The Daily Zeitgeist - The Best Stoner Restaurant, Trump And Putin 7 Minutes In Heaven 7.3.18

Episode Date: July 3, 2018

In episode 182, Jack and Miles are joined by How Stuff Work's new podcast 'Bechdel Cast' hosts Jamie Loftus and Caitlin Durante to discuss the perfect stoner restaurant, Jessica Simpson's Postmates habits, Mike Pompeo's trip to North Korea and some updates on that front, the Putin and Trump meeting, more Scott Pruitt shenanigans, a Northern California Vice Mayor’s call for ‘Straight Pride American Month,' World Cupdate, an update on the Thai soccer team stuck in a cave, and more!  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You can't hide O'Brien eyes. And your miles is a thin disguise. I thought by now you'd realize. Eyes. Less dare. There ain't no way to hide, oh Brian eyes that is

snarky day side I am moved that was the AKA that I was going to do yesterday and then Miles just brought the heat and I was like, I can't do that too good, you can't have can't do that that is uh

too good i you can't have two fire ak's on the same day anyways uh i am thrilled to be joined by today's co-host uh he is mr miles yeah i still have the thing we never uh adapted that from last week when you were out well you know that's, that's fine. Hey, don't count your chickens before they're hatched. Well, gravy when we're geisting. I get so excited. Oh, how I like it. Try, but I can't fight it. Oh, you're grain, you're real close.

Plus, it's real slow. You're not making it hard for me because of VD. Okay, and that one is from Igor Kikich on Twitter And Jack and I were talking I don't know if I should ever just do an AK again After yesterday I put my life upon the line Yesterday

And blacked out And then had my guts ripped out later Anyway, but yeah, hi I'm loving being here again Hey, today's co-host, welcome. Thank you so much. Hey, and we are thrilled to have a double third seat, double bill in the third seat. We have the hosts of the newest podcast on the HowStuffWorks network.

Caitlin Durante and Yami Lofty, a.k.a. Jamie Loftus, a.k.a. Lil Zam. Hi! What's up, guys? The hosts of Bechdel. It's us. It's you. We're good. Thanks for having us. We're excited to have you.

We've hacked the mainframe. I can't look at you right now, Jamie, with your fucking outfit. Unbelievable. Jamie has hacker sunglasses that are so upsetting. This is not, I'm not wearing anything, and this is actually a pretty aggressive way to... I think you stole something from the wardrobe truck on the movie Swordfish.

I just feel so insecure about all my passwords now. I just hope that no one is distracted through the show today by the tiniest glasses that have ever been inducted into the world. There is no doubt that you could hack into the mainframe right now with a gun to your head. Oh, yeah, if you're listening to this audio file, you have seven days to live.

Your password's been compromised. It's buckethead in the house. Hey, guys, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are as a joined human being? It's called conjoined twins. Sorry. Mine is tiny sunglasses in

bulk. Because you lose them so much? Because I just, I'm doing this hacker show and I was like, what if everyone was wearing tiny sunglasses? It's not my tax bracket. I can aspire to be able to afford Are you sure?

I feel like you could find like an Alibaba kind of mass producer out of China. I gotta hack someone's bank account. Why is like Paul Ryan's bank account, why were 300 pairs of tiny sunglasses and a bunch of tikka masala and diapers charged to Paul Ryan's bank account? Tikka masala in diapers charged to Paul Ryan's bank account.

Tikka masala in diapers? And diapers. Oh, oh. For when you're done with the tikka masala. Yeah, I thought you were eating tikka masala out of a diaper. Anyway, that's fine. Caitlin, I'm sure you have the same thing in your search history. So we'll just move on. What else do you have? Is my friend okay?

Sort of relevant, because I recently searched for coded coded gay Disney villains. Coded gay Disney villains. Disney villains who are coded gay. Like Jafar, honey. Yes, I was going to say Jafar. Scar. Scar, Jafar.

Basically all of them. Joy Behar. Joy Behar. Oh, yeah, Joy Behar. Hades. Yeah, I mean Radigan from my favorite Disney movie

The Great Mouse Detective whoa that's a deep cut I know his name was Radigan Radigan yeah what's The Great Mouse Detective

it's the best Disney movie of all time 1986 it's a Sherlock Holmes adaptation where there's a mouse

and he's a great detective oh yeah yeah yeah I remember these motherfuckers yeah there's no computers in it so it's not really great right there's a mouse and he's a great detective. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember these motherfuckers. There's no computers in it, so it's not really great. Right. There's nothing to be hacked. Although he does have to hack a mystery,

I suppose. It's like an analog hack. It's okay. Doesn't it start from the premise that there is a two-scale model of London underneath London built by mice? Yeah, it's like Mouse London.

Oh, that's really cute. It's a great movie, you guys. That was dumb of mice to do the exact same thing. Or just brilliant. I think outside the box, you dumb idiots. You could have built anything. Whoever built London got the idea from the mice. Yeah, they adapted it.

We can't know. Oh, yes. Guys, what is something you think is overrated? I think Scarlett Johansson is overrated. Oh, no. I think I'm on board for that. Well, here's specifically why I say this today. It was just announced that she will play a trans man in an upcoming movie called Rub

and Tug. That's also Asian. just to add to the levels whitewashed trans yeah so wait what's the movie what is it about it's about i uh might be getting some of this wrong but it's about like this chain of massage parlors in Pittsburgh I forget from what era that like had ties to like gangs and like organized crime and like all this stuff like sex worker rings things like that but the like leader of these massage parlors like the I don't know founder right was a trans man and Scar johansson was cast to play that role when you think about it like oscar bait roles really are just like famous actors being like whose narrative

can i co-opt to get a trophy now right that's so often the case yeah i think i think the mental organization's overrated oh wow sorry wow. Sorry. So have we, I don't think we've announced since you were last on, but. You are Gregnant. I am six months Gregnant since I was here last Thursday. Explain to people what that means,

being six months Gregnant. Being six months Gregnant basically means that six months ago. You're in Mensa now. I hacked a Greg. His little zeros and ones coagulated inside of me and then I hacked time so that's the six months thing

and also I got into Mensa literally right after I left the studio on Thursday that's incredible so you are a Mensa member so you're a genius they lowered the standards I've done a lot of research

so yeah anyone can do it what do you mean anyone can do it a member along with Sharon Stone. They lowered the standards. I've done a lot of research on it. But so yeah, anyone can do it. What do you mean anyone can do it? I mean, anyone can do it. You have to be pretty smart, Jamie. Come on. You have to have a collection of pretty wild sunglasses, I think. The smaller the glasses, the higher your chances are of getting in.

