The Daily Zeitgeist - Trump LOST Lost, Spreader Claus 12.16.20

Episode Date: December 16, 2020

In episode 780, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Nikki Glaser to discuss Mitch McConnell and Putin both recognizing the Biden victory, Dan Crenshaw's absurd new political ad, Covid fatigue, the Santa super spreader, Kirk Cameron's massive caroling event, and more!FOOTNOTES: McConnell Finally Recognizes Biden Victory, Six Weeks After Election: ‘The Electoral College Has Spoken’ Putin finally congratulates Biden on US election victory WATCH: Georgia Reloaded ‘I can’t handle it anymore’: COVID fatigue is winning at the worst possible moment Visit from Santa may have infected 75 with coronavirus at Belgian care home KIRK CAMERON HOLDS MASSIVE CAROLING EVENT ... Defying COVID Restrictions WATCH: El Michels Affair feat. The Shacks - Enfant Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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on the iHeart app apple podcasts or wherever you stream podcasts hello the internet and welcome to season 164 episode 3 of production of iheart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america shared consciousness it's wednesday december 16th 2020 35 35 days until January 20th. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I'm Jack on the podcast again. That is courtesy of somebody on the Zeitgang. They actually gave me the Aerosmith back in the saddle, which I had never heard before. That song had somehow missed me. I will shout you out in a moment. But first, I am thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray!

Happy Holograys! Happy Holograys! Happy Holograys! As the Miles Gray keeps smoking, happy Holograms To you I love Andy Williams I gotta tell you His voice is so white It comforts me

Especially when he's like And dick Whip Dee doo Dickery dock And don't forget To sit on my cock Whoa

Is that how it comes I love it Anyway That was just from me I'm just trying to do all holiday vibe AKs. Straight out my brain. That was Diceman-esque. Hey, whoop-dee-doo, dickery-dock.

Sit on a spider's cock. Oh! Oh! Well, I'm glad you brought your A game today, Miles. Yeah, I had to, you know. My A.K.A. was courtesy of Official Dickhead. So I'm glad, again, bringing our A-game because we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by something we're trying out on our third rate podcast having a first rate guest it is the

hilarious and talented Nikki Glaser thank you guys for having me I'm um don't call yourselves third rate you're I I love this show you both know you both know um I'm a fan, so I'm so excited to be here. We're excited to have you. I still don't believe. The first time we met and you're like, I love this show. I was like, I can't. But she knows.

She talks like she actually listens. I know. I know. This is validation unlike anything I've had. Oh, my gosh. The first time I listened, I had to like look up so many words you used. You guys are so smart. You got added to my list of words that I'm like,

oh, I want to incorporate those more into my life. And I haven't, but yeah, I just feel smarter having listened to you. You guys are hilarious. You get it. Anyone listening gets it.

So yeah, I'm thrilled to be here. It means a lot. It means a lot. I love it. I'm thrilled to be here. It means a lot. It means a lot. I love it. You're coming to us from the great state of St. Louis, Missouri.

My favorite state, St. Louis. I have miles. You were talking about having a little bit of a history with St. Louis. I lived in Columbia for the first three years of my marriage um many many many miles from any uh airport so did a lot of spent a lot of time driving driving in missouri why were you there for three years of school uh my wife was going through medical school uh yes columbia. Columbia's not bad. Columbia's a nice little college town. It is the definition

of college. It totally is. Yeah. We were like within earshot of the football stadium, so you could just like ambiently get the vibes that I never had in my college time, because we didn't have like a big college football

team. Decent basketball though. That's nice. Wait, what's the college? Is that Mizzou? Mizzou. My cousin went there. Didn't know that was in Columbia. Great journalism school. Brad Pitt went there, didn't he?

I believe that's correct. I believe that is on the sign when you're entering the university. Brad Pitt one here. Is a statue of him eating an apple? Eating nachos. Because he's always eating nachos. He's so good at eating, man.

That guy fucking did not. Wait, is he photographed eating a lot? Well, think of any movies. Oh, yeah. I guess you're right. Any Oceans film, Fight Club, Snap. what uh he's just in his movies oh yeah i guess you're right any oceans film fight clubs like you can all i can always picture a moment where he's eating or taking a bite of something yeah he's got to work that that chiseled jaw you want to see it in action really draws attention to the

chiseled jaw line i noticed it in oceans and then i like went back and like in each uh eat joe black uh freudian slip, but meet Joe Black. There's a thing where he tries peanut butter for the first time. I feel like there are certain people who just have things written into their contract that they have to do. And eating is like, you know, show off the goods. And Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks, please. We do like to talk about that.

Oh my gosh, he does. Yeah. John Cusack likes to be stuck in the rain. Yeah, there's all sorts of... Some people say Tom Hanks just had a career in acting just for easy access to doing pee scenes for large crews. Yeah, one way or another, if he hadn't broken into Hollywood, he was going to get into the porn game.

Have you guys heard about that podcast where he fired a guy on the set of Band of Brothers because he had dead eyes? And this guy goes back to – the podcast is called Dead Eyes. I just started listening to it. It's hilarious. This guy – it was like listed as like a podcast of the year. And I just heard the first episode the other night, but it's called Dead Eyes. And this guy was like got his first acting gig in Band of Brothers. He's American.

He was over in London studying theater and acting. He was really struggling to get a job over there. Out of nowhere, Band of Brothers starts casting. He has a chance as an American to get a role, and he gets it. Then they take it. He calls everyone he knows. He's so excited. It's a he has a chance as an American to get a role, and he gets it, and then they take it. He calls everyone he knows. He's so excited. It's a speaking role.

Like it's not – he has like 10 lines, but it's huge. And then he gets a call from the casting director that says you have to re-audition because Tom thinks you have dead eyes. And they're not – he wasn't supposed to find out he had dead eyes. That was a note from like the assistant that told him that, and he goes in, and he has to re-audition, and then he gets fired by Tom Hanks for had dead eyes. That was a note from like the assistant that told him that. And he goes in and he has to re-audition and then he gets fired by Tom Hanks for having dead eyes. So he's going back and like investigating it and finding out like what happened. And yeah.

And it's, it's, it's really fascinating. That's a whole new level of rejection because like that's, that's, you're being rejected by America's dead. Like you're, it's one thing to get rejected by your own dad, but by the entire country, the world's dead. I don't know what I'm feeling right now, whether it's like, wait, Tom Hanks is capable of bad,

or also am I putting myself in dead eyes position? I'm like, what? But I can't help my eyes. I mean, how can I undead them like did he come in wild extra for the re-audition was like oh my god Sergeant Baker Captain Winters we gotta we have to take that hill

that was the curious part I was confused as to why he didn't talk about his re-audition and how he tried to make his eyes more lively I would think that that would be something you would move him more but he didn't mention that and then I googled him which when I was going through my Google searches for you guys, I saw his name and I go, who is that? And then I was like, oh, I Googled to see if he had dead eyes. And he kind of does.

Like I see it in the pictures. They're a little bit sociopathic, a little bit like just like looking through you, which is not a bad thing. He's actually a really great actor, comedic actor. And he's like a UCB guy and really accomplished. But he in fact, I did see what Tom was talking about. But I do think that maybe Tom has a bad side, you know, like. Yeah. On the other hand.

