The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump 2024? Aliens Are Our Babysitter? 4.21.21

Episode Date: April 21, 2021

In episode 892, Jack and Miles are joined by Me and Paranormal You host and CrystalEyes app co-founder Ryan Singer to discuss Trump very seriously considering a run in 2024, a study on how to get Trump voters to get vaccinated, the police figuring out how to deal with the Derek Chauvin verdict, Britney Spears' BLM instagram post, GOP's outrage over Maxine Waters words, UFOs, and more!FOOTNOTES: CrystalEyes App - Identifying Crystals with a Snap Kickstarter Trump Is ‘Beyond Seriously’ Considering 2024 Presidential Bid ‘I’m still a zero’: Vaccine-resistant Republicans warn that their skepticism is worsening Awaiting Derek Chauvin Verdict, Police Prepare New Approach to Protests BRITNEY SPEARS POSTS SUPPORT FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER ... Some Followers Pissed!!! Republicans Cower In Fear Of Tiny Octogenarian Congresswoman, Maxine Waters, A Very Bad Lady The U.S. military takes UFOs seriously. Why doesn't Silicon Valley or academia? Pentagon officially releases UFO videos 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’ SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on UFOs: ‘Think I would know if there were aliens’ Former Navy pilot describes UFO encounter studied by secret Pentagon program Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program Former Navy pilot describes UFO encounter studied by secret Pentagon program The Pentagon Released U.F.O. Videos. Don’t Hold Your Breath for a Breakthrough. Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force Harry Reid Confirms Federal Government Covered Up UFOs For Years LISTEN: DeeDONTCARE Latin Jungle [Bad N' Heavy] Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the production of iheart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it is wednesday april 21st 2021 421 21 uh it's all happening my name is Jack O'Brien aka I don't want to be an expert no more I'm not an expert I just talk a lot my punishing self doubt doesn't slow me at all alright that is courtesy of work week

aka at rap bohemian and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! In honor of the abomination that is the Peon Pooper League, it's the teams competing Liverpool, FC, Chelsea, Puventus, Pialmiera, Rottenham Hotspur, Barfalona, Manchester Poonited,

Manchester Shitty, WC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan, and Farsenal. Coming together to fuck up the sport. And as we like to say, the Gooners don't like them.

Fuck the Cronkies. Fuck the Cronkies. Fuck the Cronkies. Because I got a lot of energy right now. One thing I had going for me was this one sport that was barely totally screwed up by capitalism. Right. And then they come along. They don't even have commercials. That's going to be the first thing that they change is that they're going to be like, all right, time out.

Dude, it's going to be like Cristiano Ronaldo's kicking a soccer ball and it, like, explodes into, like, a bunch of, like, fucking, you know, sidewinder missiles that hit a fucking plane or something. It's going to be stupid. If it even happens, because right now it seems like some of the clubs are getting cold feet because they did not realize realize no one wanted it right but i guess and you want hot feet and in soccer because you want the hot foot everybody knows that you gotta have the hot you don't want the cold foot you don't want the cold is that even a saying in soccer hot foot not at all but i like it well in basketball there's the hot hand and speaking of which uh steph curry uh stuck his red hot hand up the ass of the uh philadelphia 76ers and yeah it was still i was just like damn yeah yes sir i was giving him a standing oh from my couch that dude uh he's uh he's good huh this guy's he's got he's got a demon as someone once put it on twitter

steph's got a demon that's that's all there is to it how many points does seth get 15 15 to 49 so you know yeah that's but but a lot of the a lot of uh steph's 49 points came like right in his brother's grill, just like right in his face. I saw the memes that Josiah Johnson was posting about their mom getting real upset for doing that to his brother. It was, it was mean. It was not,

it was not a fair, but nothing about that dude is fair. Just the, the most gorgeous basketball player most gorgeous shot his body control, his footwork that's what we're going to be talking about this entire hour

sorry for rhapsodizing about Steph Curry but it is unbelievable no he's not get the fuck out of here well, Miles we are so excited No he's not Get the fuck out of here Well Miles we are so Excited to be joined by today's

Guest he is the hilarious The brilliant Brilliant All of it You know he works outside Of the bounds of the English language he is Ryan Singer!

A.K.A. Bad Moon Rising. Hey, thanks for having me on the show. And Steph Curry, the most piercing, beautiful eyes of any basketball player. It is one of those things where it's like, oh, you just got it all. And he can golf. Even when he chews on that mouthpiece i'm like oh yeah yeah about you stuff his golf swing is prettier than pga players golf swings like it's like really uh yeah it's beautiful it's gorgeous are we talking tyler tiger woods tyler woods

yeah yeah definitely tyler woods have you guys heard about this tyler woods guy so we're saying he's on par with this tyler wood guy huh that feels like an adam sandler like spin-off movie like you know like happy medicine like tyler wood shows up yeah i love the adding on or removing an s from the end of a last name that doesn't oh yeah that's like the old black grandparent thing tyler wood yeah or just yeah changing something to possessive or plural right my. My dad calls Brad Pitt Brad Pitts. Oh, shit. Steph Curry has that arm straight in the back.

Isn't that beautiful? Isn't it? That's how you go. He's not as good a golfer as a PGA golfer, but he makes it look better than them. He respects the form. Good for him. He respects our wonderful golf courses. Thank you.

Her necessities. Yes. Important to any community to just have that dividing line where a big business goes to make decisions about the future. To plot against working people. Yeah, exactly. Ryan, what's new with you, man? Where are you?

Are you in LA? I'm in Dayton, Ohio right now. Hey! With the family. With the Flyers. With the Flyers. Oh, man. The Flyers had the national championship

wrapped up a year ago. COVID took away the number one seed from the UD Flyers in the NCAA men's basketball tournament last year. But, hey, we know in our heart of hearts that the Flyers would have, you know, been cutting down the nets out of the 60. What is it? 68 now or 66?

Yeah, 68, I think 68. So yeah, one short of being cool. But anyway, yeah. So the Flyer pride is strong as ever around these parts. So it's always nice to come back and, you know, see all that. But yeah, just hanging out here. Jack, you were giving blood offerings, right? Around that time?

Yeah. Maybe the karma would have been better if you guys hadn't put for sale signs on my family's front yard and literally run me out of town when I was 11 years old you know come on look what you did to him i became a podcaster because of that i don't know you know and to be fair i was not for that decision uh right you remember i took some of the signs off your yard right right after i put them i felt bad when i put my steak to them in the ground. I was like, you know what? This doesn't feel right.

This kid's 11 and he's crying in the window. It's like the one thing this, well, I shouldn't say that. I don't want to, you know, I don't want to come off as talking badly about where I grew up, but it is one of the, let's just say one of the biggest things that people around here, you know, really get, take pride in and get fired up. It's like the Wright brothers. Yeah. The Wright brothers.ight brothers and it's the flyers should be funk music too funk yeah right born in dayton exactly and there's there's you know i think the knowledge of that like once people realize it then it kind of clicks in for them but like there's a statue downtown somewhere of an ice tray uh-huh like. Like an ice cube tray, because I think the person who invented the ice cube tray is from here. Oh, you're lying.

