The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 143 (Best of 9/14/20-9/18/20)

Episode Date: September 20, 2020

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week all edited together into one uh non-stop infotainment laugh stravaganza uh yeah so without further ado here is the weekly zeitgeist what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are so i i had a few things that came up that i was uh i was hesitant to share and then there were some things that i felt more confident about sharing i've been looking up a lot of

pictures of tony braxton lately uh in part because i got in an argument with a friend about whether or not i believe that she's been bleaching her skin over the years and uh i say yes the bitch looked different to me but she's she's a different shade than the tony the short-haired tony that i loved as a child but that that's neither here nor there so there's a lot of uh there's a lot of pictures of tony braxton from 1994 and a lot of pictures of tony braxton now and me sort of correct uh connecting red string between the two of them gotcha this feels like a conspiracy theory well wait wasn't tony okay the lighting was different back in the 90s. All right, see, this is the bullshit. They don't know how to light lights anymore.

Come on now, come on now. That's why Insecure was such a revolutionary show because they were like, oh my God, they put lights on Negroes and they look normal. The thing that Insecure did, it was help expose light for darker complexions. It wasn't that you made you look more light skin back in the day

that's i don't think that's really what the technological improvement was and listen i i once watched a 2020 special where tony braxton was spending twenty thousand dollars a month on lip gloss i don't believe that this is somebody who i could put yeah she went bankrupt spending insane amounts of money on like uh very trivial items she had gucci plates oprah literally was like i don't have gucci plates why do you have gucci plates tony she was like because i did that song with dr dre that one time and the point is i don't know that this is the person who makes reasonable choices she married birdman or at least attempted to she's there you go she's not

the person that I would necessarily put a lot of faith in to to not Sammy Sosa herself for no reason has she ever spoke on it no I probably the her only accuser I'm probably the only person

who cares enough to go digging into the research of what's happening to Toni Braxton's face. Right, right, right. Langston started a website on GoDaddy. No, Langston, you are a Lil' Kim truther in that you say Lil' Kim has had no work done. No work done. Yeah, exactly. She's as gorgeous as the day she showed up on this earth. That's what I say.

That completely debunks your Tony Braxton theories because we know Lil' Kim is on her fifth face. She is on her fifth face. Jokes, Lacey. Of course. But Tony, please call in. Let us know. How do you go through

20 fucking stacks worth of fucking lip gloss in a month? Yeah, it was a wild What's the most fucking lip gloss in a month yeah i it was a wild uh what's the most expensive lip gloss lacy i don't know probably pat mcgrath pat mcgrath chanel ysl they can go up into the like 40s 50s for a tube okay so i could is it feasible that you could use you could go through a whole fucking tube in one day? Not a day, but maybe a couple days. If you're doing appearances and you're going lots of places and getting retouched all the time.

And then not to mention, like, lip glosses, you'd be losing them house. You know how many lip glosses I've lost? You know how many times I pulled my couch back and I was like, oh, damn, all of my belongings. Yeah, you found 20 grand worth of lip gloss right here. A Tony Braxton amount of lip gloss. Yeah, maybe she's just really absent-minded. Not that she's bad with her money. She also just doesn't take responsibility.

She's like, I don't know. I'll just buy another couple cell phones every day. And she's a black woman. We got big lips, okay? And tell Rihanna they weren't even making a swab for my lips that wouldn't have me painting my shit like this old house like that was the first time i saw a swab that went across my whole lip and i was like what normally it's like a little teeny one you gotta just paint all

day we gotta bring in our guest someone who i love having on because her takes ain't fakes her takes are real and they hit harder than steel it's the one and only zara norbach what's up there she is the sheer lung power yeah especially you're up in the bay too with the air quality not great i am and i i go outside and i blow the ash away with my enthusiasm yes yes we need more of that so we need more enthusiastic people to go outside and just scream at the smoke 2020 oh i lost it how long have you been in the how have you been in the Bay now? Because I know last time, were you on your way up there?