Oh, it's Connor Ratliff. We could have never guessed. Yes. Connor Ratliff. We could have never guessed. Yes, Connor Ratliff. Is it? Okay. I mean, Tom Hanks is a producer on that show. And it's like, on the one hand, it's not great that it got back to him. Because that's very personally insulting.

And something that he can do nothing about, it would sound like. But that is kind of his job is if somebody is miscast or like doesn't isn't like reading on the screen. Like I kind of don't begrudge Tom Hanks the ability to fire people for having dead eyes, especially because as we've discussed. I've always said that actually. Tom Hanks. Yeah. as we've discussed, I've always said that actually, Tom Hanks. But he might have had that specifically stuck in his

head because he was coming off of Polar Express where the mocap is specifically known for giving Tom Hanks the deadest eyes that any movie character has ever had. Well, he said he walked back into the –

Jack, you might have to go on the show to offer him that perspective. Seriously. I mean, that's a really good point. He said he walked into the re-audition and he – and Tom's in there and he didn't recognize him. He looked like shit, he said. He was like – he looked terrible and he has just gotten done filming Cast Away. And so he had lost all this weight and, you know, he didn't know what – he was like – he looked terrible and he has just gotten done filming Cast Away. And so he had lost all this weight and he didn't know what he was all skinny and just like looked homeless for. And it just like – have you guys ever found out something about yourself that you weren't supposed to know like that?

Like I try not to hear – I'm not one of those people that wants to know what people really think about me. I would like to live in the world where – you know, like I talk shit about people. So I assume people talk shit about me, and it's like it's their right. I don't – it's that whole phrase of like it's none of your business what other people think about you. I try to like – I wouldn't be one of those people that's like if you could be invisible for the day, what would you do? And I wouldn't like go to those people that's like, if you could be invisible for the day, what would you do? And I wouldn't go to hear people talking about me ever. Yeah. Not necessarily.

Not a good idea. But people like that. It's like a thing where you're not – I mean, when you're susceptible to that, it shows that you're very – you can't live from your inside out. You're living from the outside in. live from your inside out you know like you're living from the outside in everything that's happening outside of you is actually determining your internal space rather than coming from a place like yeah i don't know yeah maybe my mouth is crooked which is the thing i've heard uh and i'm like but i don't give a fuck that's just that's what it is uh and i don't care but at the end of the day like i can't see my own fucking mouth someone gives a shit yeah that's a good

point you can't and we're not meant to see our reflections, like ever. I was just going to say, Miles has a great mouth. Not crooked at all. As somebody who has a crooked smile. Pull up our performance review that you wrote up of me. It's in there. Line one. Bro, your mouth, dog.

It just says, bro, your mouth, dog. Oh. your mouth dog it just says blow your mouth dog yeah like when i've done the roasts you know like that's when you are subject to those those um things that you're like oh i didn't even know that about myself but people just the writer's room for those they just sit and stare at a picture of you all day and take it apart and say like the worst things possible and it's really led me to be deeply insecure about things that i didn't you know i already have insecurities and then they find new things and um yeah like and one that comes back to haunt me all the time is like people said i look like owen wilson which is i kind of did like i get it and the way you guys just laughed just confirmed it that was

but guess what nikki now i gotta pull up a photo and really give it a gander like we totally like yeah we oh yeah i gotta work on an impression of him that would be killer but i he is he's like a feminine looking man so i. For sure. But that one's come back to haunt me a lot, and I definitely did see it. And I was like, oh, I got to – I booked an appointment with a plastic surgeon-y person after the roast to go fix some stuff. It was wild. I spent so much money on different dumb stuff just and then and then they'll make fun of you for looking plastic so it's like you can't win but i did have dead eyes for a while um when i i got like botox that really does kill your eye like that's that's talk about dead eyes right and now

it's all gone it's like it's with covid you can't have any more touch ups. So I feel so good like having my face just like being able to move again and back to normal. Because I've. Yeah. Did you feel like there was any diminished feeling like emotions? I've read that that's something that happens where when your face is frozen, you're less able to even feel the emotions because it's a two-way street. Did you notice that? No. I already have a hard time feeling my feelings. So I think that I was already just like, it was probably just felt pretty good on top of that. Yeah. But I did cry. I was on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire right before the pandemic, like right when it happened

that week. It was like one of the last things that filmed before everything shut down. And I had a lot of Botox in my face and I cried on that show. Like, it's so weird that I don't cry, but when the camera was in front of me and it was a real cry, it wasn't for the camera. Like I accidentally said the wrong answer and like I locked in the wrong answer, you know, it was between two things. And I was like, it's not this, I know it's not this. And then I said, you It was between two things. And I was like, it's not this. I know it's not this. And then I said, B, final answer. And it was what I was saying was not it.

So everyone knew. Like I had just fucked up. And I go, no. And I'm screaming. And I cry because it's like it was just because I just didn't take my time. And I had just gotten done telling Jimmy Kimmel, the host, that I really want to be patient and think. And I was just so disappointed in myself. So I started crying.

And it looks like I'm fake crying because my face can't move. It's just like a tear falling out of a frozen face. And that's when I was like, you've got to get out of you until uh until the next roast and someone makes you feel bad again uh by the way polar express 2004 band of brothers 2001 so maybe tom hanks should have uh worried about his own dead eyes a little bit more unless it's your boy's dead eyes uh all right nikki uh we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. Biden won the election, it seems like now that is official.

We'll talk about quiet damage being done behind the scenes of the Trump administration. Dan Crenshaw's audition to be one of the Avengers, a.k.a. and also just an absurd political ad that he put out. Shaw's audition to be one of the Avengers, AKA a, uh, and also just, uh, an absurd political ad that he put out. One of the scavengers.

Yeah, that's right. Uh, COVID fatigue. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about, uh, Santa Claus getting everybody sick.

All of that. Plenty more might even get to Kirk Cameron. Uh, but first Nikki, we like to ask our guests what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are um okay well it kind of goes into what we were just talking about um i uh this just an hour ago i i looked up uh emily radazowski young which she already is young but i wanted to go younger because she recently posted i don't know

if you know who that is supermodel yeah she's pregnant now which like i was happy about because there's like always a constant like divot running down her stomach that defies science it's like this line that is just unachievable it's not even an ab and now it's popped out because of that baby but um her lips are just so big and i was like is this what's going on here and then i went back and looked and that bitch has always had like a blessed by god yeah she's always been good and it's not work and um i like to do a little investigating sometimes not that i would have any problem with it because i've done it too but um yeah i looked up that um god-given lip injection that's like me when i

look at bald people who i think well dudes with hair plugs i'm always like let me let me figure this dude out i'm seeing the wind is not hitting the hairline right right and that's built out of my own you know balding insecurity bullshit but you know yes it takes it takes one to know one and you know so that's why i rely on me for my expert eye. Miles, that's really interesting that you just said that. I've found that men are so obsessed with men's hairlines. It is a thing that men are looking at men's hairlines more than women are looking at men in any way. More than you look at women's bodies and get turned on. You guys are obsessed with hairlines, which I get,

you know, because you're obsessed with your own. I recently, I was having hair loss during COVID. Like a lot of people were, and it was just falling out in the shower, like crazy. And I got, I'm getting a treatment.

