The Daily Zeitgeist - THE RAPTURE IS HERE! WTF Is Netflix House? 10.20.23

Episode Date: October 20, 2023

In episode 1568, Miles and guest co-host Matt Lieb are joined by comedian, Gabe Mollica, to discuss… Trump Dump - Lawyer Edition, Netflix Is Raising Prices... But Don’t Worry Because They’re Also… Building Stores?? TikTok Is Making “Rapture Anxiety” Worse and more! Netflix subscribers surge as company announces price hikes in some regions Brick-and-mortar Netflix stores are coming soon — yes, really Rapture anxiety is a thing Even Jesus wouldn’t buy ‘the rapture’ For some Christians, ‘rapture anxiety’ can take a lifetime to heal "Swing Rapture" Video "Bus Rapture" Video LISTEN: Nova by Burial x Four TetSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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take a deep dive into america's shared sordid consciousness it is friday thank you thank you it's friday october 20th, 2023. My name is Miles Gray. Oh, sorry. I would be remiss to not tell people what this day was. It's International Mastocytosis and Mast Cell Disease Awareness Day. Obviously, we're in Breast Cancer Month awareness still. National Chicken and Waffles Day. Shout out, Scos.

You know, the LA original. International Day of the Air Traffic Controller. All right. Shout out Ronald Reagan for firing all y'all in mass. International Chef's Day. National Youth Confidence Day. original to la original uh international day of the air traffic controller all right shout out ronald reagan for firing all y'all in mass international chef's day national youth confidence day national branded fruit day national mammography day and some other thing about credit cards that's probably some stealth ad for fintech so i won't say that one anyway my name is miles gray aka been there done that, fucked around.

Not having fun, I'm finding out. I think my ass is going to get beat. I thought I would get off again. Just ask a favor from a friend. This ice just like my hair is getting thin. I've burned my bridges shore to shore. Rudy won't talk to me no more. And now the judge says I can't make a peep.

Been there, done done that fucked around not having none i'm finding out i never stopped thinking i could cheat this time baby i'm not bulletproof shout out to christy i'm a gucci main for that one y'all if you want to know where i was at in the year fucking like 2009 i was listening to the fucking Dubstep remix by Crispy. C-H-R-I-S-P-Y, LaRue Dubstep remix. And you want to have a peek into my fucking weird drug addled brain while I was a lobbyist. Anyway, that's me, the man and the place to be. And I'm joined by a hilarious writer, comedian, and just overall, it's like the homie, man.

We're becoming homies now, too. We're homies. We're doing shit off mic, bro. You know what I mean? We're kicking it big. We're kicking it. Our babies are touching. Yeah, our babies holding hands and stuff, just trying to unite the next generation of

great talents or kids who have just been annoyed to death by their wannabe comedians. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, please welcome Mr. Matt Lieb lieb yo footnotes i'm here i'm here to uh to be your guest host man thank you so much i'm i'm ready to say footnotes when it's time for me to say footnotes thank you i'm very excited to be here it's me matt lieb aka from the river to the sea how's it it going? I'm Matt Lieb. That's how that goes, right? That's how that goes.

That's what I'm pretty sure they were chanting the whole time. That's what they're chanting. Do you see how they got Obama shook? And then he's like, I have COVID. And I'm not going to speak now. That was wild. But anyway, we got to get to our guest. We got a comedian, a writer, a a performer a very special talent okay this person's

off-broadway debut solo a show about friendship has been getting plaudits literally from scotland all the way to fucking los angeles that's the whole world that's the whole world it's the western world you already know there's world. It's the only Scotland. You already know. There's only two places on earth, Scotland and L.A. We only recognize the West here. Thank you. Thank you. And Solo is still playing.

It's going to be this weekend and all of next week in New York at the Connolly Theater. And if you are fortunate enough to live in the windy city of Chicago, you can find the show being performed at the Den Theater December 20th through the 23rd. It is our honor to welcome to the show Mr. Gabe Malika! Oh, what's up guys? It's nice to be here. My show will never stop running. We've done it like 150 times. I will never stop. We haven't hit our stride yet. There's so many people that would like it. So we're just gonna, I just keep insisting that we do it and people are like, cool. We'll show up. Yeah. I feel like last time you were here, like, yeah, it's getting extended

again and again and again and again. Damn. So we extended three times and then we got on This American Life. Oh, shit. Well, that's five million people, so you should just keep going. And honestly, I thought after This American Life, it would be easier to sell tickets and it has not been. It's still really hard really hard but it's cool like last night we had girls from yale

rent a car and drive to new york city to see the show so like cool stuff is happening it's definitely happening okay okay where is yale this is how dumb i am i'm like no is it somewhere over there that's connecticut yeah connecticut it's not a right it's not close where is connecticut that's in new jersey yeah it's like yeah it's like um how do i describe it it's like north and then east of new york you drive up and then east east of new york isn't east of New York the sea? First you gotta go north. Yes, technically there's an east river. I'm across it right now in Queens.

That's wild, man. There's a whole bunch of places over there that I've just heard about on TV. I remember driving from the Hudson Valley or something back to the city and passing through Connecticut. I was like, yo, bro, I think we're in the wrong place, man. We're in Connecticut now. And they're like, no, no, no.

It's the fucking road is just going through that little corner. I'm like, okay. Connecticut sounds fancy. Like if you're from like Los Angeles and you don't know anything, which is, I think, me and Miles. For sure. I thought it was in New Jersey. Like Connecticut, you think of like a sweater vest, one of those like, what are the things that you put around your neck to be warm?

Scarf? Scarf. Yeah, scarf. You're struggling for that one? I forgot about scarf. One of those neck towels. God, LA must be sick. Yeah.

You guys are scarf free out there. It's amazing. LA USD schools are not the greatest. But no, I have homies who are like like uh yo don't go to hartford or something there's like for sure there's certain places that are like like crazy and i was like oh i didn't know that connecticut had like hardcore fucking like are there are there gangs in connecticut stay the fuck out of cromwell hey yeah right like whoa okay okay yeah you bitch we're from stamford yeah well stamford's where all

like the insurance companies are so this is like giant buildings and then like wwe driving and then you'll just see the giant wwe logo you're like and then espn used to be in bristol right or are they still there anyway whatever uh shout out all all the people from ct let us know you know what are missing? What's the hardest part of Connecticut? Honestly, I want to just speak that. What's the hardest part of Connecticut? I bet it's active. I bet it's hard.