There's this weird ice cube. It's actually, there's a guy in North Carolina who claims that he invented it, and there's just like the Wright Brothers. Wait, are you serious? Well, no, because the Wright Brothers, there's like a yeah, a controversy over whether it's Dayton or North Carolina. Not really controversy. It's just they both lay claim to the legacy. Yeah, and that argument plays out on the license plates of each state. I think first in flight is North Carolina and birthplace of aviation is Ohio.

So it's a real. Ohio's got some definite claims to just aviation greatness like most of the uh early astronauts and like a lot of the people first people to do anything in the sky we're all from ohio it's just randomly like a very a hotbed for i think because people just want to get the fuck out of there so they're just like please let me leave ohio and rock it into the sky in the most dramatic fashion possible emo phillips has the best joke about dayton ohio i've ever heard in my life is he from dayton no he's not and that's what makes it even crazier i'm not gonna do my emo

phillips voice because i would be doing him disservice but he says he opens his set like this was years ago i saw him at wiley's comedy club downtown dayton and he just opens up he gets on stage he opens up he goes dayton ohio the birthplace of white flight and it was just like oh my god yeah and the white audience was just like wait what'd you say wait what the fuck it was just like okay too real um even though you know emo is surreal okay fuck it let's talk about the pine club huh what's up with that steakhouse huh isn't that pretty good we can do some local material then what's up with burritos When I lived in Dayton, the things that we had Clint to lay claim to was

well, the flyers were... There was a reason people were putting signs on our front porch. The flyers sucked when my dad coached there. They were really bad, so we had other things that we had to... Hey, don't defend your tormentors, Jack. No, no. They were right. No, they were right. My family sucked. We should have moved

before. We should have moved before we should have lived we should have left sooner we shouldn't even came but uh that there was a lot of people claimed that dayton was the murder capital of america is that a thing that you remember ryan at that time like i remember per capita we we actually have the highest murder rate like that was like a cool thing to claim it's like yeah it's ebbed and flowed to like Dayton still has a little bit of, I mean, the opioid crisis here is like the heroin problem is, is pretty substantial.

And there's like this weird sense of pride. Like, yeah, we do are, we, you know, um, but like,

I remember the murder, uh, capital thing. I remember also the drug capital of the country because interstate 70 and 75 they intersect that's right that's the lore so it's like that's where that's the second sentence after yeah i'm from dayton oh yeah we're murder capital of the world but you know it's because the two interstates uh cross right there and yeah all the drifters and serial killers and drug traffickers

they all come through dayton you know they uh they all they all have their picture on the wall at the uh marion's pizza and uh or the pine yeah marion's pizza but yeah i remember a lot of that like like that weird downtrodden pride almost like you can step on us but we're not dying it's that kind of like that that Midwestern pride of that yeah yeah like white people from Youngstown got the same energy too yeah I think there's a lot of Youngstown man

this shit ain't a game I'm like whoa I've talked to other people who said that their town like laid claim to something similar like murder capital of like the region or something like that. So yeah, there is like a sort of fucked up pride that I think when you're from a

town that I don't know, most people haven't heard of. That's like, you just anything to put you on the map. Yeah. And I've always had this theory that the less I don't this, I'm going to come off like an asshole, I think. But the less you accomplish as a person, the further away your pride gets.

Right. Like like if I've never accomplished anything. Oh, I got an uncle. You know, I got an uncle who was famous for blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But if you don't have an uncle, you know, now you got like, oh, there's a guy from my hometown who invented the ice cube tray. But if there's nobody from your hometown, it's like, well, Ohio is the birthplace of flight. And then if you don't have anything, you're like, well, America is the best country. You know what I'm saying? And now it's like, well, there's nothing in America to be proud about. So it's like, well, you know, the Western Hemisphere is really killing it out here.

Western Europe. Anglo-Saxon. Yeah. So it's like the further away you get from like your, I guess it's like Kevin Bacon accomplishments. Like how many degrees of separation are you away from pride is what you take it as. Six degrees of Dayton. Six degrees of Kevin Dayton. Right about Air Force Base.

That's the big thing in Dayton. Yeah. And we'll probably talk about aliens later. But like, boom. I mean, we all know what happens down there. Yeah. Most people who are born and raised in dayton are at least like you know 20 extraterrestrial because of right pet you know oh hell yeah we we know it's in the water we know what they do to us when when we're being delivered in the miami valley hospitals being beamed up to that research vessel yeah you don't think that

they're putting a little alien dna in there you're crazy man uh all right but before we get to any of that we're gonna tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about trump has given us the little head fakie he's went on hannity to talk about his future. We'll talk about this focus group that was like, how do we get you Trump voters to want to get vaccinated? We'll talk about the Wall Street Journal's very particular flavor of the America's bracing for the Derek Chauvin murder trial verdict. We'll talk about Britney's Instagram post. We'll talk about GOP outrage and how it's hitting different these days. And of course, we'll talk about what's going on in the world. Oh, UFOs.

All of that. Plenty more. But first, Ryan, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? I started using DuckDuckGo. I don't know if you know that search engine. Stay off the grid. I had to Google, how do I find my search history? Or I had to DuckDuckGo.

How do I find my search history? And it brings up nothing. But I do know that I recently, as of last night, I said, what's this documentary about Bigfoot killing pot farmers? That was the last search I did. There's a Hulu series, apparently, about pot farmers being murdered. And people are saying it was Sasquatch. So I Googled that to try to find that. Are they leading with that?

They're like, this documentary is about the Sasquatch murders of weed growers? Or when you start watching it, it starts being like... Apparently it's a twist. Apparently it's a classic documentary twist. They went to just to try to do a true crime documentary on these pot farmers that were murdered. I think it was in the 90s i like i haven't watched it yet but and then the twist is that it's it turns out that it's sasquatch who murdered them what did they fuck this sounds like a netflix algorithmic product where they're like

dude stoners love fucking weird shit like i have to say ryan you pulled the exact same shit on me at a live show back when we did the uh monthly ucb live show uh there was like a some mystery like the the theme was each comedian comes up and presents a mystery like underrated mystery and it was scary right going it was scary everyone was like on the edge of their seat. And then you were like, and then they described this ammonia smell. And I was like, wait a second. And then you're like, and it was like a skunk ape smell. And I was like, ah, he got me again with the Bigfoot shit.