I just got today. I'm wearing a ball cap right now. I look like Antifa. Because I come in all black marshal oh my god i really do that one is that's triggering um that is so good but i uh i'm wearing it because i just got um scalp injections i'm doing this thing called prp where they like take your blood out and they spin it around a machine and then they inject it into your scalp and it's supposed to like

stimulate hair growth and it might not work but my friend who had like a lot of hair loss did it and i and i'm doing it and my scalp is like has caked blood all over it because i just got like a thousand shots in my head it's intense dude dude. And they numb your head at first. You get three sessions. They numb your head at first by shooting stuff into it. And then they do like a hundred injections of your blood into your head.

And it doesn't hurt at all. The injections don't hurt because of the numbing. But you can hear the needle going like... And so it's like the grossest. So this time I brought white noise to, to plug in and just like jam out on some white noise. And,

and I could still hear it. It was so gross, but I don't, all these things, I don't know why I'm doing this anymore. Like it's, I don't, but you got to do the three sessions.

So, so that's what I'm doing, but look into that if you want, but hair loss, it's just like, it sucks. Yeah. And it's such a funny thing, I think, because I've talked to my other friends who are around the same age who will be like, yo, what's good with your hair? I mean, not that that's all we're talking about. But there's always this refrain of like, how has science not figured this thing out?

refrain of like how has science not figured this thing out like we're making so many leaps and bounds but like more hair on head we're still like i don't know i don't know what to do which is fine because you know i'd rather they make advances and things like tackling terminal illnesses and things like that but you know come on like break off like 10 of your time now that these vaccine scientists got it done like let's put them on the bald thing. That's a good point. It really is bizarre that there's been nothing. But there are guys that didn't have hair, and now they have great hair. And what is that?

Is that a transplant? I'm sure you've looked into it. What are we dealing with there? Getting transplants all the time. Mikhail's got them. We remember old Jeremy Piven. You know what I mean? Yes.

Strong hairline. It's always funny because when you actually old jeremy piven you know yes strong like it's always funny like because when you actually look back you're like that's right i knew that actor was bald i just forgot when i saw them on that sitcom in the 90s before they got checks what they look like so yeah they've aged in reverse speaking of right i love it yeah but yeah shout out to anybody with that the strong plugs uh what is something you think is underrated, Nikki? Underrated. Well, it goes in line with what I was just talking about. Sleep masks and white noise for sleeping.

I think that a lot of people struggle with sleep. I hear it constantly. And if you're not using a sleep mask and you're not using a white noise machine do that before you go to ambient or before you go to anything else the thing that keeps you up is like light coming in it wakes you up or it's the fact that there are random noises and you might not even think that that's what's doing it but just try out a white noise app it's called white noise put on the airplane noise. Boom. Crank that up.

Stick it right next to your pillow. And a sleep mask. It's just like I – those are the – the sleep mask is the one – those both, if you took them from me, I don't know how my life would completely go down the drain. The sleep mask is just the cover? Yeah. Just for your eyes. And there's different ones because people are like, I can't stand something on my face my mom claims it like well she can't breathe but it's just not true there's there's so many different ones that you can use and it changes the game

and then you get used to these things being associated with sleep and then as soon as you put it on it's almost like a lullaby and you fall back asleep because it's like the soothing thing that you associate with sleep, which is I guess one of the main things that sleep therapists recommend is that you need to associate things with sleep. Like your bed should only be for sleep. So if you can't sleep, get out of bed. Go in the kitchen until you are ready to close your eyes. And no one's going to do that. So just get a sleep mask. The light pollution thing is big for me because I used to just naturally, like, at a certain point in the morning, take a second pillow and just crush my face with it. Yes.

And then I remember, like, I had found, like, a gag sleep mask from, from like a bachelorette party thing like my my partner i was like let me oh i'm like oh here's a sleep mask and i put it on it had like a sexy kitten on it it was like horny bitch yeah yeah exactly i was catching the fuck out of those z's though because like it just even that subtle change of like where i'm like i could go back to sleep by covering my eyes but having that the whole time really was something else. Yes, and even in the dark, I will say even in a dark room, if I close my eyes, it's still not the same as putting on a sleep mask and really getting that deep, I'm in a cave darkness. It's essential. I just wanted to think of something that would maybe benefit your listeners.

I feel like there's a stigma against sleep masks, too. The people you see wearing sleep masks in movies are always fancy people. It's a woman in a silk robe drinking vodka rocks. I don't know why. They're so stigmatized. Why is this so? It's 3 p.m.? They're literally five dollars at cvs like anyone can afford this and i'm glad like maybe that will make people more drawn to it because

you'll you're like that's like a fancy thing but it's it truly is not and it's it's a game changer yes yeah uh did you say that you and also a class indicator. Did you say that your white noise is... And also a class indicator. Yes, yes, exactly. Did you say your white noise setting is airplane sound? Yes, it is the sound of an airplane cabin. And you can also just pull it up on YouTube. There's like 10-hour streams of first-class airplane cabin. I guess that is different.

uh like first class airplane cabin like that's different i guess that is different you have right yeah it's where you hear like like metal utensils on like porcelain flatware versus like plastic trays in the in poor people's zone i hate when you're on a plane and like they do like the the we're about to land or whatever and you're in coach and they're like and for people in first class you um can give us back your bows headsets they like they let you know that like the things that you're getting up there that you're not in the back you're like wait right could you just like tell them individually that's kind of like rubbing just put the speakers to that part of the plane the blast of the whole part right you could do that and yes and uh thank you so much for being upstanding citizens and

giving people something to aspire towards. And this is the last call for your foot massages and complimentary hand jobs. It's like, wait, what? What's happening up there? How? Warm-faced towels. That's all I need. I feel like they could just – they would make a coach so much better.

Just warm-faced towels. That's all they need. Yeah, that is a nice sometimes i'm like what am i supposed to do with this but it's i'm never even if i just hold it it's still nice yeah yeah yeah or doing that thing where you keep going to be like how much heat will retain how much heat will retain and it's like ah i got the most out of it all right i'm done with this stupid hot towel. What is something you think is overrated, Nikki? Okay. The guy on the skateboard drinking cranberry juice singing Fleetwood Mac.

Lip syncing Fleetwood Mac. I didn't understand it. I watched it again today to really soak myself in the happiness that everyone got from that. I didn't get it. Maybe I'm jaded. It brought me no joy everyone's like oh he's like it shows a new appreciation for fleetwood mac for young people i go he's old he should know fleetwood mac he's not doing a good job of lip syncing it which i'm a huge stickler for

especially when it comes to music people on tiktok that can uh lip sync dialogue i'm very impressed by if you've ever tried to do it it's's actually very, very hard. Music is very easy to lip sync to. And it was unsafe. He wasn't wearing a helmet. The cranberry juice, that's so much sugar. And he was on a highway. And everything about it was annoying. I was not.

