The Daily Zeitgeist - Virginia's For Trenders 12/7: Devin Nunes, Ukraine, Mark Meadows, Dan Crenshaw, Elon Musk, 20,000mg

Episode Date: December 8, 2021

In this edition of Virginia's For Trenders, Jack and Miles discuss Devin Nunes resigning from Congress, Russia getting ready to invade Ukraine, Mark Meadows halting cooperation with Jan. 6th commitee, Dan Crenshaw's views on the Freedon Caucus, Elon Musk's Neuralink timeline, and the 20,000mg weed edible. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm curious. And I guess we find out they created in 1968. In 1969, the Virginia State Travel Service, now the Virginia Tourism Corporation, adopted Virginia for lovers slogan. And the first, there's no... Nothing. It was part of a feature in Modern Bride as part of a marketing campaign. I mean... What happened?

But it's interesting that it has lasted throughout the hippie movement. Because they dropped it at the height of hippiedom, right? 68? I don't know if that was the height. I don't know shit about that time. Interesting. I think this is the deal.

It's because in the beginning these sort of advertisers were saying it's got everything. Virginia's for history lovers. It's for beach lovers. It's for mountain lovers. And then they're like that's too broad. Let's just make it even more broad.

Let's call it for lovers. But now I'm thinking like that's where you go to for like you know you know but nasty sex you know i mean like yeah wow get freaky yeah okay so how i've always gone uh i can only have sex in virginia i think we all know that right it's a hell of a curse yeah that would be they they should uh sponsor some content based on that like a a rom-com about somebody who can only uh have have sexual relations in virginia oh yeah i mean the only way josh hartnett for 40 days only for 40 days but they can't do it yeah the sexiest thing i've ever seen indeed is the luray caverns in virginia so i don't know what

those are no hey you'd know if you saw him because you would only be able to have sex in virginia after that that's right well devin nunez is is trending this was somebody whose name we're mentioned a lot at the in the early days of the trump administration um because he was like coming into the trump administration he was known for being like very friendly with vladimir putin and then suddenly when trump got elected he was very friendly to trump and you know this was one of the pieces of huh you know like that i feel like in retrospect like still is pretty pretty weird um yeah he's uh he's moving on i mean yes we remember when he like was like oh i have stuff from my position as the intelligence committee chair to completely meddle

in any kind of investigation i remember he was he was like, well, they got their report. We got our memo. Remember the memo back then when he was like, oh, wait till you see our memo. It's way worse than the thing of like a compilation of facts. So the thing is, he is now moving on to greener pastures. And by greener pastures, I mean an absolute mistake because he is leaving Congress to be the CEO

of Trump's new media company that's apparently valued at $1 billion. Not sure where they got that. But just looking at his Trump's track record with anything that's a called a company. I don't know if that's a good career career pivot for you devin but i also understand why you're shook as fuck because you saw the new districts in california and realized where you usually get your votes starting to look a little bit harder for someone of your ideological bend so i think that's what's really going on is there a like redistricting redistricting that's actually positive for non-conservatives yeah oh yeah it's like it's a fucking bad everybody's you know it's jerry mandarin everybody's mandarin but in that sense

i think just with the census and things that also kind of affects different districts differently too but yeah i think he also just found himself in a position where he's like well i don't want to have to like prove i'm worthy of a vote so i'll just go to this terrible abuser who's that says he has a job for me. Yeah. It usually doesn't end up too good for anyone, anyone like literally anybody who's ever kind of hitched their wagon to him, uh, except for his daughter.

And, and even then you could argue, you know, how is she really doing? Yeah. How is she, how's she really doing yeah how is she how's she feeling about about her choices um with her haunted doll of a husband i do i do think i don't know after that atlantic article about how trump is in a better position

to overturn the results of a election now in 2024 than he he was in 2020 i think anybody who's holding out hope that he's not going to be the nominee uh is lying to themselves uh and i think he's in a good position to win so and by win we mean just overturn like no matter what happens it's gonna yeah that's what i mean like no matter what even if he doesn't win he's gonna win he wins he wins yeah uh but yeah it's it's a very it's a very frightening dark time but again it's like you're like why is the atlantic sounding the alarm rather than people in congress rather than you know aside from these like, whatever, it's just all the lack of urgency should be frightening to people. Yeah.