Hey, man, if you're hunting whales and shit. Yeah, they got cut in the name. Yeah. You're about to get connected cut. They probably say that. Connect to cut. Yeah, about to connect a cut from ear to ear connect i cut anyway that is how we remember how to spell state names uh gabe we're gonna get to

know you better even better in a moment but first you gotta tell people what we're gonna talk about just a quick trump dump checking in with the lawyers because there's some there's some shit going on that again in my heart of hearts i'm, yeah, we'll see what the fuck happens here. But if this were a book about a normal person in a reality where the justice system functioned equally, I would be like, oh, this might be bad. So, again, we'll see about that. Then we're going to check in with Netflix, raising prices.

I wonder why. Probably nothing to do with the strikes. But really, the big story, TikTok is absolutely fucking up the discourse around the rapture. Oh, no. And rapture anxiety is like a thing I had not known. But for people who grew up in the evangelical rapture-centric communities, they're like, no, this shit is fucked up. So we'll talk about that and the videos that are popping up of people getting fucking raptured. Okay.

Yeah. Like it looks like the janky version of The Leftovers. But hey, we'll take it, TikTok. But before any of that, Gabe, what is something from your search history that's revealing about something that you're into or who you are right now? So I did a deep dive search into this movie that i watched called wildlife and it was uh zoe kazan and paul dano made this movie and they're married and jake gyllenhaal's in it and and i was just like this is just like the perfect kind of thing that i love it's just like a sad movie about like a like a guy who leaves his family to fight forest

fires and i'm like this is a perfect movie this is the guy who leaves his family to fight forest fires. And I'm like, this is a perfect movie. This is the kind of thing I'm into. So I've just been Googling everybody involved in this movie. Wait, that's your kind of perfect movie? Can you just walk me through that? Yeah, I'm like, it's sad and artsy. Oh, got it. Yeah, you like some of that stuff.

And there's fire, too. So in case you get bored from all the sad, you're just like, ooh, a fire's cool. Yeah, and you're like,ake gyllenhaal is so handsome yeah he's a good looking guy wait even though they were together are they married in real life paul dano and zoe kazan yeah oh that's crazy no no zoe kazan's dad's a snitch i know i know a famous famous snitch uh yeah on the waterfront yeah yeah, who did he snitch on? He snitched on everyone in Hollywood during the McCarthy trials. Oh, right, right, right, right. Yeah, yeah.

He was going around naming names, being like, that's a communist, that's a communist. Like Ronald Reagan. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. And look to the heights that they soared to. I know, yeah. At the very least, Elia Kazan got like massively hated on for a long period. I mean, so did Reagan, but that didn't matter because he didn't matter. He became president because he made everybody rich in the 80s and they forgot about it all.

Wait. So what's like a perfect artsy sad movie that I could kind of get a peep into your world, Gabe? That's out where you're like, oh, here you want to you want to feel you want to understand what I'm into? Check this thing out. The last one I saw you this one got popular but i didn't think it was gonna get popular when i saw it was past lives you see past lives no i'm i'm savvy though i know i'm aware of past lives yeah oh it's great yeah it's great it's like a love triangle movie right international longing and when it started to like get popular i was like hell yeah like this is my time hey y'all cry y'all cry what part you crying i love crying in a movie by myself come on dude i was i was crying in the fucking creator last weekend nice because it was too much it was too much death from above shit in that movie that i was like it was like hitting in another way i

was talking about this monday i was like oh bro i, bro, we don't need to debate who's a human in this movie, even though they're talking about AI. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not like this. Not like this. What were you saying, Matt? Oh, I was just saying. So these are not rom-coms. These are rom-droms.

Rom-droms. Yeah. I didn't know. You know, I forget that that's like a genre or the rom-rom yeah yeah like some things are romantic and just dramatic the whole time yeah i feel like i only ever see those as like hbo max tv movies like the one with oscar isaac and jessica chastain where they're just uh arguing for like six episodes and you're just like uh why uh why why they make this and uh then people are like wasn't it great i'm like i don't know i don't know what people think is great i don't understand great anymore what's good

i don't know i don't even know what how we define anything yeah house is great that's like but that that kind of movie is like my mom's favorite. Yeah. She just loves to get ripped apart by cinema and be like, oh my God. Yeah.

Yeah. Drum com are, they're mom drum coms. Oh yeah. Oh, that's a subgenre. Yeah. Subgenre, the mom drum com.

The mom rom drum. The mom rom drum com. For them? Yeah, mom rom drums. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Gabe, what's something you think is overrated? Okay, so I've been thinking about this because when you're an artist, there's a million ways you got to have income and streams and stuff like that.

And so this week, my thing that's overrated is merch and buying too many koozies with your name on them. Oh, no. Because now I'm just drowning in koozies. Did you buy it? Wait, is that you? Oh, I bought koozies, man just drowning in koozies. Did you buy it? Wait, is that you? Oh, I bought koozies, man. You got koozies? I'm upside down on these things, man.

Yeah, and everyone's like, buy merch. That's where you make your margins. And I was like, cool. So, like, we're selling coasters. We're selling buttons, pins, whatever, stickers. But these koozies, man, are not moving. And the creator economy is brutal. Can you give me an idea how many koozies you're sitting on right now so it was a deal they like they were like you'll get more scam be like well

here's the thing bro i got a deal is this mlm what happened here i gotta buy 5 000 to save 3 000 they printed them in the wrong color so they i wanted white with black and now they're white with like this weird green so i'm like i with black and now they're white with like this weird green so i'm like i wouldn't buy these either so i have like 350 koozies oh yeah what do they say on them they so it's it's the name of my show solo but then it's a parody of the star wars movie solo so it says solo in star wars font and then it says a gabe malika story which i think is really fun and like we kind of our plan is to get sued by disney so that we get all the free publicity that's right in the new york post

