it's really just California. We got some bomb-ass fireworks laws.

I'm not sure about it. I'm not sure. But that is my guess. It is going to be wild. I'm sure stuff's coming in from eastern Washington. That's right. Yeah. It's always the east side of those Pacific Northwest states.

It's like supplying the boom. That's right. Wow. I never even, oh, we were talking about this the other day. I was like, Seattle Rappers. Sir Mixalot, MacLamore. What's another one? Who are the big three?

Who do you put up there? Who else is? I didn't even know Sir Mixelot was from Seattle. Sir Mixelot is Seattle's very young. I have a friend who's named Greaves, who is a rapper. I don't know if you would have heard of him. Yeah. No, but I'll take that.

Yeah. I love Greaves. Greaves. Yeah. It's a good name, right. I was telling, I forget who I was telling. I forget who I was telling. Maybe it was Justin, but yeah, Seattle, great music scene.

I got to say. Yeah. unbelievable music. Yeah. I love Seattle. Every time I've been, I always leave the city. I'm like, Seattle's tight. That's nice.

I enjoy my time at Seattle. You know what? I forgot about you, Seattle. Thank you. Yeah. It's easy to forget about, you know. Sure, sure, sure. I totally get that.

Well, Chelsea, thank you for joining us. We're going to just touch quickly on some of the things you're going to be talking about. A new Minions movie has come out. So again, we do have to ask, were they working for Hitler? Don't fucking, don't fucking dance around the topic. Just be straight up with us. Because you talk about how they've worked for the most evil people. Canonically, they've worked for the most evil people in history.

So that question has sprung up again. We will just check in, obviously, because we are on Fourth of July Eve. We just got to check the Great American Shit Show or Great American State Fair 250, whatever that grift that's happening in D.C. Because there's just some, it's not going well. And Trump seems to be upset by that. Also, Chelsea, you're here. You love a bit of hysteria.

And there's nothing better than to see what's happening in a Baptist church in Kentucky for how they're trying to terrify their youth. So we're going to touch on a clip we saw from a Kentucky Baptist church and the pastor's somewhat defensive of it. That's more just confirmation of, yeah, yeah, we did that. And then we'll talk about the air conditioning culture wars because they're here. It's now woke to be worried about the grid or something that would prevent everyone from using air conditioning. We'll talk about all that and plenty more in addition to what is socialism.

But first, Chelsea, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are, what you're into? You know, there's so many choices. So my search history, I'm going to go with just fireworks in general because I've been really, I just did an episode about the history of fireworks, a two-part episode with Sarah Marshall from you're wrong about. Oh, the legend. Which I think would be fun to. I just wanted to share one little part since I know we'll be talking about fireworks. And this was just kind of what we did before fireworks became the main way to celebrate, you know, the 4th of July.

So this came in the, this is from the book, Firecrackers. And I think it's worth, this is a very cartoonish kind of a thing we did. But it says, a blacksmith's anvil was placed on the ground and a bag of gunpowder with a fuse was placed on top of it. Finally, another anvil was placed upside down on top of the bag. The fuse was lit and everybody scattered. This was to avoid being crushed like a cartoon character because the top anvil was propelled into the air before returning heavily to the ground. it was said you could hear the sound of a good anvil shoot for miles in all directions. And this was, you know, kind of the 1800s times.

Wait, people were launching fucking anvils into the air and be like, run for your fucking life. Yeah. And we were like, happy birthday, America. Like, don't get fucking crushed into an accordion, like, be like Bugs Bunny. Yeah. And so like fireworks by comparison seemed like a safe option, right? Right.

Holy shit. Wow. Yeah. Now I'm... Yeah. See, it's just so funny. Like, so many of like our pastimes are just like, how can we kill ourselves in the dumbest way possible for fun?

Yeah. And I get it. And it just used to be shoot your guns in the air all day too. It was just like all day. It was, you know, fireworks, anvil explosions and shoot guns in the air. Yeah, yeah. Also, I know they exist. But have you ever seen an anvil in real life?

Uh, yeah. I like when I went to Colonial Jamestown. That's what I was going to say. Like a historical recreation place. Only. Only at a historical recreation. I was just like, I've only seen them on Looney Tunes. Yeah, like, we're all picturing the same thing that's like got that exact shape.

Yeah, 100%. Also, who lifted the other end? How many people did take to lift that? I mean, I guess maybe it's not that heavy. Like, in my mind, I'm like, how could people lift an anvil? I mean, probably, I feel like it's probably pretty heavy. I feel like he's heavy. I feel like he's heavy.

Yeah. Yeah. He used to fuck Wiley up. He used to fuck Wiley coyote. Yeah. Wow. And yet he prevailed. Yeah.

And now we'll merely just be setting off 850,000 fireworks at once. Yeah. So we'll see what that was. World record. Yeah. I'm really thinking it's going to be another cartoonish thing where like a fuse is lit really far away. And everyone watches it burn up all the way until it gets to the show. And then it just stops and nothing happens.

It's too humid. Yeah. And then someone would be funny. You remember that clip of it was probably. a 4th of July or some celebration where they accidentally set off all the fireworks at the same time. Like that

would be probably the funniest thing in American history. They're like, it's meant to last 40 fucking minutes. Yeah. It'd be wild if they're like, that shit went for 45 seconds. That shit would be so funny. It was a disaster.

850,000 fireworks. A world record. Fucking world record. Something's going to go wrong. I just feel like. It has to. I did it at 11 p.m. Yeah.

We were saying on the trending episode, I'm like, they can't even book Millie Vanilli for a concert or clean up the algae in a pool. And you want to set off damn near a million fireworks? Okay. Although they'll probably, they probably, I'm sure the company doing it probably has their shit together. Although who fucking knows? Who fucking knows.

