The Daily Zeitgeist - Toy Story 4 Too Woke? Oregon Too Much Weed? 6.25.19

Episode Date: June 25, 2019

In episode 420, Jack and special guest host Sara June are joined by comedian drag queen and Ghosted podcast host Roz Drezfalez to discuss how Oregon has way too much weed, Warner Bro's Media hiring a female CEO, the US military thinking we can win a nuclear win, Pete Buttigieg facing criticism from his own town, mystery investors buying out California's newspapers, 7-Eleven starting to deliver slurpees, Sylvestor Stallone charging fans for selfies, the sexual politics of Toy Story 4, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Oregon has too much cannabis. Two laws may help the state manage its surplus2. Ann Sarnoff Named Warner Bros. CEO in Surprise Pick3. Warner Bros. On ‘Precipice of Change’ as Studio Preps for WarnerMedia Boot Camp4. Nuclear weapons: experts alarmed by new Pentagon 'war-fighting' doctrine5. Buttigieg criticized at emotional town hall after shooting6. Frustration, confusion as Bakersfield Californian faces layoffs and new ownership7. Who are the mystery investors buying some of California’s last family-owned newspapers?8. 7-Eleven Slurpee delivery service now reaches beaches and parks9. Sylvester Stallone charging fans $1550 for a selfie10. Box Office: ‘Toy Story 4’ Dominates With $118 Million Debut11. Disney announces that Woody will be “openly bisexual” in Toy Story 412. WATCH: "Toy Story 4" Transgender Character Exposed13. Everything You Need to Know About Forky, the Neurotic Breakout Star of 'Toy Story 4'14. WATCH: Habibi Funk // حبيبي فنك : Al Massrieen - Mafatshe Leh (Egypt, 1980) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 88, Episode 2 of your daily zeitgeist. A production of iHeart Radio, this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially, off the top, fuck coke industries and fuck Fox News. Controversial.

Yeah. Those are, you know, they're very widely beloved organizations with our audience. So I just, I had to do it to them. It's Tuesday, June 23rd, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Laptop Jack, a.k.a. Headphone Jack, a.k.a. Ox Jack. And I'm thrilled to be joined by today's co-host, Sarajoon! Hello! I believe it is Tuesday, June 25th. Is it?

I believe it is. Huh. Well, agree to disagree, I guess. Sarajoon, it's so good to see you, as always. It's so good to see you. You're filling in for Miles. You're doing a great job. Thanks. You're just doing an amazing impression of him upstairs

Eating a venison bar And talking about beets Talking about beets Non-stop Well we are thrilled to be joined In our third seat by The hilarious and talented Roz Drez-Felez

Hey Happy Pride Month It's almost over The hilarious and talented Roz Drez-Falez. Hey! Hey! Happy Pride Month. Yeah, yeah. It's almost over. It is. How do you feel about that?

You know, Pride Month, I live Pride Month 12 months out of the year. Yeah. I hope everyone else will join me because, you know, as soon as the month's over, it's like, hey, I'm still, I'm a drag queen. Hire me. Yeah. I'm still horny i still need work i got bills to pay wigs are expensive all right we will we will be sure to i i believe this booking had absolutely nothing to do with pride no no no no we will uh disabuse you of that notion by having

you back immediately i would love to uh but we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we are going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today. Oregon has too much weed, according to the news. I'm like, is there any such thing? Because I'm cool. Because I love ganj. Anyways. Puff, puff. And sometimes my entire job is just trying to make Anna, like, want to jump out the window. We're going to talk about the fact that Warner Brothers has hired a replacement for their CEO who was exchanging sexual favors for access to roles. And it's a woman. So a little bit of good news in the Neil Manghazi.

Is it? Yeah. Yeah. I think so. It's better news than the previous news that their CEO was hitting on actresses and trying to get them to have sex with him in exchange for roles. I guess that's pretty bad news. Yeah. Yeah.

get them to have sex with him in exchange for roles. I guess that's pretty bad news. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to talk about a troubling trend in the U.S. military. We're going to talk about Pete Buttigieg facing questions over race in South Bend. We're going to talk about the Bakersfield Californian, a small newspaper being bought by mysterious Canadian publishers. Although Canadians can't be evil, so I think we're good there.

See, that's the myth that's going to bring about our downfall. That's how they get you. They're right there just waiting to invade. You always say that. We're going to talk about 7-Eleven because they are now delivering Slurpees. We're going to talk about Sylvester Stallone for some reason. Maybe not. We're going to talk about Toy Story 4, finally, because it is controversial in the conservative community.

But first, Roz, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Roz, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? You know, I don't know why I was just sitting there the other day and I was thinking, what was the lead actress from the TV show The Secret Life of Alex Mack? Do you remember that show on Nickelodeon?

Yes. I remember the show, yes. I couldn't think of what her name was. Is it Amber Tamplin? No, she was also in 10 Things I Hate About You. Julia Stiles no the other one yes the other one okay the sister the sister I couldn't remember what her name

was I'm sure she's you know out there seeing her face Larissa Olenek is my guess yes Olenek that's what I got that's what I figured out so those are the things that go through my mind there it is oh yeah she is the sister from 10 things I hate about you yeah I never watched that show I just saw ads my mind. There it is. Oh yeah, she is the sister from 10 Things I Hate About You.

I never watched that show. I just saw ads for it. Is it a good show? I don't remember. Does she melt into a puddle? Is she the one? Yes, that's the one thing I remember. She can melt into a liquid and go under doors. Oh, that's tight. Is that her only

power? I don't know. I want to say she had others. Yeah, I don't want to say anything definitive because the secret heads out there are losing their mind, just screaming at their earbuds. And that doesn't work, guys, so stop doing that.

What is something you think is underrated? I think that the movie oh i just recently saw the movie in the intruder which is um dennis quaid as like he said the intruder when somebody comes in and then leaves um yeah sorry guys didn't mean to come in right but that like first five seconds when you think they're like there to do something bad yeah terrifying like oh my god i'm so sorry yeah my friend just like asked me to go see this movie like where dennis quaid is like a crazy man that like he like lives in this house and then he sells the house and then he's like crazy um and it totally intrusive yeah so like i googled it and i'm like um i think it had like 33 percent

or something like that on rotten tomatoes so i'm underrated and then i saw it i was like i had the time of my life oh really i really enjoyed it so he intrudes on the house he keeps coming back to visit the people he sold the house yeah and there's a twist so i don't want to ruin it but um seems like a lot of people uh didn't it but I had fun. I can't wait for the sequel The Extruder. The Extrusion. What is something you think is overrated? Mansions.