That article, I think you mentioned it on this morning's episode, but it's what's it called? It's like January 6th was a test run or something. Yeah. It's something like his second coup has already begun. And there's like a whole series of Atlantic, the Atlantic, just saying like, hey, here are all the reasons you should not feel good about an election happening anytime soon, because there's actual ghosts and spooky people who have managed to make their way into positions of power as it relates to election results. Mm hmm. Ukraine is trending. Yeah. is trending um the i mean it seems like vladimir putin has his eyes set on uh the ukraine border yeah uh getting getting ready to invade start a war uh all sorts of horrifying shit uh biden

warned him that any fuckery uh will lead to economic sanctions and other responses oh yeah it's it's more tension in that region again and biden remember as well because he was in the fucking white house uh in 2014 when things started falling apart over there meanwhile is this funny because the ukrainian government's official uh twitter uh account they're just shit posting on main right now. Like they're posting memes about different kinds of, it was like types of headaches chart. And it was like tension, headache, blah,

blah, blah. And like one that was like red over the entire head diagram was like sharing a border with Russia. And you're like, wow, just, I get it.

It's 2021. That's just all we know. We just know how to shit post through it. Yeah. But yeah, it's definitely it we'll see where this goes what this is meant for you know if putin is doing this to try and leverage some other kind of uh decision or or favorable treatment in another arena but

yeah uh you don't you don't like to see a troop buildup on a border ever, really. Yeah, especially when it's a dictator. Especially somebody who's already tried it. Right. And has been slowly trying to shift the goalposts. I mean, they already took Crimea, so it's, yeah, keep your eyes peeled. Meadows is trending, I'm assuming just because these are good places to relax. Just kind of chase butterflies around. Uh-huh.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Oh, shit. No, look at that. It's actually Mark Meadows. Ah, damn it. You know, we had been talking last week, I think it was, about how anybody who's worried

about Trump just needs to know that the Democrats have mark meadows in their crosshairs and he has decided to cooperate um and so we're good we're good here okay exactly adam kinzinger and liz cheney make their new names fucking geppetto the way they're playing this dude like a little puppet right now. And his name is trending because in an about face that has shocked. Shocked MSNBC. Yeah. MSNBC only. He has decided to halt cooperation with the January 6th committee. He already released a book and then said it was fake news uh within like a 12 hour span of one another so

it's his own book called it fake news uh so i i did not have high hopes that once he had a uh once donald trump had a word with him that he was gonna still have any sort of backbone that wasn't gonna happen i mean when you're on Newsmax and you're like, what about the part where you said that Trump actually knew he had COVID? He's like, no, no. I said he had a negative test. No, I'm dumb is what you don't understand. Like, don't listen to me. Yeah, I'm gross.

And I smell my armpits smell. My biceps are not like Christmas hams. OK, unrelated thing to say. But yeah, and I think this is the one spot of good news i think on the other side i mean i don't even know what's good news anymore but it's it's the the words out of the committee the jan 6 investigative committee have they've said that um vice president former vice president mike pence's former chief of staff has been very cooperative but i don't know what that means. Singing like a Mariah Canary.

I don't know. I don't know why I said that. You did it. Yeah. You did it. Yeah. So I said that and I'm proud that I said that. That was funny that I said that.

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caucus grifters calling them out on their shit i didn't i'm surprised he isn't in the freedom caucus uh but yeah i mean he's saying he he gave some like talk somewhere in texas over the weekend or at the end of last week where he was saying like we've got grifters in our midst and he's like and they're in the freedom caucus that means like marjorie taylor green and paul gosar matt gates you know bulbert all that you know like the the the scummy of the scum um and you know it's a lot of people were like dude you're calling them performance artists you did like a fucking weird action movie avengers like thing where you halo jumped out of a fucking plane and then like smashed antifa like with your balls through a windshield like just fucking shut up fool uh we're not impressed but what's

interesting is the infighting that this has caused because i believe bobert has already called for someone to primary dan crenshaw uh and you love to see it you really do you love to see these carcinogenic fucking losers go after each other for the i want more airtime awards um and i don't know like on one hand i don't know if he's like trying to just say like that's not a winning strategy to just have people say like the worst shit all the time and like to kind of go back to the age of pretend uh we're not racists but either way uh like you look at dan crenshaw you're like you i'm sorry you're righteous suddenly because you you you like to cozy up with uh the fascist elements too well i mean the speech is interesting because he's like