but no one's buying the koozies to sue us so i'm just i mean do you just fuck around in the justice show just once and dress as han solo and make it like just an absolute ripoff of the ip so you get hit with a cease and desist i would love that because it would go postal i mean like that's what made that would be interesting like marketing thing like you get enough friends who have like blogs or can write you up and like websites and people like this han solo solo show yeah is a mind-blowing and then that's got to be like there's got to be people at disney like what the fuck is this yeah yeah do you plug the merch at the end of the show like a road comic you know the show like ends on like it's it's it's a it's ends on a big laugh but i'm also just like it's more like please tell your friends to buy tickets more sounded that is like buy a shirt on

your way out yeah right right right right so you gotta activate that capitalist thing you gave dude that's my favorite thing that road comics do and i'm not above it i've done it uh it's like you tell your closer you know it's like uh forget which comedian had this joke but it was like uh free hugs shirt you know was what if hugs was a bear that was in in prison and it was like it was like a great it was a bear that was in prison? And it was a great closer. And then he was like, all right, guys, now that I've done that, here, I got some shirts. And it just was the exact joke that he did. And I was like, man, I forgot that we're actually in a different business.

Like comedy is actually just a one hour pitch for some merch that you bought. the end right yeah hopefully we've established enough common ground i told you that i have a child and you understand this is not an easy life therefore yes uh i do have some cds back there yeah some of gabe malika's uh beer cozies that i bought off of him in a deal just ignore yeah that is this is a gay box story this is my merch. If you guys like my comedy, I'll be selling soup after the show. I've got a soup truck. That's kind of most of my business. I know multiple comedians who sell hot sauce and or red sauce out of their car after the show. Good, good.

Might as well sell some pasta sauce. Wait, for real? Yeah, it's a New York thing. Yeah. They're like, hey, man, i got gravy out the fucking back are they italian comics because that's even funnier it's they are yeah i wish they weren't to make it more offensive henry y'all i'm selling some grandma's sunday gravy out. Just come by. Mangiare mi amici. Hey, I know this is New York and you guys are

mostly Jews, so I'm going to be selling you guys some challah and matzah I made in my one bedroom. That's right, fam. I got the wild hamantaschen. Come through. Y'all gonna fuck with it, bro. Self-homemade jarred gefilte fish.

It's disgusting the way you people like it. Oh, man. It's just super racist. It's just like, yeah. It's like, but sable? Love sable. Love sable. Love sable.

Gabe, what's something you think is underrated? All right. I'm very passionate about this because sushi is expensive everywhere. There's a 24-hour grocery store next to my apartment that for like six bucks, you can get a sushi roll. And it is just powering my whole life. So grocery store sushi when it's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you can get it like there's a there's a local market that I'm surprised sells sushi.

But it seems like they have a business where like this sushi company owns the refrigerator case that they're just asking the reflective market to have in there so i found out when they come drop the shit and so the times i've gone for the drop and i'm like oh yeah this is fucking this is great for fucking seven bucks absolutely i knew it was good when they started to use that health food store as a as like a sham restaurant on grubhub where you buy sushi and you don't know i'm like oh they think they're a whole restaurant hell yeah i love i love outing a good ghost restaurant that's always my favorite yeah remember during the pandemic it was chucky cheese they like changed the name they were like ray's famous it was just a chunky cheese oven yeah uh what the chris is hot chicken and you just it's like this is denny's yeah yeah

what the fuck yeah there was a few different ones that everyone yeah everyone just was like pasquale's that's what it was yes exactly well done well done yeah man that's but the other thing though too if you got an asian market nearby or like someone has like a good fishmonger you could save money buying sashimi grade fish and just buy your own microwave rice and put a little bit of sushi like buy yourself some sushi seasoning vinegar for your rice do the microwave pack and you could buy a fucking big ass piece of fresh salmon for fucking like six seven bucks by my house and i'm like bro just slice this up shit fuck sugarfish i love that tiktok guy the sushi guy

he goes to costco and buys a big piece of salmon and just turns it into sushi oh breaks it down oh yeah you gotta do that i'd be afraid of the you know parasites yeah he explains all that he explains that they're in there. You'll be good. No, you just take pills for that. They eat the pills for the rest of your life. Just take iodine. You'll be fine.

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And we're back. What's up? Trump dump. Yeah. Trump dump. It's time. Lawyer edition. So he's got some new legal shit to deal with that. And by that, I mean, who knows if this will affect anything.

Fuck it all. I got a prediction anything it won't okay good i think the vegas the vegas odds are on it won't do anything and he is going to run away obviously with the nomination and then of course we'll see how uh see how joe byron does uh there are rumblings of people of of someone maybe potentially getting in the race. But we'll see where that goes before we start talking about it. But anyway, Sidney Powell, a.k.a. Lady Kraken, the Kraken lawyer lady, who was like, oh, we got the goods. Trust me. This was all a fucking scam against the American people. Just you wait.

Yeah, you wait. Oh, I got it. Oh, I got files. They're not here with me. No. But they will. They're at mypillow.com slash election interferes evidence. $100 Patreon subscribers can read the files.

Yeah, and you will need to actually also subscribe in order to get Discord access to use the key that will decipher the cryptic messages that we're going to send you. Anyway, she has flipped in the Georgia Rico case. Oh, shit. About the scheme to overturn the results in that state. And she, again, if you remember, she was part of that shit show of a legal team headed up by Rudy Giuliani, a.k.a. the gin goblin. And she will now testify in order to walk out okay that courthouse

with around seven to eight thousand dollars in fines and six years of probation wow that seems I'm the one I saw that I'm like that's all you fucking get yeah fucking being like your chart you're in a rico fucking case and you're, all right, how about like seven grand in fines and six months, six years probie. And I'm just thinking, what about that black mom who went to prison just relying about where she lived to get her kids in a better school? She's in prison, but lady cracking. Oh, wee. Love to see it. You think her attorney was like, you see, this is called being a lawyer. Right, right, right. See what I'm doing?

See, this is what being a lawyer is. Just to rub it in her face. Yeah, right. Exactly. Because you're like disbarred, right? Is that the case or something? I don't know. I can't remember. But like, you know, a lot of people are like, uh-oh, RIP Donald Trump.