You like a more cozy home. Hard to agree. I don't know why anybody needs all those rooms. It's just more rooms that like an intruder could be in. Right. Let's be honest. If you have a mansion, how do you know that it's empty? Yeah. When you're in there alone.

Exactly. Because you're alone. And maybe if you had like 30 people that lived in your house, you need 30 rooms. But otherwise, why do you need all those rooms? Nobody needs them. No. It's to put space between you and the spouse that you despise. Yeah.

And in which case, you know, get a condo. Get your own. Get two despise. Yeah, and in which case, you know, get a condo. Get your own. Get two condos. Yeah! Is this something you're experiencing right now? You just bought a mansion? Well, yeah, I've been sitting in my mansion, and I'm like, why do I need all these rooms?

Like, why do I need a movie theater here? Like, I can go see another, I can go to another place to see a movie. I don't know. No, not at all. I do just think about that. You know, once this career of being a drag queen that talks about ghosts for a living really takes off and it's time to buy a mansion. Should I or should I give it all to people that need it?

Well, you should buy a haunted one. Yes. That feels right. A haunted mansion. A haunted mansion. Because then it's kind of occupied. Yeah, there you go. Roommates.

There you go. Yeah, I do feel. Roommates. There you go. Yeah, I do feel like the bigger the house, the spookier it is if haunted, unless it's like a modern, ugly monstrosity. Well, the best ghost mansion is the Winchester Mystery House. Right. That will not be surpassed. Yeah. And that's got a lot of rooms.

A lot. But they're to confuse the ghosts somehow. But it just seems like it's more places for the ghosts to go. That's right. Yes. But it was built, she built it continuously to confuse ghosts. And there's doors that open to nowhere, so the ghosts will be like, whoa! Yeah, wait a minute!

The ghosts will fall and break their necks or something. Are these ghosts that can't walk through walls? I don't think. I think. I don't know. She had a very specific set of rules in mind as she was building. These are things that I talk about on my podcast, Ghosted by Roz Dress for Less, available everywhere. We talk about things like this. I don't know what ghosts can do and can't do.

Right. People always think, oh, when you die, like that's the outfit you're going to wear for eternity. But like, I don't know if that's true. Like, I'm always just trying to figure these out.

Also, like, do you, do you appear to others as yourself when you die or perhaps as your younger self? And if your younger self, how is that chosen? What incarnation of you it is? Yeah.

What if you were a ghost baby, even if you died as an adult? Oh, man. Yeah. Okay, someone just sent me a story about this guy. Okay, I think the story was his grandpa had visited him like as a full body apparition spirit, wearing this suit jacket, this tux jacket that he had,

the grandpa had gifted this guy that wrote to me. So he had the jacket like in his closet, but he saw his grandpa wearing that jacket so it's like can you be can clothes be a ghost even if it's not like the clothes aren't dead and buried in the ground i'm real confused yeah there's a lot there's a lot of questions for this guy's dead grandpa your search history may be about the secret life of alex mac but my search history is going to be can clothes be be a ghost after this episode? Because that is a great question. Totally. So we were talking before we started recording,

are you a believer in the paranormal? Totally. I think it's just fun. I don't know. I don't take my life too seriously. I wear huge wigs for a living. I'm just someone that likes to have a good time. It would be funny if you were like, that's ridiculous. Ghosts. I know. That's where I draw the line. But yeah, I think it's fun

just to believe that anything is possible. Why not while we're here? Right. You know, and I think I've heard a lot of people that don't believe in ghosts that listen to my show and they just enjoy listening to people that believe what they're saying. When they talk about these experiences, they truly believe it happened. Whether you believe it or not, it's a reason we watch horror movies.

We just enjoy listening to people being spooked. Yeah. I'm scared right now. I wouldn't say I believe in ghosts actively, but I am still scared of them. I'm scared right now. Even people who say, like, I wouldn't say I believe in ghosts, like, actively, but I am still scared of them. Like, I'm still scared, spooked out by creepy ghost stories. I had to explain the concept of a ghost to an eight-year-old whose family is, like, not at all religious. So, you know, I told her that I had dug up a dead dog in my yard, which is true. I found the bones of a dog that somebody had buried.

I mean, this house is extremely old, and they're just bones, and there's not that many of them. But she was like, what did you do with the bones? And I was like, well, I'm going to rebury it so that its spirit could be at peace or whatever. And she was like, what's a spirit? And I was like, it's a ghost. And she was like, well, a ghost can't do anything,

so could a ghost dog bite you? And I was like, I guess not. And she was like, well, a ghost can't do anything, so could a ghost dog bite you? And I was like, I guess not. And she was like, then who cares? Right. The corporeality and the difference between a flesh body and a spirit body, these were all very new concepts to her. She was like, how does it haunt you if it can't touch you? And I was like, in your mind.

I know. It's one of these things where no one knows the answers. So, I mean, all you can do is just – Especially not dumb kids. Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, all you can do is just- Especially not dumb kids. Yeah, exactly. So, I don't know. You can just speculate what things are, but I just have so many questions all the time,

and it's just, I don't know, it's fun. I just think it's fun. Are you a horror fan? Love it. Yeah. Yeah, and we're having a good moment right now. There's a lot of horror movies coming out. Yeah, I feel like it's starting to vary up i i used to wonder like why there weren't horror movies set in the city they were always set

in like the suburbs and like rural and i think that's like true of america and maybe that's because that's where most of like the evil shit in american history was done was like on farms okay in the woods against native americans or something like deep in the woods against Native Americans or something, deep in the history, whereas British horror movies often take place in the city. I thought they were all in the moors. Yeah, maybe they are. I thought the ghosts hung out on moors mostly.

There aren't that many haunted beaches in U.S. horror, are there? That you know of. Right. I kind of think every beach is haunted. A lot of people die in the ocean. Oh, could you imagine you're swimming and a ghost grabs your leg? Absolutely. I imagine it.

That's why I don't go in the water. Yeah. That's why I do go in the water. Like I'm built up by a ghost. Yeah. I mean, we even have stories of people having sex with ghosts. So, like we've had it on my podcast. Kind of a lot of people having sex with ghosts so like we've had it on my podcast kind of a lot of people have sex with ghosts it turns out yeah i think that was dan ackroyd's original idea for ghostbusters i did read that the blowjob scene seems like it's like

completely tacked on and stupid to us but like his initial idea was like what if i got blown by a ghost like everyone's like okay i get blown by a ghost it's called nut busters ghost blowers no let's revamp this for children it was initially called ghost smashers uh and then they called it ghost busters to make room for the nut busting puns probably uh ross what is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false or vice versa? That ghosts are fake.