Well, you know, that was from the missing 411 books, by the way. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, that was from the missing 411 books, by the way. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

Which neither, you know, asserts nor denies that Bigfoot may be involved in all the missing people cases. But the guy is clearly a Bigfoot believer and researcher. But so it's like back when Bill O'Reilly was acting like he wasn't conservative. You remember those days? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

On his show. Yeah. So but yeah i got you yeah but i gotta watch this documentary series you know me i'm in on that so i gotta i gotta see what this uh what this series is all but i just don't think i mean knowing bigfoot like i do can you imagine someone meaning like genuinely saying knowing bigfoot in the way i do i just don't see them killing pot farmers but um right that was the last thing i googled i see them like eating the crops or something yeah right like a nuisance

thing but i don't see them especially not because these people were shot to death so i don't know how you know where bigfoot's getting armed so oh were they shot to death i don't even know how they were murdered no no i'm no. I just like that idea. Yeah, man, I think it's Bigfoot. They were shot to death. They've developed the ability to construct firearms. By shooting. Yeah.

I'm sorry. I'm pretty sure this was ATF or the DEA. This is actually some kind of extra legal hit. I think that's a bigger story than blaming this on sasquatch no no man the whole thing is sponsored clearly sponsored by the dea they're like and then bigfoot burst through the door shouting da da and firing shotgun blasts what we believe is bigfoot was yeah able to attain this firearm through using a fake id and email address to store it, a background check.

In a strongly Democratic voting county, that's where they got this stuff. Because there wasn't proper ID check. Yeah, because that's what liberals want, I guess. That'd be funny if Bigfoot was a false flag. Like they just start. I don't think we're too far off. Ryan, I think you just stumbled on

a screenplay you and I need to work on together where Bigfoot's a false flag and all the missing people are being raised in some compound for some nefarious purpose. By the reptilians. Let's work on that. Or just by you.

Or just by you. Of course. Hey, I haven't figured out exactly why. I don't know. The dolphin people may come back to reprimand us for abusing the light technology that we got from the Atlanteans. I don't know.

That's why there's oceans. Hey, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. What is something you think is overrated, Brian? Okay, lot i'm gonna take a lot of flack for this but the number one most overrated thing uh that i can think of right now is probably it's got to be cantaloupe plus that other greenish blue one whatever that melon is uh what's that melon honeydew yeah yeah honeydew cantaloupe and honeydew. Honeydew is probably the worst named fruit for how it tastes.

But those melons, watermelon, I like watermelon, but for the most part, melon is overrated. You know, it's just, it's jamming up space. It's a space filler in fruit salad. It's up to no good. It doesn't taste good. It's just, that's how you're getting weight. It's filler. It's filler fruit.

And nobody likes it. Do either of those fruits make you guys' mouths itch? Yeah, I get it. It makes my mouth itch. I wonder if there's a lot, that happens with potassium heavy foods. Oh, man, that's what it is. Like bananas do that to me. Avocados will do that.

Huh. Yeah, I get a little throat itch. But yeah, it's but yeah it's absolutely the i remember like my parents like i don't know if like that with the 80s cantaloupe just exploded or something but i feel like that was like all the fruit that i would see being put in front of me like in my house my grandparents house fucking school plate lunches there was some fucking cantaloupe element and i'm like what the fuck is this cantaloupe with cottage cheese yeah it was yeah now cottage cheese with pineapple or peaches i'm on board i'm on board with that combo oh yeah yeah there's a there's a really

good melon um that i think like it's at korean grocery stores i think it's just like they refer to it as like musk melon yeah it's like crunchy and crispy and it's in the same world as that but like the the flavor is just a little bit i don't know fresher and brighter uh i recommend that that's worth checking out but yeah for for sure i i think uh a generation has been ruined on cantaloupe and fruit salad purveyors know it, but they just put it in there anyway. They keep doing it. And it's it's unconscionable. I think it's probably because of it. Yeah.

Unfortunately, I think it may be because of its structure, because just like a fucking styrofoam, like wet styrofoam, like it'll last in a plastic cup for a week in a refrigerated shelf. So you're like, oh, yeah, I think it's fresh. Yeah week in a refrigerated shelf. So you're like, I don't know. I think it's fresh. You put some apples in there, you're like, it's cutting me like, no, fuck this. I think it's the way

that these greedy pre-made fruit cup manufacturers get away with giving us this non-fresh nonsense because this melon just lasts longer. I see right through it. It's clear. Nice try, assholes. It's an edible magic eraser.

Yeah. And it very well could be an actual magic eraser or actual piece of painted styrofoam. Nobody has eaten the cantaloupe in fruit salads in 20 years, so nobody knows. They could just be...

What is something you think is underrated? Now in that same vein, I think a fruit that doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves on the hierarchy of delicious fruits is mango. I mean, you just don't, maybe it's because it's a little more difficult

to get the right mango, but mango is number one. I mean, I I'll never forget the first time I had a mango. I didn't know how to eat it. So I kind of tried to bite it and I was like 32 years old and I like, I tried to fight it. And then I tried to like peel it like an orange. I didn't know what I was doing. Uh, and then I tried to cut it and like, know like when you get the bees when you uh you're playing baseball and you hit a you don't have the grip tight and it's cold outside and like uh and you hit a foul ball or something like i i tried to take a knife through it and i was

because of the the big core seed in the middle uh stone fruit baby you gotta watch out but once i got into it once i figured out how to get into it, oh, my life was never the same. I'm never the same since having that first mango. I remember having one, you know, and that was ripe and pre-prepared. And I had a similar thing where like there was this, I was at like a Ralph's or something. They had mangoes and I bought one. Big mistake because their fruit, the produce produce their level was just like not right and it wasn't until i went to a farmer's market and like someone had him and i learned it's like no you because i was like i don't know how to pick these things he's like you you want something

that's stinking like you can smell it through the wrapper when or the skin when you know the mango is ready and i got that farmer's market mango and i was fucking off to the races i love mango so much crunchy crunchy mango like when it's not fully right can be good too it's like a little bit more sour it's a different proposition yeah it's not like a unripe a green banana where it'll like fuck up with fuck your digestion up uh it's still pretty good and a green banana will do that it messes up your i feel like it does and that could just be based on something my mom told me to keep me from eating all the bananas before they were ripe when i was a kid but yeah like something's wrong with him someone tried to scare someone tried to scare the hell

out of me about eating bananas someone who doesn doesn't like bananas, by the way. So I think there might be a hidden agenda. Classic. I don't know. Tell me if you've ever heard this about the poisonous and deadly insect living in the tip of a banana. Have you heard this story? What the fuck? Oh, that's a lie.

That is so wild. Have you heard that? What the fuck? Who told you this? Yeah, someone who hates bananas. Someone who hates bananas. That's purely... That is something that I...

Because I hate that little hard thing at the tip of the banana. I don't think anybody likes that. And everybody's scared of accidentally eating it. Wait, what thing? The little Audi belly button at the tip of a banana. Yeah, it's like a toenail. Brown. Yeah, it's like... Oh, okay. Yeah, and like okay yeah and it's like a broken toenail hard yeah it's kind of gross and i like i definitely like

ate one of those when i was a kid i used to eat bananas whole like rap uh wrapper peel and all uh i was i was just uh like you're in the an extra in the jungle book or some shit but that's i think everybody has that where that where they feel a certain way about that little bump. Yeah, I was trying to find, when I searched poisonous banana insect, it was like, poisonous banana spider? Right. But that's about it. That makes more sense. But then there are articles, do dangerous spiders lurk in grocery store products?