Were you quite settled up there? You were in LA still? Yeah, I went up to go see my folks. And I'm here. And I think it's been 20,000 years, 25 days, two hours. 20,000 years. 20,000 years, yeah. I think that was right

20,000 leagues under alabia oh that was i i love that uh graphic novel you wrote it is fantastic if you haven't read 20 leagues out of the labia yet by zara norbox please check that out uh wherever you get your independent comics um so yeah zara we're all I think we're all on the West Coast now dealing with the smoke. I get constant messages from people who are not in this state who just look at, like, a couple photos and are thoroughly freaked out, which they should be because it is a horrific situation here. It's worse. I can't get over the air quality and quality and like how much i'm coughing up stuff like look full disclosure if i smoke three blunts like at in a night i can cough up some dark things

in my mucus okay but now not even smoking i'm like i'm already getting things in there uh but that's not for here or there that's for my my doctor tomorrow. My air quality level. Is that a Bernie Sanders level right now? I'm a Bernie Sanders. I was going to say, how are you? How are things where you are? Like, is it, it's just, is it overwhelming? Wonderful. Wonderful.

It's no, okay, check this out. This morning I get woken up to leaf blowers. Oh. And I'm just like, why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

Please take the day off. Now more than ever. I'll pay you to take the day off. Also, it's just ash. Like, I literally was looking at a cloud of ash and dry leaves whirling like a tornado in the air. Oof. I will say that is a very 2020 poll quote of like a tornado in the air. I will say that is a very 2020 poll quote of like, it's just ash.

Takes it off. 2021 will be like, don't worry. It's just ash from human remains. It's just ash. It's just ash, though, in the end of like, of people. What is something that you think is overrated? Pumpkin spice latte. Go on. Say less.

The fall. All of it. Wow, you live in New York and you don't like the fall? Anyone in LA is like, but the fall is so great. And I'm like, no, it's impending doom. It is foreshadowing a nasty weather and so pumpkin spice latte just reminds me that like at some point my shoulders are going to be cramped from being like chattering freezing cold so yeah i don't i don't like the fall and the fall is so

depressing because it's the end of summer. Yeah. I still miss the fall. I don't know. I do miss it. I got a pumpkin spice beverage at Dunkin' Donuts the other day. Why'd you say beverage? Just because it's embarrassing. Is that what you call it when you just get the syrup and water mixed up in a cup? No, it's the apiary.

Give me a few pumps of syrup on ice. I get the cold brew and then they just spike whatever, half a gallon of syrup in there. But what's been going on at Dunkin' Donuts is they have a Charli D'Amelio beverage, that TikTok star. And so now Dunkin' Donuts is flooded with 14-year-old girls who look exactly like TikTok stars getting the Charli. It's a whole thing. What's that Charli D'Amelio? What's that? What's the drink?

She's a teenager. She's in her early 20's the drink she's like a she's a teenager like she's in her early 20s and she's a tiktok she's one of the tiktok girl i mean not to be oh the one that dances girls is like huh huh yeah like she does like three dance moves and that's and she's a millionaire um and she's got a dunkin donuts drink that she has and so now there's a million young women who look like this tiktok star at dunkin donuts all the time getting in my way wow the the charlie is a really not very interesting drink it's a to go coffee order it's cold brew with whole milk and three pumps of caramel which is the most teenage dunkin donuts order of all time, to be fair.

Yeah, exactly. I would be shitting for a week. I remember back in my day, it was called a caramel macchiato. Okay. And we were drinking that in the arts, y'all. It's the Charlie now. Yeah. I'm in my 30s and I order the Oprah tea from Starbucks because that's my Charlie. Yeah.

Wait, what's Oprah tea? Spill the Oprah tea real quick. For a while, she had her own tea at Starbucks and anything with the word Oprah, I will buy. It feels wholesome. Like it would heal you. I would probably drink that. And it's strong, yeah.

I am such an Oprah stan. There you go. Not a bad place to be. I do like a sponsored beverage. I don't know. It's just so weird, but there's a, you can get the Charlie at Duncan.

You can get the Travis at McDonald's. You can get the Oprah star. What the fuck are we doing? Like everybody then it's just like, I, I only eat what Kim Kardashian shits out and I will dress like Kendall or whatever, you know,

like every, it's like, we're finding a way to make it so easy to just emulate celebrities. And now like the marketing is just like, yeah, just order what the celebrity gets now. And that's like a new thing you can do. Late capitalism is wild, but might try the Charlie at some point. Don't know. Late capitalism is wild.

And then you just hear like you drinking the end of a cup through a straw. That's crazy. What's that? Oh, it's a Charlie. Anyways, it's whole milk. Three pumps of caramel swirl. Oh, man. What is something you think is overrated?