Okay, there you go. Yeah, I have a whole show dedicated to it. Yeah, what's the, do you have a ghost story that is the most kind of convincing to you or like? Well, my own. Okay, let's hear it. Yeah had many yeah well i mean i have like a billion stories i don't want to take up too much time just listen to the show if you want to hear some of mine but yeah i do have one about like a ouija board that i bought from a thrift

store that like weird stuff started happening um i did have the spirit of my grandmother living in the house uh that i grew up in and so like seeing her one time and then just little things happening around the house. So from such a young age, I've always just had the idea that spirits are a thing. Where'd you grow up? Michigan. Michigan, okay. Seems haunted.

I mean, every place is haunted. Hollywood, honey, this neighborhood. There's people that talk about unfinished business. There are people that are trying to get that 15 minutes of fame, and they didn't get it, and now they're still trying to be seen. They're the ones dressing up in all the Iron Man costumes. That's right. You take a picture with somebody, you think it's a guy, but it's a ghost.

Yeah, take off the mask. You might not be a face. goes yeah take off the mask you might not be a face uh all right let's talk about another haunted state in these united states oregon uh haunted by marijuana haunted by the ghost of marijuana haunted by the ghost of a of a bubble industry there you go so uh oregon is reporting too much weed too much uh bunch of narcs yeah well in in states where it's legal to smoke pot which is quite a few now um you can only smoke pot grown in that state uh i didn't know that yeah and so oregon can't ship their weed to california and oregon can't ship their weed to nevada and they can't ship their weed to California and Oregon can't ship their weed to Nevada and they can't ship their weed to like Florida but it's way way way easier

to grow weed in Oregon I wish you had just kept naming states those are states where it's now legal like you can smoke weed in California but it's gotta be grown here so I mean it's just it's hard to not grow weed in Oregon there's so many fucking growers there.

It's like the best place to grow wheat in the country, basically. So they just have so much pot. I don't know if you guys have been to Portland lately, but you could buy huge, like a Grand Prix roll for like $2. Oh, really? It's really crazy. Yeah. It's because they have, and they were like, at the time that it went legal in Oregon,

there were more dispensaries than bars in Portland. Wow. Portland has a lot of fucking bars. I guess it does. And then they all closed because you know people were like you know everyone thought they were gonna get rich quick with the fucking green rush and now you know the weed is so cheap it's like it would take apparently like at the rate that oregon consumes weed i think it would take like it would take them like six years to smoke all this weed, but you can help. Right. Yeah. Yeah. This is a great tourism board. Yeah, it is.

They should be, we have too much weed. Come help us smoke it. Should be their state motto. Please, someone smoke this weed. Somebody smoke me. I mean, the mask is green. I was just thinking about like growing up in the 90s, like how much Jim Carrey quoting used to happen.

Oh my God, it still happens for me. Somebody stop me. That was such a thing. Alrighty then. It was a big one in my house. Totally. Do not go in there. That movie does not hold up, by the way.

Does it? It's a true end. Pet Detective? The first one, yeah. Think of Lionhorn, you know. Right. It's like a super not cool it's whoa it's really not cool it's like super transphobic um like i totally forgot about

the whole plot of ace ventura which is that like there's an evil detective who then turns out to be a like a trans woman basically that's like the big reveal at the end um but then you know there's also like a lot of like silence of the Lambs jokes and I was like I thought this was supposed to be a kids movie I didn't understand any of those jokes what a sports nut is still one of my favorite jokes of all time in movie history when the kicker's

mom is showing like all these like newspaper cutouts just like the most obvious like serial killer like den with like crazy stuff all over the world yeah red yarn and she just turns to him and goes what a sports nut huh because it's all football based anyways that's uh let's all talk about our favorite scenes go i do it's the rhino scene it's the rhino scene We can all say it I remember that

Where he's like Inside of a rhino Yeah He's like inside of a fake rhino And then he gets born Out of the rhinos But it's I remember that

It's a classic Okay And people are watching And people are watching And he's sort of You know He's being born I mean Jim Carrey is

A legend And if he gets You know If it turns out that That he has sexually assaulted people Then boy I'll be sad. Wait, really? No, no, no, no.

I say if. I worry every day that Jim Carrey will, as they say, get me toed. Yeah, they do say that. Because, you know, all of our heroes are falling. And Jim Carrey certainly was my hero. Yeah. But as of now, I've never heard anything about this. I do not want to slander Mr. Carrey.

Somebody stop you. I just, I want you to know. Hey, he was never heard anything about this. I do not want to slander Mr. Pierce. Somebody stop you. I just want you to know. Hey, he was asking. Somebody stop him. That's wild that you specifically worry about that. Oh, yeah. And also about, well, yeah, there's like Paul Giamatti, you know, just actors I like. Just actors I really like.

I'm like, God damn it, Paul Giamatti, please, please, please don't have ever raped anyone. Yeah. I just don't want these men to let me down. I do feel like... Sorry, that brought it down a little bit. We were talking about too much weed. I do feel like communicating in Jim Carrey lines was what I learned instead

of Spanish. Like whatever the language learning part of my brain was. Yeah, yeah. It was just an informal course. And then it was funny. I hung out with my wife's like guy friends from who were like her guy friends in high school. Yeah.

And like they're grown men in their 30s, but they're still using like doing dumb and dumber quotes because they just haven't seen each other since high school. So like they're just like. Pick up where we left off. Yeah, it was pretty funny. I do wonder, what does a town post the Green Rush? I've been to a town in Arizona. Talk about haunted, this town, Jerome, Arizona.

Have you heard about that? It's this town that was massive for a little while while it had a functioning copper mine. And then the copper mine went bust or copper prices went to shit and all the mines closed down. And it went from 50,000 to 100 in the span of a couple months.

And it's the most haunted ghost town. It's a really cool town. Dude, every mining town is like that. West Virginia is full of crazy ghost towns like that. Where it was a mining boom town. And then it just died. Yeah. I wonder what's up.

West Virginia? West Virginia with coal. And then in Arizona with copper. West Virginia is where the Mothman is. He was probably a miner. I'm so scared of the Mothman. I was too young when I read the Mothman prophecies. Oh, really? Yeah. He's really scary.