talking about how we got performance artists here. They're a bunch of, you know, they're just doing it for the cameras. But then his like proof point is like they didn't vote with Trump that much. I think that's where he's it's not clear if he knows how to get the message across that he's trying to. Are they bad for the party? Are are they bad for elections or are you just like hating because they're getting all the airtime right now and you're like hey i i let pete davidson rip on me a little bit right huh and that guy's with kim kardashian let's not forget that's worth talking about huh folks but either way it's it's causing causing more drama uh and sure just go fucking go fight each other please yeah uh elon musk is trending because he knows how to play

the mainstream media like a fucking fiddle he just did a long wide-ranging interview wherein he said neural link the brain chip that he uh plans to put in people's brains will start implanting chips in humans in 2022 uh which is later than he hoped so not only is that shockingly soon uh he's not even trying that hard and like frankly if these lazy fucking workers would actually listen to him they would have been doing it in 2015 probably but you know how it is when you got broke people trying to help you put chips in people's brains i'm really curious though the breakdown when this because you know there's so many musk stands out there the crossover of anti-vaxxer people who want a Neuralink chip in their brain. Right. Yeah.

You'd be like, no, that's different, though. You're literally putting a microchip in your brain. Yeah, but, like, Bill Gates didn't, like, tell us he was doing that when he injected it in the vaccine. What? So it's just about knowing when there's a chip? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And also, like, I won't need a key for my Tesla if I have this in there.

What is the, what's he promising? That it's going to, like, make you smart or some shit? I think it's just to, like, make your, you know, reactions better. You can, like, interact with fucking, like, computers and shit. Cool. That's why, because I just need more computer time more uh implanting people to simultaneously record and stimulate brain activity medical applications such as treating serious spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders

okay i mean if that if doctors think that's a good idea hell yeah um no i don't think anyone like in terms of what i think the initial phases of, like, what that possibility is. But I think down the road, people are, like, truly being, like, and you won't need your fucking hands for anything. Because your brain chip is going to connect and, like, change channel. Right. Yeah. I just love this motherfucker. yeah i just i just love this motherfucker always talking about how soon he's gonna do something and then blaming his workers for not doing it fast enough right 20 000 mg is trending

uh because an 850 pound weed brownie has been baked yeah and it contains 20 000 milligrams of thc um that's a lot considering that on average people say 10 milligrams is where you probably want to start off with and to get a buzz or maybe smaller depending on how sensitive you are so it was a very big publicity stunt for like the launch of a new i guess like sort of edibles company but like true drug dealers they will break this 850 pound brick down and process that into smaller bags and then distribute that to medical patients in massachusetts but so one of the uh things one of the problems with their plan here of doing uh like special thing is uh they didn't know uh they didn't do the research to find out what color brownies were supposed to be yeah um this thing

looks like a giant piece of charcoal yeah i don't know if that's because they had to burn it to like get it cooked through because it's so massive yeah like you think like the outside piece is like the worst fucking ones right oh god it's fucking just burnt to shit i mean it looks like if you were like at some like people were laying asphalt or something and they they messed up and they're like oh shit just put that chunk over there asphalt yeah but it looks terrible brownie yeah no one ever said weed edibles had to look good that's true is our weed brownies like do they tend to be the color of uh you know it all depends right because people can make infused butters and oils or whatever as like your thc delivery mechanism so there are definitely high-minded edibles like sure uh what am i going to say like you know gastronomic uh art pieces that also contain thc but this looks like

charcoal weed brownie that's what this looks this just looks like a fucking big old doo-doo sponge so all right whatever and also i'm a little dubious how dense is that based on that picture we're seeing with the scientists like the technicians in front of it that's 850 pounds yeah that that seems uh like it might be the densest material thing on earth yeah period it looks like the size of like me in the fetal position right yeah so if that's the shape you do uh fold up into a perfect cube so perfect cube you know just mimicking my birth for some reason we do let oreos get away with being chocolate and also the color the color of charcoal like so maybe that maybe people don't mind if you uh have a brownie that is jet black but uh i think it's only i think

maybe because we're brownie fans we're looking at this and like that's no brownie yeah that might be it is this your king this piece of acrid shit yeah anyways uh somebody eat this whole thing let us know how uh eat this whole thing and say hi to bob marley for us yeah yeah let us know in 20 years when you're no longer high how how it was um all right well those are the things that are trending on this tuesday afternoon we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show until then be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

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Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the

way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese.

People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.