Man, I think pretty much most restaurants right now are pretty. Maybe even just the concept of a restaurant right now. I think that's one thing I've realized in the pandemic is, you know, do we need 75% of these places? You know, if there's a biscuits place called Biscuits and Groovy in Austin, Texas, I'm like, does that need to survive? You know, shouldn't, wouldn't we be okay with just 50? Wouldn't we be okay with just 50 uh wouldn't we wouldn't we be okay with like 50 of restaurants you know instead of i feel like we're oversaturated right now and i mean yeah on like one level you're like it's it's a weird way to try and realize that maybe your dream of having a restaurant is like yeah because it already like to have open a restaurant pre-pandemic was

already you were looking at a losing proposition statistically like seven out of ten fail or it's some like crazy statistic like that i mean i'll say this it at least and i am definitely doing my best to support you know a lot of these places but we need to shift the way that we're thinking about this shit did you see what um you see what they're doing in riverside county right now where they've made it basically legal you can run a restaurant out of your home you have to apply for all the permits and everything obviously health inspectors get involved and it costs money to get those things but there's there's people running restaurants out of their their homes right now is that safe i think well i think if you're like getting like health inspectors to do

the inspections sure and there's you know obviously uh laws and codes and you're following all of it i think that's a great idea at least for like you know i don't think it would work in los angeles so well but maybe from a takeout perspective it would i mean i would love nothing more to be like yo my neighbor she just has like a pozole thing going and you can just yep stop by and it's the fucking bomb and i have to drive nowhere and i can literally help out my neighbor like i would love that yeah i'm also saying this as somebody that is currently slinging pasta and meatballs out of their apartment on Sundays. You are? Oh, yeah. Totally. I started five weeks ago. I'm like, I just need to start hustling and make extra money, man, because I

don't know. That's so cool. Yeah. So I started doing it. And then people on Instagram, it started out as friends. And then'm getting these like weird DMs from people and strangers just pull up and it looks like I'm making a drug deal. They're like put the sauce on your back. Yeah. That is the funniest others folder on Instagram. I was just like for sure

pasta head. Hey, you got that tagliatelle today or no? I love it. Usually that's the folder for dick pics but now hungry pasta people are you're making so are you hand making your pasta i yeah i am yeah i do oh my god ham a pasta incredible pasta yeah thank you i appreciate that it's good you know and the price point is like you know most of of the handmade pasta here, dude,

it's all expensive. It's all like 20 bucks and more. And I'm sure it's great. But I'm like, I don't know, man. I kind of fiend that like $15 range Sunday gravy type of, you know, so I keep it at 15 bucks a week. And it's been good, man. And it also, I get to see people, you know, they come pull up uh it's been good man and it also i get to see people you know they

come pull up and it's that's been really good fantastic i mean yeah even yeah to your point i think it would be hard in la i mean it was already an epic battle to allow people like street vendors to sell food and right a lot of people you know raising the concerns of like can it be regular and they they were able to to a certain extent yeah, it's that idea actually is pretty remarkable because I think the one thing that I saw restaurants do that seemed really interesting was like pivot to being more of like a, like a grocery store plus meal kits and things like that. And it seems like that trend will probably continue even after the pandemic, because there's also something nice that I was like oh yeah let me get like a half-made thing from a restaurant and i can still feel like i'm cooking and then helping some business like a local business out etc so i like when you can get the cocktail like a juice

box and bring it to your house yes that's nice especially when like some of them like lono like they're serving them out of uh whatever like the Factory or whatever that place is on Melrose. But you can get their tiki cocktails. But they give you all the garnish and stuff. So you could really feel like, hey, man, we got something going in my garage. Oh, nice. They're like, now more than ever, we got to get you fucked up. You're like, all right.

All right. Oh, but we also got to sell you this guacamole because we got to sell the food. It's a huge-ass Ziploc bag. You're like, all right. Apocalypse is not so bad after it. It's like a huge-ass Ziploc bag. You're like, all right, apocalypse is not so bad after all. It comes in a bag. Yeah. I love it. It comes in a bag.

Yeah, just cut it with a box cutter over your mouth and just let it spill straight on to you. Basically, just a little boda box that you just yank out of it. Oh, man. All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back to talk about some people who fucking don't follow the rules. How about that? All right. We'll be right back. Hello, everyone. I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm Amber Ruffin, a better Lacey Lamar. Boo.