He's a guy with big wings. And he flies around in a light bulb. It's a vision that happens and then massive disasters happen, right? Is that the story with Mothman? I'm just scared of seeing him. With Mothman. I don't fully know that one.

The thing with me is I'm not an expert. I just listen to this stuff all the time. I consume a lot of ghosts and urban legends. The Mothman is like Bigfoot, where you see him, and then people die mysteriously in the woods, and then people think it's the Mothman. Oh. Yeah.

Yeah, there's something in West Virginia where it's like an apparition somebody saw, and then there was a giant bridge collapse collapse and it was like right next to each other. So people assumed that they were somehow related. But West Virginia is haunted as fuck is what I'm getting at. But the reason I brought up a ghost town is like a town that was populated by the Green Rush and like built by the Green Rush and then becomes a ghost town because of the Green Rush. Is that still spooky? I'm going to say, yeah. Yeah, I think that's spooky.

I feel like everyone's too chill and like... I don't know, weed can make you paranoid. That's true. And crabby sometimes. Cranky. I've known some people who get very cranky. Oh, yeah. I don't. You do? I don't. I usedy. I've known some people who get very cranky. Do you guys smoke weed? Oh yeah. I don't. You do? I don't.

I used to. Are you sad? No, I'm sober sober. Oh. Four years. Good job. Congratulations. But weed is a great thing. Weed's fun. I fully support it. I'm reading about the Mothman

and yeah. Before that people just saw it and were like, I saw a big fully support it. I'm reading about the Mothman and yeah. Like before that people just saw it and were like I saw like a big man flying around with big wings

and then the Silver Bridge 1967 collapsed and that's kind of that's kind of it. But yeah people are people are looking for

looking for Mothman. Looking for that Mothman. Mm-hmm. A man with big wings maybe it was just like a cosplayer right it was just like

getting ready for a convention yeah uh they have lots of conventions in West Virginia yeah or maybe it was like

a Ren Faire costume right just like gone awry it could be one of those like murals that are real popular on Instagram like I feel like

anytime I'm on Tinder it's just like a bunch of people like standing within these murals with like the big wings. God, influencer murals. Scourge on our society. Influencer culture. Christ. Influencer walls. Yes.

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And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them voice. I

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And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to the making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back and warner brothers you guys so uh there was a story from i guess like four months

ago where their ceo was revealed to have been texting with an actress, basically promising her roles and considerations for roles in exchange for sex. Not even the roles themselves? Right. Just consideration for them? Well, so the way it came out is that she was, you know, getting angry about it because she hadn't gotten the roles that she was expecting to get. And he was like, God, why are you so crazy type thing? And so he was fired very rightfully. And the studio has spent the past four months

looking for a replacement. And in a surprise decision is how it's being reported and all the trades, they announced that it is going to be Ann Sarnoff, who is coming over from BBC. So this is going to be the first time Warner Brothers has had a woman CEO. It is Warner Brothers or Warner Media merged with AT&T. with AT&T and like this is like CNN and other Warner medias like CNN and you know that whole family of sites and stuff but all of the CEOs in that family are white dudes so people were like it'd be great if you could find a leader who wasn't a white dude. And lo and behold, you guys.

Where did they find her? From the BBC. What? What is that? The BBC? The British Podcasting Association? Yep. Is that right? Yeah.

They found a female podcaster a female podcaster that's right so the just now any podcaster can become the ceo of a you know international media company i think she was one of the top people she's a top podcaster top podcaster yes the the best podcaster and uh marijuana advocate i don't know I don't know if women can podcast personally. I don't think it's a thing. You've always said that. Yeah, I've always said that. Even when we reached out to you to come guest host, you were like, I don't know. I was like, I don't know.

I was like, don't you know any dudes? Right. I find my voice annoying. Yeah, so I don't know. This is cool. yeah so I don't know this is cool it's weird that this has to be like so anomalous that it's being like seen as a surprise and there's also the fact that even if she succeeds people will probably say it's an anomaly like that's something you sometimes hear with Black Panther now at least I've heard I don't hear it from people being like Black Panther was an anomaly but I hear it from people who are like I was meeting with a producer who said Black Panther

was an anomaly because I don't understand how you could think Black Panther was an anomaly I know it was like such a huge like cultural event it was kind of like did well like around the world right yes anyways uh shout out to Warner Brothers for doing a somewhat good thing. Good job hiring a CEO. Yeah. That's the thing is anytime you're like, yes, this CEO, I love them. They've probably murdered people. Yeah. I think you have to like to become CEO that I kill that homeless guy.

If you don't do it, you can't trust me. It took them four months to find a woman who would kill a homeless guy in front of them. What happened to the frog? Remember the frog? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I thought the frog was the CEO.

I think the frog was up for consideration. But yeah. Michigan J. Frog got me too, guys. Man, come on. Think about the frog community. I know.

Kermit. Exactly. All those other frogs. Kermit and all. I mean frogs. Kermit and all. I mean, he said it's not easy. He wasn't lying. U.S. military, in case you can't tell, Roz, this is the part where we talk about serious news. Oh, okay.

So I'll be quiet. So the U.S. military, there was a report coming from military thinkers and people within the Pentagon where they are advocating that the Joint Chiefs start thinking about nuclear weapons again as a strategically viable option, basically. Using nuclear weapons could create conditions for decisive results. That is a quote. I can't argue with that. Right. Yeah. I mean, very decisive. This is, you know, perhaps nuclear weapons were effective the first time they were used, but I view that as an anomaly.

Right. There you go. I view that as an anomaly. Right. There you go. One of the theories on why there hasn't been a major international war between global powers since World War II is that that's when those powers got nuclear weapons and everyone's been too terrified of being the one who ends the world to start shit openly with one another so everything's been cold war uh where one side discreetly arms opponents and wars against the other and horrible horrible things happen but uh so that that's why people are kind of viewing this as a an important barrier that's being crossed and the pentagon had the these are real thought leaders over yes fucking pentagon yeah but so there it is actually like i don't really think about the fact that

there are like military philosophers essentially like there's this guy herman khan who was like pro use of nuclear weapons uh back like in the 50s. He was thought to be the inspiration for Dr. Strangelove and he is basically coming back into favor. For who in Dr. Strangelove? For just the ideas

in Dr. Strangelove. The ideas of like, yeah, fuck it, let's use a... Yeah, what if we all just nuked each other? Right. But his idea is that a quote from him was,

my guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained. Because when you think atom bomb, you think small and limited. Right. Small, limited scope of destruction. Yeah. Hardly a blemish. Yeah. Hardly a blemish. Yeah.