There was nothing about it that made me feel good. Wow. The combination of the vibes on a board and, uh, dreams was cool. But I think for me, I also find it a little bit overrated, more like the phenomenon around him because he's turned into this weird

pawn of like corporate, you know, uh, like philanthropy and being like, you see, like this guy was just himself. And now like ocean spray bought him a truck and he's got this thing and he he used to work in a potato factory where it's like he was destitute

it's like how about you zoom back to the part where he was destitute before all this and all the other people who don't have a longboard and a tiktok and a bottle of spray to get to this other place and i'm just like oh we keep doing this kind of shit we're like this poor person made it y'all and it's like applause fantastic and we didn't care until they had a great yeah a semi-talent or they did something it they always have to have a talent like we can't just give homeless people credit until they give us something like remember the guy with the golden voice it was like oh now let's let's help the homeless because he's talented. Like it's, there always has to be something with it.

It's not just because you're a human being who's in need, which I think that's, that is sort of the American sort of nightmare that we have is sort of like, we can't just get to that part of like, oh, you're in need? Oh, well then no questions asked here. Let's help you.

It's like, oh, you're in need? Can you fucking do a varial hard flip over like down a 10 stair? Like, I don't know. Let's hear you. It's like, oh, you're a knee? Can you fucking do a varial hard flip over like down a 10 stair? Like, I don't know. Let's hear this singing voice. Yeah, exactly. All right. Well, speaking of-

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No, you mean you have to listen to us. I mean, you can still watch us, but you gotta listen. Like, if you're watching us, you mean you have to listen to us i mean you can still watch us but you gotta listen like if you're watching us you have to tell us like if you're out the window you have to say hey i'm watching you outside of the window just just you know what listen to the amber and lacy lacy and amber show on will ferrell's big money players network on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and uh mitch mcconnell he did it you guys he uh said the he said reality after five weeks of denying reality. He did reality, guys. He did the thing. He said it's real, the thing that has been real for five weeks.

Yeah. Yeah. But this seems to have been like the mainstream media is treating this as like, finally, he's really put the nail in Trump's coffin. Yeah. He told, I mean, yes, Monday Electoral College certified. We saw the stupid clown show

of like alternate electors that were showing up to be like, I'm here to put my vote down. And they're like, even like the police were like, you're not coming in here. You're not. You're just a weird sovereign citizen thing. This doesn't make sense. It's not legal. It's over. And so, yes, it's certified.

It's done and dusted. It's been like that, though, despite all the malarkey and lawsuits. But yeah, McConnell said it himself, like a Chinese spy. He said, we have a president who will be sworn in on January 20th. The Electoral College has spoken. Wow. So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden. The president-elect is no stranger to the Senate and he's devoted himself to public service for many years. So he's already trying to pivot. And he said he made niceties with Kamala Harris. It was like she's a senator. Yeah, the fist pound.

Remember that? I thought that was him acknowledging it. Everyone goes, oh, he gave her a little pound the first time they were back. And everyone was like, oh, that was acknowledging it, being like, good job, girl. And I'm like, maybe that's just how he greets people. Maybe that wasn't a congratulations. Mitch McConnell seems like a fist-bound kind of guy. He's a down-ass brother.

I don't know. Who knows what his whole swag is about. But yeah, that was one of the things that I think most people were waiting for because Mitch McConnell this whole time is entertained. Well, we have to see all the legal remedies and just kind of waiting for this to say, I guess he's saying, I respect the sanctity of the Electoral College. That was clearly the point for him that he was going to abandon all this entertaining of Trump's conspiracy theories.

And even when you go over to Newsmax, Trump's favorite channel, they're also Chinese spies based on what they're saying what because they said uh one of their anchors said quote the electoral college votes are being cast today here is video from four states new york new hampshire arizona and illinois all certifying the election for president-elect joe biden and then this article describing how they said it they uh or describing how he was presenting this news on the air, said, quote, Moments later, Bachman referred to Biden as president elect for a second time, confirming there had been no mistake. So, yeah, it's. Yeah.

As if he like saying at one time, oh, I misspoke. I mean, that's that's the world we live in, that they can say that. I was joking. Yeah, that was joke respect. Mr. President, that was They can say that. That I was joking. Yeah. That was joke. Respect. Mr. President. That was just straight joke. Respect.

And even Vladimir. Zadimir. Putin. Has also. He is also abandoning. He's ghosting his ass, too. This is. Now, Putin didn't say to himself.

It's coming from his office. But this is coming from his office in Russia. Quote. Vladimir Putin. Wish the president elect every success and expressed confidence that russia in the united states which bears special responsibility for global security and stability despite their differences can truly contribute to solving many problems and challenging and challenges that the world is currently facing so even putin is now like okay so you're in the driver's seat it's yeah so didn't putin's come before mcconnell's i think uh yes like like a half hour it all was

happening yesterday yeah exactly yeah uh and then when yeah taking his cues from the kremlin yet again um got him got him does this matter like are there people who out there i guess newsmax would be the the one where this would be the most relevant but like the main reason trump is continuing to cast out on the election is so that he can like maintain his legitimacy in the eyes of the people who voted for him right or the outrage in the eyes of the people more specifically delegitimize joe biden right completely it just eroded any faith republicans still like believe it was fixed i mean it's that's not changed right yeah i think it's just to keep that at like he's just fanning the flames to make sure it's like white hot when january 20th comes my neighbors still have their trump flag up and um and my one neighbors took it down they had it up the whole time you know and it was this and our and our neighborhood doesn't

have like a lot of those flags but these people just moved in and they had a trump flag that would said trump trump no more bullshit it was like, what are you talking about? What do you mean no more? That would have maybe made sense in 2016 to have that slogan. But like this is – there's been – what bullshit? You're the president, sir. You're the bullshit. Yeah, and it was – and it's in a neighborhood.

My sister – like there's little kids. It's like no more bullshit. It's like middle class nice-ish name suburbs and um so it's weird because we would my mom and i go walking the dogs and we always walk past this house and we kind of just don't want to have to talk to these people because we're scared of what we might say or you know and and they're always out in the front yard and doing some weird like they're just always out and so but and and i was at a point for a while where i was like i just i don't want to be mean to to people who i know voted for like i just want to be able

to smile to my neighbor and just like not have it be a thing be the bigger person so i had i had uh resolved myself to be that way i hadn't run into this person yet so then after i like resolved that i'm on a run and I'm running back. This is around Halloween time. I'm running back past their house. And this guy is in the middle of the street admiring his Halloween decorations, which are insane. Just like ghouls hanging from trees like just with the Trump flag and like there's just blowups, pumpkins. It's just like trashy, like tacky, terrible.

Cobwebs everywhere. And he's admiring it from the street and he's taking pictures of it. And I'm going to – we are the only people in the street. I am going to have to say something to this person. I can't just ignore this guy. So I'm like, you know what, Nikki? You don't want to be mean and you don't want to lie. I don't want to be like, you're great.