Thank you, Scientific American, for asking the tough questions. I think the melon lobby is out here seeding the urban legend soil with different banana myths. Because I've heard that bananas freeze your digestion like make it so you can't digest your food i've heard like definitely i've definitely heard is your teacher yeah they're like oh yeah you won't digest your food for like three days uh if you if you eat a banana we're we're still dealing with the misinformation of lying assholes from the 70s to the 90s where there was no real internet to like instantly fact check some like thing a teacher said and we've got we're still walking through life with this this shitty

information because i will not allow my digestive system to be stopped in its tracks with one bite of a banana just absolutely not you know the most popular fruit in the world by by sheer metric tons that are consumed by people. Oh. Tomatoes. Wow. Mangoes are number seven. Yeah. Oh, mangoes are in top 10?

I'm proud of the mango for making top 10. Yeah. Mangoes are very popular, more popular in other countries. It's just America doesn't fuck with them as heavy as they should. Great underrated, Ryan. Yeah. Thank you. I was going to say apple was probably number one, but

because of the weight. Apple was number four. What's number two? Oranges? Banana is number two. Watermelon's number three, I think, just because of sheer size. Oh, right. I still don't understand how they make the seedless

one, and I don't think I want to know. But it freaks me out. It freaks me out. It's some kind of eugenics, I'm sure. You know what I mean? And I'm off that. All right, guys. Let's take a quick break.

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to be like, ugh, forget that guy. And like, let's kind of pretend that everything's not bad. But reading his name in a headline, I was like, oh, what the fuck? Why is his name popping up in the political section again?

It's because he went on Hannity and your boy's out here pump faking again. He says, it's been a while since I've done this boys out here pump faking again. He says, it's been a while since I've done this voice. I'm looking at it very seriously beyond seriously. Uh, from a legal standpoint,

I don't want to really talk about it yet. It's a little too soon. That's when being asked about a presidential run in 2024. I'm looking at it seriously beyond seriously. In fact, okay, you piece of shit. You didn't do your homework.

Oh, actually, I loved Nectar in the sieve. I actually beyond loved it, Professor. I thought it was fantastic. It was beyond moving. Okay, please ask someone else another question now. The legal aspect of it is weird that he went there right away. Like maybe it's because he knows that he's in legal trouble and wants to kind of leverage his base against that legal trouble or make that part of the story of, well, you have to I have to stay out of jail if you want me to run for president. It's the it's the I'd show you my tax returns, but I'm under audit methodology is what it feels like where it's like oh that would be wonderful i'm saying i'm saying i'm gonna do it but really i'm gonna give up this other reason

because i don't really at the end of the day i'm just trying to build people for all their money so i don't so you think he might not run because, I mean, we'll talk about this in tomorrow's episode, but Ron DeSantis is starting to get more and more clout within the party, and that's a problem for Trump, it sounds like. So I don't know. I mean, I think realistically, he really does have a ton of legal exposure, like all the Trump org shit. There's a lot of stuff to be determined.

But I think the things that are known is that don jr is becoming now the i guess cardinal risha lu to trump's louis the 14th uh and is like the main whisperer now so i don't know i mean i can see his kids just basically fighting over the last name to try and get their own shit going so yeah it's like everything with him he's always pump faking it seems like everything in his life can just be answered with i can't comment because there's an ongoing investigation like every aspect of his entire existence is ongoing investigation right yeah that's like it's like he can't say no about something that's happening with him yeah i'm just he's not on tiktok is he no oh he is he does sick recipes with uh like frito-lay chips and stuff and an air fryer yeah his dances are

cute but like it's not like he like fully nails them but it's just like fun he like has fun with it you know yeah um just like anna was like has fun with it, you know? Yeah. Just like Anna was talking about in the trends episodes where he's, he's blowing open just the biggest controversies. He's like the thing you don't know about Dr. Fauci. And he has all this text behind his face. Let's check it out.

I mean, that's all it takes nowadays. I feel like for, you know, a substantial percentage of the population to get behind somebody is like a 30 second catchy TikTok video. That's like that's all it takes. As funny as that image is, it's like it's also kind of scary in a way that, oh, that's all it takes to to get people to go to the polls and vote a certain way. Yeah. He would also get on there and like have really spicy takes about like lives of the various TikTok stars and who was breaking up with who.

He's like Jack Harlow. He's kidding himself. Him and Addison not going to last. Robert, get out of there. She's cheating on you. His advice for Robert Pattinson. Yeah. One of the greats to ever do the gossip game.

Speaking of Fauci, let's talk about what Trump's voters who are statistically way more likely than the rest of the country to be holding out on getting the vaccine, doing a wait and see on that one. Somebody did a focus group with them and asked like,

what would it take for you guys to fucking get vaccinated so the rest of the world can proceed and their demands are first of all don't show me fauci okay because i've had enough of that guy oh that was a thing like we're averse to fauci imaging yeah we've had had enough of him because he was mean to dear leader. Okay, what else, honey? This is my favorite one. Don't talk about booster shots. Don't even I don't want to hear

about booster shots because that makes three out cheese and we don't want to have to think about that. So because we're so fucking tough. It's I don't want to have three. Oh, geez. It's unbelievable.

And then the other one kind of tying into that. Don't bully people who are vaccine holdouts, which is impossible because they think everything is bullying. Like, you can't disagree with them without them thinking they're being bullied. without them thinking they're being bullied. They think they're bullied for being white Christians in America when, in fact, they are the most privileged group of humans maybe in the history of our species. And they're just like such fucking hothouse flowers that just the very first hint of a pushback on anything

about their worldview feels like, you're bullying me um so it's really just soft weak weakness uh is is there's a don't be so be gentle don't bully me because i'm anti science and i'm using this agency argument to create more risk for other people that's bullying also i'm not my ego is not so fragile that if you disagree with me, I will take it as an attack. And also, by the way, participation trophies are bullshit.