But you're like, uh-huh, sure. Because I get it, right? She was deep into that legal team. So, of course, she's going to have insights that maybe people didn't have already. And maybe that'll help the case in D.C. or whatever. But again, it's like, I don't know, man. Sure. that maybe people didn't have already and maybe that'll help the case in dc or whatever but again it's like i don't know man sure i mean at this point like holding out hope just seems like so like futile yeah like it's just like completely how many times can you get burned people how many

times can you be like this is it this is the one the one. It's almost like, you know, and I, I, I know it's an unfair comparison, but it's very Q adjacent to be like, no, no, no, no, no. Trust me. This is all going to be like this. This is going to happen. It's like, both sides have no idea how the legal system works on one side. It's like, it's not a fantasy revenge machine. Yes. No, it's not a fantasy revenge machine yes for the people and then for like libs they're like it works for everyone yes equally both of them are

just totally and utterly convinced of the competence of the people that they believe in whether it's like the competence of the institutions they believe in or the the competence of the the demagogues they put their trust into but they just believe it yeah like when the truth of it is is like it's all incompetence nobody is competent i never see a good example of competence either in fucking like government or in the private sector it's just like. Why would you believe anyone would be competent? You're crazy. What has taught you? Kick him in the foot.

Lucy's just pulling. It's Libs and Q. It's very, very similar. It's very similar. It's blind hope. It's going to happen. I understand one of them. I do understand wanting to believe in the system.

But how many times is the- I believe they're going to go Q on that. I understand Q. There should be tribunals. Where we go one, we do go all. Epstein didn't kill himself. Epstein didn't kill himself. Come on.

A little overlap on that. Am I supposed to believe that he... No, I'm just saying I want justice to be served. I'm not against it. I just I'm not holding my breath, guys. That's all.

Yeah. I mean, look, we're Metallica fans. We want justice for all. You know, that's right. Yeah, that's all. That's all. We're probably going to, you know, be the we're probably going to reload and then we're gonna be feeling all that saint anger i'm trying to do other albums saint anger around my neck yeah yeah yeah of course of course

and maybe we will all be unforgiven part yes and maybe we will ride the lightning thank you well like their albums yeah it's i mean i again i always say this i always say this just to give myself the opportunity to be absolutely stunned by the legal system if they're like guilty yeah man you're going away now about seven years for that and i'm like what the fuck yeah i'd rather have that reaction than I need to be fully cynical rather than be like, it's Mueller time, baby. Yes. Like, come on.

And I have been pleasantly surprised a few times when he did actually get indicted and then arrested and mugshot it. I was like, okay, okay. That's something. But you you know this idea that like even if he's convicted i'm like you think he's seeing the inside of a jail cell i just don't think so no i don't believe it it's hard but anyway this isn't the end you know this is there's something else going on because in dc the dc federal case against him that's being prosecuted by jack smith about overturning the 2020 election there's a development here so up to now trump and his

lawyers have been doing this like double speak to try and make it seem like he's innocent or has like a real defense against these charges he's like claiming he's like well i'm innocent because the lawyers i've had lawyers look at what happened and i was off their advice that i was told that it was all vetted so how could i think i'm doing a crime if the lawyers vetted it and told me to do it and that's the only thing i was doing i was just going off of this so that defense is known as the advice of counsel defense and so and up to this point seemedemed like his only decent shot In terms of like a defense that might make sense

But all the while right People were like oh if they told you to do it Like can we see the proof there He's like no just like it's attorney client privilege And you're like motherfucker what is it Like we say what the fuck's going on So Jack Smith has now asked the judge To make Trump decide

What the fuck we're doing here. Like, are you going to use the advice of counsel defense? And if he says that's the defense, he will have to reveal all relevant communication with his lawyers about the 2020 election. That attorney client privilege, privilege. I said that like Joe Namath when he was fucked up at that game with Susie Colbert. Completely goes out the fucking window. So if he wants to hide those documents with under, you know, behind attorney client privilege, he's going to have to basically jettison the only defense that he may have had. Right.

He can't use that defense. Yeah. So this is actually the first time I was like, oh, that's that feels like an interesting outmaneuvering. Or also Trump is just so fucking bad. And his lawyers are so craven that, of course, like he's like, no, I didn't plan this, bro. They're just so transparently bad at this. Yeah. So we will see where that goes.

But that's a that's an interesting. It's definitely the second one. Yeah. They are bad at this. They are not. They are not good at this. They are not good at this. The weapon that he uses legally has never been, as far as I can tell, at least from his presidency, has never been like the competence of the lawyers, like, you know, maneuvering through the legal system, finding the loopholes.

It's just having a lot of money and tying things up into litigation for fucking ever. That's always been his weapon it's like i have an endless pool of money and both states and individuals don't have the time to deal with this they're like i will just fucking wear you out right well then he stiffs the lawyers right he's running through lawyers so like eventually like it's a circle that eats itself where he has to find like dumb people who will not only are they dumb but they're they know they're gonna get screwed because they know they're not gonna pay them because then what is if he does and he just fucking says you know what fuck it i'm just i'm gonna punt my legal team y'all gonna have to eat this one can you imagine what the fuck they're gonna do to protect themselves

like yeah that's why who knows where this fucking thing goes. It's a mess and it's a disaster for just everyone because this is so unserious. It's why I understand being like, he's got to go to jail, right? Right. It's why I feel you, dog, but it just hasn't happened yet. No, not quite yet. But what's really funny, too, is like he was just in court in New York. He was fucking whining about he's like, it's a political hit job. I'm being forced to be here. That's what they want to do.

They want to keep me off the campaign trail. This is all election interference. Did this guy fucking lost track of his lies like within the same conversation? Because right after that, someone asked him if he's going to be in court tomorrow. I'm just going to play this for you. Just know that he was out here screaming, being like, they're trying to fucking end my campaign by forcing me to be here. And then this is what we got. But this is what we go through because they want to keep me here instead of Iowa,

New Hampshire, South Carolina, and lots of other great places. They want me to be here. Will you be back tomorrow by any chance? Probably not. Probably we're having a very big tournament, professional golf tournament at Durrell, so probably not. I'm sorry.

They're keeping me here. I'm locked in a cage. Oh, tomorrow? Tomorrow's not good for me. I'm going to be at a golf tournament. No, I got to play golf. What the fuck? Probably not.