But so far, it's been very boring. They offered me a discount on Geico car insurance, and I don't have a driver's license. So, so far, I'm pretty useless. So far, the only perk of being in MedCiv was a Geico discount. So it's like joining AAA. Should we get married so that I can use that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Someone has to be able to use it.

Because so far, it's just been embarrassing. I would love to just see a video of you going around the city and then trying to flex to get discounts on things at a subway. You're like, I'm actually in Mensa. So I'm like, what? I get free mayonnaise. You actually have to give me a jar of mayonnaise because I'm really smart. I'm in Mensa. I'm just going to go around the city trying to get free mayonnaise.

Sure. That sounds about your speed. But so to get into Mensa, you took a test. I took a test, yeah. And yeah, you hacked Mensa is kind of the idea, right? I had to have. I just don't see how it would have been possible for me to pass the test considering the circumstances, but I did. What do you mean, considering the circumstances?

Well, I was very uncomfortable the whole time because it was just me and this really bizarre test proctor who was like, I like to fix organs. His whole thing was like, I fix organs. I used to be an engineer, and like to fix organs. Like his whole thing was like, I fix organs. I used to be an engineer and now I fix organs. And then I was trying to get him to be my friend and I was like, oh, this seems really cool. And he's like, yeah, well, if you get in. I was like, whoa.

He was nagging me and then I was like, I'll show this organ guy. This organ fixer. Are you going to be able to rub it in his face? Oh, I already emailed him and rubbed it in his face. I was like, OMG, did it. And then sent a picture of me in tiny glasses.

He should be like, I have this organ I need work on. You should come over. It's just you in the room giving him the finger with like, I'm in Mensa now. What's up, bitch? Oh, whoops, sorry. What's something you guys think is underrated? Oh, my thing?

I don't know if this is so much underrated as it is just not well known that I want to tell people about. It's a web series called The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo. Oh, yeah. Do you guys know it? I don't. It's great. It's so funny.

And I just realized all of the things, of my like overrated underrated search history things are something having to do with queer culture yeah so hey what is it used to be pride last month yeah everyone well this month uh we'll get into what this month became one town of california uh i'm so wait so where where is the web it's just on youtube you can just find it on youtube oh it's created by um brian jordan alv on YouTube. Oh, okay. It's created by Brian Jordan Alvarez. And how did you catch wind of it? I had a few different friends who recommended it to me. Yeah.

And I think it's only five or six episodes long, but it's, like, super funny. And, yeah, highly recommend. Check it out. Is it new or is it from, like, the era when web series were being, because I feel like nowadays when you hear web series, it's, like, tough to, like, hear, like, to even it's tough to even know everybody has a web series. So it's hard to get through them. It's a couple years old. I think it was like 2016, 2017.

Okay. Cool. Peak web series. Exactly. Jamie, what's something you think is underrated? Underrated are the people from Mensa who email you. people from Mensa who email you. I've gotten maybe 12 emails in the past 24 hours from various Mensa members with various takes on me being in Mensa.

So one that I particularly liked was from someone named Johnny Vaughn who basically said Mensa's great. He made a list, an itemized list of five things. But my favorite one was he's like mensa is like free therapy if you're feeling down and out visit a gathering you're guaranteed to see people more socially awkward or screwed up than yourself bad hair day there's someone with worse hair and you can find them in mensa i do not doubt that bad day guaranteed. You can find a meeting where you will still be the Miss America of the room. So shout out Johnny Bond for being like, everyone who's in Mensa looks like absolute shit.

Shit, yeah. And you can feel better about yourself by hanging out with them. Take a look at the freak show. Wow. Those are my favorite ones. So there are meetings. Mensa has regular meetings where people just hang out with other Mensa members. Yeah.

And just scoff at books. And do Sudoku. I don't know. I mean, I got access to this secret calendar, which I will leak to you right now. There's an event happening a week from today that I'm definitely going to called Tooth Tuesday. No information written about what it is. Just Tooth Tuesday and an address. Oh, no information written about what it is, just Tooth Tuesday and an address. Oh, no.

So it's got like a real secret society vibe. You're going to be playing like poker where you use teeth as chips or something. I'm going to pull my tooth out at some point. Yes, exactly. They're like, all right, entry fee, your molars. It's just a way less ambitious skull and crossbones. They're like, we have one tooth, your mouth teeth. Guys, what's a myth?

Your mouth teeth. Mouth teeth, as I call my teeth. What is a myth? What's something you guys know to be false that people think is true? I always struggle with this one every time I come on the show. So I think in keeping with my theme of- Struggling. Of struggling.

But today's theme of queer culture. You know the myth that queer people are vampires? That's not true. Yeah, I know. I hate that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm here to dispel the myth. Are you sure?

You know what? I'm not sure. Because I was reading this blog, tedhickman.com, and I felt like he had some good ideas on there. My myth is that Gollum from Lord of the Rigs isn't cute. Isn't cute he is kind of cute that's really

that's a good point he's really cute no he's not I think I have a I have a crush on him oh he's really Sméagol Caitlin

and I and Sophie watched all three Lord of the Rings for an upcoming episode hot plug the other day. And I think that Gollum's cute.

And I also think that if you French kiss Gollum, his tongue would be so strong it could knock your tooth out. And then you'd have admission for your... And then I could go to Tooth Tuesday. When you look at Smeagol, what do you see? Tell me what... When you look upon this creature... I see a lot of passion. I think you have to hear him talk

to realize how cute he is. He's cute. He's got like longish hair. That's fun. Longish hair. He has like 14 hairs. I think there's something like child like about him. Cute in that way. Not necessarily in a way

that makes me picture French kiss. Honestly, if he wore clothes, I think I would fuck with Smeagol. The fact that he's just out here in the loincloth, I'm like, go bite on your whole fish somewhere else. Let's take him to Old Navy, get him a 4th of July tea. And then I'll bring him on a little date.