You shouldn't be giving those to kids. But Trump got 75 million votes. Yeah, yeah. The same people who don't want participation trophies are the same ones who are saying, don't bully uh vaccine holdouts and i and listen i'm i am a guy who believes in uh you know the existence of the possibility of bigfoot and climate change right so it's like these people can't even see the image of science

that's what i think that's what fauci represents to a lot of us is like oh science and progress right you know helping us live better lives and be not sick and they see the devil um it's right oh it's just it's mind-blowing to me yeah it's all about what got politicized when their president was having to spin a giant web of like self, uh, congratulatory lies. But I do think like maybe like the, the thing about them not wanting to hear about the booster shots, like, are they just anti-vaxxers for the same reason that like my three-year-old is

an anti-vaxxer? Cause he doesn't like needles and he thinks it's going to hurt like dude can we solve this with just i don't know giving them something stickers stickers lollipops all that kind of stuff yeah i think the the fauci thing is the really the most telling because it's all about the supremacy of their ideology right is that right they get together and if as long as they all agree with each other then that's all about the supremacy of their ideology, right? Is that they get together. And as long as they all agree with each other, then that's reality. But the second you introduce someone in the form of an expert, in the form of Dr. Fauci, a scientist, who is one of, you know, when you're having an argument with someone about the COVID, you probably don't want to argue with Dr. Fauci. Because you can't be like, oh, what are you, some kind of doctor?

Which is what, this is how discourse works with conservatives. They go, what are you, some kind of a con? What are you, some kind of historian? What what are you some kind of doctor which is what this is how discourse works with conservatives they go what are you some kind of a con what are you some kind of historian what are you some kind of doctor it's like yeah i am and then they're like well so they don't want to see that because it's a it's a direct threat to like their superiority superiority or perceived superiority of their ideology so it's like everything to protect it's all again it all goes down to the fragility of everything that they stand for because anything that would even manage to introduce a thought that would begin dismantling that

is anathema to them. So they have to avoid it at all costs. And now we're at a point because white supremacy is so illogical. They're like, I'm sorry, I can't talk to historians. I can't talk to doc. I can't talk to anyone. I just need to talk to other racists. That's it yeah that's the only place i can be now yeah well

they're also not not too happy about uh where britney spears is at with uh this whole black lives matter situation yeah yeah she posted a pro Black Lives Matter post on Instagram. And that a lot of her followers were like, great, Brittany. That's awesome. And then some of them were like, see, we knew it was being controlled by Antifa. And she's still she's not free. This isn't Brittany. Brittany's racist like me.

She would never do this. If you play Britney's first cassette backwards, you will hear you hear mine. Conf you. It's that easy, folks. But the photo she posted black man holding a sign that says white people have generational wealth. Black people have generational trauma. Hashtag. We are not the same hashtag blm and she just put just saying black lives matter you know because this is on this is as everyone's waiting to hear what the chauvin jury is going to do and you know try and quantify what the cost is to murder a black man uh she this

is her contribution for whatever however she saw fit but yes the idea that these people immediately took their some people because a lot of people were like hell yeah great britney but then you know there's also the spooky racists that always are in the comments saying like you know this isn't it this this is why we got a free britney but it's like hold on for a group that is so interested in liberation. It's really wild to see how selective that outrage is in the case of black liberation. You're like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is her dad. This is her dad. This is all that. Like, I think it's just more we're just starting to see how people are can always just take something. Now, there's always like nine different realities for you to walk down based on whatever parasocial relationship you have with a social media account yeah it has all the telltale marks of the work of a 70 something uh white southern man this this post yeah so they're on to something with this being controlled by our dad for sure i mean the multiverse is real and we're living in it and so many different

parallel universes are existing simultaneously in this country depending on like you said it's like what what information are you taking and consuming and that builds your reality and there's so then now because of fractured media and everything else there's so many different realities coexisting simultaneously that it's it's really dangerous and then you mix into the pot this whole conspiracy theory uh mentality that has pervaded almost everything now which plays out in the comments like oh she's still being controlled or you know someone who's controlling her is posting this to try to elicit some kind of nefarious plan, right? It's like, no, Brittany is not, you know, she's not an idiot. She could see like, she's a human being.

Yeah, she's a human being. And there's nothing wrong with like admitting the privilege you've had. Like people are still so resistant to that. Like you can't acknowledge that. But I mean, Ryan, did your family own slaves? Did your family own slaves? You know what? And the,

you know what? And I'm part Irish and I'm part of the Irish, you know, that we were slaves too. Yeah. It's like, there's a big difference between indentured servants and slaves. And,

you know, people don't want to even have that discussion. And it's just like, oh man, like it is frustrating, but it's also like, okay, you want to also ask a person like that say okay so that was bad right you agree slavery even how you perceived your own oppression that's bad correct so we should stand in opposition to any form much because you talk about the suffering of your people you would you want that perpetrated

against others as well or no you just use that as a fucking just coin to throw in the fucking poker game of shitty takes like come on now their inability so there's this uh we've we talked on yesterday's episode about this genre of uh minneapolis braces for verdict cities across america are bracing for the verdict in the Derek Chauvin murder trial. And there's this Wall Street Journal one that I thought was interesting in that. So first of all, they're reporting on a new direction that police forces across America are taking based on just an absurdly low bar that they're using to judge the disaster that was the police response to protests last summer. And it basically like one of the things that they say the police got wrong is that they struggled to handle the disparate nature of last summer's protests around the city and figure out who was leading them like and that suggests to me that they can't conceive

of a version of this where it's just everybody responding as human beings to seeing other human beings treated unfairly they are like well we didn't get to the bottom of like the vast conspiracy that was getting all these people out in the streets. It was just like, these are the police reports. We talked about how city council reports on LAPD's response to protests was like, that was very bad and you shouldn't be allowed to have weapons if that's how you're going to respond. you shouldn't be allowed to have weapons if that's how you're going to respond these these uh new directions are coming from like their internal reports where they're much more gentle in evaluating how just completely and utterly they fucked everything up it makes me direction yeah it's like you know it's the whole like where was george soros what

was he doing is he the one like yeah like you said that they can't find like, you know, it's the whole like, where was George Soros? What was he doing? Is he the one like, yeah, like you said that they can't find a leader. You know what I mean? It's like, these are all these are all actors. They're paid protesters. They're Antifa. It's like, no, you can't just accept the fact that when you believe that the world is controlled by a puppet master. Right. And you buy into that whole conspiratorial mindset in such a deep way now everything is a result of the puppet master right and so these protests must be a puppet that must be something the puppet master did because the puppet master controls everything even when it seems like it's a good thing like the whole antichrist narrative and like for christianity it's like well the antichrist is going to fool everybody he's going to bring about world peace he's going to unite all the world governments and then he's going to be like hey i'm the devil it's already time yeah it's like wait let's go back to the things ending all war that's how you know this is going to be bad for the human race i mean that

shows you the christians are capitalists they're like, peace? You can't make money off of that. That's the devil's work. Yeah. Oh, for sure. Seriously. Bless these little idiots' hearts. It's like your grandparent like, oh, grandma, I can't find

the other sock in the dryer. She's like, what? It's that damn dryer troll. Get the shotgun i had enough of this motherfucker stealing my god no i'm shooting the shit out of this dryer i'm not today motherfucker like yo hold on my bad it was just under the bed right yeah it just got sucked into the side sorry look i'm grandma's like look I'm a little over leveraged in the troll market right now. I'm explaining a lot of my own, my early onset dementia, which might be happening right now. So where'd all my underpants go then?