Talking to like, sounded like Don Jr. asking if he's going to show up to his graduation. Dad, you're the, probably not. Probably not. I have a golf tournament. Professional golf tournament. And you can't see it on the podcast, but in the video, he answers the first part and then starts to leave. And then they ask him about golf and he turns back around. He's like, no around he's like no no actually i do want to plug the tournament yeah he's halfway out

and then he's like oh that's right that's right probably not ah that's right we're having a great big golf tournament great field great golf course you simply love it you're gonna love it beautiful it's a totally not involved with the saudis yeah no don't worry about uh my very good friend mbs will be there yeah he'll be there in costume incognito uh and you know we'll and we are giving tours of where uh ivana is buried as well it's underneath a bunch of weed for the tax break remember that yeah which is still like again like the fucking low energy scams of this fucking yes and again that's how you know we live in a fucking clown show yeah uh where if you look a certain way man things can work out fucking beautiful he's just tall man he's just tall and he talks have you seen like those images where people are saying he wears

like these kinds of lifts like he walks weird because he's on his toes inside of his shoes. So funny. I love people drawing them too. Yeah. Like inside. Yeah. They'll draw and it's always just like this little ballerina. There's always a high arch and I'm always like, people are really getting into details on these feet.

And I don't like it. I'm like, yeah. If so though, he is working those wedges. Yeah. And in a way I will have to give it up because it's not easy out here walking like that. The calf strength alone. I know. He should be able to dunk probably.

There's like jump swords. He got hops. All right. Netflix. Boo. They're raising prices. But why? They had a huge surge of subscribers, nearly nine million in the third quarter of this year

which means they're raising prices fuck did they get more are there any people who don't have netflix i don't understand when they're like every year we get more it's like how yeah people buying accounts for their babies yeah and is this because they crack down on the sharing is people have to oh that could be i mean it's weird because i i'm still on my mom's yeah and is this because they crack down on the sharing is people have to oh that could be i mean it's weird because i i'm still on my mom's yeah and i have not i haven't even gotten like those notices where they're like uh we see you asshole are you traveling or some shit yeah yeah and that's why i'm like really surprised by that me too i i'm i was on my sisters i got kicked off my sisters at some point i was like here it is

this is it end of the line for me god yeah and then i like signed back in and it worked and i was like fuck yeah sick hell yeah all right and then i looked through the menu for an hour and didn't find a single fucking thing to watch yeah right exactly man that's the worst like like when i have the worst habit of when I eat something, like, sometimes, I mean, like, I got to watch something, like, to coincide. My food has mold on it by the time I select something. Like, it's a terrible fucking trait to have.

Are we the same guy? Because I do the exact same thing, and everyone calls me a fucking crazy person because of it. Everyone's just like, eat your food. I'm like, I haven't found something to watch i've already seen every episode of arrested development i will let it get cold until i find something to watch there's nothing i hate eating doing more than eating and searching for something it's or like turning something off in the like realizing as you like nah this is an l and you're like fuck now i gotta find something else i have like three bites out of my sandwich right yeah and now it's like your

sandwich feels like it's been violated because you started eating it during like you know the intro of the last presidency the pelican brief and you're like i didn't want to watch the gabe do you have the same affliction well yeah and then they play those trailers and so you end up just end up watching those trailers and it's such a bad system and then you go on like amazon prime and you try to watch a video in there and they're like this interface is terrible oh yeah put me back in the netflix hell if you pause and turn off your apple tv if you turn it back on and it just brings it up again it's like sorry bro you're gonna have to relaunch this shit like yeah it looks like it's gonna work but it's fucked and they have more money than anybody and they're just like we don't care what it looks like whatever yeah but the fuck

i mean you gotta sift through way more trash on amazon like it's also amazon prime if i'm really high i'll be like i know i can find some terrible like yes like the like uh pacific rim meets fast and furious meets barbie type of like hype mashup film. Right. That's what I like about it. There's almost like a commitment to being like, we might not have that much good shit, but we have

some wild bullshit. Yeah. Just search. Yeah. We got it all. We got it all. Victor says Tubi. Producer Victor coming through. through to be the best for the wildest yeah yeah oh plex you guys on plex yeah i got out i'm on yeah i'm on a i'm on a homie's plex server yeah shout out to zeitgang who's always sending uh send me more plex invites you know i need to diversify my server options oh yeah 100 i i second that love plex my my friend

had a plex had me on his server for a while, and I was going through all of his stuff. It was great, but then his shit is so slow. So if you got a fast one and you really like me, help me. If you got a fast one and you really like me, hook it up. But anyway, they're raising the prices in the US and UK and France for the basic and premium plans from like 9.99 to 11.99 in 1999 to 22.99 can you explain to me what the fuck a premium plan is and a basic plan i thought you netflix is netflix no dude they have ones that are like fucking like oh you like 4k oh you like this other thing yeah you don't get like 4k is like a thing you have to like subscribe to now oh i didn't know that yeah oh yeah yeah we're on the we're on the bullshit one because uh we don't have uh we have an epson projector that yeah yeah and also shit doesn't look good in 4k like to be

honest right it's it's every time i see it i'm just like i don't like this feeling i'm getting i don't want to see everything this clearly sports or like something like nature something or like you want to see the details fine but like in a dramatic thing i'm like i'm good with 1080 you know we don't fucking go further than that i don't want to be inside of downtown abbey that's weird yeah and you will be yeah but here's the thing so like everyone's like where's the money going because there's no there's no u.s productions right now and so they're making more non-scripted shit like there's like a celebrity golf tournament they're doing. It's like, oh, wow. I can't think of something we want less.

And they're also making fucking physical stores. What? You guys hear about this? Do you see this? You heard about this? Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? You guys heard about this?

You seen this? You heard about this? So Netflix, they're making a thing called supposedly Netflix house. What the fuck? Where they're going to be like supposedly netflix house where they're going to be like selling merch themed food and quote immersive experiences based on their shows it sounds like something that just happens is like the pop-ups in la well they'll be like come see the stranger things experience uh you know uh but like what they're going to do this in more

than just la they're going to have a merch store and fucking hoboken yeah maybe they're like you can get a fucking stranger things crew neck sweatshirt and some of that champion barbecue from the barbecue cook-off show to sell it at target you idiots that's so true you don't need a brick and mortar store. Can you rent videos? Is this Blockbuster? What's happening? The fucking irony that we left the Blockbuster era only to come back to the Netflix house era. Where it's like, we kind of need physical space activations. I don't understand if there were movie theaters. We're going to make our own chain of movie theaters.