I love you. Or like, hi. I hope you have a happy – but i want to say something true yeah yeah and i didn't love it so i'm really trying to be honest like i don't want to lie anymore in my life like at all even with it's like a little like white lie so i was like and i was running and so i slowed down because i'm like what are you going to say to this guy you have to say something more than just and you have to acknowledge his decorations because he's proud i mean he's taking a picture he just put him up he's been putting up all day and so you guys i killed it i go i go it looks

really scary uh flag and i mentioned and he goes it does and i go yeah terrifying and then i just kept running and it was like a nice interaction i was honest he felt good it was like i was like a nice interaction. I was honest. He felt good. It was like – I was like, oh, good. There's hope. And then – but they took down the flag, but our closer neighbors have not, and they have two, and they keep like moving it to different sides of the door. And it's just a – I wonder when that will come down though. That will be the real test. Yeah. Yeah.

That's the barometer currently. Yes. When will they relinquish do you have trump flags out in LA in the area I saw one the other day when I went on a bike ride they were decked out it's around

yeah people don't do it with their chest out in certain areas yeah there are a lot of people of color that live it's not the best take to have right now you know might make things a little awkward but yeah yeah the bumper stickers i always i have like a pathological obsession to always like drive up around to see the person who has the trump bumper sticker just be like god damn i know they're always smoking with the kids in the back seat right i did see

a funny thing uh of like like a maga hat and a like a dashboard but it was like one of those joke ones i said like made you look fuck trump oh okay i can't like because like you have a visceral reaction like you see the white text on a red hair like what the fuck is it and i was like okay all right no i don't like those far away i would have said you're a piece of shit right because miles even if like say your friend has on a one of the jokey ones for a moment you think your friend's a douchebag right like you you judge your friend and then it's a joke but you there's there's something in your brain that will always have that because that moment was so traumatic do you know what i

mean like right that's why i don't like pranks you never let go of the fear you had at first before it was like oh it's a joke right it's not a swastika it's a sick ass zz top logo isn't it sick i'm like yeah but see to me that says so it did it already did something to me so the joke you guys joke is still signifies. I live with my parents. My mom, we had a Biden sign out front for a while. And my mom sells stuff on Craigslist. And she had a woman coming over to look at a chair.

And my mom took down the sign because she's like, I just don't want trouble. She was like, if this person won't buy my chair because of this. So it's so funny. Yeah, she took it down just in case. She wanted to sell a chair to a Trumpy. She sold that chair. Hey, Trumpers buy chairs too.

That's right, as Jordan said. The hat prank really because the whole thing with the hat is that you're making people feel like ambient aggression and anger and or you're allowing racist people to feel like they are supported. So tell your friend not to not to do that. It's not good.

Tell him I disapprove. And it was a Dune reference, too. So it came down real quick. And even the signs. I almost got my dad a sign that was like you know it's like by dawn like by dawn and i was like even and it had like the yellow hair i'm like even that like i don't want to see anything with his name or him i can't i can't watch him like i i literally cannot watch. And I was really happy about the Sarah Cooper thing of her doing those lip syncs. And a lot of comedians got mad about her success.

And, oh, she got a special because she does lip syncs. First of all, like I said before, lip syncs are very hard to do. So I give credit for how good she is at those. Right. Perfectly. She's elevating with her mannerisms and everything. Dude, no one doesn't like her they're so spot on i did one the other day of a kardashian thing for tiktok and it took me like 10 hours to memorize and then getting it right i mean i've never spent so much time on fucking anything it was

bad because my add medicine like kicked in right when i started so it just like it became my obsession right yeah and it's so hard so but with Sarah Cooper that for me was really good because I was able to hear him for the first time ever because since he won I just can't watch him or listen to him and it was the first time I could hear his bullshit and like actually um you know get information that I need to have and didn't have to look at him. So I was I thought I was like actually like pretty beneficial for me. Yeah. I think it was a good public service. She was providing for a while because like you got the hottest lines

and they were served up in a very hilarious, palatable way. Yes. Yes. And good on her for having to listen to him that much to learn those because when you do a lip sync, you got to listen to it thousands of times. Yeah. Give her whatever she wants. Because music, at least there's a beat and you know when certain syllables will hit on the beat. But when you're just talking, your cadence is completely different.

And that's why even like you see people who do like improv music to Trump or they're like playing drums or guitar and you're like, okay, that's next level. Either way. You're so right. And anyone who doesn't know how hard it is, just try to lip sync to someone talking. Just try it. It's way harder than you think. And anyone who can do a good job of it

is very talented. There's another rated. There you go. Let's talk about Dan crenshaw real quick this video is is too good to uh pass people have to watch this they have to it's i don't like i'm just gonna play describe it okay yeah i'm just gonna play i'll get if you haven't seen it i don't know pause the podcast and just look up fucking Dick Fury, Dan Crenshaw with his eye patch. Can you remind me who he is and our history with him?

Because I just couldn't get it. He's a congressman from Texas. And he rose to prominence when Pete Davidson took some shots at him on Weekend Update. And then people were like, yo, he has an eye patch. He's a veteran. That's fucked up. You shouldn't be like lobbing insults like that so he had dan crunch he dan crenshaw went on snl to and then did weekend update and had some of his own you know riffs and raspberries he was handing out uh and that was when people were like oh wow this guy can take a joke that's kind

of cool even though everything else he says is fucked up racist trash i wow but he he him and pete davidson got along yeah that's now giving another one of these guys like oh a pass kind of right right exactly and they're like it's not that bad he didn't it's like he said the n-word on the air so i mean let's divorce to his actual who he is from what we saw in there so now i don't know what is going on. He either he reminds me of like one of these dudes who has like always had a camcorder and always like making little movies and skits and never put them out because this is like some self-indulgent masturbatory absolute nonsense. He it's I'm just going to describe. I'm just going to describe. It starts off with him at a press conference and until he's interrupted by a gigantic,

like burly dude whispering in his ear that I'm just going to play this. Exceptionalism. It's built on the greatest ideas in history. This victory tonight. It's about you. It's about defining those. This guy's whispered in his ear. Sorry, folks.

I'll be right back. So this sets off an entire sequence where Dan Crenshaw is being told by a robot that like Kamala Harris and the socialists are coming and David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler must be defended so they can win in Georgia. And then it has a little bit of everything. There's comedy. There's and there's goofy Antifa guys. There is action. He jumps out of a fucking plane like some fucked up tom cruise and full-on is doing i don't know i don't know how else to describe this except for a terrible commercial and action movie trailer with all of the worst

fucking tropes and like but they're done in the way where like it's unaware that these are overdone tropes and it's like you see that how the hero landed on one knee like from the sky even though that's like a bit that many people have been making fun of i did that and it's sick because then afterwards i punched antifa through a windshield yeah he punches through the windshield that's uh it's very like violent angry uh the the interpretation of antifa that we get are people just like walking through a field in with like black ski masks on and all black hoodies uh and a nose ring and they they nail the antifaifa ideology by having a conversation where one of them goes, I don't even know why we're mad. And the other one goes, because the news told us to be.