That'd be cute. With his bucket hat. Little bucket hat, tiny sunglasses. Like, did you guys hear Smeagol's dating a local hacker? Then he just looks like a regular gin-drinking DJ. He's cute. No, he's not. You need to get into a major media publication

described as local hacker Jamie Loftus. Local hacker. That needs to happen. media publication uh described as local hacker jamie loftus but uh all right let's talk about fast food miles let's talk smiegel let's talk smiegel uh well yes high times as or as i call it the bible uh they declared taco bell as the perfect stoner restaurant. And that's based off, they use this whole scale of grading a restaurant on their menu, the convenience, the environment, and food quality. Taco Bell scored a 40 out of 50, putting them above Denny's and Little Caesars. Now, I... Little Caesars doesn't seem like it would be on the list, necessarily. Oh, hold on, hold on. I would have expected, like, Wendy's before Little Caesars. Now, I... Little Caesars doesn't seem like it would be on the list necessarily. Oh, hold on, hold on.

I would have expected like Wendy's before Little Caesars, right? Well, Jack in the Box seems to be the one that most clearly... I don't think it's... I think that because Jack in the Box isn't fully national. Got it.

You know what I mean? T-Bell is everywhere. Got it. But I mean, Little Caesars, come on. You walk in, you got a hot and ready for five. You know what I mean? Yeah. And you get that Faloco, that Crazy Bread.

Bruh. I love Crazy Bread. There's just not like culture around Little Caesars that there is around Taco Bell. Like no one like loiters there. No one throws up at Little Caesars. And that's what I'm looking for in my late 90s. Have you been to the one on Cahuenga and Magnolia? Really?

I'm fucking up over there. Is that one on Hinge? Yeah. But I don't know. Shout out to Taco Bell because I had a homie that used to work there on the one on Ventura and Sherman Oaks. If you pulled up after 11, you're like, yo, it's me. He would hook you up all free food because he hated his manager. No way.

And the caramel apple empanada, love it. Really? Yes. I love the caramel apple. I would never hit dessert at Taco Bell. No, you're wrong. My man, dessert at Taco Bell. Oh, my man. My man. It's not just cinnamon twists, my man.

Okay. But it also is cinnamon twists. But it also is cinnamon twists. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know how people feel about Taco Bell. It's so disgusting to me that I love it. Wait, what is everyone's order at Taco Bell? Oh, I'm such a weird person.

I eat a lot of Mexi Melts, which they're at the bottom of the menu in fine print. It's like a bygone thing. It's basically a soft tortilla with just meat, cheese, and tomato, which is a little bit short of being a Taco Supreme. Or a Supreme Soft Taco or the Spicy Chicken Quesadilla, and that's it. Those are the only things I fuck with. Never eat hard tacos there. Spicy Chicken Quesadilla is one of mine, and Grilled Stuffed Burrito Extra Time on the Grill.

Those are my two. You specifically have a special order. Yeah, I have a special order. Because, yeah, it just makes it – sometimes it'll be a little undercooked if you don't request that, but that makes sure that it's very crispy. Got it. What about you?

I do the beefy five-layer meal that comes with chippies and a Baja Blast. Baja Blast is peak hacker beverage. It is. Oh, yeah. That's for sure. It's basically battery acid. It'll make your gums bleed. That's a Mountain Dew flavor?

Yeah. That is only available at Taco Bell? I think when the grilled stuffed burrito came out was also around the time Baja Blast came out, and I was playing a hockey game, high school hockey game, and I was with my friend Nick. We were driving back to try this thing,

and it was the one time I deviated from what I normally get at Taco Bell. We got in a fucking car accident right after. I spilled the Baja Blast all over his fucking car, his mom's car. It was done. Oh, I thought the Baja Blast caused the accident. No, no, no. We were just driving and we were like, yo, we got the new shit and then like, boom.

We get like T-boned to the intersection. People's T-ball orders are very telling. It says a lot about you. Well, I'm afraid to say that I almost never go to Taco Bell, so I don't have an order, but I will say that I do have a to Taco Bell, so I don't have an order. But I will say that I do have a... She's gone rogue.

She's gone rouge. I do have a British friend named British Martha who loves Taco Bell because there, I don't think, are any if not many or any Taco Bells in England. So she was, when she lived abroad here in the U.S., was very excited. So I would go with her sometimes British Martha sounds like an alter-ego when you

drink British Martha she loves oh my goodness okay I'm pretty fucked up. Okay, interesting accent. Would you say that the stoner restaurant scale translates to the drunk restaurant scale? Are they pretty much one-to-one? I don't know. You know, because stoners, you got to think of like when you really, really get like the munchies, you probably, at least when I was younger, I had no cash. So I would be like, younger, I had no cash.

So I would be like, yo, flip the fucking couch. What kind of fucking coins can we find? Right. Or whatever. And then you want to take that to, you know, it's more about probably quantity over quality.

When you have the munchies. Yeah. Well, when I'm drunk though. Yeah. I put away a lot of food. I used to eat a lot too. I don't know. I guess it probably is similar.

Maybe we need to find what that, I guess to me, obviously the menu matters when you're drunk. Convenience matters. Environment, not so much, I don't think, when you're drunk.

Environment, not a big deal. Because you'll eat a half a pizza next to a rotting corpse on a freeway overpass if you're hungry enough. Miles has pictures

of him doing this very thing multiple times. That's me being Smeagol but with a corpse leg. 14 hairs. 14 leg. 14 hairs. 14 hairs. 14 hairs. You're like,

give it to us right now. I think the main difference might be that you just don't care about spending money when you're drunk. Yeah, exactly. You will just spend all your money. Yeah, because then you'll be like,

I remember the Jack in the Box, you get the two tacos for a dollar. You'd be like, yo, I can get fucking 10 tacos for five bucks. I feel like I'm more likely to do Postmates Tika when I'm drunk than when I'm high.

For some reason, you are going for a cheaper... I don't know. Why is that? I don't know. Because weed costs more than booze? Just to clarify, Tika in diapers, right? Tika, yeah. In a diaper. That's my custom order.- Tika in a diaper. That's my custom order.

Please deliver it in a diaper. In a diaper. Please. That's interesting. You bring up Postmates. Yes, it is interesting. What a segue. Transition lenses. So, Miles, Jessica Simpson is back in the news again.

Yes. She's the GOAT. She is. She is the GOAT. She is now officially a patron saint of something here's the goat. She is. She is the goat. She is now officially a patron saint of something here at the Daily Zuckers. Yes, the queen of Postmates, the queen of delivery. She, it has been rumored, told to Radar Online,

which we were discussing, Radar Online is still a gossip website, but it's a step above American Media Inc., like the bloids that we talk about on Fridays. They aren't written by a close friend of Donald Trump in the voice of Donald Trump. They just seem to use the same sort of journalistic techniques where they have unnamed sources. But I feel like stuff that they report eventually gets confirmed about half the time.