Right, fuck you. If only to just qualify for award season or whatever stupid thing. Right, right, right. But, like, come to the Netflix house. It's fucking stupid as shit. Who has loyalty to their streamer? Right. Where it's just like, whatever's on there is what I care about.

Yeah. It's like, oh, this show went to the other streamer? Then fuck y'all. I'm down. I'll just watch that. I'm like, what happened to people just do nothing? That's not on here anymore. What the fuck is that?

No, I don't do Max. No. All right. All right. This is a Tubi house. Now that's a sketch. Everything's free. Father who insists his kids can only watch Tubi.

Weird, weird ass Thanksgiving dinner with a family where someone's like fucked up the status quo of the family by now watching Max. I love that. I also love the idea of the tubey brick and mortar store. That's probably wild. They make the same amount of sense. Yeah, they do.

Bootlegs. They have those screeners where there's people in the movie theater for the camcorder. They're going to have like, we sell methadone, They have those screeners where there's people in the movie theater just for the camcorder. Oh, yeah. They're going to have like, it's like, yeah, we sell like methadone and like blank VHS tapes. We got toilet paper. Yeah, barbecue tools.

We got it all. You're like, what? Why is this owned by Bubbles from The Wire? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a cosplayer, actually. Yeah, yeah. He's really into the ip yeah the tubi store should be all kirkland brand costco knockoffs yeah it's like it's not netflix but yeah exactly oh you guys are gonna love downtown abbott downtown abbott Elementary.

It's like Abbott Elementary, but without all the, you know, the black people. We just keep it in British. British, yeah. You know, kind of how it was back in the day.

You know, back when America was great. Back when America was England. Huh? What the fuck is... It's still in Philadelphia, though. It's like, what? How? What the fuck is it? It's still in Philadelphia though. It's like, what,

how, what the fuck? We're just, we want you to imagine something different. But honestly, I think at the end of the day, like I was always saying with the writers and SAG after strikes happening, that the studios and networks are going to find a way to not pay these,

like the gains that have been made, right. Whether that's leaning on ai and like just eviscerating like whole departments or something or completely changing marketing strategy or something there because i was like there's no way they're gonna be like all right they won i guess we're gonna have to take a little bit less yeah oh darn they're just like kicking dirt at their feet they're like fuck it we're raising the price on all you fucking losers yeah no they didn't give a shit it's just and it's funny

because they could have done this the whole time right yeah like this has always been their option was to just like all right all right we'll just raise the prices and it's just like you were gonna raise them anyways you're just mad that you have to now in order to continue your fucking go up your growth numbers though yeah line gotta go up gotta go up dude or else what else is a business for but not if not for line go up how far does it go up dude to fucking forever to heaven because we've because we've killed the earth on our way to earth so we all go to heaven. Trust me, I'm helping you. I'm bringing about the rapture through my deficit spending. Lines got to go up until you reach Lil Wayne status.

You're going to need a space shuttle or a ladder that's forever. All right. We're taking a break. We're coming back to actually, let's talk about some serious shit. The rapture after this. Oh. Actually, let's talk about some serious shit. The rapture after this. Oh.

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And don't worry, we promise to avoid any black holes. Most of the time and we're back and before we move through this piece i just want to warn the listeners i hope you are right with god oh fuck i'm not because if you're not right with god yeah your your ass may go poof like obi-wan kenobi when he pulled up to fucking darth vader in that fucking star destroyer you feel me yeah i do feel you don't want that you don't be an empty pile of clothes because you are right with god now yeah with that set and now you know the the fucking the stance of this show we are pro rapture pro rapture there's this whole thing okay so for people who aren't like me and was subjected to

countless years of lutheran and catholic teachings at school the rapture you know is that special day when the good christians are called up to heaven yeah and the rest of us sick fucks are left behind but in my mind i always saw that as like i think people those motherfuckers died right i mean like i'm like they didn't get called it's like if you vanish bro i don't i don't want to know that i don't want to know where that was i'm good with this hell i'm experiencing now but anyway is the question now is is this rapture already happening because on tiktok there are a bunch of these fucking weird low budget videos of people randomly disappearing in an instant like this video and i'm and i have to play this for our in-studio guests and uh and we will have these

links in the footnotes so you can see this but this is a video of like supposed family who is pushing their daughter on a swing and then i guess christ-based disaster strikes hell yeah i love a good christ-based disaster it's the best kind charlie smile so it's a family in their backyard my beautiful family so contrived but let's pretend it's real picture perfect models they're gonna do the exact same thing yes Yes, I know. Being pushed on a swing in their backyard. Let's go higher to Christ consciousness. Higher, mommy.

I want to die. Look at her. Oh, she's so beautiful. They're having such... Oh, wow. Charlotte. Perhaps today dot... You get this thing called PerhapsToday.org

I'm going to play you another one, okay? That's the family in the swing This one is from a school bus, apparently Where children are raptured on a school bus This one's on TikTok Oh, hell yeah Oh, and it's hidden camera video, so you know that So there's a circle on this little girl

It can't be fake Yeah, I see video so you know that there's a circle on this little girl it can't be fake yeah i see there's a you see a little girl she's in a circle everyone's sitting on the bus everybody disappeared they're all gone why did they circle the one girl if everyone disappeared it's true i never thought of that i like i'm waiting for just one i was waiting for that kid to disappear. I was waiting for that one kid to disappear. The whole fucking bus disappeared. The whole bus disappeared. Why circle, girl? That was the most janky fucking jump cut I've ever seen.

It looks like, if you remember the movie Speed, when they had to fucking put the tape on a loop to fucking throw Dennis Hopper off the set that they were getting people off to. It's the exact same look and feel of it. And now they're gone. Remember he noticed that lady's purse kept flashing? The purse got raptured.

Oh my god. These things are like, there's more. And apparently they're all over the fucking place. And like we saw at the end, there's a URL that says perhaps today.org. The website reveals that this is all not real.