It's probably another grift. Chelsea, what's something you think is underrated? I said, this is going to shock you, reading the whole Bible, which I'm doing right now. I'm doing cover-to-cover Bible, man. Yeah, yeah. And it's like, it's a lot more entertaining than I expected because it's so, like, much more bat shit than like the selected little stories that we hear. Every time I, like, I'm listening to it, which is like, I have this, like, kind of booming theatrical God voice reading it to me. Is it Morgan Freeman?

What's that? Is it Morgan Freeman? That would be better. It's, I don't know who it is some white guy. But he is, it's just really. Every time I take my headphones off, I'm usually walking with my girlfriend and I give her like the download in my own gay words, right? Just like, and then he did this and God is such a fucking asshole. It's like, it's shocking.

It's a shocking book. Are you at Acts yet? Are you in the New Testament? Yeah, I'm past Acts. I'm like more than halfway done at this point. So I'm not into the New Testament. I'm still in like the really good horror area of the Bible. Testament. Although the New Testament is also, can be a little wild.

But, sorry, I hate to say that Acts is in the New Testament. No, Old Testament, isn't it? Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans. Okay, maybe you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, then I am not talking about what anything that I know. This is somebody who had K through A Lutheran. Oh, it's rooted in the Old Testament. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So we have, I think it might be in, okay, it quotes the Old Testament. All right, all right, we got it. Yes, yes, yes.

But I am through a lot of it. Victor, please. Yes. The Bible, and here's the thing. Here is the Bible as somebody who grew up in a religious household and has gone to Bible school before at church and everything like that when I was a young. And the Bible is a, it's a fucking storybook. And it is the most successful book of all time.

Really? As far as, you know, a book of a few. fiction. But like, it is, it is, historical fiction. I like to come on. Historical fiction. It does have some really great, like, you know, like just like little ditties as far as like, oh, this is, as a good person, this seems like this is pretty good. But the stories in the Bible are, man, we used to watch all the stories. They would make like little TV shows. Oh, yeah, the Bible story TV shows. It would be crazy. The salt one used to get me, though, man, because that's, that's true petty god.

It's like, yo, leave this place you've known for the rest of your life. And if you take one peak back at the only home you've ever known, I'm going to turn you in the salt. That's petty. What shocked me was that Moses didn't get to go to the promised land. God kept him out because he made one little mistake that still we don't even actually know what specific mistake he made. He made him fucking die looking at the promise land. Like he was like you can see it, but you can't go in because maybe you struck your staff on a rock in a way that I didn't like, you know. I was I was like, no, you can't do this.

No, no. Noah did. Noah built a boat in, you know, one BC and one that's so structurally and plausible, but yet he made it. I love it. Chelsea, what's something you think is overrated? Skipping your high school reunion. Because mine is in two weeks and I am going. Hell yeah.

But everyone I tell is like, why are you doing that? Why? Why would you do that? That's terrible. I get why. How many? How do you mind if I ask how many years? No, you can't ask.

Okay. You can't ask a woman. How many years? No, 20 years. Yeah, that's a good one to go to. I know. I went to mine. And it was like, you did.

Yeah, because I'm like, I went to my 10-year reunion. I did too. And I went to the 20-year. Less people came to the, there was a huge fall-off, actually. between 10 and 10 and 20. Interesting. But 20 was kind of, it was more because like 10 was sort of like everyone's kind of, you know, they're like in their late 20s and shit.

So you're kind of young and you still feel like, yeah, yeah, so much as possible. By the 20th one, I was like, okay, now I see what kind of adults we've all become. Yeah, people have settled into whatever their bullshit is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One kid in mine got so drunk. It was like alarming. It wasn't like, it wasn't like violent or anything, but we were just like, oh, Oh, is this your first time drinking at our 20th anniversary?

Absolutely. I almost guarantee. I feel like there's always one person that gets blacked out. Like, every time my mom would come back for a reunion throughout my life, there would be that one person that, like, really fucking blew it. Or something awkward as fuck happens. Someone's like, I've always loved you. And you're like, oh, shit.

Yeah. Yeah. Anything can happen. We'll see you. I've never gone to my reunions. Oh. You're missing out. How are you.

Yeah. I know. Well, now the only one I have to go to next is my 30. 30. Right, right. I've missed 10 and 20. How many friends? It's probably going to be even more fucked up.

How many of your friends do you still have from high school? From high school? Yeah. Man, probably zero. Oh, wow. Like that I actually like keep in touch with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. More from college than high school for sure.

But high school, yeah. Like, you know, outside of social media. Yeah. Yeah, right, right. Pleasant trees being exchanged. Yeah. What about you, Chelsea? I have a good, good number of them. I think that it's probably because I live here where I went to school.

So it was like easier to, yeah, I've moved away and stuff. But I've been back here for a while. And I had like a very close knit group of friends in high school. And we've just. Yeah. It was, it's nice. And some of them are, they're not going to go to the reunion? Well, no, I am going with two of my, my best friends from, yeah, from high school.

So that'll be, you know, I have like a little, a halo of protection as well. You never know, people will be like, Chelsea, I love the show. I'm sure that I'd probably get a lot of that. But I heard what you said about the Bible on that other show. There's probably going to be some of that too. I mean. Yeah, there's always, there's always people. It's also like a very different political landscape than 10 years ago, obviously.

And I don't know who went what direction necessarily. Yeah. Always fun to see. Last one. Obama was still in office. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, for my 10, but Obama was there for the 20th.