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I just have to touch on this really quick. to touch on this really quick because daniel prude who was another unarmed black man in his distress who came into contact with police in march uh and was you know his that interaction led him to be on life support and then eventually taken off of it um there's been a lot of attention recently on the department because honestly this had happened in march and with all of the things that have been happening in this country especially with you know uh the uprising specifically set off with george floyd's killing uh there was a apparently a huge huge move and you shouldn't be surprised by this from the rochester police or sheriff's department whatever they're technically called to delay the information of what exactly had happened to come out and the new york times has gotten a lot of a hold a lot of these internal

communications because the mayor's office had actually tried to figure out what was going on. And they got emails like this. And this isn't like, you know, when people are so cynical about how law enforcement works and is like working to maintain white supremacy, it's because people do it so effortlessly just in this kind of email exchange. Quote, we certainly do not want people to misinterpret the officer's actions and conflate this incident with any recent killings of unarmed black men by law enforcement nationally. This is a deputy writing to his boss saying,

that would simply be a false narrative and could create animosity and potentially violent blowback in this community as a result. So basically saying, we cannot have the body camera footage released to daniel prude's lawyers or the family's lawyer at all and the police chief replied to this email quote i totally agree they're like we can't let people know we killed him because he was black because then they're gonna be mad that we killed him because he was black like what they're gonna find out about the whole what the whole rub is uh then another do it the thing is they they arrived because it was for a wellness

check which is another reason why at the very least most police departments just need to say hey you know what cops don't respond to wellness checks anymore i mean even if you're like in some city where people are like don't talk about defunding the police most police will tell you they don't even want to do them because they would rather be brutalizing black people exclusively and there's that dark joke that was like oh yeah we did a wellness check on a black person yeah they were fine oh don't worry they're not anymore like yeah they were better off if you did not come and his so his brother called because he's like, my brother's not well. I'm concerned about him. He was he wasn't clothed when they arrived. And so another thing they found was this is from this New York Times article.

They said in a police report on the confrontation marking a box for victim type, an officer on the scene listed Mr. Prude, who the police believed had broken a store window that night simply as an individual. But another officer circled the word in red and scribbled a note. It said, make him a suspect. So that's the state of things. Yeah. You know, I think we're past being surprised. Yeah, totally.

Unfortunately, because this is you know it is what it is at this point where as far as we just know these things are happening yeah the part that just still is upsetting for me is the denial of it. You can admit it and shit still probably won't change, but at the very least, people can admit that this shit happens. This year, we've seen more people admit it.

Our white friends, our white liberal friends are like, oh damn, y'all wasn't lying. This shit really does happen. This whole time, y'all wasn't lying this shit really does happen this whole time y'all been getting killed like yes but how do you how are you believing into a rubber bullet hit my face and i'm like oh good thank you but it's just the the denial of it beyond that is still the part that grinds my gears i mean and i think it's also important for listeners of this show who are white to hear us talk about this because all we can do is talk about that and we

just let out a fucking sigh you know what i mean that that's our only recourse is to just feel that and say and accept it unfortunately or be like, obviously this fuels a lot of the energy we put into trying to move forward. But as it stands in the historical data sets that we can rely on, on how these things work out, all we can do is say, I'm pretty sure that with the data set I'm looking at, I'm living in a country and society in which this is okay, in which the worst that happens is some of these officers just on leave and we're not getting any true sense of justice for people who are you know murdering unarmed people and then obscuring their deeds through misinformation or just really cynical

slow reporting to try and drag things out and it's's tough, man. And that's why it, it, it's not like we're just angry being like, this is what it's like. It, this it's over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. And it, every time it just takes a,

it, it's funny. Every time I think there's not much that can be taken out. I'm like, I'm pretty sure I'm empty. Somehow you read something and it takes a little bit more out somehow even when you thought you didn't have anything left all right that's what it and for far too long you know we've all been spoon-fed that the effect is the cause you know

when you hear that black folks are 13 of the population but we're 37 of the prison population you think oh it's because black people are criminals it's like no we're over policed and prison is slavery they work for menial labor who do you think, oh, it's because black people are criminals. It's like, no, we're over-policed and prison is slavery. They work for menial labor. Who do you think is putting out these damn fires in California? But when they get out of jail, can't be firefighters. Like, so for far too long, we've been told like, oh, well, you know, black people are just more likely to be criminals. And it's like, no, we are criminalized. And therefore that is why these people are considered criminals. Also, I think a lot of black people, which is especially was most disheartening for me,