In fact, these are actually, this is part of a celebrity evangelist, what he calls pre-enactments. So they're not technically a hoax because they're, they are actually going to happen. So like, don't fucking act like there's a hoax this shit will happen to you if you're not right with god i gotta say that's fucking creative as shit as much as i i think this is a an abomination pre-enactment is a little bit genius that's wild it's like do you know that line in dodgeball when he's like it's a metaphor but it really happened they're like you could like you're eventually going to disappear

but then we'll just show it literally and so like they're just not good english students like just they just know how symbolism works right they're terrible video editors no the humanities are dying in this country we need to fix this yeah but if you're bad enough you actually can create some magic and pre-enactment is magical dude that's magical i love the fucking way you people bend their minds yes coming up with phrase like bless you dr david jeremiah which sounds like an evangelist scam artist already that's the guy's fucking name and he's sir he's selling like this quote a new teaching series and book that's all about the rapture but he says worry not because it's not quote a series of doom and gloom scare tactics or sensationalism like the videos we just saw

someone's beautiful daughter disappear but it's not that it's not don't worry about it there's dude there was another one where this woman sees like her like family like a family car crashes because while it's driving, everyone got raptured. This is just the fucking leftovers. And the leftovers did it fucking way better. Cause the leftovers was like, there's no way to make this look good.

Like if someone just disappears in front of you, that's gonna, you're gonna, it's like seeing the alien from signs. You're like, ah, they should have never shown the alien. Yeah.

Like, the alien from signs you're like ah they should have never shown the alien yeah yeah yeah like so the leftovers just has one minute you look over the next minute you they're gone like and that worked fucking great yeah god that show's good yeah yeah season two was fucking that was like one of those ones where you're like damn that middle one fucking dude season two season three though as well like season one is probably the worst season. And they're all good. They're all good. Yeah.

Oh, fuck. Dude, that's such a good show. Oh, fuck, dude. I want to get raptured, bro. I want to get raptured. Although, see, in a way, though, remember they went to some fucked up dark world. Yeah, that's right. Spoiler alert.

Yeah, spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. Sorry if I just did spoiler alert. But, like, in that case, I'm like, no, I'm good here. I'm good here. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not trying to be with them over there. I mean, I get it if you're separated from your family.

But anyway, so it seems that like social media is just going to make it's this is apparently like an existing and newly observed phenomenon that they're just exacerbating called rapture anxiety. Yeah. But let's let's go back a few ticks here the rapture is it in the bible fuck no oh it's not it was invented by some dude in the 1830s like this motherfucker just came out with it like sort of taking little drips and drabs of of the fucking you know original ghost story book that they read from and trying to create a new off book ghost story to kind of get people to fall in line fan fiction fan so jesus never spoketh about said rapture just for for all my bible students out there and i will see you this sunday and the idea was like basically cemented in like our public consciousness all

in the 20th century. Like again, shit like the leftovers, like pop culture. There are books and there's like the left behind series that was all kind of dealing with this. I didn't know. I thought it was just one of those. Like for me, every time there's like some crazy shit that people talk about from the Bible, I just assume it's in the book of Revelations. Right, right, right. Exactly. That's the one that everyone draws from. It's like, oh, no, that's like the book of revelations. Right. Right. Right. Exactly. That's the one that everyone draws from.

It's like, Oh no, that's like the exciting conclusion for the now for the exciting of Jesus. Yeah. Part three of the finale. The tell all was fantastic though. Yeah. But like,

this is the thing, like for people, like I said, people who are in communities that are like actually like on this rapture shit, apparently like it has left a lot of people traumatized. They're saying that it can be a chronic problem. Like some experts said rapture anxiety can be a chronic problem in these places with an increase of anxiety, depression, paranoia, sometimes OCD like behaviors. And the thing is, like, i don't know how this wouldn't fuck with like a little kid's head right you're saying like hey you need to fucking get right

with god or guess what man the fuck is the rapture is coming and they ain't telling you shit okay right exactly any any day any second your whole family could be gone and this is considered like a a good thing to tell your kids. Yeah, that's why you got to, hey, repent, repent, repent. Or just think about what sin will do to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously, and tithe. We're going to rapture a few hundred dollars in our bank account. A few hundred?

Yeah. Oh, so you really want to get left behind, Matt. You need to be giving at least 40% of your income. A few thousand. All of my money. Yeah, exactly. I've met your family. They're beautiful.

You don't want to get left behind. $200,000. All of my money. Yeah, exactly. I've met your family. They're beautiful. You don't want to get left behind. I hope when I'm raptured, I'm reunited with the thousands of dollars that I spent reading about the rapture. Hey, stop talking about the money, man. You're not getting the money, okay? I'm talking about salvation. The rapture is just like a DNC email from Nancy Pelosi. It's like, Gabe, it's Hakeem Jeffries I need your help the rapture's coming but for 1299 we can fight back the radical right wing yeah Trump is this is lib rapture yeah he's coming again you

need to donate but like here's the thing like I guess like for people who grew up in these like rapture friendly communities, this was like extra unsettling. Like people would talk about how they would like kids would prank each other using the rapture to really fuck with them, like hiding and shit and getting to be like, oh yeah, everybody been raptured. I think everybody got raptured and shit. It's just so fucking wild.

And then like some cases, like the left behind movie series and books, like we're being promoted in churches and being like, yo, this is actually a great series because this is almost documentary-style footage of what a post-rapture world could look like. And yeah, it's wild. I would love to live in a fucking post—are you kidding me, Doug? post are you kidding me doug if i got raptured or not if i got if everyone else got raptured first thing i would do i guess this is more zombie apocalypse if i was in i am legend can we change the subject oh so wait are we mashing up the leftovers with i am legend no i'm just doing i am legend now okay i just really wanted to say i would be at a CVS doing all of the Dilaudid. That's all I wanted to say. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Just every opiate. I'd be like, everyone's dead. Who am I? I'm not accountable to anybody. Ah, fuck it all. And then you got to choke on a German Shepherd. Yes, exactly, dude. That part of the movie is always so wild.