Right. Underpants trolls. Those are real though. Not sock trolls are not real, but underpants. We can all agree let's be clear let's be clear let us be clear uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about ufos mtv's official challenge podcast is back for another season that's right the challenge is about to embark on its monumental 40th season, y'all.

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Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And let's talk real quick about just how the gop outrage so that that's it's interesting because usually the way that this works is democrat gets into office republican outrage becomes like very strong and like fox news ratings start shooting through the roof and you know there's suspicion of the party in power and so there's just this vast like uprising of outrage from from the right um but it feels like funded

right astroturfers yeah but it feels like because trump like sort of ran his campaign as ran his entire administration like he wasn't in office. Like he was always talking about things like he couldn't do anything because the other people, the Democrats were being mean. It feels like there's just not that like it there feels like there's less outrage. Yeah. The logic just kind of got too twisted up and just being openly racist and feeling comfortable in that, that it's kind of lost something. Like, they all realize, like, they're on this ghost ship that kind of just didn't go anywhere. And like, wait, what do we believe?

Because right now, it's just like, they contradict themselves, like, within moments. Because they have nothing, like, all they can do is react and just be like, fuck it. if it's something to do with black liberation or the justice system will deploy attacks about you know violent people or that they're actually the violent ones case in point uh when maxine waters 82 year old black woman congressperson uh from the la area said this in regards to someone asking what what should happen if derek chauvin is not convicted she said we got to stay on the street we've got to get more

active we've got to get more confrontational we've got to make sure that they know that we mean business no lies detected there in terms of you saying this is what has to have we have to be more in our advocacy in our activism it has to go up a notch because, this is what we have to be more in our advocacy, in our activism. It has to go up a notch because clearly this is not enough. There aren't enough people participating to send a message to people that this is actually something we are rejecting. Again, the GOP, the racist funhouse mirror that it is. It took these words as incitement. And you got people saying all kinds of shit like uh marjorie taylor

geheimisch that's polis i or marjorie taylor green i'm sorry what did i say was that the is that the formal name of the gestapo i don't know i get it all mixed up but she said that this was leading to drive-bys on national guardsmen now there i think there was a drive-by dealing in like that area or whatever has nothing to do with whatever maxine waters said and trying to tie everything like you know people were trying to ask for a mistrial uh his attorneys were trying to get a mistrial because of what she said meanwhile marjorie taylor green post shit like the squad's worst nightmare with ilhan omar aoc and rashida talib and she's holding a motherfucking assault rifle right what the

fuck are you talking about like what is this just got finished literally storming the capital like their ideology just caused an insurrection and literally inciting they had a they had the main stage at fucking just clan chela to fucking get everybody all worked up to go march on the Capitol. And then you go on Kevin McCarthy. He's, oh, you can't believe it. He's saying Maxine Waters is inciting violence in Minneapolis, just as she had has incited it in the past.

If Speaker Pelosi doesn't act against this dangerous rhetoric, I will bring action this week. Miss me with all this shit. Have you have you bothered to hear anything what your people say even the judge in the fucking choven trial was like that it was abhorrent her comments were like make like honored the logic of that while also saying go get fucked with your demand for a mistrial yeah i mean this is you can i mean we've we if you listen to this show enough we've covered the wild shit that comes out of these people's mouths so for them to turn

around it's like it's just it's like okay whatever we don't care because at the end of the day we know where you're at if your reaction to us demanding justice sounds like an attack to you right then you really need to think about what you stand for right and what's your definition of any of these words are because we're not asking every white person bow at the feet of black america so we may be the dominant ones we're saying yo apply the fucking justice system equally get fucking have let's have a reckoning with slavery for real for real so we can begin to heal as a country and if you're going like that's an attack uh-oh you in trouble and your worldview is completely fucked up the uh remember that racist baltimore cop who was caught

on his body cam like saying just wildly racist things one of the things he said was that like, he heard that there were like young white girls lining up to kiss black people's feet. So like, that is what they're like. You're a satirical hypothetical is what they're telling each other to get worked up. Because the, the worst possible thing for this kind of white american is an inversion of the

racial balance of power right and that's what they think it is yeah right it's not because and i think if you if you get that then you already you're actually acknowledging the game itself meaning you are on top and other people are on the bottom right and if your fear is that inversion then you are you you actually know how fucked up it is but you're saying oh shit i don't want to be on the other side of what we do to black people fuck that oh no no no no no but that's not and so but that's why i don't like there are some people who are just not going to be able to connect those dots because they only want to do the one that is the direct threat to their agency or supremacy or whatever the fuck it is yeah people forget too that like everybody just wants the shot you know everybody just wants

to be able to be happy and have the shot to live the life they want and like like that inversion thing you said it beautifully because it is that white people are so scared of like i don't want to be treated the way i've been treating other people and it's that scares them to death and it's guilt and so it's doubling down on that cult leader that was proven to be a fraud it's just it's just mind-boggling we all just everybody just wants the chance and the grace the level of grace and like calm and just keeping your shit together that the victim always has to have is mind blowing to me. Like, you know, the fact that people who have been oppressed for generations and generations, they just want the same access, like as opposed to the revenge because white people are like the white people who are scared or like it's also like well if i was them i'd be fucking people up you know what i mean and that's what they're scared of it's the devil inside that they realize that if in the other position the way they behave the way they'd react is not calm and it's not with grace and so they're like well other people can't have grace.

I don't have it. No, they do, motherfucker. And they've been trying to do this through protests, through peaceful protesting, through all this stuff. And it scares them to think that what they would do in that situation. Yeah. It's look, I'm just telling you, like white people, we don't have time to fucking want to seek revenge on every single white person like we don't have time for that we're we're so consumed by surviving the last thing is like fuck you know what i want revenge on so no that's why that's why we're asking so we're asking for like measurable outcomes not asking for abstract shit like we need to be the kings of america kings

and queens and whatever the fuck just like no but that's what no one they're not able to see that because i think they look at equality or whatever this is uh equity is a zero-sum game that can only be extent like that they're sitting on it and and they're trying to poke people away while they sit on this whatever perceived throne they're on right and they have to make up a hypothetical version of reality where the thing that they're doing to other people is being done to them like that's that's how they have to like get themselves psyched up yeah wow hell of a hell of a mind pretzel to be in yeah uh i think and ryan like you said i think there's guilt in there too that makes it extra strong and makes them clamp down extra hard on their bullshit beliefs because they know at a

certain level that they're wrong they just don't want to it's a lot that has to break free yeah and it's so freeing to admit you're wrong too and it's when we were kids we told ourselves like when we're older when we're adults weed's going to be legal everywhere uh everything's the world's going to be great america's going to be even better and generation x and in a lot of regards has dropped the ball because we were kind of taught that racism was a thing of the past right um and that we conquered racism and slavery and so generation x was grew up in grade school and high school, you know, being like we defeated racism and slavery. We're no longer racist, you know. Meanwhile, the organization has been operating full tilt behind office doors the whole time. And we just took down the sign out front that was advertising it to the world.