was the point where I realized that I can't appeal to white people's humanity. That I really had to start being like, look, overfunding the police hurts everyone's tax dollars. When we pay $12 million to Breonna Taylor and restitution, that money comes out of your pocket. Think about how much money you could save. We could end homelessness. We could redirect these funds and then we could all be living better. It's like, I can't even be like, black people are human beings. I'm like, think about all the money you'll save, guys, if you just stop killing us. It's actually cheaper'm like it's and to get to that point was really saddening to me to be like i can't even be like hey guys we're human beings like please stop i have to be like look at all these coins you'll save if you stop killing the negro like it's gross

it's sad yeah yeah uh and you know all that to say you know please if you find yourself in a place to help and not hinder to expand the possibilities for somebody to defend somebody to set somebody straight to dead some bullshit terrible ignorant take and educate somebody please do that because uh all the all the information we have around us is that shit really isn't getting much better and on top of it you're already seeing polls that support for the black lives matter movement is starting to wane since june what and it's always happened what's always happened i know exactly but and but i'm still finding myself i mean look whatever this is that that's what it is to be uh it always happens, but also here's something that people don't want to always admit, but Republicans are better at this than we are. Right.

They're better at media than we are. They're better at spreading whatever information they want spread than the other side is. They are good at it. um they are good at it they are so good at it because they learned a long time ago control the narrative control the vote fear-mongering yes you know and and man they try so hard to control the narrative and we up here we we laugh at them because they don't get shit and they make fun of you know know, wet ass pussy and all this. Ha ha ha. They're so old and decrepit and, you know, lame.

But you know what they are good at? Making sure you know what the fuck they talking about. Right. And I love Michelle Obama. But that whole when they go low, we go high. That ain't getting us nowhere, y'all. Okay. We don't have to fight.

Like, we can't be going high no more. Because going high just, what? We sit on a moral high ground while the world burns? We watch Nancy Pelosi write strongly written letters to the manager, aka the president. It's time. It's not going to be this easy fight that we all expect. It's not going to be this thing

where we can rely on human decency. If we've learned nothing, it's that that does not exist for a lot of people, at least for almost half of the country. Our president doesn't have any human decency. I don't even know if he's a functioning human being anymore. He's so deeply narcissistic. So it's like we got to fight fire with fire.

It's not going to be easy. Yeah. And I mean, I think just again, I always think of this James Baldwin quote, you know, that he always says to be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost almost all of the time and it's shit like this that you don't get examples that uh are very reaffirming moving on to uh just another dark story there's been a complaint being filed in georgia uh against ice um someone who's working at detention facilities whistleblowing and the complaint has gotten a lot of attention because of like it talks a lot to do mostly with detainees being denied covid tests and treatment when they're showing full like telltale signs of infection and only being given like ibuprofen and like over-the-counter medicine or just being complete just told to like like fuck off essentially um and then another dark detail that's starting to come out is that

in this complaint there are allegations that detainees are being forced they're forced sterilizations occurring in these facilities where like these detainees are being told they might have an ovarian cyst and then they end up with a hysterectomy or another procedure involving their fallopian tubes. And there's been, like, to the point where in this complaint, there are detainees alleging that there is a doctor that's colloquially known as the uterus collector, because whenever this doctor is seeing a detainee, it's like almost a guarantee that it's some kind of sterilization procedure um and many people like you know i mean the unfortunately it's mostly the progressive wing of the democratic party is like full voice being like this like what the fuck is going on um and just another you know another dimension to the absolute campaign of like terror that

this administration is enacting on people that don't look like you know the posters from the 50s right um well where to begin uteruses jesus fuck i mean it's due with a uterus we're like on some straight up dr mengela you know this is like eugenics shit but this is where we're at um yeah i mean and it's like eugenics are so is so like baked into so much of what exists in the world already but it's i mean just like this level it it it sounds like a movie the fucking uterus collector sounds like a quentin tarantino character in a 2025 movie like or 95 yeah yeah really any era to be honest um this yeah this is really timeless can we just i think we can all agree that i have no notes uh yeah it's but again this is you know it's it's really sort of indicative.