It's pretty great. It's just funny, too. I always talk about this whenever the movie comes up. But I had a friend. We were watching it on video or whatever. And and he left he's like i can't do this bro because of the dog really bro yeah he's like one of those people who like yeah there's some people who fuck with animals more than people and i'm like yeah sir i mean he's like this is just that was too far that was too far i'm? Okay. Yeah. I just like, for me, I'm like, okay, but now I need to show you a movie where a kid dies.

I want to see what you do. If you sit there and just watch, we're never hanging out again. Oh, he thought City of God was hilarious. Yeah. He's like, they just can't figure it out in those favelas, huh? They just do those favelas, man. Just come on. Get it together.

Those little kids were sobbing they're soft down there they're soft but yeah i mean again this is like it's just wild there are certain kids who are talking about how like expecting the rapture like that it could happen at any moment like they just became despondent and felt like they had no future on earth yeah i'm like yeah don't worry kids let me tell you about climate change. Yeah, right. Pull up a chair. Pull up a chair so I can, my brother in Christ, so I can hit you with some facts. My brother in Christ, you will not be raptured. There is no one day everyone disappears.

But there will be a slow, painful descent into the heat death of the world. Well, they already had the hell thing they already had people freaking out about going to hell they're just like it's now worse like there's just a new version right yeah this theologian who came up with in the 19th century like he's he's double dipping man yeah you know like you're putting a hat on top of a hat already yeah you know most people like yeah the the Catholics I grew up with, like who are like, like we're up in it.

Who are like, bro, the fucking guilt, man. I can't even believe, like, I didn't think it was fucking with me, but it is.

Cause I fucking thought there was hell. And I'm like, dude, that is so, I just remember when I first heard about hell, I just didn't like the idea. So I wasn't believing in it. It's that same.

That's like, that's been my path with like organized religion or theology like what it's like these things are put in front of me i'm like wait hold on if i don't do this i'm gonna burn in hell i'm like right bro no right because i'm like i don't like no not if you start off with like there is a god and he loves you and you're like okay except that premise and then you go into the hell stuff you You're like, I don't think that sounds like what my God would do as he loves me.

Right. Or the thing when the atheism starts creeping up in kids, like in middle school, I remember at my school, they'd be like, wait, so God is in control of everything? Yes. He is omnipotent. He's omniscient. He knows and does everything.'m like then why do like

people die tragically oh well uh you see uh they're bad all right you know what go to the principal's office man yeah get the hell out of here not doing this kind of disruptive behavior man yeah all right y'all let's open our rapture books and sing the song to get right with him. I'm going to disappear. I'm going to disappear here. Take all my money. I'm going to disappear. And I'm disappearing to the fucking principal's office. Gabe Malika.

Thank you so much, man, for joining us on the daily zeitgeist. It's always awesome having you, man. Where can people find you? Follow you? I know I hit up some

hide some of those dates but please uh the floor is yours yeah at gabe malika instagram i'm posting about my show a lot and we're taking on tour all over and listen to episode 810 of this american life and you'll hear all about my show yeah yeah but it resonates if you look if you're you're going to your 30s you know i what I mean? You're like, what is friend? What is friendship? How I do. And do I still do it the right way? This is something. This is it.

This is it. Difficult. And is there a work of social media, traditional media, new media, whatever that you want to put people on to? Oh, I had this tweet made me really laugh about Biden when he said Biden suggests Medicare or he would veto Medicare for all over its price tag. And it's the emperor from Star Wars going, I'm too weak. And then the New York Post headline, Biden insists U.S. can confront wars in both Ukraine and Israel. We're the most powerful nation in history and it's unlimited power. Holy shit, man. It's so true yeah oh yeah we got we yeah we

got 100 what do you need 10 billion yeah yeah yeah we're good whatever write the check absolutely good we're absolutely good uh matt leave thanks so much man for helping me co-host bro bro sorry no fuck dude i don't know when i know i'll fuck it like I said I'm gonna point to you Okay At the very least I have to say it first Like I said it's like a call and response Don't just you know scream it out I just want to do it on time so people know that I tried

Where do people find you And follow you and all that man Oh so you can find me On all of the social medias I'm on Twitter At Matt Lie medias. I'm on, I'm on Twitter at Matt leave. I'm on more importantly, I'm on Instagram at Matt leave jokes. Follow me there.

I, you know, that is, that matters because this other Twitter is dying and, uh, and is a bad place. Stay out of there. Stay out of there.

Bad people. So yeah, follow me on Instagram. And also I do a, the wire podcast called pod yourself a gun a tv rewatch podcast and you can find that wherever you get uh your podcasts and i i've got a what do you call a snoop soundboard i've got all of her europe's i have yeah and i've got she's got a lot of those

We don't know what they mean, but Pretty cool Yeah, so, listen to that There we go Let's see Any other, nothing? No media? You know what?

The only media I think I will suggest, not a specific thing, but I will say I've been a big fan of the homie Max Collins at Eve6. I've been reading kind of his posts recently regarding kind of what's going on in the world. And I got to do a big shout out to him because it's a tough position to take online, especially if you are, you know, not Jewish and not Arab. And most people want to like, oh, I got to stay out of this. I don't know. Maybe I don't know enough. And I think he brings a clarity to the situation that I think is it's cool of him to post as someone who agrees with him. I think it's great at Eve eve six he really has put his tender heart in a blender yeah and um we're watching it spin around right now into a beautiful oblivion beautiful rendezvous and i'm

through with you and i'm through i'm just wait who's like i'm not like origami oh okay there we go. Look, there's all kinds of remixes happening. A thing I like is from at Tony Zaret. It says, anyone know if this is real? And it's a screen cap of like the, it just looks like a word document that's meant to look like a headline from a website.

It says, the Satire News. McDonald's to keep up with the times by offering new woke hamburger by John Fake. Tony Zara's the king, man. That's hilarious. It's so fucking good, man. It's real. This kind of feels like everything right now. Is this real by John Fake?

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like those fun videos, as well as a song we were going to ride out on. I wanted to just go back in time with this track with Burial and Fortet. For people who like electronic music and are of a certain age like me i that's those are two names i grew up with and i love hearing and this track is called nova and it's just like i don't know man this is like the kind of thing i like to just play like i'm working in like a techno cafe type music uh sometimes in the morning you know making my coffee feeding the baby and stuff so So try this. Nova, Burial, and Fortet.

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