And this is, I think, somewhat believable. This is good. They're reporting that she has spent $100,000 on Postmates in one month because she does not leave the fucking house. And that is tight to me. Because if I had my way, I would just be sitting down and have everything brought to me constantly like the boy king that I believe myself to be. See, I find this to be horrifying because if you have one hundred thousand dollars a month to spare. Right. And you're just spending it on yourself and like eating. I don't even. How do you spend one hundred thousand dollars a month on like food?

How do you spend $100,000 a month on food and... So this is what they say. Insiders revealed to Radar exclusively, Simpson, 37, and her former NFL player hubby, Eric Johnson, 38, have, quote, nothing to do. That's such a weird detail to have. So they spend all their time together with the kids drinking and eating.

Quote, it's been a cycle of eating and drinking, says the source. Isn't that just life, though? They just don't want to leave their house. Well, she has so much money from her Jessica Simpson fashion empire

sold exclusively to the Coles, Macy's, wherever. Walmart. Finer wears her petals. I wonder if she's still getting royalties from newlyweds.

Oh, I wonder. A classic. I wonder how chicken of the sea, chicken of the sea tuna. I just think that if you have that much money to spare and you're not like donating it to good causes and you're just like spending it all on yourself, I hate it. Yes, of course. So I use it as a joke, but.

We don't know like. Sorry, let me just take off my tiny glasses. How hungry she is. We don't know how hungry she is. And she could also be giving money, you know, outside of this $100K. Maybe she's doing $1,000 tips every time. That's true. Yeah, maybe she's stealing from the rich, a.k.a. herself.

I used to be a Postmates driver for a few months when I first moved. Yeah, I drove for Postmates. And did you ever make a delivery to Jessica Simpson? I certainly did not, no. You wouldn't know, though, because I think she wears a whole outfit to try and obscure her. Shameful. She's got a hacker disguise. It's kind of similar to what I'm wearing today.

All right. We're going to take a quick break to contemplate $100,000 of Postmates orders. And then we'll be back right after that. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project.

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Right. Donald Trump just did the handshake. Sleep well tonight. I'm sorry, was that not fixed? So, you know, if you stopped paying attention at that point, if you were like, hey, you said we don't have to pay attention anymore. So. So, thank you. Done and done.

subject thinks that uh president trump is either being like willfully obtuse uh because he knows that you know just saying it's done with is good for business and good for his approval ratings or he has like legitimately been tricked by north korea and people aren't sure which one it is because he keeps referring back to the fact that like he's like i met him i shook his hand i looked in his eyes we have like a close personal bond i believe him uh and then you know there was satellite footage last week that shows that they have continued just with that unimpeded to upgrade their uh nuclear facilities on like both coasts their main nuclear facility is still like fully operational um so pompeo is headed over there to basically ask them to what is going on here yeah so i thought this was done guys excuse me like someone announced um excuse me i'm sorry so part of the issue is nobody really

knows what has been promised like what trump promised him, because they like the meat of the deal is being carried out like some sort of like golf course handshake thing where he's just like, I looked him in the eye. We're cool. We understand each other rather than the traditional way, which would be, you know, pouring over a document like the incredibly important legal contract that it is. So people like don't know what each side is like as it is. We have a, you know, page and a half double spaced word document full of like vaguely defined terms. One of them is total denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, which Trump clearly thinks means they will get rid of their nuclear weapons. But it has like every North Korea expert is like, no, they have used that phrase for decades.

Every time. To mean that the U.S. has to remove their nuclear umbrella from the region that protects Japan and South Korea. It's like it's the last thing, like the last step on their list. And so he agreed to the very last thing like they're the biggest ask that they had on their list he's like yeah sure so i don't know it's we'll see how the pompeo meeting goes i think there's a very plausible timeline now that you know xi jinping came to mar-a-Lago last year. They were reportedly floored by how

basic Trump's understanding of international relations were. And then North Korea is in this war of words with him at that time. And suddenly Kim Jong-un is like, actually, let's be friends and set up a meeting. And he was down because Xi Jinping had basically told him okay all you have to do is like tell this guy he's like smart yeah and he's gonna give you everything you want and so yeah I don't know

and they really haven't given anything up and the Americans and South Koreans it's like all small stuff where they're like oh they're like ramping down the anti-US propaganda stuff. Like stuff, stuff like that is being removed. And I guess,

I guess to Trump, like that seems like, yeah, see, they love us. So. Right. Yeah.

Well, cause he's still like operating on the assumption that everyone is forming their policy based on the book that was ghostwritten for him, like 25 years ago. He's like, Oh, the famous diplomatic text, the art of the deal.

And like Trump's never going to do one of those reading deals. He's going to do a, we made eye contact and we touched each other's skin and therefore I fixed the nuclear problem. What did he say this morning? Didn't he tweet something this morning where he's like, we would have been in a total nuclear war if it wasn't for me.

He tweeted some dumb shit this morning probably that sounds that sounds like him uh no yeah someone come and wipe my butt please this morning i want to just start tweeting out his demands the presidential butt wiper someone's got that new twitter account uh many good that's what this is what he tweeted this morning many good conversations with north korea it is going well in the meantime no rocket launches or nuclear testing in eight months all of asia is thrilled only the opposition party which includes the fake news is complaining if not for me we would now be at war with north korea so cool yeah fox news even like there's an article on fox news that's saying how can we be shocked with North Korea. So, cool. Yeah. Fox News even, like there's an article on Fox News that's saying,

how can we be shocked that North Korea went back on its word? North Korea has never kept its word when it comes to any atomic agreement. Like, they're writing

the same thing that he says the opposition party is writing. Like, everybody is in agreement. Yeah, that's like the one thing Fox

couldn't really come around except for like Hannity and like Tucker Carlson but everyone else is like no the handshake didn't solve this problem and it was really foolish to even think it was. So in addition to the Pompeo

meeting happening on the 5th on Thursday this is also relevant because Trump has a meeting with another incredibly important foreign official, one Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin. Talk about someone with a tongue strong enough to not get too bad. Oh, yeah.

Putin's tongue. A new Twitter account, at Putin's tongue. At Putin's tongue. A new Twitter account, at Putin's Tongue. So you're saying, Miles, that they have written into the schedule that there will be seven minutes? They are going to, well, basically, I'm calling it Trump and Putin doing seven minutes in heaven on July 16th because there's going to be a face-to-face meeting where they will first meet one-on-one, man versus Cheeto, in a room with no aides, absolutely none.