That was 2023. So Biden got back in. But there was like one guy who was like, uh, almost our valedictorian. He became a full blown like maga doctor. But like wasn't, but wasn't willing to like stand on like the real fucked up parts about it. It was just like trying to act as if it was like other reason. I'm like, bro, you're Filipino, bro. Like your parents are immigrants.

Like what the fuck is this shit, bro. You're not, they're not going to protect you. Anyway, another of that, let's take a break. And when we come back, we're going to check in with the fucking minions, okay? Because I need to, we need answers. Were they working for Hitler? We will find out after this. An IR Radio Experience.

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Did you see that clip of the people? There's like a screening where they have like the one of the vote, like the voice artists who does like a lot of the singing minion stuff do a live performance. Was it, was it all be there or something? I think so. And it was just so funny to see like a human being to sing gibberish.

But like with a beautiful. beautiful voice. That's really funny. So anyway, that movie's coming out this weekend. But for whatever reason, this one takes place in 1920s Hollywood. Because we've talked about the minions and their history. And like where they're at historically. But like in the first one, they like really went out of their way.

They're like, look, they've worked for the evilest bosses in the world. And then they're like, the minions were stuck in Antarctica from the 1920s through 1968. funny. He's like, wow, that's a big chunk. You just skipped over. Okay, cool. I think a lot of people were like, that's a convenient way to sort of-

Very convenient type of thing. To have them not be involved with segregation and racism. None of that. Yeah, yeah. Or even before, I mean, like, I'm like, before that, I'm like, who are you working for? They're like, oh, let's just, let's not get into that. But anyway, I think a lot of people were like, okay, that definitely rules out working for Hitler if you're gone from the 1920s to,

1968. But so, but now this movie is about a group of different minions who clearly weren't in that Antarctic cave during the early 20th century. And the director of the film and the co-creative the minions was just as straight up, did any of the minions work for Hitler? He must be so stressed out about this. So stressed. This is how the, this is the interaction that, yeah, with the journalist, quote, like a journalist had, did anyone, uh, minions work for Hitler? This is what one of the group said. I knew you're going to ask me that question. Shame on you.

Coughfin laughs. Then he goes on to say, I think they were in that cave. But this movie establishes that there are multiple tribes of minions. I counter this to materialist. Quote, I was trying to avoid the answer, Edmitt's Coffin, who says he's fully aware that this is a big question online. Then he makes clear that the minions we meet in minions and monsters also didn't work for Hitler. So just please put that out of your mind. I think you should, you know, nut up and be like, yeah, they did.

Right. And then, like, they're in Nuremberg. Yeah, they work for Hitler. Yeah, put him in Nuremberg for the next one. Yeah. That would be so funny. The minions in Nuremberg. Let's just crank this up to an 11.

Just really see what we can do next. Yeah, just see what we can do. If they work for, like, here's. Or just slice them into the Nuremberg film in the background. Just like in like a forest Gump way. Yeah, yeah. They're like, oh, yeah, that's the minion back there. If they work for Gru, who I think is the name of the villain,

whose main objective was to, like, blow up the moon or some shit, wasn't that? Or blow up, like, something. I'm like, you know, at that point, that's pretty evil. Just haven't worked for every evil person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I think that's the problem is, like, they're cute and evil. It'd be interesting that they somehow morph into, like, this vehicle for, like, historical awareness for young children, you know?

He's like, and this one worked for John C. Calhoun. Like, wow. This one worked for Strom Thurman. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Aren't minions? Haven't minions been, like, co-opted by like boomers and shit? Like, on like memes and Facebook and stuff like that? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. It's weird as shit. Yeah, there's a lot of people who love a bit of minions. But hey, look, Jamie Loftus, famous minions. appreciate her. I was just thinking I wish that Jamie was taking my place for this segment because I feel like she would have so much to say. I feel like, you know what? I'm going to text Jamie right now and just see if we can get an answer while we're recording. I think that's great. Let me just take this. Let me just say your take on the minions being alive in the 1920s

in this new film Hitler connection. question mark. Okay. All right. We'll check back in. We'll check back in with the text real quick to see what is said there. All right. Now, moving on, we got the 4th of July on the horizon.

The magified celebrations of the 250th birthday of the U.S. are not going well, low attendance, janky displays, people jerking off in Uncle Sam costumes. These are all things that have been happening. Just all around, not good. And now we can add fraud to that list, although we should have expected this because this is connected to Trump. This is in The Daily Beast. Quote, among the most serious claims is that donors who wanted to give money to America 250, a bipartisan group created by Congress to organize and promote events celebrating the nation's birthday, were purposely misled and given wire instructions containing freedom 250's banking information. So their funds would instead be redirected to the.

the group backed by the president. The report, this is from the House Democrats made this report. The report also alleges that donors who intended to support America 250 were pressured to give money to freedom 250 instead. Some prospective donors and sponsors who wanted to give or who wanted to contribute to America 250 were told by the Trump administration that they did not have a, quote, green light to do so. Just boom. The House Democrats are like, obviously, we can't do anything about it. it right now because we don't control shit but if we get

control the house in the midterms we will be looking into this like you know they're like I it's so transparently out in the open apparently like other corporate donors who had first given to America 250 administration officials came back and repressuring them to also

give equally to freedom 250 so just all like they're like no no no no like we need the money here for this other thing so we can put on the janky state fair but again Wait a minute Miles. Okay. I've never taken a single dollar from the country.

I don't take a salary. Yes. I don't take money because I love this country. I love it. Yes. Listen, I would never do that. No money.

I don't like money. I'm allergic to it. It's just, it's crazy. It's crazy. Yeah. It's like the other clips have been wild. Did you see there was also like this morning on Fox and Friends?