And then the guys they have playing them are obviously neckbeard MAGA dudes. They couldn't be more clearly. And I think the whole thing was so he could jump out of the plane and we and and show off this is all is he married he's trying to get laid with this video it's it's so clear to me he's trying to get pussy because when he jumps out of the plane there's like he's talking to a a brit British woman who's like giving him his his coordinates and saying there's Antifa on the ground. And she goes, by the way, great form.

And like he's in the sky and he's he does have great skydiving form. But that was an unnecessary thing that he had to be like, hey, by the way, can we like have her say a line where she tells me I have great form? It was just him showing off that he had good skydiving form. That is the whole thing. And it's just, I think it's just a massive attempt to get laid. This whole thing. His wife. No, he's married.

He's been married since 2013 to Tara Blake, who he turns the speech over to at the beginning. So she's there with him. He's like, you got this and then uh says he'll be right back and then proceeds to go on what must be a day's long journey so uh it really left her i still think it's an employee to get laid oh for sure or like at least have women his wife too yeah sure sure that's what i mean but i think, yeah, it was all just to look cool. And he wants, and it took, that took so long to make. I mean, that was a huge production.

And if I was one of, like, if I, that's what you're spending your time doing? You're not a movie star. What are you doing? Like, I just thought it was such a waste of resources. Owning the libs. Owning the libs, Glazer. That's what I'm doing. You know what thought it was such a waste of the libs resources that's what i'm doing you know what i mean and y'all are talking about it and so that's why i

did some sick ass stunt work i mean he's yeah he has a really interesting life he's like born in like aberdeen and like went to school in like columbia at some point he's had a he's this dude is i'm sure he's gonna die from in combat or oh yeah leaving into contact or something yeah yeah yeah no he did and i think that's why like i think that's why pete davidson that they were like okay like we don't mean to take shots a little bit yeah and it was yeah very much as being like ha ha he has an eye patch uh and so yeah that's a bit of a misstep like when people make fun of trump for being fat or for like, oh, he shit his pants once. I'm just like there's so much more.

We don't need to do that. But I will say the one thing I got from this video that changed my perspective on something is that he was wearing a helmet during the skydiving sequence. And I've always thought that I could never go skydiving because I'm very scared of my face skin stretching out. And when you skydive, it's always like pulling back and that's the reason i've never wanted to because i just don't want to like mess with my you know an aging woman and now i'm like oh you can skydive and not fuck up your face skin and so i'm like excited i've suddenly i get to like skydive now yeah so it's kind of a psa for you yeah have you guys ever yeah have you guys ever done skydiving have you ever skydived oh no no i just saw my one friend uh skydive and i just

seen that thing where like all your snot will just drain from your face sometimes right depending on how your sinuses are because i've seen a few videos where like it's it's to the point where i'm like why did you buy this video of yourself? It's fucked up. And it looks like a, like, I don't know what I'm seeing. And it's unnerving because it's just like stringing out of your face. Oh, my God. And my friend's a smoker. So it was like phlegmy.

And it was just like, I was like, nah. And in my mind, skydiving isn't even the thrill of jumping out of a plane. I'm just like, nah, dude. I don't want to get my snot all over the person who's hand I'm jumping with. I've had that same thing happen where you're like, you're reminded that you have snot in there. Have you guys gotten a COVID test yet? I'm assuming maybe. Yes?

No? Mouth. They put it in and then they take it out and they put the same end in the other nostril. They double dip. And that is the most disgusting feeling of having the wet end go into your other. Like there's some reason that's just so gross. And sometimes when I've gotten a lot of them and they pull it out and there's like a little snack on the, like there's sometimes I'm like, oh, I didn't, I didn't, I should have blown my nose before this. And they just have to like put another, like they transfer a booger from one end to the other.

It's so gross. Got to mix it up, you know? Yeah. But it's so interesting. We do a snot graft. How? Yes. Bring your body into balance.

Sometimes they like they really go in and then other times it's like very like not that. go in and then other times it's like very like not that and i found that when they're doing a rapid test when you're about to like shoot a tv show like the day of where they like need you to be negative so that they don't shut down right the covid test is like a gent they just like like it's almost like just like uh like it's almost like romantic um yeah like they're brushing the hair out of your face yeah you're actually just touching my face with your finger that's the test and it's negative okay so uh yeah nikki's good to go to set now yeah exactly i'm like you can get a negi if you want the swap yeah uh all right let's take a real break, and we'll come back and talk about COVID fatigue.

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43% say they're doing less than they used to in terms of washing hands, social distancing. Or at least that 43% say they've just come to terms with the fact that the pandemic isn't ending soon and that's why they're doing less uh but people are also you know one-fifth of americans are consuming less covid related news than they were six months ago but they're consuming more covid right yes exactly just gobbling that shit up weird inverse relationship yeah it's really it is a definitely inverted from where we should be right because we now have more evidence than we ever have before that

this disease kills people and is a danger in these communities and it's purely a matter of our brains being like, this is kind of an underrated risk to humans being able to deal with like a, a scary story like that. We talked before about how, when the Nazis first rose up, there was like shocked stories all over the newspapers. But like by the time they were actually like taking over the country like it was on the back page of the newspaper because nobody everyone was just like over it basically the the over it bias is pretty uh is an underrated way that we are bad at consuming news and just like interacting

with our day-to-day life like we we can get used to fucking anything is basically it yeah truly i mean yeah yeah even like lockdown people have found ways to sort of find a new normal throughout it all but yeah that that whole thing of it going the other way the pendulum starting to swing the other way and people like i don't know like whether it's cynicism nihilism whatever it's it's it's hard to hear but you can like you know to your, I think you were sort of indicating in your writing about how if you're not really have a direct connection to someone who lost their life due to covid or it's like it's felt like that. This story has really hit your doorstep that it's even easier to, you know, wish away all this shit like, oh, oh well maybe i can go there and hang out here maybe well who needs mad we just go eat there and blah blah blah but i think yeah and all along with all of this like we're seeing that the the real big spread it comes from these multi-generational

houses where you know it's just a lot of people living together and people having to go out and interact with the world and not being able to be as safe as possible so yeah i don't know what i don't know what to do to get people to you know come and just embrace the uh safety measures that we need to take because yeah at the end of the day if people just are looking at a situation it's like i don't know things are just getting more dire and there's less hope so what the how what the what good is it for me to give a fuck i mean yeah i feel like it's based based on my own experience and like noticing how when my parents seem to like really like start caring a lot more my parents already care and they're convinced it's a deadly illness

but even for myself when i read something that when i read a story, like when I'm just subject to some kind of information that makes it real and it's like an actual like case study of what of it happening. There was this USA Today article about how it like ravaged this family in Ohio and it like this guy's kind of diary of each day and who got it. And it really drove it home. And then all of a sudden, because you guys know, like you'll read a headline or hear a statistic and then all of a sudden you get like more vigilant and then you kind of loosen and like even though you believe in it so i think it's just about retweeting these stories drawing more attention to these stories and um and i also i feel like

because the the vaccine is around the corner it would really suck to get it in this final stretch. Like, I feel like this is the last mile of like a marathon. It's like, I really don't want to get it before the vaccine. So I feel like I hope people shift to that kind of mindset of like, OK, we have a little bit more to go. Let's just be good. They said that this study, this Harris poll found that 27% of people who said they were being more lax now than they were in April cited the imminent availability of a vaccine

as their reason for being more lax, which that's the opposite with me. Like I cancel, I was able to like kind of rationalize, uh, canceling my parents coming out here for the holidays by being like, look, there's light at the end of the tunnel.