And then later on, the aides will come in, similar to the North Korea meeting. But what's odd about this is because when there's no aides or whatever, there won't be an official record of what was said, and so it'll be hard to know what agreements were made or what deal, what was spoken about. So it's very, who knows what the fuck they're going to talk about.

It could be Putin being like, hey, my guy, ramp up the hot rhetoric because we hacked the midterms too. Thanks to Jamie Loftus or whatever the hackers they get. We got to get the hackers in. But yeah, so again, this is like one of those things too where he met with Kim Jong-un one-on-one. We're not quite sure what happened there because no one was in there to know and no aides were present no diplomats were there to be like hey this is a very complex thing and they're going to be talking about election interference syria nuclear weapons uh but who knows if that's what they talk about on their one-on-one i don't know so we don't know it does seem like for whatever reason, America's sort of international

adversaries or these people that we have a lot to lose in our interactions with have seen fit to keep having these one-on-one meetings with Trump where nobody else is around. It's probably because he's really good at game theory and is just besting

them. They just want to spend time with a really cool guy. That's so terrible. I mean, because there's no version of the world in all the infinite ways that ends well for this country. Like, just nothing. Yeah, I don't, it's, whatever. You know, we'll see. That's fine.

Fourth of July. Fourth of July, bro. Get your old Navy t-shirts and break out the shandies baby but yeah we'll see what happens i again it's very i'm anytime i see trump and putin together it makes my skin crawl because who knows what the i mean one the grossest version is like putin's just like telling him how to run shit. In another version, he's just playing Donald Trump because he's just this senile old weirdo. Weird way to describe horniness, that your skin crawls when you see it. The one thing that cures my ED

is Trump and Putin shaking hands. So it is almost 4th of July, 4th of July tomorrow. By the way, Miles and I and Super Producer Ana Hosnier and Super Producer Nick Stumfuluffagus will be checking in with some overrated, underrated of our own. So you guys can look forward to that. Mine will all be based on the year 1999. Yes.

Keep that conceptual. Get ready for some hot takes on fruit. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on now. Don't burn my voice. High concept hot takes on fruit oh whoa whoa come on don't burn my high concept hot takes the year that the Matrix came out too

hacking thank you thank you it's all connected I have my little Morpheus ones that they just rest

on the bridge of my nose that's what you need yeah that's the missing ingredient yes but this being sort of a key point in the summer,

we wanted to check in with the summer of Scott. Scott Pruitt, baby. He is back at it again. Well, really, we're just finding more and more out. So this weekend, we got a trove of letters and communications from a Freedom of Information Act request, I think, that the Sierra Club initiated. And they're basically a bunch of love letters to the Petro gods, like Chevron and other

various climate change denying earth fuckers. Where Pruitt is like writing sweet little nothings in the corner, like, so good to meet with you, like, really had a great time. And I mean, there's nothing really tremendously surprising, but it's just when you read the letters, you're like, oh, that's exactly how I'd imagine Scott Pruitt is talking to these people who, in most other administrators in the EPA in years past, would have been like not writing shit like this. Does he write letters to his own stinky mattress? No. Sadly, no. Although one of them is written on a mattress tag.

But we also found out this week that he has two schedules. There's a public one that the public obviously that we see that so is like his official appointments that he has. And another one that's more private where he has his naughty little meetups with like problematic energy producers or like actual sex crims like Cardinal Pell, who is a clergy member who is, I think, about going to face a trial sometime this year for sexual abuse. But so he would basically have aides go through his public schedule and be like, yo, comb it for whatever is going to make me look bad, basically, because he even knows shit looks bad.

And yeah, I mean, I guess normally that would be a problem because I'd be like falsifying records. But it's 2018. It's 2018. And yeah, I mean, I guess normally that would be a problem because I'd be like falsifying records. But it's 2018. It's 2018. Scott Pruitt's Google Cal is open season. Yeah, he's hacked. He's hacked our brain.

And then we also found out more because he's still trying to get short of a job. He's got his his all of his assistants full steam ahead trying to get his wife a job. But for no less than 200,000 a year. She's not a peasant, okay? Because we got fucking mortgages on all these houses. So, yeah, he's just demanding. Like, Samantha Dravis was one of his aides. She, I think in her testimony, she was talking to the, I think, ethics committee, who was also ex-girlfriend of Rob Porter, who is the one who may or may not have, like, leaked the info on Rob Porter out there

because this administration is so fucking messy. Yes, she was confirming, like, yeah, I had to go look at the Association of Attorneys General in the U.S. to try and get her a job somewhere. Got her a job, but less than $200,000. So, you know, my hearts are with them, you know, for all the people struggling out there making less than $200,000 a year. How are they going to buy $100,000 worth of Postmates every month? What's with that salary? That's not sustainable. That's two months.

What do they do the other 10 months? Starve? I don't think so. And then along with that, there's this other story about how he just in general is like so cheap. He's trying to keep the optics of his spending low. So he'll ask like aides to use their personal credit cards to pay for stuff. So during the transition, he asked an aide to put a $600 hotel room for his family on their personal card.

And then when they got their credit card bill, this aide went to the chief of staff and was like, hey, he had me put $600 on my card for this hotel room. And the chief of staff was like, sorry, the window for transition expenses has closed. And so, yeah, they were like, well, what the fuck am I supposed to, I just paid for this dude's family's hotel room. What the fuck? And then like, I guess a few weeks later

or something, a month or two later, like $600 cash was like left on her desk to pay for it. But like, this is the kind of just dumb shit that this fucking kleptocrat, again, this man is in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency, not the school scam lord

who's cheap as fuck agency. And so obviously, people have an opinion on this man because he's completely just letting companies do whatever they want to the earth

and not looking out for our future with things like climate change. So he joined the prestigious club of administrators who have been confronted in public. Recently, he was confronted by a teacher who was holding her child. And she caught him at lunch and was like, had some few words to say. Then someone recorded it. Check this out. Hi. I just wanted to urge you to resign because of what you're doing to the environment in our country. This is my son.

He loves animals. He loves clean air. He loves clean water. Meanwhile, you're slashing strong misdemeanors for carbon trucks for the benefit of the corporation. You've been paying about $50,000 to say that DC kind of is connected to an energy lobby at the end while approving our dirty sands pipeline.