They're like they've been, you know, broadcasting live from there. They were there. No, I did not see this morning on Foxx's. Oh, you didn't see this morning on Fox and Foxxon. You're not Fox and Friends? No, I didn't. What was happening to know Fox and Friends this morning? I'm the only good Republican here.

Wow, wow, wow. It was just, they were showing like the opening of like, they were just broadcasting from the fair. Fucking no, not a single fucking person was there when they were, like, they were just out there being like, yeah, hey, we're here, Freedom 250. It was dead. Like there was not, I'm not joking. There was not a single person in the background walking around when it

it open. So you know what this reminds me of is within the year before he died, I went and saw Aaron Carter play at like this local small venue just because I was like, well, I got to go see this. Like it just popped across my thing and I was like, well, yeah, I mean, this is going to be weird. And I, 50 people maybe, max. Yeah. And then the show was super weird. He had his dogs on stage with his girlfriend just kind of sitting in the back of at the back of the stage. And yeah, it was rough. It was rough. Yeah. But I know, we feel sad.

And more people were mean. At that time. Was he really mean? I just think. Yeah, we've kind of had, I think we've had like a little bit of, what do you call it? Like we've made him a lot nicer than he was because he, I used to watch some of his lives. And he was quite abusive at times. That makes sense.

I just like anytime like. It's depressing. I know. It's always like fucked up. Anybody who's an entertainer as a kid. It's not going to go well. It's like, it's like seven. 30, 70%

shit goes terribly wrong. I know. Hillary Duff become like actual celebrities. Hillary Duff. I guess so. He's reping for the 30. She's, she's good. She's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think the reason I say that is like, just the, you just

think it's not possible that so a few people could go because of, you know, we know that there are so many people probably less than the bots make us think online. You know, so many people that do support him And it's just like it feels impossible that it could be so poorly attended. Right.

And yet that's what we're seeing. Did you see the thing, but they don't, they don't care about America. Also, they're broke because everybody's broke. And they are even more broke because, you know, they were broke before. And this president is making them even more broke. But they don't care about America. They care about hate and racism and misogyny and sex. and transphobia and homophobia and they care about all these things more.

So when it actually comes down to something like, go storm the castle for January 6, you get fucking hundreds of thousand people showing up. But when it comes to celebrate this country that you're so patriotic for, they'd be like, oh, but, uh, no, it's on. I'll just say the N word at home today. Yeah, I could just do that. I can celebrate America at home.

Right, right, right. We got America at home. There's not like a sense of owning the libs, which is also, I think, a primary motive is just trying to hurt, hurt us. That's their only currency. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like, you know, they can't, I don't think they're thinking far enough to be like, well, if the crowd is big, they will be sad. Yeah. It's just like not on their radar. The whole thing is obviously giving the impression always, like you're saying, Chelsea, like the impression always has to be this movement is so much larger than it actually is.

to, so people are, so they get the feeling that resistance is futile and just don't even, but then you look, you're like, okay, so what happens when you throw a party for yourselves? You get this. Did you see the clip of this band performing? This is them performing Beyonce's crazy in love. The camera just does a 360 spin and nobody's fucking here. They're starting off with like a jazzy rendition. I don't know why it's like a show band version of crazy and love, but here it is. There's like literally four people at the front. Oh, boy. Now, let's see that crowd shot. Spin around, cameraman. Oh, nobody. Jesus. That is just beyond. It's beyond comprehension.

It really is, just seems impossible to me that so few people could be there because there are just people who are walking on them. Yeah. Like, even people who are like, tourists are like, nah, I'm good. I'm good. Like a brand new local punk band is pulling more people. to like the dive bar.

It's really weird. Yeah. So yeah. You know, sure. They keep pretending that shit's going really well. And the other thing too was, you know, the Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, she did a live podcast at this thing.

And that always freaks me out. Anytime I've done a live podcast at a thing that wasn't explicitly for like our audience, it's always like a crap shoot. You're like, you don't know who the fuck is about to pull up. Well, I've never, I've never seen a lack of audience like this before in my life. She did a live podcast for Moms for America. And she posts, first, she posted a video promoting like what, you know, she's like, oh, look how cool this event is.

And I want to play the video that Brooke Rawlins posted to say like, so much fun at the state fair doing this podcast. And you'll probably notice something. She never shows the audience. Very quiet. Okay. Just a straightforward shot. Then another one from behind.

It's a seven-second clip. You don't get any context, but you will never see the audience. That's probably because the audience was not there. Let me actually play a clip from the people that were standing around. This is what it looked like actually while those two people were having their live podcast. There is nothing like being on a Zoom call. Quick pan. One, two, three.

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 22, 25 people. And like some of its press. And most of them is staff. I would be embarrassed to be there, too. I would be embarrassed to be even in that grass. Like, yeah, we should go. It's so funny, too, because the first major lie once he got installed into the presidency was, I forget I was Sean Spicer, was his name coming out, saying, like,

The largest crowd you've ever seen. The largest crowd you ever seen. And like his crowds have always been like such a big deal to him with crowds, the biggest crowds, the biggest crowds. And on what should be for president, one of the most celebratory like events in any presidency's history, right? Like 250th birthday of America. Like you literally have, there are more people going to see indie improv with some of the worst. improvisers that you will ever fucking see in your life. And there are more people.

And there are more people in the fucking audience for that than this shit. That is so embarrassing. At least people are doing real art up there for those improv shows. I mean, yeah, Trump is definitely upset. According to a report in CNN, it's not been good because he was, he saw a picture of how few people attended his kickoff speech and lost it. Quote, quote, Trump grew, quote, livid over the crowd size at his kickoff event. for the Great American State Fair, a week's long celebration of the 250th, according to a new report.