We'll be able to see each other at some point in like the next kiss. Right. And kiss, kissing, you know, kissing and hugging like we used to kissing and hugging. Uh, yeah, but that,

that doesn't make sense to me that like that kind of gives it a finite end, uh, the, that I don't understand why that would make you more lax. It seems like it would just be more. I used to have this kind of logic with other things when I was younger. And the idea is, yes, fucked up. But see, the vaccine is out there now.

So that's kind of melting away the COVID that's out there because the vaccine is out there. So then that means it's kind of not as bad as before. There was no vaccine. Right now there is. So then that means it's kind of not as bad as, because see before there was no vaccine. Right. And now there is. So then that only means it's going to go down. So that means the volume is starting to come down. And then that's why I can go outside

and I can go to my Kirk Cameron organized caroling thing. Let's talk about the Kirk Cameron and just generally Christmas related activities that are not a great fit for this world that we are living in right now. I talked on a recent episode, like carolers showed up at my house. First of all, I felt like a scrooge

because I told them to leave, and I used the excuse of, I just put the kids to bed, but after 15 minutes, I was like, wait, that would have been- It was 9 a.m 15 minutes i was like it was 9 a.m jack yeah it was that's when i yeah time for your nap time for your nap hey why am i on track get the fuck out of here but it occurred to me after the fact like that is a super spreader activity is like going from door to door singing into people's homes like that singing is is specifically right up on the door like old

they were on my they weren't even doing it yeah that's insane look if you got to the new school version where you're masked up and it like maybe 15 feet away at least i can be like well at least i'm not trying to be up in my threshold screaming into my house but it's also entirely popular possible that it was they were doing a thing like that horror movie the strangers and they were just getting access to the house and then gonna kill us okay um i like that your mind went there always stay vigilant always yeah gotta be vigilant you want to give them the benefit of the doubt that they they weren't yeah you know anti-masks maskers they were just yeah they're just murderers yeah ready to brutalize me and my family asleep um but yeah so i i think i get what's happening especially with the holidays like we have this is like the one time i feel like like

there's this american sentiment of like we have movies that are built around this idea that i don't give a fuck what's in my way. I'm going to be home for the holidays. Right. Like it's just a cultural sentiment that we have like hardwired in all of our shitty movies that have to do around this time. Whether it's somebody who's like, I don't know, I guess I'm going to have to hitchhike with these like jugglers and get to

Chicago. And then from there, I'll take a canoe down the, whatever it is. Yeah. Like it's always about like, fuck it. They, nothing going to stop me me because it's my family.

And so I understand like this urge, especially now like people, the fatigue is there and you want to feel the magic of Christmas, but God damn, y'all, do not let your fucking guard down because we have all these instances now where the like Santa is just so disarming for people. They're actually finding themselves in kind of bad situations. So, for example, in Georgia, they said 50 kids may have been exposed to covid when both Mr. and Mrs. Claus tested positive after a local Christmas parade where where children could have their photos taken with Santa and his wife.

And like the local commissioner who put this together was sort of like, y'all need to chill. Okay. So what he, this is what he said is quote, while this is cause for concern, I feel that it is important to note that exposures happen every day as we go about our day-to-day lives, often without any knowledge. Children are in close contact with both other children and adults daily at school, rec functions and church.

Proper CDC exposure guidelines should be followed if your child was exposed however i do not feel this incident is cause for panic um okay that is a very eloquent defense of just doing the bare fucking minimum guys don't just always blame it on something else right we're not panicking we're just criticizing you for a bad decision that is going to get people sick you dumb fuck yeah it's like oh you're when you call out your uber driver like excuse me i'm or if anyone drive are you drunk are you well what's the problem what's oh mr panic oh okay yeah wow okay because you could go out there any day you could get hit by a bus and that guy could be drunk and then you might drink something that's bad for you and then you'll die

so like honestly like just fucking play the margins full fuck uh-huh um it's a and you're like okay so on the count of three we're just rolling out of this car um and i'm gonna take the black ice air freshener with me when i leave but and then also in belgium a similar thing happened as well a uh like i guess in belgium they have like a more specific tradition where like i think december 5th is a day when like there's a specific name for saint nick in belgium or whatever um and so this man came by a nursing home and 75 people at the nursing home got to walk away with their very own infection so they don't know the person who came as santa was the child of one of the residents there

and one of the people who uh run the the um retirement home said quote in-depth scientific research would be needed to definitively say whether the visit was the cause of an outbreak. But the city said that 61 residents and 14 staff members have tested positive since this person's visit, and they were being very conscious of things. So I don't know what it, I mean, the holidays and Santa, like, be weary, you know? Just try and be as safe as possible. Be wary, don know, just try and be as safe as possible. Be wary. Don't be weary. Just, I mean, having your kids sit on a guy's lap and talk like face to, it's just so intimate. That's it's, it's so it's, it's the dumbest thing to do ever.

It's just like, I just don't get it. What is wrong with people? But you got to have that picture. You got to have that picture you gotta have a picture yeah i would have loved an excuse not to sit on a fucking creepy man's lap when i was a kid god we're always we cried as kids no kids like it and if a kid likes it that's a weird kid it's not it's something it's a thing that they had to like a phobia they had to conquer right no one wants to do that yeah don't don't we all have like shriek crying with the stranger we were forced to take a photo with pictures like in our house they want those

pictures like that's it's the it's the um roller coaster photo before you're able to right tall enough to get on those rides right i'm like as a young person of color like i'm already going to be tormented and terrorized by white men so let's not not, don't get me, don't get my licks in at fucking three, please. At the fucking Fashion Square Mall in Sherman Hills. Please help me out. To be fair, those kids did, most of those kids did ask Santa for a ventilator for Christmas. So, I mean, they're good. And the people who are playing Mr. and Mrs. Claus, I mean, you know, your heart goes out to them.

Because they were saying it's like the most important thing that they do every year is to be able to go out and give these kids cheer. And while I get that, and that is so commendable, but yeah, serious, like fucking 2020, y'all. Fucking a hobby. But this is, I feel like one of those things. Go volunteer at a shelter. There are other ways to help out without being like. Go to a nursing home and be Santa. Oh wait okay never mind um maybe i feel like i've seen enough evidence uh that this is like one of those things like petting a tiger that some people just get like so

fucking super charged off of being santa claus like there's entire like unions devoted to it and like uh cons santa con uh and i get like that's that's actually a much better uh thing to get a thrill from than uh petting a tiger that is like being held captive and uh treated like shit like that's great that you get joy from spreading you know joy from two children but it like take give it a fucking rest like take it take a year off that's the thing these people it's like that's what everyone says it's like but i like it right it's like okay well sorry we're that's not an excuse to do things. It's the wrong thing to do. People that say, I just, but I want to, but I love it.

It's like, oh, okay. No, we have to make sacrifices. That's not an excuse. Sacrifices? Right. Oh, God. Sucker forces? What is that?