And once wars start, people are usually like, okay, okay, we weren't serious. Yeah. Once one nuclear weapon is dropped. One bomb goes and then everyone's like, whoa, I thought we were just kidding around. Anyways, Khan is a very controversial figure, and now he's apparently becoming fashionable again. Fashionable. Yeah. Sexy.

Meet the dapper new wave of Cold War theorists advocating for nuclear bomb use in the 22nd century. Yes. So, I don't know. It's just scary. Hopefully, mutually assured destruction will be enough to keep us from dropping nuclear weapons on each other until Skynet takes over and kills us all. How do I vote out Herman Kahn? Yeah.

He's dead, I think. He's canceled. He's canceled. Herman Kahn is canceled. And yeah, the Pentagon immediately took this down, so now it's behind a paywall. They legitimately just moved it behind a paywall because they didn't want the paper where they're like,

we should nuke each other. Yeah, they didn't want anybody to, they didn't want that going viral, so they moved it behind it. Too late. Yeah. It's really something that, you know, at the precipice of another Middle Eastern war for oil,

we've now just moved to being like, but maybe nukes are fine. Right. You know, maybe, like, oil is at this point such a big deal that we're like, maybe we could just nuke. You know, like, yes, they're going to nuke us if we nuke them. But I really want it. I really want the oil. I want it so bad.

Yeah. I mean, there's been lots of times throughout history. Like, I always just assumed because in retrospect, they've only been used those two times. I just assumed that nobody really even considered using nuclear weapons. But there's been a number of times where people were in a room where like five people were like, we should drop the nuclear weapon on Russia now. And the two people making the decision pushed back on it enough to keep that from happening. How many times do you think that's happened?

Probably, I don't know. I only know about the one, the Cuban Missile Crisis. But it was very much like the underdog side was don't end the world. So I guess that's... Minority opinion. Right. Don't end the world.

Exactly. Let's talk about Pete Buttigieg, guys. What do you guys think of Pete Buttigieg? Fuck that guy. Uh-huh. He sucks. Yes, Rob? Yeah, I'm not so sure.

I'm not sure yet you don't have a fully formed take I think that's a yeah I don't either I'm still I got one I like gay people there you go so one of the first sort of

that guy sucks in 20 languages or whatever nice burned you've been burned Pete is going to cry tonight after he listens to That guy sucks in 20 languages or whatever. Nice. Thanks. Burned. You've been burned. Pete is going to cry tonight after he listens to this podcast. So one of the first sustained negative stories about him has been that basically the community

of people of color in South Bend have not had the positive, sparkling experience that the media has made it out to be. And that a lot of... Did they see the Vogue shoot, though? What's the Vogue shoot? The Vogue shoot? I haven't seen it. Pete Buttigieg in Vogue? No.

Does he look awesome? Yeah, he's got a photo shoot. He's got a great photo shoot. Was it Vogue? I think it was Vogue and not GQ, but him and Beto had a really splashy spread in Vogue, I believe. Are they voguing? Yeah.

The Vogue battle? Yeah, Beto's voguing in a canyon and Pete's voguing with his tie thrown over his shoulder or whatever. It's like Annie Leibovitz took these photos. Right. Oh, wow. So anyways, they should just look at that if they're mad at him. Right. And then you just magically feel better.

Yeah. You're like, well, this guy's maybe hot. I don't know. Recently, police shot somebody to death. It was shot a black man with a knife to death. What? But we don't know,

like we can't confirm the report that he was running at them with a knife because for some reason, the police officer was not using his body camera. And that's something that he's been, like Buttigieg has been like, I hear you on the body cameras, guys. We're gonna work on it.

And he hasn't gotten it so that they use them all the time. So he had a angry town hall where the black community came out and was shouting him down. And he got very emotional. And he portrayed it as though this was coming out of nowhere, that people's anger was, I think he used the word hurled, like they're hurling their anger at him, and it's like, no, this has been an issue that people have been talking about for a while. Yeah, this is like a, you know, it's an emotional situation,

and an extremely huge problem everywhere across the country. Right, yeah. So one of the overall, like the big turnaround that he's credited with, a lot of people from South Bend say that that came about because he invested in like the white parts of town and neglected some of the underserved parts of the community. And so it kind of ties into a larger narrative that he should probably be aware of and willing to speak on and not portray it as though this is coming out of nowhere. So, you know, he's a pretty eloquent dude who seems to not have everything figured out on this particular story, which is obviously one of the most important parts of being a leader in America today. Finally, we want to talk about the Bakersfield Californian. Yeah, they've been purchased.

Good news for everybody. I love when my newspaper is purchased by somebody who does not appear to exist on the internet. Basically, I think we talked about this. I'm sure I brought this up one of the last times I was on the podcast about how the la weekly was bought by um a pretty pretty new and pretty shell corporation like a group called seminole media publishers um and they basically bought it uh about a year and a half ago laid off almost everybody and then started advertising for contributors for people to write for free. And they're basically just like using the newspaper circulation numbers to sell ads as people stop reading the paper

because they no longer produce any content. And basically now the same thing has happened to the Bakersfield, California, and it got bought by a Canadian media company called California Sound News Media or Sound California News Media, depending on where you're looking. Yeah, so there's a good thing about it by Julia Wick in the LA Times, like Essential California Newsletter.

You know, one thing is that the Bakersfield Californian is a locally owned paper. It's been a family paper in Bakersfield for like 120 years. And it was bought and then almost everybody that worked at the paper kind of just over the weekend, just like with the LA Weekly, was laid off. Editors and writers. And these buyers have also bought another Southern California newspaper, the Antelope Valley Press. I think they have some in Kern County, too. And they've also bought different papers, the Lodi News Sentinel, Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers Group. These are all like differently named corporations that they're starting in order to buy up local newspapers in different areas. So this is just a fun little scandal in the making.

For all my scandal heads out there, if you want to follow the acquisition of local papers by private equity, this is a fun one. Yeah. I mean, there are definitely private equity groups where their philosophy is distressed assets and small publishers are a category of distressed asset they like to invest in. It's just weird when you're like, buy and fire everybody.

And destroy. Right, but it's also unnerving. It kind of suggests a larger, weird, unknown purpose when they're changing their name every time they buy one. They don't want people to know. Just to make it look like it's not a monopoly. Right. Not a weird strategy to acquire local newspapers in small...