And White House officials now fear a lackluster turnout could overshadow his Fourth of July speech. Trump, who spoke after sunset, did not initially know how large the crowd was, CNN reported. But he was later shown an aerial photo that depicted vast stretches of empty fields behind the audience. After seeing the image, the president became, quote, enraged, and White House officials removed it from their social media posts. Trump later wrote on true social that the crowd had been packed to the brim with at least 45,000 people. No, it's not even close. I wish, I wish at the same time, Mondani would do like a speech in New York. Obama would do a speech at the library in Chicago.

Yeah, right. Look at that shit. I would say we would do it at the same time. And then like, it only like on TV show it from an area. view. Like, I don't even want to see a close up of their faces. I just want to see the crowd size the whole fucking time. Mom, Donnie could do like a five minutes before, like on Instagram posts. Like, hey, doing this five minutes. And it would be like, come on down. Yeah, come on out of Washington Square Park real quick. I want to see some. Yeah. Let's pop over. Yeah. Yeah, it's tough.

All right. Well, let's move on to some fun Baptist church things as we were just talking about the Bible. You may have seen the Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Kentucky getting a lot of scrutiny this last week and backlash over a video clip that surfaced of the summer vacation Bible school program that they got going on. In the clip, it's a bunch of young kids seated in the pews as armed soldiers gunned down someone wearing all black and then they all chant, take him out, blow him up. And then they do take the dead body outside and you hear an explosion. So that's just what you're going to see. But I just want to play this because the clip is so wild. I haven't seen this. Okay, yeah.

So this is at the Bible camp program. Here we go. Take him out. Blow him up is what the pastor is going to get the kids all chanting. So a bunch of kids are like, oh, my God. Dudes, full-on assault rifles. I mean, they're like, you know, 12. or whatever.

Take him out. Someone wearing all black. Just full on gunning this guy down with their little cap guns. Take him out. Blow him up. Now they're going to walk the guy out.

There's a lot of time passes. So they're taking the guy out. And then the pasture's like, all right, guys. The guy's going to blow up. He's outside. What's after four? This goes off for a long time.

they're learning numbers. Boom. There's a boom and the kids fucking scream. And they're like, all right. Take him out. Blow them up. So a lot of people are like, what in the holy fuck was that about? You know, like anti-violence group like moms demand action.

Like their Kentucky chapter was like, uh, this is, they said, quote, vacation Bible school. And our churches should be safe spaces for our children, subjecting kids to full scale simulated tactical rate. and firing squad. There's just an appalling abuse of that space and a major breach of trust that can't go unaddressed. The pastor of the church, Dwayne Miller, said,

this is misinformation. The video that shows exactly what happens at the little Bible camp, this is what the pastor said. Yeah, it wasn't really like commentary over it. It was just showing the video. It's like, here's a video from the inside. This is what he said, quote,

the misinformation out there is sad. And I guess it's just part of what this generation has become. He said the viral video showed an event that was, quote, nothing more than a small part of our vacation Bible school. We have characters every year that represent good and right and God, and we have characters that represent evil and wrong, and that which should be avoided or shot out back. Quote, every year for 32 years,

we've had this evil against good ritual in our vacation Bible school. The last several years, we've had the commandos for Christ. The clip you saw was simply killing the devil. you may think we went over the top you may think it was a little bit more extreme and maybe you're right but don't you believe that the devil is really using extreme measures in this generation

so this guy basically did like the Rick James thing is like man I didn't step on Eddie's couch he's like I didn't mess up Eddie Murphy's couch he's like yeah I fucked up Eddie Murphy's couch like the whole thing he's like it's misinformation but then he's like yeah that's what we did so I'm failing

he may think is extreme but he's like but but is it the devil extreme. We're fighting the extremism of the devil. I think what's so interesting about this is like their vision of evil is like this person that is obviously victim. Like the victim of the story and the person who violence is being enacted upon. Like it fits so well with their greater like worldview that the devil is this, right?

Which is pretty disturbing. Yeah. And it can be like. embodied in a maybe a person that the state, with that state violence will take care of. The state will execute for you. And then get kids on that fucking momentum of, take him out,

blow him up. Because if you have such a flippant view of life like that at an early age, like I'm obviously I feel like this is, this is so intentional to be like, you got to get kids just like rooting for stuff like that. And then they'll, then enough momentum will carry them through life where they may not question where they have such casual attitudes about,

you know, unhinged state violence or something like that. That's absolutely what's going on. Take them out, blow them up. But it's misinformation. But yeah, that happened and that's what we do. Damn. Just the reflexive shit of like misinformation is just so fucking just tired at this point when you really have no defense.

So anyway, I hope everyone's having a good time at Bible camp, y'all. I'll be there next week. Like when I went to the times I went to Bible camp, I was so fucking bored because we were just doing like weird like Jesus arts and crafts and things like that. And I was like, this is so, can we go play basketball or something? Capture the flag? Never. It was never.

We could even have to kiss girls and kiss people. You better not. That's what. Not in front of God. Well, we was freaks and art. Oh, you were? But we had Bible school. But after.

Oh, church was over. Man, everyone. Freaks. Oh, wow. We were very chased at my Lutheran. Bible school. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll never forget, man. I'll never forget to the day I live. The things I saw at Bible school.

Me and my girlfriend were at the Bible at church. And like the pastor had just found out his granddaughter was pregnant. So he came to church on a rampage that day. He came to church. His whole sermon was like, don't be fornicate and celibacy. It's the devil, blah, blah, blah. And like he came right out to my girlfriend and like started speaking. in tongues and she was crying.

And the whole time I'm thinking like, man, he about to stop us from fuck. I ain't never going to fuck again. I was so mad, man. I was so mad. And then because she was just like, yes, I hear you God. I hear you. You're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's gibberish.