We deserve to have somebody at 50K who actually does protect our environment. Somebody who believes in climate change and keeps it seriously for the benefit of all of us, including our children. So I would urge you to resign before your scandals push you up. Go fuck yourself.

Yeah. Pretty concise. Yeah, it's hard to hear with all the talking in the restaurant. But yeah, she was basically like, hi, you're a fucking scumbag. You're taking money from lobbyists. You then approve their deals.

You know, the laundry list of things that we always bring up on the show. And then she's like, yeah, I urge you to resign. Very politely, too. I know, very polite. And the whole time he was just kind of gl that we always bring up on the show. And then she's like, yeah, I urge you to resign. Very politely, too. I know. Very polite. And the whole time he was just kind of glumping his fingers on the table like this.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's a video. Yeah, it's a video. Yeah. And he's just kind of not saying anything. He's drinking oil from a mason jar. He's drinking oil out of the skull of a baby seagull or something like that.

He's like, proceed. Yeah. Right. So, yeah, we'll see i i i know that the inspector general uh who handles like a lot of the ethics stuff at the epa they're clearly investigating him but you'd think at this point he would be uh one to resign but i think he's doing the lord's work and by the lord we mean you know the energy companies so right has there ever been a scandal where the inspector general

just like can't complete it because they keep committing crimes and like he's just like well yeah it's just too much crimes like i read out of ink in my pen i never yeah i think in a in a yeah right now i guess i guess yeah because they're all in the these other stories that they're reporting apparently they sort of gutted the ethics department at the EPA when he first took office by just sort of letting people retire, transition out, and not rehiring anyone. So at one point, it was down to just one person working there. And of course, when that happens, you're going to buy tactical pants and do all that dumb shit. Oh, right. Tactical pants, tactical polos.

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Vice mayor though. Vice mayor. Not the real mayor. Just the vice mayor. He wrote an op-ed where he called for straight pride American month which is spam. Cool.

He must have thought that was cool. Oh, he's calling it Spam? I think so. He's calling it Straight Pride American Month, which month in America would have made more sense, but he thought Spam was a cool thing to call it, I guess. But the op-ed is just really worth reading. I don't know.

Should we just read it to people? There's just parts of it. I mean, suffice to say that this is from an insanely ignorant, maybe drunk guy as he writes it. He really seems drunk, yeah. Or who knows? But yeah, I mean, there are some real interesting things in there that someone who holds public office should not be fucking saying. And yeah. Lots of parentheticals in here.

Yeah. and yeah. Lots of parentheticals in here. Yeah. It starts off, now hundreds of millions of the rest of us can celebrate our month peaking on July 4th as healthy heterosexual, fairly monogamous keep our kinky stuff to ourselves, Americans. We do

it with our parades in every state and county in this country with families celebrating together. We honor our country and our veterans who have made all this possible including for the Tinkerbells. Which is what he calls. And we can do it with actual real pride, not some put on show just to help our inferior complex show we are different

type of crap. Oh, good. He said crap. Yeah. Type of. Inferior complex? Inferiority? That's what's just funny.

Yeah. Inferior complex. inferiority that's what's funny inferior complex also type of crap is just toxic white male punctuation you just put it anywhere to end a sentence

for your social justice call type of crap just throw type of crap there and it ends the sentence we are different from them we work, have families, and babies we make enjoy and love the company and marriage of the opposite sex and don't flaunt our differences

dressing up like fairies. Completely misspelled. Prancing by the thousands in a parade in nearby San Francisco to be televised all over the world. Deathblood of San Francisco. This guy, if you look at his photo, it will shock

you. It will not shock you at all it'll be the least surprising photo you've ever he has a handlebar mustache and uh a fedora that literally the most flaccid human i've ever seen in my life yeah i just love when people go for this like well if there's pride like how come there isn't straight pride month and you're like yeah every fucking day of the year like what are you talking about? It's, yeah, the culture wars, man. They really have people thinking that this is like, as in your capacity as vice mayor, like he was trying to proclaim the month too. What does the mayor think?

That was my question. Any word from the mayor? The mayor was like, oh, well, I believe that it's like their first amendment, right? Blah, blah, blah. It was like, it was some real half ass defense, but also not like, but also I don't believe in talking about people of our community like that. I don't know. Dixon, uh,

from what I hear from super producer and Hosni, I was familiar with the city. Uh, it makes kind of sense for that area, right? Say Anna. The only thing they have going on in the town is their 24 hour Walmart. Oh, but it is 24 hours

so that's pretty cool way to drive all of our listeners to Dixon imagine this guy being your co-worker that's oof his website is a fucking version of Twitter where he has a bunch of

one line jokes in there that are absurd what was the one he's like his version of Twitter where he has a bunch of one-line jokes in there that are absurd. What was the one? He's like, my mother loves circumcision so much she cut off all the collars on our shirts and wouldn't let us wear turtlenecks. It's like a literal fucking quote from this guy's website. I hope it was in word art. I mean, nearly. It alternates between font styles and colors.

Some are italicized, some are bold. And they're actually just like tweets. But he doesn't understand the Internet. So it's just like this fucking one post full of these quote unquote jokes. I know what you're talking about. Spam, seriously. Sounds like a comedic genius to me. He's something. He's something else.

So, yeah. The other thing was there are people who were in the comments of, like, I think the website that posted it or whatever. They're like, oh, well, now we're going to start a recall campaign to recall you. And he's like, well, I'm up for reelection in November. And it's like, okay, so you're telling people how to vote you out? Don't bother. Don't bother. I mean, November, you can vote me out, and I'll go back to selling fireworks, which I think he does.

If only all problematic white politicians were this easy. Like, well, actually, here is the way for you to get me out of office. Oh, nice try. I'm only up for re-election in November from vice mayor, whatever the fuck that means. Seems like a difficult person to win an argument against. Vice mayor. I'm still, shout out to vice mayor.

Yeah. Whatever that means. He goes out. So right now, if you don't want any farries, he misspells it the same way both times, to expire, you can clap your hands. See, I do have a heart. I just can't type and clap at the same time. So I had to make a hard choice, didn't I?

So like, that's what leads me to believe that he's drunk, is the way he ends it. He's just kind of spiraling off into these Huckabee-esque non sequiturs. We should workshop that. Anyways, the firework I have put in my ass is about to go off, so better said. Three, two, whoops, call the fire department. The vice fire department. The vice fire department.