I'm most concerned, obviously, just because of my proximity, to all the ones being bought in Southern California and in the Central Valley, because those are pretty high risk areas for for poor people. There are just a lot of poor people who are being communities are being destroyed by private equity, owning all the agriculture in California. Right. So this is just one of those things that I like to keep a look out for because they start putting the same stories in all these local papers and, you know, journalism dying is a fun little show to watch. Yeah. Yeah.

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And we're back. And 7-Eleven is delivering Slurpees to park benches. Or other places. Yeah, or one of, you know, in the case of 7-Eleven, I think it's 200,000 hotspot locations where it can be like a park bench. It can be Venice Beach. And they will deliver to you. You don't have to be at your house. But you do have to have the 7-Eleven app. so that's going to be a no for me. Yeah, exactly.

I think I've learned enough about apps on phones being able to track you and do horrible shit. I do have the 7-Eleven. Do you really? I don't know how to use it, though. I go to 7-Eleven like three times

a day. Do you really? I love 7-Eleven. Do they have a rewards card? They do, but I don't know how to use it though. I go to 7-Eleven like three times a day. Do you really? I love 7-Eleven. Do they have a rewards card? They do, but I don't know how to use it. And you have the app and you also don't know how to use it?

No, because they're like, you can only use it, like you get like a free coffee, but you have to use the app and I don't know how to use the app. Oh,

you're probably sitting on millions of dollars in unclaimed coffees. But I do have them scan my card. Good. So I've got all these points in the bank.

If anyone's single, if anyone's single, I'm out there. With all the 7-Eleven points. Yep. You can deliver to us on the first date. Meet you on a park bench. What are some of your favorite things

to get at 7-Eleven? Oh, my God. Well, it's not good. It's like... Yeah. We didn't say what's good at 7-Eleven. What are some of your favorite things? Well, I think their coffee's good.

I mean, that's just who I am. I have a very low standard for coffee, and theirs is good for me. And so I'm there for coffee every morning. Do you fuck with the fresh and ready? The what? The fresh and ready, those sandwiches. The stuff on the rollers?

Yeah. No, not the stuff on the rollers. The sandwiches in the triangle boxes. No. Okay, nobody does but me, apparently. I was like, I'll eat an egg salad out of a box. But everybody is like, I can't believe you ate that. No, I've heard that actually recently.

Somebody talking about the egg salad sandwiches at 7-Eleven being like. That's right, it was you five seconds before we started rolling, actually. I've talked about this on multiple podcasts. My memory sucks. I also one day, I think it was my birthday, I was like, I'm gonna buy a scratcher.

And I won $200 on a scratcher. And so I go every single day and buy a scratcher. Have I won $200 on a scratcher. I go every single day and buy a scratcher. Have I won anything? No. Are you a 97 year old woman? Yep. I am a 97 year old woman with my coffee. For your coffee and your scratcher. Do you get a cinnamon roll or anything?

Cinnamon roll? No. I like those Lenny and Larry vegan cookies. Those are pretty good. I fuck with one of those every once in a while. Do you fuck with Slurpees? I like those Lenny and Larry vegan cookies. Those are pretty good. Yeah. So I fuck with one of those every once in a while. Do you fuck with Slurpees? You know, the last time I had a Slurpee,

it was one of those things where I feel like I kind of need to leave the memory in my childhood. Yeah. Kind of like Ace Ventura. Slurpees are the Ace Ventura of beverages. When I go back to it, I'm like, oh, this is too much. Like when I was a kid, I really enjoyed it. Now it's like, oh, God. It's one, a great thing to do with Slurpees as an adult

is, you know, use them to shoplift. You can hide a candy bar in your Slurpee cup, cover it with Slurpee, pay only for the Slurpee. Buddy, you got a free candy bar. Hey, and it's cold. Yeah, so no melting going on. Anyways, this seems somewhat unsustainable because people can just order one tiny thing to wherever they happen to be. I mean, is there a minimum? There's no delivery minimum for 7 now?

Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is the future. Also, isn't the point of 7-Eleven that it's close to you at all times? Right. Yeah, that's the other thing. Some places don't have them, though. I was out of town someplace doing a show recently, and I was looking for a 7-Eleven because I need them. I can't remember where it was, but they didn't have them. Probably somewhere where they have some dumb bullshit like a Circle K.

Yeah, something like that. I don't mess with that. Wawa. Yeah. Yeah, and probably one of those, a place like that is not a 7-Eleven hotspot as these places where they deliver are called. God, I would love to meet the programmer who designed the 7-Eleven app. Yeah.

Oh, I'm sure a lot of people are making a lot of money off of that. Let's talk about Sylvester Stallone. Why not? There's plenty of reasons why not. This is just a stupid little story, but he has an event happening in England in the fall where it's like a black tie event and you can pay $1,000 to take a selfie with him. That's also my rate for selfies. Which seems like too much.

Well, cameo. Right. That's what I said. That's a whole thing. Yeah. But cameo is different, right? Cameo is that celebrities will record a message or record a video saying your name.

I guess. But it's like autographs are not a thing anymore. Right. But now it's all about that selfie, which is important for people. Those likes might be worth a thousand bucks to some people. Yeah. Every man on Tinder in LA

has a picture with Bill Nye. I don't want to lie. But they all do. They've all met Bill Nye at some point. The sexiest of celebrities. Yeah, it's like the... I saw him at a Panera Bread one time. Did you take a picture with him? No. That's a good call. Yeah. Because you didn't want anyone to know

you were at Panera. Yeah, that was basically it um but yeah people are just like like like i'm definitely not a celebrity but you know as a drag queen like that's a photo op so like when we do shows sometimes it's just like people want the pictures so bad and it's like can't we talk or something you know it's like all people care about is the picture and then it's like okay we got it i'm but i'm done right it's like when people take pictures of themselves in front of the art at museums they're like i went to this museum and then they post like 10 pictures just of them in front of different pieces of art and you're like

yeah i i get it right i get you were at the museum right you know i don't get is like when people take pictures of things that they're not in like not because they're photographers just like they just want to take pictures of things like sometimes you know we live in like a tourist area so sometimes you're walking it's like they're taking a picture of a building and it's like can't you just google image yeah the man gromman's chinese theater like you don't tourist has to take their own picture of the thing yeah you know even though yeah like what is it to show your family your family can google gromman's chinese exactly it's a real mom move i feel like like, to do that, or a dad move. To prove that you were there.