I'm just standing there. I'm just standing there like, ugh. And then we left church. And then the moment we were in long, she was ripping off my clothes. Oh, yeah. opposite facts, man. I was like, thank you, Pastor Hinton. Somebody improvising.

He's got me hot and bothered. Feels forbidden. God damn. And now that became your kind of like tactic now romantic. You're like, let me speak in tongues to you, baby. Like, what the fuck? I got to go.

There's a porn there. Yeah. Oh, shit. All right. Let's take a break when we come back. We're talking about air conditioning culture wars. As fucking stupid as that is, it's air conditioning culture wars time. We'll talk about that.

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Apple Podcasts wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. So as we were talking about on yesterday's trends, the Northeast is going through a fucked up heat wave. President Trump was like, it's going to be 107 on the 4th of July, and I'm going to do the longest speech ever to, he literally said to show everybody that I can do it,

which you love to see. However, unfortunately, he won't be trying to do that in 170. degree heat. It's only going to be maybe 80s-ish by the time he's talking at 9.45 at night, which again, so stupid. Because, yeah, everyone's, everyone can't wait for the 10.30 p.m. Fireworks show. Isn't it 11? Is it 1030 or 11? I mean, it's, I think 1030 is the earliest it could be. Okay. Given how long Trump's speech goes, how late he is. You know what I mean? It's just going to keep pushing it. It could be fucking 1 a. You'd have no fucking clue, which again would be disastrous.

was like, half the fucking DMV area was asleep by the time the actual fire, where they'll probably be awoken by them because it'll be a massive explosion. Yeah. But anyway, they're going through a heat wave. And Mayor Mondani in New York, he said he envised his constituents in the city of New York said, stay safe and hold on to your butts here. He said, quote, set your air conditioning to 78 degrees to prevent overstrain on the power grid. What the fuck?

Okay. So a number of right wingers on social media. probably freaked the fuck out against this just like, hey, man, you don't want the fucking power to go out in a heat wave because that would be disastrous for all. We have Vivek Ramoswamy who said, quote, this is what socialism looks like, folks. The right answer isn't restrictions or mandates. It's drilling, fracking, coal, and nuclear. Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina, also made a similar point writing, quote, welcome to socialism. Okay, thank you.

Spencer Pratt. disgraced loser fuck boy who tried to run for mayor of los angeles and failed i think you're i think you're supposed to get the fuck out spencer uh he posted show us your thermostat commie dave portnoy of barstool sports 78 degrees welcome to communism people hope you enjoy again no one knows a fucking thing about any system of government it's all reflexive uh this person said it's i'm just going to call it socialism because he's saying to not strain the power grid. He didn't make a law. He just was like, hey, this is cool.

He's not like, the law is this. Yeah, you're not getting arrested. And now I'm taking over the power grid. It's like, no, it was a gentle suggestion. Hey, you sure you don't want to make the power grid to fucking go out? Let's just try. If we can, let's not go lower than 78 degrees if we can. That will help if we just all have that in our minds.

They say this every year to them. Yeah. Even if you go to like gas companies websites, they say 78 degrees is what they say. Like every year, Texas has said it. Every year they say this. What's funny is Eric Adams said the exact same shit last year. You know what I mean? This isn't fucking new at all.

And again, to your point about Texas, noted power grid failure expert, Senator Ted Cruz, who loves to go on. He loves to fuck off out of his state when the power grid is trained. He said, quote, in a first world country, you could turn on the AC. Wow. That's cool. He said, but as a community, no quickly pointed out, the state of Texas has repeatedly made the exact same recommendation as Mom Dani because their grid is super fragile out there. Super fragile caliber spialidocious. Okay.

Yeah. But anyway, so this isn't anything new. And you're like, but 78 degrees is like kind of a specific number. it turns out it seemingly originates with Jimmy Carter's response to the energy crisis in the 1970s. In 1979, he asked all federal buildings be set to 78 degrees in the summer and 55 degrees in the winter to offset the quote incredible strain on resources. And even though like Carter wasn't really popular at the time, the idea of keeping the AC at 78 degrees was supported by around 77% of Americans. who are like, yeah, that's a, that's, that's a fine temperature if outside is, yeah, yeah, yeah, we can do that. I mean, here, the, unfortunately, I mean, I, I, I'm aware of the times we live in, right?

Good, good, thank you. But, you know, this is so disingenuous. They know. Yeah, yeah. They know. Ted Cruz knows. Yeah, sure. Dave Portno, no, no.

All these bitches know. They fucking know, like, this is, they know this isn't new. They know this happens every year. They know this is what people say. They know people say it to me. People have been saying it for years. I turn my shit lower to 78. If I'm cold, if I'm hot.

And if I'm cold. And if you're fine? Yeah, sure. And if I'm fine, I'm fine. Yeah. But like, this is so disingenuous. And that's not the surprising part. The unfortunate part is that we have to give this time.

We have to, like, talk about this. We, like, this becomes a part of the new cycle, which they also know. and it's just the entire thing is just fueled by disingenuine I don't know what disingenuous. Yeah, yeah. Dishenuousness.

Yeah. Right. And it's like, is laughable is funny. Well, yeah. And I think everything is so reflexively just like whatever they do is socialism, which will be funny when it'll be like,

oh, like if in a fantasy world, America actually has like universal health care, they'd be like, Welcome to socialism, folks. I'm like, yeah. Yeah, thank God. What are you talking about? We have free health care now.

Great. Oh, welcome to socialism, folks. Here's your free daycare for your kids. There's your free daycare. Welcome. Donnie created new buses and there are three seats instead of two. Socialists. Welcome to so.