And we don't want to admit that. Like, oh, no. Oh, shit. Oh, okay. Right. But I never. We defeated racism. Yeah.

Right. Let's make soul man that's why we can make soul man see thomas howell because racism doesn't exist we did it y'all yeah it's just funny it's just silly to even think about that sort of thing no racism no it's just don't be silly it's just it's a silliness that's what that was come on let's talk real quick about UFOs. So the military is now basically openly part of the, we don't know what the fuck it is. We're taking it seriously. If y'all have any ideas,

like, come on, hit us up. Thanks. You know, my number, you know where I live, like let,

let's go. And there's this new article, uh, from a place that I did not link off to that i will find in a second but uh where they're just pointing out like so now the only holdouts really uh are like science uh like kind of established scientists still seem like they're just kind of doing the hand wave dismissive like oh aliens are gonna come and visit and uh i just i need them to explain like if they have an explanation for these like aerial events that

are impossible to explain within the bounds of physics like what just hit us up like let us know that it seems like it's only. You could get people actually interested in science if you hadn't had an explanation that made sense for those tic-tacs flying around and then dropping from 80,000 feet to 20,000 feet in mere seconds

and then moving without regard to inertia and then descending into the ocean like that that shit doesn't make any sense to me uh doesn't make any sense now to the the uh military doesn't make sense to the cia there's a big cia report coming in june that where they're just gonna it's gonna be an unredacted report uh that they give to congress is just like all right here's what we know y'all and that they're apparently you know former cia heads of the cia cia directors are like uh yeah it's going

to be wild because there's more than you guys realize out there and we don't really know i don't know what the fuck's going on yeah it's a it's it's almost like uncle sam can't open the the pickle jar and they're just like hey uh you want to give a crack at the lid yeah like okay it's crowdsource this shit yeah oh i mean disclosure is the formal word for it and like but here's the thing i and and again i don't have access to files, secret files in the Pentagon or anything like that. But it's. Sure you don't, Ryan. Sure you don't.

If I wink wink. If I were to. If I were to guess, wink wink, about what was going on, real disclosure might be happening in this form that you just described where it's not. The government needs to tell us everything they know about aliens. They're keeping it from us. That's what the idea of disclosure has been. I think real disclosure is the government coming out and saying, this is everything we don't know about aliens. We don't know. That's what real disclosure is, because my guess is they don't have any clue really either uh when it comes to like having anywhere close to the full picture about all the unexplained phenomena and it's also

interesting we have to pay attention to words and we realize that nowadays ufo has been the word forever right um and now hillary clinton went on jimmy kimmel and tried to brand UAP nationally. So people inside the world of ufology are now using UAP. It just sounds like a crypto to me. Right? It does. That's that track Ben Shapiro really hated, right? Yeah.

That's right, UAP. But here's the thing. It's like UFOs, they call it the ufology world. So if UAP, it's uapology world. It's like I'm just not getting on board with that. And it's like they're trying to change, you know, the name and, you know, because UFO now has too many connotations about kooks and weirdos and, you know, people who go to monthly meetings like me to listen to people talk about their abductions. abductions so it's like the idea too that the government is finally now disclosing all this that they don't know and that they're confirming videos the that's the big mystery now it's not what's right driving those uh machines or objects it's why now why have they finally have they

finally broken against the tide of people demanding evidence? I, I doubt it. So what what in those conspiracies on both sides, there's conspiracies think that it's all a false flag just to try to mind control people like, oh, this is what happens. The government's now going to use all of this as a form of martial law. The aliens are here to take over. We have to control everything and shut everything down and control every aspect of your life now to protect you. There are those

people who are pushing that narrative. And I'm not saying that, you know, you're the lead singer of your former, you know, favorite band is one of those people, but there is the fear narrative that is being pushed by a lot of the people who have taken like the forefront and the mantle of like the movement right right and that's so stupid to do that because we've seen enough movies to know if they come we were gonna fuck the aliens up together we're not gonna ask fucking joe bynum to fuck i'll be like pull the fuck up come to fuck come to north hollywood it's ugly motherfuckers and we'll die out here. We don't give a fuck. Like, we've seen enough

movies that the feeling would be like, oh, fight them. I think a lot of people would be like, this is what we've been preparing for. Fucking fight the aliens. We've all just been waiting for somebody else to hate. Isn't this great? Yeah, I think the

fact that this started happening a couple know this started what's the other side of the coin well the other side of the coin is really well the other side of the coin is that you know aliens have never uh they've been coming around for decades and decades if not longer and or ufos let's say ufos you know just we'll leave the aliens out of it for now uh the unknown factor and could be transdimensional yeah yeah like guess what's never happened in all of these sightings over the last you know 70 years since roswell there's never been an attack there's never been something shot down uh nothing on earth has been blasted that we're aware of etc etc and in fact there are reports from former military people

who have worked on bases that on you know ufos have been in the area and disabled nuclear devices on that base and so if anything they are trying to promote peace and like don't destroy yourselves don't destroy the planet you're living on so that's the other narrative that aliens are not here they're not coming to enslave us they're they're trying to help us you know evolve and they're like hey don't fuck it up all right right exactly idiots doing what the fuck are they doing down there it's like a sims game where they're like rooting for the survival and advancement of the society to the point where for us the lemmings we can deal with it like we can actually deal with their existence they're like yeah y'all aren't

there yet now you would shit yourselves if we showed ourselves they're trying to childproof earth right it's like they're covering up all the electrical outlets they're putting up the baby gates they're like okay don't fall down the stairs you stupid son of a bitch well it's funny it's funny that you mentioned that because there is all these stories from the cold war where things like came very close to being an accidental like hot nuclear war uh and like things just broke a certain way there was stanislav petrov is the famous one the dude who like got the sign that like the world is about to end and then got that sign 20 more times like they're they're sending nukes you got a fire back it was just like i'm gonna sit on this one because i don't know like even though that's the opposite of my job i just like have a feeling so like i don't know like it's it's interesting there's all there's all sorts of my job, I just like have a feeling. So like, I don't know, like it's,

it's interesting. There's all, there's all sorts of like cases where like a bear set off an alarm and this bomber was like on its way to like take off to drop a nuclear bomb on Russia. And like, they caught it like right at the last second. I just wonder how many of those incidents like UFOs are just like,

like whoever is behind UFOs is just just like covering shit up you know like trying to like keep the keep humanity from destroying itself well that's the one thing we have to be careful about is the and humans we love the idea of having an outside savior of some kind right and that's the one thing we really do have to be very careful about aliens aren't just gonna you know save us from our you know you know climate change disaster and all of this stuff and you know we have to do the work ourselves and you know some people kind of lean into it a little too much like i'll do whatever i want you know i'll uh i'll be driving my range rover my range rover 13 miles per gallon that's fine you know the aliens will come and save everything at the end. It's like, no, we have to.