Yeah. Prove you saw it. Who is a celebrity you would be impressed by, somebody getting a selfie with, or have been impressed by? Besides Bill Nye, obviously. I guess Bjork. Yeah, Bjork would be fucking- If you got a selfie with Bjork, I'd be pretty impressed. Okay. Sia. Sia. Sye, obviously. I guess Bjork. Yeah, Bjork would be fucking... If you got a selfie with Bjork, I'd be pretty impressed.

Okay. Sia. Sia. Sia, yeah. With just full face shown. Yeah, full wig. Oh, yeah. You can just take a picture.

Sia's like the opposite of... Or Sia's like Banksy, where you can take a picture with anybody and be like, it's Sia, and no one can really say, no, it's not. Right. Yeah, that's a good point. I don't know. I'm Sia, you guys. The ghost of Marilyn Monroe.

Yeah, that would be pretty cool. You know, she's buried at the veterans graveyard over in Westwood, like right by UCLA. Really? You know that big graveyard? Yeah, isn't that weird that she's there? Yeah, why is she there? So she can keep performing for the troops? I don't know, Hugh Hefner too. What?

Yeah, very strange. They say she haunts the Roosevelt. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Very intriguing. Should we go look for her? Yes. Do you have any equipment? Do you have ghost hunting equipment? No. We should get some. I know. I'm supposed to go ghost hunting really soon. Where are you going?

I want to go to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, that big ship that's super haunted. I don't know. I want to go anywhere. I want to go to all places, but I'm going to do it in full drag, just like I'm in right now with this long gown on. Yes. I just have to put extra pins in my wig because if a ghost snatches my wig,

I'm not messing around. Think about what they could do with it. I mean, all of a sudden you see my wig floating like it's on a head. All sorts of hijinks. Yeah. Let's talk about Toy Story 4. What's this all about?

Been waiting the whole time for this. Conservatives are terrified of the sexual politics in Toy Story 4. Finally. But first, I do want to let everybody know I am conflicted about my feelings about Toy Story 4. I saw Toy Story 4 over the weekend, and I think it's my favorite movie ever. Are you serious? I loved it. Better than the last one? Yeah and I think it's my favorite movie ever. Are you serious? I loved it. Better than the last one? Yeah, I think it is.

I thought it was really funny. I don't know how I feel. It feels so weird to be like I loved Toy Story 4 because like 4 is a high number. 4's are never good unless it's Fast and the Furious. No one thought three was going to be good. Right. And it was.

Three was, oh my god, that messed me up. Yeah. Rocky four is good. Also like Land Before Time, four is also the best one. Oh, is it? People, yeah. I don't feel quite as bad. Yeah. Wait, so you think it's your favorite movie of all time? That's how I felt leaving the theater. I really

enjoyed it. But keep in mind, you have not seen The Intruder. Right. That is fair. That is absolutely fair. Plus, you're a dad. Yeah, I'm a dad. And I did spend the week leading up to Toy Story 4 watching Toy Stories 1 through 3 with my three-year-old.

And those were his first movies. So there's definitely... And I was out of town when I saw it and I was like missing my kids. Alright you're having some feelings that are also about your children. So anyways the rest of this episode is going to be about how I miss my kids.

But yeah it's really good anyways it's really funny there's some they're Key and Peele voiced characters who are really really great. Well, there's a lot of dolls coming alive movies and theaters right now. Right.

Annabelle's about to come out. There's a Child's Play. I watched Child's Play the other night and it was not my favorite movie of all time. The new Child's Play? Yeah. Oh, wow. I thought it was okay.

Is there going to be a new Chucky soon? There's supposed to be a TV show I heard. Oh, what? A new Chucky? Yeah. What? I feel like I saw a billboard for a new Chucky. Yeah, that's Child's Play.

That's Child's Play. Oh, that's Child's Play. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is, like, completely different, because, like, in the original, it's like he's, like, a murderer that puts, you know, himself into a doll. Like, this is just, like... He's just a doll.

Yeah. I mean, there's a story to it, but it's not the same character. It's not the same like soul of a serial killer. Original Chucky was more Freddy Krueger-ish. Like he was like had attitude. Yeah. Does this one have attitude? Yeah, he's got a little bit of attitude.

Because he looks kind of dead-eyed. He's more of like an Alexa or like a home device. Oh, interesting. It's like more of a robot. Oh, okay. Yeah, I was wondering if that is why we're obsessed with living doll haunting movies or just living doll movies is because we secretly are afraid that Alexa has a personality and is conscious. I think that theory carries some water.

I would go with that. Yeah. There are these little objects that aren't supposed to be human, but kind of are. They have names, and they are always around us listening. Yeah. Well, there is this thing where the reason that people are so afraid of clowns and mannequins and dolls and ventriloquist dummies

is because it looks human, but you can tell it's not. So that really messes with a lot of people's brains. Right, the uncanny valley. Yeah, the uncanny valley. And so maybe that also, a theory, applies to, you know, like Alexa, where you can just hear the voice. Yeah, it sounds like a person, but it's not. Exactly.

Yeah, I think so. I get weirded out when Alexa, like, you know how, like, if you're rude to Siri or Alexa, they're, like, programmed to kind of be sassy? Yeah. And I don't like that. It's too human. Right.

Yeah. And you like to, I've seen you interact with your Alexa, and you are, like, literally abusive. I'm verbally abusive towards my Alexa. It is shocking. I'm more, I'm still using a Furby. Yeah. I psychologically abuse a Furby. Yeah. I psychologically abuse my Furby, yes. So the thing that is bothering conservatives about Toy Story 4 is that conservatives think that Forky, the character that is a spork voiced by Tony Hale.

This is another thing about Toy Story movies, just as an aside, they always go for the philosophically weird question. So in three, it was like, what happens to toys when they are no longer useful? That's like a really dark thought that I'm assuming they were hoping kids wouldn't have in the first couple movies and then they're like no it'll be the whole movie in three uh well in four

it's like at what point does a inanimate object turn into something that is sentient and they have like a really fucked up toy that a kid made like turned sentient and it's just like ah kill me oh that's sporky yeah that's sporky so sporky is is just like a spork that that a kid put googly eyes on okay and so now it's a toy right now it's a toy and so it comes to life and what makes us human yeah exactly wait but like do all forks and sporks are they until you put a googly eye on them? The googly eye is the thing. It gives it a whole soul and everything. Isn't that weird?