Welcome to free bus, dickhead. Well, the stupid air conditioning culture war is kind of, you can kind of draw a line back to Ronald Reagan. Because he pushed back against AC limits during his first. presidential campaign and denouncing, quote, conservation measures that hinder an individual's lifestyle, which isn't that surprising. This dude was literally an air conditioner salesman for General Electric. Like there's clips of him where he's like, well, Nancy, here we are. We've blown out the fuse from using our electricity. Like this guy is, like, he has been big AC for since the beginning. And also makes sense too that like this second he came in office he took down the solar panels that

Carter had installed on the White House like anything that was remotely close to being like this is good for the environment he's like I have to absolutely vaporize any trace of that sort of mentality and also interesting fact has people have argued that air conditioning was a huge factor in Reagan being elected because air conditioning allowed for like the mass migration of people to the sunbelt like so creating a huge demographic shift in like Arizona, Florida, all these places now because AC made those places like Nevada, because it made like air conditioning, those places now were habitable and people are like, are habitable and we're like, this is great, this is perfect.

This is just from a PBS article about like air conditioning and Reagan's elections quote, and that Sunbelt coalition is crucial to Ronald Reagan's election in 1980. Now it's possible that Reagan could have gotten elected without air conditioning, but he would have had to have built a completely different political coalition to do it. So AC is absolutely part of that story. And again, even before the Mom Doni thing, I don't know if you saw, there's like been a ton of, like Europe's had obviously terrible heat wave. There's like a thousand excess deaths, the French were reporting because of a heat wave there. And on social media, there are like complaints for Americans are like, I'm in France right now and there's no AC and I'm fucking dying.

Like it's so, but it's true. Like it was really hot. And for Americans who are used to AC, they couldn't handle it. But now there's like all these like op-its coming out. Like the Wall Street Journal has one that says, Europe is hot as hell. Why doesn't it want air conditioning? Why doesn't it want air conditioning? I think that the mayor of Paris encouraged locals to hold back on air conditioning units calling them a scourge. Yeah. Because he said it will make the city even hotter. And in response to that article, the deputy mayor of Paris posted a slideshow on Instagram, basically saying, quote, as the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, you bear a significant responsibility for global warming and the consequences we in France are experiencing.

Your cities are 90% air conditioning. This is not unrelated to this. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, something that I feel like is a bigger picture thing with this is like the need for the right to continuously push this like hyper individualism, which relates to socialism because it's like, If it's all about you and your air conditioning and your comfort and it's not about community-based, like, goodness for all, then they can continue to make sure that we don't have any kind of unification together. No collectivism. It's just constantly like about this small, like every way we can have this personal freedom at whatever cost it takes.

Which is crazy because when the chips are down and people are actually faced with a disaster, the human impulse is to work collectively. Like when the grid goes down in Texas, those Texans are looking out for each other. Like any scenario you see where a natural disaster hits and the normal sort of infrastructure that people are used to goes out, people are fucking helping each other. So it's interesting that like so much of their plan is like, we got to chip away at empathy as a concept. They're always talking about empathy and how like empathy is fucking gross and disgusting or like collectivism doesn't work.

Yeah, those are the apps. Those are like the engines that keep humanity alive. Yeah. And it's hard to rewire that just because you think your dumb fucking barstool sports god is like, welcome to communism. Welcome to communism. Yeah. Like you think someone like at that point like their AC goes out, the grid goes down and they're going to be like, do you need help? He's like, no, I'm fine, dude.

I'm not a communist. You're going to be like, help me. Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. I'm going to push this thing right now that I think is really cool. I did it. It was an eight-week course. It's called CERT and it's a community emergency response training. And it helps you figure out how to like help during a natural disaster. And it's totally free. You learn like basic medical, basic firefighting search and rescue. It's a very fucking hole. And it's everywhere. And I just feel like more people should know that it exists. Because if everybody just took that course and we had a natural disaster, it would just be like it would save just countless lives. Just people had that skill and knew how to work together. I know in L.A., they have them online, I think.

It probably could be, yeah. Like, just so you have those skills, which... We got to do one of those things where teenagers from drama class in their high school, like, got blood all... You know, put blood all over them and we're screaming. And, like, we had to, like, carry them out and figure out how to, like, fix their wounds. And it was cool. Wow. It was wild. That's crazy. Yeah.

I mean, seriously. But I just want to, like, a lot of people don't know that exists. And I think it's really cool. Yeah, right. It's a resource. I mean, especially, like, in a place that is susceptible. any kind of natural disaster, which at this point, let's be real as fucking anywhere.

And we got the big one earthquake, you know, like both of our. And you got that. Was like the Cascadia abduction? Yeah. Yeah. What is that called? I think it's a Cascadia.

Yeah. And then you guys have one. San Andreas. San Andreas. We got two fault lines. Awesome. They're like ready to pop. But the Cascadia subduction zone, that's the,

that's a big baller subduction zone. It's a big time. Yeah. And I'll just be out there. My little helmet that I got from CERCLAW. Yeah, everybody get trained up. Because at the end of the day, like, and I think most people have realized this, too, like, especially with, like, ice raids and all the, you know, a new American fascism that's emerging is that, like, truly communities, like, we're the ones that are going to keep each other safe because trying to rely on the state to do that is not going to be a guaranteed victory. when at the end of the day, like, merely knowing your neighbors is such a, like, just knowing your neighbors will exponentially increase your chances of survival.

Because I feel like so many people, especially in L.A., they don't fucking, they don't know most of their neighbors. Like they don't know, like, you will get very silvers. You don't know, no. You better. No somebody. Yeah. No somebody. I don't worry if if something go down, I'm a knock on their doors.