The vice fire. Not to be confused with the vice fire department the vice fire department the vice fire not to be confused with the vice police yeah vice yeah vice the department real crimes alright it's time

for some sports shit oh really like what so the NBA off season continues to be terrible

for most people am I right Jamie oh it just yeah you said it I hacked the basketball am I right Caitlin Jamie? Oh, it just got, yeah. You said it. I hacked the best people. Am I right, Caitlin? Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah. I know what you're talking about, yeah. DeMarcus Cousins, rather than continuing to build the Lakers into a third power in the NBA, signed with the side that's already winning, the Golden State Warriors. Nobody's happy about it.

Rayjean Rondo did sign with the Lakers. I hate him from his time at the Celtics, but he is an avid roller skater. No way. And there are sick videos of him roller skating. That's how he blows steam up. And he is like bounce rock skate, old school roll bounce type fucking roller skating. No way. All right.

Very odd to see for someone with such broad shoulders and gigantic hands. He is known for having called a ref a homophobic slur during a game. And one of the reporters from the city where he was coming from, New Orleans, he said, my lasting impression of Rondo came in locker room scrum after Anthony Davis, the best player on Rondo's team last year, had 53 points versus the Suns. Me, you've played with and against a lot of great players in your career, Rajon. Can you put into perspective what Anthony Davis is doing right now? Rondo, what you want me to do, suck him off?

Reporter. Okay. Wow. Cool. Not to put Boston athletes in a bucket, but that does sound like a Boston athlete response. That sounds like Boston. Yeah. Ah, well, welcome to the Lakers.

Jesus. Get your shit together. But really, what we really need to talk about is the what? Oh, shit. World Cup day. The World Cup day. Woo, woo, woo. Wow, I love this dance song. Cool that you guys had laser lights installed for that.

Just for that. Smoke machine. Oh, yeah, we should have gave a warning to anyone in the studio that suffers from epilepsy. We all just took shots. So, wow, what a few days. Yesterday, Japan played Belgium, and I had my fucking guts ripped out. Japan, ranked number 61, played honorably against the number three team in the world, Belgium. We went up two goals to nothing in the second half, and I was on cloud nine.

And then suddenly, Belgium just kind of showed their superior talent. There was a looping header from Jan Vertonghen that I still don't know what happened. And we lost tragically 3-2 in the end. But Japan, it was really close. It was really close. It was really close. And I really thought we were about to do something. But again, we fought very honorably as we must, you know, talk everything in my word culture. I know, it sounds very.

Honorably, the samurai fought, blue samurai fought very honorably. And also, shout out to the Japanese fans picking up after themselves in the stands after every game. Like just cleaning up the area because, you area because that's how we're considerate. And the team cleaned up their locker room and left a thank you note. In Russian. In Russian. They wrote in Cyrillic. So, you know, we have good manners. So you were on cloud nine and then

Belgium put you on cloud nine! That would make more sense if their main language was German. Shout out to you. How do you say that in Flemish? I just unhinged my jaw for that one. That's great. Unhinge so I could eat this egg.

So there is that. Then this morning, Sweden and Switzerland played in a kind of not very interesting match. A very blonde game. Very blonde game. Although Switzerland is a pretty diverse team. But yes, that's fine. The more interesting news is we found out today that John Obi Mikel, who is the captain of the Nigerian national team,

so in the last group stage match against Argentina, where they lost 2-1 to Argentina, he basically found out hours before the match that his father was kidnapped, and they told him, we will shoot him if you tell anybody that he's kidnapped just run that ransom money and he'll be good but don't say shit so he basically carried that with him into the last group stage match didn't tell a single person because he didn't want to distract the team going into their final group game if they had just drew one-to-one Nigeria would have advanced but tragically i mean yes he had to

play with all this on his mind his father was released the police got him out uh but he was like tortured and is actually in the hospital uh and it's it's not even the first time his dad has been kidnapped so that's a wild wild story from the world cup you really don't know what some of these players are thinking about when they're playing and this man was finding out hours before his father was kidding. I didn't watch that game. How did he play? Could you tell it maybe affected his performance?

I didn't watch him that closely because I just sort of caught the highlights. But I don't think... I mean, he was weeping openly the whole game. But I don't know if that affected his play much. Yeah. I mean, they said he basically... Was he saying daddy over and over? What it sounds like, he just pulled it he just

pulled it together uh as much as he could uh so i mean yeah it it's it's kind of a shitty story but yeah it's it's the world cup it has more storylines than just winners and losers like that so uh yes john obie mckell hope your dad recovers fine. And also, you know, let's maybe get more Brolic security detail around your parents or something. Yeah, email me. You'll hack it. I'll code something. Yeah. And finally, the feel-good story that we're all clinging to for dear life, like some of the characters in the story, the Thai soccer team that was presumed dead when they went missing inside a

cave for 10 days inside a cave that flooded and were found, I think yesterday or the day before by a diving team that was just like going, you know, swimming around, exploring this cave, seeing if they could find anyone, you know, so they brought them food.

They brought them fresh water. Not food, actually. They're bringing them those gels that runners eat because that's the only thing they can make. Power gel? Yeah, you can't bring a pizza underwater to them, so they're just bringing them power gels. They eat gel?

Wait, what do they eat? It's basically sucrose. Like marathon runners? Yeah, it's just calories in a gel form. Health goo. Yeah, health goo. Got it. It's Soylent Green.

Yes. It's people. But it's now being reported that because the caves are so flooded and won't be unflooded for months because it's the rainy season, they will either have to learn to dive like the ragtag group of underdogs that they are, or wait for the water to recede. To be months. Yes.

I don't, this, I mean, like I said, we need to option the fuck out of this. These kids doing just like their diving classes in the little puddle area they have, and they're like, I can't even imagine, because the water visibility, it's not like it's water, right? It's like mud. Right, it's like brown water't even imagine because the water visibility it's not like it's water right like it's like mud right

it's like brown water and also the question I have is if they're in a cave where like there is no sunlight like animals that live inside caves they just yeah they evolve to not have eyes because you just like there's no point in having eyes because

it's like such a complete lack of I like that evolved trait you go there's no point in having eyes because it's like such a complete lack of... I like that evolved trait. You go, there's no point in having eyes. Honestly, there's no point down here. Have you seen those lizards though that are just like smooth up top? Don't need them. Because yeah. What's the point? Why would I have them?

Ain't no water. Ain't no bite down here. So that was something that I just, like yesterday I was saying, the coach kind of fucked up by getting them lost in the cave. But think about this. For the past nine to 10 days, he's been in pitch dark with 12 kids on this tiny patch of sloping dirt. And he managed to keep them all alive where nobody could see literally anything.