I say this because this year is coming all over. It's coming fast. And it's one thing after the other. Like they didn't, you know, they could only give two seconds to the fact that Trump knew about Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers or he's denigrating the families of fallen soldiers or general. Like it just it's it's going and going and going and i think it's it's this sort of like looking at the news that can give you this feeling of like holy shit like where do i put my attention right now and that my big question is has this crazy horrible awful things always been happening and is the first time that in history that we have cameras everywhere and we're of social media.

That's like we're all finding out about the details, which is a good thing. It's like it's all being exposed. But again, this is what we know. What do we not know? Yeah. The dark side is like, even though we know it, the people at in power, are they going to be compelled enough to do what's right? Because it's hard to tell, you know? Right. I mean, especially because there's so much happening that the fact that a story like this horrifying could be buried to basically the bottom of the news.

the bottom of the news who knows it seems like they're even with very very pressing issues it's only the issues that are getting a ton of public attention that are really acted upon yeah um yeah it kind of reminds me of like i don't know if you guys saw athlete a but it was the the olympic team's gymnastics oh no, no. That documentary? Doctor. And there was complaints about him, like, molesting and being inappropriate for so many years. It could have stopped with 10 women. Then more complaints. It could have stopped with 20. But they got to, like, 500 and something women were molested by him.

And it took that long. So it's, like, so important to get it early because victims just stack up i mean there were already allegations of sexual abuse happening in the facilities you know and i think that's where we realize how ill-equipped like democrats are to figure out how what what can even be done because like they're you know at the time i remember there are people trying to enter facilities and then uh they were like uh you can't actually enter here and like i'm a fucking congress person what the fuck are you talking about i can't come in here and like that's this is such a dark ugly dimension on top of the science denial on top of the unabashed unfettered killing of black and brown unarmed people in this country it's like it it's it's truly a fucking all you can eat nightmare buffet of this year um but all that

to say is like i know it's hard to hear stories like this i'm like what can we do at the very least you just just figure out how you're going to mobilize every single person you know to vote to start yeah this is this is the kind of story that when you come across it you're just like what the fuck could i possibly do but like besides vote and but it's on top of that i feel like it is also just like on the public to continue to talk about stories like this and not just let it be like a single day of like wow this is scary uh and then something scary is gonna happen tomorrow and then move on. But it's like stories like this in particular, where it seems like the only thing that institutions are even at least

acknowledging are things that are getting a lot of negative attention. And so it's like, unfortunate that we have to like K-pop stan mobilize every time something horrific happens. But I feel like that is a big part of it of like not letting stories like this just slip through the news cycle because then they just continue to happen yeah uh so yes uh these are the kinds of things that there are so many headlines that you could miss something like this that's as horrific as the forced sterilization of ice detainees all that to say we need to take a quick break and be right back.

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are overrated and i agree wholeheartedly there is an alternative to that that i don't know if it really took off on the west coast um are you guys aware it's self-explanatory but what a cookie table is at a wedding no no instead of a wedding cake every wedding i went to growing up had these they would like giant tables full of cookies that were made from uh parts of each family and maybe even some like outside sources but like thousands of cookies would be like sitting in a separate room at a wedding so instead of a cake like after dinner they call up tables to go to like this big ass cookie table and you just get like you know sometimes there's like dozens of different cookies and so you're getting like all these different uh flavors and different types of dessert instead of just like one you know flavor of cake which i

think is that's nice yeah and it it started too that's another like you know rust belt immigrant thing it was like italian slovak polish greeks uh maybe even like serbian too but like when cakes are too expensive they would just ask members of the family to bake all these different types of cookies. And so it's kind of like a giant dessert potluck at the wedding. That's so cool. I know. I love it. And then you get grandma's beefing and stuff, and I think that's wonderful.

Oh, yeah. You watch them take a bite of an in-law's cookie, and they're like... Yeah. Yeah, side-eye. You're like, oh side eye yeah you're like oh shit yeah people i mean they take it so seriously in like western pennsylvania eastern ohio that like yeah people i feel like are loosely out for blood what's like a cookie you can expect there regionally like you're saying like how the fuck was there a cookie table without this one like i'm guessing like italian wedding

cookies probably yeah like italian wedding cookies probably yeah like italian wedding cookies for sure but i feel like also like what are they called like bulgarian butter horns or something like that it's you know i'm talking about the little twisty it does sound fake i just made up a cookie off the top of my head uh yeah maybe like wedding cookies for sure pixels oh yeah snowflake yeah you see a lot of those lemon bars are there any gross ones that Yeah, maybe like wedding cookies for sure. Pixels. Oh, yeah. Snowflake. Yeah, you see a lot of those. Lemon bars.