I'm like, yeah, man, I don't know you, bro, but I need help. Who's there? Who's there? You're like, it's me. I'm 114, brother. You be seeing me. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't know each other else.

We'll be talking. You guys were in a baseball uniform. That's you, the baseball uniform guy? Yeah, bro. You know, you know I live here. Let me in. Okay. You know I live here.

Let me in, man. You got water? I need something. I'm struggling. I'm dying down there. I need something. And if someone came to my door, I would do the same thing. We're like, yeah, man.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. And it makes things less scared. You know what I mean? When you know, you can face things like collectively rather than individually, which again, like to your point, Chelsea, if people feel more inclined to think about their own rugged individualism, that also makes you more scared of everything, more frightened of everything because you don't have that sort of the benefit of thinking of like, oh, I'm part of a community. I'm part of a collective anyway. With that said, go meet your neighbors. You know what I mean? You don't got to like them, but know who they are because you never know. You never know. You never know. You never know. You never know. Chelsea, that's just you know. You don't need them. Chelsea. Thank you so much for joining us today on the Daily Zikeist. Where do the people find you, follow you, all that good stuff?

You can just listen to American Hysteria, wherever you get your podcast, and then we're on Instagram at American Histaria podcast. Perfect. Yes. I love to hear it. How about you? What's up, baby? Where do they find you?

Where do they follow you? Oh, sorry, Chelsea, what's the work in media that you're enjoying? Oh, God, what is the work? I forgot to do this one. Where I am, I mean, I'm going to have to say, I know that this is an internet, but I just can't stop thinking about how much I love backrooms. So I just want to shout out backrooms the four movie. I just fucking loved it.

Were you watching the YouTube's before that? I watched some of it, you know, but I, I, you know, I'm not a big YouTube person. But I just, I thought it was stunning. And I loved it. And I know that's a little, like, old thing to call out. But I'm just going to give my love to backrooms. You got to. Jackie's, thank you so much for joining me today.

Where do the people find you, follow you? What's working media you're liking? Miles, thank you so much for having me. And Miles, you're a great host. You're a great host. Come on, man. I love it. I'm just trying to get by the day.

I appreciate you all. You can find me in these streets. Find me deep in the streets. Europe. Yeah. I'm like in Europe. I'll be coming through to you guys. I'll be in Vienna, London, and Edinburgh doing some shows.

So look on my website. Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, Toronto, Montreal. y'all be on the lookout i'm also coming there uh crowd control season two hey it's going to be debuting uh you should be getting the trailer fairly soon yeah be on a lookout be on the lookout a lot of shit is happening yes sir indeed some things that i'm liking uh this is what i saw high felt so i love a high felt that you'll see online you'd be like oh yeah that is true here's a high felt for you oh hi thought okay yeah hi yeah hi thought okay yeah hi like Like you're on drugs.

You're on that. Yes. You can't stand backwards on stairs. That's something I saw. Wow. That took me even a second to actually process. Yo, am I in a fucking Escher drawing right now? You can't.

You can't stand because whichever way you're turned on stairs, you're just going in that direction. You can't turn backwards on stairs. You can't stand backwards on stairs. You can't stand backwards on stairs. Can't stand sideways. God. There's a fucking bar right there. I don't even think about that shit.

Oh, man. Thanks for that. I love a high thought. That kind of fucked me up. I don't know if I can go through my day anymore. My version of that is like the only bumper sticker I have and it says two wrongs, don't make a right, but three lefts do. It's like my favorite.

Boom, boom, boom. Totally nonpartisan bumper sticker. My friend's grandma didn't like to turn left so she would. do a series of rights. Because of like, sane or something? No, no,

she was just like, you know, like an old superstitious. No, she wasn't even that. I mean, like, she was too fucking old to drive.

She was, she was, yeah, she was a loki old, but she wasn't like, look, I always felt safe in the car,

but I'd always be like, well, she ain't, she ain't making this left turn. We're about to do three rights. There you go. There you go. There you go.

I think something happened, like, you know, early, like maybe got hit by, like, in an accident or something. And then you know, like old people could be like, and I don't need to do that anymore.

And you're like, that's true. That's fair. She had a dope like 198, like a 79 green corolla. Fucking dope. Hey, rest in peace, Nani. We miss you. We miss you out here. Anyway, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray.

I'm talking about 90 day fiancé on 420 day fiance. I'm talking about football in soccer if you're American or Australian. On the, my new podcast, Aint Fitty with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin, not from Coldplay. Although I might be able to do real improv with Chris Martin from Coldplay. I got to tell you about this,

Jackie's this might actually happen, if it does, I need to come through. Anyway, a work of media I'm liking is from Walter Masterson, great comedian. This is a video he posted called Democratic Consultants Crash Out over DSA. And it's just this funny sketch

of these guys in tuxitos pretend to be Democratic consultants just saying the wildest. shit. Harris, Lasburg, 2028. We can't lose.

No, Ezra loves it. You don't win elections by appealing to the material needs of voters. You win elections by being moderately transphobic. Apologize. Reform ice.

Yeah? So instead of calling it a genocide, just say, I sometimes disagree with Benjamin Netanyahu. You're welcome. Hamel lost the election because of those pro-Palestine people.

Aren't they like a huge vote? putting block though shouldn't we cozy up to them they could swing an election we don't negotiate with terrorists the only people we meet in the middle are the far right very good very good so fucking are the far right oh god too real too fucking real um anyway you can find us uh every or most places at daily zikis run the daily zikeis on Instagram. Go to the description of the episode right now where you're listening. If you scroll to the bottom, that's where you'll find the footnotes. Thank you, Jockeys, which is where we will link off to the information we talked about in today's episode. Also link off to a song. I think you might enjoy,

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