That's pretty, I don't know. Or maybe the kids were keeping him alive and he was just like, oh, no. They're like, it's OK, coach. I fucked up so bad. I'm never going to coach again. Uh, but it's still, I don't know.

Like when those people came up, not only hadn't they spoken with anybody besides themselves, they hadn't like seen anything. They'd just been like complete darkness. That's gotta be so disorienting. Yeah. I hope at the very least, you know,

just like PlayStation, Sony, like put a care package together, bring them that PlayStation, a little light, like a living room know, just like PlayStation, Sony, like put a care package together. Bring them that PlayStation, a little light, like a living room set up. Be like, look, I know it's probably a tolerator to get you guys to become expert divers through low visibility water. But we got this PS4. Some new games.

Got God of War. Yeah. Like that. You would think that like an expert diver would be able to like hold them and swim out. But I guess. Tandem diving? Yeah. Isn't there a small submarine? Like a bubble thing?

Yeah, surely there's some vehicle. Clearly, I think it must be the crevices are so small or something that they can't. That's probably why they have to bring power gel and not Taco Bell or whatever to them. God, again, don't play in caves. Right. A simple lesson we all learned. Taco Bell or whatever to them. I got it again. Don't play in caves. Right. A simple lesson we all learned. You guys, it's been so fun joining our podcasts together.

Yay, thanks for having us. Hot crossover. Hot cross. Where can people, first of all, find the Bechdel cast? Well, you can find us on the HowStuffWorks network now. What's up, network? What's up? And what are some movies that you guys have done recently? What are some movies you got coming up?

Well, the reason that I had Google searched for coded gay Disney villains is we are about to record an episode about Aladdin. So be on the lookout for that. We had the two of you on for separate episodes. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for Jack. The Rock with Miles. His wife. His wife.

His wife. His wife. Two great episodes. Lots of Greg Nancy talk. Lots of Greg Nancy talk. And then other episodes we have coming up. Lord of the Rings, of course, featuring Gollum, who is not cute. The tongue puncher himself.

And yeah, so check us out. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram at Bechtelcast. Yeah. And you guys look at famous movies or just whatever movies with an eye towards like feminism and how. The treatment of women, the female characters. Yeah. an eye towards like feminism and how the treatment of women the female characters yeah yeah our most recent episode is on her which is uh about uh toxic masculinity and computer hacking what if we hacked feelings

um okay and then individually where can people find you guys oh you can follow me at caitlin durante on twitter and instagram all right uh you can find me on twitter.com at jamie loftus help and instagram at jamie christ superstar great and do you guys have any tweets that you've been enjoying and i always like to spring this on people when they have no time to prepare i pretty much only look at my own twitter feed and laugh at it with all my hilarious jokes. That's how it's supposed to be. So shout yourself out. Yeah, you can check out my Twitter.

A recent tweet was, Uncle Drew is not about a man named Drew who gets bitten by his radioactive uncle. Hey. I tweet that joke for basically any movie that it applies to oh uh here's a recent tweet uh that i didn't get to talk about so mike's hard lemonade blocked me on twitter and uh i i tweeted at them like what's going on and then they said did not mean to block you we'd love to hear a Mike's podcast and then I immediately signed a five year

exclusive deal with Smirnoff Ice oh great so everyone can block Mike's Hard Lemonade and miss me with that shit in the future oh shit

the ice woman cometh yeah Miles where can people find you you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray.

And I just want to shout out Kate Burlant tweet. I'm a size 10 in Birkenstocks. I just like that. I don't know why you tweet that shit. But more power to you. Honest and raw. Yeah, let them know. Those hard truths.

Those are big. Those are kind of big. Okay. Got me thinking. WikiFeet. WikiFeet. It's one on WikiFeet. Ooh, I wonder what Kate Berlin's WikiFeet score is.

Sorry to sound so perverted when I said that. Ooh. Oh. Oh, no. My writing is still beautiful. Because I hacked it. My feet look like shit. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

And a tweet that I've been enjoying on said platform. Devon Romanoff tweeted, If it looks that Sarah Silverman is parting the red seas of hate so love can come through, you're right. Can't wait for the return of Moses, er, I mean Sarah Silverman. I love you, America. Hashtag Hulu. And then Steve Agee responded, I saw her pee in a Pringles can once.

Which is a great way to completely undercut your friend. And you can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, we're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram, we have a Facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our

episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song that we ride out on. Miles, what's that going to be? Oh, today we're going to play a song by King Garbage, which is Scott Pruitt. His indie label, the thing that he's doing. No, it's an artist called King Garbage, which is like the name. It's called Lost in the Sauce, because some of us are definitely lost in the sauce. It's got a good vibe to it.

I don't know. I can't describe it more than things having good vibes at this point. But it's good. I mostly like the name King Garbage. I like the name Mama Honey Meow, which is someone who tweeted at me and said, I just needed to say that I am in podcast love with Lil Xan. That is all. Aww. My Sound. That is all. Aww.

My SoundCloud album is dropping extremely soon. It's just sounds of you eating tikka out of a diaper. It's lost in the tikka sauce. Lost in the tikka sauce. Yeah, and we will be publishing a sort of fun mini-soj tomorrow, so check back in for that. Yeah, so we'll talk to you guys tomorrow because we are a daily podcast talk to you guys then bye

bye I don't Her could be my favorite Who's moving on Let me go out, I'm back at the ranch again and again and again and again Lost in the South, why my mind feels nothing better Words come out of logic, cause I can't see nothing better, baby Lost in the South, but my mind feels nothing better Worlds come at a loss, but I guess I can't see nothing better I'm lost in the south, my's a leader to the living, give it hard, I'm riding, swimming on a battle deepens in the dark Lost in the south, but my mind feels nothing but two Worlds come out of love, so close I keep seeing nothing but two, babe

Lost in the south, but my mind feels nothing but two Worlds come out of love, so guess I keep seeing nothing better, baby I'm lost in the south, where my body's nothing but dirt I'm lost in the south, where my body's nothing but dirt Where my body, nothing back to How we used to be, how we used to be Where my body, nothing back to What a drink, what a taste, what a wonderful day I think I'll bring me about a home Never cease to find it back again Fresh, make deep breath again This would a wonderful day. I think I'll bring me a bottle home.

Never cease to find it back again. Fresh with deep breath again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again.

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