Are there any gross ones that you would find on the table like that? I feel like with that kind of variety, there's got to be kind of a nasty one, right? I don't know. When it comes to dessert, my palate is like so basic, too. I've got like the palate of like a Civil War ghost. I like lemons and I like anise, you know? I don't know why. I like i like oh give me like the flavor of anise i like the flavor of anise and it is it was like black licorice think black licorice oh i like that sorry like i actually enjoy necco wafers too and not in an ironic not in an ironic way i know we were going so well made in massachusetts they're made

in fucking revere oh hell yeah i thought they were and they were about to go under till someone generously resurrected the shitty wafers from hell they should have gone under they taste like dust but yeah i don't know i don't know why but i'm like it doesn't I like it I do like it okay fine I guess I guess we'll let that one slide time to check in with the Vatican you know see see what's going on over there I mean as someone who went to a Catholic high school and has had a lot of uh Catholicism it just smashed into their head even though I was you know don't believe it but I could I could bang with the best of them if you want to talk catholicism um it's always interesting to see what's going on with pope

francis that everyone loves it called chill pope he's the most chill pope which i guess when you know i mean it's like what is that really saying i mean there was nazi pope so it's all relative i guess yeah yeah it was like really look at the yardstick there for Chilla's Pope. So there's a new book coming out that someone, you know, is working on and just getting some quotes. And, you know, he's had some interesting, you know, takes that have felt more in line with the modern world. And this time they're like, what about sex, Pontifex, Father? What about sex? What about fucking, Pope?

What about fucking? What's your stance on fucking Pope And Pope said this Pleasure Arrives directly From God It is neither Catholic nor Christian Nor anything else It is simply divine

Was he like jerking off While he said this He goes on The pleasure of eating And sexual pleasure Come Was he like jerking off while you said that? He goes on. Oh my God. The pleasure of eating and sexual pleasure come from God. Yeah. Okay. That was my own emphasis on those words, but those are his words.

We call it verbatim theater. A bit of verbatim theater, I believe is what it's called. I mean, you you gotta hand it to him that's some chill pope rhetoric i mean dude the pleasure of eating and sexual i'm like oh sign me up i'm like okay so he's a kinky pope they're like does that mean i can masturbate while having a communion wafer yeah can i combine them but like a night and a half Catholics have been waiting to hear this shit for for centuries to be like god come is from god that's the loophole i've been waiting for baby yeah right that's that that is a game changer someone's got to tell my uncles about

this right i gotta go i'm gonna go to my high school and march out front of my old high school and be like come come comes from god come comes from god yeah i mean come 316 check out my jizz grenade uh i'm surprised my old high school never has me come back to address the youth Really a shame, I have a lot to say Just a quick update everybody Yeah, right Just so you know, we could talk a little about podcasting and my journey from this school and into the working world But just so you all know, come 316

Okay, I got it titled Oh, new merch Come, come from God Come, come from God Come, come comes from god yeah long leaf blower yeah oh you got a leaf blower going too yeah solidarity leaple yeah leaf blower solidarity so the pope continued uh saying that like when because they're asking like okay pope this is kind of a hot take for you you know i mean especially from the church like what's going on again you know like what's the deal and he said basically saying that you know referencing the lifelong of the life of the entire life of the church about how it's been

condemning the the sexual pleasures and things like that he described it as quote overzealous morality along a wrong interpretation of the christ message. Ooh. I think many people also took that quote, and I think their first thought was also like, okay, but what about some of these other things y'all still got going in the church that are sort of rigid? I mean, yes, very valid. What about all the crimes? Sure. What about a woman's ability to choose what to do with their God-given body? Oh, don't get me wrong. Hey, hey, hey.

Let's not touch that. Hey, hey, hey. We just got to come. Yeah, we just got to come. We just said come for the first time in the history of church. Yeah. And look, I'm the first pope to write come on a chalkboard and spell it C-U-M nasty style, okay? Nasty style.

Like he's Bart Simpson. Come comes from God. Come comes from God. Come comes from God. Come comes from God. Someone please make it. Yeah. Alright, that's gonna do it for this week's

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