Mom, this person said I can't go there right now. What's going on right now? Like, we really are. I mean, there is this whole thing that we see, too, with all the anti-masker stuff. It's just a whole subset of people who have never been told no in their life. And they found a whole other movement that I don't know if they're aware of it, but that appeals to them is the can't tell me nothing energy that these people have of being like, I don't know,

this is America. This is socialism. Anyways, uh, we do want to get to Kirk Cameron real quick. Uh, cause he's, uh,

he's part of the, you know, let, let's do something for the holidays and own the libs, uh, situation. Yeah. Why?

You know, why, why do this? This this the growing pains guy that i only know remembers the growing pains guy uh he is attempting relevance yet again but this time it's specifically to troll governor gavin newsom now look well i love to troll the fuck out of like gavin newsom uh also you know, please let me have Kamala Harris's Senate seat or Dianne Feinstein's Gavin Newsom. Let's talk. This is a very specific take that they're they're going down this battle with him that they want to do, which is about, you know, why are they stopping? You know, the congregations of people just because there's a pandemic that's transmitted through the air and enclosed spaces and could lead to death. I don't understand why they would ask us to do that. Nay, why would they make this a law or say that we have to do this? So this dude has been doing some outdoor caroling, just like full on.

Meet me at a parking lot. I'm going to set up some PAs and we'll just yell into each other's mouths in the cold and he did the like he's i think the second one happened recently in thousand oaks at the oaks mall parking lot and they were just the photos were like yo this is interesting like no mask and and and singing um sure uh the police were, in which they just came up, didn't give any citations. They were just sort of like, you guys should wear masks. And they were like, boo. And then they left.

So this is all again. So Kirk Cameron can troll the governor and not even giving a fuck about these people. Sure, he's going to bait these people in with the promises of like, hey, get your holiday jollies off with everybody and like we can sing like you know fa la la la la and all that shit but really he's just doing that behind the scenes he's like oh yeah man this is just to say fuck yeah this isn't about jesus yeah right oh yeah i will wear a mask and i will be 70 feet away looking through binoculars that's how her camera was experiencing yeah but try and explain bananas without agreeing with k Cameron's worldview. Have you ever seen that video of him being like, oh, you don't think God exists?

And then he holds up a banana and is like, explain this. And it's like, huh? Oh, what happened to him? Wait, so the logic being like wait what does that mean it's too perfect of a creation for uh man to have created it even though like basically all fruits that we uh consume these days have just been genetically modified and like by man yeah by man like bananas were the size of your pinky finger before humanity started Breeding all the biggest ones together

And now we don't even have Bananas that Our elders used to eat We have like one banana On earth now Thanks God or God Santo Or Monsanto

Shout out to that. One banana doing all that work, though. Great. Great food. I mean, do you think Kirk Cameron smoked weed? No. That feels like a...

You're right. That is like, look at this banana. I feel like he smoked weed once and saw God. He talked to a guy who smoked weed once. I feel like that's where he's coming from. Oh, yeah, yeah. He talked to a guy who smoked weed once. I feel like that's where he's coming from.

Oh yeah, yeah. He met a white dude, a white pastor with dreadlocks who's like a trippy Christian pastor. And he was just like, I don't know if you thought about a banana, Kirk. Like it seems like chaos on the outside and it doesn't make sense.

But when you peel it, it has the vital essences of things we need, like potassium and vitamins and the fibers we need for our bodies, sort of like Christ's love and salvation. From the outside, it may look like this one thing, but you really have to engage with it to understand its nourishment, Kirk. God. All right. I'm sold.

See you at the Oaks parking lot. That was good. I'm in, actually. I'm going to be at the Oaks Mall. It's so easy to make up that bullshit. You'll see me at Hillsong. Catch me at Hillsong. That was actually good.

Yeah. I'll be at Hillsong with Justin Bieber this Sunday wearing my toe-to-toe Supreme and off-white outfit. Oh yeah, because that dude was he said God was making him cheat on his wife or some shit. Tempted him and he

fell down on the job. Those cool glasses. Nikki, it's been so great having you. So fun. Thank you for having me. Where can people find you, follow you, hear you? Instagram, Nikki Glaser, G-L-A-S-E-R.

Instagram, Twitter. That's all for now. But stuff upcoming and I'll announce it all on those things. Stuff in the works. Yeah, and I'll announce it all on those things. Stuff in the works. Yeah, and I'll be back on the road when everything lifts. And for now, I have a couple specials on Netflix, and you can watch those. Hell yeah.

Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? I wanted to share the—I retweeted it yesterday but have you guys seen the cameo that smoky robinson did for a woman no god it's so good oh good okay so he is he gets asked to do a cameo for a woman that like used to live in his neighborhood like as a kid and it's really sweet and he's just saying like we grew up in the same neighborhood. That's so great. He goes, I'm being told that I need to wish you a happy Chinooka.

And I don't know what that is, but happy Chinooka to you. And I hope you have a great Chinooka. And it's just the cutest, most sincere thing. But he definitely had never seen that spelling of Hanukkah before. And it's so good. It's really heartwarming, but it's

hilarious. I was contacted by your sons, Jeff and Jer. They told me that you used to live in Detroit across the street from me. Gosh, that's beautiful. How are you doing again? Nice talking to you again, I guess.

Anyway, you're living in Vancouver now. They wanted me to wish you happy Chinooka. I have no idea what Chinooka is. But happy Chinooka because they said so. Anyway, God bless you, babe. And enjoy Chinooka. Enjoy Chinooka, baby. You know what?

Christ loves you, baby. All right. His face is so pure. it's just so funny when you see someone be like so sincere and wrong and you're like i can't be mad at this no you can't it's so sweet uh miles where can people find you what's tweet you've been enjoying oh you can find me on twitter and instagram at uh miles of gray and also the other podcast for 20 day fiance you know i'm just getting ripped talking about 90 day fiance trying to make sense of things over there uh so check that one out uh a tweet that i like uh is from shireen yunez uh at shiro hero 666 and she says oh oh, look at the time. I have to go attack and dethrone God.

Because, yeah, that seems to be the very big concern from the evangelical right at the moment. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A tweet I've been enjoying is to meme with a woman making an omelet.

It says I'm making an omelet flips omelet. I'm making scrambled eggs. Identify with that. Oh, you try and make omelets. I never have tried because I've always feared the flip. Oh, it's so hard. Don't flip. Yeah, I'm out of the habit of,

I've convinced myself that I make really great scrambled eggs. And so I'm content just doing that. The secret is a lot of water. What? 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. Miles, what are we riding out on today? Just this El Michaels Affair album I love a lot. And we played a track called villa and i think we played another song from there before but now i want to add another song from this album called enfant e-n-f-a-n-t and it has again i love them as a band. Everybody's tight on their instruments. There's a really haunting vocal on top. Listen to this whole album

and pretend you're in a French indie film because everything you do will suddenly feel more artistic. It's a great track and just a good vibe raiser. So check this out. It's called En Femme. That's what you were listening to when we joined the call today? When I pulled up. Yeah, that was nice

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