I'm sorry, what? We have to do the work. The aliens got me. Yeah, the aliens got my back. We're good, man. We're good, man. The aliens got us. I'm sorry. What? Oh, no, no, no. All right. But the UFO world, the really fascinating thing about this is there's a real clear line in the sand between which side people are choosing to be on as far as like what they believe, you know, much like everything else in society has become very dualistic because you have the fear based side about it's all going to be about mind control and the one world government taking control of you, which we know stems from racist propaganda, the protocols of the learned elders of Zion. And then you have the other side, which is the most advanced technology that aliens have is the power of they know how to harness, essentially know how to harness consciousness and intention and consciousness. And that is that is their advanced technology that there's using.

And once we evolve into that, we'll be able to do all this kind of stuff too. Um, and it's all about lights and love and kind of consciousness. Right. And then the other side is, yeah, it's the one world government and,

you know, the new world order. It's a false, you know, it's fake. And so, you know, where is it?

It is that light and love thing. Yeah. If it is that light and love thing yeah if it's that light and love thing it would make sense that the military would be like we've got no fucking clue guys uh it's not a bomb they like they want to hug i don't know um but just to illustrate uh both this sort of dismissive attitude of experts and uh and also why i hate elon musk there somebody like asked him about that video uh where the tic-tac video and his response was honestly i think i would know if there were aliens i i'm so on board with this elon musk anti-elon musk bandwagon it's go fuck yourself he's like littering space yeah yeah right all this fucking satellite i don't know what the fuck whatever cool you're i think i would know

you got the you're the hype beast of outer space you got it early that it's just like such a fucking uh he said that i did not i did not see that clip I think I would know I think I would know dude you're talking to Elon Musk I'm like the smartest dude in the whole world and I even smoke weed so like I would know and yeah they would tell me Elon Musk again

you've heard of me anyways fuck that guy and Ryan it's been such a pleasure having you and Ryan and fuck that guy and ryan uh it's been such a pleasure having you and ryan and fuck that guy and ryan and that's gonna be the end of this episode now right as always so fun having you man where can people uh find you follow you experience your work uh well thanks for having me on it's so great to see everybody again. They can follow me on Instagram at Rai Singh. I also am launching a new app very, very soon. We have a couple days

left on the Kickstarter, which is being used to fund the first major update we're going to do to the app once it's already on the market. So the app's coming. The Kickstarter is just there to supercharge it. It's called Crystallize. It's a crystal identification app by photo. It's also going to have a directory of services, partners, organizations, a database for crystals, and also going to have a bunch of information and resources as we showcase retailers, vendors, organizations, and other people who are prioritizing supply chain transparency, trying to push the conversation about ethically sourced crystals forward. It's a very complicated, messy industry because there's no real regulation in the crystal market.

Oh, wow. Even though it's become a billion-dollar industry. Right. There's like a De Beers of crystal. Yeah, that makes sense now because crystals are so popular that there's going to be just fucked up operation. Yeah. So, I mean, but it's really difficult because, you know, every mine, you know, the United States has pretty good regulations for mining. But so many of the crystals come from different mines in different countries.

So it's a lot to kind of try to lasso in. So we're just trying to bring a bunch of voices together and people who like geologists, witches, all kinds. So it's going to have like every POV writing short articles and giving information for consumers because a lot of people buy crystals to try to feel good. And you can't feel good from something that's sourced from harm. So we're just trying to make people feel good about feeling good. That's an aspect of the app called Crystallize, Crystal E-Y-E-S. So we're really excited because it's coming real soon. The Kickstarter is already 100% funded, but it's got some great discounts and like, you know, rewards at a Kickstarter exclusive only like deals. So go to Crystallize.app backslash Kickstarter.

Just go to Crystallize.app and there's a link there to the kickstarter it runs until sunday night so i think so about four more days so uh some great deals and you do have uh steph curry and his beautiful crystalline eyes uh sponsoring yeah he's actually the logo you're right yeah he's the his eyes are the logo crystallize awesome is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying oh yeah um one of my favorite musicians and just yeah he's just an amazing amazing person austin lucas his twitter is austin lucas ind and a recent tweet from him was i don't know who needs to hear this,

but comrade literally just means friend in a whole mess of Slavic languages. It isn't common code, just a really sweet word that means something awesome. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk, comrades. So that's the tweet from Austin, who's brilliant. His music is really incredible. Everyone should check him out. Nice. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet from Austin, who's brilliant. His music is really incredible. Everyone should check him out.

Nice. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter, Instagram, at Miles of Grey. Also, the other podcast, 420 Day Fiance. A tweet I like is from at Xanbeans, X-A-N-B-E-A-N-S. I hope you're not going too hard on the benzos. This one is a clip of someone clearly at

like a brunch where it's like jazz guitar brunch but they're playing spodeody dopealicious and uh this tweet shoddy arabia is the name of the display name of the account but he thought nobody was gonna know this song but he didn't account for my black ass being there and i just want to play it because i just want to play this little clip because it's so funny to hear jazz brunch spody od dopolicious and then in the clip the jazz players kind of respond to her singing Damn, damn, damn, damn Woo! The guy in this mandolin's like, hey, okay. All right.

Somebody likes OutKast. Somebody's like, hold on. I like that crossover of OutKast fan and mandolin. Mandolin dungeon family? Yeah. Why not? You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A tweet I liked.

So there was the headline COVID-19 denier. Ted Nugent has tested positive for COVID-19 and Blaine Kapach tweeted, you have two wishes left. The Kola Skola at Kolsux tweeted. I can't quote. I can't sleep with a fan on and his responses. Okay.

Goodbye forever. I guess how I live my life. tweeted, I can't quote, I can't sleep with a fan on. And his response is, okay, goodbye forever, I guess. Um, how I live my life. It's a hard rule. And then, uh, colon swamp trash Crawford tweeted. Everyone is saying buffets are going to, aren't going to come back. And I'm like, what country have you been living in? And I drove by a buffet the other day, a seafood buffet, and it was fucking packed. So they're coming back. Fish can't get COVID. Fish can't get COVID, man. That's right.

That's right, man. You heard me, man. We know. We know. 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.

Hello. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song we think you should go check out. Miles, what song should people be checking out? The track's called Latin Jungle, Bad and Heavy. Parenthetical. It's a parenthetical by D Don't Care. But it's just got this, you know, for all my, you know, jungle fans out there from the musical genre, the electronic music genre.

This is a great sort of flip of like a Latin piano loop. But then giving you those jungle drums that you just love and you feel like it's 93 and you're in a warehouse. So let's ride out on that. This d don't care junk latin jungle bad and heavy and you got to get it on soundcloud go check that out on soundcloud the daily zyka is the production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio visit the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows that is is going to do it for this morning. We're back this afternoon to tell you what's trending. We'll talk to you all then. Bye. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years.

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