Wait, it's not love or whatever? No. It's not the love of a child, it's the googly eyes? No, see, that's what a lesser franchise would do. Yeah, that's why the Velveteen Rabbit fan is a franchise. No sequels there. The rabbit burns. No, this is, it's just, I think, the intention of creating,

you know what, maybe it is, like the kid imbuing it with its imagination is what makes it alive or some bullshit like that. Probably the googly eyes. Either way, the Sporky is like, ah, kill me, put me out of my misery. So Sporky is trans. So that is what the conservative community is saying. We actually have a video of somebody. Whoa, wait. So they think Sporky is trans. And in the movie, Sporky is like, kill me.

I'm an abomination. Well, so it's more of a baby, essentially. Oh, OK. Where it's like, I don't know anything. And then Woody has to teach him what it is to be a toy. But Sporky falls in love with a girl Sporky at the end. And it's very heteronormative, actually. But this is a conservative reviewing the character of Sporky based only on the movie poster for Toy Story 4.

He's just standing next to it and looking at the character of Sporky and the fact that there is a rainbow sticker on Sporky's foot. I'm going to show you why this is a transgender character. It's not that it's a fork or a spoon, but it's a fork and a spoon together. And look at the little hidden symbol right down here. It's a rainbow stick. A little rainbow rock. See that?

Ladies and gentlemen, this is being propagated upon our kids. I told you a long time ago, they sneak this stuff in the kids' movies they want to get their propaganda out there so I'm going to ask you to share this let other parents know yeah so I honestly for the first half of that video

assumed he was joking but he then refers back to earlier videos where he has talked about how Disney is trying to brainwash our children into being progressives and accepting trans people. But there was also a like Onion article, not an actual Onion article, but there's a conservative satire site, which is something

that apparently doesn't work because they wrote an article. No one can tell when they're joking. So they wrote an article where it had a fake tweet from Disney that said, great news for the LGBTQAIP community. A little bird told us that Woody will be openly bisexual in Toy Story 4. He's got a friend in him. Hashtag Toy Story 4. This is from at Disnap. At Disnap, yes. him hashtag toy story 4 uh this is from at disnap at disnap yes and then they made it at disney and in another one but this is from npc daily uh i believe that stands for not pc daily uh but conservatives were fooled they were like uh it just confused a bunch of conservative people

who threatened to boycott Toy Story 4. There was tweets from people being like, boycott Toy Story 4. They've decided to make this children's movie PC by making Woody openly bisexual. Just a lot of anger from people on the right. And then Newsweek wrote an article about it being like acting like it was a media hoax, which it never was. It was just a bad piece of satire and conservative. That got passed around as reality. Yes.

So anyways, for whatever reason, this is another movie that conservatives decided to bring into the culture war and boycott. to bring into the culture war and boycott. Well, actually, if you read my fan fiction, you'll find out that not only is Woody openly bisexual, but all the other characters are too. Right. Yeah. I love your fan fiction.

Thank you. I keep sending it to Pixar, and they keep returning them unopened. Well, Roz, it has been a pleasure having you here on the day thanks for having me where can people find you well my dream

since childhood is to become a celebrity on Instagram so follow me at Roz Drez Falez

it's all Z's and then please listen to my podcast you know we have spooky things happen we've had really cool guests like Elvira Mistress of the Dark

a lot of famous drag queens and comedians and all kinds of people where we talk about their real life ghost stories. It's called Ghosted by Roz Dress for Less.

And yeah, you'll find out more on my Instagram. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, I found one. It just cracked me up. I don't even know.

My best friend, Sam Pancake, at JSamPancake, he just, it's just very much our humor, but it cracked me up. I don't even know if my best friend Sam Pancake, at JSamPancake, he just, it's just very much our humor, but it made me laugh. I don't think it's even real. Whatever. He said, it's that time of year again, one of the worst people I've ever known gets their own TV show, O'Clock PM.

I don't know who he's referencing. I like it because it's a broad subtweet. Yes. It's the kind of subt it because it's a broad subtweet. Yes. It's the kind of subtweet that sends you running for the trades. Yes. Exactly. Yeah, it's like we know so many people that are just, there's so many platforms and so many people we know,

and it's like, why don't we have a show? Before we sign off, I got to know, do you sell the shirt you're wearing? Oh, yeah. This is my shirt that says Ross Dress Falez. It's a shirt that says Ross Dress Falez in the Ross font, and it's really good. I mean, it looks like it. But it's a shirt that says ross dress phillies in the ross uh font and it's really good i mean it looks like it but it's not right um yeah i do sell them i'm uh it's on drag queen merch.com thank you thank you sarajun it's been a pleasure having you it's been a pleasure being

here guest co-host today where can people find you you can find me on instagram at hey sarajun h-e-y-s-a-r-a-j-u-n-e you can go to my website hey sarajun.com you can come to my comedy show july 20th saturday in los angeles go to high priestess comedy.com for details we have sarah schaefer viva siegel brody reed and irene too it's going to be a great show um and i've uh i got a i got a dang tweet that I like. Oh, hell yeah. I found, I combed through all the tweets. I read all the tweets and this is the best one.

You ready? It's from Rajat underscore Suresh. For sale, baby shoes. I've worn them a couple times. I like that one. I like it too. He likes it a lot. Yeah, yeah.

A tweet I've been enjoying. If Princess Diana were alive today, she would be dating Pete Davidson. Fuck you, dude. From page at Boner Wizard. That is a bummer. That is a bummer for Pete Davidson. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.

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 where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. As well as the song we ride out on.

Super producer Anna Hosnier, do you have a song that you would like us to ride out on? No, just kidding, I do. I'm going to recorrent. Recorrent? This song from 1980s Egypt. I heard it on Rami.

It's Habibi Funk. And the artist is Al Massarin. And the song is Mafachi Le. It's a really good jam. And it's some very good Habibi funk. I love it. It's like funk out of Egypt from the 1980s, and it's damn good. And as Miles loves to say, your big toe will burst out of your shoe and hit you in the eye because it'll be enjoying itself so much.

Yeah. Does that make sense? Yeah, that is word for word what he always says. He nailed it. Good night. Yeah. I just realized that we didn't talk about the fact that there is a very credible rape allegation against the president.

We will obviously talk about that on tomorrow's Daily Zeitgeist. How many do you want, Jack? I know. It's so many. It's just crazy to me. Why are you reporting on a story from four years ago? I know. The president has credible rape allegations against him.

Anyways, the Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with more podcasts. We'll talk to you guys then. Bye. Bye. سنساق دمام كده ولا ايه عربيتين رايحين جيد ونفس كتير متقفصين وحاملين خمسة كثور

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